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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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PAYING LOAN
I had sworn to myself that I would not
lend money to anybody else, even to my
close relatives and friends. It is not
because they are reluctant to pay back
but because they don't want to pay back.
One of out of five hundred may honor the
promise.
Everybody seems to be broke, even a
wealthy Class A contractor. Some would
sob and cry and lament for help, with
full of swearing and promising that the
payment will be prompt. Big businessmen
without any shame and conscience can ask
his poor and jobless friend for a few
hundreds to a few thousands. I even come
to conclude that wealthy people seek
helps from poorer individuals more than
the reverse.
Many dared to approach shark loan and
suffered a severe punishments as they
can't afford to pay.
Failing to get back the loan some resort
to appealing through social media like
the Facebook. There ere occasions when
the lender get the lash from the
borrower. A friend of mine Halim, a
contractor who get a handsome bequest
from the mother's death avoided paying
me just a modest sum of RM500. And again
I made another promise to myself not to
lend to anyone anymore.
The problem with me is even if I only
have RM100 in my purse I would lend away
RM90. Realizing my stupidity I cursed
myself. I could not sleep thinking about
it. A working person, a lecturer, called
me up just for RM50. He should have
known that I am a retired man with a
meager pension. I would give him a
hundred and told him not to pay back. I
would not believe he will pay back.
Similarly guys who seemed to know my
name would approach me for a ten ringgit
loan, I would just give him.
Then a month ago I got a SMS requesting
for a loan of 30K. 30K is almost my
whole life saving after deducting all
other expenses. I had 35K in my account
. That's all and not a quarter more.
Don't they think I am jobless with zero
earning ? The SMS said the payment will
be a month. I gave a deep thought and
weakened by the pity, and decided to
give away 25K. I needed 10K for the the
Eid. My grandchild would be back home. I
usually spent a lot on both of them. The
bank transfer was made. I felt that I
had done a good thing helping a person
in need.
Two weeks ago while jogging with a lady
teacher who I met at the track we talked
over a wide range of topics. She could
talk on end telling all sort of stories.
We talked about the raising cost of
living, the economy of a small car,
about health and exercise and money. On
the next day we continued our
conversation. One of the subjects of our
chatting was on loan. She narrated a lot
of stories on her experience that people
did not pay back the loan she gave, the
swindlers and her relative who took more
than a year to settle a small loan. She
too swore to herself not to lend money
anymore.
Those conversations made me scared. My
25K loan may land in nowhere. What if it
is not paid and the borrower pretend
that there was nothing happen about the
25K transfer. To console myself I put my
faith in God and injected a strong
believe that the loan will be honored.
To my happiness, yesterday I received a
message the 25K has been banked into my
account. I felt so very relieve and
ecstatic.
I am going to give away no more loan.
But what should I do and say when
someone approach me for it ? I can say I
don't have money to 99% of the people.
Surely the one who get the 25K would
think I may have a ready cash in my
bank.
It would be wise for me not to look at
the balance as my total cash in hand. I
need to compute the future commitment as
well. If I plan to but a Bezza new car
for RM35K and I have 25K left in my
bank, my amount of money is -RM10K. The
future commitment has to include
traveling, buying medical drugs and
supplements, road taxes and rates, and
the possible expense when I am warded.
I think you too can do the same.
Computing your balance by deducting your
future and desired commitments which
would include the holiday expenses.
In Islam the final punishment to people
who do not pay their loan is severe.
Imagine those loan defaulters who have
been to Mecca several times. Do they
think their sins could be cleaned and
erased by God ?
27/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
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US POLITICAL FUND RAISING
Political parties in USA are competing
in raising funds. Donating to them is
not considered bribery though
individuals and business communities and
everyone knows they are lobbying and
expect a return favor. If Shafiee
Abdullah really offered to give USD500
million to Hillary Clinton it is by no
mean illegal according to the United
States's law. The American Jews and the
Arabs were known to contribute plenty
with the hidden intents and expressed
purpose.
Shafiees's visit has a multi-prong
tentacles. What was announced was he was
to show documents on Mahathir's sons
laundering activities in USA while Najib's son
in law did not know the donation he gets
was from 1Mdb. It would not be wrong to
assume that PM Najib had been talking to Obama several time to get off the hook.
But Only Obama did not know Najib's
modus operandi which he had been
practicing on Anwar Ibrahim and Mahathir.
It takes FBI to lodge report on Najib's tactical
maneuver.
Nevertheless
Obama has already put pressure on DOJ to
receive Shafiee. That's the reason why
Najib is telling his supporters not to
take the street yelling at Obama. He is
very confidence that he will go
scot-free.
Every one is saying that they are
keeping their fingers cross. If it is in
Malaysia the court would say, "Let's go
case by case. After finishing your case
we will take another..."
But we can be sure that every record on
Shafiee's activity including his road
show campaign against the jailed Anwar
is on FBI's table and being handed to
Loretta. WE can't hardly say how Shafiee
conduct himself, whether with extreme
vanity or as humble as pathetic
beggar. The show of arrogance will not
be good for Najib.
We would have expect Rosmah to have
phoned up Michelle Obama probably having
a long pathetic talk, and even cry on
the phone. More than 4 phone
calls and continued pestering could cause
backfire. If it is so we can be sure
that the price of putting Anwar in jail
is the same gruesome fate awaiting
for him. As it is now the Prime Minister
is very confident of his escape.
Clinton had been paid before before this
to make her believe that Anwar was a
head of a terrorist group in Malaysia.
Najib used his Arab messenger to do the
work for him. Though contribution to
political party coffer is not a crime in
USA, the Malaysians see it
as corruption. Najib's favorire phrase
is "I scratch your back and you scratch
mine."
The high handed policy practiced in
Malaysia could not be applied to foreign
countries. We tried to order and command
the Interpol but the later is aware of
our dictative mood. We were trying to
force the world to believe the Arab
nation donated 2.6 billion to Najib's personal
account. Why not we warned the Swiss to
be careful with the Chosen One to avoid
the wrath of God the Almighty ?
Cash is King. It is true that there are
corruptions in the United States too.
But the Americans too have conscience
and pride in themselves. How would they
feel knowing a Malay was trying to
outwit the Western people in demanding
Claire Brown be arrested and put under
red alert ? One has just need to whisper
this to Donald Trump and watch the
result.
Arab donation did not stop Israel's
encroachment and torturing the
Palestinians boys.
The Malaysian cried foul on the death of
Najadi, PI Bala and Kevin Morais. If the
voices travel to the United States and
other countries, Clinton and Obama may
have to start looking at those death.
FBI is efficient enough to analyze the
puzzle. Hitler could have said that it
was not him who killed the million Jews
but his army. It is just like blaming
the finger that pull the trigger, not
the man himself.
The main facts have been exposed to the
world. It is shameful because the donor
as claimed by Najib, Zahid Hamidi and
other UMNO leaders was missing in the
line up. Almost every media in the world
has informed their people. Probably the
FBI had talk to Saudi's Foreign
Minister.
Shafiee has to pay more, contribute
more, not only to the Democrat but also
to the Republicans. There is a lot of
taxpayers money around. We can afford to
hire a personal jet for almost a billion
dollar just to pick up a simple award.
We don't have to worry because donation
and contribution to the political party
is not an act of corruption in the
United States.
Back home in our backyard Sarawak Report
published a report on Malaysia-China's
inflated deal on rail track contract, to pay for 1 Mdb. I would
like to warn the readers not to blindly
believe in the existence of such a deal.
It is merely a purported document
supposed to be passed from one person to
another person.
Again we can only make assumption for
the sake of the argument not because of
it's authenticity.
If this contract can pay off all the
1mdb loan then we don't have to pay an
annual interest anymore. Imagine 2.7
billion of interest for 10 years. Loan
from China on the railway is 60
billions, 30 billions of which goes to
1Mdb loan payment. The burden on the
public is only 30 billions, which is
less than what we may have to pay to the
Western finance company. The most we
have to bear is 10 years.
It does not any way affect the United
States and Najib would have won the
favor of the local Chinese. And it could
not be outrageous. All Najib has to do
now is to squeeze for more funds to
contribute to the Democrat and
Republican coffers.
26/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
LIFE IS STILL BEAUTIFUL
To many of us life is very lovely
despite the political turbulence. They
don't have to be a millionaire to enjoy
good health, good food, a company of
merry and happy go lucky bunch of
friends. We may not be the luckiest but
we are not worst off than many of our
contemporaries around the globe. And we
are better than the jobless who made the
streets their home.
I am one of the luckiest as I started to
save during the working days. Today I
live quite comfortably with a small
pension. I cut corners and ensure that
there is no wastage. Having a small
660cc car cut a lot of spending on
gasoline. But I would go for a good
food, stay in a good hotel when I go
traveling and enjoy oversea trips once a
year.
I don't have a million or even half of
it but I feel the providence is an
abundance. With the rising cost of
living I do feel the pinch. prices of
medicines goes more than 25% up. And
other essential home requirement jumped
more than 30%. But life goes as usual,
doing the same chores day in and day
out, with the core evening walk till my
body is soaked.
I was in USA before and was a frequent
visitor more than 30 times. I saw
beggars and homeless people everywhere.
I saw poor people in many part of the
great wealthy nation. I saw American
shops were taken over by the Chinese.
There were killings and robberies almost
everyday. I had never wanted to make
America my home.
I don't have a company of the merry
happy-go-lucky buddies because I chose
to be alone and lead a solitary life.
The free time is ample for me to do many
things from domestic work to leisurely
drive around the district. I washed and
clean, writing blog and develop computer
soft ware. At 70, I still enjoy filling
my time with those activities.
But when we are on computers we can't
run away from grim and dreadful news and
we tend to be
carried away. I can't stand the lies
that filled the screen. On many
occasion I based my beliefs on facts and
documents and visual substance. A few
would depend on reasoning and logical
deduction. Hence political issues
usually
brought grief and anger. That won't be
good for our health.
Reason does not stop me from having
faith in God, predestination and
believing in comeuppance of the sinners.
I believe that men should be and do
good, honest and benevolent. Yet we see
cheaters, liars, drug peddlers, thieves
and murderers. But God knows some people
choose hell as their destination, the
specie without shame and without God in their
hearts.
Fortunately we are much blessed with an
abundance of food supplies, good health
and freedom. Every house in my community
has at least one car, telephone, TV,
freezer and washing machine. Try to
visit Cambodia, India or Morocco where
beast of burden are still used and women
and children have to walk for miles to
buy their domestic supplies or go to get
their education.
By social standard, I am just an plain
ordinary independent old man, with
senility but sane, decayed memory but
vivid vision. By economic standard I am
a centimeter above the subsistence
level. I don't owe anybody not even a
finance company for any vehicle
purchase. As an infallible man I do have
desire and lust and peeping at an evil
shameless women private parts in the
internet and adored beautiful young
ladies.
I used to have a myriad of hobbies, from
playing chess to developing biometric
applications. Ham Radio had been my
passions for a long time until it was
polluted by sick people. I invent things
but did not keep blue prints of them.
What still remain is traveling and enjoy
scenic places.
The sky may be dark, the days may be
gloomy, the turbulence may be raging but
living in a cocoon is still warm and
comfortable. May God punish the sinners
and put them to suffer their whole
lives. Let life remain beautiful for us
the poor innocent and honest people.
25/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
|
SLEEPLESS
NIGHT
I could not
sleep last night. Many things swirled in
my mind.
1. MONEY -
A Chinese dialysis patient, Chong, is
about 45. He told me repeatedly, "Cikgu,
I am a millionaire, having tons of
money. I bought a house in China. The
money is useless to me..." Money does
not make him happy. And the other night
on the Whatsaap a friend said,"We are
old now. Our days are numbered. Spend
your money and enjoy your life. Don't
worry about your kids for they have
their own destiny..." It came from a ham
radio friend.
I have
never dream of living till 100 or 90
years. I think I have 4 or 5 more years
to go. What's the point of running away
with a few millions and keep the money
in foreign banks. I don't want to die
anywhere else but on my beloved earth
near my home.
2. FREEDOM
- I love freedom very much. I do what I
want, go anywhere I desire, move about
anytime I wish, and nobody dictates me
on what and what not to do. I don't even
want to live with any of my kid and
never came across my mind that I am
going to remarry.
To many of
us our mind is free of fear of being
killed. We go out without bodyguard,
without bullet proof vest. Even a few
high profile persons like the late
Tengku Abdul Rahman who went for his
evening exercise alone, the late Raja of
Perlis who drove to Pekan Rabu to
purchase some merchandise and talk to
the normal people, Tengku Abdul Malik
who would drive and ride a horse alone,
approaching the normal people, accosting
and talk to them.
Freedom is
one of the greatest gift of God the
Almighty to us.
3.
LUST - Whenever we went to have
self-serving meal we would see people
filling their plates until the brim with
as much delicacies as possible. Then
there were a lot of leftovers. Food was
wasted. It was the lust that over rule
the reason. The same thing happened
during the fasting month when the
purchase was too excessive but to be
thrown away the next day.
It is also
hard to find people to say 'enough'.
Many would want more and more. A million
is not enough. A hundred millions is not
enough. A billion is still not enough.
You will see this in mafia gang, drug
lords and other criminals. Some sell
their souls to the devil.
4. POWER -
Some say knowledge is power. Some say
money is power. Mao Tze Tung said that
power is at the barrel of a gun. All of
them are true.
The police
and the army will be impotent without
weapons. They are armed to create power
in them. The power of a leader lies with
the police and the army. What a leader
has to do is to hold onto the chiefs and
feed them well. Similarly, the terrorist
is one only with guns and ammunitions.
How would a
person who thinks he is so powerful act
? The gangsters bully and exercise
intimidation. Robbers would rob you at a
gunpoint. The United States would swarm
the warships into the South China Sea, and
I would use it to make money.
5. RELIGION
- When I went to the Friday prayer I
heard political sermons several time,
calling us not to believe social media
and the importance of stability, about
IS and other worldly affairs. At least
half of the congregation would interpret
the Imam as government propaganda agent
and bore a dislike towards mosque and
all other religious figures. The effect
of people distancing themselves from the
God's house is detriment to the position
of Islam in the country.
Islam will
be frowned by the non-Islamic acts of
religious leaders and politicians. The
issue on Zakat is enough to compare the
usage of money by the Muslims and the
Christians. Again it painted a black
mark on Islam. A stupid religious figure
can cost havoc in the divine faith.
6. ROWDY
PEOPLE - I am worried that Malaysians
have become rude and rowdy. Below is
their responses to Tungku Abdul Aziz and
Lim Kit Siang's remark
Are we
moving towards bloodshed ? A wrong move
can result in the Malays will be gone in
Peninsular Malaya. Who started the
chaotic situation ? Was it the people ?
24/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
THE WAY WE
THINK AND THE WAY THEY THINK
While I was
in Indiana University Bloomington, for
the last 6 weeks I was in the computer
lab almost the whole day developing
software in BASIC. I was an audit
student in computer literacy. Other
students went in and out and they must
have thought I was working in the lab.
At first one student asked me for a help
as his program didn't work well. And
later more and more came for similar
helps.
On
examining the algorithm I found the line
of thinking of the Americans were
totally different from the way I
thought. The pattern of the arguments
were more open and not as rigid than
mine. Nevertheless I made their programs
work.
And during
the Statistical Research exam of 2
hours, I was surprise that after 10
minutes the White students handed out
their papers and walked out. I said to
myself those people must be pretty
smart. The Asian and Korean students
were struggling and managed to chase the
time. Outside the examination hall I met
several of my American classmates and
expressed my awe. One said, "Why waste
our time. Either we know or we don't."
Malaysians
should not force the others to think as
we are and talk as we do. In the recent
case our top guns, the Ministers and
Attorney General issued statements that
Najib was not involved as he was not
mentioned in the DOJ documents. When the
documents mentioned that AG cleared
Official number 1 off 1Mdb....the money
was shared among Offial Number 1
family...etc etc
Isn't it a
stark different between the minds of the
Malaysians and the Americans ?
I am not
going to debate about who is right and
who is wrong. It would just be
interesting to read more about the DOJ
report
READ THE FULL INDICTMENT HERE.
You can
rubbish it if you like.
Try to
remember of what we said and told the
Malaysian public. We changed words and
phrases and we forced the public to
accept as truth. To us they were just
normal. After they were whacked and
kicked they were given cash and sweet
promises, then whacked and kicked again
followed by the show of freak love. They
accept the whole deliverance. Most of us
were brought up that way. What more if
religion was used to enforce such an
enslavement.
The Western
minds believe in substance, facts and
proofs. They observed our demeanor and
attitudes. They noted what we say and
what we do. After a time they learn our
maneuverability. Sometimes we went too
far and did too much to our arch local
enemies.
I am scared
reading what DOJ wrote. Other Western
articles traced the past history way
back in the 1990s. I am sure they will
drill for proofs and start to sniff on
several corpses as to cause of death.
It is
funny. We follow the Western style,
speak Western language, eat Western food
and enjoy their entertainment yet we do
not understand the way they think. Some
of us even think they are the smartest
lot in the world. They show their
arrogance and stared at people's eyes.
23/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
BACKDATING DOCUMENTS
Retirement and staying aloof is somewhat
a blessing. It takes us away from sins
and the sinners. It was a pain when I
saw departments doing the backdating of
documents to purify the sins and the
wrongdoings. A friendly bank or other
corresponding departments are willing to
corroborate in the change of the date,
to regress to the events of the past.
I have already told about a school
picked up to compete in the financial
management, where several clerks were
camped at the said school to rewrite and
change documents to make them look
perfect. The school Principal was
credited to be the best manager in
financial management.
Backdating the payment date and the
receipt need the cooperation of the
other party and whenever it is through a
bank, the later has to be friendly
enough to alter the records in the
computer. A worker is willing to do the
job for a good price.
It is extremely difficult to find a man
who will reject any amount of money
either as a reward, gift or a payment
for a favor. But there is at least a man
of such such a noble quality. He has a
wealth too, a wealth of pride that goes
with him all the time. His happiness is
seen in his face and countenance. He
doesn't need to fly a first class
carrier and drive a few hundred
thousands car.
Cheating and deceitfulness are common in
the government agencies. I did narrate
about 7 millions ringgit paid for the
undone termite work and other undone
jobs in school premises. How on earth
the payments were made when the schools
did not acknowledge of the status of
their completions ?
Backdating and re-writing of documents
are not legal remedy. They are freak
products used as legal proofs, Doesn't
anybody know and see the dirty work in
the dark ? God knows. They can escape
the man made law but they can't escape
the wrath of the Al-Mighty. Such people
would live the world of hypocrisy behind
the dress and title of a holly man.
Doesn't Satan show itself in form
trusted and respected by men ?
Somehow people do sense the dubious and
dirty work without having have to see
the dark scene. A question that takes
months to response indicates the
cheating machinery at work. If I were
asked how much money I have it takes
less than a minute to give the answer. I
can even list my school monthly or
yearly expenditure within 10 to 15
minutes. Should I take 6 months to
gather the data ?
We have millions of people in the world.
Not everyone of them are dumb and
stupid.
You will be amaze to know the number who
can see the evil design behind the wall
however thick and dark it is.
22/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
WHAT'S NEXT ?
The exact question pop up again and
again in the series of this blog. It
is playing around the mystical aspects
of happenings that befell our nation
that's brought about by the evil force
of a wickedness that was pulling the
gloomy clouds over us. Bad omen hovering
us could be in form of natural
disasters, calamities or something else
beyond our imagination.
Taksin divorced his wife after his
mishap but it was too late. Marcos
suffered the same fate much earlier. We
should have learn from history. Now a
bunch of people are livid and has
started to howl and bark at the top of
their heads. And some are happy as a
lark.
At the Time Square New York the huge neon
light was running the news on our nation,
not a favorable news but sentences of
shame. It was repeated by other
international media. And I never expect
this to happen.
Nobody dared to publish about the bad
luck and it's origin. probably none had
been thinking of Feng Sui and the spirit
of luck when the Chinese spent millions
to consult the Feng Sui masters. The
lower people still believe in the luck
of number 8888 and willing to depart
with a huge sum to get such a number
plate.
I don't believe this is a bad luck at
all. It is just a normal happening. But
when there was a helicopter crash in
Sarawak during the election campaign I
regard it as one of the bad luck brought
by the same source.
The causal-effect phenomena could very
well be predicted and many analysis were
made base on these phenomena. But bad
omen is unpredictable in shape, form and
structure. What I have been predicting in
my blog did materialize so far. The
world is observing us through their
embassies. We should be ashamed when we
twist and turn our words, changing them
by day. People are studying our words
and deeds. Suppressed people will find
help somewhere else. But that's nothing
as compared to the nature of the bad
luck that will strike us.
What's next ? We just have to wait but
we have to differentiate between the
causal-effect and the storm of bad luck.
There is one thing we should always
remember that we cannot challenge God in
spite of our total invincibility. God
hears the cry of human's hearts, their
agony and their sufferings.
We pray the worst will not happen.
22/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
NAJIB'S INVINCIVILITY
There will be a time when every single
cent of the GST money will be counted
and examined where they were used. Many
of us won't live to see the day. It will
be a day of retribution for the
criminals if there were any. And the day
is not too far ahead.
People have been asking similar
question, "Can our Prime Minister sleep
and not worry about anything ? " A few
has the answer, surely emerge from
conjecture, an intelligent conjecture.
Najib has to think about his son-in-law,
about Jho Lo, about the international
investigation. His lawyer had posed a
question whether Najib could be arrested
by an outside country. Putting together
it shows Najib cannot go to bed as many
of us do. He won't be worried about
Mahathir or anybody at all in the
country. Nobody can budge him.
He has to buy those foreigners who are
after his friends and family at whatever
cost. Obaid and a few of his foreign
advisors should be able to do the work.
It will be a hard work and will have to
involve a colossal sum of money. Sarawak
Report accused him of using the 1Mdb's
money, which could be true or false.
But without paying Najib can still
escape persecution from the United
States by secretly allowing the East
Coast to be eyeing for Chinese armada.
The international judgment of the South
China Sea is an opportunity for
Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
USA is more interested in containing
Chinese expansion than Rosmah's son or
Jho Lo.
And USA is enjoying it's trade with
Malaysia. TPPA alone has brought huge
profit as seen in the increase in prices
of goods and medicines from the North
American continent. Food and beverages
too sent tons of money in addition to
the telecommunication and media system.
If the opposition party members work as
hard as Najib's team in the United
States then things might be different.
That would require millions and billions
of ringgit, beyond the opposition's
grasp. I remember talking to one
Filipino American woman who said, "In
America there is no love nor affection
but money..." The anti Najib's team
should not be too confident that Najib
or his family could be indicted in the
US court.
But we can be sure that Najib's
commitment is extremely large that even
the GST is not enough. He has to raise
funds by additional means. It is never
good for the nation but good for him and
his team. The poor, the jobless and the
pensioners suffer. The purchasing power
plunge. The cost of living inflates.
The police is very well aware of the
state of Najib's popularity. The
security system enhanced to protect
Najib is as great as the United State's
president and the Russian Vladimir Putin.
Nobody can ever dream of putting off
Najib in any way. The shield is thick
and he is almost invincible.
The police even talk of IS targeting the
Prime Minister which I think as a mere
precautionary measure. IS as a live
organization in Iraq and Syria will
never emerge in this country. When we
talk of an IS we are talking of a body
with firearms and a stock of ammo. Other
than the mafia, drug lords and gangsters
the normal people can't afford to
purchase even a small weapon.
What is the use of enormous wealth if we
live in fear or in sickness ? What is
the use of wealth if we are not as free
as a bird ? Will we not die with
bodyguards and barb-wires ? Will we not
be
getting older and deteriorate with
medicine and plastic surgery ? Everyone,
including Najib and Rosmah will be
passing the same path.
At the end of the path we will lose our
strength. We pray to God begging for
forgiveness. But our sins with the
people aren't forgiven by the Almighty.
The truth will light the sky. People
will know what happen to their money.
Many of us suffer from the shrinking
savings and income, from the rising cost
of medicines and other goods and
services. It pangs our hearts and our
minds.
It's a pity and it is a tragedy.
21/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
USE
REASONING POWER AND LOGIC BEFORE BUYING
RIG
Preachers
preach. Some of them are fake but not
visible to the eyes. Fake preachers do
have followers and people can believe in
their words. They come in various forms,
from the normal laymen to the top
politicians, in form of clerics and
priests. In the world of amateur radio
there are no lacking in the false
messiah.
Amateur radio equipment is not cheap. A
used FT857 could fetch up a price of
RM4K. A new comer to HF always want to
know what sort of equipment he should
buy and would seek advice from different
sources.
I was one of those newcomers before. But
before becoming a ham, I was a SWL. We
usually started with listening using a
communication receiver or using a normal
radio and beating externally to resolve
the SSB signal. We had QSK cards to be
sent to various radio stations including
the Broadcasting services like the BBC
or VOA, beside to the amateur operators.
By listening we would know which were
the strongest stations and the antenna
system used. We would visit their
locations to witness the height and the
antenna setup. It happened many old hams
erected a simple dipole antenna no
higher than 50'. Only a handful had a
linear amplifier like the late 9M2AT in
Johore. Eshee, Idris and many others
were running barefoot.
So we knew somewhat the rig and other
setup required for a good system.
By the time we passed as a ham operator
our signal did not cause any strain to
the other party to hear us with an
excellent clarity and a 59 + .
Those were the days without internet and
we did not have many smart people
around. I do not remember anyone going
around preaching the best radio and
antenna system to have. I bought a used
FT101B for RM800 from a fellow ham whose
signal strength booming like nobody's
business. We were lucky to have Chong,
9M2DJ, an expert in repairing problem
rigs. He would instruct us to look at a
certain components when our FT101 was
not functioning. Changing a single
capacitor made the rig work like magic.
With the internet people browse the
webpage for the equipment to purchase,
reading their reviews and order the
purchase. I know of an operator who
would buy almost the new antenna system
that were not heard before but had not
been successful enough to roar on the
air.
I am fond of saying that an expert must
show by the signal strength and the
audio quality, not by talking and
preaching.
For the last 15 years I worked a few
stations using ICOM718. I was told it
was the cheapest and a basic 100 watts
transceiver. Had not I been told about
it, I would have thought it was a
super-duper equipment. Almost a year ago
I asked for the price when I was at One
Communication. It was just RM2.5K.
If one is loaded and has a lot of money
one can buy any rig as he likes, which
may cost him RM12K or RM24K and build a
70 foot tower and giant antenna.
Changing rig as a new version comes into
the market is just like a hobby of
changing a new car brand. I love to have
Axia. Before I buy one there is a new
brand, Bezza. Of course one can trade in
the present car and pay lesser for the
new one. People are doing it. But it
takes a strong will power to fight
against the inner lust. If you have
money then do whatever you want. After
all it is your money.
I am just telling a new comer with a
meager income. There are amateurs who
can't afford to buy a tuner or a simple
2 meter rig. Use a simple logic and
reasoning power before making a
decision.
20/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
|
CW is an ablution towards being a
dignified and ethical ham
It takes only a special people to learn
and sit for the Morse codes examination
when it is not a mandatory requirement
anymore to get an amateur radio license.
We can't just hate a person who wish to
venture into a new world of knowledge
and skill and declare him as our enemy.
They have put a lot of sacrifices; time,
energy and money.
In our days a ham who just passed his
Morse test and awarded with a license
was not allowed to transmit on SSB. He
had to be on CW for a year. by the end
of his one year he would gain enough
competency in the SOP using the Q-Codes
and other short forms.
There was no computer then. All CW
competitions were on the straight key. I
did participate using the Himound
pounder but not to win, merely wanting
to help the other side to earn some
points.
It is good to hear the new boys coming
on the band with this mode. Never fear
the mistakes made for bravery is more
the matter. I never look for any high
speed messages, an eight or twelve words
per minute is good enough.
I always remember about some parents who
sent their kids to an art and craft and
music classes when those are not an
integral part of the school curriculum.
They paid for the badminton and swimming
classes. It was not to pass an
examination but to provided added values
to their kids.
More often than not wisdoms accumulate
in men who are rich with knowledge and
skill. It made a better individuals who
would be humble and discipline, ethical
and adventurous. They seem to be
carrying different characters and
worldviews.
We cannot buy the CW skill like we buy a
rig. It resides in our mind and blood,
going with us wherever we go. Imagine if
skills can be hired or bought then we
would be able to hire Ronaldo's football
skill for 20 or 60 minutes for a price.
A strive to secure competency in CW is
an ablution towards being a dignified
and ethical ham. The positive attitude
is borne in the process of disciplined
learning method and a lot of patience
put into it.
New radio operators should not be afraid
to come on the band on Morse codes. It
is your right and freedom to do so. You
can give life to ham radio.
18/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
Ham and Amateur Radio
Today the concept of Amateur Radio and
Ham Radio has taken into a new form. The
CB, the Family Radio, the RELA and other
unknown groups communicate, some using
similar equipments and frequencies, with
styles of their own; some mixed the CB
lingo with their own and some follow the
lingo of the old ham radio. Had not
because of the call signs we would have
thought they were fellow hams. They used
numbers from 00 to unspecified values
for the IDs and the call signs and
others do not. All of them are radio
hobbyists and love talking over the air.
The most pertinent name for them is
Amateur Radio operators, hams plus
non-hams and all others who are not
using the radio for service
communications.
Traditional ham radio operators know and
operated using Morse Codes or commonly
known as CW. Those who found CW was hard
to learn would go outside the boundary
and operate a CB radio. With the
abolishment of CW as a prerequisite to
be a ham radio operator, the radio
frequencies used to be given to
the hams with CW certificate are now
filled with operators without such a
knowledge. And somehow those without the
license from the authority also joined
the fun.
A great number of old and new operators
want to maintain the traditional mode of
communications. Some organized
themselves and form an international
group like FISTS. Ham Radio must be
associated with CW. It has been a
package in the ham radio from the
beginning. Like the Atheists and the
believers living side by side, the
different between them is the divine
book of revelation. They cannot be the
same in the eyes of God.
Like in the religion, one cannot dump
those with CW and without in the same
pot though they may live side by side.
If to the Atheists God is dead, those
who cared not about Morse, CW is dead.
Using the traditional concept amateur
radio without Morse is not a HAM. They
can't use the word SILENT KEY to
indicate the death of a person.
However there is nothing to stop anyone
calling himself a HAM as he wishes. One
even call himself a god like the late
9W2GOD.
It is not wrong to encourage people from
all over to make themselves available on
amateur radio. The greater the numbers
the more disaster-ready we are.
As a radio operator I want to be known
as an operator with CW-able. Some
engrave I LOVE CW on their caps. I made
a pin- button to be worn in Jakarta
Hamfest and Japan Hamfare on the 6th.
and 20th August consecutively.
Astonishingly the logo makers did not
understand the whole image and
characters written on them. And I told
them that it is true that almost no
people can understand the logo but a
few. It will be my ID, I told them.
People will know my country and that I
am a CW man. I just don't write my name.
An Indonesian ham told me, "It is not a
ham without CW."
16/07/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
|
NASI LEMAK
ONG
People
queue up at Mamak nasi Kandar. Millions
have been sent back to India. The Mamak
always charge a very high price at
everything possible. In my town among
the famous Mamak's rice are the Royal,
Majeed Tomato Rice, Zam-Zam and Ali Nasi
Lemak. Their restaurants are never clean
yet the crowds love their cookings.
At Jalan
Putra I had seen a stall NASI LEMAK ONG.
Today I see it again as I passed by but
it is no more a stall. It is now a
restaurant and I saw Chinese customers
are queuing up as long as the Mamak
restaurant.
I was
thinking why Nasi Lemak Ong instead of
Ong Nasi Lemak. It played around my
mind. The word ONG means good luck,
opposite of 'SEY' or Soi Seow,bad luck.
Putting Ong after Nasi Lemak indicates
the rice has a good luck connotation.
You will get all the good luck if you
eat it and the owner too receive the
best of the luck.
One of
these days I want to have a look what
else accompany the Nasi Lemak. Usually
the rice is sold together with the ikan
bilis and egg, or the squid and spicy
curry.
I suppose
the price is much cheaper than the Malay
or Mamak shops. Chinese foods have been
cheaper and tastier except they are not
Halal. The Chinese also sell Ketupat,
with beans and corns at the night market
along Jalan Telok Wanjah.
I would
like to wish the owner of Nasi Lemak Ong
the best of luck and may his business
flourish till 200 years to come.
10/07/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
BAD
ADVISORS
When
a wicked princess asked her maids who
was the fairest of all, everyone bows
and praises her as the most beautiful
and the fairest of all.That is what she
wants to hear. Millions are rushing to
praise their leaders for rewards and a
little pittance. "You look a little slim
today, my Queen." they would
flatter to the
growing fatter princess.
When we are
in power people close to us will rain us
with glorious words, how good we are,
the whole nation loves our way and
willing to die for us. We would be
surprise that they would be saying the
good things on what we ourselves know
are wrong and sinful. When the power is
snatched away or we have given it away we
may be stepped and stabbed, and cursed.
There is a
great competition to please Najib,
hoping to be seen and heard, and went to
the extend of elevating Najib to the
level of God. We also heard Najib as the
Caliphate of God. Some went further
calling for the killing of the enemy of
of the leader. Though they made Najib to lie,
the Prime Minister is still responsible
and accountable. Najib is running a
country not a little home. He has to be
sure that his subjects are people of
great honor, with
honesty, not liars nor spinners.
If he walks
away it will be the same persons who
would put sands in his rice bowl as what
they do to Mahathir.
From the
beginning Najib has listened to someone
on how to make money for personal use
and election spending. He made a grave
error which no matter what will punish
him after his retirement however long
years it takes. Already his enemy is
implicating him in the death of the AmBank officer and Morais.
I would be
glad if 1Mdb issue can be put to rest.
If China is willing to take over and the
MOF can close it's connection with it,
it will be the end. I am sure China is
willing to reimburse all the past
losses. Then be it. The citizens are not
burden in paying the interest and the
loan. The government can start to look
at it's function all over again.
The
opposition may be accusing Najib of
selling the country to China. But it is
the best that we can do to save the
public from being burdened. If China
wants to built a high speed rail with
it's own capital then we have nothing to
lose. Imagine what can a 385 km/h train
can do to the workers in the country.
After all now we are sending billions to
USA for the communication and TV
systems, food and beverage and other
products.
If 1Mdb
issue could be resolved than Najib can
step down and face what may come. As a
citizen Rosmah can spend as much as she
likes and rent any jet plane she loves.
She can purchase any goodies and as much
as she wants to.
By now
Najib should have known who are his bad
advisors and who are the individuals who
had push him down deep in the mud. Even
Arul Kanda is a big snake. I call him
Arul UNIT. He said that 1Mdb keeps units
in BSI Singapore.
08/07/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
|
WE
ARE PEACEFUL NATION
I hardly
believe the arrested IS was armed with
only a knife of a few centimeters long.
And the 16 year old boy has a gut to
call himself an IS. May be like
everything else, there are a high and
low class categories. According to the
police Najib is one of their targets.
And why should the Malaysian IS target
Najib at all or any particular Minister
? No terrorist group is interested in 1
Mdb scandal or Rosmah lavish life.
What had
caused the rise of ISIS in Iraq was a
vacuum left by the United States. Syria's
turmoil did not begin with IS attack. It
all began after the Syrian authority
tortured and killed a few school
children who were accused of writing
anti Assad slogan on the school wall.
The people rose up against Assad and
asked him to resign. A rough response
and the bombing on the rebels made the
anti Assad appealed to the United States
for arms. It is at this point the ISIS
group from Iraq went in to support the
anti-Assad group. The Iraq group got the
weapons from the left over of the US
weapons.
Malaysian
government took a stand to stop
Malaysians from going to fight in Syria
to help the ant- Assad group. We feared
people who are within the anti Najib
camp might be the militant force when
they return to Malaysia. A few had
earlier made themselves to Syria.
I don't see
any possible way for a military hardware
to travel from Syria or Iraq to Malaysia
at all. A gangster, drug lord and a
mafia are affordable to buy from a
simple to a more advance weapons. And it
is somewhat a joke for a person with a
penknife to call himself an IS militant.
Nevertheless there are millions of
people to hate Rosmah and Najib and pray
for their demise by plane or motor
accidences. The police is aware of the
people's feelings too. But they won't go
to the extend of using arms or to cause
great chaos. Life is still comfortable
and food is till plenty. A person with
explosive knowledge prefer to bomb an
ATM rather than to bomb a police
station.
A man is
not strong if he has no self-defense
skill and not able to kill with his
hand. He doesn't feel strong without any
form of weapon within himself. He will
not feel invincible without a bunch of
gang. If he has anyone of it he could be
a bully, a crook and even a murderer.
But nobody can stop a weak man from
yelling and shouting and from painting
slogan on any wall if he wishes to do
them.
Those who
do not like Najib would never make the
foreigners their enemy. The Malays who
do not like Najib do not make the
Chinese their enemies. It has been the
politicians who are sowing the seeds of
racial hatred who want to make sure the
Malays do not vote for the Chinese party
particularly DAP. And try to harness the
Chinese votes by creating the IS ghosts
in the country who could threaten them.
You just
notice the big gang of the cyber
troopers who would swoop down to attack
the Chinese on the social media. Then
they likened the anti-Najib individuals
to the IS.
Our police
had been wise enough in not provoking
the protestors who marched the city in
showing their unhappiness towards SPRM
or Najib. The arrests were made later.
That had prevent shootings and
bloodsheds.
We are more
concern with crimes than the militant
IS. There had been several murders
recently and bomb throwing. Criminals
are buying small weapons from some
vendors somewhere, which may be smuggled
into our borders.
Painting
ourselves as a terrorist heaven and
accusing fellow Malaysians as terrorists
are never good for the country. Mahathir
hinted that private religious schools
were the breeding ground of the terror
group. Najib told Hillary Clinton that
Anwar Ibrahim is a terrorist leader. And
now we are giving the impression to the
world that Malaysia is an unsafe place.
What we do
really have are the armed criminals who
may not shoot at everybody but their
selected foes who may be threatening
their activities.
It is not
wrong for the police to assume that many
people want our Prime Minister dead.
Only in their thought and their prayers.
And it is not wrong for them to take
security precautions. But too much
overdo may invite economic
repercussions.
08/07/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
|
LOOKING AT
THE BY ELECTION RESULT
Some
people were happy and some were sad at
the by-election results of Kuala Kangsar
and Sungai Besar. Najib and his
loyalists took the victory as huge
support at his policy, the GST and his
1Mdb scandal. Is he really so very
popular and love by the people in both
constituencies ?
Looking at Sungai
Besar we find that BN had 16,800 votes.
The number who did not approve him were
14,511, the difference of 2,289 votes.
And in Kuala Kangsar BN got 12653 votes
and those who disagreed with him were
10,621, the difference of 2032.
Both do not indicate a colossal or
absolute majority as expressed by many
analysts.
How many postal votes
by the army and the police ? How much
money were paid to the voters ?
It is true Najib
still won even by a majority of 1. What
matters to him is winning. Others
may not find it comfortable at all
knowing almost half of the population
still find them very repulsive despite
the huge spending and the use of
enormous resources.
Najib is however
smart when he played Hadi to come to his
side. It is a matter of head he wins,
tail the opposition lose. The moment
Hadi gave him the utmost support it was
the beginning of the end of PAS. Some of
PAS grassroots still thought Hadi is
still a PAS man and others believe Hadi
is in fact an UMNO in disguise. Those
who voted for PAS were thinking PAS is
still the arch enemy of UMNO. They had
been deceived by the game played by
Najib.
Najib used Hadi to
attack DAP as anti Islam. The less
educated kampong folks were so scared of
DAP that they forget about BN's
components parties who were as much anti
Islam as DAP. In fact UMNO members
themselves reject hudud.
If you look at BN's
Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar's
victories as a big boost for Najib's
wrongdoings you are very wrong.
People of low income,
pensioners and people without job would
feel a very acute pinch whenever they go
to grocery stores and wet mar ket and
super markets. Yet we can be puzzled
when people say GST is only a small
amount.
If Najib finds it
very comfortable in the Sungai Besar and
Kuala Kangsar position it is somewhat as
saying Najib will not quit his
premiership even if 98% of the
population show their dislike towards
him. He will turn the voters into
terrorists to illegally topple the
government using democracy.
Kuala Kangsar and
Sungai Besar voters are still sane.
Those who reject Najib are strong enough
to hold to the religious and moral
beliefs of sins and divine retribution.
|
BALLOT BOXES
Stuffing the ballot boxes is much
easier than switching them. Selected
voters would carry several ballot
papers with them and stuff them
while doing the voting process. They
earned payment before and after the
voting process is over. Switching
the boxes needs careful planning as
to where and when the switching will
take place. The process will take
less than 30 seconds. Those in
charge of eyeing the movement of the
boxes have to be handsomely corrupt.
Traditional box switching is by
switching off the light. Power
failure of 15 minutes give a wide
gap for the major switching to take
place. And in Sarawak the long
distant travel of the boxes give
great happiness to the crooks.
Vote
counting at the polling center would
give the true numbers if there is no
ballot stuffing by the paid voters.
These are the die-hard supporters of
a political members from the low income
group who live on the subsistence
level and who need money badly. You
can easily raise 2000 bodies with
the budget of 10 millions. The sum
is a chicken feed comparing to the
expenditures. A single trip by VIP
could cost 100 millions.
Winning
through fraud is still winning. What
matters the dictator clings to power
and continue with the abuse without
challenge. A party can always resort
to Trump argument - to save the
Anglo Saxon race. If the other party
wins the indigenous race will be
wiped out. But in USA the native is
the Red Indian, not the White Anglo
Saxon.
Complaints of the switching ballot
boxes were heard in Uganda, the
Philippines and Wales. Even in the
most democratic USA in Florida.
It
would be much better not to have any
general election at all. What's so
democratic about having election in
the presence of threat, using
gangsters to put fear in voters,
cheating and lying and paying a few
hundred dollars each for a vote,
stuffing ballot papers and even box
switching ?
Election fraud is
not manufactured in the East or in
Malaysia. It has been a talk of the
West, what had taken place in their
backyards.
At least we can
now understand why God created
heaven and hell.
The unbelievers
take a great risk. Not everyone is a
risk taker. It is always safe to be
a believer. We all believe in the
same God the Almighty and the
Merciful. Being an atheists who do
not cause harm and hardship to
others is more respectable than
being a man who finds satisfaction
seeing people in pain.
03/07/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
SEARCH FOR TRUTH
I labored for a long tired years to
save for my old days. The saving is
almost halved in value when Najib
started his spending spree. My ears
suffer an intense pain when I heard
his rhetoric on the national media.
I have never seen a man who can lie
better than the greatest liars. In
pursuing the search for the truth I
discover this very man is much much
more than what the masses may have
been thinking.
Recently I watched a Korean movie
where a small boy said, "I wish you
be strike by a lightning. You are a
bad man." I remember saying the same
phrase many time, not realizing that
even the Koreans express their anger
with such a phrase. Najib however
has the capacity to remove our anger
by taking legal action on the
International media. There are
several of them which have been
publishing the trail of money that
Najib said were false. His non
action will be taken as fear. Until
such action is taken we have to
assume the Wall Street is telling
the truth.
We know that Najib will not abdicate
for he fears the fate of Saddam
Hussein. He will do anything at all
to win the GE. Anything at all.
Somebody mentioned that Najib will
live till 190 years. I won't live
long enough to see the comeuppance.
But the day will come.
He taxed the Malaysians excessively,
stopped the subsidies, told the
people to save their earnings and at
the same time rented a RM88 millions
comfortable jet for his wife. He
corrupted the citizens to make them
approve of his wrong doings. He
concluded the winning at Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar as a mandate
by the people to oust his former
ministers from UMNO. He arrested Lim
Guan Eng for buying a cheap bangalow
when his pet 1Mdb bought land below
market price and sold at much an
astronomical price. He lied to
parliament and the people
unendingly.
Najib thought the minimum wage and a
higher salary scale could cool the
people. For a little while the
receivers will enjoy before the
price hike leveled the increase in
the volume of money in circulation.
With the current absolute power he
will win the GE14 which will make
the people suffer more.
The truth does not come from Najib's
rhetoric. It is from God. We will
wait and see.
02/07/2016 -
Abdul Rahman Raof |
A GREAT TRAGEDY
The great tragedy began when
Mahathir put Najib to replace
Abdullah Badawi as a Prime Minister.
Today we are on the free fall at the
speed of 32 feet per second square.
Najib is shaking and struggling to
set himself free by squeezing every
single cent to pay a very huge 1Mdb
annual interest and to pay IPIC a
monumental sums which went missing.
Documents showed the missing funds
went into Najib's account. Much has
been used for personal expenditure
of the lavish First Lady. Najib has
not sued the whistle blowers the
Wall Street Journal and the Reuturs.
He did not listen to his own
ministers who forced themselves to
resign. He chose someone whom he
could manipulate to create greater
trouble for the nation in time to
come. If you still remember Najib
told the UMNO members that he would
fix 1Mdb within 6 months. The period
has long lapsed. The debt increased.
The missing fund is left to the
conjecture.
The money trail was clearly shown
and published by foreign media
particularly the WSJ. The economy
went bad. Zahid is blaming the
public for the deteriorating
situation. Rosmah is blaming the
social media. Others are blaming the
DAP.
It would have guessed the two
resigned Ministers had warned Najib
of the consequences of using the
taxed money to settle his loan.
Because it was difficult to deal
with smart people he chose the less
knowledgeable to hold the post of
finance. He got to pay IPIC as fast
as possible. He thinks he can stop
the free fall by sponging the
public money to cover the big holes
the 1Mdb has created. Doing it will
push our ringgit;s value down. There
will be greater and more
complications.
There is no way out for 1Mdb. It is
the trap of the lifetime. We are
almost as good as being colonized
again. The funny thing is that we do
not use our police and army to
rescue us but we use them to fence
us in committing suicide.
This is a surreal tragedy. Many
seemed to be hypnotized and their
minds have been controlled to assist
in the wrongdoings. They do not
realize that they are against God
and committing sins every minute of
it being with Najib.
Yesterday at a supermarket two young
girls were very shocking to hear the
price of a few things they bought.
If they are Najib's supporters they
deserved it. So were the voters to
received hampers and cash. Every
time they go out to buy things every
time they would feel the agony. It
will be their whole life affair.
When others hit the bottom, Najib
has a parachute to save him. He and
Rosmah and a few who have millions
and billions will continue with
their joyous livings.
It is the laymen who take the fall
and died mercilessly . Would Najib
care ?
01/07/2016 -
Abdul Rahman Raof |
MORALITY, CONSCIENCE AND GOD FEARING
Husni
and Wahid resigned from financial
post under Najib's administration,
leaving a lot of questions and
guesses as the reason for their
departure. Husni is said to have resigned from
all posts he held in UMNO.
It is
difficult for public conjecture to
be wrong. These are the people who
know what's happening to the money
and has heard much from Najib's
mouth and about Rosmah and her
ludicrous life style.
Out of the
many of Najib's men there are some
who still have morality residing in
them, and haunted by conscience of
wrongdoings. More so they know and
believe in God's retribution. Not
everyone can tell lie and want to
tell lie.
Husni and
Wahid chose to avoid from sins which
are clouding the culture of UMNO.
The pollution has been too intense
where pillaging of public funds by
the billions used for personal
comfort and corruptions. They would
have known a lot on 1Mdb and the
future consequence befalling the
nation. With the current condition
the country still has to pay
millions for the comfort of Rosmah
Mansor. Where about of the missing
1Mdb fund and where the 2.6 billion
in Najib's account originate are
very well known. The money trail
followed by by foreign authorities
clearly showed that there was a
theft. And Najib dared not sue the
Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
Even our
police knows what's going on.
Morality and
conscience do not lie within the
heart and soul of the Ustaz, Haji
and clergies. There hwere proofs
that these people fear no God as far
as money is concerned. They could be
corrupted and twisted the words of
God for the pittance. God fearing
can be in any good man of any race
and creed.
Malaysia is not lacking of people
with high state of morality,
conscience and fear of retributions.
28/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
NO
TERRORISTS HERE
What
I am about to write is not a reality of
facts. It is just like a fictional story
people write for Hollywood movies.
Muammar Ghadafi was put away for one
single reason. He supplied free arms and
ammunitions and given financial support
to those people who felt they had been
repressed by their governments and
leaders. The Americans jargon 'The world
would be a better place to live in
without.....so and so".
There
is no terrorist without arms, no IS nor
ISIL, Taliban or Al-Queda. Taliban got
their arms from Soviet Union, the Syrian
rebels from the United States. The
Southern Thai Muslims supplier stopped
after Ghadafi. And the Filipinos rebels
weapon's supplier was very well known by
Malaysian authority.
It is
hard to say where the Northern
Irelanders got their weapons from.
It is
almost impossible to get free killing
machines today. They are sold at a very
high cost and people with money can
afford to buy them. These are the drug
lords, the cartel, mafia and gangsters.
In Malaysia none of the common person
can afford to buy even a small revolver.
The question of a common man to raise as
a terrorist or a rebel is as good as
nil. But the gangsters, the cartel and
the mafia groups do own automatic and
other high grade fire power. They are
not interested in gunning down the
government. They are more interested in
making money.
Government could find the gangsters and
mafia group advantage to them for
several operations in return for the
protection of the underground
activities. They could be ears and eyes
to the government to ensure of any
possible rise of any terror gang that
aim at toppling any political leader.
Hence no ordinary man can ever dream of
getting weapons from the organized
criminals.
Authority lock their eyes and ears on
those who have money to smell any
possibility of purchasing and
distributing arms to persons deem
dangerous to some political leaders.
Malaysia has to be good to the Filipino
rebel. Continued engagements could
create intense hatred and enmity that
could make the Philippines island as a
training ground for future local
terrorists. Our police force has to be
delicate with the Abu Sayaff group under
covered meetings and discussions.
Yet
the United States put a red mark on
Malaya as a terrorist breeding nation.
Our leaders had been telling the West
that we have such a group, starting from
Mahathir era till Najib's time. Najib
told Hillary Clinton that Anwar Ibrahim
is a terrorist. Mahathir told the West
that religious schools were cells
training of the seeds of terror. All
those were merely political gimmick for
securing the permanent political posts.
No
Malaysians has the mentality of the IRA.
And the Malays especially cannot keep
secret. They would always tell other
people what they want to do. That made
it easy for the police to plant moles
everywhere even on the traveling trips
as common tourists.
Malaysia is a safer place for the
politicians however bad and stink they
are.
But
there are unbelievable number of people
who are wishing for Najib's death by
plane or vehicles crash or even strike
by lightning. The same prayer were heard
during Mahathir's time. My only wish is
Rosmah would be getting older the
fastest and her face will be full of
wrinkles and she won't be able to walk
normally.
We
don't need a terrorist or an arm rebel.
We don't have to put much imagination
and hope for hell to drop on our
leaders. We can see the fact and reality
of life, of the First Lady struggling
with her ageing face and growing body.
She will suffer when looking at the
mirror one day.
28/06/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
JAKARTA FEST ON 6TH AND 7TH OCTOBER
I have a lot about Hamfest in Indonesia,
in particular in the city of Jakarta. I
would have missed it again if 9M2RB,
Rusli, had not asked me whether I would
want to join him the trip to Jakarta on
the 5th. of October 2016, to which I
immediately agreed. Rusli had done all
the bookings and we are now waiting for
the departure date.
We will be back home on the 9th.
October. I have purchased the plane
ticket from Alor Setar to Kuala Lumpur
for the 5th and 9th October.
These days when I go traveling I want
comfort and eat good food. What is
better than Nasi Padang in Indonesia,
always delicious at reasonable price. I
have two full days to really enjoy the
city and the festival. The last two time
stopping in Jakarta was something like a
transit to Jogjakarta and Bandung.
I have downloaded the offline map of the
city on my Samsung and will study the
map as soon I get the detail information
of the hotel location and the ground for
the fest. Surely it would facilitate our
movement and be able to get back to the
hotel if we were to get lost within the
concrete jungle.
Rusli use Air Asia special offer plus
hotel. The budget for the 4 day trip is
about 1.5K. I am ready to buy something
back for 20 kilo just in case. I have
nothing to buy for myself. What might
interest me is the CW key. That won't
take up 20 kilo and even any space at
all.
There is a big hole in my pocket after
lending 80% of my saving to my student.
I would have to use my pension money for
July. It means that I will have nothing
left after the trip. But I spend for
myself, my own benefit and comfort. It
is worth doing it before I die.
I asked Rashid, 9M2NZ, whether he will
be going to the same festival. He
doesn't go but instead will be going to
one other place after our trip. That
does not matter. Our main goal is just
for enjoyment, entertainment and
relaxation. I can have a day of siesta
even in a cosy bed. The rest of the plan
I leave to Rusli. Where he goes I will
follow.
25/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
CHANGING THE TASTE
For the whole of Ramadzan I only bought
Majid's rice once because the price was
raised by 50 cents. The most tasty and
palatable is Dapur Bonda where there are
a lot of choice of delicacies. Nasi
Daging, where meat and rice, were cooked
together cost RM6 per pax. So far I only
made that choice twice. Instead I bought
a plate of rice, chose the type of gravy
I wanted and would take either a fish or
dried squid. Sometimes I was charged RM3
and other time RM4.
For the last two days I decide to cook
my own Bhasmati rice, prepare hot
chilies, fried keropok and
a small amount of small fries. Today I
bought small prawns from a wet market
and a gravy which is called pindang. The
prawn was fried with chilies added a
small amount of salt. The keropok as an
essential item of the menu. My God ! The
taste was fantastic. Food without any
form of poison. What is sold in the
stall contains a lot of ajinomoto.
Majid will be wondering why I stopped
going there. And I will have to inform
him about his price. I could buy a more
tasty and cheaper food somewhere else. I
will be telling him that if he disagree
with bringing the food price
competitively I will not frequent the
restaurant anymore. I can always cook my
own breakfast. Once I get back to Pak
Hassan restaurant I will buy fish curry
for my dinner and keep it for fried rice
the next morning.
Food and commodity prices are climbing
each day. Najib do away with all the
subsidies as the country is saving money
to pay his huge loan and the money for 1
Mdb. He is the worst Prime Minister I
have ever seen, spending millions on the
comfort of his wife more than himself.
Raw food is more expensive in Malaysia
than in United States or Thailand.
Eating out is a very expensive affair.
What used to be expensive before like
KFC and Mac Donald are cheaper now than
at the restaurants. A meal can cost a
person RM20 to RM40.
All imported foodstuffs increase by
double. I abstain fro purchasing can
food like Laichee and Pineapple.
A jobless and a retired person has no
other alternative but to compute the
most and cheapest economical ways of
living.
The changing style of food intake from
buying to home brewing can not only save
our money but also would give us
different taste of food everyday.
25/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WAITING
FOR RAYA
Call it what you want, an intermittent
amnesia, memory decay, senility or brain
dead, they are all in me. I have lost
the sense and perception of time and
space, do not remember what I want to do
and where I want to go. I don't even
know the day and date many a time.
Things go and come back. I know today is
a fasting months. I felt it was just
like yesterday when it began on the 6th.
of June. Today is 16th. of June. The
officer at the Land Office counter told
me this morning that today is 16th. of
June 2016.
The advantage of the loss of time and
space sensitivity is that days leap with
a great stride. I have retired 13 years
already and growing older rapidly but
due to the vanishing sensitivity I have
been thinking that I am still a young
man, only to be reminded by those who
called me 'uncle' or 'grandpa'.
There are many things that I do not
forget; those who hurt me, who borrowed
my money and my portable things, who
lied to me and those people who did good
deeds to me and other people. Selective
amnesia ? I don't know. That's what
things are. The mystery of nature may
be. I call it the work of God.
The daily chores on this Ramadzan seem
to go on very well. Each day I am
getting smarter in buying food for the
breaking of fast, the amount is lesser
and expenditure is much reduced.
Yesterday I bought a packet of rice with
some fried dry squids on some gravy
wetting it. I only paid RM3 and I bough
some cookies for RM2. The day before I
paid RM4 for a packet of rice and a
fish. I enjoyed the delicious food. I
decide to have my food from this vendor,
Dapur Bonda restaurant, leaving the
Mamak who raised the usual rice-tomato
by 50 cents.
At 5 or 5.30 I went for my evening walk
but reduced the distance from 4.8 km to
3.6 km. After sweating enough I took a
rest before coming home, feeling fit and
fresh. The washing and ironing is done
between chores like a T-shirt or two
just before or after praying. Washing is
simple. All were done by machine. After
30 minutes I would take the wash to dry
them outside the house. I have no choice
but to use 2 T-shirts per day, before
and after my evening walk.
This morning I went to the local Land
Office to finish some land matter. I was
glad everything is done. I could take a
deep breath.
The festival day, 1st. of Syawal, will be
very soon. My grand daughter would be
coming home. I am thinking of finding
some fireworks for them but it is not
easy as it is banned in my country.
There are some leftover from last year.
I don't have much money left to
entertain them because only recently I
lent quite a big sum to my student.
What do they take me for a billionaire
banker ? Or is it easy to exploit me ?
They know it is hard for me to say NO.
But life is fulfilling when I can do all
the work that I want. I don't dream of
having a private jet nor eating a
RM30000 Japanese meat. I don't have to
steal people's money and lie through my
teeth. I don't live in fear of being
kidnapped, murdered or hurt. In fact WE
do enjoy life without having have to
have 20 bodyguards.
Despite all the drawbacks living a
solitary life is indeed a rewarding. You
don't hear any of your family members
shouting and cursing at you and calling
you senile and stupid for your stupid
behavior. Senile people tend to do
stupid things which irritate the others.
Nobody tells us what and what not to do.
If we forget the day and the date we
don't hurt anyone. It is just that we
might miss something.
Like younger people I too am looking
forward for the Raya Day, waiting
eagerly to give away some money to the
kids passing my way and fire some
crackers with the loudest noise. I put
life to my house with colorful
glittering lights inside and outside. It
is the joy most of us are waiting for.
16/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
HURTING
OTHERS
I was deeply hurt many time. They were
so intense that I kept them to myself. I
showed no morose and I suppressed them
in my mind. My strong mind and will
power and my philosophy of life
cushioned the shock and I could retain
my composure.
Those who hurt me simply didn't care at
all, like a master who treated his slave
and treated the slave like an animal
without any feeling at all.
Life is temporary. The mystery of the
universe can never be known. In the
yester years before men cling to reason
God provides nature and it's phenomena
differ from the age of reason. The
magicians and sorcerers, the fairies and
the witches were true and real. When men
chose reasons God took away all the
magic.
When I was a kid I heard old folks were
telling stories about the ancient people
as tall as the coconut trees and humans
were large. I did not remember why in
the later years they became small. In
school we read a story call Nakoda
Tenggang which was later told as Malim
Kundang, about a child who was
unfaithful and challenged against his
mother who felt so hurt and curse the
son to become a stone. There were
stories of a being called 'gedembai' who
turned many men and animals into stone
and hills.
Malim Kundang/Nakhod
Tanggang
Today when a man goes against God or his
parents he does not get an immediate
retribution.
Yet through the eyes of some others the
sinners did receive the punishments from
God. Bush who was part of the False Flag
Attack on 911 is now drug dependent, the
Israelis are living in constant fear,
and others are either mentally unstable
and paranoid or sick and unhealthy.
Life must go on. I have a few more years
to live and I might as well go on living
and make the fullest use of the
remaining days. I solve my own health
problem and other occurring ones. Some
strange ones would be revealed in my
blog. Why should I let others suffer
because of me. And when I went for a
distant travel, I did not bother people
to send and receive me at the airport.
I believe good health can make one
forget his worry. So I do daily exercise
even during the fasting month. And
keeping fit is imperative when I am
living alone. I checked my blood sugar
and blood pressure everyday, study the
type of food that I should take.
It was just coincidence that people who
were not happy with me during my working
days have all gone to see God much
earlier. It was not my wish at all that
they should leave this earth. As I said
earlier what could a slave do when
seeing his master passed away.
While you are still living, try not to
hurt people or put them in difficult
position. While your parents are still
alive do not hurl harsh words on them
and treat them like animals. If you are
a Minister do not cause problems to the
citizens by taxing them and stealing
their money and spend them as if from
your own coffer. If you are an officer
be kind to your clients and make them
understand things without hurting them.
When you hurt people God will punish
you.
15/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
9M2RDX LEFT US. WE WILL
FOLLOW
HIM LATER
9M2RDX, Rizal, has gone to meet God on
the 12th of June 2016 after a few days
of comma due to the blood clot in his
head. We send our condolences to his
family members and pray for him to be
placed among the good men loved by God.
Our turn will come later. And all of us
will have to leave this temporal life.
Rizal is not my close friends but I did
follow his activities all the time. The
last two contacts with him was
on CW mode. That was two years ago. He
Morse was fine. I knew he was using his
fingers.
Rizal would be in almost all scout
events and other ham radio activities.
Surely all scouters would feel a great
lost.
From the first moment I had a contact
with Rizal, I knew he was a good and
fine ham. He wanted to experience what
the old hams had experience before. He
looked for a valve set and toyed with
it. I remember working him using the
archaic equipment. Every time I saw his
picture being posted on the FaceBook I
felt so proud and glad to have such a
person in the radio fraternity.
I felt so sorry that I could not fulfill
my intention to visit him while he was
in Kuala Lumpur general hospital. Hanafi,
9W2TZ, did not stop updating me to the
status of his health until his funeral
program. 9M2GET, Hairei too, kept on
informing me. Rizal was one of the 9M2M
operators.
Those who were close to Rizal could tell
more and say more. May God bless him and
his soul.
13/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
SMUGGLING THE MONEY OUT ?
Cash transfer through banks could be traced. The
report by the Wall Street Journal had enough proofs
on the trail of money that went into Najib's
account. Najib will not dare, ever, to sue the US
based journal because they contain the very concrete
proof. Najib would be greatly disgraced by the
donation and other spinning stories.
The Rosmah's bags on the private jet episode sparks
suspicions and questions. Luggage which should be
put in the luggage compartment were carried onto the
passenger's area. There were conjectures and
deductions as to the content of the number of
luggage in the cabin. It was also insinuated that
many of them contain cash to be deposited in the
Turkish banks by the billions. In this way the money
movement cannot be traced.
Najib's aide and Najib himself will come up with
some sort of answers. And many will believe him. But
he has been lying all the time and has proven to be
so. BN ministers cannot be pissed out all the time.
The luggage story would be unknown to them too had
not it been without this leakage. They too will
start to ask similar questions as the rest.
Why those luggage were not housed in their
compartment ? Rosmah won't be able to see them and
feared anything could have happened. Putting them in
the cabin was safer and she could eye on everyone of
them.
If it is the money, the plane may not fly straight
to Istanbul. It may stop at Saudi Arabia. Najib's
brains and masterminds are all here, waiting for the
delivery. Then the jet will continue to Istanbul.
Somehow the stories will be known, if not now it
will be years later. True or false Rosmah will be
more than 70 by then. She will be getting heavier. A
few crazy Malaysians will be hunting for her to
revenge. Many citizens expressed intense hatred on
her, saying Najib is under her spell.
The police should investigate too as to the content
of the luggage and not to take side or announce
their findings. They can always discuss with all the
other top UMNO members as to the appropriate course
of actions
if the bags contain billions of ringgit
or US dollars.
12/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
RADIO HOBBY EXTENDED
The frontier of amateur radio has found a wider
boundary.
One's dream to talk on the air via one's own
equipment from one's home is nearing reality. The
authority is introducing Class C operators with a
limitation to power transmission. Class C is a
starter concept which later will open up to more
discussion and ideas.
As the fraternity of radio is open to general public
we are preparing the country to greater manpower
usage during the time of calamities and disasters. I
every district, far and near, in a very remote area
where population is scarce there must be people who
can communicate with radio equipments in case of
emergency and flood. Yong men and those with
interest could be called for training by the
government and funding of radio equipments be made
available.
What the radio operators and owner should know is
the ethics and social procedures on the air so that
they will nay cause unnecessary disturbances. The
technicalities of electronics aren't important. They
are not going to be technicians or professional
radio operators.
In the normal time, the regulation on power use
could carry some advantages. It encourages an
operator to set up the best antenna system ever at
the highest affordable height. And he could learn
Morse codes to work DX stations with the maximum
allowable power. Of course CW is not mandatory.
Knowing it will give him some advantage. Besides the
skill can enhance his pride and satisfaction.
After several years the given power could be
increased without having to seat for RAE which I
believe should be abolished.
I don't need to say how to conduct the course for
regulations. There are various methods that could be
devised to achieve the goal.
11/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MY 2ND DAY OF THE FASTING MONTH
Things did not come out as what I had been planning
on the first day of Ramadzan. The purchasing of food
plus drink was RM10. I computed it as RM7. That was
for the breakfast. At half fast two in the morning I
went out for the Sahur at KFC. The wedges and a
Pepsi cost me RM7.20. The total meal added up was
RM17.20. My plan to go for the evening walk
proceeded without a hitch, and arrived home almost
45 minutes before the Maghrib prayer. Only my
stomach had some upset. I guessed it was cleaning my
intestine. Total excretion ended up at about 2 am.
Today I feel much fresher. I decided to consume meat
rice for my breakfast and tomato rice for my Sahur.
The best of both is from Dapor Bonda, the food
vendor my wife used to love. The two sets cost me
RM12. I also bought some fried dried squids ( sotong
kering ). I was charged RM3 for it. The additional
stuffs are four ringgit. The total for today's meal
inclusive of everything is RM19, a dollar and eighty
cent more than yesterday.
Astonishingly I did not get tired at all on the 4.8
km walk today. Yesterday, I was too tired and had to
struggle for the 3.6 km. There were not many Malays
at the jogging track except for 4 or 5 young people.
At this very moment it is 7 pm. I have yet to take
my bath. I do feel thirsty but it is only about 30
minutes away.
I started the breakfast with my medication and a sip
of water. Then I went to my prayer. Having done my
chores I browsed the facebook. At 8 pm I took my
rice. Today I will follow the same thing. If I don't
feel any stomach upset, I will be going to the
nearby mosque for the Tarawih.
You see, there is no part of Muslim practices are
showing any enmity towards other race of religion.
It does not condemn others. Our practices do not
cause pain or hurt other ethnic group or their
creeds. Neither would I bragged to the other race
that our ways are the best. The worst the Muslims
are encourage to say is 'You do your way and I do my
way'.
07/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHY SPEND MORE DURING RAMADZAN ?
Business flourish during the month of Ramadzan. A
friend said a month of Ramadzan the profit yield
would last him for a year. The rental for the sale
booth charged from RM500 to RM13K by the city
counsel.
Yesterday at a Giant supermarket there was a huge
crowds purchasing the trolley load of stuffs and the
queue was very long. I only bought a packet of Brahim
rendang and 5 cans of isotonic drinks. I am so sure
those same people will rush to buy food at the
Ramadzan stalls. They'll buy tons of foodstuffs of
different varieties. I would say the extravaganza is
just to satisfy the lust.
Today I intend to buy a kilogram of rice, will cook
it for the Sahur. The Brahim rendang will accompany
it. For half a cup I can have a big plate of rice.
For the breakfast I'll buy something that will not
be more than RM7. Last year I remember spending
lesser than the normal days. This year I will try to
spend much lesser for my food consumption is getting
lesser as ageing climbs.
The breaking fast in my locality is 7.33 pm today.
It is difficult to say which is the best time to go
to buy food. After 5 pm there will be a big problem
of parking but it would be a nice time for me. By
6.15 I have a very ample time to do my evening walk
and would complete it around 7.15 pm. Otherwise, to
beat the traffic I would have to go at 4 or 4.30 pm.
It is a bit too early. I could waste some time by
strolling from stall to stall to see what sort of
menu they have at their disposals. With the seven
ringgit I won't be able to buy a baked-fish which
usually priced at RM12- RM20.
To start walking at the jogging circuit at 6 pm
would be the best computing the average of the food
buying times of 4 and 5 pm. The victuals however
will have to reside in my car for about two hours. I
have 30 minutes to take a bath and have the food
ready on the table.
For the first few days I would not have any problem
with my stomach and afterwards I could join the
Tarawikh prayer until the end. After that there
would be turbulence due to the acid-food reaction
and it would all be done after the vowel clearance.
My Tarawikh would cut to only 8 rakaats. That has
been the case over the years. I am still alive till
now. Nobody could ever advise me not to continue
with my fasting.
Spending less is a form of discipline and a control
of our own lust. It is our winning achievement. It
would be easier for me as I am living alone. I only
spend solely for myself. But it also should be easy
to those who find the extra unfinished food and
ready to throw them away. We can do away with
choices. Just eat what we have. If we want other
varieties, just buy them on every other day till the
end of Ramadzan.
Of course we cannot be sure that we can spend less
due to the rising cost and the GST. What we used to
pay 20 cents is now 40 cents. Sellers have to charge
more for higher rental, plus the raw stuffs they
bought. People with meager income, the pensioners
and the jobless would feel the pinch.
I saw ladies dress is selling at reasonable price.
The average is RM50 a piece. Why buy the most
expensive just one wants to be looked beautiful ?
The dress does not determine beauty. A charming lady
is always look charming even without any. And I have
already got a dress I bought which have never been
worn before.
I would rather spend more money on kids if I have
any now. A dollar is too small for the kid's
visitors. Last year I increased to two dollars but
the number of visiting children were fewer. I had
wished for beggars but there weren't any. This year
I hope to see more beggars coming to my house. A
beggar is a beggar, a poor jobless men or women, not
a wealthy contractor who love their own money so
much and only wants what may belong to others.
06/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE LOAN IS NOT PAID YET
I
had always thought that ham radio operators were
respectable, capable, trusted and helpful people.
That was when I first came to know amateur radio,
way back in the '60s and '70s. It was not easy to
qualify as an amateur radio operator then. One had
to pass the theory paper to be answered in English
and in essay form, and also a pass in a Morse codes
test, of 12 words per minute. The pride lied in the
Morse capability. Indeed it was a kind of filter to
ensure hams operators of high caliber. It is almost
correlated to the characters and attitudes of the
operators. There might be a rare black sheep
somewhere but I had never heard of any. I only knew
of experimenters in laser technology, celebrities in
Holly Woods, the aristocrats, the ruling elites, the
congressmen and professionals in various fields.
Come the late '80s onwards I began to hear cheaters
and liars. Hams that took friends' gears and never
to return them. Hams that borrow huge sums of money
and never to return them.
I
have written on a ham who seek RM500 from me saying
a religious cleric wanted to borrow as he was too
broke, and promised to pay me back by a week. And
this person is a big time contractor, a wealthy
person with lot of properties inherited from the
dead farther and mother. I did not mention his name
and call sign trying to avoid disgracing him. I knew
that he always read by blog and hope he would honor
his promise. Till now he did not.
Yesterday while having lunch at one Mamak restaurant
the shop owner asked me about 'a fat and big guy who
lived around Seberang Perak area'. I responded
saying I have not seen him for a long time. I
narrated to him about the manner this man approached
me for the TM500 and disappeared since my lending
him the cash.
There is another ham who borrowed by the thousands
from several persons and continue to prey on
honest hams. He does not owe me anything and it is
not my job to expose his identity.
I
think I have given this person enough time. It is
not only the money that matters most but the
crookedness, the dishonesty, the deceitfulness and
the whole creepy stuffs that can cause pollution to
the grandness of amateur radio. It cannot be a clean
hobby with dirty people inside it. Amateur radio
should not tolerate such a person.
I
have to remind you that bad hams are not confined to
only the 9Ws though in my case I experienced the
bitterness with a 9W2 person. Mine is nothing as
compared to the torment of other lenders. Names were
divulge secretly by whispering to friends ears. We
were warned to be very careful with con hams. One or
two disposed names on the face book due to
uncontrolled anger.
Of course I cannot convince you not to trust any ham
who is a contractor with the suffixes J something
and the prefix 9W2. It is a small puzzle for you to
deduce by yourselves.
If he pays me before I die, I will write an apology
to him in the very same blog so that you may know
that he has repented. The only person to whom I told
the identity of the ham is Hanafi, 9W2TZ. I always
keep him up to date whether that person has made me
any payment.
04/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
CHOOSING
WHERE
TO
DIE
What do you think of life and living after
reaching 65 ? Many people pray for longevity
and rigorously take care of their health,
eating good food, doing exercises and
consume a lot of vitamins. I do observe food
intake as well and do daily exercise but I never pray
for longevity. I may die anytime. And I am
not worried about death.
I always asked myself where would be my last
breath; at home in this town, at my new
abode on some island somewhere, while on
traveling or at the Holly Land ? Is there
any uninhibited island somewhere where I can
rent a small lodging and stay there alone
and die there without anybody from my family
knowing of my departure ? A lonely place far
from people and noisy city life without TV
and newspaper is almost free from the evil
of human race. I would not have known
whether Mahathir or Najib has passed away or
sick or even in jail.
I remember the elderly people of the
yesteryears who wished that God takes away
their lives while performing pilgrimage at the Holly Land. Parents would
not shed their tears on hearing of such
death. I have not made my Haj yet though I
have been to the Umrah for a simple reason,
that I am not a totally clean man yet in ,y
heart and my deed and religious practice. I
feel so fit and strong and young at this
age, at 70. And this is actually a problem.
At least I thought of death. How many
politicians do think about it ?
Is it true that some animals, knowing of
their imminent death, would separate from
the group and went to find a place to die ?
I have some places in my mind. When I told
my student about it she told me not to be
very stupid. Why should it ? I could start
looking for a place and choose where to die.
You would remember several UMNO ministers
chased the Malaysians out if they could not
agree with the policy and rules of UMNO. If
Najib could negotiate with foreign
government to accept the outgoing Malaysians
it could be sure thousands or even million
would choose to leave the country. It was
almost as good as impossible. But it is
within our reach to allocate distant islands
in Malaysian waters for those disagree with
UMNO to go. The government can shut the TV
and all form of communications and
transportation. I would be one of the
volunteers to go. Of course my preference is
the less populated island.
Wherever you see humans you are seeing evil
and hypocrisy. The most despicable are the
politicians and the people in power. They
made law to suck your blood and sweat, to
siphon your hard earned money, forcing you
to pay for their lavish expenditure and the
money they stole. They deceived the people,
lie to them, corrupt them and finally won
their positions. The people are stupid
enough to choose rogue individuals as their
leaders. They are happy to pay for the
higher prices, the GST and the stolen cash.
They made god out of a man and said that if
the Muslims do not listen to Najib, means
they do not listen to God.
You are seeing these evils everyday. Some
are worst than beasts, manipulating and
forcing the people to like GST and to save
the criminals. It is hell. The only outlet
is to detach ourselves from the sight of
these sinners. You will not die peacefully
under the realm of UMNO.
It is not because of UMNO that drives me to wanting
to run away from civilization. It is the totality of
social mixtures summed that made living is full of
stinking odor. Even top politicians go to the
retreat, far away from the city in the deep jungles,
dwell with nature for several days. Serenity and
calmness are now becoming luxuries of life, where
people pay to be with them. Deep jungles have been
made a tourist resort.
No matter how and where you die your soul will still
meet the angels and God the Creator. Let me die in
peace and tranquility in a quiet and beautiful place
where nature is untouched by the greedy mankind.
02/06/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
DON'T
WATCH TOO MANY MOVIES
I have
been watching too many Holy Wood movies
to fill in the empty time. Once upon a
time the Communist use them as
propaganda tools, a part of brain
washing machinery. Today China produces
more entertainment films. One has to
assess movies from Holy Woods and lump
them into various categories. Not all
are made for mere entertainment.
Classical
Chinese stories are depicting
corruptions, almost similar to the
current happenings. There are English
action films that tell us about rogue
individuals who hold the post as a chief
policeman and a gangster boss at the same
time, which could make you think of a
similar situation here. Political
leaders could use the police as well as
the mafia warlords to defend themselves.
The crooks help them in getting rid of
their foes and anyone who threatened
them. Tamil movies tend to expose the
nature of the bad politicians.
If you
see too many movies you tend to think
our leaders are corrupt, crook and work closely
with the criminals to commit their
heinous crimes. They can create doubts
and suspicions, pushing us to make
conclusions on the behaviors. There was a movie on a fake
President where the real one was
kidnapped and replaced by a clone, which
would lure us to think that Najib and
Rosmah are both fakes. To a certain
extend some movies are seditious in
nature.
A movie
like the Jungle Book which is so
realistic in depicting the animal and
human characters, is telling us that
video clips and audio voices cannot be
used as evidence in court. Animators
could produce any human images as if
he is a real person. Yet Malaysians are
using very fuzzy image to bring down
their political foes. Surely Najib
could depart with a few hundred millions
to kill his utmost dangerous enemy by
paying for similar techniques if he
wants to.
What else
do movies show us ?
1. The arts of warfare. USA
and it's allies would drop
their army in the heart of
the enemy lines. 2. The
recruitments of operatives
and missionaries, military
operations and weaponries
used. 3. The
organizations and networks
of international gangsters,
drug kingpins and crooks. 4.
The methods and procedures
of stealing, robbing and
breaking the banks. 5.
An independent justice
fighter. 6. How to kill.
The many methods of
murdering a person using
poison, cyanide, cement
drum, sniper, human
bomber and other methods. 7.
The arts of planting moles
and spies by the government
and by the crooks. 8.
Crooks becoming national
leaders. 9. The arts of
corruptions. 10. On
despotic rulers and the fall
of dynasties. The follies of
Emperors and Kings. 11.
On laws, police, crimes,
drugs, valiant and villains. |
Those
are among some of the contents of
the movies available. Viewers tend
to associate the happenings with the
current social conducts or relate
them to the political scenes in
the country.
But
most people prefer light movies,
that they don't have to think of the
philosophy behind them. They
love the action films because they
want to see the fight, the shooting
and the versatility of the heroes,
more actions than talking. The
kampong Malays prefer the Malay
drama to the English movies. They
like the Hindi movies because of the
songs and the handsome heroes. Their
minds are almost free of dirty
thoughts.
The
very few adventurers might follow
the examples shown, digging tunnels
to rob banks, conning high profile
individuals and commit murder
without being traced. The English
educated with political inclination
regard the movies as the mirrors of
the arrogant and pompous
politicians. And they quickly
concluded the death of Kevin Morais
and PI Bala as well planned murder
to save Najib.
It is
difficult for the government to bar
these movies into the country. They
are not in the theaters but there
are plenty in the internet and
downlable. Moreover some of
the messages sent are not very
obvious especially when conveyed in a
comedy form, yet it is telling the
people about the avarice of a
certain politicians.
To
what extent do the movies shaped
people's thought is not known. We
can try to read their minds through
observing their behaviors and what
they expressed in the FaceBook and
other feedbacks. Yet we cannot say
the correlation with the movies. The
people might
have read other articles from
opposing team's social media.
The
Malaysian government has a gigantic
machinery to combat with any thought
detrimental to the leadership
precarious position, plus a very huge
sum of money for distribution and
gifts. Cash
is King is not Najib's philosophy.
The Chinese has been saying it
decades ago, that a man can pay a
Satan to pull a bullock cart for
him.
Nevertheless to reduce worry never
try to relate the movies to the
political happenings.
31/05/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE MALAYS AND THE BRITISH
The British has a long history of
civilization, understanding the people
and the world around them, mastering the
sea and the oceans in the earliest
centuries, took India and Malaya at the
helm of industrial revolution. The early
American governments was set up by the
Anglo-Saxon race. The world looks at the
United States as their god, eat American
Mac Donald and Kentucky Fried Chicken,
rent their technologies to create
personal wealth by selling to their own
citizens.
The British understood the Malays very
well. So much so our Sultans loved to
have British advisors and finally gave
the full power of administration to the
White People. Examining English
literature written in the 16, 17 and
18th century we could assess the mental
acuity of the Englishmen, strong
reasoning power and very observant. The
British described the Malays as 'a brown
skin and emotional people living on
trees'. The later Englishman of the 20th
century, Alex Jose, described the Malays
as the generation of pirates.
The Anglo-Saxon, White British, are
cunning, shrewd and clever. They have
been playing games with the Malaysian
Malays to their advantage several times
and in many ways. We have to pay them
for the recognition of our school
certificate. That will not be forever.
They want a quick and hard cash for any
technology you acquire from them. They
set morality aside for your money.
Nor Mahathir, nor Najib can think they
can deceive a fellow British at the high
echelon. Remember British pirates have
been plundering the Spanish galleons for
gold. Drake was a pirate who was
knighted by Elizabeth I. Alex Jose
forget that his ancestors were the band
of pirates, and will continue to cheat
and plunder foreign funds wherever
possible. They would accept money from
Najib even they know the money was
stolen.
The Englishmen will not beg from the
Malays or Najib. They do not send their
sons and daughters to Malaya to study
and obtain degrees from our
universities. If you want to pay for
their football team they would accept
it. We were forced to move the Malaysia
Hall to a new place, to a smaller and
more congested building.
Economy wise Najib does not gain much.
He just want the British to say okay
about the money that went into his
account. At least he can be sure the
British government will not wave him a
red card for money laundering. Behind
the mind of the British they want to
have more money and more cash from
whatever source Najib can offer them.
They are cunning all the way.
20/05/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
IMMORAL
AND SHAMELESS EVIL
I have always aware that Ministers and
other politicians have been telling lies
in parliaments. I am sorry to say almost
the whole member of parliaments are not
aware of many things and a big number do
not possess the analytical and
mathematical ability to reason and
compare the statements by their fellow
parliamentarians. It is owing to a
simple reason, that they are human
beings. They cannot be perfect.
Each and everyone of them must remember
that they are responsible on what
flouted from their mouths, and whatever
they read from documents prepared by
their offices and subordinates. A man
who pull a trigger killing another human
is equally guilty as his master who
ordered the murder. They cannot finally
passed the blame on the finger, the gun,
the gun maker or the gun seller.
Similarly if one car knocks another the
driver should not shift the blame on the
faulty break, the bad road, the other
driver and the government for not
drawing a better traffic rule.
Because a parliamentarians are
responsible and accountable they have to
be sure of whatever they are going to
spurt out are real, and true. Najib has
lied in parliament. Azlina also lied to
the law makers. Both, when caught, did
not want to accept the responsibility.
They squashed their accountability. What
they had done were they lied to the 30
million citizens. Instead they use their
machineries to justify their
sins of irresponsibility, and putting their
blames on the opposition parties.
By the standard of morality and human
civility such an attitude is called
immoral behavior. The feeling of shame
is absent within their souls and
spirits. They judged themselves
differently from the judgments of that of
the local
masses and the world. It is not a satire
when a story of an emperor with an
invisible dress was made to fill the
entire social atmosphere. When thefts were
proven and the criminals were not
indicted as they control the whole
power, they thought they were innocent
and they were kings.
They paraded themselves to the world
telling how beautiful their dresses
were, at the same time in their nakedness
they splash wealth and money to the
people, thinking their rouge characters
could be bnished.
Human who are obsessed with the thought
of invincibility and unchallenged power
will elevate themselves to the level of
God or would not believe in the
existence of the Supreme Power, nor
believing in heaven and hell. God has
taken away the feeling of shame and
stripped them off of their ethical and moral values.
That's the reason we see them blaming
others all the time. A robber who
breaks into your home will blame you
for not locking your doors, for not
deploying the best protecting
equipments. A rapper who may one day
rape Azlina will say that he can't
resist the beauty of her. She should
have been uglier.
Najib lied about the money in the
Singapore BSI bank and recently blamed the Am Bank officers for not advising him,
yet keeping quiet about the money and
used some of them for personal purchases. Azlina said that she only spoke as what
was told to her by the PAC chairman. Of
course there were more lies especially on the
election maneuver of ballot boxes.
It has come to a stage that criminals
and gangsters are walking with pride in
their faces saying, "I robbed your money
and I peddle drugs...so what ? Prove
that I am wrong...." The victims are
in the wrong and the criminals are on
the right, unless proven guilty.
Men have been distancing themselves from
God, either they forgot or simply do not
believe in one. They passed laws on same
sex marriage, giving freedom to nudity,
legalizing once an illegal drug, causing
misery and pain to the innocent, poor
and helpless people under the pretext of
preventing terror.
What better things can a citizen get
from a leader without shame and moral
values. It is not about Najib alone. It
is also about Mahathir when he was in
power. The sins are going on on a more
vigorous scale. Najib has almost become
a Pei Shu.
Never pray for the death of the reckless
leaders and the evil officers and
supporters. Let us hope for their mind
and body being tortured. The day will
come. When it comes they will have to
pay. But we could also pray so that the
God would restore morality and the
feeling of shame in every one of them.
20/05/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
cw
on whatsapp
It is
difficult to work CW nowadays with new
local hams. I sent a message to 9M2ZN
asking him to come on 40 for CW session.
There was no reply. The other day on
Whatapp I asked Malcom who is now
residing in VK3 land to come on the air.
His antenna is down. He also said that
his interest in ham radio has waned off.
9M2ZA,
Zainal, who had surrendered his ticket
to the authority is active on computer
communication and on Whatsaap, sent CW
calling CQ. I replied to his call also
using Morse codes. It is making CW
lively again. Mal said he is scared to
switch on his transceiver since he had
not done so for years. He would look
into it and hook his antenna up again.
It is
too early to say what may transpire. We
will have to wait and see.
I have
always like ragchewing on Morse. My CW
sparing partner, a young man in Medan,
has recently passed away. Otherwise we
would be pounding for hours on end; he
at a greater speed and me at the lower
speed. Then Mazwan too love a fast CW
contact with full words, sending and
receiving for hours too, like N6TT and
JA1NUT.
Of
course my passion on ham radio has
almost died for some reasons. I would
guessed the rest of the old hams feel
the same.
17/05/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
BACK TO NORMAL LIFE
It has been a week since I returned home
from my trip. My vanishing cats began to reappear
one by one, rolling on the floor when seeing me. And
I have completely recovered from the jet lag. My
evening exercise is taking it's momentum.
Rain has been almost a daily chores, pouring evening
showers to cool the warm air fired by the hot sun.
Nothing is like home. No amount of nuggets in a
beautiful and wealthy land can attract me.
A normal life now is living alone. The house is
not so quiet and noiseless. There were shrieking
sounds of my VHF radio and the melody of Bunga
Tanjung by an Indonesian singer, Hetty Koes Endang.
LIfe is full of color and fragrance odor of
happiness. I chose to ignore those weird and scary
specie of politicians for I viewed them to be worst
than a Satan.
Today I have a visitor, someone from our
Spain-Morocco group. I took him to my normal Majid
restaurant for a meal. The Mamak gave us a free
lunch with no charge. Then we went to Pekan Rabu
where he bought a Songkok for RM65 each and sarong
costing RM35. To me a RM65 songkok is expensive
enough. He came last night, stayed at his brother's
house and had to leave Alor Setar to fetch his wife
at Kuala Kangsar. "Someone passed away in Kuala
Kangsar," he told me. " I have to be there for a
Tahlil." He shot off.
I had an evening walk to do in the evening. I
waited for the Asar prayer before proceeding to the
jogging circuit. These few days I did not get tired
with the 4.8 km brisk walking, soaking myself with
sweat and enjoyed the rest of the day with fresh
body, feeling fit and young.
Intermittently I watched movies or soccer on my
Samsung Note2 or browsing the facebook,
entertain myself reading remarks from the Najib's
cyber troopers with their myopic vision. Free soccer
without condition imposed by the programmer is Dubai
Sports which only broadcast the games in the Middle
East, and North American League. There is no English
FA nor La Liga. I am happy even with the Arab
League.
I just came back from my dinner. My usual
restaurant is KFC where I would go for the Wedges.
If not KFC the other alternative is Mimi Tomyam
where I would go for fried rice, fish and an apple
juice. At time I told myself that U need a change.
This is the time when I would drive around thinking
of the place to eat; sea-food is too far to drive
alone. Pizza Hut and Secret Recepie would cost me a
fortune. Many a time I would settle for a ham burger
with egg, or a packet of Nasi Lemak and a glass of
coffee. Tonight I decided to go to Mimi Tomyam. It's
not cheap, It costs me RM12 for the complete meal.
Afterwards after writing this article I will be
in front of my TV set. First I will start reading A
Man In A Corner from my Android e-book. A few pages
would be enough. I will continue tomorrow. Then I
will see what's cooking on the TV channels. If there
is a soccer match on any channel I would watch the
game. If there is an adventure movie I will see it.
Else I would watch the movies I keep in my external
disk drive.
It the routine that kills my time, that moves so
fast without my realizing it. Months pass just like
yesterday, years pass just like last week.
At least I do think of my death, that is
inevitably comes the soonest. Najib and Rosmah and
other Ministers do not seem to show that they too
will be facing the God Almighty. They don't want to
give away their posts to the younger people and
spend their time in repenting and seek forgiveness
for their despicable sins.
15/05/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
POTO TRAVEL NO MORE
I
am not a rich man. But I have been traveling
before POTO was born. In those days I did not
hear of any Muslim travel agencies. My
relationship with Reliance was not because of
the company. It was due to the friendly nature
of the staffs at the office point.
Whenever there were special offers they would
rang me up. Even on my personal trips to the
United States I would buy the group ticket
joining the tour group and spread my way on
arrival following my own program. I enjoyed
three tour programs with the company to North
America with fantastic group members.
For each of the trip, the tour leader would ring
me up a day or two before the departure,
introducing himself/herself, telling me what to
bring, reminding of the weather, money, the time
and date where I should meet the group. On the
plane our passports were collected. The tour
leader filled in the immigration form for us and
returned the documents to the owners. They wore
their company uniform and carrying along their
company's mini flag.
The tour leaders were very well verse with the
history, culture and knowledge on the United
States. They explained everything all the way on
the bus without any local tour guide.
I
went to Europe and Australia with the same
company and the services and treatments were
identical.
The first surprise with Reliance was when I went
to New Zealand under it's Muslim section, Riang
Ria. It was the first time I encountered a
company using the local tour guide, the bus
driver to explain places. The followed by the
subsequent Malay travel agents including POTO
travel. POTO had been using a part time tour
leader.
Somebody suggested that I should try Andalusia
or Felda. I would have guessed the Malay
companies do not have the Chinese experience and
skill in managing tourism. They MAY not have a
tour leader who is as capable as the Mandarin or
English tour guide of Cosmos or Reliance. They
bang on the Halal food and the prayer schedule
to draw the Muslims.
I
don't go for cheap packages that will later
optional visits with additional payments. In the
yester years Reliance was not cheap but it there
were no optional tour or extra payments and the
hotels were good.
But food shouldn't be a problem nowadays. Two
packets of magee can last us for almost two
weeks dinner. You can enjoy a packet of Brahim
Rendang for 2 or three days with cheap bread. a
few packets of Brahim assorted rice would be
ample. Non-Muslim tours could easily pull more
Muslims with discounted prices who chose the
trips without food, except for the hotel
breakfasts.
My
friends have been telling me about going places
with backpacks. One has to do all the homework
on lodging, ticketing and transportation at home
which will cut the price by more than half.
That's what I had been doing when I visited
United States. I can do with USA as I know the
country and the culture pretty well.
If you study POTO carefully you will find the
workers are arrogant as they feel the customers
need their service and they are just doing
favors to the people. Their e-mails are binding
and laws to be abided. Whether you receive or
read the mails are none of their concern. It is
the customer who is guilty for not reading or
receiving it. They can even alter the date
according to their will and surprise you later
in their tickets. Surely there were parading
their irresponsibility, no moral obligation and
the absent of courtesy.
I
will say no more. I will proceed with POTO as
the time come. If you choose POTO I wish you all
the luck. I won't anymore.
15/05/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
PAY MORE FOR LATE TRIP
On the 25 th. of April POTO travel rang me
up at about 4 pm asking me to pay extra 5K
if I wanted to catch the group in Marakesh.
I refused to pay. I believed I would win if
I were to take the case to court, no matter
what proofs POTO had for the evidence to
prove my negligence. 15 minutes later they
called me again saying POTO would bear 50%
of the cost. If I agreed to pay 2.5K I could
take the 5PM ETS to KLIA. I agreed but I had
to pay the amount the sane night.
I flew to Casablanca and was received by a
Moroccan travel agent who drove me more than
300 km away. It took me almost 3 hours at
the speed of 120 km/h in a hot Mercedes.
Probably the air-condition was not
functioning.
I arrive my hotel at about 5 pm, exhausted
and worn out. I was too tired to explore the
garden city. I went horizontal till dinner
time at 7 pm. After the meal I went to bed
and dozed off till 4 am the next morning. My
trip with the group was set up in the next
morning.
I don't have the group picture as I arrived
late. They were all a bunch of nice and
wonderful people, a comfortable company to
be with. There were Datuks and Datins, great
business men, retired high ranking officers
and two young and lovely girls.
The name of our tour leader from Malaysia
was Nurul Nadia as seen standing on the left
in the top left picture. She is now doing a
PHD program. In Morocco we had a full time
tour
leader and a local city tour leader.
Everybody was asking me of my late arrival,
the reason and the flight time, and who
fetched me at the Casablanca airport. And
everyone was surprise to hear of the
original amount asked by the company. 5K was
more than a return trip to United States.
Someone mentioned Felda and Apple Travel
Agencies. I had traveled with Reliance to
New Zealand, Europe, United States,
Australia and Indonesia. I chose an unknown
company to India. I remembered very well
that Reliance's tour leader would be calling
me on the phone a day before departure and
gave a short narrations of what to expect
and where to meet on the departure day.
But I reserved to keep things to myself
because I wanted to enjoy the trip which I
paid RM12.5K, almost 5K more than the rest.
I will be writing a long letter to POTO
sometimes later.
Morocco is an agriculture country. I would
categorized the country into city, small
town and villages, which I will show
pictures and you describe each of them by
yourselves. The picture on the left was a
small town captured while on the way to
Meknes ( center pict ). The right was taken
near our hotel at Tangier.
Outside the cities the people are still
using mules and horses as modes of
transportation. Women and children have
to walk miles for marketing.
Though Morocco is an agriculture
country, Tangier is being developed into
part of industrial estates.
As it was a French colony, French was
taught in schools. Moroccans speak
Arabic, French and one other language
(mainly Spanish ). They are proud for
being the first in the world to set up a
university for woman in the 9th Century
where science and arts were taught. The
university was built within this huge
and long fort which is termed Medina (
fort ).
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Sultan's palaces were always huge. A
fort is almost like a state. There
were lodgings and schools. Where we
visited there were markets and hotel
rooms. We had our lunch at the
restaurant in this Medinna.
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Tangier
was a port city, the most modern that I had
seen in the whole of Morocco. This is the
last stop and the next day would be crossing
the Gibralta to Spain. I remember each day
we had to be on the bus for almost 12 hours,
from morning till evening, traveling more
than 450 km a day. We would stop for snack,
going to the rest room and snapping pictures
at attractive places.
PLACES OF INTEREST
IN MOROCCO
Pottery makers showing
us how to make a few objects using his
fantastic skill.
Below are pictures of a Sultan Palace in
Makness ( sorry I don't know how to spell
the city's name). In time to come I will add
more pictures in another story.
We
did not sleep in Makness, instead after
about 2 hours of rest we proceeded to
Tangier, the port city.
FROM MOROCCO TO SPAIN
We took a ferry from Morocco to Spain, about
2 1/2 hours. We had to move the luggage by
ourselves, quite a messy job. The gradient
was a little steep. But we had had enough
strength as we had just have our lunch. I
cooked my own Brahim Briyani and enjoyed my
meal with Daging rendang. The rest were
satisfied with the Halal Kebab.
Gibralta was a place to visit. But it is
under British territory. We had to pass the
British immigration who scrutinized our
passports closely whole allowing other
passport holders to pass through just by
showing their passports. So much so we had a
problem with the local tour due to the
delay. Finally we hopped on the two coasters
driven by a couple young English.
GIBRALTA |
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Gibralta or Jabal Tariq, is a small
strategic military area during the
world war2. The city is compact and
the pathways are small. Tourists go
on the coasters that can go through
the caves. There were a few busses
seen. Probably the busses had to go
a long way for the sight seeing.
The most unique stuff you can find
in Gibralta is the runway where
people and vehicles can across
through it when there isn't any
plane landing. The coaster was too
fast to enable me to snap it's
picture.
Due to the small land area Gibralta
has to resort to land exclaimation
for further development and port
enhancement.
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Spain looks more organized than Morocco. The
agriculture land is fully utilized. Outside
the cities are land for agriculture, not for
housing estates as in Malaysia. We could
not get much more information on the economy
as the bus driver did not speak English and
our tour leader is her first trip to the
country. For several hundred miles on the
bus we were listening to Raihan songs or
watching Malaysian movies. Surely it won't
make sense.
There are two attractive places in Spain,
Alhambra and the Mosques that were converted
to churches and now is like a museum.
Alhambra is about an hour away from our
hotel in a town not far away from Granada.
We had to wait three hours in Granada before
our visit to the Red Palace. There was no
city tour, nothing except for our own lunch,
or followed our tour leader hunting for
Halal restaurant. A few of us grumbled for
the time wasted.
The palace is just beautiful. Pictures will
be displayed on other pages later.
The next city was
Cardova. (
Click on the word to view pictures ). There
was one more place where we stopped for a
tour of Medina led by local female tour
guide. I don't have much to say but the
pictures is not the other page. May be it
was
Toledo.
Our final destination was Madrid. We stayed
at Holiday Inn for two nights. The best for
me in Madrid was the
Real Madrid Stadium.
And you click
here to
view more pictures in Spain.
Despite all the problems with Poto that
haunted me to my nerve, I enjoyed the trip
and the company of the great people. I
cannot thank the travel agent because I paid
for the trip. The service was not free,
nothing to be obliged and nothing to thank
for any gratitude. I went to Vietnam, Hong
Kong, China, Turkey, Balkan and this Spain's
trip just with the spirit of supporting the
Bumiputera company.
Thought I had been to the United States more
than 20 times, three of them were with
Reliance which only used the local tour
leaders whose knowledge of the land at the
back of their fingertips and all called me
by phone a day before the departure. New
Zealand was with Riang Ria, the Muslim
branch of Reliance. European tour with
reliance. I made two trips to Australia, one
with Reliance and the other with a company I
could not remember of it's name. To India
was with a Malay company we found in Harakah.
Poto provided us with 5 star hotels all the
way. I have no complaint about the lodgings.
I think POTO is more concern of the company
and does not have moral responsibility to
the customers. They think they would win if
I were to sue the company for negligence and
misleading it's customers. Let me tell the
company that she must not be too confident.
14/05/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE SHATTERED DREAM
My dream holiday to
Spain
and
Morocco shattered as the flight to
the destination left Kuala Lumpur at 2
am, 25th September 2016 without me on
the plane. I chose POTO travel
on several of my trips because it is a
Muslim tour. Before I chose Reliance
Travel, which I had given an A for all
the services. I could manage myself in
food consumption. I ate what I could, at
least a boil egg and plain rice. The
best of Reliance was it's Tour Leader
would ring me up one day before the
departure, not using e-mail or SMS
message to ensure the message is heard
and received. I don't remember whether
POTO had the same practice.
My POTO trip start to get bitter when I
visited Balkan. It was a simple story
about food, a lunch with a chicken
Briyani. I did not take chicken. I
informed the lady tour leader that I
need a boil egg. She pretended not to
hear though I told her two or three
times again. So I ate the plane rice,
just rice. Lucky for me because it was
delicious enough. I already had a poor
perception on the tour leader, a
beautiful lady, working part time with
POTO at that time.
I did the early booking and made an
immediate payment way back in December
2015. The travel date would be on the
25th April and the returning date 7th.
of April arriving Kuala Lumpur. I
purchased a return ticket from MAS ,
going to KLIA on 25th morning and
returned on 8th May to Alor Setar. And
waited for the time.
A couple of months ago there was a MATA
fare. I did not know what transpired
from the fare. But POTO managed to get
more people to join the Spain-Morocco
trip. I kept on contacting POTO to ask
about the Visa and the number of people
in the group.
Then I saw another advertisement by
Photo giving the date of departure on
the 26th April. That arose my suspicion
and curiosity and rang up Photo about
the 25th and the 26th. I was told the
25th and the 26th trips were the same.
the 25 th. flight time is 2.00 am which
is on the 26th.
I waited while filling in some important
items in my luggage. I told everyone
about my going to KLIA on the 25th to
catch the 2.00am flight to Casablanca.
On the 24th I decided to book the hotel
for the 7th May. To my surprise I found
that the return date is on the 6th
arrival, one day earlier than the
original program. I searched for a phone
number of the tour leader who did posted
a message telling us what to bring with
us. She said she would look into it. At
about 11.00 pm on the 24 the she rang me
asking me to meet at counter F. She
should have rung me either on the 23rd
or 24th morning, not just before the
flight.
I was connected to the POTO office. A
lady said she would ring me up on 25th.
afternoon.
I was offered another trip on the 16th
May. I said I had a blood test and an
appointment for the medical checkup. The
lady said she would ring me up. I told
her if there is a place on the plane
tonight I want to buy MAS ticket to KLIA
at 2 pm flight. There is no conformation
till now. I tried several time to call
POTO. It looks like my call is blocked.
I did also purchased an ets ticket in
case I have problem with too an early
flight, dated 25th April, arriving KL
Central at 10 pm. By 11.00 pm at the
latest I could be at level 5 KLIA.
I paid over 10K for the trip only to end
up with a great frustration.
True I am partly to be blamed. But POTO
did not stress to the tour leader to
ring up the customer one day before. I
remember Reliance would always say, "OK
See you tomorrow at level 5....Good
bye."
I know when we go to court Poto will
argue on the date and time. And let the
judge hear the part of our argument.
POTO has big money and a big company.
But it has a moral obligation not to
cause problem to the customers.
Poto rang me up blaming me for not
reading their e-mail. I asked them why
the company did not call on phone for
the last reminder. They could have
called me in the morning of 24th April
like any other travel agents. Others
called a day before. People will tend to
get confused on the time and date
especially after 12.00 midnight. For
that reason they must have the courtesy
to call. Why can't they do so when
others could do it. They asked me to pay
5K more.
They called me at about 11 pm on the
24th not at 8.30 or 9.00 am in the
morning as I do not live around Kuala
Lumpur area. And they even changed the
return date from 7th May to 6th. May. It
involved a lot of money and distant
travel. They can't just take thing for
granted that a mere e-mail is enough.
For the 5K I can pay a lawyer. Let them
take their e-mail evidence to court.
My travel with Poto is at it's end. No
more with other Malay companies. You
observe all the other Malay businesses
and you will see how smart they are.
25/04/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
2.6 BILLIONS INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETED
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The investigation on 2.6 billion
dollar in Najib's account is
complete. There are two
claimants but only one is the
truth. The first says there is
no donation shown by the
documents and the money trail.
The other party says it is all
lies. And you decide whether to
believe the documents as has
been laid out by WSJ and Sarawak
Report or believe in the words
from several people that they
were donations.
Do we need to say more ?
2304/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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THE GAME GIANTS PLAY
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Who is smarter, Najib or
Mahathir ? After Mahathir seek
the court action to freeze
Najib's assets until the 1Mdb
case is cleared, Najib raise the
salaries of the chief justice
and senior judges. Mahathir is
playing on the rule of law and
Najib on the power of money. The
question behind our mind is will
the judge be on Mahathir's side,
Najib or neutral base on the
rule of law ?
Whatever the outcome wealthy
people and the business
communities do not suffer. We,
the lower portion of the society
do. I just came back from a
super market buying 5 pieces of
underwear and 6 pairs of Chinese
low quality socks. I paid more
than RM50. I guessed I have to
pay several layers of GST. What
do the Ministers and the people
of higher echelon know about the
pain of the lower people.
Lately I have been watching
several Stephen Lau's comedy
movies on judges and justice.
All those movies depict on the
nature of corruptions. The
timing of my watching and the
raise in judges' salaries seem
to coincide. Of course a movie
is a movie. Najib may not mean
to corrupt the judges but to get
their favors in throwing out the
challenges of Najib's enemies.
If Najib is smarter than
Mahathir then there is nothing
that Mahathir can do. And Najib
can play a diplomatic blackmail
on foreign countries to escape
from the arrest card being
waved.
Soon Najib will be saying, "So I
take the 1Mdb's money.
What can you do ? I am the Prime
Minister. You are nothing."
2204/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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A PET AND A HUMAN
I spend at the average of RM200 on cat
food. Cats seem to multiply. A few
neighbors prefer the male cat but let
those cats loose to pregnant the
females. Out of the many, 2 seems to
reside permanently here as I would
always see them around when I opened the
door. The rest came running out of
nowhere during the feeding times. I feed
the cats three times a day, sometimes
four. There is a water container below a
tap. Cats like human drink a lot of
water too.
But the cats do not eat all the food at
once. When filled up they would stop.
The remaining were left to the birds of
all kinds. The cat food is not only for
the cats but also for the birds to
enjoy.
At times I talked to people without my
realizing that I might have said crazy
things about feeding the animals. I told
them I took care of the cats and God
takes care of me. Despite the declining
value of currencies and the weakening of
the purchasing power of money I did not
feel I was so hard up of money, or crave
to have more by doing extra work, or to
join politics hoping to get some form of
financial benefit. In my last visit to
Balkan, I also touched on my chore of
cat feeding, and softly mentioned that
the cats pray for me. It was on the bus
while each of the us had to say
something about ourselves.
Recently when my grand children came
home for a couple of days, they were
astonished at the kitten running away
from them and seek me for a sanctuary.
"You see the kittens like me," I told
them.
Cats are not the most special animal. If
you make yourselves close to dogs,
monkeys, birds, cows or even pigs, you
will learn that they are not totally
dumb. You can communicate with everyone
of them they will look at you or even
response as if they understand you. Use
whatever language the friendly response
is there. I think there is some sort of
telepathic waves making the
understanding possible.
Cats are of course less smart than dogs
or monkeys. But it can be our
companions. Usually they become master
and we, their slaves.
Animals may steal but they don't lie to
you. Unlike humans they are great liars.
When mankind lies they point fingers at
their opponents accusing each other as
liar and terrorists.
I remember well what my statistical
Professor said in our class, " People
talk to dogs but they don't to fellow
humans." We say animals are savage, but
most of the time we witnessed the
savagery of human specie are far greater
than many of the beasts, no words to describe them, Even the Satan is
wondering the kind of the specie worst
than him.
In the Holly Books of Islam and
Christians there is no mention of
animals going to heaven or hell, even of
animals that kill men.
The moment you start to encounter with
fellow humans you will begin to see
their distasteful demeanor; they ran the
traffic lights, overtook you on the
wrong sides, squeezed in and applied a
sudden break, jumping queues, charge you
high price of foods and commodities,
businessmen with stern faces, nurses and
officers shouting at you, and people
whom you know can stab your back for
offices and pecuniary gains, they enact
laws to take your land at a very low
price and sell away at astronomical
price, they taxed you for the mistakes
they made, they made you pay for their
sins.
Robinson Crusoe moved away from the
population of people to an island taking
a dog as a companion. Was he not telling
us that an animal was better than a man
?
2204/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE BIG ERROR - LUCKY IT IS ME
This morning I was called to the Land &
Property Office to be told they made an
error of the property division among the
beneficiaries. We had agreed to follow
the Faraid ( the Muslim ruling of
property division ). I had been given
the letter of attorney to be submitted
to the various institutions. I have
handed to CIMB Bank and the ASB office.
The money was already divided following
the stipulated ration; my son A and B
get 14/50 each, my daughter 7/40 and me
5/40. The Tabung Haji is not done yet as
I have had some difficulty with one lady
officer. As to my wife's land and a
house I have not proceed because I am
waiting for the final land grant from
Putrajaya.
The officer told me he made a mistake.
The actual division is 6/20 to my both
sons, 3/20 to my daughter and 5/20 to
me. What it means I should have been
getting RM120K but by the previous error
I only get TM60K. The total real amount
that I have received was about RM50K.
Because my daughter's share is small I
transfer a part of mine to my daughter.
I
could have argued with the officer and
threatened to take legal action on him.
But instead I said, "It's OK. I don't
need the money. It would not be prudent
for a father to ask his son to return
the extra amount paid to them."
What if I am broke and my sons refused
to refund the extra dollar ? What if the
errors were made on the other persons ?
I heard the story of the fight over
money between a father and his siblings.
It even became a court case. My error
only involve a small sum of money. What
if it is within the range of millions
and billions ?
I
am glad that I have faith in God
providence, that I lost nothing, instead
I thank God for good health. I do not
depend on my children's charity to
fulfill my remaining years. As I said
before I have been blessed with bounty
of goodies; the abundance of food, that
I could move about and go for the world
trips and enjoy the entertaining
technologies at home. I can write blog,
fingering the keyboard to play Besame
Mucho, watching HD and 3D movies, and
feeding my cats. All with the filling of
joy and fulfillment.
What if errors were made that cause a
massive lost of money, and the people
were made to suffer due to the
monumental mistakes ? Having done so
there are waves of denials and the show
of arrogance.
19/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHAT'S NEXT REVISITED
The
voodoo, the ghost and spirits, the
mystery of the next life and even the
existence of God are all mere
imagination to sinners and criminals.
But the Chinese do still believe in
luck, the lucky numbers and the Feng
Sui, the bad luck carried by a man or a
woman. And I have always believe that
Rosmah Mansor brings bad luck to PM
Najib Razak. Millions of people are
asking the same question and tried not
to put the blame on Najib for several
blunders that befell the people and the
nation. They said Najib has been
charmed.
Despite
the thick shielding from attack on Najib
and the effort by Apandi to put a total
stoppage on Najib past doing, the
international community continue to drop
bombs and Najib's image has been
displayed as an evil man. Najib has been
spending a huge sum of money to assert
himself as a reformist and a good and
honest man. At the same time there is a
prayer from the Jail where Anwar Ibrahim
is and from his former wife.
One by one
the ally of Najib collapsed including
his own brother. Soon enough there will
be a bombshell from the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia as pressured on the alleged
donation is getting heavier. The time
will come. It also may be possible
someone will wave an arrest card on
Najib Razak.
The Wall
Street Journal has been chosen to the
final list competition to receive
Pulitzer Prize for the 1Mdb report. We
will soon know whether it will come out
a winner. If it is, the implication on
the country is bad.
I made a
short remark on Obama's opening a file
on Kevin Morais's death, which was
quickly challenged a Najib's cyber
trooper saying "Obama is not interested
in a small country like us." Surely the
international investigators are look at
Morais' muder and at every other actions
taken by Najib, the coming of which is
arresting the man who put him there.
Giving a
mismatch answers are not the wrong
answers except that they are mismatch.
Pulling te Saudi Foreign Minister to
stop the world from talking was not
matching to the money trail and the
Arab's previous remarks. Arul's
declaration of 1Mdb has a surplus fund
is not matching with the heavy and
growing 1Mdb's debt and the interest
due. Apandi command to stop
investigating 1Mds as it is perfect is
not matching with the claim of fraud and
the missing money by 1Mdb.
The tidal
wave is coming. That's for sure. But how
bad will it hit Malaysia and Najib we
can't be certain.
If you
have faith in God, you just stay cool
and see what's coming next.\
19/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
RUNNING A
COUNTRY
It is true that there is no point for BN
government to pursue further on 2,6 billion
dollar donation. It is a waste of time and
energy, and it arises more anger among
fellow Malaysians. Let us not hear and
believe what we heard anymore because we
have heard enough.
All we need is Najib to take legal action
against Sarawak Report and Wall Street
Journal and New York Times. These are the
media that were alleged to spread false news
and to publish the money trails of 1Mdb and
the cash that moved into Najib's personal
account.
1Mdb is not only about the missing money
but it is also about the huge interest rate.
It doesn't seem to show any sign of
reduction. And it does not show any sign of
profit either to pay for the loan and
interest. It created confusion as it was
claimed 1Mdb is making profit and it is
doing very well when it is really not. It
affected the economy and derailed the
confidence of investors towards Najib and
his administration. American companies are
withdrawing from Malaysia and moving
somewhere else.
I think Najib's error is beyond redemption.
He thought GST could do it, able to resolve
the economic woes. His whole policy is
pushing the price up thus lowering the value
of money which in turn increased the the
prices of import commodities. It hit the
non-business community and the unemployed
and the kampong folks. Najib's economic
policy is killing the people and ruining the
country.
We do not manage the country through
perpetual lies and deceit. We have a more
serious tasks to attend, the welfare of
mankind and humanity, to ensure a peaceful
and harmonious life.
The history of the world was never a history
of peace and tranquility. The strongest
rule. They became the masters and did
whatever they wished to do. Religion was
suppose to wipe out savagery and replace it
with civility. Religious war erupted among
heathens and the true faiths, among the same
religion, causing death by the millions.
People formed themselves into classes and
social divisions through religion like the
Varna system and through wealth and power,
the citizens and the warlords, the peasants
and the aristocrats. Islam stepped in to
create equality. Then socialism and
Communism. The world didn't seem to achieve
the human ideal. The world was divided
between capitalism and communism for
centuries until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Then came another division, between the
Islam terrorists and the rest of the world.
We know that the world and the land and the
water and the sunshine belong to God. Yet
mankind create the concept of ownership. The
powerful enacted laws and regulations to tax
from human labor. They were not the rules of
God.
History traces cruelty and unfairness can
only be resolved through overthrowing the
government by force. Strong nations like
Israel and the United States are determined
to ensure that history will not repeat
itself. The answer lies with the invincible
military power. Citizens are closely
monitored using cameras, other sensors and
secret police.
The suppressed and the helpless have only
one source to seek help; GOD. They prey for
God's punishment on the cruel rulers and
other insane human specie. Liars must suffer
in this very world before they go to hell.
People recognize liars and cheaters and
sinners. And they are wondering how on earth
those people can still present themselves in
public without shame. How they could raise
another fellow mankind to the level of God,
and kiss the hands of leaders as they are
divine prophets ? They condoned ruling
through vices, lies and corrupts. They have
lost sight to differentiate between the
right and the wrong, true and false, good
and bad.
We are running a country, not robbing the
country. A country is not an enterprise and
a leader and his family is not to run a
business. It is the private people who
developed the land, produce food and salable
goods, be entrepreneurs, become capitalists.
When the government earns money through
taxes she can plan how to distribute the
wealth among the population. Of course not a
free cash like the present BR1M. The best
finance Minister of this nation was Tan Siew
Sin who accumulated wealth and not sharing
it with the fellow politicians.
When Najib's lawyer asked whether Najib can
be arrested by foreign nation, it tells all
and tells everything. It is time for those
who have caused so much agony and pain to
the citizens to repent.
19/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
CENTENARIAN ?
I thank God for providing me a good
and great life for almost 70 years.
I don't need to be a centenarian as
it is giving trouble to others to
take a useless me. Old people are
burden as much as the sick people
do. There are not many centenarians
on this earth today. Mahathir has
nine more years to be a hundred. I
think he will live longer than many
of us. If we are billionaires and
tycoons ageing is not a problem. We
can pay. And there are willing
people to do the service for us.
Reflecting back on the younger days
brought many sweet memories. There
were days that I loath schooling and
planned to run away from home to
work on a ship to be a sailor and
settled in foreign land. At the same
time I learned Hokien from my
Chinese friends while playing
marbles with them. Then I went to
night class to learn Mandarin. That
was in 1962 when I was in Form 2.
Somehow I still get stuck in my
school, only to fail at Form 5.
Life had it's ups and downs but
wonderful enough to make it so
colorful and beautiful.
But I had had it enough for ageing
slows down the body chemistry and
metabolism. The gift of glittering
extravaganza and the abundance of
food has been the best reward to
many fellow mankind like me. The
little time left is to see the world
to compare what God Almighty has
given to the various society of the
world.
At this stage I see the creation of
mankind is very perfect; the mind
and emotion, rationality and
sentiment, the good and evil. There
are good natured and bad natured
men, sages and robbers, honesty and
deceitful. That made mankind
different from animals and the
scientific robots. Would there be
progress without lust and greed,
murderers and robbers ? Culture
evolved from the mixing of the good
and evil. It is distrust and
criminals that made lawyers, judges
and courts and the police. It was
the greed that made men strive to
discover where the gold, diamond and
oil were hidden. It was the
sentiment that start the conquest,
the voyages of discovery and the
colonialism.
What if God made men just like a
machine. Or merely as animals. This
world had long been dead. It is hard
to imagine what a man will do with
only brain without any feeling.
Who are to be good and who are to be
bad ? God leaves to mankind to
choose on their own so that life
could be more meaningful and nobody
can put any blame on the Creator.
Why go more when we are satisfied
with the providence ? Centenarian ?
No need. We won't lose anything if
we were to die early.
At 20 plus one has to start thinking
of one's future. At 40 plus start to
save enough for old age. And at 60s
one has to look at his death.
But we have been seeing things
otherwise. At 60 plus they become
intoxicated with money. Millions
aren't enough. Billions aren't
enough. They are afraid of growing
old and does plastic surgery,
spending hundreds of thousand for
hair, hand bags and diamonds. They
are afraid of going to jail or their
hearts taken away by God. They trot
the globe to look for savior to save
them from their crimes. They want to
join the centenarian club. Anybody
thought of their days when so become
so very useless and money is
actually meaningless ?
17/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE
We do see waves of brave people
sacrificing their time, money,
effort and risking their lives
to reach the peak of the
Everest. Are there gold and
diamonds at the peak ? We call
these people thrill seekers,
people who love challenges and
adventures.
Most men do not have the
strength and dexterity to
perform tasks that need muscles
and energy and high level skills
though they may have strong
desire to do sky diving and
climb vertical cliff. But it
does not stop us from exploring
the wealth of the world within
our capability, widening
experience to add and build
values in ourselves.
We have to plan our life. And
this is when we realize the
constraint of time.
I used to tell my school
students that a man whose age is
40 years could have slept 20
years, half of his age. Examine
what did he do with another 20
years. For a student that had 12
hours of wakening time he had 8
hours to study and the rest used
to linger with friends and
motorcycle ridings. What if a
student still play while in
school and did not use his time
to acquire knowledge ?
To
the Malays, this is the basic
competition and the instrument
to competitive survival list.
They will be left behind in
economy, professional posts and
waiting to be doomed.
Attitude building begins in
school, not parents. Parents of
a low economic status and living
in an unfavorable environment
may not be illiterate. And
schools is not only a place to
listen to what the teacher teach
and to pass an examination.
Now ask yourself how much is of
value you are to yourself ? If
you are a DIY man, constructing
your own home and furniture,
soldering metals and fences,
combines metals to form objects,
construct radios and electronic
gadgets, repair cars and
vehicles than you have added a
high points to your value. It
does not touch your level of
education and academic
qualifications.
Else you may put most of your
effort in buying and selling,
making yourself an entrepreneur
and thinking how to be
successful all the time with
your effort then you are also a
man of value.
You may lack of manual skill and
you are not a businessman you
may work as an employee. You do
your work well, your boss is
happy with the output and your
dedication shows fruit to the
satisfaction of your
organization, you too are a man
of value.
Some added values can fill up
the scale, enhancing you with a
small increment but makes you a
little better than most of the
others. You dedicate part of
your time to religion; mosque,
church and
synagogue
or a temple. You
may go a step farther by
learning foreign languages like
Thais, Mandarin, French,
Japanese and Arab. That will
build your pride which you don't
have to show and tell anyone.
And you go and learn computer
networking and programming to
understand how things work. A
radio hobbyist learn and strive
to learn and sit for the Morse
test.
Those may be small. If you have
them all then you don't have to
cry for not been able to reach
the tip of the Everest, to climb
over the stiff cliff and
hillsides.
The quest for knowledge and
skill is enough to make you a
valuable individuals.
16/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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MY PREDICTION IS CORRECT
NOW
Saudi's
Foreign
Minister
Adel
Al-Jubeir
today
admitted
that the
donation to
Malaysian
Prime
Minister
Najib Abdul
Razak indeed
came from
Saudi
Arabia.
"We are
aware of the
donation and
it is a
genuine
donation
with nothing
expected in
return. We
are also
fully aware
that the
attorney-general
of Malaysia
has
thoroughly
investigated
the matter
and found no
wrongdoing.
"So, as
far as we
are
concerned,
the matter
is closed,"
he told
Malaysian
reporters in
Istanbul
yesterday.
Earlier,
Adel held a
bilateral
meeting with
Najib on the
sidelines of
the 13th
Summit of
the
Organisation
of Islamic
Cooperation. |
BEFORE
Saudi
Foreign
Affairs
Minister Adel
al-Jubeir
(photo)
does
not
think
that
the
US$681
million
which
made
its
way
into
Prime
Minister
Datuk
Seri
Najib
Razak’s
bank
account
was
from
the
Saudi
government
or
that
it
was
a
political
donation,
The
New
York
Times
reports
today.
He
was
also
quoted
as
saying
the
money
went
to
an
“investment
in
Malaysia”.
“It
is a
private
Saudi
citizen,
I
believe,
and
the
funds
went
to
an
investment
in
Malaysia,”
he
said
in
an
interview
with
the
NYT
published
yesterday.
The
daily
also
quoted
a
member
of
the
royal
family
and
a
close
associate
of
the
family,
who
spoke
on
condition
of
anonymity,
as
saying
that
the
money
had
come
from
a
Saudi
prince,
but
that
it
was
not
a
donation.
The
associate
also
reportedly
questioned
the
sum,
but
said
the
funds
were
part
of a
business
deal.
Last
month,
Attorney-General
Tan
Sri
Mohamed
Apandi
Ali
said
the
US$681
million
deposited
into
Najib’s
personal
accounts
was
a
donation
from
the
Saudi
royal
family
given
“without
any
consideration”
and
closed
the
case.
But authorities in Switzerland investigating state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) uncovered that some US$4 billion (RM16.8 billion) have been misappropriated from state companies.Swiss attorney-general Michael Lauber has also expressed concern over his Malaysian counterpart’s decision to stop investigations into the funds transferred into Najib’s accounts, saying the move could hamper Switzerland’s own probe into 1MDB.
Apandi responded that the ongoing Swiss investigations into 1MDB were separate from the donation case. – MInsider
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Who donate the money ? The Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia ? From his words we understand that
it is from the Kingdom.
It will not end here. When he goes back to
Saudi Arabia, the reporters will bombard him
with a series of questions which I think
will put him in difficult position. I myself
have a few questions like many of you. But I
reserve my comments.
Whatever, now it is a good chance for Najib
to sue WSJ for defamation,
15/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
DON'T WORRY,
NAJIB
Najib was right why 1Mdb must not be
discussed and must be stopped. The longer it
drags the greater the magnitude of the
secrets will be out, more pieces will fit
the puzzle. Now the question of the refusal
of 1Mdb to provide documents to the auditor
and PAC keep on popping up, the sacking of
the old audit and the replacement of another
that has some link to Najib's son, are
emerging to show how they make sense. 1Mdb
was trying to hide something which cannot be
of non-criminal in nature.
Listen back to the words of Apandi. It was
hard and strong. It was forceful delivered
with power. There was no wrong for Najib to
accept donation. There is no need to
investigate 1 Mdb.
Why was 1Mdb refused to hand over the
documents asked ? What secrets do they
contain ?
Arul Kanda said all the money in 1Mdb is
accounted for. If it is there is no harm to
show the requested documents. It could not
all be there because a few millions went
missing. The documents did not mention the
missing funds. Normal citizens began to see
the shadow of the hidden stuffs and
expressed themselves as shown below;
From Apandi the focus went to Hassan, the
PAC chief chosen by Najib to investigate
himself. Hassan too announced that Najib was
innocent. Najib has nothing to do with 1Mdb.
Following that there were leakage of 1 Mdb
documents showing Najib's signatures on
them. In the meantime Apandi is in the cold
storage.
Outside the box is the court proceeding of
Kevin Morais murder. The court was told that
the finger nails of Kevin were missing. Why
they went missing ? Because they contain the
DNA of the murderers. Is it not a mind
bogging ?
And before this Rafizi was arrested under
OSA. The IGP said Rafizi was courting
arrest. I think IGP was right. It is then
the OSA documents will be read by several
police officers and the IGP himself. The
document was about the fund belonging to the
retired military personnel that claimed to
be connected to 1Mdb. Rafizi wants more
police personnel to view them.
You can start to ask question where is Najib
now ? Will he only be to attend the Islamic
Conference ? Or will he be moving around to
several countries to court USA and even
Switzerland ? We never know. We can assume
Najib will have to plead innocence, a gamble
which Rosmah thinks will win. At the same
time there is a thought 'What if it fails ?
' Najib's lawyer had been asking around
whether foreign government can arrest Najib.
The Malaysians and PM Najib could be rest
assured that no foreign countries can issue
an arrest warrant on Najib because the
Malaysian PM did not commit crime in their
countries. Even if they can prove Najib's is
a financial terrorist, it is nothing to do
with their nations. But Najib will be seen
as an Emperor with an invisible dress. It is
not so bad at all as compared to the fate of
Ghadafi and Saddam Hussein.
Only by the wrath of God Najib's fate will
end up sadly and badly in our history. 1Mdb
will not just end tomorrow.
15/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE FEAR
The lawyer of our Prime Minister asked
whether foreign countries can arrest Najib
Razak ? In the first place he should not
have asked the question. And at this moment
of writing Najib is not in the country. He
is said to be in Turkey. But my third eye is
saying he may not only made Turkey as his
destination. He would probably be in several
countries including Switzerland. His enemy
would even accused him of taking oath using
any Holy Book at all to swear of his
innocent. He may be swearing to all other
leaders too.
The rushing and the network communications
among Najib's team members are discussing
what to do and what to say. The team members
have to include Reza Aziz, Jho Lo, Obaid and
Arul Kanda. They decide to make a police
report. Najib's lawyer and other close
ministers with law degrees probably have
finished the content of the report to be
lodged.
Najib has no need to be worried. He won't be
arrested whether he is viewed as corrupt or
not. USA did not attack Cuba to arrest
Castro. Najib does not commit crime against
the United States or Belgium or Switzerland.
Any crime committed within our border is the
jurisdiction of our authority. But the
feeling of guilt that made Najib's lawyer
pursued the unpleasant question of whether
Najib can be arrested by foreign countries.
And Najib will have to tour the world to
swear that he is innocent and there is a
fraud attempt to bring him down.
In any case I would say 1Mdb Arul Kanda and
Najib is too hasty and too rushy. May be
they have made a complete calculation that
they do not start a missile war on the bogus
company which they transferred millions of
dollars.
There are two statements that we need to
consider and think about. The first; the
United States issue the warren of arrest on
Husseiny who is not a suspect. Secondly a
statement that said the trouble in Syria
spills to Malaysia, also by the United
States. Again one has to decode what the two
statements mean to imply.
Husseiny has his side of the story. That's
what the United States want to hear. We
don't know what. But we can be sure Najib's
camp is ever ready for immediate responses.
He will surely narrate privately the secrets
of Najib and 1Mdb. We can expect a big war
to happen.
And on the second message we need to study
the war in Syria. USA expect the local to
rise up and seek for military arms' supply.
But this expectation will never
materialized. The Malaysians will never seek
a violent mean to topple their leaders. Life
here is much better than in most of the Arab
countries.
The Malaysians are still puzzle. Why Apandi
declared that 1Mdb was perfect and there
should be no more investigation ?
Do you think Najib's rushy work now would
halt the 1Mdb issue ? Will his swearing be
received with sympathy ?
Just wait. Probably more jumpy things will
storm the nation. You will see Najib stand
strong despite the turbulence.
14/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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STOLEN GOODS
I wish I were a lawyer. Many of
us are not lawyers and we did
not go for a law course, nor did
our school teacher taught us
about the legality of things.
But we may be caught for
something we do not know and we
will be told that not knowing
the law cannot be used for
defense.
Every now and then we would pick
up what constitute legal and
illegal, and terms like alibi,
circumstantial evidence,
hearsay, the onus of proofs etc.
We can't keep stolen goods or
buy stolen things. Of course we
don't know they were stolen. We
can be charge in court and it is
up to the court to decide.
Whether we are found guilty or
otherwise the stolen properties
will be returned to the owner.
If you have ever catch a thief
before, the first you will hear
is, "I don't steal your thing."
In the olden days the police had
to lock a criminal in a torture
chamber to get the admittance.
Criminals, especially the
educated ones, seem to know how
to play with words and maneuver
around with excuses.
Only one party can keep stolen
goods and never have to return
to the owner. They have immunity
in almost all of their illegal
activities. I remember while on
a flight to United States, my
neighbor on the plane said to
me,"...Bismillah and drink.." He
drank the wine as if after
saying the prayer the wine
turned halal as it entered his
throat. There is no sin nor
illegality as the acts cross the
border of the ruling party
households. The caucus of the
ruling party is the sanctuary
and heaven for criminals. There
is a different set of laws for
both the ruled and the ruler.
Big time crooks like mafia,
gangsters and drug lords do not
steal and peddle drugs
themselves. They have members
well connected to the lawmen and
they know the law themselves.
Again we have to refer to
Hollywood movies that reveal the
true story of vices and crimes
committed by the high profiled
mafia. They came face to face
with the police, smiled at the
later who could not nailed the
crooks. But in the movies the
crooks somehow met their destiny
with violent death.
You must know that the British
left us with a legacy in putting
a person to be a leader. There
is a secret screening by the
police on all the political
leaders to ensure a gangster, a
mafia or a crook does becomes a
President or a Prime Minister. I
just wonder whether we do carry
out the filtering and the
screening process. A nation must
have a caucus of honest, god
fearing and sincere members.
That's why we need such a
screening procedure.
Everyday we are fed with news of
the arguments on what was stolen
and what were not. Look at the
case below
If you choose to believe it you
would see how the modus operandi
was set to work. The articles is
describing and arguing on the
complicacy of the planned heist
of the money. The crooks will
say they did not know how the
money get into their pockets, a
donation or a personal
investment. Swiss AG has
affirmed that the stolen goods
are stolen goods, and whoever
hold to them have committed
criminal acts.
For a man like you, just try to
steal RM2 from someone, you may
rest in a jail for two years.
14/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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CONSPIRACY OF
DNA
It is just in my belief that Anwar Ibrahim
is a victim of DNA conspiracy. The whole
court proceedings told us so. My focus was
on the keeper of the sample and the doctor.
Now it looks like in the current court
proceedings they will use DNA stuff as the
main evidence. in the murder of Kevin
Morais.
I am just an ordinary layman, a man of
senility and of an IQ less then 100, could
not be right in my imagination. It just
popped up in my thought when I heard they
started the case with the word DNA, quite a
scary word to me, easy to indict anybody at
all in almost anything. The choice of
evidence is a matter of convenient.
DNA is an invisible thing, unknown and
unseen by the public. In a murder case the
life of a man depends on the person who
analyze it. And he depends on the specimen
brought by someone else. We have all the
right to be skeptical where it was taken
from.
The trouble lies in a way with the people
who have been watching a lot of movies and
reading spy stories and learned the various
ways to kill the enemy using poison and
cyanide. So they won't straightaway buy
stories of death due to heart attack. They
examined the circumstances of death. Was
there any event of mayhem surrounding him
before his demise.
Out of the 30 million Malaysians there is
abound to be several persons who do keep
records of people, cases and behaviors. It
is easier to open up and store each of them
in computer storage, copied, distributed and
kept in ifferent places. When the time come
the files will be consulted. Nobody can
escape his criminal acts. Justice will be
done.
Malaysia has been blessed by peaceful and
good citizens. They reject violence and
bloodshed. The Muslim Malays still believe
in God's retribution. God will see the
people who cause affliction on other humans
will suffer in this very world. Since the
death of Altantuya there are persons who
remain restless and remain in fear.
Conspirators will surely meet their days of
misery.
Yet the police does not take any chance.
They examined the number of individuals with
the gun licenses, screening those people who
return from the trouble Middle-Eastern
countries and planting moles among the
masses to sniff for any militant movements.
Our internal affair does not remain an
internal matter though we may send stern
warning to the other nations not to
interfere with our domestic affair. We are
not as strong as Israel to tell powerful
nations like China and the United States
what to do. We ignore the United Nation's
letter and attacked it's officers. We even
attacked the United States of America for
meddling in our domestic turmoils.
Our judge and court made decisions. Other
nations too made their own judgments on us.
The United States killed more people than
the rest of the world. They know what is
conspiracy and what is not. They know how
DNA evidence can be fabricated and
manipulated. You read the views of the many
readers and you will be surprised to hear
their conclusions on Kevin Morais's death.
14/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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THE AGONY OF PM NAJIB RAZAK
PM Najib used to be a man of
concern towards the people but
as days gone by there was a
vivid change in his total self.
The greatest turbulence came
after the jailing of Anwar
Ibrahim. Just immediately after
that MH370 went missing. Another
personality of Najib began to
surface and he became a man of
dual personality, Jekyll and
Hyde. Those who dislike him
called him Bonnie and Clyde, a
Western husband and wife
gangster and killer. He sacked
the country's Attorney General
and transferred top brass
officers, picked up his own AG
and investigators, sacked his
Deputy and other UMNO
chieftains. He and his men ran
amok.
Foreign observers and investors
and diplomats were observing and
assessing him. Out of the blue
Wall Street Journal published
about money going into Najib's
personal account. He denied it.
"If I want to steal or keep
money I would not put it in
Malaysia's bank. Wall Street
Journal is lying and trying to
defame me." All media that
published stories on the money
in his account were either sued
or forced to close down. The
government seek Interpol's help
to arrest Clara Brown, the
Sarawak Report owner, telling
the Interpol she is a terrorist.
Justo, a man working with 1Mdb,
resigned with stolen database
and apprehended in Thailand.
Justo was accused of leaking the
data to WSJ and WSJ tempered
with data to broadcast fallacies
about Najib. Rahman Dahlan
brought in one Melanyi to say SR
printed nothing but lies. To
bring Justo as a witness was
futile because there might be
mismatched between the original
and the tempered leak
information.
Mahyuddin and Shafiee
Afdal asked Najib whether it was
true the money was in his
account. Mahathir accused Najib
as stealing the 1Mdb money. It
took several months for Najib to
admit, and to say it was a
donation from Saudi Kingdom to
fight an ISIS. When it was
pointed out that ISIS wasn't
exist yet, it was said that the
money was to fight DAP-Jews.
As arrests were made and
the blood thirsty Ku Nan
savagely went berserk
warning anybody at all who
question Najib on 1Mdb, Najib
went on to call the UMNO leaders
to condemn and destroy those
media who intently to spread
lies. Mahathir was said to have
his own agenda and he himself
was a corrupt leader. He warned
the WSJ, wrote a letter to the
publisher urging WSJ to choose a
lawyer in Malaysia and to tell
the government where it got the
source from. Else WSJ must
apologize.
WSJ instead replied that it
stood by the report and
published more information,
detailing where other 1Mdb money
went to.
Najib wanted to lock people's
mouth from talking and to stop
any more accusation towards him.
His Ministers have been using
the TV media to command the
public to believe the words of
the authority, not the words of
the opposition and the media.
The authority is the AG, the
MACC, the PAC and the
Parliament.
The old AG was sacked. Pandi was
chosen as a new replacement.
Pandi in a televised news said
that there was nothing wrong
with Najib's personal account as
it was a gift from Saudi King.
At the same time he waved
another chart showing the
pension fund that also went to
Najib's personal account.
Some time later we heard from
Najib. "The money in my account
is for UMNO's election. The
pension fund was put into my
account without my knowledge."
WSJ had been waiting for Njib's
legal action. In the meantime it
published another chart showing
millions of dollars were used by
Najib's credit card on jewelries
and other personal goods. A few
days later, there was a reply
that the purchases were for the
poor and the people in need.
Public rebuttals thundered with
strong voices. Malaysia has a
Minister and a Ministry with big
locations looking after the poor
people.
The lies became thicker and
thicker each day.
Najib has had a strong machinery
in the Middle East to take the
impact of any heavy fall, either
a living or a dead man. He is to
say that he invest the money for
the making of the Wolf of Wall
Street. This would free Najib's
son in-law. But the WSJ traced
the money was from 1Mdb that
went into a fake company that
finally went into the movie
industry. Two individuals in
Najib's teams team were sacked,
property freeze and waiting for
trial.
Swiss already used a word
corruption in Malaysia. We could
be sure the Saudi link will be
zero beat soon.
Somehow the top UMNO leaderships
will open up their eyes.
Who is behind the transformation
of Jekyll and Hyde other than
the Prime Minister himself ?
There are many
amazing stories about Rosmah
Mansor. It was her own words," I
don't have time now for
badminton, too busy managing the
country..." People in Putrajaya
were complaining of her part in
weekly lecturing. There were
rumors on her talking to Putin
about MH17, her using the
government jet for shopping, and
even insinuated on the
queen-control and her black
magic. She was even quoted as a
de facto Prime Minister.
UMNO ministers used the word
perception of the people to
argue for misconception. It is
what was conceived in people's
mind of things they saw which
may not be as what they actually
saw. Foreign investors moved out
because they have a wrong
perception of Najib Razak. So it
is on the status of Rosmah who
was wrongly interpreted. Or just
a wild and unproven slander.
But I would still believe that
Najib would not be in such a
deep trouble without Rosmah. In
the Tang Empire the rebels
showed their hatred towards the
Emperor because of his young
wife.
Today at least one country that
has bolted a deep distrust over
1Mdb and Najib Razak namely
Swizerland.
Watch these words
“Embezzlement”, “fraud”,
“criminal mismanagement”,
“misconduct in public office”,
“forgery of a document”,
“bribery of foreign public
officials” and “money
laundering” are the crimes today
cited by the Swiss Attorney
General’s Office as it announced
an “extension
of its criminal proceedings”
relating to Malaysia’s 1MDB
development fund
The words 'forgery of a
document' has a deep
implication. It could be more
forge documents which will be
relayed. Surely there will be a
tug-of-war on Obaid before it
spills into the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia. We don't see and we
don't know, except for an
intelligent conjecture. Arul
Kanda is seen to wriggle himself
out. He already said, "I just
came in and did whatever I was
asked to do." He did what was
asked not what came to his mind.
He may be ready to jump side if
1Mdb's issue has become very
volatile and the game is
approaching a check mate.
As I said before that Najib
cannot be persecuted by foreign
countries. They just want to
confirm what kind of people our
Prime Minister is, to study on a
man's behavior and his approach
in getting support and
popularity, comparing his words
and his deeds. The locals
already describe Najib as an
emperor wearing an invisible
cloth and his ministers were
elating him about how beautiful
the dress is.
I watch a movie called ESCOBAR
about a drug lord, loved by the
people, but finally killed for
his crime.
We advised our leaders not to be
too cruel and arrogant,
threatening and arresting the
citizens. It is because we had
seen what a hatred can do to
people; Ghdaffi was sodomized
after he was shot, Saddam was
hung in spite of his grand
argument in defending himself,
the soft spoken Kampuchean cut
the body of the hated Vietnamese
and cut their hearts to have
them gnawed in their mouths. The
demeanor of Ku Nan, the act of
Pandi, and the words of Nazri
could create intense anger and
hatred. It is very unwise to
push people to be savage and
aggressive.
13/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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GIVING LOAN
I am just an ordinary person, living on the
bare minimum, having a small pension and a
little saving that I consider as an
abundance from God Almighty. Yet so far
three individuals whom I considered wealthy
approached me for loans. The highest request
was 50K from a class A contractor who were
running well-known restaurants. I promised
to give that much when I get the dividend of
my demised wife. Later I had to apologize to
him as the amount I get was only 20K. I
needed to use that amount for my
Spain-Morocco's trip.
The idea of loan swirling in my head. There
were notices of private individuals and
private enterprise posted everywhere, which
I took as a loan-sharks. There are loans
from bank with collaterals. Government too
provide loans for housing and vehicles
pirchase.
And I start to think what if I were to be a
rich man and people come to me for loans.
I think it is wise and imperative to know
what the loan is for. Is it for building a
house, to open up a business or what ? Then
I have to request for the plan and the
chronology of the execution.
Many countries do not give a lump sum to the
borrower and they want to know what the
money are for. Japan once giving us a loan
with provision that the loan must be
followed by using their engineers and
experts and progress payments were made as
the tasks completed. And a few of the
Malaysian counterparts were unhappy with the
regulations. "We borrow...the money is ours.
What we want to do with them is our
business." That is also echoed by
Salleh's family on the Cow project.
Borrowers who want a lump sum will usually
have other intents other than the stated
objectives. They may not do the planned
project at all, divert the usage and pinch a
part for their own personal use.
I believe it is our moral duty as a lender
to make sure the loan is used as what they
purport to achieve, especially if the client
is a government or it's agencies. The same
principle applies to the laymen. Bad
repercussions may befell the family of the
borrowers or the citizens of the country if
the money deviates from the original goal.
It is a human responsibility to ensure less
sins are committed by fellow human beings.
We all do see what happened in the NFC
undertaking. We would be wondering why the
progress payments were not made. If the
rules were carefully followed the money
would have not gone to the condo project. A
great wrong had been done. Rules were
broken. And the whistle blower got the
punishment. People has lost the shame in
them and can walk without dress in public,
show their faces in public media.
Hence it is very moral not to simply lend
money without knowing what they are for, and
to throw the total sum into their personal
coffers. There is no such thing as trust in
the modern world where money has become
gods. You may try me with 1 hundred dollars,
I will reject, try me with a hundred
thousand, my honesty and integrity will
reject it. Put a few millions in front of
me, my mind will start to get blurred. "I
can use the money to help the poor, to
donate to the mosques and go to pilgrimage
to clean my sins." The taker finds a
good justification, turning sins into
divinity, hell into heaven. Your trust can
end here.
Setting regulations may make you a bad
lender and borrowers will search for a new
source. Without ulterior motive a person may
still prefer borrowing with rules as he
himself will be safe.
We have seen what happened to the 1Mdb's
money. Everyone seemed to be enjoying with
the cash, starting from Goldman Sachs who
get an enormous commissions, and then the
cash moved everywhere at almost in a random
fashion. We were told the money remained
intact, every single cent of it is accounted
for. Yet people linked to 1Mdb were sacked
and subpenaed to court.
We have borrowed from Asian Development Bank
before and the project was closely
scrutinized and paid following in due
process. Try to imagine if a bag of cash
were pushed to us. Part of it will find it's
way out to other convenient expanses. Human
can never be perfect. We are full of greed
and lust. Our desire is insatiable. If we
don't live within systems, rules and
regulation we would go berserk.
12/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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ENGLISH
EDUCATED UMNO READ
Never mind about the fallacy of Sarawak
Report. It was from the beginning the BN
government not only banned it but also seek
the Interpol's help to arrest Clara Brown as
she was labeled as a terrorist. Likewise
Najib had paid a lot of money to convince
Hilary Clinton that Anwar too was a
terrorist.
We do not know how many members of the UMNO
group are English educated or the numbers
who can read and understand the language.
And how many of them do read the banned
publications just to know what is written by
the other sides. Could it be more than
30% inclusive of the top members ?
Intelligent readers will compare between
Najib's denial and the media exposure. There
will be a small percentage who believe that
Najib has stolen the 1Mdb's money and do not
believe in the preposterous donation from
the dead Prince. These few will spread the
SR exposure and start to see how vicious can
Najib be. Reading from the feedback it
clearly shows that a vast number of the
populace believed in the dishonesty of the
Prime Minister. They do not believe in the
story of donation, the new AG Apandi who had
been expounding conflicting statements, and
the Cari Makan PAC chief. The Malays
seemed to be more aggressive by using
despicable words on the leader.
Najib takes a few months to response to
questions while the SR stalled for a few
days gathering rebuttals. The English
educated who earned nothing from Najib will
not just stay idle. Najib could sack as many
as he wants or pay them by the millions to
gag them. The GST won't be enough to cover
all the payments including the loan and
other heavy debts. Even with the OSA to
protect criminal acts and activities of
government Ministers the leak will continue.
It is hard for Najib to cover the huge
boundary of the loop holes that have
been created.
To say the non-educated UMNO supporters
agree with Najib is wrong too. At the
grassroots they were talking about Najib and
Rosmah despite of the media campaign on
Mahathir and Lim Guan Eng. The fact that
Rosmah was booed during the price giving
ceremony of the badminton match which had
briefly shown Rosmah's countenance and body
language was clear enough that she is very
unpopular among the people.
Though I do not like Mahathir, I think he is
sharp enough to see how Najib is wriggling
himself to deceive the people and the world.
The time will soon come of international
rebuff of Najib's acts and maneuver.
11/04/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
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NAJIB WILL
NOT QUIT
Will Najib relinquish his post and Tengku
Razali takes his place ? The answer is NO.
Did Najib negotiate and promised Tengku
Razali the PM post ? May be. If he did it
was just to deceive the Gua Musang chief to
side and support him. Will he resign and
Zahid Hamidi takes his place ? NO. Najib
does not trust anybody, rather he does not
want to take any risk at all. He does not
trust any UMNO man however well they show
their allegiance. He has been in UMNO for a
long time and he knows the people in UMNO.
He is not a dumb Prime Minister. He computed
his future since when he was in politics. He
has his own press people and he was building
up his popularity a long time ago and more
rigorous when he was a defense Minister. He
chose the Jews as advisors and consultants
because he knew their strength, and he will
employ the retired Mosad officers as his
body guards when he decides to retire,
probably in a secret place where no one
knows.
He cannot gamble on his successor. It is
highly probable that the new PM will proceed
with a legal process against the predecessor
when he finds the current financial standing
is too tough to handle. These has been
happenings in the government departments as
the new heads could not bear the financial
mess lay before them.
His future would be more secured if the
Malaysians believe that he is innocent and a
mere political victim. For all mean and
purpose he has to fight hard using all the
available resources to prove that he is
innocent.
The task will be very difficult. The main
hazard is the educated and thinking
citizens. He needs a lot of money to change
their minds. The GST is an excellent window
of money. He has to divide the money between
the people and his supporters, and some for
buying support and enhancing popularity. He
has to deal with the learned group; pay
them, giving cash incentive and gag them
using seditious law. He chose his own AG,
transfers officers in the MAAC, giving a
wide power to the police chief.
Whatever the outcome is Najib has to compute
his life span. Like Mahathir he has to
battle against nature for his longevity. He
is 62, Mahathir is 91. Rosmah is much older.
It is commonly believe that ladies lead a
longer life than men. We can almost certain
that Najib will be a Prime Minister for at
least 30 years more. Mahathir will not be
there anymore or his mobility is confined in
his room. A lot of young people will have to
suffer all along those years. Our ringgit
will be as good as the Indonesian Rupiah,
where everyone has the chance to be a
millionaire.
The international community knows the level
of corruption in Malaysia and knows the
origin of the 2.6 billion in Najib's
personal account. They cannot arrest Najib
for the crime committed in Malaysia and for
stealing the money that do not belong to
them. People involved in money laundering
may be jailed but not Najib. But for the
first time in history the West will know
that a Malay is not dumb and stupid, and can
be smarter than many Anglo Saxon Americans
and the Latinos.
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THE CREDIBILITY OF NAJIB'S INVESTIGATORS
QUESTIONED
Why the credibility of Najib's investigators
questioned ?
The answer has to be obvious. He picked his
own men to run the show, to investigate
something as instructed. If he found his
chosen men deviated from the course, he
would select a new team. Also he surely has
to prepare to get the favor the opposition
team in any way possible as he had done to
several individuals including to the Perak
DAP's representative who jumped ship.
The statement of the new PAC chairman was
clear enough for people to make conclusion,
"Najib has been accused of misappropriation
of 1 Mdb fund for a long time....." He
should not have the objective of the
investigation to clear Najib from slander.
PAC was to find out the truth, to get all
the documents, to identify the authenticity
of each of them, secretly check whether the
money was there as stated and to follow the
cash trail.
How could the committee arrive at the
conclusion when many documents were refused
to be given by the 1Mdb ? The logic is
simple; 1Mdb is under Najib, so was the the
chairman of PAC. The two opposition members
are easily controlled and fixed.
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Pandi,
the chosen AG by Najib, had said before when
clearing Najib, that there was no need to
investigate 1Mdb as it was perfectly okay.
Today the former officer of 1Mdb was almost
charged with negligence.
The public yell for the legal action against
the Wall Street Journal for it's continuing
attack on the Malaysian Prime Minister. The
devious effort has tarnished Najib's image
world wide. If Najib is not guilty as
charged by the media then legal action has
to quickly proceed.
It is most likely that Najib did not read
the PAC papers. His advisors read and
chopped to pick the parts they love and to
discard the rest.
10/04/2016
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