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IS
IT
A
TIMING
OR
A
CO-INCIDENCE
?
MH-370 - HAM OPERATORS MUST NOT INTRUDE INTO
SAR FREQUENCIES ?
HAM operators capability of going into SAR
frequencies demand hams not to be too nosy
to go and tune and test their signals on
them. They are to restrain themselves.
Having ham gears do not make them heroes.
Go
and join the SAR group to offer your
service, and wait until they call you.
Tuning and testing on those frequencies
would invite international condemnation if
they come to know the source of the signals.
SAR units should record all their
communications messages and their
frequencies at all time. They are to
identify back those stations heard.
At
the moment the safety and procedure protocol
does not include ham radio operators.
Intrusion into SAR frequencies is a serious
offence. Let the SAR people handle their own
affairs according to their own ways. If
anyone happens to discover any plane
wreckage just report to the nearby
authority. You don't go on their frequency
to report. More so if you don't even have a
ham call sign yet or a 9W. Not even a 9M can
show his greatness by unnecessary
encroachment.
11/03/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
MH-370 - IS CHINA FAST ENOUGH ?
Being
nearer to the infected area China should be
there faster with a greater force.
There
is an air defense system, and there is the
water defense system. Otherwise the enemy
could easily penetrate and landed on China's
shore without any pain at all. The sonar
wave sent would gather all information of
China's defense system as well as on MH370.
Obama's visit is not for vacation and having
a good siesta inhaling Malaysian air. The
priority is to ally with Malaysia for
logistic support or as a flat form to attack
China. The Commander of the 7th Fleet
already praised Malaysia in the handling of
the SAR. If Najib thinks USA needs Malaysia
more than Malaysia need America then it is
to Najib's advantage in his dealing on the
Malaysian politics. All he needs to say is
to request Obama not to interfere in our
internal affair.
Najib
has to send feelers to sense the sentiments
of the local Chinese. How many percent of
them are willing to die for Obama. Sabah,
Sarawak and Chinese votes can determine the
fate of Rosmah.
What
could the Chinese do now to ensure the
secret of their water have not been gathered
by the US intelligence and the Australian
frigate ?
The
faster the plane is found, the better for
China. She can breath a little and plan to
start to build the sea defense system around
the Chinese water.
I
glanced through an article in the facebook
entitled 'Red flag or False flag'. The
writer's vision is extremely commendable. It
could be his imagination. But it could be
the imagination of Dick Tracy and the
Davinci of flying machine. They are all
real today.
At the
same time China is worried about the
individuals with the stolen documents, for
they could be the Uighur rebels that
recently went on the killing spree. Thus the
attack was aimed at the Chinese passengers.
The
tragedy is a wake up call for the Chinese.
She has to face another enemy within which
the world called it Terrorism. All China
would realize she has the enemy in the
backyard and at the same time the enemy at
her doorsteps.
To us
is WYSIWYG, we see events as they happened ;
take off, lost contact, search and rescue,
and looking for clues. They are more of the
co-incidences rather than the timing. The
aids and extended aids are the duty of
friendly nations and humanity.
Mind
you the first to mention 'political issue'
is the authority. We were warned not to
politicize the tragedy. Millions of people
won't understand the relationship between
MH370 and politics because they only see
things as it happened. Whoever wants to look
deeper into the unseen thought of the
pilots, or even in the mind of the suspect
terrorists ? On the contrary people are not
allowed to think or making hypothesis or
face arrest. The government wants the people
to think as it commands.
Finding
the plane will not be the end and everyone
could sleep well. Right now people have
forgotten about the court decision on Anwar
and Kajang. It is good for BN, good to USA
and her allies, and a nightmare for the
Chinese.
11/03/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
IDENTITY OF TERRORISTS
To
most Westerners the Arabs and the Muslims
are terrorists. Even the government of
Angola and other African countries treat
Muslims with such an ID. What surfaced in
the MH370 suspect list were people with fake
passports. Further check shows the two of
them bought the plane ticket at the same
time from the same source. Now there is
another fake passport of a Chinese
nationality. All were not Arabs. Could the
three of them be Muslims ?
What
if they are all not Muslims ?
You
may not know how many passengers are using
fake passports each day. Many years ago one
Bangladeshi was asking me something about
Malaysian immigration at the Changi Airport.
I asked for his passport and was surprise to
see his photo was attached with a slight
glue on it. I said I could not answer his
question but deep in my heart I believed
that the Malaysian immigration will not
allow him through.
Biometric system may work well with the
normal men but it may not work with a person
with any ill-intent. He has ways to go about
beating the finger scanners.
What
puzzled me is about the stolen passport in
Bangkok. The Italian or the Austrian man
flying from their country of origin could
not have purchased the passport in Thailand.
It would be easier for a syndicate to forge
any traveling documents themselves. A well
organized international terrorist would have
more sophisticated machines for anything.
What
if all do not pass the terrorist test ? On
checking their background and ideological
beliefs they may not show any association
with any of the dangerous group.
Again, why they chose MH370 to terrorize but
not any other airline ? Anwar was not on the
plain, so was Rosmah or Obama.
If
you believe there were explosives in the
plane, it has to be in the luggage
compartment, triggered by a timer. The rest
of the puzzled is left to conjecture.
While
a thorough investigation is being made to
establish the fact of the missing 777, MAS
and the people in the government must also
check and investigate themselves. Do they
contribute to the accident in any way at
all.
It is
not easy to identify the terrorist by a
race, skin color or religion. You may
suspect a bearded man in a white rob, not a
white man with a neck tie.
Zahid
Hamidi is mad at the immigration for failing
to identify an Asian with European passport.
Let me tell Zahid that it is not strange at
all. When I mention there are 100 Americans
visiting Kuala Lumpur do not imagine them as
people of White specimen. They could be a
Malay, Chinese, Indian or Japanese using the
whole European names and American passports.
Let
us be reminded to cast aside the 'tidak apa'
attitude, and the philosophy of 'solving the
problem when we come across them'. Prior
precaution for prevention is what we need
not to find the cure after misfortune has
landed. It is applicable to all situations,
managements and planning. The right and
wrong, good or bad are not matters of public
opinion and sentiments. They are based on
facts, data, realities and reasons.
There
should be zero tolerance on matters
involving million and billion of dollars and
the safety of the people. Ministers must not
take chances. The friction over the safety
of KLIA2 for instant should be viewed
seriously. Hishamuddin should have not just
simply dismissed what was voiced by the
other party.
I
flew out to Hong Kong with a tooth paste. I
could not bring home the same tooth paste. A
fine young lady took it away with a smile. I
flew to Singapore with something small in my
hand luggage ( I don't remember whether a
battery or tiny blade), but they were taken
away by the Singapore airport staffs.
Since
it is difficult to identify an evil we have
to have a system to prevent any malicious
intents both before boarding and on the
plane. Several security officers should be
placed on every plane with equipment to
transmit data of plane location at every
single minute and any act and movement of
the officer.
The
truth will surface and let us wait for the
result.
10/03/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
BEHIND
EVERY NORMAL MAN
Educated or not every normal
man has a strength in himself that no other
man could challenge. My uncle for instant
didn't go to school yet he was an expert in
making boats. A small part of the brain
contain intelligence and knowledge which
would him an expert.
But not
every educated and knowledgeable man has
wisdom and master in everything. You can
know his mental limitation by his words and
deeds, his analytical ability from his
generalization of events and happenings
without proofs and data and the the single
track world view.
Comparing
a doctorate obtained from the United Sates
University and universities in Malaysia we
can be assured that the former is more
knowledgeable in general affairs of things
as the candidates have to go for the
qualifying exam. Even the GRE is tough
enough to pin a person down. The wiser man
is not the one with the PHD from USA or
Malaysia but in the way one manages oneself
in public, not condemning others as stupid
and useless not bragging of one's own
ability.
There are
people who are ruled by their emotion and
sentiment in making comments and decision. I
asked several men who would win when Kedah
meet Johor in the soccer match. Everyone
said that Kedah would win by at least 2
goals. None said that he could not tell
until the game was over. When beaten they
blamed the referee and the linesmen. To be
reasonable one has to look at the opponent's
team in detail, and analyze the strength of
one's own team. The weakness could be due to
the unskilled and indiscipline players, bad
coaching, poor managers or even financial
problem.
Well done
means to be very comprehensive, looking at
every aspect and framework, now and the
future. It is more than a system than an
individual ability. It is foolish to project
oneself and belittling the others. Every
other man may be wiser in a certain relevant
aspect that can contribute to
progressiveness.
Behind a
normal and a stupid man there is an
intelligence and profound knowledge. Behind
every educated man is a small iota of
foolishness. If he is wise he would always
hide his foolishness.
To avoid
to be all the time stupid and foolish, I
make my point to check for facts on every
item before I push in my memory. What I
don't want to know and care, I just ignore
it.
I am one
of the stupid persons. My education cannot
make me an intelligent and smart. There is a
part in my brain that housed my stupidity
and my foolishness as there is an
intelligence and smartness in a man without
education. It is the part of my own
stupidity that made me respect an illiterate
parent than the
smart son. It was the poor and stupid parent
who strive and sacrifice for the son
education.
It is a
pity when a man of letters remain to stay in
a closed world of cocoon, blind to see every
aspect of the universe. It sad indeed.
09/03/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
MH370 - FBI
INVESTIGATION TEAM
There must be no stone unturned during the
flight MH370 investigation. One area the FBI
must find out is the political believe and
sentiments of the pilots. Surely their close
friends must have had heard of their
unhappiness towards someone in the
government.
That is all I can say. We just have to wait
and see the outcome of the investigations.
Malaysian
government is taking step to check the
detail of every passenger. Coordinate help
from the US authority terrorists could be
discovered. It will take some time for the
names to surface. But that alone would not
be completed until all MAS staffs including
the pilots have to be examined.
So far
nobody talk of the possible suicide yet.
09/03/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
MH370 - PLEASE FORGIVE MY SAYING
Why
God gives and takes lives ? The
economist, Adam Smith, talked of the
balance of human population. The
Illuminati also speaks of the World
population. But mankind will always
fight for longevity. The modern
economist says population enhance
economic growth and activities, driving
higher GDP.
Every minute a baby is born and someone
will die. Though death is a
natural phenomena, it is a sad thing to
happen, for we depart with our love ones.
As
we are destined to die there are various
ways the spirit departs fromh the body.
The angel of death pleaded to God to
remove his tasks because he pities the
human, and God says to the angel that
the death will come in different ways.
We die from a disease, sickness,
accidents or being murdered.
When
I look at the timing of the missing MH370
and the judgment of Anwar Ibrahim as
well as the sacking of MAS employees I
began to see another possibility. You
may reject it totally as an absurd idea.
It is for the same reason why Rosmah was
put on a private jet to attend a
convention. It was nothing more than of
the security reason.
Malaysia is looking at the possibility
of hijacking of reason unknown to us.
But I look at another way. It was the
pilot factor. As any other human being a
man can be angry at the dismissal of the
airline staffs and at Anwar's being
jailed. An excessive anger and unhappiness
could have drive him to commit suicide.
In the United States army every pilot is
being observed at all time to ensure no
pilot with emotional disturbance is
allowed to fly an airplane.
If
it is the management factor the
prolonged dissatisfaction would pose
more potential danger to the airline.
Silent protest can never be known. Only
God knows the degree of anger that cling
on some people when Anwar's acquittal
was reversed. The timing of event is
very significant to suggest what could
have happened.
The
possibility may be very remote but it
should not be totally dismissed.
I
believe someone in the military also
take this seriously. But nothing could
be said until the final investigation
which may takes months to complete.
The
authority must not let no stone left
unturned. Political sentiment of some
men is not visible and not obvious.
Indra Ghandi was shot by her own
bodyguard. Anwar Saddat was shot by his
own militia. We can't tell how many of
MAS staffs who hate the cruel
management. A loosing nut can take away
the whole plane's life. Even if the
whole plane is found floating and
everyone is found alive, in the coming
deliberation the authority must cover
every issue no matter how remote or
trivial it may seem.
DCA
will surely check back the background of
every passenger to trace their
background to see any trace of
terrorists or spies on the plane. The
political or ideological war simply took
place on the plane. It could happen on
any airline unlucky enough to be boarded
by those armies. We expect the black box
to tell us something when found.
As
always, you may see everybody seems to
be very busy. Some take it as
opportunity to show their dedication
towards their jobs or show their concern
over the people. The less said the
better. You just need to observe. One
Ministry had declared the number of
counselors it has throughout the country
ready to support the victims.
We
have done our job by sending the troops
and the team for the Search and Rescue,
working together with other countries.
At the same time we have to make sure
that there will be no casualties on the
part of the members of rescue team.
The
number of people killed on plane
accident may be about 500. The number of
people killed by the bombs and machine
guns were by the thousands right now in
Africa, Syria and Iraq. Hitler killed
tenth of thousands of the Jews.
All
we have to do is to pray and hope.
Miracle can always happen. The plane may
be safe somewhere.
Why
God gives and takes lives ? God knows
the reason why.
09/03/2014
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE UNBELIEVERS
Words and dress do not fool everyone. A
disbeliever is known by their actions
and behaviors.
There are three categories of unbelievers;
those who do not believe in religion and
those who do not believe in God. The
final category is those who do not believe in both.
I
recently watch a movie called The Blind
Side. A lady said, "It is a Christian
duty to help the others..." It is a
simple word that carries a strong
message. Does it not also apply to the
Muslims, to do good to all others
regardless of their roots and beliefs,
and to help the helpless and the poor ?
Those Malays who believe in religion will
follow the teaching of Islam. Those who
don't will dismiss it as archaic and
reject all or part of it. There is no
fear of divine comeuppance, no regret
for the stealing, lying, cheating and
murdering. They don't even believe in
life after death. There is no fear of
God nor hell nor the eternal punishment.
Such people won't have even a conscience
though they dressed and spoke like men.
They will crash anything that do not
pave their desired way, using all the
available resources and means.
I
speak through my religious believe and
my conscience. It has to be the
truth and nothing else but the truth,
undeniable by any common sense. How
could a man who purchase the fake ink go
scot free when million of dollars were
wasted ? How could there be no murderer
of Altantuya when she was bombed in a
bizarre manner ? How could the PKZ man
escape when billion of dollars went
missing ? How could stating the clause
of a law is wrong and unlawful ?
Those do not sound Islamic or ethical.
We are angry when people burnt our Holly
books, pissed on the dead Muslim
soldiers and ban Islam in their country.
We cried foul on the case of apostasy
and Allah. Yet what is stated in the
Koran is totally dismissed.
Is
it not true that we are trying to
camouflage our sins using money, bribing
for support and to say 'aye' to our sins
? If we know God is seeing our ugliness
and filth, and that we fear of the great
retribution we wouldn't have done what
we have been doing all along. It is a
clear indication that the unbelievers do
not believe both in God and religion.
Honesty and considerate are not the
property of the religious people. Even
the atheists are trustworthy, honest and
responsible. The Muslims used to despise
the non-Muslims as infidels who know no
sin. Yet many of these infidels respect
the right of the others, would help
people in difficulties and are kind to
animals.
A
bad act tarnishes a race and a religion.
They think they can get away with
everything they did. Disbelieving is
one, causing pain on another fellow
human and pillaging the public property
is another. It is the combination of
both that made a man a savage. The dress
and the words won't hide the evil in
them.
08/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
SOLD MY CAR FOR RM500
I am
glad my old ailing Kancil has changed the
ownership to one mechanic mechanic, an
Indian Christian. To Maniam RM500 is a good
buy. To me I could clear the junk away and
provide space for my new 660 Viva. On the
way to JPJ for the final transfer Mamian
told me he has changed the carburetor and
bought a new cushion. The shafts were also
replaced with a new one. I figure the total
expenditure he has to incur will be
approximately 2K including the new painting.
The car is for his son who is studying at
Selangor University.
A
friend of mine sold his car to another
person. About more than 5 years later he
received a police summon for a traffic
offence. The reason was simple. He did not
execute the transfer of ownership. I was
very relief at my final transfer. I can be
sure I won't be receiving any ticket for any
offence in the future.
Maniam
has been my mechanic for a quite many years.
His workshop is small and he alone run it.
Bringing a car to him may not get an
immediate attention because he would always
be busy. His son is taller and a handsome
young man, very proficient both in English
and Malay. The car will be driven back to
Selangor as soon as it is well done.
The
beauty of the small low cc car is the fuel
economy. For Kancil I usually filled the
tank no more than RM37, for Viva RM50. It
will last me for at least a week. But the
other day I was very puzzled someone bought
petrol for his Kancil for only two ringgit.
It didn't make sense at all, why only 2
ringgit.
The
Kancil had been very faithful to me, had
served me well. I toured almost the whole
Malaya with it. It climbed hills and slopes,
ran into deep water, hit by strong storm. It
never show any exhaustion. Parts did worn
out. But it stood tall. Now it is in the
hand of a good mechanic it will surely
rejuvenate as a almost to a new car.
For
those of you who use big and expensive cars,
please do not fill your tank with only two
ringgit. It will disgrace your car and
puzzled people about your status.
07/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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ONE DESPISED STUDENT AND ONE DATUKSHIP
This morning I received a SMS from my former
school invited me to the Vocational College
as they were having a PTA meeting. Among the
parents was Datuk Mohd Arif, our former SKM
student. SKM is a student that went for a
mere skill training. Only the lowest grade
achievers applied for the course. In short
they were formerly regarded as the 'useless'
students, despised by their former schools,
and they were in the lowest category of
students in vocational education. At that
time we have vocational education and
vocational training. SKM is the later
category.
The
SMS was too late. I have decided to take my
sick wife to Padang Besar, for a ride, to
kill her boredom. I replied the message,
"Sorry I cannot attend the PTA meeting
because I am taking my wife to Padang Besar.
Send my best regard to Mohd Arif. Vocational
college is now neglecting this type of
student. I feel sorry for the country."
My abhorrence towards the present
educationists is because they do not give
any priority to the future of the weak
students. The Ministry of education would
not be able to answer the number of form 5
students who can't read and write, the
Muslim students who can't perform prayers,
and what to do with the weak ones. They hold
the PHD degrees. That made me wonders what
kind of mindset they have to enable them
earning the doctorate.
It is true that to make a diamond out of a
stone is not easy. But it is always a
possibility. It comes from a belief and an
effort. Building up a person is a building
up attitudes and discipline. You accoutre
them with skills, wake them up from their
sleeps, make them grow up and be matured,
challenge them to prove their ability.
What is so great about vocational college
that endlessly talk merely on human resource
development ? Could it chase the fast
changing technology ? Within 5 to 10 years the country will be flooded with
unemployed graduates as well as wild
criminals.
Education is not solely for human resource
but also for the betterment of the whole
nation and the society, peace and
tranquility, free of
crimes and drug addicts. Out of 100%
youths, 30% will be on the higher echelon
group. Probably about 45% will settle for
the middle end jobs and the remainder will
be jobless, unskilled and pose great
problems to us. The video clip below as
described by The New Way of Stealing, should
concern us. Ignoring the 25% of our young
men could robbed away our happiness.
Education could be costly but it is always
better then the social cost. A person like
Datuk Mohd Arif had the chance to go into
the practical stream where he picked up
several social and communication skill
during the group work. Such kind of
educational training developed a greater
survival skill. With the right environment
and flat form a stone can be polished into a
a diamond. This is the real success and a
great achievement for a teacher. The
challenge is far greater than teaching the
very bright students.
At
least I was invited to attend an activity
which is no concern of mine. May be the
school did not have any prior intent at all
to call me. May be the Datuk asked to see
me. Whatever my reply that touches the
policy would penetrate into their minds.
06/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THINGS
YOU CAN DO BEFORE YOU DIE
To
feel great you don't have to go to outer
space. Camping on the cliff may be a
difficult task but to make a hanging bed for
the night sleep would be easier. Even
without the mosquito nets the insects will
be blown away by the breeze.
Ahmad Said may want to try these to compare
the thrill with the Antarctica trip. But not
for Ibrahim Ali who can't even run 1.5
kilometers in 10 minutes. Khairy and Guan
Eng may have enough energy to venture into
the thrilling adventure. Ministers and
statesmen no need to worry about their jobs.
Rosmah can look after them.
Our
Dato' Khalid gained my high respect when he
proved he is also a great climber and a
sportsman. He spoke as much as he work, and
strong and agile. Ibrahim Ali has no match
for Dato' Khalid.
To
those adventurer, try them before you die.
05/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE MALAYS, THE ULAMA AND THE RESPECT
I have
said much about Malay unity, which I am
never in favor. The Malays composes of good
and bad people of Muslims and Christians.
Nobody knows how many Indonesians residing
in Malaya today are Christians. Muslim unity
unite all Muslims regardless of their racial
stock. Listening to PERKASA and UMNO to
segregate from the Chinese could ruin the
Muslims.
PERKASA
had been too vicious followed by brainless
UMNO goons, attacking everybody they can lay
on, declaring war on Mohd Sabu and the Shiet
and other Muslims. They are joined by UMNO
ulamas. The first price they pay is the
boycotting of Malaysian rubber by Iran. Only
recently oil palms were cut down replacing
them with rubber. Now rubber price may
experience a steep flung.
With
Ulama being dragged into politics and
campaigns they are losing respects from an
increasing number of Malay Muslims. They
have given out Fatwas like selling 'kacang
puteh'. They attacked the opposition members
and declaring that Islam forbid voting the
opposition parties.
The
moment the people pissed upon their words
the respect towards them began to dwindle.
Islam will be insulted. It was a great joke
when PERKASA seek clarification on the Silk
Batik from the clerics. The latest is the
vandalism in a mosque where holly books were
thrown apart and flushed in the toilets by
the unknown people.This has never happen
during the period of other Prime Ministers,
not even during the despotic Mahathir.
The
aggressive political stance by UMNO ulama is
a grave mistake and a tragedy for Islam in
Malaysia. The hatred on the clerics will be
mounted.
At least
70% of the Malays, politicians and
administrators, look at things in a single
perspective. As I have said in education
they only think of the education of the
bright students, not building schools for
the problems ones. They only look at the
Muslim youths following religious education
and who can recite verses but they do not
care to know about those illiterate in
morality and religion.
04/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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IF YOU ARE A JUDGE
I would
avoid being a judge if I could. It is a hard
job, very perilous to safety and life could
be miserable. If you always keep your door
open there will be a lot of visitors who
will come to plead for help and leniency.
You will also have a hostile visitors who
would come to threaten to harm you and your
family, or to corrupt you for favorable
judgment.
The
magistrate life is much better. Making
decision on petty matters and the wrong
doings of simple laymen.
What if
a Prime Minister or a politician call you to
favor them ? How many time do you think such
things have been happening ?
I still
remember what Nik Rashid, a law lecturer
said about the conflict between the state
and individual. If there is such a conflict
the judgment will be for the state. Was that
the statement of the law or his mere opinion
? If it is the statement of the law,
Mahathir was correct in manipulating
judiciary.
But what
is a government or a state ? An individual
cannot be a government; not Mahathir, not
Taib Mahmud and not Musa Aman. If there is
any signing of a contract by any of those is
considered a government, they could sign a
contract to sell the country or to legalize
cocaine.
Judiciary has to be independent. There must
be an element of fairness. The judge must be
very brave and fear no threat, showing no
favor even to the request of a Prime
Minister or a President. He has to take all
the risk. Mahathir took to transfer any
judge who he deemed did not favor the
government.
In the
Unitd States there had been furor about the
choices of judges. Ironically public came to
know which judge was a Republic and which a
Democrat, implying the political belief of
judges could influence judgment and
decision. In Malaysia thr Christian group
wants the court judgment as what they wish
in the issue of Allah, for they do not
believe in the judiciary system.
People
are puzzle in the case of PKZ and Altantuya.
Court decision created doubts in their mind.
And also in the case of election petitions.
You
constantly need to consult yourself whether
to be fair and hold justice or to protect
your safety, to bow to political pressure or
to see justice done.
04/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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CHRISTIAN COUNTRY ?
UMNO is
beating the drum that Peninsular Malaya is
about to become a Christian country.
Pictures were faked to scare the Muslims on
the apostasy of the Muslims. All merely a
weapon to draw the Muslim support.
If any
Malay from Peninsular want to see a
Christian state just look at Sabah, the land
of the churches and Christians. You may have
to hassle with the Malays to prove that
Idris Jala is a Christian.
The
building and the operation of the Malay
Church in Kuala Lumpur was heightened more
than 10 years ago. The general public were
alerted on the drinking Malay youths and the
declining of morality of the Malays. All I
knew UMNO just ignore it. They are more
concern on Nik Aziz and Anwar Ibrahim,
privatization, the fight over the mega
projects and happily clearing hill tops for
property development.
UMNO has
to blame the supporters and the party for
the growing of Christian faith in the
country. It has to blame itself for the
vanishing morality. They did not give the
right focus as they were occupied with money
and projects. Come Najib, he is destroying
our economy and happily continue to deceive
the public on his policy such as the 'pukal
subsidi'. He loves the phrase very much. In
fact he is deceiving himself.
The
dress of Wanita UMNO should be taken
seriously. Could it be a coincidence or
deliberately designed to equate with
Christianity. Red-White-Red looks Santa
Clause and Christian. Lim Kit Siang called
it 'Thieves calling others thieves' or
'Thieves shouting thieves'. If is not
deliberate UMNO should not allow it to be
Christian alike. It would be more prudent to
change it to GREEN-WHITE-GREEN. Green is not
the color of PAS. It is the color of life,
the earth and the sign of the highest order
of the universe.
At least
47% of the people have been badly deceived
on all accounts. Only if they open up their
eyes and observe what UMNO is effectively
doing for the race and religion. These guys
are only busy in enriching themselves. They
brought the Ustaz in to campaign against PAS
and to praise UMNO to the sky.
Would
you not say Sabah is a Christian state ?
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NEW WAY OF STEALING
I saw a man with a telescopic pole
attached to his motorbike and a handy
talkie in his hand talking while riding.
Many questions came into my mind.
Talking to my neighbor she said it is a
trend for some bikers carrying such pole
to go into villages to steal fruits. The
modus operandi is similar everywhere.
When asked they would answer they were
trapping birds. Be on the look out for
these kind of people. Observe them well
and capture their actions on videos.
Rosmah Mansor is busy to help the rakyat
to solve crime problems. She has to
forego her badminton.
So far people of such a descriptions are
Malays of about 30 Plus. They would form
a great thieves for using radio sets as
a mean of communication. Any sighting of
the patrol cars will be transmitted to
the other members. Probably they are
using their own repeaters.
So what do we see here ? Ham gears can
be used for good purposes as well as for
evil deeds. Thieves are getting more
sophisticated. I wonder where they learn
how to use radio for their network. Is
it not possible that some of them may
check net using various IDs ?
I could not tell which other race adopt
this as their profession. If it is
dominantly the Malays then the Ketuanan
Melayu would degrade the Malays that
low. Ketuanan Melayu means the Malays
took to the paves for the night sleep.
And ISMA said this is a Malay country
when the Malays have to have an average
of 1/2 a million to buy a descent home.
Robbing and stealing goes on. It is
difficult to escape fees for parking. On
the weekdays the town counsel issued the
parking ticket. The charge is
reasonable. In several areas the parking
meters were destroyed You still have to
pay the parking fee, to the unknown
operators, much more dearer than than
charged by the town counsel. At a
certain entry point the robbers charge
you RM2 per entry during the week end.
Nobody does anything to the daylight
robbery.
The rising crimes and menace that is
gripping our nation do not prey only on
the DAP or PAS supporters. They attacked
the UMNO and the police and even the
politicians.
Is Malaysia a heaven for criminals,
prostitutes and thieves ? Watch the
video above and make your own conclusion
about BN government. Spread the clip
among the people of Kajang, quick and
fast.
03/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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WHY CAN'T PEOPLE HATE ROSMAH ?
Rosmah Mansor is a public figure.
Everyone knows her. Some like her and
some don't. You can't force people to
like you. This is a free country. Rosmah
has the right to put on head cover or
not. Others may be indifferent to her
dress. Some hate to see her without the
cover. I read about persons who do not
like her body size. You can't scold the
guys for that.
"If
that is still not right then I don't
know what to say,” said Rosmah. /Google
ImagesROSMAH
MANSOR has no more time for badminton.
And it is all because of you, the
people!
“Everything has
been taken away from me, including my
time, including my hobbies. I don't get
to play badminton now because I am very
busy doing things for the rakyat,” Prime
Minister Najib Razak’s wife was quoted
as saying by Malaysiakini.
She also expressed
her hopelessness if what she had
sacrificed was insufficient to turn
people’s perception towards her.
"If that is still
not right then I don't know what to
say,” said Rosmah.
The NGO went for her support and
demanded the comment on her should be
withdrawn. Someone asked a pertinent
question about Rosmah's work when she
said she has to forego her hobbies
because she was busy with the rakyat.
Her statement implies that she is a de
facto Prime Minister. There are
Ministers looking for the rakyat in
their perspective areas.
That was not a manipulation of facts.
All other Prime Ministers wives didn't
say they were busy with the nation.
Those were the job of their spouses as
well as the Ministers.
It does not take anyone to fan the
citizen with her statement. Even without
the Youtube or the anti-government
media, her stories spread like a wild
fire; from her university days to her
other personal likings. Why people are
so busy body ? Because she is a second
wife or a wife of a Prime Minister.
Human being are human being. They love
to love and love to hate. They can love
a Satan and hate an angel. It is lucky
that they are stupid and unreasonable.
If everyone is smart they would have
voted BN out.
The NGO and Rosmah should be thankful
because there are people who like her.
The NGO who goes for her support is one
of them. Could it be 95% of the
Malaysians love Rosmah ? It could be.
Then why bother those who chose to hate
her.
Her work is recognized by the world,
isn't it ? She was awarded with a PHD.
If she is still be dislike it is not
harmful to anybody. It is just matching
with her statement that she has no time
for gossip and lies.
Let us be honest and ask whether
Rosmah's statement was ridiculous. To me
it sounds like a statement from our
Prime Minister.
It is very hilarious, just like a story
of a King walking naked, believing he is
wearing an invisible dress. You are what
you parade yourself to the public. It
was she who made the statement not the
Malaysiakini or the Malaysian Insider.
If people do not
respect God,
religion
and Prophets, do you expect them to
respect fellow human being whom they
don't like ? Rosmah cannot be greater
than any of those words mentioned. She
can always resort to legal action on any
person who manipulates her words.
How about me, do I like her ? I like
Michelle Obama. She is so beautiful and
tall, sweet and look smart. I like Toh
Puan Raha because of her soft and sweet
smiling face, that is very cooling to
look at.
03/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MAHATHIR SAYS IT
You
need to read Mahathir between the lines.
BRIM, the money, does not belong to Najib.
It belongs to people. What Mahathir might
have not heard is the amount given to the
people is to make them forgive the 3 million
ringgit given to his second wife, Rosmah,
for the ring. Or probably he says the same
thing to his close friends.The 17000 may be
the hardcore group who can't stand Rosmah
any more. I believe it is hard to find even
one who hate Toh Puan Raha or Dr Asmah.
A
household does not gain much with the
immense expenditure. Mahathir sees it as a
waste. All thinking people say Najib is
guilty of corruption, which the doctor mum
about it. The very word from Mahathir would
put Najib in detrimental position. Only
strong morality on the part of the police ,
MACC and the judiciary will put an immediate
end to Najib. What will happen to Rosmah
then ?
By now
Mahathir should have known that Najib buys
everything with money including the Scorpene
case, not from his second wife's saving. He
never beg or pay for popularity. Neither
were all the other Prime Ministers.
I am
waiting for the ex-PM to summon Shafiee, the
errand boy of Najib. If he does, would Najib
confront him for the second time to seek
sympathy ?
03/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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SAVING FOR THE RAINY DAYS
I really expect anybody to provide
bread and take care of us when I and
my wife grow old enough till we
cannot manage ourselves. From the
observations children would regard
their old folks as burden and pest
to them. One of my lady teachers was
the only one having to take care of
her mother. The rest should not be
bother as everyone was occupied with
his own problem. Those affordable
kids prefer to hire maids and leave
the mother or the father with the
maids.
I know of a man who goes around
selling cookies to support
themselves when the daughter was
working in the United States with an
oil company.
Base on a long period of observation
I decide to save for the rainy days.
We don't have to beg from our
children or plea from anyone for our
living. Even if I am eligible for
BRIM I won't claim it as I did not
claim the flood fund, not because I
hate UMNO but because there are many
other needy people.
I would have to thank God and the
man behind ASB. It is the one that
helps me to save for the rainy days.
The time has come and the umbrella
is always opened.
Whenever I met my students who are
wealthy and successful I would
quipped with the short advise. They
accumulated millions while we have
the bare minimum, cutting corners
all the while. Spending is on bare
necessity.
A hundred a month will amount to 1.2
K a year, 12K for 10 years, almost
50K for 50 years. It is good that I
don't smoke, using a 660 CC car,
buying cheap clothing, wearing cheap
sleepers, abstain from buying
newspapers. At dawn days of our live
we think we want to enjoy a little
bit of living. I rejected ASTRO for
Internet. Once in a while we enjoy
good food.
As I have repeatedly said life goes
beyond reason. There are mystery
things that happen before our eyes.
The possibility of time travel has
shown some concrete evidences. This
mysterious belief that made some
people went to look for stray cats
and feed them. My non-Muslim
teachers said to me, "Cikgu, you
give your knowledge to people, you
will get back the same amount or
greater than what you give." To a
Muslim it is simpler to believe. You
give a little God provides you with
abundance. Only the day before
yesterday someone we have never
expected came and gave us so much
food, and the neighbor gave my wife
her favorite fruits.
Donation, alms and any form of
giving is giving without any hope.
The best gift we get back is the
happiness and great satisfaction for
doing good things.
I only pray to God not to let me die
first before my wife.
02/03/2014 -
Abdul Rahman Raof
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WHAT WERE THEY SAYING ?
When I started as a ham I have several
elmers; 9M2FK, 9M2MW and 9M2GL. The late
Idris was in fact our radio consultant.
In those days the authority monitored
our communication closely. I remember
Idris told me to speak clearly in
languages understood by them. Plain
language then was either English or
Malay. You might notice the very old
hams in Malaysia would mention their
call signs at every change of
transmission.
As
time pass things change. In soccer
obstruction is allowed. And in hockey I
saw a lot of turning which I knew was
not allowed in the past. And in the ham
radio in Malaysia I have been hearing
various styles of using and mentioning
call signs. A few, not all, would
mention calls that need deciphering
machine, simply cannot be comprehended
by my ears. Prefixes seem to be
vanished.
A
person's ego can be known by the melody
of the communication style. Messages
sound like singing a song, there was the
unnecessary high and low vocal. It
reminds me of the colloquial English on
the CB by the truck drivers. If we take
it as an entertainment then it is fun to
listen.
A
ham may have other special call signs
assigned by the group or club, like 01,
02, 03.... or 45,32, 18.... These were
to be used by the members whether having
AA or otherwise. They operate outside
the ham band, using the ham style and
lingo. You can hear these 01 and 02 even
on ASTRA national link.
MCMC has a new job to do, more on web
browsing or tracing for video clip like
that of 'onedeful malaysia'. It is the
quick path to promotion. Monitoring and
putting right things on amateur radio
earn no extra income. Ham band is
getting more rotten, losing the once
dignified status.
Those are all changes. It is not strange
to the new comers but it is strange to
the very old timers.
01/03/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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OF MELBOURNE VISIT FOR 9M2RB
Already, Rusli is on his way back to Kuala
Lumpur from Melbourne. He posted only three
pictures through Whatsapp application. The
rest were corrupt. The Australian guys
couldn't recover back the picts. I think the
Malaysian can do it.
Further news and information will be
discussed on 7.043 once he is set to come
back on the air.
Below is another picture of an
antenna system. No
detail is given about the owner. We hope
to hear some
interesting news about it.
Doesn't it look so great ?
At
this age I won't invest for gigantic system
no matter how well it perform. I won't even
accept a free gift. The late Tunku
Archibald, 9M2AT, had wanted to give me a
new Yagi. I had to thank him for the offer.
I
was told that 9M2PV is getting rid of his
tower too. His health is giving him a little
problem. All the old gangs are dying off.
Grand antenna is nice to look at, like
appreciating a beautiful woman. And it is
good for yelling 'Wow !' and enjoy the
sight.
28/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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THE POLICE AND THE PEOPLE
They
are observing each other; one with the arms
of law and all the weapons behind, the other
with eyes open, weaponless and powerless. We
all must remember that words we used to
hear," There is no report for the police to
take action." It carries a meaning that
crimes do happen if they are not reported. A
policeman does not have to take any action
if someone snatch a handbag in public unless
it is reported.
At
time it is difficult for the masses to
identify between the police and the mafia.
In the King City, California, almost a third
of the force, terrorized the Hispanic
population. Investigation was made base on a
mere hearsay and the city police were
arrested. It was the talk of the town the
city residents in Malaysia have to pay
protection money both to the police and the
gangsters.
International Mafia, the highest class of
the gangsters, are feared by authority and
politicians. They have big money and big
influence and they threaten anyone they like
including big people like Mahathir.
I
don't see policeman takes money with my own
eyes. Those who gave told us of the event
and the methods to to evade proofs. I knew
of a former police who ran a drug trade who
later died mysteriously. He was my neighbor.
That was more than 55 years ago. The talk of
police corruptions continues till today.
There were also talks of politicians rubbing
shoulders with the mafia bosses. What
inspire such a talk ?
As the
people are watching the police, the later
too are watching the people. From the
reading in the blogs the police were accused
of preying on DAP and other opposition
members rather than on the criminals.
Now
the corrupt police officers with millions do
not have to be scared. They are protected by
the big taiko in many ways. You just need a
small portion of your grey matter to
discover the operation. Taksin Chinawat knew
the dirty work of the cartel and the Mafia
and the police. He waged an effective war
against them. And the South American
leaders and the policemen too fought hard
against the drug dealers and big time
criminals.
The
term invisible government is given to the
government of the United States. Some say
the invisible hands are the hands of the
Jews who control the banks and the financial
institutions. Some say it is the Illuminati
group. The big question is are there any
government run by the invisible Mafia and
gangsters behind them ?
What
the laymen can do is to organize themselves
well to gather all the data. Every culprit
must be identified. The proofs are to be
validated and re-investigated by some
foreign organization for subsequent actions.
For a bad country like North Korea a
punitive action is difficult because the
people are loyal to the regime.
Khalid
has a different conception of public
confidence on the police. Exposing bad
police won't make people hate Najib. Actions
on those officers could boost a solid
support to Najib. Denying it creates a
perception that the police and the UMNO
leaders are harboring criminals and
corruptions. In fact it lead to a greater
distrust in judiciary criminals go free.
You
can't stop people from thinking the ways
they prefer. We can't afford to have more
than 25% of the population to think on the
dark side of the police and the ruling
Minister. Don't blame the people. Blame the
internet, the news, the ASTRO and other
media. Even the government media is telling
the people many things. I always say, "Hey,
this is not from the opposition. This is
what is printed in the Utusan or Berita
Harian."
The
police are fond of staring hard at people's
eyes as if the people are criminals. When
the people can't stare back they will curse
back using the worst ever words that they
can think of, all deep down in their hatred.
They switched off their TVs once some of the
faces appear.
Who
else will protect the people if the police
is busy protecting the politicians ?
27/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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MY TEACHERS
Never will I forget all the teachers who
taught and educate me. I still met a few
who taught me in Primary school. Old
teachers do not go to universities, not
even a college. Most just passed
standard 6. But they were all great
human being whose students have achieved
the pinnacle of successes. One Cikgu
Ismail, cried when I called and wished
him. He cried because "You still
remember and greet me" My love and
respect towards them will never depart
till my death.
Mr
Chooi Kok Keong is still active till
now. I always read his postings on the
Facebook. Both he and his wife taught me
art and craft. Everyone loved them.
The most fearful teacher was Ajmeer
Sigh. We had wish he had not teach us
history. We were shivering scared when
he became our form and history teacher.
The words we will always remember is 'Jangan
main dengan Pak Bai, ni."(Don't play the
fool with the great Singh). The best
ever kept note book was history. We had
wished him the worst and kept on cursing
him behind his back. But when everyone
of his student scored an A in his
subject, we felt like kissing his feet.
That was the only time he gave us his
Pak Bai smile and we were very jubilant.
Sport's teachers were Bonnlert Soy Som
Chit, Jeremiah, Abdul rahman and Ismail
Puteh. I heard Ismail Puteh had passed
away. I still meet Cikgu Abdul Rahman.
He never grow old.
None of our teachers sleep in the class.
I have to mention this though I hate it.
Several teachers were reported to sleep
most of the time and one even fell on
the floor. I caught one Ustaz and had to
deal with him. Later I realized he was
suffering from a kind of disease. He
could fall asleep while driving, and
died of accident.
I
had 2 Primary school Headmasters who
were as great as any great leaders.
Cikgu Ibrahim and Lim Cheng Ho. And the
greatest of all was Mr Long Eng Hwa who
applied rewards and canning to mould his
students. When he canned in his office
it sound would be broadcasted via the
loudspeakers. He was stern but friendly.
Any improvement in mathematics,
languages and sciences will be awarded
during the weekly assemblies.
During his period we won various
championships in sports and games
rivaling Penang Free School and Anglo
Chinese School. Educational achievements
were at the peak, all time high. And
when he went for a transfer we were all
very sad. Story went around he argued
with an officer from the education
department. Only towards the later part
of my life I see filthy people were
promoted to important posts.
My
conversation with a ham friend in Ipoh
confirmed that Long Eng Hwa was a great
school Principal. He was good in our
school and he was good in Anglo Chinese
School Ipoh. The last time I talked to
my friend he said My Long is very
sickly.
I
wish all the present teachers will be
respected and loved by their students.
Today the form and mode of education has
changed a great deal. Teachers teaches
according to modules. Curriculum changes
every now and then. Teachers don't have
the time to think how to make difficult
things simple. They can't touch the
students. The parents enmity them. They
are being squeezed left and right. They
brought the work home and complete them
at mid-night.
They can't even give their views and
ideas.
27/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
KITES
FLEW FROM PASIR GUDANG TO ALOR SETAR
Certaintly I have to praise Mukhriz for
bringing kites from Pasir Gudang to Alor
Setar. Actually I was not aware about it.
Yesterday when I was taking my grand
children to Taman Jubeli Intan for a horse
ride they were crying out 'Kite....kite...'
at a distant away from the destination. On
arriving they were pointing up to the sky
where there were all sorts of kites flew. A
huge number of people began to gather to
watch the international flyers putting the
skill on displays.
I
was thrill to see kite flyers wearing
elegant uniform with gloves. I am more glad
that these international flyers come to know
my state, Kedah. It added to their
vocabulary and the mental image of what they
see here.
As
far as I know active kite flyers of
international reputation are in the Northern
state of Perlis. One of them is a ham radio
operator who have been to the United States
for a similar occasion.
I
remember of our kite flying days where we
have what we called 'fighting kites'. The
strongest kite would remain haughtily flying
alone after all the rest were put away
through maneuvering skill and the string
soak with minute glasses.
We
chased the defeated kites cut off from the
owner but always in vain . A small and short
guys like us just enjoy the running and the
chasing.
27/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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KHALID IS NUT
Mahathir used to be an
admirable doctor as a
doctor. Khalid was a good
administrator especially
things that concern money,
not as a chief minister, but
as a civil servant.
If you still remember in
the GE13 campaigned he once
said "Vote for UMNO". People
accept it as a slip of the
tongue. During his tenure he
chose contractors who were
UMNO sighting them as
capable. Then he sacked the
PKNS workers without the
proper procedure. Now he met
Najib and Mahyudin to sign
agreement without any
consultation.
PKR was not careful in
choosing people and members.
A man like Saiful should be
a lesson. They seemed to be
UMNO's moles to destroy PKR.
Khalid probably is an UMNO's
mole. Being rich and wealthy
all his years he does not
understand the plight of the
people. Doesn't he learn
about Najib, Mahyuddin,
Rosmah, Shahrizat, Ahmad
Said and those UMNO spinners
?
The amount of money to be
paid to the concessionaries
are too high. Water was
privatized by UMNO to
cronies. And look these
people took Najib and
Mahyuddin in to sign for the
cronies.
When there was a water
furor from the beginning it
was all part and parcel of
BN plan to weaken Selangor.
I am not wrong in saying
this. It is a deception of
the highest order. Khalid
fell hard in the game. He
lacked the smartness and the
art of a force win. He did
not learn about real
politics and what does
'DIRTY POLITICS' stand for.
I feel very sorry for PKR
for the lacking for
sophisticated office of
people with killer thoughts.
With Selangor's wealth they
could have set aside a sum
for this purpose. BN all
this all along, paying god
salaries to these perpetual
planners.
Khalid has disappointed
many million people. Does he
care ? Each day he is
becoming Mahathir.
27/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE
Is everyone responsible,
considerate and trustworthy ?
People are getting greedy, from
a businessman to a government
servant. They want to suck in as
much money as they can and give
as little as possible. Workers
want more pay and less working
hours. Drug cartels would
corrupt their way through to
achieve their objectives. The
Mamak mee stalls are the worst.
Nobody would think that all
resources will somehow be
depleted in time. Though
increased population can result
in economic growth it can also
result in the reduction in share
of the fixed or depleting
resources. Land is becoming
scarcer. Our tin almost has come
to s stop.
Yet Malaysians will keep on
demanding. What does a leader do
to meet with the wide range of
demand ?
A responsive leader will try his
best to meet all the demand .
Either he is too kind or he
wants to keep his status quo. He
will not think of the
consequences. I would not call a
responsive person a responsible
person. He does not want to risk
himself. He wants popularity. If
he can't deliver the demand, he
will make a convincing promises.
Rejecting a request with valid
reason would be acceptable. It
is his responsibility to explain
why he can't meet with such a
demand. If the government tells
the citizen to spend wisely then
the government must spend wisely
too. There is no point hiding
the expenditure from the public.
Najib never show that our coffer
has a bottom. Shaking it will
produce loud sound. Yet we have
been hearing billions here and
billions there, promised on the
spot on the eve of every
election. Then he promises of a
high income nation to make
people happy.
Income is not an independent
word. It comes together with
expenditure. No one who receive
money, never spend it. And high
income always correspond to high
expenditure and greater demand.
It will reach a point when the
value of money obtained from the
higher income will be so very
low. It kicks up high inflation.
The dollar bubble will ebb the
economy.
There is a tolerance to
responsiveness. A responsible
leader will make it a point to
understand more about the
resources and realize a long
economic problem of the United
States. Since the 80's the
normal American citizens have to
strive for a living, many lose
their jobs. In 2013 tenths of
thousands were losing their
homes. Poverty rate increased.
The good part is the people
still believe in the government,
saying, "The hardship is only
temporary."
We are depending so much on palm
oil and rubber. Now rubber price
is down. It is hoped it is only
temporary. What if palm oil
follows the fate of rubber and
the price dip remain a long time
like the fate of MAS that never
recover. What I can say that if
our economy goes so bad for a
long time Mahathir and Najib
will move somewhere else like
the Ukranian President. They
must also remember that the
German Nazi living in South
America with large body guards
were also dragged back to Tel
Aviv by the Mosad.
Najib has all the time to check
his spending and responsiveness.
But not Mahathir. He will be
shock to know of his doing
against the Malays and the
Chinese. He sold the Malays out
and he angered the Chinese as
well.
26/02/2014
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHAT
THE 3.85 CGPA AND PHD PEOPLE ARE
DOING ?
When Lim Kit Siang called Ahmad
Maslan the 3.85 CGPA man, I realized
why some PHD and top scorers are so
proud and so haughty. They thought
they are the smartest people. I have
a few friends who were bright and
excellent in school, who continued
to think others are pariah.
I came across many Malaysian
students who scored 4 flats in
foreign universities, meaning there
are more smart people, even better
than Maslan. Mr Cheah's son from
Union Book Store, Alor Setar,
obtained his PHD in an area I know
as rock, is now carrying books from
his store onto the van and back. He
is a labor while someone with a PHD
in Arts discipline is a policy maker
for the government.
But getting CGPA of 2.8 in MIT has
to be better than 4 flat in ITTAR or
UUM.
You want to know how he got his PHD
or his high CGPA scores you look at
his behavior and hear his words.
Rais Yatim, a First Class Hon, in
Law, was a witty man, the champion
of government's spokesman, pounded
on Malaysia's Rule of Law which is
in contrast with the dynamic of the
events.
Taib praised his son. Salleh of the
former NFC praised his son and Idris
Jusoh too did the same in
parliament. We want to know the
schools they went to. Some schools
are as generous as Najib. Private
institutions are attracting students
by selling cheap degrees.
If my CGPA is 3.8, there are
numerous other graduates with 4
flat. If I have a PHD in history
there are many others who earned
their PHDs in physics and
technological disciplines. But the
wisdom is never lies in the CGPA and
degrees. It is on how you deal with
yourself and the people, your
honesty and sincerity.
Shamelessness is just like animals.
At one time they can say they save
money from young to buy a ring. At
another time they say they don't
have the ring. They lie over and
over again, denying their actions
and continue to be robust and
vicious. They know they are crooks.
They think people do not know about
it or just don't care what people
think about them.
People like Ahmad Said may be
getting just a normal CGPA but to
enhance his position and to justify
his visit to the Antarctica he said
he is a political science graduate
to do some research for the
Malaysians.
You may not heard of Malaysians who
graduate from MIT and working with
NASA. I would like to give some
credit to Rafedah Aziz, an economic
lecturer, and Fuad Dakashi and a few
others who never show off their
ability. Fuad had a PHD wife who was
very humble and always lie low
unlike somebody's spouse from only
university Malaya.
Some mad, really mad people, could
burst out bright idea.
If I am a PHD holder with 4 flat
CGPA all along, I still won't dare
to go for debate, for I know my
mental limitation. I can't fill it
with all the available knowledge.
Politicians too can rot mentally if
they do not keep themselves up to
data. If they are still chosen by
the people it could be due to either
the voters are really stupid and
dumb, or because the exercise their
wisdoms very well.
What are the 3.85 CGPA politicians
and the PHD officers doing for the
country ? They are proudly parading
their weaknesses to the populace.
The biggest sinner who opened up the
door to the destruction of the
Malays was Dr Mahathir. He lives
long enough to see the seed of his
destruction. Those 3.85 guys failed
to see the failures of UMNO and
those PHD officers failed to see the
far fetch result of their policies.
This week our population is topping
up 30 million. Too many or too few ?
26/02/2014 -
Abdul Rahman Raof
|
NAME YOUR
SONS WELL
The Malays may
not believe in Feng Sui and an element
of good luck as the Chinese do. But I am
calling them to name their sons well.
Bad names may not bring bad luck but the
aura of the names may developed him into
the men of hell who may cause problems
to the society, the people and the
country. With the shift of the earth
polarity strange things seem to happen,
a mystery unknown to mankind. Obama is
about to declare that it is alright to
smoke marijuana. Political leaders are
advocating corruptions and lies. The
magnetic field change affects thinking
and behaviors, including names. One of
the big names to be avoided is IDRIS.
The second name is MAHATHIR.
The last time I
wrote about names I mentioned KUM BU TOH
and ONG POH KEE. These were real names.
They were our school's principals
before.
Idris is one of
our prophets. But Idris is also a
Christian Malay close to Najib. There is
nothing wrong with the name as far as
names are concerned. But from my own
point of view it is not a good name. I
see an aura of arrogance and stupidity,
sadist in causing pain on others, the
mindset is trapped in the cocoon. As for
Mahathir I see an aura of masterpiece in
the name; the mastery in accumulating
great wealth, the mastery in great lies,
the mastery in using national resources
such as the judiciary and the police to
protect his position.
People are just
careless, refusing to make further
investigation about names. What happen
when 2 names are combined as one like
AHMAD and SAID, AHMAD and AL-BAB. I have
a worker AMAD SAAD, only God knows, what
kind of a person he is. It is
interesting to observe the different
between IBRAHIM BIN ALI and IBRAHIM ALI
BIN ABDUL WAHAB.
I don't see
good omen in Ibrahim bin Ali or Ahmad
bin Said or Idris bin Jusoh. I only see
haughtiness and pomposity in the names.
They are peevish, disdainful and
annoyingly self important, a great
swagger. If you insist in adopting those
names it is your own funeral. Pray to
God they will not be possessed by demon
and satan, distant themselves from lies
and the mind of a Pharaoh.
We don't have
to get bright young mind to compete
intelligence with some of the
swaggerers. A 12 year old kids could
beat them left and right, in running and
sports, in playing the game of chess, in
computing and programming, and even in
politics. I may be truly stupid when a
form one guy said that my idea was not
bright enough. These kids see from
different perspective. Believe me that
your three year old grandchildren are
assessing your intelligence.
Let us be
serious about naming our children. For
God's sake avoid names like Idi Amin,
Mugabe, Mahathir and Bush. They brought
bad luck to the people and the nation.
Names like these could bring war,
typhoon, flood, dry-spell and other
natural disaster to the nation.
You may be a
skeptic. Just observe the bad aura
befell our nation day by day. People are
becoming shameless. Some behave like
hooligans and gangsters. Some defending
the wrongs. Dry spell is becoming worst.
Night air is almost frozen. And Mahathir
is struggling hard for nothing. Very
strange indeed.
25/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
ACCOUNTABILITY FACTOR
All
Head of Departments are accountable for what
is happening in his department. There is no
such thing as passing the bucks to the
subordinates and blaming them for any error.
"It is your duty to know how many rats in
your compound and where they died." I
remember such words came from my bosses. And
the audit told us that if there is any fake
currency came into possession the HOD must
pay from his own pocket.
I was
fond of sending my representative to a
meeting whenever I had something important
to attend. And I would tell him to say
anything he likes and any decision he wants
without having have to further consult me by
phone. Good or bad, I took it as my
decision. Accountability and responsibility
was part of my job. To agree or disagree
with my subordinate's view is also part of
my job.
That's
why you hear of a Minister resign for a
slight accident that happens though it was
not directly of his fault. It wasn't fair at
all. But it is the way of a civil
administration. Zahid Hamidi would totally
dismiss any responsibility for the lost jet
engine. Mahathir blamed everybody else under
his administration thinking he would be
clean by shaking them off.
Doing a
job is not tough. I can work from morning
till late night and would never grumble
about it. Enjoying the work will make the
work more lighter. But bearing the
responsibility is the heaviest. It is always
painful mentally and emotionally.
The
most irresponsible culture is the habit of
blaming the others. Even blaming the
middlemen for the higher cost of living is
very irresponsible. Ministries don't work
only when there is a public cry of
inflation. They must have been sleeping not
to know mackerel sale went up to RM19 from
RM5. I cannot be wrong to say all those busy
Ministers and officers were merely acting to
protect the wastage on many projects for the
cronies and the lavish expenditures.
No one
claimed accountability on MAS woes when we
know the beginning of the furor was during
Mahathir's regime. It is similar to what
happens in PKZ, PERWAJA and even the NFC.
And now on our education system. The Malays
are going towards a crazy system of
destroying the fellow Malay generations. If
they are blind enough to see the future they
should give way and leave the post.
We have
several million smart and responsible young
people in the country.
24/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
THE LEGACY OF TAIB MAHMUD
If
it is a hearsay, hearsay it is. It may not
be true but you can always think about it.
It is about Taib's resignation. If I were
the authority I might have done the same
thing.
Taib
resigned. It was not of his own accord. It
was a pressure by the MACC. "You either
resign or we will charge you in court." He
chose the option that will save himself and
the family. And the authority came up with
the announcement that the huge logging land
were approved by his senior officers.
I
don't buy it for a simple reason. How could
my officer approved such a vast area of land
for me ? Soon for every corruption you will
hear the junior officers approved them. When
I was a school Principal I didn't choose
companies run by my friends or the member of
my family is working in to gain any tender.
And I would do the same if the applicants
come from my boss of a member of his family.
Now
what ?
What
should be done the timber concession period
must be terminated with some leeway given
for his service. Let the wealth by shared by
all Sarawakians. We are seeing too many
prostitutes are loitering around in the
state owing to poverty.
Being old Taib should spend more time with
his grand children and enjoy his remaining
life with his family, going to mosques and
enjoy the company of the congregations. He
has all the time to repent. With his extra
money he could help the needy even by some
trivial amount.
But
we could be sure that Taib is not a Mafia as
being accuse by some. A Mafia boss will
never be haunted by MACC. It will be the
MACC who will be haunted and threatened by
his people. Big politicians who use
gangsters to protect them will use the same
gang to threaten the police and the judges
and his family. There were stories of civil
services were visited by unknown people who
offered a choice between bullets and money.
Later we may hear the 60 high ranking police
officers who were amassing millions will go
free by the same mob modus operandi.
As I
said it is all a mere hearsay, a wild
imagination. But in between the lines it
would be interesting to ponder and to
question why evidence were missing, the
police station evidence were kept caught
fire, drugs business do not halt, PKZ and
PERWAJA went scot free.
24/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
BRIM AS A NEW
FORM OF SUBSIDY ?
I don't
mean to be rude to anyone but I don't have
alternative words to describe Najib's
announcement of BRIM as a new form of
subsidy is another great deception and
insulting. Anything subsidized has a long
term effect but the amount paid by this
scheme is short lived. It amounts to RM50 a
month of extra income. What can RM50 do in a
month ? You divide it by 30 days it is less
than RM2 a day. To a lorry driver it is just
enough for one bungkus of nasi lemak for
breakfast.
A
twenty cents increase in patrol will push
the price up by at least the same amount.
Most shop pushed the price of each item up
by at least thirty cents. For an
office worker he will have to spend about
RM1.50 more for his meal. Any other day
spending will quickly upset the BRIM. I also
believe BRIM will cause a slight inflation
because the people will not divide the money
into days, rather will do immediate
spending.
With
higher demand there will be price increase,
which may not be obvious to the naked eyes.
A shirt that cost RM20 may be tagged at
RM250 with a discount of between 50% - 75%.
And imitation goods will flood the markets
as original. All that come from the sea will
jump more than 30% costlier. And as the
value of our currency plunged because of
excessive notes the price of import products
get more expensive.
The
normal subsidy does not project a person as
a giver. It is regarded as the government's
task to curb spiral inflation. It is like a
donation from an anonymous person. It is a
form of service to help the general public.
It does not come under a category of
corruption. Whereas BRIM clearly shows the
giver who paraded himself to the world
without any anonymosity. He demanded
reciprocity. UMNO demand for the repayment
by voting the party. In such a manner it is
a clear corruption.
What
will follow behind BRIM is the Thank You
song on the TV, the religious ceramah about
gratitude and regular TV discussion on the
subject matter.
If my
intelligence does not insult me, it is
telling me that Mahathir is coaching Najib
how to make use of judiciary to deal with
the opposition and to say it is not
corruption. The words may be simple, "We
will all die if UMNO falls. WE have no
choice but to command the judiciary, the
police and military."
It may
sound strange to you that people are talking
of Mahathir and Rosmah, less on Najib. They
said Najib was charmed and hypnotized. It is
true that Mahathir will never be spared if
BN falls. Even the UMNO men will drown him.
So they
say BRIM is not a corruption. It is the duty
of UMNO to help the poor.
We are
showing good example to the world. Mugabe is
following our style of administration. And
people love him so much despite of the
country's declining economy and huge
unemployment. People celebrate his 90's
birthday with joy.
Thai
Prime Minister and Ukraine President are
missing right now. At one time people were
computing of Mahathir's escape to Argentina.
The Thai Prime Minister and the Ukrainian
President are not as smart as our leaders.
Just give people the money they do not have
to seek safety elsewhere.
24/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_503_2004-12-27.html
MUNSHI
ABDULLAH
Munshi Abdullah
a.k.a Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir (b. 1797,
Kampong Pali, Malacca - d. October 1854,
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), son of Sheikh
Abdul Kadir d. 1820 Malacca). With a very
strict Muslim upbringing and scholarly
education, Abdullah's abilities made him a
language teacher and interpreter proficient
in Arabic, Tamil, Hindustani, English and
Malay. He wrote the critically acclaimed "Hikayat
Abdullah" which in Malay means the "Story of
Abdullah". He was the first local to give a
written account of everyday life in Malaya,
published in 1849. For his early literary
contributions, he was given the name, "The
Father of Modern Malay Literature." |
Munshi
was not the only scholar in those days. In
the mainland Malaya there were religious and
vocational educations. The Malays were
skilful in building and constructions and
the making of artistic weapons. Though the
old technology was simpler, the Malays then
were not dumb.
I used to
joke with a friend who is living in big city
about his going home to his village to see
his mother. The mother will prepare the food
she used to cook for his son, the tapioca
and a boiled banana. I warned him not to
throw away those food and yell, "Ma, I am on
cereal now. I don't take those stupid boiled
banana and tapioca. " The mother will feel
very hurt. "You were brought up with those
tapioca and boiled banana, and now you have
a good job."
The
rejection of the past people and the founder
of hobbies and the creator of knowledge were
unknown or dismissed. They cast all for
their new idea. New things look progressive
but those progress that killed thousands of
innocent lives, destroy morality, separate
families, bore more greedy people. War and
killings are still going on to this very
day.
As those
people looked down upon us, we the pariah
group too regard them as arrogant and menace
to society with their stupid policy.
23/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
AS TEACHERS REBEL AGAINST PBS
How many UMNO members whose children were
sitting for SPM in 2013 ? At least 50% of
them will be struggling what to do next with
their children. Let them predict the future
of their kids themselves. By the time they
throw their blames on someone it will be too
late.
I do not see the problem of PBS through the
implementation point of view. The teachers
know better. All the teachers I talked to
were not in favor of the new system, and it
culminated in the direct confrontation
resulting in the transfers and disciplinary
actions.
The teachers were talking about data entry
and the workload. As they described my
imagination ran wild, looking at the vast
amount of data in the database to be
arranged and computed. A single line of
programming error will produce false result
that the educationist would not suspect and
traced. A 40 marks in history entered in one
school does not carry an identical weigh
with the same mark keyed in other school.
I used to tell the teachers to make
difficult things easy to understand and made
the lessons interesting and attractive. I
remember the days when all students were
waiting for Mr So and So to enter the class
for the lovely and interesting lessons. Can
I tell them the same thing today ?
And I remember the days when kids going to
school with chalk and slabs, no text books
and no computers. Not even a homework. They
still can run the countries and became good
administrators. Dr Mahathir lives long
enough to tell about the chalk and slab way
of learning. Good or bad he is one of the
products of the old system.
As I repeatedly said my main concern is with
the late developers who had left the school
and wanting to compensate for the lost
wasted days of their schooling. Their
chances were totally closed by the PBS.
There is a fear that they could become pests
and menace to the society.
It is too much to accuse the protestors to
overthrow the government. If it comes from
the words of any PHD holders it shows how
stink the PHD is. If it comes from a
politician, it is from the hell politician.
It is easier to put a bullet into the neck
rather than 100 people protesting in the
street to overthrow it. Only concern people
protest, for the sake of the future of our
nation.
To Najib things are simple. To appease the
public and to make them forget everything
the formula is BRIM. Indeed it is kind of
him to solve the major problem by giving
money to the people. He thinks BRIM is a
magic stone or batu geliga.
Mahyuddin may think PBS is an educational
issue when it is bigger than that. It is a
social issue, the future tranquility of our
nation.
23/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
CRAZY
THING ON HAM BAND
So far crazy
things on the ham band from 7.000 to 7.2000 came from
Indonesia. Some of what you may hear could be described
but some beyond comprehension, like the sound of a
mantra. It is strange and bizarre.
Would it one day
spread to this country ?
You need to know
what is going on today to predict the future. The
current behavioral pattern, the mental setup, the
emotional and mental state of the populace could
somewhat show the possibility of weird happenings.
Once we used to
say that a radio is like a gun. Can you give a gun to
anybody at all ? In USA owing a gun is a freedom under
American constitution. Many own guns and many do not use
them as they like. Yet we hear a lot of shootings and
killings and deaths.
When crazy people
get the radio they will do crazy things with them
because they know they can always escape arrest and
persecutions. As the numbers become big it will be out
of control. That's one example as some of us might have
heard on 7.1000 on 21/02/2014.
22/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
VOTE ME OUT
The
Prime Minister of Thailand is not the only one who told
the people to vote her out to remove her. The leadership
of Ukraine uttered similar words. From Libya to Egypt
the rulers announced a new election if the people are
unhappy with the government.
The
people in those countries no longer believe in the
general election. Bad governments do dirty things to
win. The dirtiest is giving a direct cash as a
corruption. Marcos was put down because of this type of
act. Voters had been threatened, deceived and even false
promises. There were vote riggings. The ruling
government controlled the police and the army.
There
are more death tolls in Ukraine than Thailand. The
people demanded the Ukranian President to step down but
he promised an early election.
Democracy is a farce. It is only a word of rhetoric. A
real democracy would allow the opposition parties to
have their own radio and TV stations. No radio station
is permitted to broadcast opposition's views.
International democracy is more farce. USA would spell
who can and cannot develope nuclear weapons.
In the
democracy of money and corruptions evil men can become
Presidents and Prime Ministers. Mafia and drug lords
could win a big vote. People would adore and worship
them like gods. The more they throw the more popular
they become. Stupid people would fall to their
deceptions and lies.
Vote
Me Out is out of question in countries where the
governments are held by immoral and irresponsible
leaders. The Thai Prime Minister is hiding herself and
let the police to shoot the protestors. She seems to be
missing and running away for her safety. A word about
Thailand now is there is a battle between the Chinese
Thais and the native Thais.
In
Malaysia I would to advise the government not to beat
the drum calling for the civil war. If PERKASA and UMNO
push for the civil war, in the end the country would
lose. Malaya will permanently be losing a few states
supported by some foreign nation. We need to learn this
from history.
Instead of fighting with our own citizens we should quit
bad behaviors and throw out bad people in UMNO.
Intelligent people don't like to hear about private jets
used by Minister's spouse because all the previous wives
didn't waste so much of the public funds.
22/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
SILLY
Israel doesn't
have to worry about Iran because Al-Queda will be
looking after her. The recent Beirut bombing targeting
Iranian Cultural Center was one of the clear proofs that
sects conflicts among Muslims are very bloody and
deadly.
The disease has
spread to Malaysia where it was already declared killing
the Shieet is legal in the eyes of Muslim's Suniee. And
UMNO claims that it is the party from heaven, send by
God. PAS and Nik Aziz are deviants.
It is interesting
to note that the Malays who talk the loudest can do the
least. Don't ask them to toil the soils and plant
vegetables. Just ask them to run 5 kilometers in 15
minutes. But they yell the loudest about the death to
Shiet sects, threatened another May 13 and proposing
reward to those who slap Teresa.
What did they do
when pigs and pig heads were thrown inside a few mosques
?
The start of the
tension begins from the words of mouth. Even the
newsreaders were trained to shout on cases involving the
opposition party members, stressing them with strong
words to show the guilt of the accused. After the big
yelling they ordered the police to do the work for them.
The Al-Queda is
killing the Iranians. The Pakistanis are killing the
Talibans. Didn't we hear UMNO would eliminate Mat Sabu
as he was accused as a Shieet ? They make an easy job
for the enemy of Islam. Surely there are group of people
somewhere who will laugh at things they see.
21/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
BEIRUT (AP) — Two visiting U.S.
senators condemned a double suicide bombing that ripped
through a Shiite stronghold of the Lebanese capital
Wednesday, saying they were concerned about the
spillover effects of Syria's civil war.
Two bombers
blew up their cars near an Iranian cultural center in
Beirut, killing at least four people and wounding more
than 100. It was the latest in a string of deadly
attacks targeting bastions of the Shiite militant group
Hezbollah.
An al-Qaida-linked
group claimed responsibility, saying the attack was
retaliation for Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian
war alongside President Bashar Assad's forces.
|
CARA UMNO BARU
MEMECAH BELAH RAKYAT
Pemimpin yang
disegani dan pemimpin yang dihormati tidak semestinya
terdiri dari orang Melayu. Pemimpin Melalyu tidak
semestinya pemimpin Islam. Orang yang menggelarkan
dirinya Islam tidak semestinya pula mengikut ajaran
Islam. Mereka yang memakai songkok dan baju Melayu juga
tidak semestinya orang Islam.
Jika ada
pemimpin Melayu atau isteri mereka dihina bukan bermakna
hanya orang kafir yang menghinakan mereka. Ribuan
kakitangan kerajaan di Putera Jaya sendiri yang 'meluat
dan melugai' dengan lagak yang berlebihan. Di dalam
tidur mereka menyebut-nyebut tentang pembayaran
pembelian yang tidak boleh dipersoalkan jika ianya dari
Jabatan Perdana Menteri. Berita percakapan dalam tidur
juga boleh merebak.
Taktik mahu
menutup mulut dengan mengapi-apikan rakyat tentang
adanya penghinaan terhadap pemimpin Islam kerana mereka
itu Islam dan penghinaan Yang Dipertuan Agung hanyalah
semata-mata untuk menutup pelakuan pembaziran
orang-orang tertentu.
Orang yang
bersalah dan sentiasa penipu rakyat hanya mempunyai satu
jalan sahaja untuk menyelamatkan diri mereka dari
disumpah. Pada orang-orang Melayu mereka menuduh bangsa
lain mengutuk Islam. Pada orang-orang Cina mereka
membisik supaya hancurkan PAS dan Melayu. Itulah yang
lahir dari kata-kata Tiong Lai mahu kuburkan Anwar yang
bermaksud kuburkan pemimpin Melayu di Kajang.
Yang paling
banyak kena tipu ialah orang-orang Melayu oleh
pemimpin-pemimpin Melayu dengan dasar-dasar yang
menguntungkan diri tetapi merugikan bangsa dan agama.
Dasar yang paling ketara ialah dasar pelajaran
Kebangsaan. Dasar pengambilan tanah telah meragut
kawasan tadah hujan yang membuat rakyat terpaksa beralih
pada air-air sungai yang tercemar; air babi, air tahi
babi dan air-air najis kekotoran yang lainnya. Air-air
paip begitu kotor sekali sehingga air-air minuman segar
menjadi begitu mahal sekali, lebih mahal dari minyak
kereta.
Soal
orang-orang Melayu kehilangan tanah tanih tidak dikira
lagi. Masalah runcing akan dihadapi oleh generasi mereka
akan datang yang nantinya tidak ada pilihan lain dari
tinggal di rumah-rumah pangsa.
Kalaulah
Mahathir yang menjadi punca yang membawa kemelaratan
kita terpaksa menyumpahnya. Ugama yang dianutinya tidak
boleh digunakan sebagai pengadang. Penghinaan
terhadapnya adalah tidak pula kepada penghinaan terhadap
Islam. Apakah orang seperti ini patut dihormati ?
Mengapi-apikan
rakyat adalah jua dengan tujuan mengalihkan orang ramai
daripada kenaikan kos sara hidup kepada isu ini.
Orang-orang yang buta hati dan buta perut sahaja yang
tidak nampak akan muslihat yang tersirat.
Jauh mana dan
lama manakah orang-orang Melayu akan tinggal jahil dan
membiarkan diri mereka ditipu ?
Namun, bukan
semua Melayu bodoh walaupun ramai yang bengong. Sehingga
pergolakan di Thailand pun terhidu peranan kita dalam
memberi nasihat kepada rakan sejawat kita. Tapi ia
memang baik. Kita juga ingin melihat perkembangan
gerakan rakyat seterusnya. Ia boleh membawa implikasi
besar terhadap kita.
Sebab tidak
kesemuanya bodohlah maka Sungai Limau tidak mudah ditipu.
Memperisaikan
agama untuk mengelak dari tuduhan rasuah dan boros hanya
dapat menipu segelintir orang yang dosogok dengan wang
ringgit. Orang-orang ini sanggup memakai baju T dengan
logo 'Saya Kasihkan Rosmah' atau 'Saya Kasigkan Najib'.
Mereka tidak sedar ramai orang yang mencemuh mereka.
Pemimpin Islam
ialah Khalifatullah, Khalifah Allah di bumi. Khalifah
Allah ialah Imam yang mempunyai pegangan agama yang kuat
dan mematuhi hukum-hukum agama dengan mendalam.
Sebagai
Khalifatullah pemimpin tidak boleh berdiam diri ketika
Chua Soi Lek atau Samy Velu mempersendakan Islam.
Pemimpin Islam berkata-kata benar, menepati janji dan
tidak hidup mewah dengan wang rakyat.
Cuba tanya
dinding-dinding di Putrajaya segala percakapan yang
mereka dengar. Bisikan-bisikan itu yang menyalar keluar
tentang siapa yang angkuh dan siapa yang boros dan siapa
yang riak.
Khalifatulah
tidak menanggung biawak hidup dan tidak memuji biawak
sebagai seekor haiwan yang banyak membuat jasa.
Jasa adalah
milik semua orang. Seorang buruh kasar yang mengutip
sampah sarap juga sangat berjasa. Kita berterima kasih
kepada penjual ikan dan makanan sebab mereka membantu
kita di dalam kehidupan. Tanpa kitapun, orang lain juga
boleh membuat jasa.
Apa kata
Shahrizat ? "Kalau tidak ada UMNO ramai yang akan mati
hanyut dibawa arus'. Apakah kalau tidak ada UMNO semua
orang akan mati kelaparan, akan mati dibawa arus banjir
? Adakah itu kata-kata dari pemimpin Islam ?
Tidakkah
orang-orang yang angkuh sesama manusia akan juga angkuh
terhadap Tuhan ? Apa kata Jarjis ? "Agama menyekat
kemajuan". Tidakkah kata-kata yang sama disebut oleh
Mahathir dan Samy Velu ? Cuma bedanya Samy Velu itu
bukan orang Islam.
Mari kita tanya
diri sendiri, siapakah yang dipermainkan oleh Teresa Kok
? Toh Puan Raha ? Dr Asmah ? Isteri pembesar-pembesar
lain ? Saya bercakap benar jika saya katakan saya tidak
kenalpun isteri Timbalan Perdana Menteri. Ramai orang
tidak dapat bayangkan rupa paras beliau, sedangkan PM
dan TPM itu hampir sama sahaja tarafnya. Rakyat sentiasa
memuji Dr Asmah dan menyanjungi Toh Puan Rahah.
Apabila Taib
Mahmud letak jawatan terdapat soalan lain mengekori di
belakang. Tekalah apa soalan itu.
Pokoknya
mengapakah isu penghinaan ini diperbesar-besarkan ?
Tepuk dada dan tanya selera.
19/02/2014 |
MY
PREDICTION IS CORRECT
There is a
specie on this earth set the mind that was impossible to
be altered no matter how true it is. If they want you to
believe that ghost exits, they will strive very hard
though there isn't any ghost. They want to believe in
fallacy as the truth and real.
When the
government first start to shift the blame on the
Middlemen, everyone declares war on the Middlemen. The
Ministry raided shops and markets. At that time I
already said that no matter what the price will never
come down. When the war on the Middlemen failed they
will go down on the public saying it is the consumers
who can decide the price. Later they will blame the
foreign countries.
Then the value
of Malaysian currencies flunked. I am wondering how the
government is to twist words to blame the people again.
We have heard
people shouting of Najib dragging the country to
bankruptcy by his ruthless spending and fiscal policy.
As usual Najib wants to show that the country is wealthy
enough. You are hearing of billions of ringgit for this
and that projects.
I think the
advisors to the government and the consultants who are
keen in enriching themselves are the dirty culprits. MAS
continue to bear great losses.
You don't have to
be an economist to analyze the 2014 rising cost. If BN
is right about the businessmen then by now we should not
see prices would come down.
The denial
syndrome benefit the ruling class because they still
continue to rule. They could force the police to protect
them and wink to judges to favor them.
Now what ? The
UMNO supporters believe they pay more because of the
greed of the middlemen. You watch the constant
brainwashing on the TV trying to make people believe in
the lies.
Greed factor
exist. Najib factor is also exist. UMNO knows it always
get away with whatever broken promises made. Don't
forget what Najib said,"I am a responsible person. I
have but no choice to agree to TNB and toll hike."
Luckily for us the men in the toll said the increase
will be in 2017. But Mahyuddin said something else.
Last night the
enforcement unit said they do not have enough manpower
to go round the country. Talk and talk and talk.
The second way
to make people forget the rising cost of living is to
attack DAP as anti Malay and anti Islam. This seem to be
the biggest bomb for BN. In the meantime the helpless
poor citizens are paying more whether they eat in or
out. Every item sold in the super market has gone up.
Every item in Mamak shop has gone up. Postage price
increase several folds. The talk about cheap houses
remain a talk.
What we have here
is the rapid increase in currencies without proportional
increase in productivity by Najib's BRIM and increase
crazy salary. We have very excessive expenditure in mega
projects. We have purchases like a four ringgit item for
eighty ringgit. We have a very lavish spending,
unaccountable payments to goods purchase by a certain
people, gasoline hike, removal of subsidies, hike in TNB
rate, higher insurance premium and other rates. And of
course the greedy Mamak shops.
It is not the
DAP, PAS or Keadilan guys who are paying more, it is
also the die hard UMNO voters and supporters. Ironically
the UMNO guys are happy about it. They worshipped those
who caste lies upon them.
The discussion
here does not touch on the borrowing made by our
government yet and where did the borrowed money went to.
The opposition had said even if they take over the whole
life will be spent on paying the debt.
Now it is up
to the consumer to beat the high cost of living. That's
what you will hear from time to time. Good luck.
20/02/2014 |
WHERE IS
THE LANGUAGE MONTH
Language month
had been a glorious and splendid events, full of
colors and joy, culminating in the final live debate on
the national media.
We have four main
languages in this country. We can add another in,
Arabic. And have 5 months of celebration with a
different degree, which Malay and English would be
compulsory for all students in all schools. Mandarin
only for the Malays and Indians. Tamil for the Malays
and the Chinese. And Arabic for all ethnic groups.
Live telecast of
Joget and Zapin have been popular and draws a big crowd,
I sure having live telecast of debates in Mandarin by
the Malays or Tamil by the Chinese and the Malays would
be equally interesting to watch. People may not
understand but they will watch with pleasure.
The introduction
of foreign languages in Primary school is commendable
but not everyone take it seriously. A few kids I talked
to either shy to speak or they do not show any interest,
showing the poor motivational factors.
Competition is
not a waste of time activity. In USA the Spelling Bee is
still on till today.
It is a shame
when a Chinese could understand Malay, the later does
not understand Chinese.
We used to have
the grand language month. Now it seems to disappear. We
should resurrect it and put a better life to it, make it
more grand.
It would be wise
to inform the schools at least 6 months ahead for the
preparation. The publicity must be wide to let the
masses know of such events.
Right now I hear
the Malays go Arabic on IKIM radio. I was informed that
the Insaniah's students converse in Arabic among
themselves.
Organizer can
have a variety like the combination of English and
Bahasa month, Tamil, Mandarin and Arabic.
Let me tell you,
with the PBS the teachers will be de-motivated. Their
morale will ebb. Even with the learning module they
expressed problems in doing extra voluntary work for the
school. Those taxed them very much.
I would like to
call the educationists to read the past documents of the
18th Century with the old system of education, to find
out how complex the thinking were. Thomas Jefferson, for
instant, was living in those country. His futuristic
vision lives until today; te spirit became stronger with
an enhance energy. If you read illuminati then you are
reading the old minds.
Throwing the old
practices and system does make Malaysia education much
better. Burying the language months resulted in the new
side effects.
20/02/2014
3 TYPE OF
PEOPLE I DISLIKE MUCH
I am not a reasonable
man. There are three type of people that I can't command
my reason to rule. They are the taxi drivers, the women
drivers and the great motor cyclists.
Generally taxi
drivers are greedy lot of people. The fare from a bus
station to my home about 3 to 4 miles away is about
RM15. It would go up RM25 at dawn. My staffs were
charged RM15 each to go to the same distant. When they
are on the road you can expect anything. Just be careful
when you see a taxi in front of you.
Women are dare
devil drivers. They run the red light, overtake on all
sides without prior notice and signal, and irritate you
at the round about. Today I came across one whose car
stalled in the middle of the main road. What she did was
staying in her car with the hazard light blinking. Other
cars were waiting in queue unsuspecting of what the lady
was doing. I figure she was waiting for her husband or
boyfriend to come and rescue her. Other sensible human
would come out of the car and wave for help.
The motor cyclists
are the greatest of all. They always run the red light
at high speed, some without helmet. Every evening they
are showing off their acrobatic stance near the jogging
tracks. Once during a night race a raider fell down and
probably dead. The people in the nearby eating shops
rushed out to see and clapped their hands.
Of course not all taxis are owned by the greedy people
and not all women drivers define driving their own way.
Some women would go only 25 mph and take a long stop at
a junction or the Stop-Look-Go to be on the safe side.
The high powered bikers are wealthy middle-age adults.
They have nothing to show off. I respect them for their
gallantry.
Other than the above
people, I am very scared of the public bus drivers. They
too run red light and speeding up even in town. I am not
surprise why accidents are very frequent.
If we talk about
enforcement and authority the vicious cycle begins
again. There will be a thousand and one excuses, and
things would be left as they were.
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SHOULD THE FAILED POLICY MAKERS BE PUNISHED ?
We
may think the making of a certain policy is a concerted
effort. What used to be university lecturers from the
whole nation would meet, discuss, debate on something a
Minister request them to look into. This may not be the
case anymore. A policy can be made by one man, and he
forced his subordinates to design what he wish to see,
and tried his best to influence the Minister concerned.
A
Minister can be as good as any layman or the kampong
folk. He would put much trust on his officer. If the
officer bluff him, will bluff the citizen. Surely we
often heard of the phrase 'The Minister is ill
advised...' It is the second type of policy making that
need to be taken into consideration. There must be
punishment for the sole person who was happily pushing
up his policy. Even if he has long retired he must be
pulled to court and let it be assessed the lost in the
damage done.
I
have encountered with such arrogant officers before.
When you tell them to compute every detail, they will
tell you 'We will solve as we come across the problem'.
By the time the problem occurred these officers were
already retired.
A
good policy can also fail though we have done every
detailed computation. An unexpected and disaster beyond
our control may cause it to fail. But there are policies
which the failures have been predicted at the beginning,
and truly the predictions happen and there are huge
damage done.
It
is too bad for a country to have such an arrogant
officers who are great swaggerers as well, threatening
and warning the subordinates. The punishment must be
very severe.
The policy blooms from
consensus and group discussion can be spared. If
consultants are used to make policy then the person who
ordered the service must be punished equal to the
arrogant officers.
Education policy maker
is one of those that need attention.
In
my view the best KPPM for the Ministry of Education was
Dato' Murad. Dato' Murad was not a PHD holder. Yet there
wasn't any polemic as much as we have with those holding
PHD degrees.
To be fair the degree
of punishment decide by law depends on the fatality of
damage done. The more the damage the harsher the
punishment. It is nothing more than to avoid any
individual from forcing the masses to accept any stupid
policy.
19/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
ANOTHER
ESSAY ANOTHER GREAT ENGLISH OF MARIAM MOKHTAR
I find it a
pleasure reading Mariam Mokhtar. Here is another of her
article. I may not absolutely agree with her.
Let us be reminded
that what we say and do are observed and recorded.
Mariam opened the past and the present, moving her eyes
from North to South, East and West. Likewise all other
concerned and smart citizens.
Her quotation of
what Rosmah and Taib had said interest me most as they
sound purely like a jester. Of course there is nothing
that we can do. But least we can know why the Malays
found themselves being look down with disdain and
contempt. So much so Tiong Lai did not even spare the
opposition party member because he is a Malay, "Let us
bury Anwar because he is a Malay." You hear the
first part but you don't hear the second part. Did
anyone hear Tiong Lai said 'let us burry all the
Malays."
If the Malays
continue with the stupid act and using the stupid words
they will be despised perpetually.
19/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
PBS - THE
EARLY CASUALTIES
We don't have to
wait 5 years to see the casualties of PBS. Already the
last SPM candidates who thought they didn't do well are
struggling in their minds of the next level of
education. One said to me, "Cikgu, I am too young to
work. I want to go to school."
Her parents,
wealthy and affordable, planned to send her to private
institutions, either in Penang or Kuala Lumpur. I just
don't believe in private colleges aiming merely to make
money. And conservatism would not agree a young girl to
rent a room either in Penang or Kuala Lumpur. The
pornographic video online made me feel so very scary.
Girls from IPTS were the actresses. I have heard the
news of a few of my female students who went to find job
in Kuala Lumpur were involved in immoral activities. I
have yet to tell the parent about it. It is up to them
to decide.
No more that I can
advise her to work and study at the same time and sit
again for the exam as a private candidate. PBS kills
that. The Minister does not think of the welfare of the
citizens. The planners' intellectuality is not used to
create goodness to mankind.
The father is a
staunch UMNO supporter. Had he not been my student and
had the children are not close to me, I would have just
say 'serve you right'.
When I went to my
old school, I would scold the Vice Principal for not
talking whenever he went to a meeting. I was made to
understand that teachers are warned not to question
policy.
How about the law
makers ? I saw how they were being duped in parliament.
They can only see what was laid in front of them, but
did not see the whole human frontier. Education is not
only for manpower. It is an effort to create a civil
society living in peace and harmony. We can't afford to
breed criminals and failures by negatively ignoring the
young population.
The Malays are the
greatest losers. Their survival rate is much lower than
the Chinese who have been striving without the
government's help.
Those who did not
perform well and living in kampongs and can't afford to
go to well known private colleges will stay idle. Since
they do nothing they will be prone to drugs. And we
can't tell how many will turn to be robbers.
Today at the
jogging tracks there were more than 30 young Malays of
both sexes, some with and without helmets, were yelling
and shouting with full throttle irritating the people.
Further education
and evening classes used to be our culture for the
unfortunate to go and study again. I went to Mandarin
class with full of young Chinese girls who might have
missed schooling owing to poverty.
Many of us earned
university degree from self study and sitting exam as
private candidates. And many score the CGPA above 3.8 in
well known universities in the United States.
These policy
makers that totally neglect the secondary young people
possess the hearts of worst than the devil, inhumane and
deserved to be strike by the hottest lightning, till
their charred body become so very black, even worms will
stay away.
16/02/2014 |
SIAPA
MENGHINA ISLAM ?
Ada beberapa
perkara serius yang perlu diberi perhatian; apakah yang
dimaksudkan dengan menghina Islam dan mengapakah Islam
dihina ?
Sesuatu perbuatan
yang terang-terang secara bongkak tidak menghormati
agama Islam atau kata-kata seumpamanya adalah penghinaan
terhadap Islam.
Samy Velu pernah
bertanya di dalam parlemen 'Quaran boleh buat jalan raya
ka ?' UMNO pula berkata parti Islam tidak boleh
membangun negara kerana Islam adalah untuk akhirat.
Berapa ramai pula orang Melayu UMNO yang
mencemuh-cemuhkan Hudud ?
Pelakuan yang
menjatuhkan imej Islam adalah termasuk di dalam
perbuatan menghina agama; pembohongan terang-terang
tanpa malu, menerima dan memberi rasuah, melibatkan diri
dalam pembunuhan dan penipuan, tidak menutup aurat,
mengaibkan manusia lain dan puluhan lain yang
mencemarkan agama dan bangsa sendiri.
Mengapa orang
menghina Islam ? Ada manusia yang tetap berbuat demikian
walaupun mereka tidak nampak satu-satu keburukan pun.
Jika pemimpin
negara yang beragama Islam berdolak dalih, berbohong dan
memapulasikan undang-undang untuk kepintangan sendiri,
maka dia akan dibenci. Bangsa, agama dan keturunannya
akan dibenci. Orang akan bertanya "Itukah perangai orang
Islam ?", "Orang Islam berbudaya menipu ? "
Lihat sendiri
pada kes dakwat kekal yang tidak kekal. Kalau dakwat itu
tidak kekal, siapakah yang membohongi rakyat ? Tak
bohong ? Kalau tidak berbohong mengapa pembeli dan
penjual tidak didakwa ? Dan yang paling besar sekali
ialah orang yang mengemukakan laporan dikenankan tidakan
keras. Tidakkah ini membusuk dan menjatuhkan pemimpin
dan pegawai-pegawai Islam ?
Islam yang suci
perlu menunjukkan contoh teladan yang baik oleh umatnya
supaya ianya dihormati dan disegani.
Keruntuhan akhlak
orang-orang Melayu beragama Islam amat ketara sekali.
Muda mudi tidak malu-malu bercumbu-cumbuan di khalayak
ramai dengan kelakuan yang amat tidak senonoh. Anak muda
menggunakan azan Jumaat sebagai isyarat permulaan
perlumbaan motosikal,lebai dan perempuan bertudung
melanggar lampu merah di jalan raya, pembikinan video
seks oleh wanita-wanita Melayu Islam secara leluasa.
Itu semua tidak
memaparkan keagungan agama Islam. Apakah ia tidak
dicemuhkan oleh orang lain ?
Jika kita mahu
orang menghormati bangsa Melayu dan agama Islam, kita
hendaklah menjadikan diri kita orang yang rajin, mahu
usaha, pintar, mahir di dalam perubatan, perundangan dan
kejuruteraan, jadi ahli sains terkemuka, bijak di dalam
berhujah menegakkan agama, berpeadaban tinggi,
menghormati orang lain tidak kira kaum dan keturunan,
bijak di dalam sains, teknologi, sastera dan segala
bidang ilmu.
Tapi orang-orang
yang menjatuhkan maruah Islam disimpan di dalam UMNO.
17/02/2014 |
YOUR
CHILDREN EDUCATION
Hearing words of
the Minister, you may think the whole system is rosy. I
have said enough about PBS and touched a little on
Vocational College.
I would like to
repeat the present system of technical and vocational
education is towards the preparation of manpower. Both
PBS and vocational colleges are ignoring the mediocre
and the low achievers. The low achievers are those
without interest in the current academic subjects.
Hearing that
vocational colleges end up with a diploma many applied
and they would have to be interviewed for the entry.
What the public is
not aware is their sons may not be allowed to continue
for the diploma after the two year course if they do not
perform well. The dropouts will be without any
certificate at all.
I already heard
from a parent about his son who leave a college without
certificate. That made me wonder how that could happen.
As for the
vocational colleges to award some form of certificate
after year two it must be recognized by a certain body.
MLVK cert can only be issued with the required standard
set, which were rejected and thrown away by the system.
Your son who got
into the college may be a victim.
It would be worst
for the very low achievers to either waste their time in
school or stay away from schools. The parents may not
know whether the kid goes to school or joining the
contemporary group.
The biggest and
immediate damage will be faced by the 2013 SPM
candidates. Parents with money can send their kids to
private colleges.
You can't ask UMNO
for help. Many UMNO members and staunch supporters will
be getting head ache about their children's education
after form 5.
Ministers who have
bright children may not feel the pain. Those with lesser
ability would be sent to private colleges overseas.
My worry began
when our kampong is no longer a safe place and the
number of bag snatchers are on the raise.
UMNO blame the
joblessness and the problems faced by these dropouts on
the Chinese and the opposition parties. Some were
deployed as gangsters attacking the opposition leaders.
A hundred lawyers
produce by our education system can't even match the
lone house breaker and a thief in the village of 200
lawyers.
How many percent
of our population must be the jobless, skill less and
brainless ? Do we want to multiply them as fast as we
can ?
Already we are
tagged as number six dangerous country in the world to
visit. The American citizens were warned of the crimes
in Malaysia.
People do not seem
to bother the possible roots of this evil. I relate it
to failure of our education system. There is no mention
of peaceful and harmonious society, free of crimes and
drug abuse, and attainment of tranquil living. The
system that do not cater for the poor kids has a
stinking smell.
17/02/2014 |
DEPARTMENTS AS I SEE THEM
What I see from the outside may be different from what
is really happening inside. The top in my list is the
POST OFFICE. Post office today does not only deal with
postings but offering a multitask services. It is one
place where we can pay rates, taxes, renewal of driving
licenses, buying insurance, paying all sort of bills,
top-up smart phones, ASB and ASN and much more from a
single counter. My experience in the newly built UTC was
hell. It did not make life simpler. A big credit must be
given to the person responsible for bringing this
innovation to the modern post office.
Second departs are the NRIC and Immigration where work
completion could be done within a short period compared
to the old 14 days. With the current thumb print
database to keep records of foreigners and foreign
workers the efficiency will surely be elevated.
The
most scary is the police station. If I could avoid
making any report, I would not want to do it. I remember
I had to park my car far behind the police station
because the space was prepared for some function. The
police personnel were never soft with people. They made
you feel like an outcast. Don't be surprise of a lady
raise her voice at you.
Hospital and clinics differ from location to location.
The best I would say is the old Hospital Besar which is
turned into clinic. The service is good and getting
medicine excels private hospitals. Waiting to get
medicine in Kedah Medical Center can be from 30 to 60
minutes but in this clinic it could be between 5 - 15
minutes despite a big crowd.
Departments that are dealing with the people should be
more sensitive.
Among the many the Post Office is the most innovative.
16/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
ABOUT
FORGIVEN
In the years before
many of the current generations were born, the part of
the Khmer Empire were taken by Vietnam. In the modern
time Vietnamese refugees found a sanctuary in Cambodian
border territory. When the Cambodian attacked the
Vietnamese they slaughtered the civilians, cut the body,
and bite the heart with full of vengeance. There was no
pity. And there was no forgiven.
Revenge can be
very bitter. One of the worst in the current century was
the sodomy of Libyan leader, Muammar Ghadafi.
Citizens and
political leaders must always watch their words and
behaviors, never to think they are invincible. There are
errors that people can forgive and forget, and there are
those only God may forgive.
There will be
some who can forgive Najib but not Rosmah. They can
forgive Mahathir but not Shahrizat. They may sneered
Ibrahim Ali as a moron but they may not forgive Ahmad
Said.
But the pious
Muslims are easy to succumb to forgiveness and leave
things to God to decide. To err is only human but to
forgive is divine.
Forgiving is
healing. It makes the forgiver feel very relief and near
to the God Almighty. He expects nothing in return but
may be happy enough to see the devil has turned to a new
leaf. We forgive people of all races and creeds for any
misdeed done on us.
16/02/2014 |
THINK WE ARE BIG
People with a huge wealth may think they are big. People
in high political position with power think they are
big. They can shout at you, threaten you or even lie to
you right on your face.
How
about the rest of the population, do they find those
people big and great ?
Public remember what the ruling class do. I remember
what Mahathir said to the Malays about asking them to
sell their land to invest in stocks. He might not
remember. I very well know how he destroy the future of
the Malays, which he might have totally forgotten and
many Malays do not know, and even the current UMNO don't
even care or realize.
Now
Mahathir mentioned Anwar in the Op Lalang.
Today, everyday, we hear of the praise on Taib Mahmud
who had done a lot to the people of Sarawak. And later
about Mahathir as a great statesman who did so much for
Malaysia.
Tell the world that what would this country be without
those big people ? The citizens have been living very
well under the previous Prime Ministers. And let us take
a bet, that without a government running this country
the economy can still flourish.
To
the fellow citizens everyone is equal. The respect will
not go on pomposity but kindness and honesty. The
wealth, the greatness and the title will not go with
them when they die. |
CAN
MONEY BUY PEOPLE ?
Can money be used
to stop rebellion ?
Dissatisfaction
and unhappiness could drive people to revolt. A rebel
can be of a single man, a small group or a big group of
more than a hundred. Their strength depend on the
available weapons and their brain. The hardest rebel to
cope was the IRA. The Irish Republican Army's operatives
were untraceable. They were successful in sending bomb
into the house in Downing Street. Fortunately enough
after a long undeclared war there was a win win
situation.
Money can buy 99%
of the populace who may shift their allegiance. The 1%
invisible and untraceable movement could cause unending
terror to the government.
Because it is
difficult to plant moles in such a movement, they are
planted at the source of the weapon suppliers, who would
report to the relevant government who were the
purchasers. American and Israel spy agencies have moles
everywhere.
USA put every
individual in the database and try to monitor everyone
of them. With the electronic surveillance it was not
impossible for a few men to control a precinct of a few
millions. Cameras capture every corner and drones will
re-enforce the watching.
Despite the
elaborate and sophisticated system there were murders
and crimes that escape law. They could not win the drug
war, instead chose to legalize marijuana.
The awareness by
the rebels that they are being watched would make them
better planners. We have heard that the people were
angry with the Wall Street and the bankers and even the
President but so far we have not heard of those hated
people being shots or bombed.
If the
dissatisfied people are ruled by civility and
consciousness they would choose the democratic process
to throw out the government.
Can money appease
everyone ? To study the case we have to look at Kajang
by-election. At the eve of the election BRIM was
announced. All earning below 3K are eligible. A big
number of Kajang folks will be getting the money.
If in the
election more than 40% who receive the BRIM vote for
opposition, it proves that money could not buy everyone.
This is applicable anywhere in the world.
If money cannot
buy people at peaceful situation, it will not stop any
potential terrorism.
Right now
militancy is seen in Bosnia, and partly in Thailand. In
the Philippines it is almost coming to a halt, where the
Muslims are gaining their autonomy.
Malaysia is in a
volatile position because the threat from PERKASA of a
possible conflict drive readiness and preparedness to
defense and counter attack. The victims could be
concentrating the steps to retaliate. Smart people will
just ignore the toothless body. A very small portion may
move underground.
I do not see it
is wise to harass Teresa Kok. Many thousand people would
feel insulted. Just browse through and read what some
angry people called Zahid Hamidi. People of respectable
posts must not act in such a way that they would be
called names, and gangsters and mafia. Such wars could
escalate more for they have no more fear of being
arrested and jailed.
We have to pray
for no bomb explosion and no shot fired. We have to make
sure that there will be no potential IRA like movements.
Right now Najib is using the money weapon.
14/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MY
ELECTRICITY BILL
My highest
electricity bill was RM250. That was when I used my two
horsepower air-conditioner to cool me down. That was
before the price hike. I decided not to use it anymore
and it abruptly reduced to an average of RM150.
I bought an energy
saver but it didn't seem to work.
The irony is only
I and my wife are living in our small abode. Yet
electricity usage was high. We had three freezers; one
in the kitchen, one mini bar in my shack and one in the
hall. All bought during our working time. There have
been nothing in my mini bar except for the cold water.
There were fish and vegetables bought many years ago in
the kitchen freezer. I have not been to the kitchen for
a long time.
I finally decided
to switch off those two to beat the new rate. But I
could not switch off my light and fan that always run
for the comfort of my sick wife. Two of my laptops are
running more than 12 hours a day.
Yesterday the new
bill arrived. It was the lowest ever, only RM79. My
austerity drive work as far as electricity is concerned.
I used to have
ASTRO. I cut it off after the company rises the fee. So
I don't have an ASTRO, and do not buy newspapers.
Instead I used the money to pay the TMNET.
Cost cutting does
not mean we stopped spending altogether. A large sum was
spent on take away food. Much goes to KFC and Mee Pak
Chop. Those were my wife favorite. Starting from 2014
Pak Cjop charged us 80 cents more for the fried mee and
drink.
Life is getting
harder for retired people as things are getting more
expensive. Majid, the nasi tomato mamak, told me
yesterday that our money is getting smaller. He has no
choice but to increase his price.
It is easy for a
politician to comment on the lowering value of money.
One said it benefit the traders. The masses have to pay
more and their long time savings are shrinking badly.
Government's
effort to appease the people by giving the BRIM does not
interest me at all. I did not get the flood money and
never care to ask about my wife eligibility in receiving
it.
We survive. That's
all that count. We used our little ASB dividend to
settle our rates and road tax. The extra we donate to
the local mosque.
For RM79 electric
bill is much lesser than RM250 or RM140. The domestic
electricity does not offset what happen outside. The
business community said they have to increase their
prices as they are paying more for the utility.
Life is hard
nowadays. But we are still lucky compared to the other
millions out there in Latin American countries,
Kampuchea and North Koreans. I can't imagine the Syrians
and the Egyptians and the Palestinians. And of the
shocking poor people in the United States who lost their
homes and depend on free meals.
But I will always
remember Mahathir's mega project and Najib's lavishness
that drained our coffer. Jala was trying to fix it by
putting burden on us.
15/02/2014 |
REAL
CRAZY GOVERNMENT
The
ink seller who sold the delible indelible ink escape
with million of dollars and the person responsible for
buying it enjoy the luxury of life. Najib says nothing
about it. And Mahathir Kutty too pretended as if nothing
took place.
We
were all told to report to the police if the ink did not
indicate what it was suppose to be. Immediately when I
went home and washed my hand the ink fade. I went back
to the voting center and complained. The EC officer
replied it wasn't his job and asked me to complain to
the HQ.
Later I heard about a housewife and Major Zaidi made a
complaint. Major Zaidi was transferred for reporting and
now he is facing a court action.
Tell the world about it. Isn't that crazy ? How could we
expect the people to respect Najib and BN ministers ?
True that Kit Siang is a Chinese. Didn't he point out
the right thing by saying
"Why is the Najib government so unreasonable and even
perverse as to want destroy Malaysia’s fragile
international image with the latest scandal of sending a
patriotic air force pilot to jail for two years not
because of any heinous crime or moral turpitude but
because of the basic honesty of a decent human being in
speaking the truth about the “indelible ink” used in the
last general elections which was in fact quickly
washabke and deletable?
In contrast, the really corrupt and heinous characters
in Malaysia, particularly the “big sharks” of corruption
who steal tens and hundreds of millions of ringgit of
public properties and wealth, enjoy total immunity and
impunity"
I
think it is a great error and an injustice of the first
degree. It is ashamed indeed. Yet we are telling the
world that we have the best democratic system in this
region.
Can
a person be imprison because of his belief ? Even if a
government drew out the list what can and cannot be
belief, should a government punish him severely for
having a different thought ?
People can be very unreasonable. It would be insulting
to the people and the act is very provocative. It
steered madness. I understand that some people
appealed to foreign countries for help, writing even to
the President of the United States.
I
am pretty sure that Najib has a lot to answer to Obama
on several matters including this unreasonable issue of
Major Zaidi. More often than not the President will
listen politely, shake his head with the show of
courtesy. If that happen Najib will feel very relief.
But any unfriendly response spell bad luck for the
country no matter how vocal the nationalists may protest
and show anger by burning the effigy of Obama and the
American flag.
Problems occurred on small or silly matters but leaving
deep scars that will lead to revenge and hatred. That's
how things started in Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The
action on the Major is amounting to war against those
security forces who do not think in line with BN. It is
an intimidation. In this case let us recall the events
in Indonesia of the split of the Indonesian arm forces
after Sukarno, and the execution of Saddat by a small
group of military forces. And remember the incident of
Mahathir's face get the spray ? Mahathir was lucky to
get the spray, what if the man had a gun ?
What I am saying is unreasonableness has a limit. So is
human's patience. If they don't resort to act by
themselves, they will seek outside help.
What is in Major Zaidi is far much less as compared to
Teresa's video. The Major did not insult anyone. Like
everyone else felt taken aback when the ink could be
easily washed away.
It
was the purchaser and the seller who should end up in
solitary dungeon.
15/02/2014 |
THE OLD AND
THE NEW
I have
written about this topic before, and now I
am doing it again as I was watching partly
of the TV1 discussion on the war on dengue.
It was the old SANTARIBOT. More than 60
years ago before the independent there
wasn't any development and there were plenty
of growth, wild plants and grasses around
our houses. We had no tap water yet. But we
have enough for cooking and bathing from the
rain that we never waste.
My mother
used to ask me whether the SANTARIBOT has
arrived every weekend. There were people who
would come around and spray insecticide,
cutting the grass around the brook and made
sure the water always run.
We slept
with the windows open, I don't remember
having any heavy rain during the night time.
I would hang the mosquito net around 8 pm.
There was no electricity yet.
Only later
I realized what the SANTARIBOT means. It is
the SANITARY BOARD. And there was no dengue
heard or known then. We knew malaria.
Today with
development and scientific sophistication
and the growing department of health
Ministry all those what we used to have
during the occupation has become an unknown
event. We have graduates, many of them, and
smart doctors and administrators with high
salaries is dealing with mosquitoes in
different way. "The people must be educated.
They must clean the compound. The whole
society must move together." They said. They
made law to slap you with fine if larvae are
found around your home.
Just visit
the offices in the health offices. The
officers work in a very cooling environment
with comfortable seats and settees.
If you
talk to them and point at the blocked
waterways you will hear plenty of excuses.
They talked about their problems. Issuing
tickets cause them no problem. I told my
former school which was slapped for the
larvae in the brook not to pay and question
them the brooks and waterways outside the
school frontier which were bigger and there
were hundred time more places for mosquitoes
to breed. Weren't they stupid and dumb
enough ?
There were
no TV and computers yet in the '50s and
'60s. But there was a Malayan Film Unit that
made movies to educate people on many
things. They were all well done. I remember
Zainal Alam as one of the main actors. The
British showed the movies through Pejabat
Penerangan that would go round the country
quite frequently. Today we have the HD TV in
our homes and the laptops on our desks. Our
TV sings TERIMA KASIH and portraying our
Ministers visits and activities.
The big
question is WILL DENGUE BE TOTALLY ERASED IF
EVERYONE KEEPS HIS COMPOUND CLEAN FREE OF
BREEDING GROUND ?
13/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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LET PEOPLE LISTEN TO ANWAR
Why
bar Anwar from broadcasting his interview
with BMF Radio ? BN has been using all the
media to propagate it's vision, ideal and
philosophy. It us using every available
resources to strengthen it's position. I am
sure to allow Anwar to voice his idea on the
radio would not affect the powerful Barisan.
Matured citizens would not believe
everything what Anwar would say. Moreover BN
has said more than enough of the immoral man
who put self-interest before the people, of
the project in Kajang, of the relentless
efforts to fight against the greed of the
middlemen for the sake of the masses.
I am
sure people want to listen to Anwar merely
as an entertainment not to hear his
arguments against the government. They have
decided to go for the popular BN candidate.
Najib
declares to the world Malaysian democracy is
the best in the region. The opposition said
Myanmar is better than Malaysia. How about
barring Anwar on a local radio station ?
What freedom and democracy was Najib talking
about ?
Later
when Obama made a visit to this country,
Najib will have a lot of explanation to do
about democracy of Malaysian style. And
PERKASA may be chasing Obama back home for
interfering with our national integrity.
We are
blaming and accusing foreign countries are
gathering information about Malaysia.
Information are out there in the open.
Anyone can pick and put them in the bag.
The
President will be asking about Allah, about
opposition, about peaceful demonstration and
about our relationship with China. Already
USA has been informed about the barring of
Anwar to broadcast his interview.
Najib
will have to offer more to the United States
to appease the nation, so that we will still
be in the good book of the United States.
Remember flying West to our shore is nearer
than flying East.
Can
our form of democracy and freedom cushioned
US intervening in our internal affair ?
13/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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THE RINGS
AND THE BAGS
Beware. You
cannot be as fat and as short as Rosmah. If you are you
need to be extremely careful in what you say and do. You
might be accused of trying to imitate and insult her.
You must not mention the word RING and must not say that
you like bags. Every woman in Malaysia who is growing
flabby has to do something to halt the growth.
All attempts to
reduce their body weigh must not be made known to the
public, else you might be accused of trying to insult
Rosmah by sending the message that fat and flabby is
bad. If the first is considered a positive insult, the
second will be taken as a negative insult.
Which women do not
like ring, bags, cars and money ? There are wide market
for those items, from the cheap fakes to the expensive
fakes and from cheap genuine to the million dollar
genuine. Those who can afford the expensive stuffs will
buy the best and the most beautiful.
There is
nothing wrong for Rosmah to own anything and there is
nothing wrong for Rosmah look alike to love them too.
How to stop
someone from forming a conception of something ? It can
be done to some by the process of brainwashing using
lies and deception, but not to all people despite
putting them in prison. What one group think about Anwar,
another would think about Rosmah. Not only Rosmah but
they also have disagreeable on matters of God and
religion. Human cannot be more supreme than God. Do we
elevate our fellow politicians or their spouses to the
divine holly status ?
It is a pity
that we live in the world where everyone is insulting
each other in the open. Once we tried our best not to
hurt people's feeling. While doing it sometimes we are
exposing our stupidity.
11/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
LIFE LONG
EDUCATION IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ?
Community college
sounds good. The nearest to my home is in Jitra. I doubt
whether there is a bus that can take me to the college
and I wonder whether they have a culinary program to
offer. And not all form of education are vocation in
nature. Some are interested in language, arts and
philosophy. Others in arts and law. Hence the rhetoric
on life long education is only a political jargon.
Fortunately today
the internet technology provides all sort of knowledge
and a lot are given free. One can hear a live lecture
from universities overseas. All we need is the
understanding of English or Spanish. Of course there are
also available in other languages.
The advantage of
web learning is we can stay at home and don't need to
travel. But the learner need to have a certain level of
understanding especially on something abstract.
Outside our home
there is always a free religious education in the nearby
mosques, churches and temples. It educates us to be a
better and more responsible person, about God and death.
A community
college as a place of life long education is nice to
talk and hear but could turn out to be a hell once you
decide to enroll in your desired program. I have a
desire to learn on hydraulic and soon I will inquire
about the course.
But the college
itself is useful. It helps the unemployed youth to
acquire skills and knowledge in their respective
disciplines. Claiming it to serve the community for the
whole life education is too exaggerated and a jargon to
draw favorable voters.
A degree does not
guarantee a wise and learned man. Informal learning that
provide real experience can make a person smarter,
wiser, and able to solve intricate problems. Even skill
acquisition can be obtained with apprenticeships. These
people without certificates or degrees are serving the
engineers and doctors repairing vehicles and other
equipments. A mee seller earned four time more than a
head of department.
They wouldn't be
bothered with college community and universities. The
most vital to them is the knowing how to add and
multiply. Their errors in adding always benefit them
than the customers.
11/02/2014 |
DO OLD CODE-HAMS GIVE WAY TO NO-CODERS ?
What
I am writing here is based on mere conjecture which I
gather bits and pieces from here and there.
Not
all code hams are avoiding the no-coders. To them
everyone is a ham and all they want is to talk.
Some
move to the only CW portion of the spectrum and gave up
phone conversation for fear the no-coders might
interfere in their conversations. I traced a few young
hams in the countries where Morse is no more mandatory
working CW with all others. This initiative was
acceptable and the no-codes hams were accepted into the
community.
A few
gave up totally, feeling very unhappy with the no-code
policy. Initially it was a pain to stay away from the
radio. After some time they would gain back their
composure. If there were new hobbies they would never
return to ham radio.
My
believe a radio hobby without Morse code is not a ham
radio. You call it by whatever name. To me it is not a
ham radio.
I
would either choose to abandon it or move to the CW only
portion.
There
are many new things at our disposal today. Soon with the
nano technology new wonders will enter the market.
Knowledge exploration is lengthy. It can consume the
rest of our time.
Abandoning the hobby won't make you crazy . There are
Malaysian hams with radio and antenna, simply don't want
to come on the band. Each with his own reason.
Whatever ham radio in Malaysia today is, it is not the
same as before. The new hams are more educated and
smarter. There are tremendous amount of new ideas,
pushing aside what were archaic.
11/02/2014 |
EMPTYING MY MIND
I don't want to
remember the past. It can either made me happy or sad.
It was all about mankind and what's in their hearts and
mind. Many of those with me had passed away, many were
younger than me. I even hardly recalled their names.
This evening I
met my old teacher, Abdul Razak Botok, who was my school
counselor, at the jogging track. He attended the recent
re-union of the old boys on the 2nd of February 2014. He
was a popular teacher among the students for he had a
very effective way to motivate the lazy students.
In the course
of our discussions I told him that what had been built
was buried and never to revive anymore. In the late
1990's after the Najib's visit we became a bench marking
school. But winning at one award a year started in the
late '80s. We won championship in hostel competition,
landscaping championship organized by the City Board and
several championships at the National level.
Cikgu Abdul
Razak and a few of his friends were invited to Sarawak
and other states to talk about building excellent
school. I did not build the school but my teachers did.
I only applied a slight touch of my former Principal, Mr
Long Eng Hwa of Kiet Hwa Secondary School in driving the
students to study, the touch of Dr Abdul Syukur with
building a school with a character and the spiritual
battle cry of Japanese form of Banzi. And finally of
Datuk Haji Ahmad on the utmost welfare of the students.
That's all.
The school
landscaping was excellent, I would say, molded by a
teacher, Abdul Rahman Zakaria, and his team who build up
arches and resting places, planting trees and flowers.
Razak turned the toilets into a really beautiful rest
rooms.
Building self
esteem among the students was to create pride in them.
The competition for beautiful classes and hostel rooms
were very stiff. Winners and non-winners get the reward
of weekly outings. The classes and the school compound
must be at a certain standard at any time. The conducive
environment was followed by the loud battle cry of 'We
got to be number ONE'. The cry must shattered the world.
We did not have
a speech day but an open day with full of colors. The
hostel and workshops were opened to the visitors while
the students were working on their projects. The could
sell their products on that day. There was the prize
giving ceremony in the hall. The stage show and other
entertainment would start just after the prize giving.
The VIP would visit the exhibitions and watch the stage
show in the field. There were the sale of food that
weren't enough for a few thousands visitors of school
children coming from all over the state. The Open Day
was to be one day but the teachers requested for a two
day extension. Every year we had had a two day of
glorious events.
The enhancement
of the self esteem turned the low achievers into
successful students with better public examination
results.
We gave
importance to both skill attainment and the academic
exam results. There was no additional mathematics in our
curriculum but we introduce it outside our school time
table for those who want to learn. We have Art and Craft
for the Building and Constructions to open a way for the
bright student to become an architect. We introduced
Basic Economy for the Commerce students to enable them
to enter Malaysian Northern University. All were done on
my teachers initiatives.
We did not
encourage our students to go to tuition. I did not say
or force anyone to run an extra classes. But the
teachers were fighting to find slots for their subjects.
The classes went on until a month before an examination
where we have what we called Flexi Classes. Teachers
come following the flexi time. The students will start
classes from 8am to 10 pm with time to rest. The last
day of the flexi class was a week before the final exam.
There were always a big feast that began from the early
morning when teachers did the cooking. We had sponsors
from parents and other people, of meat, fish, rice and
many more. At night parents would bring the whole family
for the feast. I would give my last talk and advices
while the parents were eating and watching a big screen
movies. Young children enjoyed the ice creams and the
balloons. It was really a grand occasion.
Parents came to
see to thank about their lazy and problem children who
changed a great deal. They were very please and happy. I
told them that it was not me who change their children.
It was the teachers. One of them was Abdul Razak
Abdullah, a dakwah teacher, who would voluntarily tamed
the hard-core students.
At the jogging
track cikgu Razak echoed our mission. Our mission was to
mold the bad into good, the good into better, those who
hate learning into those who want to learn. A success is
not to obtain all As but to improve the status to a
higher level. Turning an E to a C was good enough. That
we did and that we attained.
Toilets were
the most talked about. A teacher from Kiet Hwa who
attended a meeting in our school, came to look for me
and with great jubilant and excitement said "Abdul
Rahman, your school is very clean and your toilet is
superb..."
There were a
few Teachers that mad the toilet a restroom; cikgu
Yasmeen and cikgu Abdul Razak Botok. The daly
maintenance was under a contract worker, a lady by the
name of Maryam. I called her Kak Yam though she was half
my age. She took care of three toilets. I was so pleased
her that I wanted her to take a plane to Kuala Lumpur
with another worker as a reward. She never sat her foot
on the plane before. And the blue-collar workers who
took care of the landscaping were also rewarded. Where
did I get the money ? I had entertainment allowances
which were used to entertained my school workers if I
did not have visitors.
I believe in
vocational education and training, not all together in
the system itself but for the general benefit of a
peaceful society. I want those who have no interest in
academic subjects and in schooling to get themselves
into training and skills. If no place is provided for
them the country will later be filled with criminals and
bad hats without any ability to make a living.
The government
pushed for a change in policy. They wanted to changed
the school to technical school. I protested and request
for transfer. In 2000 I moved to an academic school.
You want to
know more about the nostalgia you can ask anyone who
were with me till 2000. These were the tecahers who
built the school to be an excellent institutions, a
bench marker that pull thousands and thousands of
visitors from all over.
Today things
change. I hardly see the past. They erased all and I too
want to erase from my mind. What am I and what are we,
the pariahs of the land.
10/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
WHERE ARE THE CHEAP HOMES ?
Yesterday I saw a banner advertising a home
costing RM300K. 300K is much less than 600K
or 800K. A house selling at between 300K -
900K is considered a standard home on a
standard price. Before the GE13 BN announced
of cheap and affordable homes of less than
50K. After the election things went very
quiet. Nothing is heard anymore except for
the poster of the 300K affordable abode for
the public. |
CAMPAIGN OF HATE
Opposition party is not allowed to run
any campaign of hate. But BN is allowed
to do it every day. Almost in every news
reading BN calls the public to hate the
opposition leaders and the party. Anwar
and Teresa have received the most and
the hardest. BN members have been
inciting the people against them. Many
people voted for opposition because they
could no longer stand the vicious mouth
of BN supporters parading by the
national media days and nights.
Did
Teresa insulted the Malays in her video
? Hating Rosmah is not hating every
Malay. Criticizing NFC is not
criticizing UMNO. The Malays should not
be dragged blindly like the buffaloes.
No thinking Malays will be condoning the
lavishness of minister's wives using
public funds.
There
is nothing wrong for anyone to speak the
truth. To call a thief 'a thief' is not
an insult nor a crime. There is nothing
wrong to call the people to reject and
hate a thief. |
PHD
To get into a PHD program in the
United States is tough. You have to
pass the qualifying exam, the main
barrier that would oust more than
60% of the candidates. You need to
have a wide knowledge of everything
from sports to sciences.
The simplest PHD program is on the
online school. Any fool can earn a
Master easily even without higher
education.
I am quite shock to know several
politicians with a PHD when their
statements and speeches are never
matching their 'qualification'. In
such a case we can conclude that
their PHDs are useless, nearing to a
fake degree from a fake
university.
I remember of a teacher who claimed
he got a master and working on his
PHD, who became a laughing stalk
when he mentioned UBI OTOMO instead
of Budi Otomo.
People like me who can't even spell
rightly and write a proper English
grammar are not fit to earn any PHD.
A scholar must be bright and good in
everything including a good command
of English. When I heard Fandi Ahmad
spoke English I was amazed at the
brilliant speech, perfect
pronunciation and grammar and sound
like an Englishman.
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PBS ONLY IN APRIL ?
It is a great joke. Some people
just trust computers. You may
ask if computers are vulnerable
why nobody steal money from the
banks. I am not answering the
question asked, not because it
is something impossible.
PBS is very vulnerable. The
defense is much weaker than the
banking software system. You
won't know when people would
sneak in and what they
will do with the data.
Security is not my concern as
compared to the fate of the
dropouts and the young school
leavers who wish to continue
their further studies by
improving themselves. Will they
be able to sit for the PBS again
while they are working ?
I would to remind Mahyuddin to
sack those who propose and plan
the new system if the whole
system fail in the future. In
fact they must be jailed for at
least 10 years.
10/02/2014
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
LIKE
FATHER LIKE SON ?
Mukhriz is the
opposite of Najib. Both are opposite of their fathers.
Mahathir should be proud of his Menteri Besar's son whom
I would give him a thumb up as a simple and humble man.
I believe he is a pious person.
He could easily
capture the hearts of the Muslim Malays with his
religious activities. When I saw him at the Maulud's
festival recently I noticed that he humbled
himself to God and saw him as a normal man, whom we
could always respect.
Putrajaya and UMNO
seemed not to like him for their own reason. I think
because they dislike Mahathir, who had criticized Najib
poor administration .
Not all genetic
traits would pass from the father to the son, despite
the scientific findings. Intervening variables could
very much influence and shape new behaviors. I am too
convinced of the impact of Rosmah on Najib which is
extremely great. Mukhriz as a boarding MRSM student
picked up his adorable attitudes from the school itself.
The hostel discipline was tight. By 5 am everybody must
be ready for Subuh prayer. The training was harsh and
hard.
I saw Bush the son
is less smart than Bush the father. Hishamuddin has not
even half of his father's class. Guan Eng shows the
trait of Kit Siang. I don't smoke but my kids do. My
kids dismissed my political beliefs as nonsense.
We cannot equate
the sons to the fathers in Malaysian politics. And we
should never hope the sons will follow the footstep of
the father. And we should not think that there are no
better and smarter people in this country to rule the
nation other than the Minister's sons.
Our feudalistic
mind still separate the people into peasant and the
ruling class. So we chose the leaders from the
aristocrat families, ignoring our ability in running a
country. There are million more people who are smarter
than Hishamuddin, Najib, Guan Eng or Mukhriz.
Among the UMNO
Ministers and Chief Ministers there are evils and
angels. Nobody can hide himself behind the fiery
rhetoric or hypocrisy. People do no assess the
level of intelligence by their qualifications but what
they say and do. Neither would we tell the son's
characters by their fathers.
So far
Mukhriz is doing good and I hope he will be himself for
the remaining of his political years, a long more years.
10/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
WHO
IS GOING TO SLAP ZAHID HAMIDI ?
Already there
is an offer of a 10K reward for anyone who slap Zahid
Hamidi. This man must be serious. What is 10K to a large
number of people. Zahid said the offer is not a threat
because it is not pertaining to murder. Will there be
more offer with a bigger reward for slapping Rosmah,
Najib or Ghani Patail ? If Ghani Patail remain to stay
silent about it, it means he also agree such kind of a
display is legal.
Offer for
slapping Teresa is 1.2K. Offer for slapping Zahid is
10K. We have to wait for the offer to make public either
using a blog or an opposition media, or there may be
posters stuck on trees and walls.
It is up to you
to judge Zahid. The minister is not judged and heard
within our border. When I was in China a member of our
tour group criticized Communism and our China tour
leader questioned our integrity, discrimination and more
that left the Malaysian speechless. When I was in USA, a
bus driver asked me about Anwar Ibrahim. When I was in a
restaurant in London, a worker approached me saying
Malaysia was not an Islamic nation. When you can
convince a Japanese leader to reject Anwar Ibrahim, you
can't convince all other of Japanese citizens.
If I were to go
abroad and someone were to ask me about Zahid Hamidi, he
would put me in great difficulty. I had defended
Mahathir before though I didn't like him. Surely I would
not degrade him in front of any foreigner. I would have
to bear a great shame.
As a Malay, I
have been fired with questions pertaining to policies
that I could not answer. I had been a victim, as if I
was involved in the making of the policy. I could only
answer one question that I paid for my university
education, not free.
I remember
sometime ago and somewhere, public is not allowed to
mention the word ROSMAH. Why, was mentioning the name
amounting to a threat to take her life ? You may ask me
for the reason I like to mention her name. Many people
adored and like her. So they mention her name. I saw her
different in every aspect from all other Prime
Minister's wife. And she is a hit. So I mention her
name.
So are UMNO
ministers who like to mention Anwar's name because he is
like Chua Soi Lek.
The world heard
Zahid and they heard Lim Kit Siang. It is up to them to
make judgment. People have been telling me that Lim is a
Chinese and I should support the Malays. Why not they
discussed the truth of the matter without referring to
the ethnic factor ?
When a person
becomes a minister he is a minister of all because he is
paid by all. If anyone just want to be a minister of
UMNO members then do not collect any form of tax from
the non-UMNO members.
As a man, we
must have something. If we don't have religion, God,
shame or morality we must have at least a conscience. If
we don't even have a conscience than any other man can
call us anything at all as they think fit.
09/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
AT LEAST
TAIB MAHMUD HAS SOMETHING
I feel very relief
to know that Taib Mahmud has a conscience. I concluded
he is a man. It takes a man with a conscience to release
his post. A crazy man intoxicated with power won't budge
an inch under any form of pressure and continue to be
adamant, defending himself against ant criminal or
non-criminal charges.
The rest of his
time he should go and visit the natives and see their
plight, their children's education, their economy and
their hardship. Bush went soul searching to see how much
damage he had done to the people.I believe he will
discover that many poor people are happy with living,
and life is fulfilling, as compared to a wealthy person
like him. In no time leading a life of a normal man and
doing some good work in the community, providing part of
his wealth to the needy, I am sure he will feel happy,
at peace and very tranquil. He has all the time to
repent in cases of his wrong doings. The people whom he
have helped will pray for his longevity and happiness.
Taib could have
whispered to his successor about the evil of Putrajaya,
and how Sarawak has help to put BN in power and what he
got back. Any smart and awaken Sarawakian would realize
the game of the government in Kuala Lumpur.
In Sarawak the
people allow the heads thought for them and submitted to
the state decision.
By now Putrajaya
has all the plan on Sarawak for the next GE.
If Sarawak and
Sabah move away from BN the later can start thinking of
moving to other countries as they are chasing those who
are not inline with them.
The attack on Taib
and his family had been robust and tremendous. The
divorce case put so much shame to the family. Even the
question of virginity was brought out for public
attention.
When will all
these diminished from public forum ? Hopefully by this
resignation the gossips will slowly faded. And could
spend his time enjoying life with his grand children.
Life as a normal man is happier even though in poverty.
Mahathir is
waiting for Najib to offer his resignation, which will
never happen. If Najib quit Shahrizat will have to find
a new rob to hide, for we always see her around Najib,
with the intent to maneuver the safety of her husband.
Rosmah won't allow Najib to give in.
As for us, we have
just to wait and see. Things could be fun or fatal. But
for sure we can't live with all the constant lies and
deception.
To Taib Mahmud, I
wish him luck and all the best for the rest of his life.
09/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Award for
slapping Teresa ?
Why offer an award
when the members of the NGO themselves can go and slap
Teresa ? And Sabree Chik himself could sue Teresa
instead of calling the police to take a stern action on
her. All what we hear from those mouths were Teresa Kok
insult the Malaysian leaderships.
As Najib was
talking about the up and down of prices Teresa was
talking about the bad years that crashed our nation. I
too had observed that 2013 was a year of deception and
2014 as a year of payment. The voters fell to the
cheating and lying 'People come first...' Life will be
better if BN win GE13. At that time I already knew of
the consequences the people will suffer from the
spendthrift of Najib on the GE alone, not to mention his
spending in buying popularity abroad. People will have
to pay for their extravagant and reckless wastage.
BN had been
making agreements that benefit the contractors and
concessionaries. Anyone in the right kind of mind would
not tolerate this. Teresa didn't divulge every evil deed
of the government yet. They hide corruption behind the
law, yet it could be seen through the flourish drug
trade and the foreigners illegally running business in
this country. The kampong Malays fared the worst as
their land were bought cheaply for commercial purposes.
When Ahmad
Said lied about his Antarctica trip we can sense it by
flipping through the web pages. And the pirates and
intruders in Sabah is still going on till recently. When
Rosmah spent in Australia and else where the news
traveled fast.
Now Mahyuddin
is going to spend more on 1Malaysia outlet to beat
inflation, trying to show the government is concerned to
the high cost of living. A dinner only cost RM5 in
Putrajaya. But my nasi tomato with egg, meat and drink
cost me RM4.70 at an expensive Mamak stall. Joining
Najib is Mee Pak Yusoff who charged me 80 cents more
starting from 2014. Everywhere else price tags are
soaring. Try to ask the vendor. They will give you these
answers," Salaries have increased, electric bill rise,
transportation cost has gone up, insurance goes
up.....we are paying more and we have to charge more."
And the
bright young man, Ahmad Maslan, is telling us with GST
everything would be cheaper, which I am not going to
give any rebuttal. Do you believe him ? Or will he get a
greater insult later ?
Watch the
video above and analyze the message. Don't try to call
the Malays to hate Teresa. She was speaking for
everybody, even for the stupid followers who will
experience greater discrepancies of living, bullied by
irresponsible politicians.
Shahidan and
Sabree may have thought they have the best brain in the
country. Shahidan said that he is ready to debate
anybody and Sabree offered himself to debate with Anwar.
Why not they use the video as evidence and together take
Teresa to court.
Have you seen
Najib dancing the Lenggang Kangkong on the youtube ? If
Putrajaya can show Anwar sexual act using video clip
then why not show the Lenggang Kangkong clip for public
entertainment ? Honestly speaking, I think the footage
is fake.
07/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
MANAGING
A COUNTRY AND MANAGING A SCHOOL
It might be too
much to assume that a Minister would find it tough to
run a school than running a country. In school there are
head of departments, senior subject teachers, form
teachers, teachers in charge of sports, co-curriculum,
landscaping, corporative, discipline, students, hostels
and parents. In addition there are finance and accounts
the school administrators must look into. The Principal
is both accountable and responsible for all happenings,
events and expenditures.
Ever wonder
what is the work of a Minister ? What does he do
everyday in his office ? I don't know their tasks
really. But I think their first job is know what is
happening in the country under the portfolio. He
consults the people under him and seek information on
the current situations and conditions. He has to set a
goal and a vision to achieve either by himself or
request his subordinated to draw the whole plan for him.
He decides a policy and put to cabinet for
approval.
He can avoid the
work and left to his people to run the show, and at the
same time he would be thinking how to retain power, how
to corrupt the voters, what to lie and how to deceive
them. A few might be thinking how to escape with million
of ringgit without being traced.
Like a school
administrator a Minister can be autocratic, democratic
or laissez faire. A Minister can be understanding and
open minded but his advisor may not and would push him
to run a policy under any circumstances.
As far as the
job is concern a Minister should not brag that he
is looking after a country and the rest don't do vital
jobs. The farmers and fishermen are doing a greater and
more commendable job wherever they are. They feed the
people.
The heaviest task
of a Minister is to bear the responsibility and be
accountable for any mishap happens under his ministry.
If he cares to scrutinize himself a big money given for
any project, the NFC would have not failed, Bank Bumi
would have not gone bankrupt, money in PERWAJA and PKZ
would not have been stolen.
As things
went, we do not need a graduate or an educated
individuals to hold a Minister's post. A clerk had been
a Minister before. PMR holder could run a state as well.
And take an illiterate and made him a Minister, things
will run as usual.
To employ a
consultant or to put someone to look for things could be
done by anyone. While they work for you, you can go
cruising at the Antarctica.
The worst of
the modern President was George Bush. He had a very poor
knowledge of foreign countries and always fumble when
questions were asked.
A humble Minister
would not boast that he runs a country as if he is the
smartest and the rest are not important. Any fool can be
a Minister.
What if no one
wants to collect garbage, plant food, go fishing and
slaughter animals ? He cannot be better than those who
put him there and those who paid his salary.
Mary Yap could
tell more about the Minister and Principal's jobs.
08/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
SACKING,
SABOTAGE OR TERMINATION ?
The furor on the
'sacking' of PKNS workers seem to be aligned with Kelang
By-Election. Most of us really don't know what is really
happening other than what we see on the TV and read in
the Newspapers.
Khalid claimed it
was not sacking but the termination of a contract. Even
on this basis we need to scrutinize the terms and the
documents of the contract. I doubt there is a proper
document kept knowing how the Malays operate an
organization. They always take thing for granted and
doing work in a 'cin-cai' way. Could it be the contracts
made during BN era. If there is a proper document of
contract, the termination method should follow a proper
procedures. Workers should be informed of the
termination date at least a month before.
There is also a
possibility of sabotage by the opposition in Selangor.
The pro-BN group were merely carrying out their plan to
tarnish Pakatan Rakyat by taking such actions without
any prior consultation of the state administrators. The
timing is proper near the election time.
If it is due to the
pure decision to simply sack those unwanted workers it
is just like the rule of The Right to Hire and Fire, as
practiced in the United States. In USA an employer can
just fire any of his workers at any time without any
reason given. This is American Democracy.
A good administrator
may not be a good politician. A good politician may not
be a good administrator. But anyone can be cruel and
vicious, inconsiderate and inhumane. He may wear a
Pakatan or BN's hat.
Ending a person's
job happened everywhere including in Trengganu when BN
took over from PAS. Whichever side fired a shot, it is
not good for humanity. Just think what if you are sacked
and becoming unemployed.
On the other hand
workers must be responsible and work hard to enhance the
growth of the company and organization, do not play
truant and give problem to the employer and the
organization. With lack of performance and productivity
he would be seen as useless and should be kicked out.
I saw shouting and
yelling of people in the TV, condemning the 'sacking'
with fiery words like a roaring lion.
There is an
industrial court to go about. Why all the yelling when
cases could be brought to the court ? They won't be seen
as champions but as a great fool.
06/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
SEEKING
HELP
I loath to hear
the new people condemning and speak lowly of the past
system, implying the product of the past are useless.
Schools and colleges would always fall back to the old
students for donations and funds.
I won't give a
damn to such an attitude and won't donate even a single
cent to the new administrator. He can wait for the
products of the new system to ask for donation.
The old boys of
the current Vocational College were useless and stupid,
unwanted by their academic schools. Many were fit to go
for vocational training and some for vocational
education. But the old system made men out of these low
achievers. Now they are big guys and millionaires. The
vocational schools save them from being wild and
unemployed.
Then they kick
out the system, closing doors to low achievers. The
funny thing is they are seeking help from these young
and successful people.
If my any of my
student is reading this, I am not inciting them to
boycott such kind of people. It is up to them to amass
funds but I won't praise them for their good intent. It
is just a tit for a tat. Only help those who deserve the
kindness.
Near the
vocational college is a mosque which is empty at night.
The students who reside at the hostels can always occupy
the mosque and made it more merrier. It is less than 5
minutes walk from the hostels to this House of God. In
my opinion there is no need for the college to seek any
donation for the mosque anymore.
Schools or
colleges can always generate their own funds by seeking
internal monthly donation of RM10 a month. A school of
100 Muslim teachers can accumulate RM12000 a year. In 5
years the amount is enough for some useful school
projects.
06/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
ANTARCTICA
Antarctica is not a new
land. Scientists have been there since the 19th century.
As a ham operator I had talk one scientist in the region
more than 25 years ago. Volumes of research reports have
been written. Today Antarctica is a paradise tourist
attractions. People with money simply love to go
and enjoy the beautiful scenic sight.
You don't have to
do anymore scientific research because what you may have
in your mind have been done and available in the science
database. There are numerous articles about
Antarctica in the web
sites. Don't tell me you are still required to make
further investigation about the glacier, the ice and the
environment. And don't tell me among the 27 millions you
are invited to expedite the hemisphere. I would say you
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05/02/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
SUPPORTING HAM SHOPS
New hams might not
know how hard we went through to set up radio stations
in the past. There weren't ham shops in Malaysia,
Indonesia or Thailand like it is today. Becoming a ham
in 70's was considered late yet we had to strive looking
for equipments, co-axial plugs and cables.
Whenever there was
a new ham the old timers were ever ready to lend support
and material help, by giving the coaxial plugs and
cables free of charge. I remember Eshee provided me with
coaxial cables and others with the co-ax plugs. We would
for some of the write off stuffs to come by from
somewhere.
Buying a new rig
cost a fortune. Somehow someone brought new rigs home
from overseas. Second hand transceivers were sold to the
newcomers at the average price of RM800.
Even in the last
decade hams had to travel to Singapore, looking for rigs
at Sim Lim Tower. The Northerners traveled to Thailand.
Life has changed
when ham shops began to bloom in the country. All we
need to do is to visit the web page, made a few phone
calls, deposit the payment and in no time the equipment
ordered will reach our doorsteps.
If you have lived
in the two different world than you would know how
blessed we are with the ham shops set up to help the
Malaysian amateurs. You pay a little more but you have
the comfort of staying at home without much hassle.
So support the
local ham shops.
04/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
TERESA'S
VIDEO
How bad is Teresa
Kok's video ? The video tells nothing but the truth,
criticizing the dark side of BN's rule. It is about
inefficiency and what the people feel. Is it good or bad
? Sabri said it was not proper for such a video to be
made for the Chinese New Year. The Chinese will ask who
is Sabree to decide what and what should be said during
the New Year.
How bad is the
video ? It is bad. First thing the quality is excellent.
Secondly millions of people just love it.
It is as bad as
what UMNO says about Anwar, DAP, PAS and Nik Aziz. To
say that Nik Aziz worshipped idols and in his religious
school there are full of idols is bad. It is as bad as
UMNO says PAS is teaching a deviant Islam. It is as bad
as saying God is punishing those who do not vote for
UMNO by sending them floods.
You see, I can
call you an idiot, but you can't call me any.
During
Sabree-Anwar's debate the former attacked Anwar's
personality rather than debating on the topical issues.
Attacking and degrading the opposition leaders in public
using public media is legal and considered normal. Only
UMNO can do it.
The satire is very
strong but very true. But even without the clip, the
masses already discussed wastage and lavishness by
Rosmah. 100 out of 100 people I talked to have identical
perception on the First Lady.
How to avoid the
gossip and criticism ? Just do the right thing; be more
efficient, think rightly, avoid lavishness and wastage
using public funds.
You see, any right
thinking person will have to wonder about 'no murderer'
in the death of Altantuya, nobody took the billion of
the PKZ when the money went missing, Ghani Patail does
not sue Mat Zain, and many more folly stuffs. Things
simply do not make sense. So they talk.
And we can't force
people to respect us. People might respects gentlemen
but not fools. Fools are not made by others on us. We
made fools of ourselves, mainly by our speech which may
be arrogant and pompous, lack of depth in analyzing
issues, twisting statements and even behave like one. A
respect has to be earned.
Taking Teresa to
court and winning the case would not present UMNO with
honor comparing with the lost of our Pulau Batu Puteh to
Singapore. It would be a kind of a Kampong Champion. And
Sabree didn't talk about Perkasa threatening May 13 at
all, which is more dangerous for the safety of the
people and to the peace of this nation.
05/02/2014 |
KAJANG - BETWEEN ANWAR AND ROSMAH
What do I know about Kajang, almost 300
miles away from Lorong Bayu. While I was
nursing my wife I heard someone was
discrediting Anwar Ibrahim as a man who put
his own interest before anything else. He
was lashed and bashed left and right. One
hawker with Kedah-Penang slang said "Anwar
is an outsider. Why should an outsider
contest in a place outside Penang...'
So
Anwar was bad enough. PKR did not do
anything to help the people of Kajang. The
public is told no UMNO politicians have any
self-interest. Najib would say 'I don't want
to be a PM. But Mahathir put me here.' He
never spend a single penny on promoting
himself or his wife. He never fought hard to
retain his post and power.
Rosmah
is at all time better then Anwar. She never
spend public money for her comfort. She
traveled on the private jet on a
working trip, negotiating for the
government. Of course Najib is perfect. He
tried hard to stop the rising cost of
living. All the rise are due to the greedy
Middlemen who are anti government. "I am a
responsible person. That's why I raise
petrol price, permitted TNB to increase more
profit. I listen to the cry of the poor....'
Najib
has to spend more on Kajang, probably triple
the amount in Sungai Limau, to make people
forget of the high cost of living, about his
policy that push for spiral inflation, to
convince the people how good his wife is.
And he will be putting another Baju Kurung
wearing a Japanese sleepers to walk with the
people. He will do anything. He will do
anything for the people 'Rakyat didahulukan'.
Kajang
is famous for Sate. Mark my words Rosmah
will go to the Sate stall. And BN will spend
a few thousand ringgit for the sate, to feed
the BN campers and those who want free food.
Karpal
said Kajang is a contest of an honor. We all
know that Anwar has no honor. Mahathir
totally dismissed him as Anwar is unfit
because he was a sex maniac. For a honorless
man to lose an election there isn't any
shame at all. For BN to lose one will have
to look hard where the honor of Najib and
Rosmah lies.
Rosmah
knows this and Najib knows this as well. And
this is the opportune time to make money,
just to ensure Najib of his victory. Didn't
he do well in Kuantan despite the Lynas
issue ?
Anwar
is the underdog. BN will not allow to be
beaten again a second time behind Sungai
Limau, because if it is, it spells a sure
demise of UMNO in the next GE, no matter
what UMNO does.
Hence
the battle is on the do or die basis.
Anything goes. It is not the fight between
an immoral Anwar and a BN candidate but it
is between Anwar and the glossy First Lady.
03/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
SOME STRANGE THING
This morning my
thermometer shows 19 degrees celsius. It is almost a
Winter in Los Angeles. LA would experience 15 degrees in
December. People have been talking about the reversal of
earth magnetic pole and the world would change it's
rotation. It is a scary happening for the Muslims
believe nearing the end of the world the sun would rise
in the West.
Strange things
do not only happen to the world. It even creeps into
mankind. There are too many of them. Yesterday the Mamak
charged me RM47 for a plate of rice when it was just
only RM4.70. Two nights ago a stall charged me RM2.40
for a cup of coffee when elsewhere it would cost me only
a dollar even.
At the dialysis
center both the first and the second wife go to fetch
their common husband at the center. Being good to each
other may not be a strange thing to many but they look
like a twin; both are of the same size and height,
rounded and overweight.
Last night I
saw Mahyuddin at a wet market. He saw the price of
mackerel was tagged at RM16 per kilogram, said nothing
and just continued his so-called price checking.
Mackerel was RM4 - RM5 a kilo.
The pious sages
would tell us not to be taken aback at strange
happenings because it is the sign that the world will
end soon. How soon only God knows. But mentioning 47
instead of 4.7, charging 2.40 instead of 1 ringgit could
not be passed as something to be accepted though it is
the sign of the ending. And Mahyuddin just commented
nothing of the RM16 mackerel could not be taken as a
fate.
You may have
seen more strange things than I. In the West people have
been strange things happen in the sky and more
predictions came into discussions as to the end of the
world, not by the prophesy of religions but by the
collision of the earth and the asteroids or the dead
sun. How true is it that the United Nation is talking
about the coming of the alien god.
The 47 ringgit
rice, the 2.40 coffee, the chilly weather, the two wives
and Mahyuddin's mind may look trivial but they are very
strange.
04/02/2014 |
PENDIDIKAN
UNTUK APA DAN SIAPA ? |
My students |
Salah satu
penyakit kita ialah, kita gemar membuat perbadingan dan
kemudian kita mendesak supaya dasar kita menyerupai apa
yang dilihat dari tempat lain dan orang lain. Salah satu
sebab pertelingkahan rumah tangga adalah dari akibat
perbandingan dan mahu meniru segala cara hidup and
perolehan jiran sebelah rumah, sedangkan tahap ekonomi
tidak sama dan serata.
Negara yang kaya
raya dengan sumber alam, tanah tanih yang subur dan
penduduknya tidak ramai tidak semestinya mengukir dasar
pendidikan sekolah sepertimana dunia lain.
Asas tujuan hidup
adalah untuk manusia bagi duniawi, untuk Tuhan bagi
ukhrawi. Untuk Tuhan itu sangat membantu manusia di
dalam kehidupan sosial, membina nilai dan moral yang
membawa kepada keamanan, persafahaman dan kerjasama. Dan
untuk dunia itu pula adalah bertujuan membawa kebahagian
dan kepuasan jiwa serta ketenangan hidup. Kita bukan
bekerja untuk membina satu tugu emas yang besar dan
cantik, bukan berkorban untuk menghasilkan kenderaan
angkasa lepas yang boleh mencecah alam semesta yang
lain. Kalau itulah semuanya, maka kita akan lupakan
kemanusiaan.
Pendidikan
bukanlah untuk menghasilkan teknologi semata-mata, atau
untuk mengharumkan nama negara semata-mata. Yang sama
penting ialah kita mahu mewujudkan masyarakat yang
bertangungjawab, bertolak ansur, bekerjasama, mahu
keadaan dan suasana yang aman tenteram di mana kita
boleh tidur tanpa mengunci pintu dan tingkap, dan
kehidupan yang sejahtera.
Lantas apabila
kita mengukir sesuatu dasar, janganlah kita melihat dari
satu sudut sahaja. Pernah dalam KBSM satu masa dahulu
dimana semua pelajar sejarah dimestikan menulis sejarah
kaum keluarga mereka. Pada saya pada masa itu pembuat
dasarnya adalah seorang yang hanya memikirkan diri
sendiri, melihat semua orang sepertimana kaum
keluarganya, tidak berfikir tantang anak-anak di luar
nikah, yang bapanya dalam penjara dan mereka yang
kehidupan dalam keadaan musibah.
Hari ini pembuat
dasar pelajaran adalah terdiri dari kumpulan manusia
jenis itu, yang hanya memikirkan dari satu sudut sahaja,
yang tidak perihatin terhadap mereka yang miskin dan
lemah, kurang berminat dan sukar memahami sifir dan
angka. Mereka tidak fikir tentang lepasan sekolah yang
berkeinginan memperbaiki diri setelah muncul kesedaran.
Kata-kata liar tentang latihan dan keperluan pendidikan
itu semata-mata untuk sumber manusia adalah amat sedih
dan menjijikkan.
Tidak payah tunggu
30 tahu lagi untuk melihat Malaysia dipenuhi dengan
kekotoran dan kekeliruan. Hari ini sudah heboh tentang
orang Melayu memeluk agama Keristian, membuat video
lucah, perkongsian seks percuma dan keruntuhan akhlak
yang semakin serius. Nanti kos sosial negara akan jauh
lebih tinggi dari kos ekonomi bagi melahirkan manusia
yang bertanggungjawab dan sejahtera.
Anda mungkin akan
berkata sistem pendidikan Amerika Syarikat adalah sistem
yang baik dan berjaya kerana anda pandang kepada
perkembangan teknologi yang pesat dan maju. Tapi anda
mungkin tidak tahu sejak dari 1980'an lagi rakyat
Amerika sudah mengalami tanggungan ekonomi yang teruk.
Pengangguran sudahpun ramai. Semakin sehari ia menjadi
semakin tenat, dimana kedai-kedai mulai bertukar milik
dari orang kulit puteh kepada orang-orang Asia. Dan
dalam abad ke 21 ini pula ramai yang jatuh miskin dan
kehilangan rumah tangga. Anda juga mungkin tidak sedar
sejak tahun-tahun itu kadar jenayah sangat tinggi,
pembunuhan berlaku setiap hari.
Apakah ertinya
teknologi mencecah bulan kalau di bumi tidak terjaga.
Nama Kolej
Vokasional ialah sesuatu yang harum didengar. Tetapo
kosnya ialah penutupan peluang kepada mereka yang
tidak berminat di dalam akademik. Pelajar-pelajar ini
akan terus di sekolah masing-masing sebagai sampah pada
sekolah dan nanti menjadi pula sampah masyarakat.
Masalah sosial akan bertambah parah. Pembuat dasar ini
menunggu anak-anak sendiri gagal di dalam peperiksaan
atau menjadi penjenayah nanti.
Tidak perlu
diterangkan lagi pendidikan hari ini untuk siapa. Anda
lihatlah dan fikir-fikirlah sendiri. Apakah kita mahu
berkata 'biarlah yang boleh jadi doktor dan jurutera
jadi jurutera, dan yang boleh jadi penyamun dan penjahat
itu jadi jahat...' Sebenarnya itulah yang kita katakan.
Anda perhatikan
anak cucu mereka. Apakah yang mereka akan lakukan ?
02/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE
GOOD DEEDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT
Isn't there
anything good done by the government to the people ?
One of the
praiseworthy deeds of our government is the medicare. I
don't remember since when patients are not charged or
pay the token sum of a few ringgit for the medicines and
treatment. You want to know the price you try the
private hospital. If you are warded for two days you may
have to pay more than RM3000. The government is spending
enormous sum to give the service to the people.
Secondly we
still have the pension scheme. Retired government
servants can still survive until the end of their days.
And they are subject to free medical treatment. When the
minimum pension was raised to RM700 it gave life to
those who received less than RM350 - RM500. This would
be considered a very humane endeavor.
Those not
working with the government has the EFP scheme for the
future of the employees. Both the employers and the
government contribute to the welfare and the future of
individual workers. People can still survive after
leaving their jobs at the old age.
Education is
free. Again to know the price is to go to private
schools, some of which are charging RM60K for a
semester. A big budget has always been set for
education. School buildings are like universities.
Teachers' salary is one of the highest in Asia. Students
were provided with free notebooks. The immense
expenditure were announced at every budget speech.
Aren't all those
good work not known by the public ? Why then half of the
population are still unhappy with the government ?
People tend to
look at the good and evil side. Claiming the good work
is jeered for it is the duty and the responsibility of
any government to serve the people and provide the best
for the welfare of the populace. The people gave the
mandate to rule and pay taxes to ensure of excellent
services to the public.
The money paid
was stolen, not by the government but by some people
running the government and the people in the government.
PERWAJA had to close down. PKZ losing billions.
NFC failed to run the cow project. Mahathir disguised
the stealing under the guise of major projects. Najib
spent for popularity hunt and to maintain his power.
Wastage was colossal. What all other Prime Minister's
didn't do, Najib did it; the FLOM and the use of private
jets. Rosmah's extravaganza excels Emelda Marcos.
Property
development is to please and enrich the greedy people.
Hill tops and agriculture land were raped. Water
cathment areas gave way to expensive bungalows and
condos. So much so people had to seek water from the
rivers which are polluted with all sorts of dirt. Now
they claimed the pig's heads and excretions polluted the
river water. The agriculture land were bought at RM3 per
square foot and sold to business communities at RM15 to
RM25. Mahathir defended his scheme saying 'We can always
import foodstuffs' and he recently said development does
not benefit Malaysia.
Drugs, illegal
immigrants, foreigners residing and doing businesses in
this country, criminal activities are all related to
corruptions. People have been accusing the police to be
involved in crimes and under ground activities, which
are now proven to be true. Even top politicians were
seen to rub shoulders with the big time gangsters.
The people who
were expected to help and be the savior of Malaysian
people are now becoming arrogant, fanning racial hatred,
twisting their tongues and corrupting the public for
votes. They became swagger like Shahrizat and Ahmad
Said. They misuse their power to protect criminals and
their own crimes. They deployed gangsters to pursue
their insatiable desires, attacking their opponents
busses and vehicles.
The government
should purge these people out otherwise it's white side
will slowly be darkened by blackness, the sweet aroma
will be displaced by the stinking smell of lies and
deception. It is this bad element that tarnish the good
name of the government.
01/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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THE CHILDREN
A
mother with 8 grown up children recently
felt sick and warded in a private hospital.
It was the daughter in law who took her for
the treatment. It is our Malaysian tradition
for someone to stay with the parent at the
hospital though it is not necessary. The
daughter usually stays. As I learned
everyone was pushing the responsibility
either to look after the mother or to talk
about the medical fee. But at least they
came to see their mother at the ward.
Grown
up and working children who work away from
home are always busy. A big majority do not
have time or too busy to look after their
parents. Some didn't even care to come home
at all. One didn't come back even for the
funeral but sending check through someone
for the expenditure.
More
often than not the children will have
meeting among themselves to decide who would
pay for the maid and how much. Then they
will employ a maid to take care of their
lone mother or father.
Cases
like these also happen outside Malaysia. And
we heard stories about the maids were named
to get the property and the savings. It is
during this time the family members would
contest for the inheritance.
If you
are a believer you must know that God does
not favor the unfilial. There will be no 'barakah'
in our live, which means we are never happy
and never satisfied, always facing domestic
and office problems. The more serious, we
will fall sick.
You
don't have to believe me. You can observe
your surroundings, and see how your friends
and neighbors fared. Even greed and
insatiable condition is a bad omen.
Getting
old is not merely getting wrinkles and
facial changes, but also different
perceptions and treatments from younger
generations. Old people are associated with
senility, sickness, filthy and helplessness.
It is tasteless for the children which they
abhorred, and want to impose theirs on.
The
elderly are not afraid of being old or sick
or death but they are worried their kids
will die and get sick first before them. As
I always say that I am not worried nursing
my sick wife but I am more worried if I
can't help her due to my sickness.
Are
your parents still alive ?
How
much have you done to serve them and made
them happy to know that they have a filial
children ? Or are you busy with your own
problems ? Or are you hoping they will die
the soonest to elevate your mental burden ?
The
family re-union of the Chinese for the
midnight dinner remind us of the great Asian
filial piety. The picture below is showing
Chin with the family, whom I always see at
the dialysis center, sending and picking her
up.
02/02/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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There is
happiness in good time and bad time, in good
health and in sickness. We see smiling faces
among the sick people. Race has never been a
barrier at the hospitals, wards and in
kampongs.
Chin
would never feel lonely. When her name was
called and the family was a way for some
task, the woman shown on the right, would
take her by the hand, walked her to the
weighing machine and placed her on the
dialysis chair. Everybody helps each other.
Really, life is so beautiful.
When the
sick patients grouped together there were
stories told. There would be laughter at
jokes and the show of surprise and shock at
scary stories.
When I
told about my daily chores friend felt so
sorry for me. My female students told me
their husbands would left them if they fall
sick. Young kids may wish their parents to
die the fastest.
Why the
sadness when life could be fulfilling with
the sick people. We have companies of the
jovial faced partners, talking of our good
and fun time.
We must
always remember that we can die first before
our old sickly parents. |
31/01/2014
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WHAT IF
EVERYONE IS A MILLIONAIRE
In Norway everyone
is now a millionaire. Thanks to the oil that is not
being monopolized by only a handful of people. The
philosophical question is will the nation come to a
standstill, and nobody wants to go to work anymore ?
In a civil society
work will go on as usual. The garbage collector will
still be doing his work as much as the doctor will
operate his patients. The sense, conception and the
sentimental feeling might change to a certain extent.
Workers work not because of the money but because of the
pride and the fulfilling that embrace them. Each will
want to the best he could attain.
But those who are
lazy will continue to stay idle and those who employ
maids will be finding foreign maids. Some of the local
maids will continue to give the service for the love of
the family they work under.
How about the
thieves and robbers ? The numbers will be reduced
drastically but may not be absolute because a few will
regard stealing as fun and to maintain their skills.
Even in our society
the rich and the wealthy sent their kids to school to
get education, knowledge, good values and morality. Jobs
to them would be some kind of pleasure, to have a good
feeling at the end of the good work done.
There might be some
structural change here and there as the preferences
might shift to a new desire. Since everyone is
affordable to buy what they want, some might want to
change the mode of their movements and entertainments.
Yet even if everyone buys car, not all will travel to
work by their cars. Many will still prefer public
transportation to avoid congestions.
The world must not
get worried if everyone becomes a millionaire.
30/01/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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THE
MOUTH, THE BRAIN AND THE HEART
The utterance, the
speech, the statement and whatever come from the mouth
would either crystallize from the mind, emotion, the
interaction of both or from sub-consciousness. I always
hear football supporters predicting scores in favor of
their team. This does not come from their mind, rather
from their heart. They want it that way, hence followed
by their rosy predictions. It is the quick way of making
conclusion.
Statements from
the minds are based on the factual past events and
factual knowledge, more on probability than on
certainty. Base on the track records and the past
successes our soccer team may win. The probability is
high but not with absolute certainty.
When somebody says
something we must first examine the authenticity and the
validity of his words. The authority is not a book, a
sage, a PHD holder, a great politician or a judge. The
authority is the truth which is a body of solid and real
data. Everyday we are hearing statements from every
source. Most were born from the sentiments.
We expect people
of education with degrees and PHDs to be more rational
and not to issue wild statements, especially of the
future without holding to any data at all whatsoever.
You can create
things out of nothing and make people really believe in
it. It can still come from your mind from the
compartment of imagination. Then we give a touch of a
character that follows the command of our sentiment, to
make it a demon or a hero, a valiant or a villain.
It's our mouth
that determine the degree of civility, not our wealth
and social status.
31/01/2014 -
Abdul Rahman Raof |
ABOUT BEING A
FOOL
Najib and
Mahathir are ridiculing Anwar as a fool. So Anwar is a
fool. How about Najib and Mahathir ? Mahathir is the
greatest fool when he is responsible for selling the
Malay land away by his stupid policy. And he is more
fool to criticize Najib, a PM of his choice. And
when two of candidates of his choice did not win the
last GE13. How could PERKASA's head, the champion of the
Malays, were rejected even by his own race ? Are they
not fools ? As for Najib you can make your own judgment.
No tongue
twisters and flip-floper is an honorable man. We, the
pariah group, unknown to the world can be anything, from
an idiot to a moron. For an ex-PM, ex-Presidents, PM and
Presidents, to portray their foolishness, it is a great
shame. What worth the status and wealth to be despised
by millions, or booed by the crowds, witnessed by a
great masses of people ?
When fools are
fooling the kampong and uneducated Malays it is a
regrettable tragedy. That's why PERKASA came into
existence, indicating the Malays were being fooled so
much that they are becoming weaker and weaker each day.
All are the making of the UMNO. They ran stupid policies
that brought disaster to the Malays.
How about them
being made tools and conned by con men ? They are being
dignified without salaries and payment, called as
Presidents and Chairmen, name as a project developer but
the money didn't go to them ? Those are greater fools. I
know at least 4 fools who were conned but shameful
enough to divulge their bitter experience.
Do you ever
observe that the Mamaks are the most vocal in protesting
against the others ? And the Patail, the Kutty, the
faces on the TVs, the condo-Queen, the ex-PM, the Syed
Mokhtar and many more as you always see on the TVs. It
is nothing wrong for them being more vocal. I am just
saying they are all Mamaks.
Of course we
don't mind to be fools as long as we can grab unlimited
wealth without being charged in court, or being called
immoral as long as we have power, or being criticized as
long as we can use public funds to finance our
lavishness and personal spending.
How many people
call Anwar a fool ? How many people call Najib a fool ?
Let's put it to a vote.
30/01/2004 |
PLEASE COACH ME
I was at the jogging
track when a young man about 25 walking on
my opposite approached me, asking me whether
I could coach him to run 3 kilometers within
13 minutes. I told him joggers and walkers
in the inner track were doing at about the
speed.
He told me about his
applying for a job at the Town Counsel and
he was required to show his ability in
completing the three mile distant within the
stipulated time. I didn't ask him more
though I was confused with the requirement.
I told him I had to
skill and not all qualified to coach anybody
anything. At the outside track there was
another young man who would run for miles
and miles at a constant speed. He was there
and asked him to seek the help from the man.
He left me. Later I saw him talking to the
man.
What has running to do
with the labor job he was applying ? How
many other jobless young people are seeking
blue collar jobs in town and in the whole
country ?
The next time I meet
jobless people who approach me for some kind
of help I will be asking him to seek the
help of UMNO's JKK or write directly to
Najib.
31/01/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
VALUES
There are volumes
of books on values. It is about what is
right and what is wrong. A French
Canadian PHD student pinched her
daughter who did not listen to her
command. When I told her about using
psychology, the response was 'What
psychology ?' A couple who canned their
kid's palm were jailed for more than 40
days pending the court proceedings. An
Indian diplomat who paid RM2000 to her
maid was hailed to court for not paying
USD3000 a month to the same maid.
It is all about
how a person or a country defines good
and bad.
One world and one
law is to command for a universal value.
NWO is moving towards a single
government applying one single law and
the value system. United Nation has long
been regarded as the NWO. |
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ENJOYING
MY NOTE 3
Right now I am
watching Liverpool plays Everton on my note 3.
Live sports, movies and even adult movies come free with
a few downloads.
Though I have a
Papago and the Co-Pilot in, I prefer to use my iPhone
for navigation. I have more than 150 video clips of the
top famous songs of the 60's. which are used to
entertain myself while going jogging or driving.
As a ham I have SDR
radio, and an excellent Morse trainer. So far I have not
read any E-Book yet.
This thing kills my
time, really.
29/01/2014 |
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PASEMBOR KODIANG
Kodiang has
been famous for it's Pasembor for quite a number of long
years. The old shop isn't there anymore. A new
stall is opened in the mosque area. Old Boy Hanafi would
not miss this place if he were to pass this way.
Yesterday, we stopped for the delicacy while on the way
to Hairie's house.
One noticeable
thing is a plate of pasembor is halved the previous
amount. Hanafi had to call for additional plate. This
time it was filled up. I knew it was all due to the cost
factor. There was no crab nor prawn as used to be. Every
businessman grumbled about the price hike which Najib
seemed to wash away, pretending as nothing has happened.
29/01/2014 |
YOU
SEE THEY CHEAT YOU RIGHT ON YOUR FACE |
THE DYNAMIC
OF BEHAVIORS
Education planning is not only to produce
manpower source for the country, it should
also to set the over all culture and life of
the populace; a society free of drugs and
crimes, a nation with responsible, courteous
and trustworthy citizens. Setting up a goal
is not simply making a mission statement
without considering the dynamic side of the
events and human behaviors.
The
Kedahkians would still remember 'Kedah's
2010 Progressive Achievement' to follow
Mahathir's Vision 2020. Now it is 2014, four
years passed the targeted period what great
achievement has the state attained other
than traffic jam, the robbing of agriculture
land and the increasing numbers of garbage
hunters.
Education planners design a very elaborate
and rosy structure, consuming a huge sum of
money. Today we hear of PBS, Vocational
Colleges and what more. A system that will
provide manpower for the scientific
progress.
PBS
itself is heavily depending on trust. We can
trust the machines that are very precise and
to do exactly what is programmed. How much
trust can you put on a man ? The probability
of leakage is greater, and opened up more
opportunity to more people to make money.
Of
a greater concern is, it locks off
opportunity for self-improvement in
attaining a better academic qualification
and thus climb to the higher social status,
of those who left schools in Form 3, 4 or 5.
How many million of school leavers who could
not pursue higher study at good universities
? Najib is trying to lock them by the
minimum wage policy; why worry of higher
education when the salary is enough ?
But
the whole system failed to look at the
dropouts, those who are not keen in academic
education, those who can't read and write,
and at those Muslims who can't read a simple
Koran. The dynamic of life is, it is these
groups that are breaking up families,
creating chaos and vandalism, apostasy and
the decline in religious morality.
Idris Jusoh was proud of his son who can
recite the Holly Book extremely well without
knowing the numbers who can't do a simple
abolution.
Policy makers and planners have no idea what
are happenings outside their cocoons. They
create ideal without looking at the dynamic
of events and reality. They tell the kids to
apply to ILP when there are one or two ILPs.
But there tenth of thousands of disappointed
students who do not know what to do.
I
was informed that the Ministry threatened
teachers who questioned the policy.
Mahyuddin said schools do not understand the
system. I say the planners don't understand
the reality, probably hiding behind their
dirty PHDs.
29/01/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
edWhen the
government kicked up the painful cost of living by
several of it's crazy policies the masses began to get
angry. Nay. UMNO can do no wrong. Prices went up because
of the greedy businessmen. Najib organized playful army
to fight against price increase. Ministers were ordered
to go to the ground. Enforcement officers raided
business premises and made surprise checks to wet
markets, sending reports of what they found. They picked
up on kangkong because of the price they saw. Najib was
happy to see at least there was an item that was cheaper
than the day before the raid.
I said it was
a gimmick base on the past track record, that no
government action was effective, because everyone would
say they have to spend more. Even the middlemen who were
accused as the culprits would deny of their obsession
and argued that they have to spend more. They won't be
able to bring down the price at any cost, except they
have to stop executing the foolish policy and abstain
from excessive and lavish spending. Najib has been
spending like nobody's business, as if the well is
without a bottom. As I said before billions were spent
on General election alone. You will be surprise to know
the cost of flags, banners and giant boards with Najib's
face and BN flags.
I was not wrong
at all. It is less than a month Mahyuddin already
admitted the government can't control prizes and
mentioning 'depend on consumers to deal with the price
hike'. Wake up people. They blamed the middlemen and the
suppliers. Now they tell you that it is up to you.
If the
government with the big army, the police, the law makers
and the lawyers can't bring down the price, what do you
expect a man on the street to do. Does the government
want the people to tell TNB not to increase the
electricity price ? Tell the oil company to reduce the
price ?
Najib and BN
cheat the people who vote for them. I just love to hear
the UMNO supporters grumbling about the prices they have
to pay. And I have been wondering about the type of
people who are happy in paying more. You observe the
number of these people who fought back when people made
comments on the increase of gasoline price. A few months
later they felt the pinch.
Worse will be
coming. Believe me these UMNO people will still be
smiling when they are spit and kicked by the people they
love so much. They love Rosmah.
28/01/2014 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
THE
MYSTERY OF LIFE
I am sure many of
you have experienced some strange phenomena that befell
your life but you just it allow to go because you know
people would dismiss your story. The skeptic would
always say it is just a co-incidence.
For the last one
month there was a sudden urge within me to use GPS and
buying a camcorder. I combed the whole room for my
Garmin but to no avail. I browed through the web pages
to look for the Garmin price. I was frustrated because
it is too expensive.
I searched from
the Apple Store for any offline soft ware, downloaded a
few, but none seem to work well. Dismayed by it I
decided to buy Note 3. The shopkeeper said he could
provide Papago. I found there were several free offline
navigation soft ware for Android. Note 3 was not cheap
either. I had not desire to have more than one smart
phone. I was finally overwhelmed by my own greed and
selfishness. I purchased the Note 3.
Note 3 is too big
and too new to be used as travel companion. Nevertheless
I tried going mobile to test Papago and a few other
downloaded navigators. I could not get Garmin Pilot
Street on it. Neither could I purchased the soft ware
which need a credit card. Already I get bored with the
new toy.
The day before
yesterday by the Grace of God, I saw CoPilot and Sygic
in Apple Store. It was never there, or they were
purchased items. I quickly downloaded and installed
several others including those two.
This is what I
called a mystery. It was never found before but now it
loomed there before my eyes for free again. It was a
miracle. It is God's providence. Sygic is on a 7 day
trial. Co-Pilot is not.
Today I used my
iphone to navigate.
Call it anything,
like co-incidence, but I called it a mystery. At time an
unexpected events took place that enrich our happiness;
things we had wish to happen but did not materialized
till many years later , when we already forget them.
The other day my
wife shed her tears when I said God provides us with
abundance, neighbors and students sent us foods, too
much of them. I was bubbling about giving away to people
and mosque.
Muslims or
non-Muslims who do good will somehow be awarded.
Yesterday my wife
narrated to me about the oldest dialysis patient, about
85, sang several traditional songs in the wards, putting
some joyous atmosphere. The whole room was filled with
laughter. This may not be a mystery. How about the baby
in China who was about to be buried suddenly cried
before the burial ?
23/01/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE
POLICE MUST ARREST
Whoever
is threatening May 13 must be arrested immediately and
dealt with without fear and favor. When
all others do not want it's repetition and reject
violence, the group of two legged animals are blowing
the fire of threat.
The world
psychologists have been worried of leaders with unsound
mental health, who talk without thinking, who never
compute the future consequences of their words and
deeds.
I
remember vividly how the Arab nations were threatening
Israel in the Arab-Israeli war, marching their forces
with great confidence, but in 6 days the whole combined
battalions were crushed.
The
police must first arrest Ibrahim Ali. If he is deemed a
mad man, then send him to the mental wards. He has been
insulting men and God.
The root
of the problem was Najib's kangkong speech. And UMNO
leaderships including the Menteri Besar of Trengganu
must know how the citizens felt when the ikan kembong
price was tagged at RM19 per kilo. Using one
tongue to say they understand rakyat's pain and another
dismissing the masses as stupid goons, continue with
expensive leisure and lavish living, add more fuel to
unwelcome statements.
PERKASA
must know and learn about the different between talks
and ability. People can yell as loud as they can but
without the ability to run even 5 miles. The leaderships
are old guards who can't even satisfied a 50 year old
woman. Yet they are talking about fighting and going to
war.
Such
people must not be allowed to go free for threatening
and inducing others to hate the Chinese. The rule is
still true that there are million of bad Malays that we
can't even made as friends.
If the
leaderships are experiencing the Respect Crisis then
they must know that respect is earned , not demanded.
Ustaz Fadzil Noor was highly respected by the people,
not because he was as PAS man, but because he was a
humble man, making himself available at every feast and
enjoying the fun of cooking with the kampong folks.
A
swagger, pompous and arrogant individual like Shahrizat
and Ahmad Said will be spitted on.
I would
prefer Mahathir and Tengku Razaleigh to distance
themselves from the unruly PERKASA.
The
problem with the world is the bosses think they are
powerful and strong, while the citizens think everyone
is equal. Any salute given is not due to the rank but to
the appreciation of the work done and the service given.
Malaysia
would be a better place to live in without the bad mouth
politicians.
23/01/2014 |
AHMAD
SAID THE SCIENTIST
Ahmad Said, the
political science graduate, went to Antarctica to study
the region. A great scientist indeed. But I wonder
whether he can explain what carbon 14 dating is. And
a greater wonder knowing the political sciences
comprises the principals of physic, Newton, Einstein and
Teslar.
Such kind of a
lame excuse given doesn't deserve any attention. Does it
come from a man ? Or is it Nang Pu Nang, Kui Pu Ti Kui,
not a human and not a ghost. It is worse than the Satan
and more vicious than a beast. They insult the masses as
if the people are animals.
I could not
tolerate hearing his speech. "If a baby is registered as
UMNO member we will give him the best." It was the words
of a rare specie untold by the Koran and the bible. It
was the words of the beast.
When they beast
the masses, the masses will beast them back. And the
people will be waiting for his research report at the
Antarctica; what is so political about the glacier and
the thick ice ?
To him saying
sorry is something sinful, degrading his status as the
representative of God. Didn't UMNO say the party is
God's chosen ? UMNO leaders as shadows of God ?
As the majority
of the people are struggling to face the rising cost of
living, the UMNO elites are enjoying the luxurious
lifestyles. And giving unacceptable responses to the
mitigation of the rakyat. It is very despicable.
The very
arrogant of Ahmad Said is beyond description.
A house in
Trengganu
As a scientist
Ahmad Said should be aware of Newton's principle on
force.
25/01/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
IF ANWAR IS
DEAD |
LISTENING TO LORRY
DRIVERS |
WHAT IHAS BAD
WEATHER TO DO WITH FISH PRICE ?
Bad weather
is in the East Coast. The catch in the West Coast will
not be affected by the strong wind and wavy South China
Sea. This is an annual phenomena. Hence we cannot take
the current fish price to be different from all other
years. Yet mackerel went up from 5 ringgit to 19 ringgit.
You want to
look at the price you just need to look at your own
expenditure you have to incur as a result of the policy
imposed or approved by the government. How much are you
paying for the rate and land tax now compared to before
? How much are you paying for your vehicle insurance now
than previously ?
I used to
modify my software for free or for a minimal charge.
With shrinking income I have have no choice but increase
my fee. It is idiotic for the government to instruct me
to lower my charge or demand for the old free of charge
service. Because I could not hoard my service, I just
won't provide the service again when requested.
Prices are
not merely determined by the force of supply and demand.
Taxation, the value of money, rental, minimum wage,
salary scales and other government fiscal policy will
push them up.
I was amused
by the seizure of goods from shops which did not display
the price tag. A RM20 shirt could be tagged as RM200 and
a sale discount of 75%. All products in supermarkets are
tagged. So there was no arrest and no seizure. But the
amount always change to the higher price. The Mamak food
shop would slaughter you even with the price tag.
People want
to know whether the extra expenditure faced by the
masses go to the business community or to the
government/ Is it as a result of greed or due to the
government policy ?22/01/2014 |
American Presidents always say "The world is better and
safer without Saddam, without Osama". Probably the world
would be safer without Iran and North Korea. Would
Malaysia be more tranquil without Anwar Ibrahim ? Most
UMNO minister are thinking that way. Anwar is the source
and the root of all problems.
Problems will never ceased even if there is no
opposition party and no Anwar for the root of all
problems are human sentiments and emotions; the greed
and the ego.
Even if DAP or PR run the country and Najib as well as
Mahathir are dead troubles won't go away. We heard of
corruptions in North Korea, China and the United States.
As long as there are greed and misuse of power there
will be people who will fight. The lesser is the
protest, the other end is the bombing and bloody
violence.
Anwar was in UMNO before. The oppositions were as strong
as ever and as vocal as anybody else. PERWAJA, Bank Bumi
and PKZ were not the making of Anwar Ibrahim, The
purchases of refurbished military hardware were not of
his doing either. Mohd Said Antarctica's vacation trip
was not whistle blew by him too.
When bad things happened people will know. You can't
stop people from talking about the rising cost of living
if they are paying more for everything.
There are thousand of jobless graduates who are able to
sense and see the avarice of a nation. A nation can
simply let go the indelible ink scam costing million of
ringgit. Even a stupid man can see the crime without any
action.
The young blood would not stay idle. Anwar and Rafizi
may be gone, there are tenth of thousands of others
ready to take the fight.
The remedy is not using force, cheating and deception
the masses. The remedy is to be wise and prudent in
spending and halt corruption immediately, not to tax the
citizens by lavish spending and sheer wastage, not to
create bleak future for the nation - in jobs, housings,
water sand food prices and shortages. Take away
agriculture land is committing suicide.
20/01/2014 |
Listening to
trunk radio is fun. In my area lorry drivers use it to
communicate with each other while at work. I just find
it more interesting to listen to them than listening to
the ham operators, which at time can cause severe mental
agony with their styles and terminology.
Drivers talk on
many things. Whatever comes across them while driving
will be met with questions or remarks, even about a car
number like KR4 and a sexy woman walking on a street.
On several
occasions I tried to catch up with these drivers. At the
rest area along the highway I approached a few lorries
and asked about their radio. "Rdio JPJ ? ", They
would ask me. "We don't use them."
I understood why
they called it radio JPJ. The drivers always used the
term 'Tangkap Lori' , signaling to their friends. But it
is seldom heard.
I would say they
could be heard almost 18 hours a day. Some operate from
their homes.
The operators do
not have to be a ham. I sense they enjoy the fun, kill
the boredom while driving alone. They always have
company to talk to. Several could speak good English
indicating their level of education.
A neighbor
behind my house whom I think owns a transceiver as I see
an antenna erected in his compound, one day saw my
mobile set and commented about me going hamming while
driving. I told him that I did not listen to the ham
radio but to lorry drivers. He showed a surprise
countenance and never asked me more, only with a
puzzling 'eh..' from his mouth.
So far I have
not heard the words QSL, 73 and other ham lingo from
them, only ROGER by some guys. Unlike the RELA who
love to use ham lingo. But the lorry drivers are fond of
saying 'ADUIH' and 'CLEAR'.
I think lorry
drivers earn a good pay. A few are known to own Viva and
paying installments with the honest earned income.
Right now is
12:15 am. I still hear them having conversation.
21/01/2014 |
THE
BURNING, THE SEIZING, THE PAGAN AND THE TERRORISTS
They are all
about human beings. The priest in the United States
burned the Koran, the Muslims in Malaysia seized the
bibles, the Protestants and the Atheists called the
Catholic Pagan and the West called the Muslims
terrorists.
It looks like
that religions and politics are intermingling and mixing
at a floating convenience. It was puzzling whether the
burning of the Koran was due to an anger at Islam or at
the bombing of the World Trade Center. Scientists and
engineers had proved that WTC were controlled demolition
yet the priests crazily and madly insist on his dire
action. Did the Malaysians retaliate by burning the
bibles ?
The Malaysians
were only angry when the Indian Catholic priest used his
freedom to disrespect the local Muslims. Freedom has
been a farce concept when it is used with absolute
meaning; freedom to hurt others, or murder others or to
rob others, and even freedom to lie and deceive. The
people did not attack the church but merely seized the
bibles.
Protestants
called the Pope anti-Christ since the 19the century and
earlier. Others called Catholics Pagan with tangible and
convincing proofs. It wasn't the Muslims who created the
Pagan image of the church. Even the current Papacy is
still shaken by the sex abuse of the Catholic priests
and dismissed many of them.
You may not
know that it was Henry Kessinger who first started to
tag the Muslims as terrorists to justify the killings
and the taking over of the Palestinians and their land.
The coined word has become so popular even Mahathir saw
the Islamic schools as the breeding ground of violence
and anti-government citizens.
But religions
sharing with pornography have been the weapons of the
Capitalists to weaken the Muslims and the Communist
regimes. Converting the Chinese and North Koreans to
Christianity was the strongest to sway the populace from
Communism and it would be a hindrance to the raise
Communism to it's pinnacle. So is the pornography and
drugs that are powerful mind altering tools.
Priests become
spies as well as wealth collectors. Muslim clerics
become government spokespersons. Each with a hidden
intention and agenda.
The Jews are
not interested in converting negroes in a small island.
They are more interested to spread their influence in
the United States and Great Britain and other European
nations, not because of Judaism but to gain support and
sympathy for the quest of a strong Jewish nation.
To the
American Atheists religions are just a farce, the cause
of the conflicts, the pagan practice, the way to make
money and the way to build power.
The Koran
burner, the bible seizers, the Pagan Catholics and
the Muslim terrorists are all people. One sees the
right to burn, another see the right to seize. One
calls the other Catholic Pagan, the other calls the
Muslims terrorists. And all having a hidden agenda
behind them. Some are political tools. Some propel
for self interests.
19/01/2013
|
GARMIN MAY BE THE BEST
Call it
carelessness or forgetfulness, I lost two of my Garmin
Nuvi GPS. I had two in my iPhone, TOM TOM and Papago,
downloading from Installous after the jailbreaking. Now
They disappeared after I unjailbreak and changed my IOS
a couple of times.
Recently I
downloaded several offline GPS maps and it's system,
tested all of them, then uninstalled them. They can be
used and take you to places where you want to go. But a
few will not recalculate the route in case the original
route is not followed. I didn't even hear Papago said
'Recalculation' though it continue to give a new
directions.
Among all, I
would say Garmin is the best. The new nuvi cost more
than 1K. The older version is now about RM350. The Apple
Store tagged it at $29.99. That would be around RM100.
I am willing
to depart with my 100 ringgit rather than using the free
inferior navigators. But as usual I can't buy it. A bank
required 40K in my account to issue a credit card. 40K
is like 40 million to me.
Even if I
have enough money I will not go for any other except for
Garmin. Below is a clip and a write up taken from the
web page. The price stated is higher than I found from
the Apple Store.
Some people may
like Garmin, others may not. My assessment is based on
my mere experience.
To me GPS is a
new baby which I used once several years ago, treating
it like a toy, enjoying it for a period of time, later
neglected it after getting bored with it.
The free stuffs
were either developed by a team or by a single man. The
team project was always better than by the lone man. But
they are too inferior in all aspects though some come
with the audio interface. Even the professional Tom Tom
and Papago are of no match to Garmin.
At times when I
looked at myself in a mirror I was wondering what the
younger people are thinking of me if they were to know
what I have been up to. "That old man must be preparing
for his death...". I tried to dislodge myself from
software but two days ago a school requested for
modification on the biometric attendance system which
took me more than 20 hours of man work.
They would not
know that I have been jailbreaking and unjailbreaking,
loading and erasing Cydia, strunggling to get the
Installous, for hours and hours.
GPS is not of
much use now to me. But I felt I have missed some
technology I used to play with.
20/01/2014 |
PEOPLE IN POWER |
SHIFTING THE BLAME - THE ART OF
DECEPTION |
Reading on the
arrest of Sultan Melaka by Malaysian government reminded
me of the fate of Saddam Hussein who repeatedly said in
court 'I am your President' to the judge and the same
judge hanged him. And don't tell me that there isn't any
Royal blood individuals in China with a long history of
Kings and their wives and consorts.
Before the
Presidents and Prime Ministers there were Kings and
Sultans. Don't tell us that with the emergence of the
current government the Kings and the Sultans completely
vanished from the earth surface.
It is about
the power game. People in power decides the history and
the fate of others. They made laws and gave divinity to
the law. They defined history to fit themselves and used
religion for their own benefit. They themselves fear of
their fate if they lost their grips on the power.
What is the
power ? The police. The power of the police is the gun
and all the weapons.
Law is made by
men. A person has the choice to recognize or reject it.
Try to recall a cowboy movie of bad guys who took over a
town and became sheriff. A hero who was quick in a draw
and fast with his gun had no fear and challenged the
sheriffs. His power lies in the gun and his ability.
United States can make a no-fly zone line in foreign
countries because it is militarily strong.
USA and Israel
command the Iran and North Korea not to go nuclear.
Could Iran and North Korea made the same law on Israel
and USA ?
If there is
any law on the issue of the Sultan of Melaka, the law is
made by one party, and the other party has his natural
right to reject it.
Powerful
people can draw and carve laws as they like; to take
people's land and how much to pay them, to take public
fund to give to anyone they like, to raise taxes as much
as they like.
People obey
for fear of reprisal and punishment. Motorbikers do not
wear helmets in places where there are no police and AES
cameras because there won't be any reprisal or arrest.
People disobey religious teachings because they do not
see any punishments and reprisals. If anyone who insult
God is immediately strike by a lightning, you can be
sure that everyone will follow God's words.
There are laws
to prevent the spreading of the truth. They call it
inciting a rebellion.
We also know a
law known as OSA. That was the act to stop officers from
talking the truth about bad things that happened in a
government departments.
A change in
government is normal in the Western nations. But it is
feared in Malaysia. People are told to be fearful of the
change. A new power will decide the fate of Mahathir,
Rosmah and Shahrizat. Would Mahathit say "I was your
Prime Minister once and brought prosperity to you and
your family' ? A new government can choose not to
recognize all the past laws and consider them null and
void.
It is good to
know the history of Vietnam War with the Americans. Much
will be learnt, about the bravery and the sacrifice. A
powerful government could be brought down by the bravery
and spirit of the people.
The Royal
blood in the world will not fade. It is just they don't
have any power at all and prefer to live as a normal
citizen. But before the Prime Ministers, and Residents
there were the Sultans and the Kings. If Zahid can show
his ingratitude to a Sultan, likewise the Malaysians too
can show their ingratitude towards Zahid and the
government.
How is Iraq
today after Saddam Hussein was hung like a dog ?
The
traditional sciences disprove the existence of the
Creator. The quantum science is moving towards the
existence of God and the philosophy of existence and
reality. By the will of God quantum will convince the
world that bad people will go to hell. The time won't be
too far.
15/01/2014 |
The
question is simple and straight forward. Do you think
after BN Ministers going down to shops and wet markets
and campaigning against the Middlemen the prices and the
cost of living will be down ?
Remember it was a promise made by Najib that prices will
not increase, people will not be burden and even vehicle
price will come down. Remember the giant wooden boards
displayed along the long highway from Perlis to Johor,
showing Najib and with promising captions ?\
A
promise is a promise. The government must ensure of the
promised made will be fulfilled. Hence there must be no
blame on anybody for the increase price and the
escalating cost of living.
Najib himself admitted that he has to make unpopular
decision because he is a responsible person. What
decisions are unpopular and why he said he understood
the pinch felt by the people. He was talking about the
toll hike, electricity tariff, the oil price and the
liftings of subsidies. More to that - reducing
allocations, increase premiums and other taxes.
The
lavishness, extravaganza spending and wastage, election
spending, purchasing of second hands hardware,
corrupting the voters, payment to void projects, failed
projects and much more drained out the money from the
public coffer. Mahathir never spent a cent to boost his
popularity. So were the rest of our Prime Ministers.
Their wives did not create a FLOM office and bought
expensive things.
Now
they talk of GST and lifting the subsidies. No matter
how well they argued to convince the people, those acts
were not done during all the past PMs, yet we survived
well.
The
current actions you see on the TVs will be realized as a
gimmick in a few weeks or months time when prices will
keep on rising and people have to pay more for their
livelihood.
But
I can assure you there will be the next drama, of
blaming the world for the rising burden. The people will
be told that all nations have to pay more taxes and
insurance and prices for commodities. And in the
meantime the UMNO guys will be taking luxurious cruise
to Antarctica, and enjoying the wedding ceremony on the
cruise ship.
It
is partly true that the greedy Mamak shop will exploit
the opportunity to increase prices of their products;
roti canai to a ringgit with smaller size, mee increased
by 30 cents, nescafe by 30 cents. Fish, crabs and praws
goes double or tripple.
When I have to pay more for everything, I will have to
charge more for my service and goods. So were you.
But
behind the curtain there is a hidden hand. You need to
look into the national coffers and look where the money
goes to before the current PM and the past PMs. When the
government has no money it will find ways to look for
them. It has to take from the people.
If
the Middlemen are the culprits then surely the
government has an effective way to deal with it.
Remember well. THE MIDDLEMEN. The shift is on them.
Nothing else. We wait. Just for a month or two. Will we
be release from the increasing burden ?
There are two type of people who will blame the others;
the corrupt politicians and the stupid UMNO goons.
If
my prediction is wrong I swear I will praise Najib till
the end of his tenure.
18/01/2014 |
|
MORSE TRAINER FOR
ANDROID
Different people
learn Morse differently. I prefer listening to hams rag
chewing or to essays or paper cutting to familiarize
myself with words rather than the characters. I
developed a software to train myself, where articles
from websites were copied and paste on my CW Trainer,
saved and later listen to them.
I found there are
several free Morse softwares for the Android. Morse
Player Free is one of them. If Apple used Application
Store, Samsung is using Play Store.
Open up a browser
and search for a topic of your interest. Choose Select
All and then Copy it. After closing down the browser,
run the Morse Player. Paste the article on it and Save
the Text.
Set the speed and start playing. Start with 15 wpm and
gradually increase the speed. Enjoy yourself.
14/01/2014
|
WHY KANGKONG
?
Rabits and some other animals are fond of kangkong.
Mixing the vegetable with peanut curry and squid is a
delicacy. But squids are very expensive today. Kangkong
is easily grown at your backyard along the dirty brooks.
There are two reasons why Najib asked the citizens to
thank the government for the cheap price of kangkong.
Firstly, it is to encourage the people to change their
staple food from rice to the easily available plants.
Rice isn't good for health. Millons of Malaysians are
diabetics.
Secondly, we Malaysians are as stupid as animals, as
pigs and rabits. We deserve to be fed with kangkong. The
conception is not a jester. It was thought by UMNO all
the time, that the Malays are stupid. No matter what
they would go for UMNO.
THE
TALKER ASKS OTHERS NOT TO TALK
One
of our rights is to talk the truth. Our opponents do not
like to hear what we are talking about. The most matured
and courteous way is to present a rebuttal. The third
party will decide who speaks the truth. But that wasn't
the case as I observed in the Facebook and else where.
There was always a short cut challenge; the throwing of
stones and the yelling of insults, telling the other
side not to talk and shut their mouth, and ask the
opponent to leave the country.
Issues on the raising cost were discussed with lavish
expenditure and wastage, wild spending to gain
popularity and the great corruptions using the public
funds. What was raised by the audits did not touch the
purchase of bad goods like the used war planes and the
sub-marine, the wastage involving mega projects.
But the stupid people are blaming
the business communities, not the TNB or PLUS or other
profitable organizations that are raising the selling
prices of their products. Remember, listen to
what is said not to who said it.
14/01/2014 |
DECEPTION
|
IS IT TRUE ?
The other day
I took the highway to Pendang with my wife. At the toll
booth, I asked the man in charge of the ticket "When is
the toll hike ?"
"2017", came the reply.
Really I don't
hear the news anywhere because I do not buy newspapers
anymore, and my TV time is only two or three hours a
month. I would spend my TV time on Mari Berjoget, the
gorgeous traditional dance with beautiful music
and song.
Probably it
was announced that there is no toll hike in the near
future. Whatever I hope I heard the true thing about
toll hike only in 2017. It would indeed be a great
relief.
Last night I
read about there won't be any increase in RON price as
yet. Will it last till 2017 too ?
A decision
should not be based on a mere rationality. Mixing
humanity, sentiment, pity, conscientiousness, and
rationality to derive the right action is
difficult yet it is an imperative procedure.
Government should first began with the austerity drive;
decide whether to buy or to rent, to use energy saving
device or anything that come, to be spendthrift or
thrifty, to buy or not to buy.
People were
angry when Mahathir ordered an agreement for the crooked
bridge that trapped the government to pay if the
agreement was void. A huge sums was paid to his cronies.
Secondly
government must enhance and increase it's efficiency to
ensure security and to stop wastage. The missing jet
engine, payment to non-existing projects, indifference
to quality and specifications and buying cheap stuffs at
a higher price.
When I saw the
number of Barisan National blue flags and the huge giant
propaganda boards the first question that came to my
mind was HOW MUCH WERE SPENT AND WHERE DID THE MONEY
COME FROM. Just the flags alone would draw out all of
UMNO's fund.
When your
pocket went dry and you still want to spend, with the
intent of robbing from the people later, then you are a
BAD person.
The treasury
instructions are clear. Following the guide line by all,
including the Prime Minister's Office would be wise and
prudent. What has never been practiced by all the
previous Prime Ministers' wives should not be put into
practice now. We don't spend millions on FLOM or
purchasing expensive ring or bags, or travel alone with
private jet.
10/01/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Imagine Malaysia is
taken over by the cartel and Mafia gang who would not
touch but further donate money to mosques and religious
people, Ustaz Qazim Al-Hafidz would be telling the
Malaysian Malay Muslims to devout themselves to the
cartel and the mafia bosses for giving money to mosques
and religious teachers.
Rather than
delivering his rhetoric it would be more meaningful if
this Ustaz devote himself in gathering data as to how
many Malay Muslims schoolboys who can't perform ablution
and daily prayers. Mind you he is a school ustaz, a
teacher. If I challenge him to do the work, he would
aggressively respond with excuses and blames, trying to
avoid the task. Now let us challenge him to work rather
than to talk. Anybody can talk. Just go to the mental
wards you will hear great speeches.
Condoning crimes by
bad Ministers and UMNO supporters cannot be worse than
condoning crimes and corruptions by a religious clerics.
What were the crimes ? Bank Bumi Putera, Perwaja Steel,
PKZ, payments to void projects, misappropriation of
funds, breach of trusts, murder of Altantuya, purchasing
of outdated military hardware, indelible inks, NFC, and
other form of corruption, plundering of Malay Muslim
lands, and privatization to cronies. Wastage,
lavishness, and expenditure for personal enhancement are
associated with sinful acts, selfish and unaccountable.
As an Ustaz and a
school teacher he should know about the plight of the
school children. Here's one headline which he ought to
take interest on
FLESH TRADE : PREGNANT TEEN
MOTHER FOUND WORKING AS PROSTITUTE
The mother is a
prostitute. The Ustaz is enjoying a big money from UMNO.
The youths who found
Christianity as their faiths were the Muslims who were
neglected by the school and the teachers. Did he ever
try to investigate their background, outside activities
and crimes, drug habits and the religious practice ?
Readers can try to
invite him for an evening sermon and pay him RM50 or
RM100, and hear what he would say. One teacher was given
RM400 and commented, "What I and my wife can buy with
this amount ?"
This Ustaz is working
hand in gloves to deceive the people and the Malays,
giving a great impression of the government efforts to
help everyone. TV news announced that food prices came
down, interviewing people for confirmation. Outside the
TV screen people are complaining about mackerel costing
RM19 per kilo. This Ustaz never knew that there are
parents who would bring lunch to their school children
for lack of money. In one case it was the non-Ustaz that
finance the children education.
I commented about an
officer from Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat whose salary
is RM5K giving a monthly allowance of RM150 to one poor
family. What influence has this Ustaz over the Zakat's
money ? Didn't Zakat's money was once used for general
election ?
I began to see Ustaz
Qazim like the Korean warlord priest who deceive the
followers and amassed a huge sum of money. The Koreans
was a tycoon and ran gun business too. I would put him
in the same cell as the Catholic priests who were
condemned by many Christians for their sins.
I heard him telling
the Muslims about the use of Allah by the Catholics, but
he was telling the wrong people. He should challenged
the Catholic priest for a public debate like what Ahmed
Deedat did. He didn't have to support the protestors if
he had awaken UMNO to look into the desolate youths in
schools and take the right steps to strengthened and
giving them emotional support.
Instead of continuing
with constant deception, it is better to do the cleaning
up, starting from rejecting bad leaders who support the
family members with the misuse of the public funds and
who were causing the lost of billions and billions of
ringgit. Since the future depends on our schools more
vigorous work should be done to prepare for the more
responsible citizens, good in manners and religion with
responsibility and good work ethics. I can tell
Mahyuddin that he has not done all those. Teachers
simply don't care of the students and take things for
granted.
The Malays would not
be better by the prolonged deception.
09/01/2014 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
GALAXY AND
APPLE PRICE
Iphone 5S and
Samsung Galaxy Note 3, both picked up the same price.
Who actually fix the prices ? For RM2399 the price looks
higher than in the United States. And every time I
looked at the gadgets I was wondering whether they were
clones or real. China is expert in producing the exact
clone.
The only
place I could trust for the original is Telco companies
like Celcom, Maxis and Digi. Celcom only sells with
plan. And the plan really cuts throat. I was surprise to
see the plan for Samsung Note 2. The phone price for the
24 months plan was already above the price of the unit
at other outlets. To be a phone vendor and to draw a
plan does not need any talent. You and I can run such a
business.
I am intrigue
by Samsung's over all capability and on the verge of
buying one but for the price. If I need a camera there
is a 13 MP ready to be used. Only if Samsung could
include Garmin GPS the price is worth the money.
I kept on
asking myself what am I going to do with either iPhone 5
or Samsung Galaxy Note 3. My iPhone 4 is still serving
me well. My phone usage is below RM30 a month,
indicating I didn't use it very much.
Young people
will be asking what an old people like me would want the
Samsung for ? I would have asked the same question if I
were to see a 67 year old woman bargaining on the Galaxy
Note or iPhone 5.
I think it is
better for me to wait for the price to come down if I
want to fulfill my desire. In the meantime I can
continue to enjoy reading I-Books using my Apple iPhone
4.
08/01/2014 |
I AM NOT FOR
DEVELOPMENT |
Always check the
originality by hook or by crook. You don't pay more than
1.5K for clones. The expert in cloning is China.
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If you were
in New Zealand 60 years ago you won't find it much
different from today. The Arrow Town remain as the Old
Arrow Town. A big vast of land is green. The kampong
setup is seen everywhere, serene and peaceful. 67 years
of living in Alor Setar is not a luster of life. They
called it development, I called it hell.
UMNO forced
the land sale under the name of development, paid RM3
per square foot and sold to some big Towkey for the
current commercial price. Development followed by
greater number of population. Roads are congested,
traffics are slowing down, crimes are climbing, the air
and rivers pollute.
When the town
turned into the city, rates increased. The people have
to bear the burden. The social cost of development is
too high.
The most
tragic was the Malays in Kuala Kedah who became poorer
and poorer. I remembered well when Khir Johari
introduced and license trawler fishing. UMNO enjoyed the
award. Trawlers were operated by the big Towkeys and the
UMNO 's big gun. In the brawl the poor fishermen went
down. Today many became workers and many are drug
addicts.
While in
Holland, I saw flat green land almost like New Zealand.
People went to work using bicycles, and there were
thousands of them parked in the work place.
UMNO loves
development. That's what Shahrizat had been repeating
during the Sungai Limau. Only if you do a little
traveling around the world you can assess the
relationship between progress and development.
08/01/2014 |
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