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NOT ALL JEWS IN ISRAEL HATE ARABS IS A FACT
WHICH PART OF THE CHRISTIAN TRINITY IS
ALLAH ?
WHAT IF
1MDB MONEY IS REALLY STOLEN, DONATION STORY IS A
FICTIONAL DECOY ?
CARDIOVASCULAR
DISEASE
Raymond Francis
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WHAT THEY SAY ?
WHAT is in the PAC report has been commented by
several Ministers on the Malaysian media though
unknown to the general public. Everyone vocally
announced that PM Najib is not guilty and nothing to
do with the 1Mdb. Zahid Hamidi, the Deputy Prime
Minister and others commanded the people to stop
talking about 1Mdb as the Prime Minister is clean.
But we also need to know the views of the other
media. Below is what's is written in Malaysiakini.
Sarawak Report has it's own comments. Below is what
it says.
And finally the WSJ is expounding it's view as well.
We have to judge to find the truth and at the same
time must be aware of both backgrounds.
The named alternative media had not been friendly
with Najib's administration. Obviously we cannot
expect they are going to agree with what the
Ministers were saying. And on the other hand, the
PAC is appointed by Najib. The Chairman was
handpicked by Najib from an UMNO man. This is the
second PAC as the first one's report was dismissed
by Najib.
To me it is thought provoking and an interesting
mental exercise.
0804/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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HAM RADIO -
FIGHT OVER A TRIVIAL MATTER ?
It is good to
learn something from the others, though the tip may
be small and insignificant. No one knows everything
in the world. When don't know, we say we don't know.
It is better than bragging that we are experts by
condemning all others. Imparting knowledge for
sharing does not constitute boasting.
A person who
does not know about a tune circuit is not a hazard
to ham radio. It does not injure any other person.
But a person who strongly believe RAE is imperative
and proven to be completely radio literate is
expected to understand the principle working of the
circuit and to understand the components of an AM
wave.
What a fellow
ham posted on the website should be welcomed. We may
have known and master the subject matter but many
others may not know yet. It is not wise to
discourage the postings by negative remarks or
having some insinuation of the effect. If we find
there is anything wrong with it then correct it for
the benefit of all.
Amateur radio
operators come from all walks of life, experiencing
different environments. I consider the hobbyists are
those who have passion over radio communication
whether they are the CBers, Hams, the pirates or the
people using the family radio. They cannot all be
angels. Some with great sensitivity while others
simply could not bother to the happenings around
them; be it the sky falling or an atomic bomb
explosion.
Should we
fight like the politicians or the wild animals in
African safari ?
I read about
the mud slinging between the no-code and code hams
in the United States. They were some time vicious.
When I pondered deeply, I come to think there should
only be one category of radio lovers. No one has to
sit for RAE anymore. And everyone is considered
equal.
I remember
very well when Morse was still a mandatory in
Malaysia, that on one occasion I was trying to help
one person by giving tips how to study Morse codes,
and before I started the guy talked and talked about
his methodology. I chose to stop and halt
completely. I wished him luck. If I were him I would
listen first. May be I can learn something from the
tip. And I would not go to help a person who claim
himself an expert about the radio and antenna
system. Let the expert does himself.
I came across
an argument about the need to register in the
QRZ.COM.
QRZ.COM is
relatively a new thing in life. Ham radio started
before a PC was known. With the web and internet
technology hams began to incorporate and developed
soft wares to facilitate the operation of the
station and the learning of Morse codes. There were
articles on antenna and balun, on propagation and
matters. There were soft wares like the logging
system, CW trainer and decoder, the Echo-Link and
other huge amount of information.
Hams still
communicate with each other in the yesteryears. We
never asked for any green stamp to reply the QSL
cards as we have had QSL bureau. Postage was cheap
then. Once a year we made a point to go for radio
convention to see the faces of those people we
talked days and nights without knowing how they
looked like. When we met we huddled and cuddled with
intense joy.
We were not
concern with QRZ.COM or any other international
radio organization. I did not remember how many time
I told the other side on CW that I was not OK in
QRZ.COM. "Pse QSL via buro."
But with it's
coming into existence it is good for a ham to
register in QRZ database. It would made other hams
easy to find our QSL information. More often than
not hams would advise their friends to register, not
to the point of putting pressure on their fellow
members. If they do not want to be in the database,
there is nothing wrong with their choices.
You don't have
to agree with me. I just express my mind.
07/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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YOUR MEN ARE THE AUTHORITY
It is not my habit to go and find fault of
others. It doesn't give pleasure at all. But
when I heard statements that were insulting
our intelligence they really cracked my
nerve. So are other people.
Choosing our own men who promised allegiance
and to obey all our instructions to vital
posts in judiciary and other services
already sent a message of falsehood and
perpetual deception from the authority. The
citizens were told that the words of those
handpicked people are the words of God and
must be obeyed. The citizens on the other
hand did not recognize or respect those
regarded as bogus. The term Kangaroo thus
does not merely confined to a court.
The latest Azlina and Najib's camp want the
rakyat to believe is about Najib's credit
card spending on luxury and personal goods.
You just read the response of the readers.
Else Najib has no choice but to act on Wall
Street Journal immediately without having to
wait any longer. There is a Captain Malaysia
lawyer, Shafiee, who is extremely
invincible. The journal had brought too much
shame to Najib and his spouse and now they
are moving towards his family, his son,
son-in-law and his brother Nazir whom we
have regarded as unbiased.
People tend to believe the foreign media
rather than the handpicked persons of the
authority. Even the story of donation
still meet with very fierce rebuttals. No
man in the right kind of mind would simply
donate a huge sum of money to an individual
for the sake of Islam and then wrote
'....you can use in any way you like...'
Wouldn't Obaid had had a tough time to
insert a fake document into the Saudi's
financial office. The same dirty work has
been done on land ownership in this country
before.
It is easy to say 'You all must shut up
since the AG and SPRM' has cleared Najib. It
angered the public and pushed up the level
of hatred to a greater intensity.
Of course the acts of putting our own team
in important post were also practiced in the
United States. I can't say of the other
countries in the world. Domestic fooling and
international fooling are different. You can
fool the local people without any limit but
the world is observing you at all time
despite they may soften themselves on the
investigation. Big corrupted leaders do
survive. But they go into the world record
as dirty and corrupt.
Najib should take rest, not because he is a
guilty person but because the scandal has
travel far and wide. It is becoming
difficult to answer an honest question. The
world is watching Najib. Rosmah's changing
answer to her extravaganza have invited
despicable insults on her, and people are
blaming her for dragging Najib into the mud.
Now a new term has emerge 'International
Financial Terrorism' and Najib was level as
number 1 in the list. Surely it is an absurd
accusation that splash more shame on the
Prime Minister.
{ 12
} Mohd Nazifuddin bin Mohd Najib (son of
Prime Minister of Malaysia)
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Nazifuddin was infamous for his link to
uFun Group in 2015, a Thailand company
with more than 10 offices worldwide and
members from more than 80 countries. It
turned out to be a Ponzi scheme,allegedly
swindled 120,000 people of at least 38
billion baht(US$1.13 billion, £720
million, RM4 billion)
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Nazifuddin denied allegations he was
involved. In 2009 Nazifuddin became one
of the directors of Jay Marriot
International Ltd. and PCJ International
Venture Limited, which Mossack Fonseca
registered in the British Virgin
Islands. His father is facing
allegations of corruption and money
laundering to the tune of US$1 billion.
Najib has to re-think what 1MDB has done to
the country. How it affects our relationship
with China and other future consequences.
Choosing his own men to guard his own
personal border will not end the intrusions.
06/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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NUMBERS NOT A
BIG DEAL IN TAP CODES
Let
me start with a conversation between two persons.
One asked How Many ? 2 3 3 4 5 2 3
2 1 1 3 3 5 4 . The other person
can reply in may ways still could be understood. For
5 just knock 5 times, just a single 3 3 (N) for 9,
for 20 - two knocks delay and 4 3(T). It needs a
little creativity. But the pause/delay is most
important so that the listener can trace the delay.
The
delay between between the vertical and horizontal
knock is a single of no-knock to form a character.
The delay between character is two no-knocks.
Between
a number to the next number or character is three
no-knocks.
Surely
you won't understand my description. You have to
listen to understand it.
This
is one of the methods we can use for numbers. There
are other creative methodology to make the other
side comprehend the messages that contain numbers as
in Morse codes like 1TT stands for 100 and 5NN for
599.
It
is a primitive mode but it could be very valuable to
certain people in the modern world.
For
fun, let's go tapping.
04/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
LISTEN TO YOUR
SIFU ?
I met a ham
friend this afternoon in an office canteen. He told
me that he bought Yaesu 817 for RM2.5K. To me 2.5K
for 5 a 5 watts rig is comparatively expensive
compare to an ICOM 718, a hundred watts transceiver,
for the same price.
He told me
that his friend encouraged the purchase because 817
because it could take him all over the world with only 5 watts.
I told him that buying a 100 watts transceiver can
also enabled him to crank the power down and the range of output
is wider, from 10 to 100 watts.
I have worked
with people using 817 and 718. My recent demised
friend from Medan with his 718 thundered into my
home, as if he was using a super-duper high end rig.
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So was
9M2MGL with the giant solid audio using the
same equipment. Though it is a basic
machine, it work like a champion.
But
when I worked Choo on 817 the copy was
bad. He too was talked to buy it. |
Icom 718 |
If he is not
my friend, I would not care what type of rig he
choose to buy.
I have another
friend whom I would confer a certificate of radio
expert. He claimed to have cut and gave me an
antenna. He would give advise on radio to new or old
hams. He would lecture you about the antenna system
and about all the world transceivers. BUT he could
not trigger a repeater with 50 watts from his home
when I could do it with a a couple of watts on my
mobile from the same location. I can't say how many
transceivers at his disposal had gone QRT. Try to
ask him to make a dipole you will hear a thousand
and one excuses.
Be careful of
whom you want to choose as your Sifu. It may not be
harmful for any wrong things they might preach, so long as
you do not waste your money.Unless you are wealthy
enough. It wouldn't matter if money is not a
problem to you. You can buy as many rig and as many
type as you desire.
At time a
smile at myself when I heard a question; why hams
are using SSB and not AM. It made me wonder whether
the people who called themselves experts do know the
components of the AM wave and how the USB and LSB
comes about. If they don't know then let the MCMC
quickly abolish the RAE, the sooner the better.
Imparting
information and knowledge that do not any form of
damage is always okay. When things involve money, a
harm is done. Just be careful.
03/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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FOR THE BELIEVERS
How could we not believe in the power of
prayer when we pray for the rain to cool
down the long extreme heat was met by God ?
The prayer was just made and the the
downpour wetted the ground at this moment of
typing.
Allah is the God to all and of all living
and non-living substances and creatures, the
God of Muslims, Christians, Jews and
non-Monotheistic religion. Let us thank our
God for giving us food and comfort, water
and fresh air.
Let us pray so that our humanity will remain until we die, and not to cause
harm and suffering
to other human souls.
The state of Kedah and Perlis had been
torched by intense heat for quite some time,
pushing the temperature to almost 50 degrees
celsius. I felt the heat at everything I
touched; the door knob, the chair and
couches, the cup and the wall. I did not
grumble because I had had an experience in
heat waves before which was more severe than
the brazing sun in a high humidity country.
In several places there were special prayers
for the rain. And in my state the ceremony
was done a day ago.
The heavy rain reduced to drizzle by 5 pm in
our area. I jogged in the drizzle, feeling
cool, yet the sweat soaked my T-shirt.
The rain was not a miracle. It is delivered
to the people who have faith.
02/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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BARAKAH
When
I talked about Barakah my own kids were laughing at
me. But I spoke to my students on the topic. I can't
say how many did take it seriously. I believed rge
religious and other subject teachers had had enhance
it in their respective classrooms. The Barakah I was
walking about is doing good deeds to our own parents
and to the oldies and other pious figures. "Before
the exam," I would tell my students. "...you are to
ask your mummy for forgiveness, ask for her prayer
and his her cheek....when you work send a small sum
of money to your mother...for the Barakah."
Barakah is not a magic chant. It has the connotation
of divine approval for doing good things especially
to one's own parents. I believe God will guide us to
the right path. Of course one must also remember and
lead the life distant from sins.
We
have seen many wealthy people who are never enough
with the millions in their possession, never have a
peace of mind and misery sleeps with them.
The
horror of insatiable needs is very real. It can lure
us to be immoral and criminals, filling our blood
with a new DNA called DNA of lies and deception. It
changes our facial outlook and structure, from a
face of a human being to the shape of Satanic look.
Juts look at Ku Nan and a few other top politicians
with such a DNA in their blood.
In the
yester years, the final aim of most Malaysian
Muslims was to go to pilgrimage. That will be the
peak of their life. They accumulate for years and
years till enough. Friends and neighbors helped to
ensure their economic well-being while making the
journey. 6 or 7 months before the trip they start to
talk about it, of the coming happiness, with the
extreme hope that God would end their lives in the
Holly land. There were waves of visitors before and
after the pilgrimage.
The
desire of the simple people were free from greed.
When
nothing is enough it won't be enough till the last
minute of our death. Our eyes open wide when someone
mentions the word million and land and wealth. We
don't have a second to think of God and ask for
forgiveness. We are million of light years away from Barakah.
Sometimes we see a poor vagabond who got free food
gives away part of his to another hungry person. But
all the time we see people who robbed others by
enacting laws to legitimize robbing.
02/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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WE NEVER KNOW
It
is a shocking and surprising day for my
sister-in-law on the first of April 2016. I
handed her an envelope with RM6K inside it.
"This is the last gift to you what belongs
to my wife. You slept in hospital taking
care of her for one month, leaving your
husband and your kid."
This is not my wife's sister but the wife of
her brother. My wife was a clerk and I was a
teacher, earning modest pay. She never
expected for any return favor but her kind
heart could not bear to see the agony of my
wife. Now that my wife has passed away and
she left a small amount of money, she
deserve to earn this money. There was no
hint whatsoever of my intent. And the deed
was a great surprise.
We never know what God may bestow upon us,
at any time and place. We never expect and
hope of God's providence. It is not only to
my sister -in-law, it could be to anybody at
all. God gives and God takes for God knows
the destiny of a man.
I murmured about a ham operator who never
return my RM500. The amount was not too big.
But I cannot halal it for the transaction
was dishonest and not done in a good faith.
He came to my house at almost midnight
telling me that his cleric friend was in
need of cash. As the bank closed at night,
he asked me to lend mine first and he would
return it the last by the coming week. And
he is a class A wealthy contractor.
I contemplate at myself, that I am almost
70. A Tang Emperor said to his young wife
"At 70 men won't last long....we can die
anytime..." What do I need more from the
world ? And thanks God greed has been taken
away from me. I don't need grandeur in my
living, simplicity and mediocrity would be
more than ample. Yet we human are
infallible. I have a lust for travel and to
have siestas while enjoying the entertaining
electronic gadgets. And I have a grudge
against those who administer cruelty and
unfairness to their fellow mankind.
I never expect or hope God would drop
goodies from the sky, making me a tycoon in
a split second. Not a wish and not a dream.
All I pray is God will endow those good
hearted individuals with happiness and good
health directly or via other living specie.
We can never know our destiny and what may
happen to us. Hot or cold, light or
darkness, good or bad is in our path. I
thank God for my health and longevity, for
the food and drink before me. My affection
to my wife is still strong despite we live
far apart in different world.
May God bless her soul.
01/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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LIM GUAN ENG
HIT BACK
In an
emotional turmoil and desperation we tend to act
without thinking. There is an English saying that
people who stay in a glass house should not throw
stone. We should have thought that a big number of
top ranking officials and Ministers get favors in
many of the dealings. We all still remember though
sound hilarious that PM Najib bought ayam for a
ringgit.
Here is
something of interest for us to think about.
Time and again
that we were reminded that if we are poor, there are
many poorer people out there. If we think we are
smart, there are many other smarter people than us,
and it goes on. If we look at a brook, the running
water is clear and limpid. If we stir the brook the
limpid water will turn milky and dirty.
01/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHO IS SMARTER -
NAJIB'S TEAM OR WSJ ?
Najib deploys a huge resources to defend
himself; the psychological and disinformation units,
the propaganda, the IT experts and all that's
available in the country. The main objective is to
make the Malaysians believe that Najib is an honest
man and is not a 'crook'. The most smart and viewed
as most intelligent will be the nearest to Najib and
the first to shield Najib in any possible way.
Yet
the common men do not buy everything told by Najib's
team. Big sum of money were used to print documents
which purported to explain the questions and the
doubts on the Prime Minister. They want Najib to sue
the Wall Street Journal for defamation and to show
proof that Najib is not a criminal.
WSJ
like many Malaysians does not merely depend on their
own source in the writings. Much information was
from the government media and documents. Statements
by the Ministers and government authorities
themselves broadcast the events and happenings.
The
WSJ too has been using substances it gets from the
government documents and statements. Look at the
sentences below;
The latest Malaysian investigation documents
reviewed by the Journal
contradict the attorney general’s account. They show transfers from a
person in Saudi Arabia and from the country’s finance ministry, but they
occurred earlier, in 2011 and 2012, and are of smaller amounts, totaling
$200 million. The finance ministry didn’t respond to requests for
comment.
The documents show the prime minister made more than 500 payments from
his accounts, the bulk of them to political players. Tens of millions of
dollars of such payments occurred ahead of the May 2013 elections, which
Mr. Najib’s party risked losing for the first time since Malaysia’s
independence from Britain in 1957.
The payments from the prime minister’s accounts at this time included
nearly $7 million to the private account of one of Mr. Najib’s four
brothers, who is chairman of CIMB Group Holdings Bhd., a
government-controlled bank.
Najib's propagandist quickly jumped to conclusion to
say that WSJ admitted the money came Saudi Arabia.
Are we to believe that the people in Putrajaya are
lacking in English proficiency ? The document
reviewed by WSJ showed there was a transfer of money
by an individual and the country's finance Ministry,
totaling $200 millions. And WSJ was trying to get
confirmation from the finance ministry.
The
act of our Malaysian counterpart is parading the
highest form mentality and intellectuality of the
smartest officers in Putrajaya is vulnerable to our
security issue. That's why other people could sell
us military hardware that were outdated and
malfunction. They could steal our jet engines out of
our country.
I
just read a fictitious story of Dr Fu Manchu which
mentioned about the Westerners and the Yellow skin
people. The Englishmen did praise Fu Manchu for his
cunningness though they still believe the
superiority of the White race.
It
is not so much about the 1Mdb but to see how smart
are the Malaysians over the New Yorkers. The Malays
can bully and deceive their own race but it is a
risky attempt to bully and command the others. But
the authoritarian trait will make them forget who
they are dealing with. Efforts by Najib to deceive
foreign heads will not last long. Najib is bound to
slip and fall.
From the previous statement by Saudi Arabia and the
recent response to the WSJ we could have guess what
is the real fact.
01/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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WHAT'S NEXT ?
Bad Feng Sui is very bizarre. Even in
the scientific modern world the Feng Sui
Masters made a lot of money. Big building
companies consult this Chinese mysterious
unexplained phenomena in the design of the
multi-storey business buildings.
I
had had ask this question several time
before as I believe the events in Malaysia
is being clouded by the hidden phenomena of
bad luck. I never expect the causal-effect
incidences to be the result of the ghostly
type of voodoo effect. I expected a bad
national calamities or major accidence like
that of MH370 and MH117, train crash,
earth-quake or a long dry weather.
Rosmah would have claimed she always bring
good luck to Najib. Most of all Najib became
a Prime Minister through her favorable Feng
Sui. We hope it would be that way.
It is safer to be an observer rather than
active participation in the verbal battle,
and to jot down the happenings as they
happen. To me the exposure by not-friendly
media is not a major catastrophe. It will
come. When it comes we will know what it is.
Early today there is another news relating
to a man in 1Mdb. Though there is framework
of investigation USA will know the total and
complete story of 1Mdb. Najib has seen all
the top men in 1Mdb and the bankers who were
dropped from their posts they had assured
him that they will not divulge anything that
will put Najib in perilous state.
Najib may be walking free with the invisible
dress. This may not be the predicted Feng
Sui. The real bad luck is yet to appear,
striking the nation like a thunder.
I have never seen such chaotic disorder and
turbulence of this magnitude in our nation
since independent. Several Chinese friends
traced the root to Mahathir. His greatest
mistake was putting Najib to replace the
pious and good Abdullah Badawi. Didn't he
see Rosmah then ? He is reaping what he
sowed.
No prediction. No prophesy. Something bad
may be coming.
31/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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DEBATING A
LETTER TO NAJIB BY ARAB PRINCE
Interesting
indeed. There was a letter from the donor of 2.6
billions telling Najib the money for donation is not
a corruption and Najib can use it in any way he
likes. It is purported to exonerate the Prime
Minister. Surely it sounds too weird and these
people were debating of it's veracity.
Let us try to
be neutral and do a little simple analysis as to the
authenticity of the letter, which we all have not
seen before. And we have to regress back to the old
story.
The whole
episode loomed when the Wall Street Journal reported
that 2.6 billion went into Najib's personal account.
The first response was it was a blatant lie by the
journal. The verbal war went on for some period of
time. AmBank was mentioned. The accusation was a
serious one on the Head of a State, the Prime
Minister of a sovereign country. UMNO members
attacked and spearheaded on the American media and
even threaten to take action for the lies.
At that time I
already knew the truth, not by the arguments,
denials and counter accusation but by the behavior
of the AmBank. As the AmBank was in Malaysia,
whose Prime Minister was Najib Razak, the bank could
not keep quiet about the slander and lies. The bank
would have denied immediately within hours. There
was no OSA or bank secrecy act to deny the fallacy.
The decision of the bank to keep quiet already
informed me that WSJ was not lying.
More WSJ exposure - Another lie ? May be No, may be
yes
Following the
events many happenings that brought damages to the
nation took place. Mahyuddin and Shafiee were
sacked. Some UMNO members called Najib as a thief.
The AG was sacked, officers transferred. Najib was
attacked for murder and corruption. Najib had to
engage experts to say there was attempt to unseat
him by foreigners. Miliany and Justo came into
pictures. WSJ was faking news.
Why should
Najib let all the chaos to happen ? It was a serious
one. We were told about ISIS planning to destabilize
the country.
On the first
day when the WSJ talked about the money, Najib could
have shown the letter to the citizen of Malaysia and
to tell his Ministers and the UMNO members save all
the troubles, pain and resources. Hence I am sure
there was no letter then, and someone who was trying
to play the game has recently produced it.
Do we have to
be the 4 Corners, WSJ, Azlina and other smart guys
to do the analysis to search for the truth and
fallacy ? It is a kind of mental exercise. It is not
about discrediting Najib but about the appearing of
the letter using the behavior on the time line.
31/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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RADIO MEMBERS VANITY - LOVE TO BELITTLE THE OTHERS
Take a
little of your time and read two short passages
plucked from a book of a few hundred pages.
"
Primitive Problems
¶ It was not always so. And its recentness in human
history may account for some of our blindness to
this great fact.
In primitive times people saw each other rarely and
had much less to do with each other. The human
element was then not the chief problem. Their
environmental problems had to do with such things as
the elements, violent storms, extremes of heat and
cold, darkness, the ever-present menace of wild
beasts whose flesh was their food, yet who would eat
them first unless they were quick in brain and body.
Civilization's Changes
¶ But all that is changed. Man has subjugated all
other creatures and now walks the earth its supreme
sovereign. He has discovered and invented and
builded until now we live in skyscrapers, talk
around the world without wires and by pressing a
button turn darkness into daylight. "
There are two questions I would like to put forward
to my radio friends. Firstly, can you write
essays conveying similar concept and ideas as above
in your own language ? And the second question is
much more easier to answer; Can you guess in what
year they were written ?
This is not a test of intelligence. There is nothing
to connote any testing element in it but a plain
honest question.
In a freedom of speech, you can speak anything, and
brag as much as you want but you must know your
limit. As long as the show of your vanity does not
directly insult and belittle the other members of
society.
Some new amateurs seem to be too overboard. Showing
off, bragging and even condemning the old hams do
not hurt the old timers at all. There is no cut, no
blood and no scar. It is an intellectual exercise
when these new amateurs conceived the old hams as
the stone age group still living in the stone age
world. That's the reason why I want them to ponder
those sentences and to compare with their standard
of judgment.
There is no pass or fail, right or wrong, smart or
stupid. It is to know where you are and to know
yourself so that you would not be fools forever. The
fact is no people will inform you of your
foolishness.
Only recently I wrote about the dynamism of our
environment and culture and called for the change in
radio hobby regulations. The second quoted phrases
above too speaks of the dynamic nature of our world
and progress. Could we be very far apart ?
I don't need a thousand people to read and
understand this insinuation. Three to four will
suffice, and spread and discuss with their friends
during the meeting and the moments of eyeballing.
In the coming essay I will reveal the year with a
short analysis about it.
30/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
PM SHOULD NOT
BE AFRAID
If I were the
Prime Minister Najib I would say to the world, " By
all mean, please investigate me." I would not appeal
to the heads of the world's government for favor and
to call off the investigation on my alleged crime.
Whould I be afraid if I am not guilty and have not
done anything wrong. It is rumored that Rosmah
Mansor was persistently calling the American
Ambassador to request FBI to call off the
investigation. If it is true it is telling to the
world that the element of crime in 1Mdb case does
exist, and it is a folly thing for the Prime
Minister's wife to attempt her command on foreign
envoy. But as I said it is only a rumor. It was a
similar rumor that the First Lady also talked to
Vladimir Putin angrily on MH17 tragedy. It would be
hard for the public to dispel the rumors.
If it was true
it would be possible for the ambassador to have
passed the words around the circle of his diplomatic
friends in Kuala Lumpur. And the news would be sent
back to their respective countries.
Secondly, the
whole trouble was started by the Wall Street Journal
which wrote about the transfer of money into Najib's
personal account. Without it no UMNO Ministers,
Mahathir and the rest of the citizens would not know
about the 2012/2013 incidences. Even his own deputy
did not know about it. That shook the whole country
and Najib had to put much of his time to dispel with
the accusation. It was not a trivial matter.
The Wall
Street Journal has made a great slander and trying
to strip off the integrity of the head of a country.
The New York Times kept on writing about the great
corruption and named Najib as one of the most
corrupted.
Would I let
WSJ and NT simply go without doing anything to them
? Obviously I would take the court actions
immediately anywhere, in any country even at the end
part of the world. How could a Prime Minister just
threaten to sue the papers. The people are still
waiting in abeyance.
We cannot
underestimate the intelligence of the Malaysians.
Wouldn't they have known who are in the Arul Kanda's
team and what they have been planning and doing to
confuse the people ? The main players are Kanda, Jho
Lo, and a few Arabs. Dragging a dead man into the
game did not surprise anyone. The team discussed the
words of a dead man. When the Malaysian
investigators went to the Middle East they went to
see the team. But funnily enough they brought back
different stories as each one met a rebuttal from
the public. The strongest debunk were from the
readers of The Malaysian Insider which no government
cyber trooper could challenge.
At home the
weakest point of Najib is the GST. It keeps people
hating him everyday as they go for everyday shopping
and marketing. And those who frequent themselves to
Thailand relate the low currency value to Najib.
Food and baby's milk prices sore. Prices of
medicines shot up.
While all the
previous government took care not to make the young
citizens lose their job, under Najib administration
saw thousands being laid off, by the Malaysian and
foreign companies.
People see the
fear on many public officials including the Governor
of Bank Negara. The sacking of Ghani Patail and the
death of Kevin Morais set a severe warning on all
others. In fact they started to think the death of
PI Bala was due to some sort of poisoning. And media
is looking at the death of Altantuya, the founder of
the AmBank, Bala and Morais whether they originate
from the same source.
Now the
Ministers threaten to arrest Mahathir under
seditious thinking it would totally evaporate the
woes and vanished from discussion. They once thought
by jailing Anwar there would be a peace of mind.
It is the GST
that keeps the people constantly dislike Najib. 1Mdb
is too remote for the village folks. They would not
understand the spins, the twists and turns. They
won't know WSJ, Sarawak Report or Jho Lo. But they
know what GST does to them.
Najib may not
be fearful of being indicted if he is innocent but
he has to be concern of the people's distress due to
GST and the cost of living, unemployment and
sacking, the prices of rubber and the high price of
baby's milk.
30/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
GET OUT OF
THE STONE AGE -
ABOLISH
RAE FOR HOBBYIST
There are
thousands of online
shops for you to choose.
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This is accomplished with a trifilar wound unun (not balun) transformer at a 9:1 ratio. How this works is really quite simple.
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Buy the
equipments. Hook them up. Do a quick setup following
the instructions in the manual and you can start
talking over the air. It wasn't like the old days
when equipments had to be homebrewed and a builder
had to recognize components and parts and the values
of each. Now you don't have to know the tune
circuit, the balance modulator, the RF and IF
tracking and even the formula for antenna length.
This is what the modern age is all about, where
everyone can get access to amateur radio and
equipments. Why be in the stone age and be too
selfish ?
A new image
means a new image divorced from the archaic concepts
and ideas. Why remain mum when we call for the
abolishment of RAE for the radio hobbyist ? The main
point is that there are millions who are on the air
without having to sit for radio examination ?
Please be
rational and think deeply why we should not open the
hobby to the general public without putting them
difficulty in sitting for the test. Let me know the
reason and response with a rebuttal. You should also
know that in Malaysia today we have thousands of
enthusiasts who are on UHF and VHF who are not
licensed or passed the RAE. Why would we encourage
them to pay and sit for the test when they are
already good in their radio work ? Most people just
told them not to interfere with the hams and other
services. Would that be difficult ? Who are living
in the stone age then ?
I have to
admit that I am still in the stone age period and
love to stay within it's boundary. I am sure that
those those who are out of the moronic era are well
verse with communications using laser technology and
familiar with the term OOK-modulated laser
communication system, and could enlightened use and
rescue us from the old age.
The advent of
laser communication through space and satellites
will soon take over the magnetic waves. In
development and progress countries will follow to
adopt their new technology. We all remember the
valves units, which were quickly replaced with
transistors and later the ICs. The old TV tubes have
become obsolete. Now even the VCDs are of little
value. I would suggest the smart and sophisticated
Malaysian hams to keep phase with the progress.
Let the stone
age hams linger and enjoy the Morse codes, the voice
communications of the old ways and defined their
traditional identity. And the new radio hobbyist
enjoy the fast moving technology and the members be
identified with quantum technicians. Radio
communication will soon be outdated. And never say
that our home TV soon will be replaced by
non-magnetic wave transmission, like the AM being
replaced with FM.
I am not
provoking anyone. But I am stating a fact, an
inevitable fact that is alive and ongoing. Those who
scorn at old fashion and tradition must leave this
stone-age communication system. The word HAM radio
is not suitable for the scientifically sophisticated
experts. CW is not for them. It is for the stone age
amateur radio hobbyists. The word progress and
progressive does not fit with the old stupid stuffs
and the CW keys. Their world is the state of the art
communication technology.
Does anyone
care to spot and record all the radio spectrum to
see how many percent is used for AM world wide
transmission and other broadcasters, and all other
users. We will predict the spectrum usage will be
different as the laser and optical communications
are expanding by different services.
We do hear
remarks of SSB unknown stations all over the radio
band, just for chatting among themselves, even on
the WWV. Does the lack of knowledge stop them from
being there ? They will still be there in 20 to 200
years time, or may be more. It is hard for one or
two to follow the progress of science. Why should
they when they can still use their radio and radios
are sold everywhere.
IARU has to
face the new phenomena, open a new box of thinking,
taking considerations of the changing world of
communications, the probable death of modulated wave
communications, and to whom the radio spectrum to be
given. Soon enough the present electronic knowledge
will be obsolete. There is no point postponing the
erasure of rdio amateur examination for the radio
hobbyists. Create a specil ID for them.
The ID for
hams persist to remain as a ham, who sits and pass
the Morse test.
29/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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BETWEEN A
COUNTRY AND A MAN
After following the cases on Najib and Money
carefully, trying not to be bias, I find that Najib
has never been honest and have been lying to the
people, his Ministers, to the police and to the
world. He either take more than 6 months to answer a
question of leave the answers to his handpicked men
to reply. He lied to the propaganda unit and the
members of the cyber troopers as well.
Before I really knew about 1Mdb in detail, I have
never read Sarawak Report. That time even Mahathir
was not vocal. As the issue loomed I heard several
UMNO leaders said that 1Mdb was making huge profit
and that the opposition was jealous of the success.
It was a mean to help the Malays. Then I did not
know for
what what reason someone announced that Arul Kanda
was a Muslim. What has it to do with 1Mdb whether
Arul was a Muslim or not ?
The
whole of Najib's team denied report of the Wall Street
Journal about the money credited into Najib's personal
account. WSJ was said to spread a blatant lie. The
moment AmBank kept quiet about it I concluded that
it was the truth. The bank would have immediately denied
on the first very hour if it was false. Nobody knew
about it, not even his own Deputy.
Only later we knew that 1Mdb was running at a lost,
and the debt was high. 1Mdb had had an initial
difficulty in paying it's interest. Linking to 1Mdb
the story of Tabung Haji came into play. The money
was used to buy land. Then came the pension fund,
amounting to RM42 millions, that went into Najib's
personal account again. Would anyone believe that
Najib did not know about the money, very petulant
behavior, when cornered giving all sort of uncanny
answer.
Later on another story appeared, about the R & D money
that went the wrong way as instructed by Najib.
Najib chose his own investigators and demand their
loyalty to him. Did he not use the carrot and stick
method.
The
IGP knows the real drama. They also have their own
investigating team. They opened files on every case
investigated. I don't think so that I could be wrong
to say they too know Najib has broken the rule.
Khalid could not sleep well like most of us. What
troubled his mind is the choice he has to make
between a man and a country.
The
country is falling down. The economy is still bad.
The dollar is still low. Thousands of young people
are losing their jobs. FGV is ailing. Rubber price
dives. It is nobody else but Najib himself is solely
responsible and accountable. The Malays are at the
losing end except the despicable Ministers and his
family members.
Najib must be replaced as quickly as possible. The
worst people have had to accept is Zahid Hamidi for
a time being. But Zahid must not hold the post of a
Finance Minister.
I
do not have to say anything more on how the process
and the procedure. I believe the IGP is
intelligent enough to choose between a man and a
country.
The
reluctance on the part of Najib may be due to
Rosmah's factor. To many laymen Rosmah is the most
obnoxious and detestable person in our history. If
she isn't she
should not be scared.
If she were to read the history of Tang Dynasty, she
would know what to answer to the people on their
mistaken perception on her, the answer given by a
young wife of the Tang Emperor to the rebellion
army was amazing and true.
Foreign sovereigns won't directly accuse Najib
of theft nor criminals. They just record down as
what they saw and what we say. But our locals form
perceptions base on what they heard , read and other
circumstantial happenings. We would not know the
details. The police knows. The other investigators
know.
People know what's happening in SPRM and between
Najib's AG and Najib himself.
I
would not care about 1Mdb as long as our money is
not involved. Wouldn't I suspect that our GST has
been used to cover the holes created by Najib
and to promote his image and to save his life ?
Isn't he selling our land to foreign countries, and
the natives are left without any anymore ? Does he care about our jobless youths ?
28/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
ISSUE
OF SLEEPING BASHAH
There
were several pictures showing Bashah sleeping at
important functions on the Alternative media. As a
new chosen Chief Minister of the Kedah state he and
his supporters vehemently denied of his perplexity.
"I closed my eyes to concentrate..", said he. At
Sungai Petani where Najib was there his body was
totally offset and his eyes closed. He was in deep
sleep.
Was it
his fault and can we blame him for his somatic
deportment ? We can be sure that even the Prime
Minister was aware of it. We could surmise that
Ahmad Bashah is sick and under the medical care. He
has to be under the influence of drug when he dozed
off.
There
are two opposite views on the state of Bashah
predicament. The first view is the view of the Prime
Minister and the supporters of Najib, who say that
Bashah's mental and health conditions won't affect
the running of the state government. It is not the
boss who runs things in any organization. The
machine is run by all other parts and components.
Without a manager, the firm can continue to have
it's output.
The
opposing view may or may not be the view of the
opposition party members. Putting a sick person
could embarrass an institution. A head or a leader
should be of a man of good physical and mental
health. He must be healthy enough to attend meetings
and functions. It would be a chaos if a firm is run
by a maniac, a gangster or a very ill person.
What
is best for Bashah is to take a rest. If he still
wish to serve the rakyat there are thousand and one
ways he could do it, still with paid job, opening an
office at his home from 1 - 5 pm for the public. The
rest of the time he can intermittently takes a
siesta. Once a week he could form a congregation at
his home for Yassin session, inviting UMNO, PAS or
any other interested Muslims.
Then
Bashah will feel the real happiness and fulfillment,
taking a step each day in the path of Godliness.
27/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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CHANGING HABITS AND BEHAVIOR
Traditional Malays believe when a person
behave differently from the normal behavior,
it is a sign that his days are numbered. It
just happened to me.
About 30 years ago I bought gadget something
that I can use as home movie amplifier.
There are 2 main speakers and three
subsidiary small ones. It has three
compartments for CD/VCDs, two for cassette
and a tuner unit. I gave up using the
equipment after only a few months because of
heavy and strong sounds, more suitable for
an isolated house, far in the midst of a
farm or high on a hill. It was left unused.
And I never spent my time listening to
music, nor watching TV.
About a week ago I stared at the equipment,
leaning against the wall, on the left side
on my digital TV. I asked myself of whether
it can still work. Moments later I connected
speaker wires to the main unit, plug it to
the electricity, and switched it on. There
was nothing heard. The next day I took it to
a radio repair shop trying to ask the
mechanic to modify the internal connection
so that I can connect it to my digital TV.
The man had a look at it. There were cobwebs
and dusts. He said the IC will cease to work
if I had not used it for a long time. He
asked me to take the gadget to some other
younger repairman. That man was about my
age.
I promised myself to open it up and do what
I can despite my poor sight and shaky hands.
I took it home and decide to test it using
the input from my MacBook. I have a stereo
jack plug and the RCA plug.
To my amazement the speakers road a
beautiful melody of Besame Mucho. I
transferred the cable to the earphone jack
of my TV. There was no major operation. I
don't know how the sound came back.
I gathered a few oldies and evergreen songs
like Besame Mucho sung by different singers,
Ue Sama, Bunga Tanjung, Widuri, My Home Town
and a few others and enjoying the rhythm and
the melody on my soft and comfortable sofa,
forgetting politics and other worries.
How could I get bored with all the
entertainment stuffs with me. Imagine you
are watching a 3D movie about 3/4 feet away
and the surround speakers around. I remember
a movie, Soilent Green, about the pleasure
given to people before they died. They
sacrificed their lives by turning themselves
into foodstuffs to be consumed by the
livings. I changed my habit probably as a
sign of my going to die.
26/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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WHAT HAPPENS TO THE RESTRUCTURING PLAN ON 1MDB BY
NAJIB ?
Najib
sacked Mahyuddin and Shafiee Afdal for questioning
the heavily debt ridden 1Mdb and called the rest of
the UMNO members to stand by him on 1Mdb. He told
them he would put it in order again by his
re-structuring plan. The sixth months, promised by
him has passed, and yet we don't know what the plan
was. What is left is the GST fund which he is
looking at very closely to fix the chaos.
1Mdb
and Najib's close friends are cracking up as
observed by the international observers. It looks
like Najib has to rescue his mates who had been
striving to save him from the deteriorating
financial strain. I predict Najib will replace the
governor of National Bank with a person who would
hide all the secrets of his operations from his UMNO
supporters.
Najib
has to commit a colossal resources trying to erase
his bad image overseas using Jho Low and other Arab
friends. He could not depend on Saudi Arabia to save
him anymore as the Kingdom itself has declared that
she herself needs to go for a loan. If Abu Dhabi has
lost confident on Khadem and Najib's other friends, all other countries will not dare to deal
with him anymore. It has never be a pertinent
practice of state's leaders to put billions of dollars into
their personal account.
I
strongly believe that only China is willing to come
forward to save Najib. Of course nothing is for
free. It is about China's security, and the battle
of supremacy of the South China Sea. Already it was
reported the number of illegal Chinese vessels in
Malaysian waters.
China
is better than the Arabs in running a businesses.
The
United States has the Philippines as the main ally to check the
Chinese maritime expansion. They are more interested in
taking our money than giving away, what more to talk
about donation. Who on earth would donate billions
of dollars, even with the gift of a beautiful woman.
Arab women are prettier than the Malaysia Malays.
It is
yet to be confirmed the veracity of the story that
the Kindom of Saudi Arabia did invite Mahathir
to visit the country after Najib's visit to narrate
the story of what had really transpired. It is most
likely that the King would tell the same story to
the other envoys.
What
choice has Najib to cover the big 1mdb's debt ? MCA
will woo Najib of getting China's help. The deal
has to be a secret and be put under OSA, happily
overjoyed by the MCA. The UMNO Ministers will
continue to believe in Najib's divinity until they
finally realize they have been coned of all
things and are too late to do anything.
The
issue of 1Mdb just cannot vanish in the thin air.
Only Pandi and Azlina claimed they were over. Najib is asking the Malays to sink with him.
25/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE SINNERS
AND THE SINS
When we go against the teachings of God we will
carry the sins to the next world where our abode
will be decided in hell. It is very rare for a
sinner to be able to see the sin he has created and
live with the sin until the end of his days.
God
has let the Malaysians to witness a live acts of the
sinner and the sin he created. It was all the
destined path our eyes could witnessed. It was the
story of Mahathir, his administration, power, his
attitudes towards religion and religious people, his
privatization program, his land reform, his
manipulation of judiciary, his police state and his
jailing of Anwar Ibrahim.
He
was hated by the Chinese and the Malays. We prayed
for his quick death. Many called him the Pharaoh of
Egypt. When several persons who cause mayhem to
Anwar Ibrahim died one after another we waited for
his turn. God prolongs his life. And we made
prediction of his future, that God will make him
suffer in this world, to see the result of his
doings.
He picked Abdullah
Badawi to replace him. To me it was the right choice
because Abdullah was a pious person who I believed
would not be a corrupt leader and would be
responsible for the welfare of the people and the
country. Abdullah did not meet with his demand for
several reasons. The good Prime Minister was
attacked as usual by the dirty work of UMNO. They
tarnished the good name of the new Prime Minister,
attacked and criticized him. With God's grace
Abdullah's wife was sick and the Prime Minister
chose to attend to his wife and the walked out was
an easy one.
It
was all in the divine design, that Mahathir chose
Najib Razak to replace Abdullah Badawi. The aura and
the air of the sins of Mahathir converged into one
to reside in Najib. It was just just a fantasy story
of demons and dragons, the age of the sorcerers. The
spirit of real Najib is hidden and stored in the
unknown place, leaving a ball of sin in human form.
It was the divine creation of Mahathir to revitalize
the deeds of Mahathir in greater and devastating
magnitude.
A
dome of bad luck and evil spirit is clouding
Malaya. MH370, MH17, the murder of a Mongolian lady
and other murderers, natural calamities and more
will be blotted out with strong pressure. Mahathir
is being attacked and insulted. Najib's camp is
deploying gangsters to put fear on him. Najib's
ministers belittled the former Prime Minister saying
that Mahathir is nobody now, a man responsible for
the economic turmoil and the falling of the money
value.
The ball of sins
out-weight what Mahathir did. Najib put away the man
who prepared the charge sheet and chose his own to
pronounce his innocence of all the criminal
activities, threatening and warned all others not to
challenge him or faced grim consequences. Officers
and judges developed self-fearing consequence of
death in cemented drum. There is a sinister thought
that they can even buy God with money. National debt
mounted and weakening the currencies, pushing prices
up. Baby's milk shot up sky-high. Public funds were
scorched off. The country seems to be run by huge
and powerful monster,
Several Chinese and
the Malays said that it is the ball of sins created
by Mahathir.
The black cloud is
getting thicker by day though Najib's entourage, Jho
Low, is trying to show his benevolence by raising
funds for the poor helping the United Nations.
Foreign media has named Najib as one of the top
corrupt individuals in the world. Mahathir is
dragging him to court. Whatever propaganda effort
published in the national media were met with
aggressive response. And the police went a step
further, saying the Islamic State in targeting Najib
and the Defense Minister. Foreign investors are
moving out and people are losing their jobs. The MCA
and Gerakan find that it is the opportune time to
demand favors from Najib who seemed to be very
desperate. The Malays are persistently conned and
lied upon.
The tired old Malayan
citizens just shrugged and murmured ," Now the
sinner sees his sins."
What would become of
Mahathir and Najib ?
Before GE13 I posted out my prediction that Malaya
under UMNO will have a grief future. True indeed.
The Malays in Putrajaya are living in
air-conditioning rooms, a small cocoon viewed as
their world. They traveled worldwide but not in
their own country when they should have done so
every inch of the land, to see and judge for
themselves what realities are.
What are we to
prophesize anymore but leaving to God to punish
those who have been cruel to the people even before
they die. Mahathir has had it. Rosmah ? Can anyone
escape ? Can God be corrupted by their big piles of
dollars ? We will have to wait and see.
23/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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This morning while having a brunch, 9M2NZ
Rashid Ghani, called me conveying a sad news
of the demise of my good CW sparring partner
from Medan Indonesia. The last time I logged
him was on the 7th of March 2011. According
to Rashid he passed away from stroke.
I had only 157 contacts with him, 96 SSB and
61 on Morse codes. Each Morse session would
be more than one hour. Most of the time I
was using the manual key and he was using an
electronic key. I had an electronic paddle
but I made too many mistakes with it. Don
never slower down his speed. On SSB we
conversed in English. His command of English
was excellent.
Don was using 718 and a rotary dipole. His
signal was always strong under any
condition.
Then I did not hear him for a long time like
many other YB6 and YC6. One day while I was
calling CQ he came back to my call but his
friend's house. I am fuzzy from whose
station, probably Pak Supomo. He told me
that his antenna had some problem and when
he was climbing up to fix it his
neighbor scolded him, accused him of trying
to commit theft.
He felt extremely hurt. From then on he went
missing from the air.
Thanks to Rashid for keeping me informed. I
can only send my condolences to his family
true any ham from Medan who reads this
message.
The other missing CW partner of mine is 9M2YP,
Yee. I had 91 records of our communications,
80 of which were on CW. Likewise each
session was over 1 hour.
SSB - 10 : CW - 81 : FM - 0
9M2YP 12/04/08 11:08 CW 7900
9M2YP 16/03/08 01:37 SSB 7805
9M2YP 09/01/08 0326 SSB 7643
9M2YP 09/01/08 0307 CW 7642
9M2YP 06/01/08 0247 CW 7627
9M2YP 02/12/07 0153 CW 7456
9M2YP 01/12/07 0114 CW 7449
9M2YP 25/01/08 0835 CW 7323
9M2YP 19/01/08 0201 CW 7297
9M2YP 18/01/08 0106 CW 7289
The last contact was on 12/04/2008. Probably
Yee had had a little domestic problem and
decided to give up ham radio like many other
senior hams.
One day I too will go silent key as some of
my beloved senior amateurs.
23/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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THANKS GOD FOR THE MONEY
After all it was not a free service. We
agreed that the school must pay me for the
RFID card but I never said anything about
the service though I spent several nights
trying to fix the problem. Yesterday I was
called to pick up some money for the job
done. I was paid more than 1K, the amount I
never expected. That was enough to pay for
my iPhone4 repair work. Now my broken iPhone
becomes as good as new. I paid RM300.00 for
the phone fixing, remaining RM700.
The last time when I had an accidence my
student gave me RM700 and I repaired my car
for RM350.
I have faith in God's providence. The money
comes from God through another persons. For
a pensioner like me the amount received was
a huge one. It is much more than the cat
food and the alms given. That's how the poor
survive, feeling gratitude for the
providence and spent for the bare
necessities and leading the most simple
life. One the other side of the field
millions and billions are not enough, the
robbing and stealing continues for the
pursuit of fulfillment that never come.
I live in abundance. When opportunity comes
I share a small portion of with the other
less fortunate people. Spending a few
dollars by buying food for them won't make a
giver poor and destitute. I am not a rich
man. I have more than what I would have
wished for, more than the old goreng
pisang hawker who is earning a hard
cash for the daily bread and children
education, and who did not even know or go
for the BR1M. When I paid RM2 for the fifty
cent fried banana the old guy would pray in
her heart for my well being. So is the cat
that waits for me for the food.
The school wants me to do two more cards for
the two names not given to me. I have just
enter the data into the cards. And on
thinking back how could I do all these
stuffs when I was just a dumb and stupid
individual, I surmised the truth of God and
religion. It has been destined in me. It is
my destiny, the life of a small ordinary
man.
Afterwards I will stop by at the school to
pass another 2 pieces of RFID cards. In the
meantime the two teachers are using their
fingers to record their attendance.
22/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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KIDS AND
SPOUSE PROBLEMS
There were
news on the Facebook about mothers and
fathers leaving the house and never to
return. Could they be because of the loss in
memory, murdered or kidnapped ? The family
members would know better whether their old
folks suffered from memory lost or the
probability of being kidnapped or murdered.
What they may not be telling us was the
possibility of sulking, a trivial quarrel
that may have hurt the parents.
I have had
talked to sulking individuals before who did
not want to tell detailed stories of the bad
experience. They either ran away from their
wives or children who had caused them so
much problems. There were no peace of minds
being home. And many did not go back till
their last days.
An adult
kids can hurt a mother or a father by
throwing hard words, shouting at them and
even call them name. The mother never fight
back though tears may wet their cheeks. She
would start thinking of leaving the house
and plan where to go. After a few other
insults they would finally make a decision
to leave.
No elderly
person can stand the continuing mental
torture either from his wife or children. As
I have observed the mother and the kids did
join force against the father, using various
excuses and reasons. A Muslim man does not
choose to commit suicide when facing
frustration. He would choose an alternative
way.
In my
case, as an elderly person, I would do the
same if my kids hurt me. Now that my wife is
dead and I am living alone, I would sell my
house away and go to a new world where my
kids will not find me anymore. I will open a
new life at my new place and die there.
After all I only have a few more years to
live.
21/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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DEALING WITH
PIRATES ?
There is
nothing to be alarmed at the growing number of
pirates. It proves that people who have desire to
operate radio equipments can do so without having to
undergo a special test or examination. With a single
tube a person can break into the airwave. It is
easier to purchase a rig than to build a
transceiver.
The CB radio
operators organized themselves worldwide like the
ham operators. They have the SOP, their own codes,
QSL cards and annual international meeting. As long
they operate within their boundary they are not
breaking any rule. There were complaints when
stations without any call sign or call sign of their
own came on the amateur frequencies. They spoke like
ham operators and bade good bye with 73.
Then again let
us ask ourselves what the RAEs are for ? These guys
do not want to be a technician or going to explode
everybody's electronic equipments. All they want is
to chat. And they could do so without having have to
pass any radio examination. Generally they would
acquire knowledge through discussion and eyeballing
session among themselves.
The government
of the world need not worry about intrusions and
disturbances to military, police and other services
because of the sophisticated mode and the digital
system. Those services could maintain their secrecy
by moving away from the current AM, SSB, FM and
digital modes and to opt for the more superior
class of communication procedures.
Once the fixed
has been made to the other services there is no need
for the wider band control. In countries where RAE
is not for the employable qualifications the
examination should be disbanded and erased. There is
no need for a war against the pirates.
All radio
hobbyist will be organized into ONE entity. There
will be great benefit for the people and the nation.
20/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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POINT BREAK
It has been
quite some time that I have not been talking about
movies. The last time I went to a cinema was while I
was in the United States in the '80s. With the
advent of computer technology I either watch it on
my laptop or download it to watch on my TV. It is a
time killer, killing my boredom and as a form of
entertainment.
I just finished
watching one, entitled Point Break. I broke the
movies into three parts for morning, afternoon and
evening viewing. It was breath-taking show that
depicted dangerous feats that only thrill seekers
would gamble for their lives. I would not know
whether the movie was shot alive or using video
technology. All actions looked so real. The 3D
effect enthralled me very much, as if I was there at
the scene looking at the happenings in real life. If
was a fantastic movie to enjoy.
The story may
be a fiction but in the real world there are thrill
seekers who did the dare devil acts from the
dangerous peaks, in the wild ocean, deep jungles and
sky-diving. We would tend to ask ourselves why
should they do the stupid thing and risk their lives
if there were not for money. Point Break showed a
scene of these adventurers heisted money on the
transport plane, dived down to chase the money and
cut the rope for the notes to drop to the poor
people.
Top thrill
seekers only go for the most challenged feat. There
are still teams that climb the Everest at the
moment, climb the most steep cliff and put on a camp
to sleep in the tent.
I always relate
the characters of the foreigners with our fellow
Malaysians. May be we have minds as strong as the
Americans or the Europeans but the people whom I
have encountered with do not have guts to push more
than what they have. They are scared of failing and
do not dare to face hardships and challenges.
The movie made
me feel very small and inferior. We yell for freedom
yet we continue to depend on others. We want money
and gold without wanting to work for them. In other
words we do want to strive for the betterment, but
begging from others for our survival and wealthy
living.
You can read
the summary of Point Break from the internet. But
nothing is like watching the movie itself. You can
buy the movie in the video shop. The movie will
surely be worth more than you pay them.
Another
interesting and amazing movie is Everest. It is a
two hour show which you can see on the Youtube. It
was a real story featuring the journey to the peak
of the mountain and on the way down several people
were killed by the cruel blizzard.
Most of us
would be asking ourselves why looking for trouble and problem when we
can live safely in our houses and enjoy the family
life. The leader of the thief group said that 'It is
my path..'. Danger seeking was part of his life and
it was his fate.
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CERITA
SYIAH
Syiah bukanlah perkara baru. Tetapi
akhir-akhir ini menjadi satu polimik besar
di negara ini dan negara-negara Islam
lainnya. Adakah anda sedar mengapa terjadi
sedemikian ?
Seorang ulama Islam dari Arab Saudi
mengatakan di dalam khutbahnya, "Cukuplah...cukuplah
jangan memerangi sesama Islam. Tidakkah
cukup lagi dengan kalimah syuhadah Tiada
Tuhan yang lain melainkan Allah dan Muhammad
itu Pesuruh Allah ?" Beliau tidak
menghuraikan denganlebih panjang mengapa
akhir-akhir ini permusuhan menjadi begitu
ketara.
Saya rasa ini adalah tugas yang saya mesti
jalankan dan yang lainnya terserah kepada
Allah dan anda sebagai pembaca untuk
menyibarkannya.
Buat masa ini negara Islam yang terkuat
sekali ialah Iran.
Teknologi Iran boleh
mengancam kuasa Barat terutamanya negara
Israel. Natenyahu sudah beberapa kali
mendesak Amerika Syarikat supaya menyerang
Iran bagi menentukan Iran tidak menghasilkan
bom atom yang boleh memusnahkan Israel.
Natenyahu memberi amaran bahawa jika Amerika
enggan berbuat demikian, Israel akan
bertindak bersendirian.
Israel menunjukkan keangkuhan terhadap
Presiden Obama dan membelakanginya dalam
beberapa hal. Kerana terasa sangat akan
penghinaan Natenyahu Amerika memberitahu
bahawa jika Iran menyerang Iran, Amerika
tidak akan memberi sebarang bantuan
terutamanya jika Israel mengalami kekalahan.
Israel perlu ikut caranya sendiri untuk
melemahkan Iran. Kaedah Amerika ialah 'biarlah
Islam berperang sesama mereka dan membunuh
antara satu sama lain.."
Israel mempunyai unit propaganda sendiri.
Yahudi di seluruh dunia mula bergerak dan
membuat beberapa video yang boleh membuat
kumpulan-kumpulan Sunnah bercakar dengan
kumpulan Syiah. Mosad dan CIA bekerjasama
untuk mempengaruhi rakan sekutunya bagi
menyemarakkan permusuhan ini.
Israel berjaya di Malaysia. Orang-orang
Melayu Islam bukan sahaja bermusuh dengan
kumpulan Syiah bahkan juga bermusuh dengan
kumpulan IS. Pintu sudah tertutup bagi
Malaysia untuk menghantar pelajar ke Iran
bagi mempelajari bidang teknologi yang hebat
dari negara tersebut.
Pemimpin Malaysia memang suka jika rakyat
Malaysia tidak mahir di dalam ilmu
ketenteraan. Rakyat Malaysia dilarang
mendampingi kumpulan IS dan Hezbollah yang
boleh mengancam kedudukan mereka. Najib
takut beliau dijatuhkan secara ketenteraan.
Bagi Amerika dan Israel mereka tidak mahu
Malaysia dan negara Islam lainnya
memperolehi teknologi Iran yang akan
mengamcam keselamatan negara Israel.
Bukan itu sahaja MCA sedang mempengaruhi
orang-orang Cina supaya menentang usaha
Malaysia di dalam membangunkan teknologi
sendiri kerana ianya terlalu mahal dan
Malaysia tidak akan mampu bersaing dengan
China, Korea atau Jepun. Malaysia didesak
supaya membeli dari membangun teknologi
sendiri.
Arab Saudi sudah tentu menyebelahi Amerika
dan Israel. Negara-negara Sunnah yang
lainnya turut memusi kumpulan-kumpulan Syiah.
Pada masa yang sama Amerika membantu
kumpulan Syiah di dalam memerangi kumpulan
Sunnah seperti di Iraq.
Walau apapun Malaysia tetap menjadi Pak
Turut Amerika Syarikat. Penasihat Najib pada
masa ini adalah bekas kumpulan APCO Israel
yang menjadi penasihat Perdana Menteri
sebelum ini. Secara sendirinya Malaysia
mesti menyebelahi USA dan memusuhi Iran yang
dikatakan kumpulan Syiah. Rata-rata khutbah
Jumaat meniupkan api kebencian terhadap
Syiah dan Iran.
Seorang rakan saya pernah berkata, "Syiah
adalah lebih teruk dari seorang kafir."
Begitulah emosi kebencian yang ditunjuknya.
Maka secara tidak sedar kita menjadi lebih
gigih dari Natenyahu di dalam memerangi
negara Islam Iran.
19/03/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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HOW I ASSESS
SOME PEOPLE
I am not a
chess player. I played the game when I was
in form 4 and form 5, more than 50 years
ago. My daily partner was either Meng Khoon
or Meng Soon whom they won more games than
me, and both ended up as doctors. However I
accepted a challenged once in a blue moon.
A person
does not have to beat me to be called smart
by me. He may be beaten by a sheer little
mistake. But it was enough to cause me a
head ache. I sensed his cunningness and
crafty movement, the way his mind work.
It has
been several times that I underestimated a
person by his look and his quietness but
only to be surprise when they beat me in the
game. From then on I told myself not to
under rate people by their look.
It was
just my way of assessing the IQ of a person.
You may not agree with my way of doing
things.
Secondly I
would respect and salute at people who has
persistency in striving hard to achieve
something and never succumb to failing.
Among amateur radio friends I am very aware
of people of such a character, trying hard to learn and master Morse codes.
Some could do it with one go and some after
several tries. It takes special people to decode the signals using
their ears. Those who can't are scared
of their own ineptness. How I would I
respect people with full of excuses and
indolence.
What get
on my nerve is when the stupid people brag
and proudly parading themselves as the most
intelligent people on earth. I just love to
pound these people with questions on the
tune circuit and the applications of L-C
computation and designs. I would then
outcast them in my mind, just keeping it to
myself. It is never wise to confront and
fight against the lesser people, and stoop
ourselves too low exchanging with the
braggadocios and swaggerers. I am sorry for
my harsh words. I had had an experience with
this kind of human specie before.
More often
than not I would know a person by the way he
speaks and what he says about other people.
Ten out of ten who talked bad about others
were bad themselves. A ham operator warned
me not to trust another ham with money
cheated me many years later, lying to me
that a cleric wanted to borrow RM500, and
never to return the amount I handed to him.
Another ham who talked bad about another ham
continuously demanding his victim to do him
a lot of favors.
We won't
really know a person on a street; his job,
his education and profession, his past
history, family and background. I would not
invite him to my house or call him for a
dinner on the first meet. The intercourse
has to be very superficial. As the chat ends
I will just bade him good bye.
As for the
bad acquaintances I would put a boundary of
friendship to ensure I will not succumb to
his demand, not to loan him money, not to
trust him with any other things.
Selfishness and hypocrisy bind together for
personal gain, pushing and killing capable
people. These are the trait of the less
educated and rogue individuals. Because they
are weak in brain and knowledge, they would
adhere themselves to whatever power they can
hang to. The politicians would hold to
the police. The normal laymen call for the
support of the politicians.
Filthy
people dressed in a gentlemen's cloth are
still dirty, and stinking filthy. I can
never be impressed by their deliverance,
dress, speeches, promises and the show of
care and friendships. They are not worth a
cent to be respected.
Our dream
of having perfect friends are not easily
achievable. When we form a society of
friendship we need to strictly screen the
members to be, to accept people with
excellent demeanor and mental acuteness,
caliber plus knowledge, and to cast out any
lazy and greedy member. We failed to have
the highest order of civility. I am sorry
for my opinion.
19/03/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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VICTUALS
Do we
have victuals anymore when we go distant
traveling ?
What we
used to take 8 hours before is now only 30
minutes to arrive the destination. I
remember taking a boat to Air Itam, starting
in the morning and arriving at about 6 pm
before the sun set. And to Gurun by train
was a few hours. Mothers would make a quite
elaborate preparations what to cook for
victuals. The main choice were the starchy
food like ketupat because it
was believe to remain for a long period in
our stomach. Rice, curry and fish were very
common.
In a later
period money replaced victuals as busses and
trains stopped at several stations. We
didn't have to go down for the food. Vendors
would come by the bus and on the train. And
today food is sold on the moving train.
Busses stopped for lunch and prayer. Food is
sold everywhere.
So far
when I go for a trip I do not bring with me
any snack or food to eat on the plane. I
don't remember how many time the Malaysian
Airline served food on the plane in the good
old days. A few minutes after the plane
took off meal was served in a big lunch box.
We never felt hungry on the flight. Today
you can go hungry on the plane though a few
airlines would start serving even before the
take off.
I noticed
a few passengers brought food with them to
be consumed on the plane. On one of the
trips to USA by China Air food was not serve
after more than one half hours. My next
neighbor, a young lady from China, took out
several apples and distributed to her other
person beside her and me. That was a relief
for me.
During a
New Zealand trip there was a long wait for
the next local flight. I found that the
members of our tour group were enjoying the
maggi mee. I was scared to bring foodstuff
to that country and a few other Western
countries. I was starving but it did not
kill me.
Victuals
are still important even in the modern days.
Money may not buy any because they aren't
there. I wouldn't have time to cook but
there are plenty in the markets and
restaurants, of all sorts, from fruits to
Chipmores. This time I plan to bring the
Durian Cheese cake along. A slice of such
cake is RM8. The taste is delicious. I will
share it with a few team mates during the
transit at Dubai. Unfortunately we can't
bring along any liquid to quench our thirst.
Campers
and jungle trackers do carry enough
supplies, and cooking utensils. And they
would also bring the fishing rod to get the
supply of protein. We don't have to remind
them of the necessities as it is the part
and parcel of the adventure components.
Life has
changed so much and so fast. Traditions have
been replaced by global culture. Old
practices were cast and buried. Kid know
Kentucky and Mac Donald more that
Kueh Lapis and Lepat Pisang.
And more so they never know that with five
cents plenty could be bought. There was a
quarter and a half cent then.
The world
really shrinks and we are moving at a faster
phase. It takes only an hour to go to Kuala
Lumpur from Alor Setar, and between 18 - 24
hours to New York from Kuala Lumpur, except
in the heart of a city where traffics are
crawling and calling for patience.
Yet, it is
funny, a Muslim friend of mine with plenty
of money, had to walk for miles searching
for Halal food in Spain. He told me to
prepare for victuals on my April visit to
the country.
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MANUAL CW
There is a campaign going on to discourage machine
CW. I never knew about it, for I thought the real
ham radio was dead since the passing of Morse codes
examinations was not made a mandatory in several
countries. Adding to this the amateur band
characteristics underwent a massive change from the
old one. It is hard to recognized whether it is a
CB, a ham or a pirate. In Malaysia they seem to be
the same.
Monitoring the European stations there are numerous
stations that work on Morse at speeds below 25 wpm.
I knew for sure what sort of keys they were using
from the spacing and the length of the dit and the
dah. I was elated to find thousands are still active
and seem to enjoy themselves in this mode.
In
this region CW is rare. 7.000 -7.029 the band
allocated for this mode has been filled up by phone
stations. They could either be from Indonesia or
Malaysia recognized from their lingo. Once in a
while I could hear Japanese stations, Indonesians
and the Thais. Lately I heard a Malaysian on high
speed Morse. I tried to contact the station, and I
did not get back the response to my asking him his
name and QTH though I repeated it. That made me
wondered as to whether he was using a decoder. And
never once I heard him as the old style of QSO. The
Indonesians, most of them, would still follow the
old style when contacting a new station; giving
name, QTH, rig, power, antenna, temperature and
ended up the QSO with GL, GN, 73 and
dit-dit-dit-dah-dit-dah.
A straight key
style of telegraph key – model J38,
a key used by U.S. military during World
War II, and frequently re-used by radio
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There is no point trying to convince people the
importance of manual CW, to decode using ears. They
will shoot you and yell back till you drop down. As
the old hams shying away so are the CW chatters.
I
will be looking for more information on the QTT
group which are still small in numbers.
In
Malaysia civility is still at a lower level. When
you work on CW there will be intruders pounding
their keys to disturb you. We would guess that these
are from the low educated hams who can't learn
Morse. In fact I have concluded that the authority
is siding these kind of people, so much so that the
number of pirates have increased by leaps and
bounds, and soon will exceed the number of hams.
In
the old days there were no machine and decoders to
assist a ham or to do a complete work for a ham.
Contests were run on manual keyer. I participated
not to win but to give points to the others. I did
not go till the wee hours. But Eshee, 9M2FK, would
punch his key till 2 or 3 am. Somehow he won a few
awards. Nevertheless I get thousands of QSL cards
for the points I gave them.
I
won't accept even a free CW decoders or any software
to run Morse for me. I wrote a CW trainer to train
myself listening and decoding by ears.
I
don't know when I will start going DXing again on CW.
Perhaps soon enough.
16/03/2016 - Abdul Rahman
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THE CLOSING
OF THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER
I don't know the reasons why TMI was
closed. I don't want to know about it though
I could have guessed several possible
reasons. I don't read much of the
alternative media and blogs. I don't even
read a page of The Edge that was banned. All
I read were TMI, Sarawak Report and Lim Kit
Siang blog. I stopped reading Harakah since
I heard of Hadi's polemic that spell the
downfall of PAS in Kedah.
What attracted me most in The Malaysian
Insider was not the article but the comments
and remarks by the Readers. I would say they
were the most substantive, solid and strong,
both in comments and rebuttals. From the
command of English and the detailed stuffs
presented in the arguments, I would say they
were not from the ordinary people like most
of us (including me). The elites of the government
cyber troopers were no match for them.
There could be three reasons why the
government was not happy with the media; the
strong and fierce attacks by the readers,
the persistent articles on religion and
Christianity pressuring the government to be
liberal, the government could not fight back
using mental acuteness.
Compared to the comments and remarks in the
Facebook at leat 50% were mere followers,
showing the lack of intellectuality and
tend to forget the core issue. It is much
easier for the government to influence
readers through Facebook.
Lim Kit Siang did not draw Malay readers for
two reasons. The first is the Malays are not
well verse in English and secondly the
Malays view Lim Kit Siang as a threat to them.
The Sarawak Report is disliked by the
government because of the dangerous exposure
on Najib. What were once denied by Najib
including the money that went into his
account were finally admitted by the Prime
Minister. A lot of money has been poured to
discredit the whole SR team.
I would not think the professionals and the
educated people would resort to Facebook to
continue the verbal war with Najib.
Najib should know that TMI is not read by
all. Yet the normal apek and
the mee goreng seller
could narrate what happen to the tax payers'
money. Many said that the misfortune
of Najib is caused by Rosmah. These are not
the English educated masses. They still read
Utusan Melayu.
Closing TMI means taking away part of my
mental exercise as I would miss much of the
strong arguments and rebuttals, and followed by
facts unknown to me, especially in matters
of law and other obscured happenings.
My stand on Najib is 'He Must Rest', not
because I love Mahathir or DAP. A Prime
Minister cannot be a man who tell lies and
failed in his economic policy. It would be
bad for the people and the country.
GST brought misery to the poor and the
kampong folks and I don't think the tax
money is prudently used to save the ordinary
citizen from hardships. I am not wrong to
say Mr Najib cares less on the agony of the rakyat.
16/03/2016 - Abdul Rahman
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WHICH IS THE
TRUTH ?
We need to hear all before determining the truth,
both from the government, opposition and
individuals. It is unwise to suppress the truth
under the name of keeping peace and maintaining
stability. We are making no better for the country
for we will be an accomplice in the raping of our
nation.
Images began to appear the nature of our leaders
with evil faces of murderers and hardcore Mafias.
They themselves are parading their despotic
trait. The breeding of hatred through lies and
deceptions are building potential militant movements
as what has been happening in the Middle Eastern
countries.
We
should have not at all laid the platform for any
potential heinous uprising. Opposition parties are
oppositions, part and parcel of the democratic
government, and do not post any danger on security
issue. The threat may come from the vengeful dissidents. The
politicians must learn from history on the rise and
fall of a nation.
In the case of
Altantuya, the government has explained that Najib
or Rosmah had nothing to do with the murder. There
had been court proceedings and the murderer had been
established. The court is the authority. Yet there
are members of the public who questioned the C4 bomb
and why Najib's bodyguards were involved. Bala
claimed that Najib knew Altantuya, and later Bala
was said to have a heart attack.
There has to be only
ONE truth in this chaotic happenings. Which one is telling the
truth ?
Explanations sometimes
do not make sense. People would make immediate
conclusion on the state of it's veracity. "The sea
water get red because of the spiting of the beetle
nut", "The SRC did not know X%FDSGGGz was Najib's
account and mistakenly banked in the 42 million into
that account...", "Low currency value is caused by
Mahathir..." etc. Instead of cooling the people
down, the words were adding fuel to the fire.
We have to remember
that we are not alone. Other nations are within our
border and are observing our behaviors and the words
sputtered. They would form concepts and reported
their perceptions back home. Though they do not not
show their contempt towards our leaders, they would
record down what they see and hear in their
documents.
No matter what, the
truth will prevail.
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TO ME THEY ARE
EXTRAORDINARY
1. I decided to
have late dinner last night, potato wedges at KFC. I
frequent the Jalan Stadium KFC not for the chicken
but only for the potato. At approximately 9.30 pm I
moved out of my house. On arriving the destination,
I parked my car and walked in towards the counter.
There were many people queuing up. I was surprise
that before calling for an order I was called to an
empty counter to take my order. The girls were
laughing. One of them said, "We get everything ready
as soon as we saw you out of the car." I did not
know what the other customers might have thought. I
paid RM7.20 and enjoyed my dinner. It was just extra
ordinary.
2. I sent a SMS
to my radio friend asking him to come on 144.100 for
a chat. He replied saying his 2 meter was having
some problem.
We used Whatsup. "I can't lock my
coax to my 2 meter," he said. "How was your DXing ?
" I asked.
"No Dxing. My
HF coaxial cable broke. I can't solder it back because
of my poor sight."
After the
Friday prayer I went to his house. He told me he
could not find the solder. He could not remember
where he put it.
"Where is your
2 meter ?" I asked. While he was having his meal I
got hold of the
coax cable and pushed the center core into the rig
till the end and started to rotate the coax plug
clockwise until it was fit. He asked me how I did
it.
The solder was
not found. What was found the coaxial plug for the HF
rig. That surprised me," You use the smallest coax
for your HF ? " He explained that the bigger
diameter co-axial cable was for VHF. I told him that
I am no expert in coaxial stuff. "I don't know the
code RG names," I said. "When I started ham radio I
was told about the 50/75 ohm cable. The bigger the
diameter and the center core the better. Thicker
screen copper is better for screening. Smaller wires
provides greater resistance. Your 2 meter needs only
5 or 2 watts. Your HF needs more than 50 watts for
your DX work."
I could not
imagine the strain on the small cable when he uses 1
kilo watt of power. I told him to get everything
ready before I could go and fix his HF coax cable.
"My eyes are as bad as yours," I told him.
3. Worst of all
are the politicians. It is not that I am happy to
write about them. But they have been making
extra-extraordinary statements that my mind cannot
comprehend. They are not at all ashamed of their
actions and doings. i am not going to say more as
each of them will shortened my life by 10 months. I
can only pray to God to change the political leaders
to human being.
4. You might
not believe in Feng Sui. The traditional Malays
would choose the auspicious day for a certain event,
even for the cropping hairs and cutting finger
nails. Friday should be the best day. And on
erecting a house they have to look for the sun rise
and sun set to determine the layout of the house.
The Chinese
went farther, extending the good luck even to
numbers. Number 8 is the lucky number and number 4
is a bad number. They are willing to bid the car
plate number as far as it can go.
I didn't care
about the mystery of good luck and bad luck.
Whenever I bought a car I wouldn't care whatever
number the Road Transport Department wanted to give
me. Only recently I realize all my car numbers added
up to give me the sum of we called 'cheme'. My old
car 7671 added up to get 21. My current Viva is
5141, added up to be 11. My Kancil is 9165. It is a
phenomena that I did not realize, why I get the
extra-ordinary unlucky number 'CHEME'. Except in Las
Vegas where 21 is a winning number.
One mechanic
advised me to get the total 5 ie 15 or 25.
The next time
you look at the cars having accidences try to
observe the plate number, sum them up whether they
come up with 14,24 or 34 or cars with numbers
44,444, or 4444.
Whatever I
don't believe in shaman or ghost, in magical power
or the voodoo practice.
12/03/2016 - Abdul Rahman
Raof
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BLESS THE OLD
MAN
I wonder whether this old man whom I met at
a marriage festival is still alive. It was a
long time ago when I was much younger. He
could have been about 80 at that time. Like
usual after eating we were talking on all
range of matters and after some time this
old man asked us.
"Do you know who will go to hell when they
die ? "
How could we answered. There were millions
of people in the globe and millions too in
our country. Nobody opened his mouth. I was
puzzled by the question.
"There are two types," the old man said."
The Jews and the Malays."
I was stunned by his remarks. To our believe
as a Muslim the Jews going to hell was
nothing strange. But to say the Malay race
too would be in hell was something that we
could not understand.
"The
Jews killed the innocent people and God
mentioned them in the Koran. The Malays will
go to hell for voting for UMNO. UMNO had
kicked and deceived them. They cursed the
party and the leaders. But when come for
voting they continued to vote the party,
time and again, after receiving the same
treatment days in and days out..."
So he spurted out his anger. This was the
period of Mahathir whom we saw as an
autocratic UMNO leader then. I did not know
what to respond. The rest were just
laughing. It could not be real.
But on thinking over, that is what the
Malays are today. They showed happiness at
the higher cost of living and deteriorating
economy and the burden of GST. They raised
Najib to the level of a god. They condoned
the lies and helped to create answers for
the money said to be stolen.
Bless the old man. If he has passed away his
soul lives to see more than what he had
expected during Mahathir's era.
12/03/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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THE JOY AS WELL
AS DISASTER READINESS
It
is estimated that there are more than 10000 pirate
radio stations in Malaysia operating on various
frequencies, some with organized call signs and
others without. The number is expanding. Both hams
and non-hams join forces and enjoy the communication
hobby. They don't need any ticket and there is no
reason why they should pay for it.
The
accessibility of radio equipments among the
communities in the country would help the nation in
time of disasters and calamities. It can also help
to combat crimes. Several have the HF capability but
limit their communications with the Indonesians
owing to the language drawback. They did find find
difficulties in using call signs except to borrow
from their friends.
The
time has come that the citizens of each country
should be allowed to operate radio on the ham and
other frequencies without having to sit and pass the
Radio Amateur Examinations. With the state of the
the art technology the RAE is no more a relevant
factor. Everything is sold in the market and the
radio equipments are designed even for dummies.
The
authorities must insist for the license fee to get a
call-sign so that they could communicate with the
world else they have to go on the CB band.
Jungle trackers and other adventurers must be made
to carry radio equipments with them and they must be
able to go to the emergency frequencies or amateur
radio repeater whichever they could have a
handshake. Parents and teachers who go camping,
boating and to remote places must fulfilled similar
conditions. Hence communication equipments could not
be confined to only the ham operators.
Imagine if there is a major flood. People in the
remote place would be able to send their SOS using
the HF, VHF or UHF. In each and every village the
government provides a set of equipments for the
safety and security purposes.
It
has been proven that people without RAE certificates
can operate a radio like any others. There are
millions in Indonesia and thousands in Malaysia.
In
fact we don't have to wait for hams to rescue life
in natural disasters and to report remote
accidences.
Disaster
communication Education Education
on disaster communication could be taught through TV
broadcast periodically. Public will be told the
frequency to use when disaster strike or when
calling for rescue, the best procedure to be
followed for reporting and calling for help.
We
have to remember that saving life is not only the
work of a doctor, a police or a ham radio operator.
It is the duty of every citizen. Since we do
recognize that radio is one of the tools, then we
have to change the radio usage policy for combating
crimes and emergency rescues.
The Old and the New Days In the old days,
a ham has to build his own transmitter. He has to
arrange resistors, capacitors, coil and tubes in
such a way a radio wave would be produced for
transmission. He needed to know how to read the
resistor color code, the valves grids, the various
types of capacitors, to understand how to get
oscillations and to modulate the oscillated waves.
It is imperative that he must have ample knowledge
of electronics.
Today
all he needs to have is the money. Equipments are
made of miniature components mounting on double
surface boards. ICs and Microprocessors are
incorporated. They have the antenna tuning unit, te
protection circuits. It is a sort of plug and play
gadget, and easy to operate. A fifteen minutes
teaching to a native in a deep Amazon jungle already
enabled him to transmit his voice.
Even a dipole antenna is available in the market.
Millions of antenna systems are sold everyday.
Millions of radio operators today can dispel with
RAE.
Passing RAE For What ? How many of the ham
operators are well verse with the theoretical aspect
of the working of a radio and a transmitter, may it
be the old or the new technology ? We would expect
everyone to be able to read the color codes of the
resistors, understanding how exactly the tune
circuit select the incoming different radio
stations, the need of the IF frequency, the
applications of the capacitor and inductors in
series and parallel and the computation of the
impedance. Don't be surprise if more than 50% of the
new Malaysian hams won't be able to explain them.
Yet they could operate the radio like any other
persons.
Then why do we have RAE ? What is relevant is on the rules and regulations
which we can always impart through public disaster
education via national TVs. One has to know the
maximum height of an antenna in locations around the
airport, the ethics to prevent intrusion into other
services.
The Trend Mulling on the open radio policy
see the natural expansion of the unknown operators
who organize themselves into a more systematic
entity forming a global unity. They have their own
codes and call sign and operating procedures.
At
the moment the group is more active on VHF and UHF
because the transmitting sets are cheaper compared
to the HF rigs.
Conclusion Calamities may not happen
everyday. But when it strikes it causes a lot of
damage. Rescue forces take time to search for the
victims. It is the responsibility of every citizen
to save life and the time is up to encourage the
populace to equip themselves with the communication
accessories without having to undergo the pass-fail
examination.
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ISIS WAS TRYING TO KIDNAP NAJIB ?
Zahid
is telling the world that ISIS failed to kidnap
Najib. Really ? How many of them in the group, what
nationality and where that happened ? He said the
ISIS is planning to abduct Hishamuddin and the
Prime Minister. Surely it has to be a shocking
incidence and serious in nature.
To my contention an
ISIS is well equipped and well trained. He would not
act foolishly and fraudulently. If the organization
follows the IRA there must must be a
ZERO-failure in their operation.
But if
Zahid says there are Malaysians who hate Najib and
who want him to dissipate then I would easily believe
him. The Malay ethnic group are calling him by names
and use all the swear words that they can think of
on the Prime Minister in the facebook. Most of these people would
only bark from the distant. None will ever dare to
lay their hands even on the Najib's local supporters.
If the
police had spoiled the kidnapping attempt they must
have apprehended the kidnappers. The media will not
stop airing the news for days or even weeks.
Organized terrorists always began their operation by
psychological warfare, putting fear in their enemy.
A Mafia would kill the pet you love most or cut the
fingers of your drivers. Instead of targeting
Hishamuddin and Najib they have other alternative
actions to take. Only fools would made an attempt to
kidnap the ministers. I would not believe they are
real ISIS.
Many
still believe in the sanctity of the police force to
put the country in order again, by arresting the criminal
and the trouble maker. Why should we rely on the
external forces to force Najib out.
A
sceptic would relate the story to the thieving of
1Mdb fund, as a way to completely turn people's
attention to the more troubled Najib. So is the
fierce attack on the man who himself put Najib to
the post. Najib has to use a colossal amount of
resources to get the support of the remaining UMNO
leaders and grassroots, for it is through them that
Najib could be unseat much easier than by the
foreign forces.
I
would not believe in the real ISIS in Malaysia.
Najib is calculating as to which nation would wave a
red card at him and under what charge. It won't take
long for the Saudis to understand the game played by
Najib. UN's letter to Najib has acknowledge how the
world look at Malaysia as a rogue state.
Local resistance won't be effective. And the
international ISIS has no interest to expand their
influence here. But we can be sure millions are
fantasizing of Najib and Rosmah being punished by
whoever and whatever specie on this earth. They pray
for the police to act against criminals who are
robbing away our national treasury.
We
all do remember of Najib's re-structuring plan.
Within 6 months thing would be fixed, he said.
How
much is 1Mdb's debt by now ?
It
is the guilt and the conscience that made our minds
see apparitions. Will the police expose the
kidnappers ?
08/03/201
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AT LAST I AM
FREE FROM RADIO ADDICTION
Shaking
myself off from radio addiction has been a
long and strenuous effort because I started
as a ham in the early '70s. Free Internet
and global communications through were not
heard of. There wasn't any PC yet. Home
computers and IRC only emerged in the 80s.
We depended much on radio communication for
the daily chats with people from the other
side of the globe. I was on the band almost
everyday from 5 pm till past midnight. Radio
was my second wife.
My
transmission equipment started to gather
dust and cobwebs encircled them to guars
them as they laid in idleness for years.
Computer IRC drew my attention away to
the new frontier. More than 15 years I
forgot ham radio. It was in 2002 when I
re-entered my store as I discovered termites
were attacking my belongings. I cleared the
cobwebs and cleaned the dust. I switched my
FT101 on. Nothing at wall came out of the
speaker. I used mosquito aerosol to spray
the rig. I heard Choo,9M2HC and Zainal
9M2ZA, were chatting. "People are still
alive," I said to myself.
Slowly I
discovered that many hams whom I used to
have regular chats had passed away. There
were license B holders. There were
repeaters. MCMC took over telecom. RAE
format was changed. It was totally a new
world. The shape of Malaysian amateur radio
started to change. Strange things happened.
The philosophy changed. The structure did
not fit me, not because it was wrong but it
was not right to my old mind.
The final
death strike when MCMC stopped giving the
class A licensees a privilege of a privacy
to be among themselves on 7MHZ. In USA there
are frequencies given to the Code hams on
7MHZ. I felt very disheartened. I felt it is
just like giving equal salary to all workers
regardless of their jobs and qualifications.
It is something like anyone at all can be a
Prime Minister even though he is an
illiterate.
If I want
to distant myself from my radio I need to do
something else, keeping busy to forget
amateur radio. One good thing is the ham
activity itself has the lost the attractive
scent unlike the old days when listening
itself was fun. I don't remember the
existence of any rogue people deliberating
causing disturbances like mad dogs. All hams
can read the color codes of resistors and
can read Morse. Sundays would be the Morse
day. CW communications were not confined to
the CW portion only.
The
repelled elements acted in the opposite
directions, and weakened the pull factor,
facilitating the divorce effort.
Realizing
the rapid ageing process and the time left
to breath the fresh air I have to start to
dispel things slowly one by one. I never
dream to breath till 80, meaning I have
only about 10 years more to live. And 10
years is too short a time. In the meantime I
am very alert for the sign of the end of the
days as has been prophesized in several Holy
Books.
Other old
hams like me are still around, still keeping
in touch with each other through Whatsup.
The jovial nature of conversations are
almost like we used to have on the amateur
band before. Some jokes could kill me. I was
laughing alone reading them like a mad man.
I did not participate, only enjoying the fun.
07/03/201 |
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SRC MONEY WAS WELL
INVESTED
SRC's money too
went into Najib's personal account. It is a public
pension fund. Sarawak Report says that Najib
declared the money was well invested in Mongolia.
Why must it be in Najib's name ?
Foreigners are
digging deeper. Surely USA and Saudi Arabia are very
interested to know more about Najib's activities.
They will somehow reach at the same conclusion as
the other fellow Malaysians. The only way for Najib
to rectify his error to pay back the money using the
GST collections. That won't erase his wrong conducts
and the criminal acts no matter how powerful the
clearance by Najib's AG.
066/03/201
IS NAJIB DRAGGING
IN SAUDI ARABIA TO SAVE HIMSELF ?
Najib has been a winner in numerous occasion. He
could play golf with Obama and command the world to
listen to him. The toughest war he has now is with
the Wall Street Journal, accusing him of stealing
billions and put into his account in spite of his
insistence that the money into his account came from
Saudi Prince. All he needs is the co-operation of
Saudi Arabia to nod and say 'YES'.
By
helping Najib the Malaysian media will be repeating
days and nights for weeks of what Saudi Arabia is
saying.
But
that won't be strong enough until Najib takes a
legal action against WSJ. The moment he does that
Saudi's King will be facing a serious torment
because he will be called as a witness. So it is
unlikely that Najib will sue WSJ. Instead will be
spreading propaganda on the admission of the King.
In
the international arena any war that goes on will
not make Saudi Arabia happy. It won't take a long
time before Saudi Arabia and other Western nations
to make Malaysia as their number one agenda.
The
game Najib may play is extremely dangerous. He risks
the security of this nation. We do all remember how
the CIA formed Al-Queda and the ISIS groups. It can
happen here if those countries were to see the true
color of Najib Razak, and how he was manipulating
them through using cash and other political
donations.
Najib has to use the tax money to finance his
political survival. A slip could end him and his
wife in a Malaysian jail on numerous criminal
charges by his enemy. Words have been spreading
about the nature of charges the moment he leaves the
Prime Minister's post.
But
in a rule of law a person is innocent until proven
guilty. He can always win the court case if he has
done nothing wrong.
Najib's political strategists should be smart enough
not to make Najib slip. Driving international wrath
will put the country in a detrimental state for
Najib has made too many enemies at home. The
law of physic will take it's course - for every
action there will be an equal opposite reaction.
People like Ku Nan, Nazri, Syahrizat, Ismail Sobri
and Azlina had boiled people's blood, that push
people's hatred towards their Prime Minister. They
had made Najib lost the total respect.
Hatred and despise are diseases that can spread. The
more Najib step out of the boundary to promote
himself the greater the tendency for the foreigners
to decode his intents. Eventually they will
comprehend the deceptive moves. It is highly
probable the hatred will spread outside our
boundary. Remember, while the American Congress was
debating on whether to provide aid to the Syrian
rebels covertly Americans arms flew in.
Using a foreign missionary in a combat will not save
Najib. And it is never a wise act to use the tax
money to boost Najib's image. because it is doomed
to fail.
03/03/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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GOD PROVIDENCE
I have narrated about a Chinese woman who goes
around town giving food, medicine and talk to stray
cats, and my former teacher, also a Chinese lady,
whom I met buying cat food for stray cats that
frequented her house. A teacher told me not to worry
about people stealing my knowledge and computer
coding. She said that God will provide me with more.
May be by co-incidence they were all Chinese ladies.
The
kampong Malays won't won't be hysteric when you tell
them about whatever about Najib or Rosmah. They are
more interested in their daily chores and finding
bread for the families. Whatever happenings were
known by the Almighty. They can sleep much better
than those who bother themselves with bad
politicians and crooks.
I
believe in the Barakah, providence by God to whoever
with good hearts regardless of their creeds and
race. One pious Muslim woman told me that there is
always a silver lining behind a cloud. There is
something good behind the bad happenings.
When someone knocked my car due to my own
negligence, I did not want to punish the driver by
going to make a police report. He will get nothing
and the most I would get is the RM300 fine. Instead
I paid him RM600. It was not the money. God spared
my life. I could have been killed. I did mind mind
the major damage on my car. The parts alone would
have cost me about RM300. Other repair could be as
high as RM700. So it came to my thought that I will
do my repair after I got my pension next month.
Within these few nights I went to the Vocational
College trying to install the biometric system. I
would either brought packets of food to the security
guards or gave them some cash for them to buy their
own food. I am not trying to brag to you but to tell
you about the Barakah endowed on me later.
Yesterday evening at the jogging track I met my
student and her son. They were having some drinks. I
joined them. After a casual chat she took out her
money and handed me RM700. She told me that was the
amount of shillings she took from me. "I gave you
the money," said I. "Remember, you told me about
your accidence ? Take the money and repair your
car."
My
Chinese friends will not feel surprise about it.
They have been believing in such a phenomena for a
long time. And mind you I have not found any Chinese
congratulate their year six kids who score 9As in
the face book like the Malays. The Malays love to
broadcast their greatness to the public.
As
a school Head I always reminded my students to be
good to their parents, to listen to their advice
though they may not be educated. Traitorous kids who
shouted and scolded their parents will meet with bad
comeuppance. Their lives will be miserable. Nature
works that way. It is a mystery of the universe.
29/02/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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MY JOGGING
TRACK
Finally I
am able to show my jogging track on the
page. The haphazard marking is colored in
orange. It was a former race course which is
now turned to be a gold course. That's what
I call the Outer Track. The inner one is
just below it across the road. I did not
mark it, smaller by 0.4km. It takes 6 rounds
of the inner tract to be 4 of the outer. But
the inner circuit is designed with the up
and down gradients and small bridges making
you getting tired faster and panting is
greater.
Since the
sun is moving down South at 6 pm it still
burnt my skin. Putting a cap on could
protect our faces from the brazing heat
wave. At least half of the joggers chose the
inner track as it was shady provided by the
trees and tall foliage. There were very
strong wind within these few days that help
to cool down the skin. In one way it assist
our speed and at another way it offered a
strong resistance.
I would
complete my exercise after completing 4
rounds while the others continue until dark.
On most of the days I was done at 6.45 pm,
unless I began my walk at 4 or 4.30 pm.
Early start would be using the inner
circuit.
We always
joke that those who are afraid of death
would go for exercise. It could be true to
some. I never thought of prolonging my life
with the light exercise. Whatever I do, I
will still die from some sort of disease.
But I do it to keep fit. Feeling fresh after
the daily chores has always been very
rewarding. I don't have land to do any
gardening, no other choice and ways to
squash my sweat out.
And it is
a part of passing of time program since I do
not go on ham radio now. It is a very rare
occasion for me to monitor on the radio
band, not listening to the hams talking but
to the non-hams, thousands of them enjoying
themselves having chats on VHF and UHF, and
sometimes listening to RELA members chatting
like the hams.
I wish
today the sun will be more kinder, hiding
itself behind some clouds so that it gives
us more pleasure for our enjoyment.
28/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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NOT DONE YET
It
took me a long hectic time to figure out the
attendant system which the college said it was gone
by failing to make backup files and folders. The
technician whom I was not happy with is now replaced
by a new one and I have not seen him yet. I
discovered there was no camera attached and the
administrator confirmed it fell and they
disconnected it. It has yet to be tested with RFID
card. The finger scan method works very finely.
Each day before I added new feature for free. I got
to crack my head for the codes below which will
carry forward the names on the new preceding years.
The current data will be kept for future perusal.
These guys thought a software is just an apple;
install and used. They do not know how much time and
effort were consumed.
If
Format(Date, "yyyy") <> Text38 Then
Screen.MousePointer = 11
Dim con As ADODB.connection
Set con = New ADODB.connection
con.ConnectionString = "driver={mysql odbc 3.51
driver};port=3306;server=127.0.0.1;UID=root;pwd=smvas;database=datangguru"
con.Open
For i = 1 To 12
con.Execute ("drop table if exists " & bul(i) &
Trim(Text38))
con.Execute "CREATE TABLE " & bul(i) & Trim(Text38)
& " type=innodb select * from " & bul(i)
Next
con.Close
Set con = New ADODB.connection
con.ConnectionString = "driver={mysql odbc 3.51
driver};port=3306;server=127.0.0.1;UID=userid;pwd=password;database=database"
con.Open
For i = 1 To 12
con.Execute ("drop table if exists " & bul(i))
con.Execute "CREATE TABLE " & bul(i) & " type=innodb
select * from staffnames"
Next
con.Close
Screen.MousePointer = 0
Text38 = Format(Date, "yyyy")
End If
lepas1 = 0
' ' lokasi cursor
Text6 =
Format(Date, "dd/mm/yyyy")
Now
they have to go back to the old method which saw a
long queue every morning.
This is not the only
program used. There is a program for finger
registration, and program for analyzing and
attendance, leaves, and sending messages. When I
browsed the codes again, I told myself that I have
had enough. I am not going to write them again. I
can't think that deep anymore.
FOR REGISTERING FINGERS
Only last night the
system showed on the screen. It was using the old
database, old teachers and stuffs and old fingers,
even the field names. The date showed it was 2009
database. I did ask them why they did not make a
backup and like the politician they blamed me. "You
said it will be backed up automatically when we
switched off the PC," said the management.
If it was so, were
they not checking the backup data, whether it was
there or not. If it wasn't there they could have
just click the icon that pointed to the backup.
There was not even a sound from the speaker. When a
teacher waves a card or put a thumb, the speaker
will mention his name and wish him something. The
wishing phrase differ with different person. If is
late the voice will say 'You are late'. After a
hesitation I was informed there was something wrong.
The sound was not there for some time.
What actually went
wrong ? To me it was the fault and attitude of the
computer technician. Most of them are
pseudo-intellect individuals. They went for training
for some period and thought they were smart enough.
They would try to manipulate the software that
already been installed. Secondly the work attitudes
are poor. They all dust to gather on the hardware,
the keyboard and other supporting gadgets. They are
paid handsomely to do nothing but to attend the
computers in the school. In some school there could
be as many as one PC.
Try to imagine; you
call a friend to do some work for you in your
school. He comes in the evening and night. And none
of you attend to see him nor bring him a cup of
coffee.
28/02/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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THE
DYNAMIC OF A DREAM
A wish, a hope, a dream and a fantasy.
Almost everyone has at least one of the
mental and emotional desires. Some with a
small one and some with a greater magnitude.
Rarely someone would think he is a God, or a
Messiah. Millions have dreams and fantasy of
various types and sizes, from having money,
becoming a superman, the most beautiful
woman in the world, the champion, the movie
star, a President etc. It is nothing strange
of a man to procure such a dream.
Dreamers usually dream something that are
almost impossible but later emerge as
realities. Science fiction on Dick Tracy and
a few cartoonists created future electronic
gadgets which are sold in the market today.
I do remember the Dick Tracy spy watch which
are on the shelf and waiting for customers.
Every night I hope to be a superman when I
wake up the next morning. A friend told me
he wish a bag full of millions appear in
front of his door when he wakes up the next
morning.
Only if we could know what the Malaysians
seriously hope and wish to happen right now.
Politicians too have dreams. Najib too wish
all his trouble would go away the next day.
He spoke his dream out aloud, to build a
better Malaysia. He let the world hear his
wish. He told the Malaysians that the 1Mdb
woe would be over in 6 months through his
re-structuring plan.
To make a dream turn to reality one has to
work and sacrifice one's time, energy and
probably money. Dreaming to be a superman is
way way out of our capability. A dream to
put 1Mdb under a right track again is
humanely reachable.
But the dynamic of a dream though seen
within reach may not be achievable. When
Najib said his re-structuring plan will put
things in order within 6 months, I just
smile to myself. The whole thing started
with a mess and Najib fell to the trap of
the band professional robbers. He had tried
to repair the damage using Tabung Haji and
other financial bodies. And finally he came
up with GST which immediately push the cost
of living sky high, pushing down the ringgit
value, cut people's saving by almost half.
His expectation the FGV would bring profit
met with reverse success. Rubber price went
down and investors were moving out.
With a huge financial and manpower resources
Najib pushed to clear himself from all
accusations. Instead of mulling people's
mouth the public is talking about the murder
of Kevin Morais, the founder of the AmBank
and PI Bala. They continue to attack Pandi
as trying to save a criminal. Too much money
had gone into Najib's personal account and a
lot was spent on Rosmah's shopping. They
were accompanied by proofs.
The dynamic of a dream is a factor of social
environment. The educated people could see
more than the lesser educated. They put bits
and pieces together, remembering the
statements by Najib and his ministers. Some
yell back and some remain mum. Pandi "CLOSE"
command is still swirling around. People
keep on talking. They seem to be convince of
the crime done by Najib.
A dream, a wish and a hope can be
complicated in the dynamic of human society.
They always clash with each other. Common
people are as greedy as the politicians.
They ask for a very high minimum pay,
business community grab for maximum profit
and they demand all sort of things from the
government. Property developers grab lands
and forcibly take them from the poor people.
They too want to fulfill their dreams.
It is just like a sick person who goes to a
doctor for a cure, being given medicine that
can bring a more serious side effects, like
the statin to cut cholesterol in the body.
What they think could cure the country and
themselves would finally bring them to a
more disastrous outcome.
26/02/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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THE EFFICIENCY
OF TABUNG HAJI
After receiving
a power of attorney from the Property offices I went
to three offices to find out the essential steps
that I should take. The first one was the the ASB
office. "All the names therein the form must fill in
a form each, sign and put a thumbprint on it, take
an oath and seal with a stamp," a lady officer
told me. I have to gather all the documents all over
again; the birth certificate, the marriage
certificate etc. I just murmured loudly for the
inconvenience.
Then I went to
CIMB. The amount of my wife's saving is not as
substantial as the ASB. CIMB gave me only ONE form.
Only one person has to fill in, me. But I have to
have a guarantor to sign and a witness to the
signing and the photo copy copy of their ICs. My
children do not have to sign anything. It was a
great relief.
Nearby was a
Tabung Haji. My wife has about 10K, on which my
share is about 1K. The rest to my 3 children who are
in Kuala Lumpur. A lady officer gave me 4 forms to
be filled in by each one of us. The 4 of us must
come together for the thumbprint. No money will be
given out if the number is incomplete. It is the
policy and procedure of the Tabung Haji.
I could get all
my kids together during the Hari Raya. One of my
kids may be coming home soon and stay here for some
time due to retrenchment. His American company is
moving out. So I decide to deal with Tabung Haji
during the Hari Raya leaves.
TH is showing
it's efficiency. Yet the account is in the red and
the government has to rescue it as it's bad image
start to spread. Azees is struggling to recover his
image that went down the mud. They spent millions on
the TRX and FGV share. They created complicated
procedure to pay back the money to the people.
I left TH
office telling the lady that the agency makes life
very difficult for the people. I did not say
anything about the political crisis and about the
poor management.
I went back to
ASB office. This time I asked the officer whether
the letter of attorney produced by the Property
Department is of no value to the ASB. If it is so I
want to go tell the Property Office that the
instructions given is not valid. The male officer
explained the procedure is applied throughout the
nation. My kids do not have to return home but to
sign and put their thumbprint down. It was me alone
who has to take an oath. I was satisfied and went
home.
Among the three
institutions CIMB makes thing easy for the customer.
Tabung Haji is the worst and I begin to hate the
department. It leaves a black mark in my head.
The best of
government's department is the passport office
immigration. It may shock half of the world for the
quick and simple service. The total renewal period
is less than 2 hours without having have to fill in
any form nor having have to bring along the passport
photos. More often than not a creative and effective
head of department is promoted and transferred when
an option should be given, either he choose to stay
in the same department or move away after being
awarded promotion
A man like Aziz
should be kicked out of TH, not kicking upstairs to
get rid of him. A fraudulent worker should not be
given a place anywhere. Tun Razak and Mahathir would
have not given face to a man like him. He spreads
contagious disease
to his workers and officers. The meaning of
efficiency is making life difficult to others.
By tomorrow I
shall be done with CIMB. My documents are ready and
will be submitted. TH and ASB do not recognize the power of
the Letter of Attorney though it took us a year to
process, examined and passed. TH and ASB
do not see it that way. They have their own
independent views and solution.
24/02/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT - COMMON SENSE OF
Who am I to talk on financial management ? A low
educated bigot without any diploma nor degree in
finance, book keeping or basic economy like me is
worthless to talk about money. Are we all totally
nut ?
There are massive number of wealthy people in the
country who do not go above diploma, much richer
than the politicians and earn their money with sweat
and blood, no commission, no receiving donation,
stealing nor cheating. There are also common men
like me who manage to live on descent cheap meals
from the bare minimum that we have. We too need to
compute and manage our money.
Before the minimum wage law, blue collar pensioners
received between RM200 - RM400 a month. The first
thing they did with the pension fund was paying the
loan to the sundry shops on the basic necessities
like rice, salt fish and other food stuffs. A little
left over for the school going children. They were
poor but they survived. When I was working I request
the food vendor to give the extra food to the blue
collar workers, enough for lunch and dinner. That
had help them a lot and they could use the little
extra money for other purposes. I also encouraged
them to moonlight or doing other jobs during
weekends.
The
middle income group were having much better life. A
few lead an extravagant life. Many are thrifty and
plan with their money. I am one of them.
There is question I have for you. How much
money do you have ? You may have to look at
your savings and the amount of cash on hand. A
department may have to open the cash-book and
probably at the bank statement to peruse at the
amount. Common sense tell us that our wealth is the
value of all our assets minus all of our unpaid
debt. They may be a few wise guys who will look at
the figures showing the amount stated at the bottom.
They do not know how much do the company owe, how
much interest to the debt. Schools with poor
book-keeping were found to experience huge debts
when the new heads took over.
In
the modern business the concept of assets may not be
the same as the previous traditional period. The
future profit or the future income is considered as
assets. Capital goods that generate income to be
paid on the loan for the goods is a healthy asset if
the risk is almost zero. You buy an ERL coach or an
airplane will generate income enough to cover the
interest and the payment. The periodical expenditure
must be very well controlled otherwise the profit
can never be achieved. The overhead cost must not be
more than the income.
The
wealth of a nation is not the wealth of a government
except for the pure Communist nation. In a
capitalistic democratic country it is the private
individuals who plant food and catch fish, running
factories and produce goods and services. They make
profit. Government tax the people to provide safety,
security and assist in economic growth. Where
services that do not make profit, it is the duty of
a government take care of it eg. water, electricity,
the army and police.
This has been the traditional practice since the
government and money economy begin.
I
always use a simple principle 'No money no buying'
. I don't buy on credit or buy above necessity. If I
can go with a cheap and fuel saving car at RM25K,
why should I buy the RM35K even though I may have
enough cash. It is a rule of common sense.
One
has to check oneself on the evil of greed. Greed
means never enough and never satisfied. A poor man
having RM100 in his pocket may be called by his
greed to win more money by gambling which can
entangle himself with Loan Shark.
If
Najib were to have used his common sense he would
have not landed the country in a big debt. If he had
not followed the lust of Rosmah, he would have not
landed himself in trouble. He may be free but he is
haunted by apparitions of death; he needs to wear a
bullet proof vest and increase the number of body
guards. At a distant he is seeing the ghost of ISIS.
A
Mamak can manage colossal amount of money better
than the finance Ministry.
One
thing Najib must remember that not everyone are
fools. They could see the game of illusion. In fact
the outcome of 1 Mdb stuff had been predicted by
some of us and it came exactly as our prediction. It
was the mixture of common sense and the additional
sense and telepathy.
Is
it not true that Najib is save by GST ? Whatever
Najib must learn his lesson, and has to be more
prudent and wise in his financial adventure. He has
a big hope that the TPPA could boost our economy.
When he woos the American investors among the
answers he get was 'YES, We have INTEL' in Malaysia.
Those companies have been here a long time ago. A
few has moved out.
It
is true that when Bashah without even a School
Certificate was made a Chief Minister, the same rule
could be applied. Bashah can always use his common
sense. But it happened that not everyone is able to
use and apply his common sense.
23/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
ALL ABOUT AGEING
Nothing is done yet. I have had problems in
installing the biometric system. I asked for the
hard disk to be reformatted and a new Windows
install. The teacher was sick and nobody went to
work on the two days of weekend. I gather the
college has no interest in the system. I remember
when I was working; I went to schools 7 days a week,
days and nights.
However the
break gave me enough time to figure out what I need
to do. I have to recollect and know how to close
MySql5 server because I need to replace some folders
like bin, data and mysql in case I found the old
ones in the old spoil storage. Otherwise the school
has to start a new registration of fingers and
typing a new list of staffs.
Then I have to
figure out how to give permission to the network
computers to access the server databases and tables.
I wrote a program to handle it but I don't remember
several items to key in for the permissions; what to
put in the host, user and
password. Certainly I would have to
undertake several repeated experiments until the
right one emerges.
Having install
the software is not the end yet. I have to install
the card reader, the finger scanner, the video
capture and the speech processor. I can't afford to
miss one. It has been several years the college did
not ask me to write information on the RFID card for
the new teachers and workers. May be they were just
using their thumbs.
It will take
time and effort for the restoration. It is all about
ageing, poor memory, and rusty mind.
After Isya, the final prayer
tonight, I will go to the college. The first task
will be the installation of MySql 5 server and ODBC
driver. Then the RFID card reader software and the
finger print scanner. Then the video capture unit,
followed by the speech software.
The fading
interest is not only in software development but
also in radio communication.
You see, when Bashah becomes a
Chief Minister the younger people criticized him
because of his age. He will get tired fast, feeling
sleepy and cannot think well like many other old
people. There is a strong tendency he will have to
trust and depend on his subordinates. Who would run
the state then ?
Several individuals had been
asking me what I did after retirement. "Total
retirement," was my reply. I laid aside my radio and
my programming. I don't want to hunt for wealth,
money, glamour nor position. I feel the slowing
muscle and the decaying mind. It is all due to
ageing.
22/02/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE INVISIBLE
DRESS
Once upon a time there was an
emperor whose only interest in
life was to dress up in
fashionable clothes. He kept
changing his clothes so that
people could admire him. He
chose his court and ministers
who always admire and praise
him.
Once, two thieves decided to
teach him a lesson.
They told the emperor that they
were very fine tailors and could
sew a lovely new suit for him.
It would be so light and fine
that it would seem invisible.
Only those who were stupid could
not see it. The emperor was very
excited and ordered the new
tailors to begin their work.
One day, the king asked the
prime minister to go and see how
much work the two tailors had
done. He saw the two men moving
scissors in the air but he could
see no cloth! He kept quiet for
fear of being called stupid and
ignorant. Instead, he praised
the fabric and said it was
marvellous.
Finally, the emperor’s new dress
was ready. He could see nothing
but he too did not want to
appear stupid. He admired the
dress and thanked the tailors.
He was asked to parade down the
street for all to see the new
clothes. The emperor paraded
down the main street. The people
could only see a naked emperor
but no one admitted it for fear
of being thought stupid.
They foolishly praised the
invisible fabric and the colours.
The emperor was very happy.
While parading a man said, "The
King wears nothing." He was
pulled from the crowd and the
King's officer executed him.
Words passed around of the
consequence of saying the truth.
So the emperor wore the
invisible dress on the alternate
days and walking with his new
dress while his subjects saw him
naked without any shame.
22/02/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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NEW PAIR OF SHOES
FOR
TRAVELING
Shoes aren't cheap these days. A
pair could fetch a price above RM500, for the
branded ones like Nike and Power. Unnamed, China
made pairs are cheaper but they are not water
resistance. The synthetic sole are lighter and much
cheaper compared to the rubber sole which have a
better grasp.
Every time when I went distant
traveling, shoes will be one of the vital items in
my agenda. The trip to Lombok and Balkan saw the old
shoes being washed and cleaned. I thought of doing
the same thing for my next trip. But the soles of
both pairs are worn out. I need a new one. What I
had had in mind is a white pair with a rubber sole.
There are plenty in the shops but prices are above
RM100K. Seeing the cheaper ones were on the display
I decide to forego the beauty for the price.
The other day I went to a cobbler
and asked whether he can put a new sole and how long
would it last ? He said he could do it and he can't
guarantee the lasting period. It could be a year.
All I want is it last me just for the whole trip.
The last time I went to have some repair I was
charged RM12 for the pair. May I would do it for
twenty bucks. It is cheaper than the new pair.
There are a lot of walking and
climbing in most of the tour. Women could not wear
high-heels. In fact I had not seen any woman on the
tour wore high heel. Certainly they had expensive
jogging shoes on. I knew mine was the cheapest.
I won't buy shoes advertised on
the internet because I cannot touch the sole with my
fingers. I need shoes with a good resistance rather
than the color and design. Of course if I can have a
beautiful ones with the type of sole I want and the
price is right then I would opt for them. Surely I
can't get gold if I pay for the peanut.
A show was thrown at George Bush
There are many stories on shoes in
fables and real life events. It happened in Canada,
India, Sudan and many
other parts of the world, including Malaysia.
Hollywood made a mover entitled COBBLER, a very
entertaining movie.
Remember, a high heel, can always
be a dangerous weapon. If you are hit by it only God
knows what will happen to you.
Many years ago when I visited the
United States I always made a point to go to Payless
Shoe shop buying cheap and beautiful shoes for my
wife. When I arrived at the airport I chose women's
custom officer to inspect my bags. The officer would
ask me why I bought so many pairs. "My wife has a
big feet. Look at the size...", I would explain.
"You must be a good husband," she would say and
passed the inspection. As a woman and a house wife
she understood things.
21/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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CAN'T STAND WSJ
I really cannot stand the Wall Street Journal
anymore. Read what it says about Najib and Pandi,
implying that our leaders are lying intensely to the
people of Malaysia and the world. Our government
should stop waging verbal and written wars but to
take court action against the paper.
Apandi had said that the 2.6 billion was a donation
from an Arab King but WSJ insisted it was not. It is
a question of image, integrity and morality.
If
Najib fails to sue the journal both he and Pandi
will be regarded as shameless criminals.
Najib has 2 years to consolidate all the government
machinery to propagate his innocence. A lot of
resources will be utilized to convince the
Malaysians and the world. Within that same period
his enemies could have dropped more bombs, even the
TPPA members have to dodge. The fear is an arrest
card card flashed by one of the countries. Believe
me by that time Najib will have to employ Mosad
squads to be his external bodyguards. Money will not
be the problem. The GST collections help to pay for
the impenetrable shield.
Therefore Najib must act now and quickly for the
court action against the WSJ.
19/02/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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BIOMETRIC -
TOO OLD TO THINK
I have not been to my old school for a long
time since it was converted to be a
Vocational College. My education philosophy
does not fit the modern system. I figure the
old archaic system is always better than the
current one. I don't think the modern
Malaysian educationists are carving the
manpower for the future. If they cater for
the need of human resource you won't find
every university offer producing waves of
computer related graduates. There isn't
coordination between various departments.
None get together to analyze the
relationship between population, crimes,
education and economy. They are not
independent entity working for unrelated
purposes.
They robbed away the education and training
from the low achievers, late developers and
students with physical intelligence and
skill.
Only once a while I would stop at the
college to say hello to a few friends and
then went away. I would peep at the
biometric attendance system that I developed
for the school. They have been using it for
more than 6/7 years. An employee can either
wave the smart card or press his finger on
the scanner. If a card is waved the person's
imaged will be captured and stored for
checking. The data analysis is sophisticated
as it will count the number who arrived
late, leaving the premise and his present.
Message to a group or the whole group could
be perused as one does the punching.
The display was still showing the name of
the old school.
Almost a year ago I did some modification
and updating the system. I thought of
installing the updated version but it was
not done. Nobody said anything.
Only yesterday the school rang me up telling
me the hard disk crashed and a new HD will
be replaced. They wanted me to re-install.
Wow ! I have forgotten everything. I have to
install MySql server. I can't remember the
password, the database name, the port number
and the server IP. I don't remember how the
network computers are going to access the
database and the picture data. I don't have
theI don't know where to find the biometric
license and the ODBC driver. In short I have
a total amnesia.
Even if I have something to start with, it
cannot be done within 6 or 7 hours. The
biggest of all I cannot charge the college
for my time and energy. If they purchase the
system it would cost them only around RM800.
I used to charge a high fee for a customized
program, about RM2K.
Now,
I am too old to think. My programming
days are over. Really I don't know how can I
help the college. Un-expecting that they
will call me again, I have erased a few of
my thumb drives. At one time I was so vexed
with the school as I traced the computer
technician was playing around, trying to
dissect and moved my set up around and had
sworn that I would not attend the software
again. It was highly probable that the
technician or the computer teacher was
meddling with it again.
At
this age I have put aside the idea of
accumulating wealth. I would not want to be
a slave, working under order and
instructions. I have had enough of those. I
found greater pleasure and satisfaction and
happiness nursing my sick wife, attending
her vowel, bathing and dressing her, feeding
her and accompany her at the dialysis
center. And a great gratitude to the
government of Malaysia in lifting our
financial burden for her medication.
You see, when I spoke to a few officers at
Putrajaya on a certain matter they always
pointed at the computer problem or telling
me their computer system was a witness,
trying to spin things like their bosses, as
if I don't know what the computer is capable
of. When I was still working, one school
principal rang me up asking me whether his
nephew was successful in his application. He
later told the state school's heads that he
was surprise to get the answer in less than
30 seconds. When he became a director of the
state education department, he should have
request me to expand the system throughout
the country ie how to get immediate
information on education and school matters.
He didn't.
I had suggested to the school to buy the
system from other sources. He admitted that
he had seen some good ones. He insisted that
mine is better. I have to tell the school
again that my brain has stopped functioning.
I may not fall asleep like our Minister but
I always forget things including friends'
names.
I17/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
I
went to school at 10 am on the 18/02/2016 to
discover carelessness and the missing source
codes on a computer in the Senior
Assistance's room. There were hell of dusts
covering the whole hardware. Nobody cleaned
them. The school just did not take care of
the whole setup until it went kaput. There
isn't any backup though it was just a click
from the remote PC.
The school expected the system could be used
within an hour. I told the administrator it
would spell the end of my biometric system.
Tonight I will try my final installation. If
it rejects the program then I will have to
say good-bye to the school.
I was told the computer technician got a
transfer to a new school. He raked all the
source codes that I kept in the machines
which are supposed to be only used by the
Senior Assistance.
I think the institution has to pay for the
negligence. |
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OLD FOLKS TAKE A
REST
When
I am about to die I don't want to think much of the
world and I don't want to go and look for the long
lost friends. I prefer a solitary and quiet life but
with a thought how long could I manage myself and
drag myself to survive. I am now 69. I would not
even be able to find a spouse to take care of me now
and a few more years to come.
I imagine the
wealthy and the famous, the Kings, Presidents and
Ministers who are getting weary day by day, assisted
by vitamins and other supplements to slow down
ageing, yet looked so very old. and deteriorating
motor skills, rotting while waiting for the engine
to stop. I hardly believe when someone told me that
Rosmah had a plastic surgery at the age of 60+.
Struggle to be presentable with makeup and hairdo
are just normal things to everyone, even an old man.
Why should they think of death when they still can
maximize the joy of life. It is rare to find a
former ex-judge shot himself in the head because he
felt so lonesome.
I still have things to do other
than thinking of God and my religious duty It is
exciting to do everything by myself; daily domestic
chores, paying bills, going to malls and
supermarkets, going for meals, erecting my radio
antenna, exploring websites, writing blog, and
planning trips local and overseas.
At the jogging
tracks I saw girls. A few cat their smiles. To some
I returned the smile but to others I pretended not
to notice. I didn't know what the smiles were for.
May be a show of respects towards an old man. It
could not be anything else. I do talk to kids when I
passed them and greet elderly walkers and joggers.
Eyeballing with friends does not
interest me anymore. I only need company to go to
dinner at far away places. And when I do I would ask
my student's children. It was very rare that the
mother permitted them to go. In such a case I would
cancel my intent and choose to have dinner at the
local stores.
Time moves so fast that months and
years passed without knowing. I told myself not to
go for any medical checkup after reaching 72. I
don't want to live till 80 which is about 10 years
more. I leave to God to take my life away the way
God sees fit.
Najib is a few years younger.
Mahathir has arrived at end of the cliff. They are
still quarreling. Najib still wants big money and
wants to taste the worldly heaven. Old faces spewed
nasty words and curses as if they are immortals and
will rule the world forever. They lie, spins, twists
and turns. Millions have lost respects towards their
leaders for their avarice.
I would not
like to wear bullet proof vest, protected by body
guards and even been called with a title. I want to
be as free as a bird. You see, when you die your
soul and mine are the same. I don't have to pay any
GST to you nor call you Datuk. In fact to the
Atheists when we die we evaporate and lost in the
thin air.
I told myself not to live till 100
years. If I do I would see turmoil. The Malays will
be much worst than the present conditions. They will
be killing each other. One will blame UMNO for their
plight and chaos and the other refuse to take the
blame.
The best place to die is in the battle field. Go
and fight anybody at all, friends or foes until you
are shot dead. Wouldn't it be true to say that the
best job for those reaching 70 is the suicide squad
? But old people are scared of death. They prefer
longevity and continue to make money, not by the
thousands but millions and billions. They never want
to think that their end days are numbered and the
money they get is enough. A few old guys, not
thinking of death, do behave shamelessly like bull
dogs and crooks. I mentioned bull dog because I saw
a reader call a politician bull-dog, and when I flipped
to see his face, he was just like one.
A handful of old politicians
seemed to love combat. They waved Kris and showed
ass silat. They can't even run a distant of 1 KM,
yet they wail and shriek and howl on top of their
voices as if they are invincible. They should be
sent to join the Hezbollah against the Jews in Gaza
and Palestine. One, not only cannot do a mile walk
but also sleep while walking.
It is true that older people must
rest a lot and hand over their jobs to the younger
and stronger generation.
Try to imagine that at 64 you are
scared of being thrown in jail for corruption and
misuse of power and probably murder. At 84 you are
scared of being arrested by crooks and gangsters.
Wiser people would be with their grand children and
having fun with their remaining life.
To the younger generation the
place for the old is a mosque where the pious
congregate for prayers, learning religion and social
intercourse. Even a man who leads a solitary life at
home does mix and talk with the other members of in
the community. Then there are festivities. They
still do have eyeballs.
I noticed that to many of the
pious people death is just a common thing, nothing
to be sad and lament about. Nobody asked for the
reason and cause if a man is more than 70. The
Muslims also believe that what the man carries with
him is his deeds towards God. He leaves his
greatness and wealth in the world. His place would
be in either a hell or a heaven.
16/02/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
SPAIN-MOROCCO
COUNTING THE DAYS
Old Tangier, Morocco, from the harbour. Photo:
Getty Images
The
service of the Malay tour agencies are always poorer
than the non-Malays. The Malays charge much higher
tour fee and the food is of a lower quality. The
Riang Ria, the Muslim package' of Reliance is more
expensive than the English or Mandarin tour. The
only drawback of the Mandarin and English tour is
the availability of the halal food.
My friends in
Kuala Lumpur has just came back from the
Spain-Morocco trip yesterday. From their
explanations I scented displeasure in their trip.
The husband was very tired as they had had a 7 hour
transit at Dubai airport. My trips shows a delay of
only 3 hours both ways. May be it was an airline
fault or the company chose the cheapest flight for
more profit. I remember taking Lankan Air for trips
to India and Europe. We were put in a hotel for a
night and enjoyed delicious meals and admired the
beautiful beach at the hotel. The European trip was
with the Reliance. I can't remember the India
package.
My friends
narrated that they had problem with food in Spain.
It was a half-board status. meaning the breakfast
was free and the rest were either paid by customers
or the customers had to find their own meals. At one
place they had to walk 2 km looking for a halal
restaurant. There were no electric kettles in all
hotels, which I gather were less than 4 stars. All
of my Reliance trips put us in much more comfortable
places.
I paid more
than RM10K for 10 nights, the average of 1K per day
to Poto Travel. And I have to think of bringing in
Brahim Briyani and Fried Rice as well as packs of
Instant Mee. I was told to bring along an electric
kettle and bowls. Lucky Spain runs on 220V like our
line voltage. They have to be squeezed into my
luggage. Since the trip is in Spring towards Summer,
I do not have to bring along, any thick jacket. That
will give space for my Pyrex bowls and a kettle.
Reliance got a
bad name in one yesteryears when about 14 Chinese
were not allowed to enter London from Calais. The
stranded tourists were left unattended and had to
find their ways home. A couple of teams lodge their
reports to MCA for some actions. In another a tour
leader kept on asking for tips when conditions and
payment for tips were already laid in the package.
Though I knew
the Muslim package is more expensive and the food is
just normal, I chose to follow the Muslim tour. I
didn't have to bring my own food on the full-board
trip.
I will be
flying Emirates. I was on plane before and was very
happy with the service.
One should not
complaint about the hectic nature of the travel.
Almost all the tour group experience similar
conditions. Though the non-Muslim tour had no
program for waking you up for the morning prayer,
you still got to be ready as early as 7 am or
earlier. The time is yours if you go on your own. It
would be cheaper to go to the United States on your
own, make the car and hotel bookings from Malaysia
else you have to be crafty enough to find your own
cheap lodging. I mentioned USA because of my
frequent visits to the continent before.
You see, I live
like a rich man when I can't afford to own an import
car. Only just now I paid RM600 to man who knocked
my car which was due to my own negligence. He must
have thought I am a wealthy lord. I was just
thinking that I am a Muslim and I must keep my words
to him. I believe in the mystery of God's
providence. I cut corners in one area. I spent for
something else. Neithet am I too poor. I do not
starve. I do not deceive people. I don't need
rewards nor recognition. When you do good, you do
feel happy and fulfilling. But I won't know what
will become of me in the near and far future.
As a believer,
I believe my wife is happy to see that I am going
very well with my life. She knows that I always have
a long dream before all my trips. And I want to
think about it, try to fantasize the travel in my
dream. I even already imagined the 3 hour transit in
Dubai. If there is no free wifi at the airport one
has to have an E-Book to pass the time. It is good I
have several books in the library to read. Time
flies by reading or perusing Facebook.
Will I be
browsing websites like Malaysian Insider, Sarawak
Report and other social media ? The answer is NO. I
paid 10K for an enjoyment, wanting to free my mind
from bad news. A man like many of us cannot change
the world how hard we may try. Retreat is too big a
word to use for the laymen. Going away to see places
could free our mind from political hell.
15/02/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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BACK INTO THE
MOSQUITO NET AGAIN
Old memory brought the reminiscence of the
old past, when I was running around naked
with home made wooden gun playing cowboy and
Indians. It was in the 50's, the year Malaya
get it's independent, and sea water reached
our home, green clear water with running
fish, and snakes swimming passing our
houses.
There was no electricity and pipe water
then. The water captured from the heavy
downpour was always enough for cooking,
washing and bathing. It was my work to make
sure the lamp was filled up with kerosene
and light them up when nights fell. Then
unfolded the mosquito net, hung it to the
nails on the wooden pillar and wall. At 10
pm the net would be dropped and I would
creep in to sleep.
About 30 years later wooden house was
replaced by bricks. It was hard to put up a
mosquito net. We used foil which would last
us the night per coil. It polluted the air
but we were used to it. Later aerosols and
other mosquito busters appeared in the
market. Today a can fetch a price of about
RM20. As years gone by the insects seemed to
be immune by almost all repellants. I spent
more than RM50 a month to fight the bites.
It was not an effective measure.
I did not remember much hassle living
without modern gears then. We were almost
self sufficient in feeding ourselves. Even
rice was given by relatives who came to
visit us. We made our own coconut oil,
reared ducks, plant fruit trees and bananas.
Mosquito was not a major problem. Once a
week the Sanitary Board would come to spray
the insecticide and clearing the brooks
around our village.
I decided to go back to mosquito net. Surely
there is one without having have to hang. I
went around town. They seemed to be sold
out. One or two outlets sold the hanging
version at a price of about RM30. One day I
went to Padang Besar, a border town in
Perlis, asked around about the net. The
price was cheap. I bought a few sets.
Only 3 nights ago I made use of the net,
which is smartly built and designed. The net
is all over, including the base. I need to
shove in a thin mattress. I am contemplating
on putting on a thicker one for greater
stability and comfort. But I am not in a
hurry. I can cut a little expenditure on
other repellants and use the money somewhere
else.
It is not that I don't have a netting around
my house. It has. I can't explain how these
little enemies find their ways in.
Leading a bachelor life is simple. I do not
bother to organize myself. The image on the
left shows how messy I am. I could not even
cover the thin mattress with the bed sheet
cover.
Today is the 21st century. I never expect to
live till this new era of tremendous
technological progress, with the nasty
political turbulences. Despite seeing the
new world that I had never dream of, I keep
on asking myself whether the degree of
satisfaction and happiness today is above
the old archaic culture with almost barren
technological tools and appliances.
Certainly modernization does not manufacture
better mankind of a higher grade specie.
People are still barbaric and inhumane,
killing and suppressing fellow humans, under
various pretext and justification.
Really, I believe that nobody is interested
in killing the mosquitoes. No mosquitoes
means no aerosol, no repelling gadgets and
no money to grow.
15/02/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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FITNAH
Fitnah,
defamation through lies, is different from lies in
the sense that fitnah put shame on someone else. The
victim does not commit the scandalous act as
charged. Lies are general deception tools to confuse
the general public. A Fitnah has always been settled
through court proceedings.
Najib's
administration and his spouse repeatedly told their
supporters and the Malaysians in general that they
have been facing Fitnah by irresponsible political
opponents. The Wall Street Journal, the Sarawak
Report had been telling lies all the while. Reading them was
made a crime.
The new
Attorney General handpicked by Najib to replace
Ghani Patail who was suspected of drawing a charge
sheet on Najib, has started a move to protect criminals
and wrong doers, leaked from government
agencies by the employees, and imposed heavy penalty. There is some sense in reviewing
the punishment on Fitnah but in many cases the Fitnah
will remain as it is even though it was false. The
creator who may want to admit it can't
retract his bad deed for fear of being indicted.
I would
consider any law to protect a crime or a criminal as
absurd. It is a heinous and indespicable crime
itself. A leaked information on the
amount of money of a department is different from a
leak on the money used for purchasing a
diamond ring for personal consumption. Similarly a bank
cannot stay silent on money laundering- stolen and
drug money kept by criminals. Divulging criminal
activities are our moral duties, a symbol of human
civility and dignity.
So far none
from Najib's camp responded on the call to clarify
and to produce a list all the Fitnah that have been leaked to the
public. The 2.8 billion in Najib's account was not
known to any Malaysians until reported by the Wall
Street Journal in 2015. The first response by Najib was WSJ
was lying. Then Najib admitted after being cornered
of having the money but it was for winning the GE13,
for UMNO. To cut short Najib has been living in the
fantasy world of make belief and lying.
Let it be laws
and regulations to protect liars, criminals and
murderers. Najib can stay as a Prime Minister all
his life. But he will leave a very pungent legacy.
And he won't stop spending the money collected from
the people to save his skin. This is
something that he cannot stop. The public won't want
to hear excuses from all of his officers and stuffs
.
Of course many
of us will not live to see the coming retribution.
One of the
alleged Fitnah was on Altantuya's murder. Najib and
Rosmah were not involved. Yet his bodyguards got a
military bomb to put total erasure of the Mongolian
as the vanishing record of Altantuya from the
immigration computers.
Najib was
wildly accused of murdering Altantuya, the founder
of the AmBank, PI Bala and Kevin Morais by some
quarters. They were all very serious Fitnah. No
matter what the outcome will be, it leaves a very
wide and deep scar on the forehead, visible to most
men. Standing side by side with Obama won't impress
the Malaysians. Obama is part of Israel killing
machine in Gaza and Palestine.
14/02/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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IMAGE OF
ISLAM IN MALAYSIA
We would expect most people would embrace
Islam in the country. But the comments on
social media published remarks of the Muslim
leaders who professed, condoned and
protected corruptions and possibly crimes of
murder. The concepts of Cash Is King (
Najib), 'I scratch your back and you scratch
mine', 'the recipients of BR1M are
ungrateful for not voting for BN' grouped in
the same cocoon called corruption.
The twist and turns, the threatening, the
plan to protect crimes and criminals in
government departments are all read and
understood by the intelligent and learned
people, sending some stinking smell to many
non-Muslims. The Muslims have been tarnished
as terrorists by the world, even by the
Malay Malaysians. With additional pungent
political behaviour of the Muslim
leaders, Islam is regarded as a religion not
worth a cent.
Several times, Najib was shown wearing the
white rob in Mecca with several of his
supporters. At the same time there were
postings on their press statements
legalizing what the public considered as
illegal. Some insinuated that crimes and
lying are part and parcels of Islam.
Hadi, the chief of Islamic party, joined
hands to support Najib and MCA and Gerakan.
He is supposed to be a spiritual leader. A
spiritual leader is not to condoned or
support any form of corruption and lying.
The true Muslims have a hard time trying to
convince the rest that "Islam is not
like that.." They are taking a big
risk. They may be arrested as an ISIS
member. A real devout and good Muslim could
always be a target of the ones who who
called themselves moderate. The moral beings
would not tolerate the gangster behaviour of
political leaders.
The existing Najib supporters likened Najib
to God and Najib himself had said that he is
the Shadow of God ( the chosen one -
khalifatullah ). The public was asking
question, " How could the divine Prime
Minister lie and spin ? " Instead of
enhancing Islam and commanded respect it
made Islam looked so bad. Islam is linked to
Najib and other supporters. And they are
telling the people that lying and cheating
is alright by Islam.
I read both comments by the Malays , mostly
in the FaceBook, and the non-Malays in the
Malaysian Insider and gauged the level of
maturity and their intelligence to conclude
that the later excel the former, much more mature and the
rebuttals are substantive. The Malays are
susceptible to lies though some stand solid
with the root issues and cannot be
swayed by any form of propaganda.
Choosing a Minister from an almost
illiterate party members have worsened the
image of Islam when the world is giving
preference to meritocracy, scientific
progress and development. MCA and Gerakan
are putting the best and most qualified
candidates as the representatives of Chinese
community. The UMNO chose individuals who
can't understand English to be ministers and
even as Head of Department. When stupid
people rule, more often than not they would
resort to muscles rather than their brain to
stop criticism and challenges from the
public. As a result greater hatred towards
the Malays and Islam grows and flourish.
It is a pity that the mosques are picking up
a bias political issues in their Friday
sermons, carrying on the twist and turn
policy of Najib's team. During the last
prayer the Imam was preaching Islamic unity
while Najib's team is stressing on Malay
unity. It would make Islam repulsive among
some of the mosque goers. If I could I would
not want to go to any mosque that sings
political themes.
Najib's team never puts Islam above them.
Islam to them is a tool that can be used to
deceive the Malays.
13/02/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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PEACE OF MIND
I met with
several fatal incidences which I guided myself to
cool down and not to think much about them. This
afternoon a car knocked my Viva. I didn't think he
was wrong whether he was speeding or did not
concentrate on his driving. I went out from a
junction. I did not see any car coming. The fine
young man said he was from Perlis. His car plate was
J something.
He asked me
whether I wanted to make a police report. I told him
it was useless. I had been hit before by a taxi who
refused to pay me and prefer to go to the police
station. The report was made and I was asked to go
home. I had to pay for my own repair. "I'll pay for
your damage," said I."But I don't know the cost.
Shall we go to a workshop for an estimate ? " He was
phoning someone. Then he told me he had to go back
to Kangar. A friend of his arrived, also a humble
young man. We conversed a little. "If we don't want
accident, just park the car at home," he said.
They went to
look at my car too. The right mirror went missing.
The headlamp broken. The door slipped out. "Never
mind about my car," said I. Let's settle yours. Can
we settle base on trust ? You go and repair yours,
tell me the whole damage and your bank account. I
will bank in the amount." I said.
He agreed. He
took my detail information, and we went our way. I
went to spare part shops but all shops were close.
Lucky I got my
old Kancil. I will have to use it until the workshop
and the spare part shops open again. Do I think of
his damage and the amount I have to pay him ? Surely
I do. I will pay at whatever cost. Why ? I am safe.
I am still breathing. And he too. Money cannot buy
such a valuable life. I accept the fate.
Other than the
accidents I also had a bitter experience when buying
a quad-copter that could not fly. I should have
tested it in the shop. It was not cheap. The price
was RM300. I was thinking that if I were to go to
the toy shop I might quarrel with the shop-owner.
This is Malaysia, not in the United States, where
you can return the non-working toys. The lady may or
may not agree to accept it back. Thinking it is not
worth quarreling over a small financial damage I
told myself to be calm. I have to be careful if I
decide to buy a new one somewhere else. I did. When
I went tp Padang Besar I bought a new one for RM170,
tested it and I was satisfied and happy.
God has given
me abundance, not by the tenth of thousands, but
enough for my survival. I do not go bankrupt by the
financial losses. I do not become an instant pauper
by some financial sacrifices over happiness and the
peace of mind.
All along my
life, I do not have any tall ambition. I would not
seek promotions nor financial reward, far from
stabbing people's back for office. A good job, to
me, is honesty and sincerity in doing a job. As a
teacher I considered my number one client was a
student not my boss. It sounds repulsive and
rebellious. But that's the fulfillment. It so
happened almost all of my contemporaries who play
for office have all gone to meet God.
I never knew
how much I love my wife until now. She is very close
to my heart and my mind. I think of her more than
anything else. All those incidences and happenings
are normal phenomena. I told Rusli, a radio friend
who came to visit me for several days, about driving
my wife to see places and eat good food around the
country. Rusli went home yesterday.
I have another
guy, a rich contractor, who bluffed me to get RM500.
This I won't write off because he did not tell me
the truth. Though I put him aside, I cannot shed
away the idea that he is a very dishonest and an
immoral person. I had given money to my working
students who went broke. For a wealthy man and a
contractor it does puzzle me somewhat.
Life must go
on. There is no use crying over a spilt milk. I can
sleep much better than Bashah or Najib or Pandi.
11/02/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
WHY SO
COMPLICATED ?
The
Malaysian authority has closed case on 1Mdb and all
other components of Najib's personal account.
Whatever is in Najib and Rosmah's accounts belong to
them. It is not for others to bother.
Yet Sarawak
Report keeps on publishing stories on the 1Mdb story
despite the order by Malaysian Attorney General,
Pandi. It is a very complicated story, never to have
thought that Hong Kong and Singapore would be
involved in the 1 Mdb saga at all.
From something
very serious it has become an entertainment. Indeed
it is. Since Ahmad Masalam takes charge of IT, the
cyber troopers are throwing more lies. One denied
even about the letter from Bank Negara Malaysia to
Tabung Haji despite all the music and yelling by
Abdul Azeez on the leak letter.
It has never been my intention to
search for the BNM's letter. But the cyber trooper
is so very arrogant to deny there is such a letter.
And now the new AG is pushing for higher penalty on
OSA. We would always want to know what are the
secrets that have been leaked out. We would never
condoned any of our national secret that could
weakened our military and defense system be leaked
to our enemy.
Hence the rakyat is so very
ignorant as claimed by a Minister then it would be
very wise for the country to tell us what were the
state secrets that have been leaked out that could
put our country in peril.
It would not be a fuss if Najib
had immediately removed Azeez, a dumb politician,
who was trying to do a big job that mismatched his
qualification. That's why we heard of the TH
purchasing the golf machines.
10/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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WHAT'S NEXT ?
Saudi
Foreign Affairs Minister Adel al-Jubeir
told The New York Times that the RM2.6
billion deposited into Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s bank accounts
came from a prince and was an investment
in Malaysia. – Reuters pic, February 6,
2016.
I bet Najib does not know many things as he
left to his subordinates and consultants to
fix and manipulate on the scandal pertaining
the money in his private account. He did not
answer the question in parliament for fear
he would be accused of lying as what had
transpired about the cash in BSI.
Many of us were in government service before
and will still remember the punishment
received by the Head of Department on errors
done by his subordinates. He could have been
jailed and lost his job pertaining to
pecuniary matter. The Head is accountable
and responsible for his department.
But we must not think that the world would
punish Najib. The top world leaders had
conspired with gangsters and Mafia before in
the world war. To some it is the opportune
time to get something from the country. I
would have said that Najib would have hope
that TPPA could save him, at least the
member countries will not flash any red card
on him.
But I read remarks by readers on Najib
carried religious tone; some mentioned Karma
and others mentioned Allah.
Certainly the statement made by the Saudi
Foreign Office has a great impact on the
case and observed by the Swiss government
too.
What is lying on the trail is the murder of
Altantuya, the death of AmBank founder, PI
Bala and Morais. What our authority had said
may not be agreeable by the world.
06/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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MALAYSIAN BIG MUSCLE
You may not realize how strong we are. We
commanded the Interpol to do the work for use, telling Lady Clinton that Anwar
Ibrahim is a terrorist and now attacking those foreign officials and governments
who are against us. The wife of our Prime Minister took a very active role in
warning the Russian President. Foreign papers were accusing our AG of giving
order to Swiss counterpart to stop investigating the 1Mdb.
If we aren't that strong, Obama won't have
call Najib to have a game of golf with him in Hawaii.
We have a very sophisticated government
organizations; the psychological unit, the propaganda unit, an espionage unit to
spy on foreign countries as well as the Malaysian citizens, the special
think-tank unit, and many other special squads to do the work protecting PM
Najib. Paul Stadlen is handling the foreign attacks and the strategic planning
to discredit those who are attacking Najib.
Not only the strong muscle, we also have lots and lots of
money, endless amount, that can finance the major machineries to make Najib very
invincible. We can always give donation to our favorite member in the United
Presidential campaign. We will be asking American President to stop major US
papers from writing essays against our leaders.
The Malaysians may not read those foreign papers. But news
travel fast among the intellectual group of foreign publications.
I believe it is bound for Najib's foreign friends to turn foe
one day as they began to learn the truth and follow our affairs day by day. The
Thais and the Singaporeans have known every detail of 1Mdb. They both won't say
anything. What was in Justo's hand are known to them and probably to many
others. I am sure they won't turn to be our enemy.
But then our reputation is at stake. People will look at Najib
from the corner of their eyes, with sinister remarks in their hearts. Then they
will compare the different between Muslim leaders of the world, the characters
and behaviors, sentiments and rationalities.
05/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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UNENDING COMEDY
Now
there is a war going on among the foreigners on
Malaysia. It is about the trail of 1Mdb's money. In
fact whatever is writen by Sarawak Report had been
in my mind a long time ago. I didn't know the names
and the setup but suspected such the existing
structure.
Najib's consultant's advisor is Paul Stadlen,
Sarawak Report Claire Newcastle Brown, Nawaf of
Saudi Arabia ( the Master Planner in the Middle East
) and the Wall Street Journal.
The
Malaysians especially the Malays have forgotten
about the 1Mdb and the UMNO people believe what
Najib is telling them. Nobody asked Najib about what
he does or intend to do with the GST, why he is so
very keen in signing the TPPA, and how much is his
company is owing the loan right now.
Najib is successful in
locking the Malays, a very smart effort to win the
next General Election. He made PAS as part of UMNO,
made the Malays hate the DAP, and convinced the
Malays that all other opposition parties are
commanded by the Chinese party. He said nothing
about MCA and Gerakan and the Malays thought that
both parties are insignificant to talk about.
To
me it is all a comedy. It is exposing the mind and
the character of the common Malays and their
leaders. It exposes the real faith they have over
God and Islam. It is a joke to say Malaysia was the
home of the terrorists and Anwar Ibrahim was a
leader. What is not a joke is CASH IS KING.
At the same time I
have to compute the sum of money being paid out to
names listed by Claire. It cannot be more than the
missing funds of 1Mdb.
But Najib is not free
from the charge by his opponents that he steal money
and spent on his private use. SRC money, 42 million,
went into his personal account again and proven he
used the credit card to swap out 3 million for
personal purchases. He said he did not know about
the source. If the laymen were to answer the same
thing in court he would still be thrown into jail.
When will all these
find a resting period and end itself without any
further hush ?
If
my theory on God's retribution is correct then it
will only end after Najib gets his, for Mahathir is
experiencing the comeuppance right now. The Malays
cease to be losing what they claim to be their right
and each day they became entangle in criminal
activities and plunge into poverty. Najib will only
suffer after his retirement. And before that he has
the time to see the type of Malays he has created.
05/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
2 MONTHS MORE -
SPAIN-MOROCCO
The farthest I
had been was the United States. Most of the time I
took the trips alone. A few time I followed the
travel agency. With so much experience in traveling,
I should not have any problem when making
preparation for a trip. But it does not happen that
way. At the moment, I am still unsure as to the
number of shirts that I should bring along for a
thirteen day trip. In USA I won't bother about
dress. There are laundries in almost every motels
and hotels. Moreover the European tour is always on
the move; checking out of a hotel in the morning and
travel to see places until the evening before
checking in in a new hotel.
I plan to bring
14 tight-fitting round neck T-shirts for my daily
wear. I assume that late April and early May will
not be cold anymore. A pair of trousers can last me
5 to 6 days. The body odor comes from the armpits.
There has to be a new shirt for each day.
A friend of
mine who joined me for a European trip several years
ago would carry new shirts still in plastics.
Similarly with his socks. I was using the dresses I
bought 10 to 15 years ago. My White Bermuda have
been in service for more than 20 years. I am wearing
them everyday for my exercise activities.
Traveling time
is in April. My luggage has been filled up and
placed on the old sofa. I think I have enough shirts
to bring along.How
I wish I could forget politics from now on and focus
on my traveling. But things kept on notifying me on
the smart-phone and the What'sApp. A few addressed
on the economic, money and other financial issues.
The participants do not show that they are well
educated group. They must have not read the social
media news like Sarawak Report or Malaysian Insider
as their they were written in English. A few of them
may have some distant visions.
I leave to God
to fix the bad leaders. If I continue thinking about
them I am sure my life span will be very much
shortened.
The tour will
start in Morocco and slowly proceeds North to Spain.
It doesn't look cold at all. I really hate cold. I
have had enough icing and snow and severe cold wind
before. They have a Scandinavian's tour. It does not
interest me at all.
Will we go for
the camel ride ? I don't know. I need to ask the
travel agent soon.
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CHEAP
FOOD IS STILL AROUND
I thank
God the Almighty for making life is not
so bad despite my shrinking savings and
the rising cost of living. I can still
have a meal below RM4 at stalls where
the vendors are very considerate and not
greedy. I usually have a heavy
breakfast, a plate of tomato rice at one
Majid restaurant. A plate of rice with
egg,a few pieces of cucumber and a glass
of warm water would cost me RM2.50, with
meat RM4.50 and fish RM5.00.
My
dinner, at the Uptown Darul Aman
stadium, is very delicious Nasi Lemak or
just plain rice. Today I took a medium
size mackerel and the small minows plus
a glass of coffee. I was charged RM4.00.
This Nasi Lemak stall would not purchase
fish if they were expensive. Each day
the number of customers increased.
Elsewhere for RM4.00 I can have two
bungkus of Nasi Lemak, an egg
and a glass of coffee.
The
other day I wanted to try a dinner at
Grand Alora Hotel. I paid RM26 for a
plate of very saltish fried mee, which
was far below the street stall standard.
Of course it was much cheaper than the
Wangyu meat. Even if I can afford the
Japanese meat, I won't want to have the
RM30K per kilo flesh. Imagine if someone
were to tell you that you are taking
human flesh not the cow's meat.
I
think I can still live with the income
of RM900 a month. I have to cook my own
rice and consume it with a boil egg and
a kicap. I won't be using
freezer, internet or pay-TV. I won't beg
from the government or claim for BR1M. I
will opt for a bicycle and discard other
form of transportation. When I go for
voting, I will write F**K on a man with
BN's symbol and go home with some
satisfaction.
But I
don't earn that much. The government
still support me and I must always
remember that.
Life
is not made for me alone. Others need to
live too. They are hard pressed by the
inflation and price hike as the value of
ringgit worsened. Not all are so
fortunate to be able to have the RM2.50
meal.
We are
very selfish too. We care for ourselves
more than the welfare of the nation. We
want free cash, more and more, higher
minimum wage that chased away investors
and that made foreign labors more
attractive, and support corrupt leaders
to the core. I saw people throwing cats
at KFC and Super-market. We become more
and more inconsiderate yet we asked
others to treat us like a lord.
Our
leaders are telling us to do the home
cooking if eating out is expensive. Even
Ahmad Maslan won't tie himself to a
kitchen if he were to live alone like
me. If I can cook well I might as well
run a food stall and make some bucks.
And today's mothers are seemed to be
home just before the Maghrib prayer,
some later. A few do business and a few
as sweepers at the super stores.
Thanks
God that He spares a few people with
good hearts, with conscience and
consideration. They still sell coffee and
other drinks at a dollar each cup though
their neighbors sold them at RM2.00.
They depart with a dollar in exchange
for heaven in the next life.
Luxury
? I have enough luxury, more than what I
need. We are not a Prime Minister. We
should not place ourselves as high as
the leader. They can have whatever they
want. It is not of our concern.
03/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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IGP KNOWS THE
TRUTH
Zetty, IGP and many other
investigators know the truth about the crime done
and they too believe Najib's problem is caused by
his second wife. I never believe that Najib will
escape persecution by any mean he may be deploying.
He is now about 64. I won't live long enough to see
the worst that will happen.
I am sure that
the police had open their own covert investigation
and keeping the file intact. While others may think
the police is protecting Najib, I do think
otherwise. It is in dilemma. No matter the amount of
favor given by Najib, they have the police principle
in their blood - to stand by the righteousness, to
secure a strong nation free of vices.
I don't follow the crowd, howling
blindly for nothing. Neither do I believe what I
read from the Social Media without studying and
analyzing. I used several basic principles;
questions asked should not wait 3 - 6 months for the
answer, banks did not immediately denied of the
money that went into Najib's account, nobody denied
the movement of 1Mdb funds, the changing of
statements on the donor (and later several donors)
for which the money was donated, the lies on the
cash in Singapore bank.
I did see the relationship between
the GST and Najib's struggle to save himself, to use
the money to corrupt individuals local and
foreigners to escape criminal charges, and to pay
whatever debts he had caused.
He depended
much on Saudi's consultant to do the work for him,
paid them to tell Hilary Clinton that Anwar is a
terrorist and probably is still in contact to
resolve the problem of the late King's name as a
donator ( Zahid said he met several donators ). Many
want to see how his CASH IS KING will buy off the
Swiss charge issue. Najib has asked the Interpol to
arrest Brown and probably will command the Swiss
government to close the case. He could have done the
same with the Scorpene and thought it was all over.
But it is emerging again. He may be called to
testify in French Court.
All those are not the making of
his opponents. It was of his own making.
Do we believe
in God's retribution ? We are waiting to see what
else will be coming.
02/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
EVENING WALK
TODAY
There were two
beautiful Chinese ladies, 2 Malay men and between 6
to 7 Chinese men. I saw them almost everyday.
Almost...not because there were not there sometime
but because I was not there many of the time. There
were not jogging. They ran like Spartans going to
war. At least they would complete 10 laps of about
1.2 kilometers each lap. When Ibrahim Ali showed
himself as a Malay warrior, I asked him to run or
jog or walk for only 2 km. If he pants he should
have kept quiet.
Lately I saw
young girls and boys jog-walk. One Malay girl seemed
to be jogging for a few rounds covering about 4.8
km. I thought she must had been a sports girl in
school. And I am at level 4 on the scale of 1 - 10,
10 being the best and 1 the worst. I could beat a
few elderly and fatter women as well as a few men
older than me. I would not push myself to go more
than 4.8 kilometers.
There is a
women whose age I am not able to guess correctly.
Either she is older than me or of the same age. She
always overtook me and I could not chase her.
She seemed to float like a butterfly. Today she wore
green. When I was there she was already on the
track. She could have done more than 6 kilometers.
The strongest
of all is one dumb and deaf young Chinese boy,
probably about 23. He didn't feel tired throughout
his running. What I like about him is he was able to
make me understand things when he was conversing
with me. I would say that we are good friends. I
seldom accost people while doing my exercise.
The Westerners
may be amazed to see Malaysian women doing their
exercise. A few wear veils. Joggers with heavy cloak
did not seem to be disturbed by the dress they wore.
It has been
several days I saw pregnant woman took a walk in the
inner circuit. Today I saw two, one walking alone
and another with her husband. One of these days I
want to joke with them, telling them that
immediately after birth, the baby would struggle to
walk.
Men must not
underestimate women. They can be much stronger
physically. They could even knock out their men's
opponents in one blow. I would love to see Ku Nan
got a knock out by his wife.
02/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE MALAYS
This is not
addressed to the Malays only. The Malays here means
every other ethnic group in this country.
When God
creates heaven it is NOT to provide eternal comfort
to the Malays. It is for the believers who obey God
and practice God's religion. Sinners are thieves,
murderers, adulterers and other criminals beside
those other non-believers. A good man like a Muslim
comes from all walks of life. He can be a Chinese,
an Indian, a Brazilian or an Eskimo.
A friend in
Kuala Lumpur recently was suffering from a deep
trauma as a group of Malays broke into his house
with weapons in hand and threatened to cut his kid's
head. They were not ISIS. They were Malay robbers.
being a Malay does not give immunity to create
crimes, murder, lies and steal.
A Muslim should
help another Muslim regardless of his race,
nationality and skin color. It is not compulsory for
a Malay to support and endorse crimes committed by
another Malay just because of the identical
ethnicity.
It is sad that
racial card is used for political mileage with the
aim of sustaining political power. The Malays are
told not to criticize the misdeed of Malay leaders.
The message insinuates that a criminal Malay is
better than a Chinese. At the same time they
continue to plunder the national wealth to satisfy
their own insatiable greed.
Nobody should
condone criminal acts by anyone.
The incident at
Low Yatt is still fresh in our mind. The first was
about the cheating case and the second was about the
hand phone theft. Both were about the bad people. It
could be right for the vendor to cheat and the Malay
boy to steal. None should support any of the trouble
makers. The police had acted rightly from the eyes
of the law.
One other
dangerous disease is when one thinks he is the most
smart man in the world.
Once the Malays
used to say that greed were in the Chinese blood,
not until they started to run their own businesses.
They started to find pleasure in putting up higher
prices as customers still flocked to their stalls
and restaurants. Many inflated their sales by 100%.
Fishermen are selling prawns at RM70 per-kilogram,
mackerel for RM16 a kilo. The number of greedy
Malays are rising at the alarm level, like the
Peishu they need more and more and never arrive at
the point of satisfaction.
Young Malays
are not taught to think but taught to follow and
obey. They are not allowed to question their
parents. Students are told what and what not to do
without using reasons. Subordinates must follow
their boss. The penalty for questioning could be
very severe. The tentacles for mental expansions are
cut and poisoned. It looks like leaderships prefer
stupid subordinates than the smart one. They chose a
person merely with the school lower certificate of
education to be a chief minister and a school
certificate individual to head a big organization.
As such the Malays lose the
competitive ability, and become lazy and have to
depend on UMNO to survive. They have to depend on
BR1M and the philanthropy of others to make ends
meet. They demand for bigger salary with the least
or no qualification.
The selfishness of the Malay
leaders made the Malays remain poor. The farmers
remain poor. They alter the land act so that they
can grab cheap land from the poor farmers and turned
them into housing estates, driving the price of the
house and shop houses astronomical high until the
Malays themselves can't afford to buy them. Then
they yelled, howled and shouted to the Chinese and
say "This is our land....don't try to be funny
here..."
Being a Malay does not
automatically make him an angel. I talked to 2 male
workers in a Malay sundry shop. On one second Hari
Raya day he was there in the shop, no over time and
no leave. He was sad that he could not go back to
Kelantan for the festivities. The other one was
planning to open his own business. One female worker
working with a Chinese lady owner on the other hand
loves her boss very much.
I am very concern on the education
policy carved out by the so-called Malay educators.
Thinking and affordable parents prefer to send their
children to International Schools. 90% of the Malays
can't afford such private institutions. In Sarawak
the Chinese schools prefer their own system. They do
not have confidence in the present curriculum
contents.
In many aspects the Malays are at
the losing end. The leaders too realize it but never
to admit it was due to their short sighted policy.
Then they find the scapegoat to cast their
blames...DAP, the Chinese party.
01/02/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHAT'S IN A
DRESS
JohnMaster, selling at RM40, goes like a hotcake.
There are RM200+ T-shirts and the lowest ones. While
the Chinese bought them for the Chinese New Year, I
gathered them for my Spain-Morocco trip. I hope
those cheap ones are not clones but the left over
old stocks. I am sure spring will not be as severe
as it is now.
I also made a survey
of the prices of the body-fit T-shirts that I use to
wear for my evening walk. I found that the old and
the new prices are the same but the quantity is
reduced to 2 pcs instead of the old three. It means
the increase in the price is very substantial.
The new year is about
a week away. If I don't buy those JohnMaster now, I
won't be able to find the forty dollar branded shirt
anymore.
I
buy shirts but not trousers. I still put on the torn
pants even for a long journey, local or foreign. It
is a kind of fashion style. Steve Jobs and a few
other scientists on public TV only wore casual
dress.
However at this age I try to observe the dress codes
as much as I could. Attending feast would be the
long sleeve Batik, prayer at the mosque is always
the Baju Melayu. Burmuda is not only for my daily
exercise it is also for traveling.
The dress I hate most
is the coat and neck-tie.
The last dress to wear
has not come yet. Many people are scared to think of
the day. Everyone wishes that he will be placed in
heaven for the rest of the eternal life.
Actually I won't mind
if anyone else want to have whatever dress or
ornaments or handbags they want. It is nice to see
other people wearing beautiful things. It is just
lovely. Surely you would want to see Rosmah look the
best among any other worlds first ladies.
Enough with the cheap
branded T-shirt. If I were to wear a RM20K JohMaster,
I may have to tell everyone I meet that I have a
RM20K shirt on my body.
What's on your body
and how you look like isn't impressed everyone. It
is what in your head that's utmost important. It is
what in your heart that matters most.
31/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
THEY ARE STILL
SLEEPING
Najib's only
hope is to tow the line of Obama so that he could be
protected by the American President. Would Obama
order the FBI to close investigation on Najib ? I
would not think so. The Pentagon loves to compile
more facts on the Malaysian Prime Minister, and to
see whether he was behind several murders that had
taken place including Morais. USA won't arrest him
nor his wife. They will force Najib to follow their
desire.
At least 90% of
UMNO members, his supporters or enemies, are not
aware of the International bodies have put their
interest in the 1Mdb money laundering activities.
The Foreign Ministry and the members of the
propaganda unit do know of the upcoming and are
preparing words to attack the countries involve, and
to convince the Malaysians that the locals and the
foreigners do conspire to cast out Najib.
Fortunately for
Najib that many of his close friends are not English
educated and some did not even pass Senior
Cambridge. The don't even know the technical aspects
of computer to get access to the banned sites. And
they are not interested to know why Nabib banned
some sites.
The Scorpenes
case went silent for quite some months. It is now
resurfacing again. Surely Najib would not want to be
called to France to answer some of the questions. If
somehow big money had been paid to waive Najib in
this case, and yet it is brought up again then
someone could bid good bye to the payment.
These UMNO guys
won't even know whether Najib will be shown a red
card. Who would want to declare war on that country
? Once an arrest warrant is flashed Najib will have
to hire Mosad to be his body guard.
We hope Najib
won't face such a degrading situation.
31/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
SHOULD MALAYSIA
BE WORRIED ?
I think the
world should give Najib a break, stop all the
scandals and lies about the Prime Minister. We have
been wasting our time and money trying to prove that
our Prime Minister did no wrong. Our deputy Prime
Ministers and several others had met with the
donors, not one but several. When we told our
citizen there was one donor who wanted to fight ISIS
off, they didn't want to believe. So we told them
that there were several.
All the stories
about the movement of funds from 1Mdb company to
Najib's personal account were truly lies.
The story about
Switzerland poking it's nose into our affair is not
of it's business, nothing to do with foreign
countries. Our AG has closed the case and Najib was
declared innocent. Yet Sarawak Report keeps on
vexing us. They are just jealous because the Malays
are ruling the country.
Soon the
Scorpene case will be out again after staying
dormant for quite some time. Someone went as far as
accusing Najib trying to free himself using a local
lawyer to pay some French guy.
Do the Westerners have nothing
else to do ? They should appreciate our efforts to
fight the terrorists.
Nobody can do anything to Najib.
He is the chosen one.
30/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
ISIS IN MALAYA ?
The sermon at the
Friday prayer today is about ISIS. Probably it is
the same topic throughout Malaya instructed by the
Federal Government. I then remember the Friday
prayers I followed in the United States. When the
Imams were not from Saudi Arabia the sermons contain
political tones but the ones from Saudi preached
with religious tones, about living and death,
heaven and hell. I would classify ISIS under
political tones with an express political purpose.
Could it be an ISIS
movement right on our land to set up an Islamic
government ? I don not think so. The events in Syria
and Iraq were more political rather than religious.
Syrian rebels were armed by the United States as
Assad was using big killing machines to kill the
unarmed dissidents. It is all about the bad
governance and unfairness.
A man on the street
who shouts that he is an ISIS is not one unless he
is well armed and well trained. There may be a few
thousand men who wish they have the most modern
hitech weapons in their possessions not to destroy
other religions and set up an Islamic States but to
put away only ONE single stubborn politician. Again
it will remain a wish
Try to imagine that
Malaya is near Syria and Iraq. If Najib is good,
honest and clean the citizens will be happy. The
country will be in peace. If it is like the current
situations tenth of thousand will flee Malaya and
will join any militant group. It will happen. But we
are thousands of miles away separated by seas and a
long terrain, countries and continents, which spell
the impossibility of people getting weapons and
training from the real ISIS.
Let us also assume
there is a strong and powerful force of IS movement,
who will be their main target ? The non-Muslims ?
Hishamuddin said he is in the hit list. It cannot be
just a single man. It has to be several. By now
those in the list may have long been cleared and put
to vanish from the earth surface.
In my view the sermon
was to prevent any arms revolt, to halt the Malays
from any thinking of seeking firearms to put oust
Najib.
The Indonesians
bombing incident was of the local nature,
independent of an international ISIS. It was aiming
either at the United States or at the Indonesian
leadership. There could be a link between the
Indonesians and the Malaysians. There could also be
a possibility of a few Malaysians going over to
learn the bomb making technology, more on personal
basis rather than the organized militant proned
group.
I believe that we can
dispel any terror group by having a good government
running on the rule of law, fair to all citizens,
strive to provide the best for the welfare of the
populace.
The mosque should be
more careful in using the sermon's topics. Political
stuffs may turn the people away and would cause
split among the Muslims.
30/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
STATIN THE
ANTI-CHOLESTEROL MEDICINE
We never
realized what statin prescribed by the doctor to
lower our cholesterol level can do to our body. I
seem to agree with the video clip above that it
damages our memory, our levers, kidneys and muscles.
So all along we were thinking we are getting senile
due to ageing process. And those statin patients
then experienced a high reading of the blood sugar
content and later suffer kidney failures.
Once upon a
time I asked a doctor why met-formin when it is well
known to affect our kidneys. The answer was
simple,"Without met-formin you will die faster. The
medicine slows down your death." Kidney failures and
diabetes do not seem to have cure. If you have them
you are sure to die. Medicines and dialysis will
just make you live a little longer life.
Cholesterol
won't kill us but the lack of vitamin C can cause
stroke.
I downloaded
the above video clips, put them in a thumb drive and
took it to the local hospital to be given to a
doctor. I believe they will discuss the findings and
decide what to do next.
I don't know
whether my damaged brain cells can recuperate, by
natural process or by divine intervention. I will
place faith before everything else that it will
revive but it will take a long time, at the close of
my death within the coming few years. It is the same
hope with a few other tissue damage caused by statin
intake. The doctor asked me to stop statin intake to
observe the result.
The 4.8
kilometer daily walk does me good. I feel fresh and
strong, never feel old until people called me
'uncle'. The reduced food intake too made me felt
light when I had my walk.
Please do a
little more research, gather more facts, weigh them
to see their veracity and make your own decision, to
continue with the drug or consume more vitamin C as
proposed.
27/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
BACK TO MY
ROUTINE
The more I care
to sneak into Najib's affairs and conducts the worse
do my health become. I will try to close my eyes
from those news and leave everything to God to fix
the case. I want to attend to my personal matters
which are very messy and need some spring cleaning,
starting from my health to the dressing of my home,
inside and out. I have to read something about
Android Studio and follow the instruction step by
step, as far as no one asked me to produce my credit
card for a license fee. I don't have a credit card.
There are
documents that I have to examine as they have
something to do with my wife's departure. I hope to
get everyone of them to facilitate claims and other
matters. May be I will start tonight. Surely it will
take a few hours to end the job.
My laptops are
not at their proper place. In my shack this ACER is
used for typing my blog. My Apple is on the dinning
table with an external keyboard to replace the
original keyboard which were filled up by the minute
ants. And the slow HP is on the sofa in front of my
TV set. While watching TV I worked on My Visual
Studio 2015. My clothing spreads everywhere; on the
floor, chairs, sofas and on the cupboard. I want to
start ironing some and put them in my traveling beg
for the coming April Spain-Morocco's trip.
You may faint
when looking at my dinning table. There are papers,
plastic begs, bottles, combs, portable plugs and
sockets, a box of Mandarin orange, mosquito's
aerosol and pens. I have rung the usual maids to do a 5 hour
work for RM100 for two persons. It will be done on
the coming Sunday.
Today I went
for medical checkup. I asked the young doctor
whether I am administered with statin for
cholesterol "Yes," he replied. "Do you have other
than statin for cholesterol ? " I asked. "WHY ? " He
asked me. I told him about several side effects of
statin. "Your cholesterol is OK. only 5. Let us stop
the statin and you take up vitamin C and see for
these few months. You take another blood test to
check the cholesterol and the kidney reading." I
agreed.
The doctor
asked me whether I follow the strict diet control,
to which I gave negative answer. I ate all; pepsi
almost everyday, beef, egg ( red and white). The
doctor said I took too little medicine for
blood-sugar and saying statin increased the reading
blood-sugar level may not be true for my reading is
almost normal. I did not tell him of my daily hourly
walk as a normal routine.
I am waiting
for the Chinese New Year to be over before I called
Ah Hua. I want to ask him to find and buy the PVC
pipe of a double O size, the 2", 1 3/4 and 1 1/2".
for my new antenna mast. I have been to several
hardware shops, they do not have the double O but
one with only 1 1/2". I want to work on 80 meter
band with a proper antenna. For years as a ham I
only worked on 15, 20 and 40 meters. My target time
for completion will be around mid February.
I abandoned my
experiment in search of free energy. I think it will
be for quite some some before I picked it up back as
my hobby. In the meantime I sent an e-mail to Bloom
Energy in USA seeking for more information. But
telling them that I am an old man of 69 and retired
might not get any attention from them. But I will
just wait. You won't know unless you try.
My shack is
warm and stuffy. There is no fan. It has an
air-conditioning unit but I stopped using it to cut
my electricity bill. Last month I only paid RM34. My
average before was RM250. I do not sleep in this
room anymore. Instead I am sleeping on the bed where
my wife used to sleep before, a kind of a hospital
bed with rollers and shielding on both sides. It is
more cosy than staying in the radio shack.
I am not an
anti cob-webs. I regard it as a mean to arrest the
mischievous mosquitoes. When maid came they would
remove them. The room is not accessible to those
workers.
I won't die if
I don't know the chaos of politics. I may feel the
pinch of the rising cost of living due to the poor
management of the country. I have seen so many
incompetent thieves swallowing public funds, the
failures of business organizations run by the
politicians. They are very real and true happenings.
I have no choice but to nsult myself to say the
Malays in general are short sighted and stupid. The
politicians think the others are fools like them.
It would be
true if anybody were to tell me to clean my own
backyard first before I passed remarks on others. I
can't even manage my own home. Even a cat has
cheated me. This cat of mine has a small kitten
which she brought into the house and hid it in my
shack. Each day I allowed the mother in to milk her
baby. When the kitten grew bigger I took her outside
my room. The mother would come in in the morning to
breath feed her baby. And at night I allowed her in
again until the next morning. I never knew she took
comfort to urinate on my clothing days in days out.
I only realized it when I wanted to do the ironing
this afternoon. I have to rewash my dress again.
I have a strong
feeling that God will fix the current chaos, of the
man who wrongfully used the pilgrimage money until
it is hitting the red mark. They pillaged religion
for their own gain, forgetting their days are
numbered. There is no way that Rosmah can fight her
ageing. For some that is a torment. I don't want to
think of the Malaysian government to seek the
military aid of USA and Australia to kill thousands
or millions of Malays under the name of fighting
against terrorism. I don't see how else I can live
until year 2020.
26/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
KNOWLEDGE AND
QUALIFICATION
I still
remember that at one time the MCA and the Gerakan
have very qualified people in parliament while the
UMNO members were academically inferior. UMNO then
decided to have individuals with academic
qualifications to be people's representatives.
A leader with a
very strong analytical ability, good foresight and
with distant vision, rich in various knowledge can
make a wise decision and not easily conned by
opportunists. Even at the current time MCA/Gerakan
are much more smarter than the UMNO members in many
ways. By controlling sentiments they can maneuver
situations to their favors.
Qualification
is a general indicator of mental aptness and
alertness. Rejecting qualified people is just the
tale of Pol Pot regime where kids were told to shoot
and kill their teachers and all other professionals.
Our Holly Prophet may not talk of LCE and MCE
examinations but told the Muslims to seek
knowledge beyond their boundaries.
To say Einstein
was actually a dropout at least he has a theory of
relativity and on e=mc2 to talk about. What special
academic or scientific contributions do our
politicians parade ? Take the less educated to
debate a topic he will hide behind a curtain. Ask
him to explain 1 Mdb, he will either talk rubbish or
only mentions one word repeatedly 'fitnah...fitnah..fitnah...'
Low academic
qualification does not brand you as a stupid man.
You may have better wisdom. It would be alright if
you are running your family, your home or your own
business. But you cannot run a university,
multi-national companies, a state or a country. You
can't leave everything to your subordinates to do
things for you and speak everything on your behalf.
If it is, it is as good as not having anyone at all. We don't need a Prime Minister or a Menteri
Besar then. Immediately millions will not respect
you. When you can't use your brain or your knowledge
then you will resort to using your muscle.
We live in
competitive world, competing with smarter and cleverer people.
We need to be alert all the time else you have to be
prepared for the worst. Even
the degree holders were outwitted by more smarter
con men. Najib's 'cash is king' and his witty mind
cannot fight the derailing economy and the plunging
dollar. I had said in one of my articles before
about Najib's using muscles to push his policy on FELDA
that it would be met by the battle of wits.
Many predict the FELDA settlers will be left with
their useless properties on paper only, in the future.
Imagine, you
give a mathematic test to a person. He fails the
test. You give him a history test. He fails. You
give him an English test. He also fails. Then you
say that the best job for him is to be a Chief
Minister or a Prime Minister.
25/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
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WHAT AN ANSWER
Najib told the Malaysians that the 2.6 billion
donation is for him. It is nothing to do with other
people. He is opening up the once blocked path of
accepting donations and gifts which a lot of people
would like to offer even without any return favors.
Many of us still remember circulars from Civil
Service Department barring us from accepting gifts
and hampers.
There will be no such thing as living beyond the
means. A person with RM3K salaries may be getting
gifts and donations 1 hundred times his salary. Some
police officers were given donations by the members
of the public, not for freeing them for their
offences, but for the good work they have done to
keep peace and order. Government officers therefore
should not reject any gift and donation that comes
into their ways.
But
the 2.6 billions that went into his personal account
did not come directly from the donator. It went
through several levels which are defined as money
laundering.
Najib's answers vexed more people though his court
and judges may free him.
People will not be listening to him anymore no
matter what he says when the country become
bankrupt. Daim predicts darkness will engulf the
country by September. When that happens nobody will
listen to Najib's words anymore. The ringgit kept on
falling. It may not be accepted by many countries.
Even the Thai bath is far above our ringgit. Najib
cannot blame on the world anymore.
By
now he should realize that the GST collection would
not resolve the big loan he has been making. Loans
cannot be paid by GST but by the economic growth.
The business community have lost confidence on
Najib. The more garbage uttered by him, the more the
investors will show their contempt. As we have seen
US investors were asked to avoid Malaysia.
Najib will not care how bad our economy become. All
he cares is only himself.
22/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
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PAST
PREDICTIONS
It was about 17 years ago when we had
been discussing Mahathir and Barisan
Nasional as almost our daily routine. As
the case of Anwar Ibrahim dragged and
later followed by several death we put
up a question, "Why Mahathir is still
alive ?"
"He will live a long time and God will
punish him in this world. Some of us
will live to see it. Most among us will
die first," someone said. I remember
what I told the group clearly.
UMNO will fight among themselves
fiercely. The reason is the grabbing of
the reduced resources. Whenever a new
person becomes a PM, his followers will
demand for projects. Most of the
projects are held by the old PM's
followers. As the numbers grow bigger
the resources will become smaller.
The fight will start here. The root is
the projects and the money. "
Was I wrong in my analysis, describing
the future base on the current
behaviour.
The different between the Malays and the
Chinese is that the later had to learn
to be independent from the young. They
were not the pampered race. They strive
to build their economy. Among the MCA
members they will not stab each other
because of government projects. While
the Malays, being much pampered, had to
depend on others to survive. Joining
UMNO is not with the ancient patriotic
spirit, but more on finding economic
opportunities and hope to get financial
favors.
The prediction on the comeuppance
experience by Mahathir now also came
true. God created thing happening in a
mysterious way. Mahathir elected Najib
and replaced Abdullah Badawi. The
retributions began. At 90+ Mahathir is
feeling the torture imposed by Najib. I
didn't think that he made a wrong
choice. It was a natural process of the
punishment we were waiting for.
It is more painful to see what is
happening to Mukhriz now.
Islam does say that the non-sinners who
live within the community of sinners
will have to suffer when God send
turbulence in the area. Malaysia seemed
to be strike by hell fire; the economy
goes down, currency weakens, foreign
investors runs away, young people are
losing their jobs, prices shot up
greatly and the cost of living is
pinching.
What future do I predict ?
The future is very bad for the normal
Malaysians. The Malays, being the least
on the survival rate, will be suffering
more.
22/01/2016
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Najib admits
getting RM42 million from SRC, but tells Ling to
prove it
If I am a samseng,
the drug lord and a mafia chief I will use all
the words and phrases which the world would not
understand them or insult them worst more than a
slave.
I have been watching too many movies
depicting gangsterism and drugs on the
Hollywood. The power of the drug cartel is
monumental and seemed invincible. The police and
the politicians had a share in the dirty money.
It took an individual to sneak to kill the
biggest criminal boss.
Examine the above
phrase and trace the fragrance spirit in the
content. I only found a sinister intent saying
'Yes, I took the money...so what ? '
Actually what LLS
has to do to prove it is using Najib's own
admittance itself.
The seeds of
hatred is not sown by Lim Kit Siang, Mahathir or
Rafizi. All emerged from the horse mouths. They
themselves are the driving force of ISIS
movement or any other militant organization. The
more the people are oppressed the more
creativity they become. The real desperados who
find living is hell and meaningless are willing
to do the worst.
My mind keeps on
wondering what is the mind of our IGP. Even if
he got all the favors from Najib, doesn't his
mind feel guilty ? It is no more a fitnah when
Najib was finally cornered to admit the money
that went into his account. The leaks has shown
millions were spent on personal comforts. Surely
the IGP should have known where Najib got the
money to spend to kill and paralyse his
opponents.
Not only the IGP,
so are all other dignitaries who know that
crimes have been committed. What's in the mind
of the Sabahan Ministers like Rahman, Keruak and
Pandikar ? Didn't they think of the rakyat ? The
story of 2.6 billions had been changed from time
to time. The intelligent minds could have a
manifest idea of the veracity of the crimes.
I have tried to
think that all accusations made on Najib were
mere lies and fallacies. But each day the truth
begins to appear. What Najib said yesterday
differs from what he may say today. WSJ lied
about the USD700 millions moved into Najib's
personal account. Today it emerges to be true.
Najib said he never used public money for
personal used and now he admitted he had the 42
millions into his account and he has to disprove
what was written by SR is false.
For once the
police should be with God, submit to the
teachings of Islam and do the right thing.
Najib admits getting RM42 million from SRC, but
tells Ling to prove it - See more at:
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/najib-admits-getting-rm42-million-from-src-but-tells-ling-to-prove-it#sthash.QYNJpUcV.dpuf
21/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
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LOYALTY TO
A MAN AND LOYALTY TO GOD
From the
beginning, Najib had been calling the Malaysians
to be loyal to him. And to most the call was
something obvious and normal. What was
happening, well hidden under Najib's cloak was
not known by almost every Malaysians. Najib had
done a lot of wrongs, sinful and against the
law. He did not want people to question him and
the government. That was why he called the
people to obey without questioning.
Najib almost got
what he demanded. Ismail Sabry, Ku Nan, Said
Keruak, Rahman, Pandikar and his other Ministers
prostrated, and Ismail likened Najib to God, and
Najib himself declared he is elected by Allah as
a Prime Minister. Even if they know public funds
went into Najib's personal account, they would
not want to believe it. If proven they say they
approve such a scam. Therefore all illegal
things become legal by their approvals.
There are civil
servants and Ministers who want God to forgive
their sins by carrying out orders from Najib
saying 'they have no choice but to obey'. They
used the term Cari Makan. Jobless young
people need money and they have to submit to
accept any dirty job like the Cyber Troopers, or
becoming political hooligans. These are mainly
from the Malay group who are not independent
enough economically.
How far will the
loyalist go to defend a man who will somehow be
known to commit heinous crimes ? And how far
will the IGP willing to go for the same reason.
Islam and Muslims are not a rogue religion. The
police and the army cannot argue with God that
they have to obey a man for their family
survival for they have the alternatives. One of
them is to stop the crime and the criminal.
The test for a
true Muslimin is here and now. He has to choose
between God and a man.
20/01/2016 - Abdul Rahman
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