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WHAT IF
1MDB MONEY IS REALLY STOLEN, DONATION STORY IS A
FICTIONAL DECOY ?
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Raymond Francis
HOW MUCH DO
I HATE JEWS ? |
There are
Jewish community in Turkey, Egypt, Iran and
the United States. And a few of my
professors were Jews. What can I tell about
my Jewish teachers ?
Our teachers
were just like any other good, honest, kind
and responsible being. They were smart and
intelligent and reminded us as to where we
could get the Kosher meat. Animals
slaughtered by the Jews is halal
for the Muslim. Kosher meat is meat prepared
and sold in the Jewish market. During the
fasting months they would give half an hour
break for the Muslim Student to break fast
without first being request by us. Beside me
we have Muslim students from Egypt and
Nigeria.
It is wrong
for us to generalize that all Jews are the same.
But on
reading the Talmud I found some horrifying
text in their holly book.
Below are some
of what Talmud teaches Jews.
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"The Jews are called human
beings, but the non-Jews are not
humans. They are beasts."
"The Akum (non-Jew) is like a
dog. "
"Even though God created the
non-Jew they are still animals in
human form. It is not becoming for a
Jew to be served by an animal.
Therefore he will be served by
animals in human form."
"A pregnant non-Jew is no better
than a pregnant animal."
"The souls of non-Jews come from
impure sprits and are called pigs."
"Although the non-Jew has the
same body structure as the Jew, they
compare with the Jew like a monkey
to a human."
"If you eat with a Gentile, it is
the same as eating with a dog."
"If a Jew has a non-Jewish
servant or maid who dies, one should
not express sympathy to the Jew. You
should tell the Jew: "God will
replace 'your loss', just as if one
of his oxen or asses had died"."
"Sexual intercourse between
Gentiles is like intercourse between
animals."
"It is permitted to take the body
and the life of a Gentile."
"It is the law to kill anyone who
denies the Torah. The Christians
belong to the denying ones of the
Torah."
"A heretic Gentile you may kill
outright with your own hands."
"Every Jew, who spills the blood
of the godless (non-Jews), is doing
the same as making a sacrifice to
God."
Hitting a Jew is the same as
hitting God
If a heathen (gentile) hits a
Jew, the gentile must be killed.
Jew need not pay a gentile
("Cuthean") the wages owed him for
work.
Jews Have Superior Legal Status
"If an ox of an Israelite gores
an ox of a Canaanite there is no
liability; but if an ox of a
Canaanite gores an ox of an
Israelite...the payment is to be in
full."
Jews May Steal from Non-Jews
If a Jew finds an object lost by
a gentile ("heathen") it does not
have to be returned. (Affirmed also
in Baba Kamma 113b). Sanhedrin 76a.
God will not spare a Jew who
"marries his daughter to an old man
or takes a wife for his infant son
or returns a lost article to a
Cuthean..."
Jews May Rob and Kill Non-Jews
When a Jew murders a gentile
("Cuthean"), there will be no death
penalty. What a Jew steals from a
gentile he may keep.
Baba Kamma 37b. The gentiles are
outside the protection of the law
and God has "exposed their money to
Israel."
Jews May Lie to Non-Jews
Jews may use lies ("subterfuges")
to circumvent a Gentile.
Non-Jewish Children are Sub-Human
All gentile children are animals.
Abodah Zarah 36b. Gentile girls
are in a state of niddah (filth)
from birth.
Abodah Zarah 22a-22b . Gentiles
prefer sex with cows.
Sanhedrin 106a . Says Mary was a
whore: "She who was the descendant
of princes and governors played the
harlot with carpenters." Also in
footnote #2 to Shabbath 104b of the
Soncino edition, it is stated that
in the "uncensored" text of the
Talmud it is written that Jesus
mother, "Miriam the hairdresser,"
had sex with many men.
Horrible Blasphemy Against Jesus
Christ
Gittin 57a. Says Jesus is being
boiled in "hot excrement."
Sanhedrin 43a. Jesus deserved
execution: "On the eve of the
Passover, Yeshu (Jesus) was
hanged...Do you suppose that he was
one for whom a defense could be
made? Was he not a Mesith
(enticer)?"
Talmud Attacks Non jews beliefs
Christians (minnim) and others
who reject the Talmud will go to
hell and be punished there for all
generations.
Jews must destroy the books of
the Christians, i.e. the New
Testament.
Dr. Israel Shahak of Hebrew
University reports that the Israelis
burned hundreds of New Testament
Bibles in occupied Palestine on
March 23, 1980 (cf. Jewish History,
Jewish Religion, p. 21).
Yebamoth 63a. States that Adam had
sexual intercourse with all the
animals in the Garden of Eden.
Yebamoth 63a. Declares that
agriculture is the lowest of
occupations.
Sanhedrin 55b. A Jew may marry a
three year old girl (specifically,
three years "and a day" old).
Sanhedrin 54b. A Jew may have sex
with a child as long as the child is
less than nine years old.
Kethuboth 11b. "When a grown-up man
has intercourse with a little girl
it is nothing."
Yebamoth 59b. A woman who had
intercourse with a beast is eligible
to marry a Jewish priest. A woman
who has sex with a demon is also
eligible to marry a Jewish priest.
Abodah Zarah 17a. States that there
is not a whore in the world that the
Talmudic sage Rabbi Eleazar has not
had sex with.
Hagigah 27a. States that no rabbi
can ever go to hell.
Baba Mezia 59b. A rabbi debates God
and defeats Him. God admits the
rabbi won the debate.
Pesahim 111a. It is forbidden for
dogs, women or palm trees to pass
between two men, nor may others walk
between dogs, women or palm trees.
Special dangers are involved if the
women are menstruating or sitting at
a crossroads.
Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is
obligated to say the following
prayer every day: Thank you God for
not making me a gentile, a woman or
a slave.
Here are two early "Holocaust"
tales from the Talmud: Gittin 57b.
Claims that four billion Jews were
killed by the Romans in the city of
Bethar. Gittin 58a claims that 16
million Jewish children were wrapped
in scrolls and burned alive by the
Romans. (Ancient demography
indicates that there were not 16
million Jews in the entire world at
that time, much less 16 million
Jewish children or four billion
Jews.... that tells us about today's
modern Jew's lies about those 6
million jews killed by Nazis ?????
Abodah Zarah 70a. The question
was asked of the rabbi whether wine
stolen in Pumbeditha might be used
or if it was defiled, due to the
fact that the thieves might have
been gentiles (a gentile touching
wine would make the wine unclean).
The rabbi says not to worry, that
the wine is permissible for Jewish
use because the majority of the
thieves in Pumbeditha, the place
where the wine was stolen, are Jews.
(Also cf. Gemara Rosh Hashanah 25b).
Minor Tractates. Soferim 15, Rule
10. This is the saying of Rabbi
Simon ben Yohai: Tob shebe goyyim
harog ("Even the best of the
gentiles should all be killed").
This passage is from the original
Hebrew of the Babylonian Talmud as
quoted by the 1907 Jewish
Encyclopedia, published by Funk and
Wagnalls and compiled by Isidore
Singer, under the entry, "Gentile,"
(p. 617).
This original Talmud passage has
been concealed in translation. The
Jewish Encyclopedia states that,
"...in the various versions the
reading has been altered, 'The best
among the Egyptians' being generally
substituted." In the Soncino
version: "the best of the heathens"
(Minor Tractates, Soferim 41a-b].
Israelis annually take part in a
national pilgrimage to the grave of
Simon ben Yohai, to honor this rabbi
who advocated the extermination of
non-Jews. (Jewish Press, June 9,
1989, p. 56B).
On Purim, Feb. 25, 1994, Israeli
army officer Baruch Goldstein, an
orthodox Jew from Brooklyn,
massacred 40 Palestinian civilians,
including children, while they knelt
in prayer in a mosque. Goldstein was
a disciple of the late Brooklyn
Rabbi Meir Kahane, who told CBS News
that his teaching that Arabs are
"dogs" is derived "from the Talmud."
(CBS 60 Minutes, "Kahane").
University of Jerusalem Prof. Ehud
Sprinzak described Kahane and
Goldstein's philosophy: "They
believe it's God's will that they
commit violence against goyim, a
Hebrew term for non-Jews." (NY Daily
News, Feb. 26, 1994, p. 5).
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg declared, "We
have to recognize that Jewish blood
and the blood of a goy are not the
same thing." (NY Times, June 6,
1989, p.5).
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said, "One
million Arabs are not worth a Jewish
fingernail." (NY Daily News, Feb.
28, 1994, p.6).
Moses Maimonides: Advocate of
Extermination
"Moses Maimonides is considered the
greatest codifier and philosopher in
Jewish history. He is often
affectionately referred to as the
Rambam, after the initials of his
name and title, Rabenu Moshe Ben
Maimon, "Our Rabbi, Moses son of
Maimon." [Maimonides' Principles,
edited by Aryeh Kaplan, Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America,, p. 3].
Here is what Maimonides (Rambam)
taught concerning saving people's
lives, especially concerning saving
the lives of gentiles and
Christians, or even Jews who dared
to deny the "divine inspiration" of
the Talmud:
Maimonides, Mishnah Torah, (Moznaim
Publishing Corporation, Brooklyn,
New York, 1990, Chapter 10, English
Translation), p. 184: "Accordingly,
if we see an idolater (gentile)
being swept away or drowning in the
river, we should not help him. If we
see that his life is in danger, we
should not save him." The
Hebrew text of the Feldheim 1981
edition of Mishnah Torah states this
as well.
Immediately after Maimonides'
admonition that it is a duty for
Jews not to save a drowning or
perishing gentile, he informs us of
the Talmudic duty of Jews towards
Goyim, and also towards Jews who
deny the Talmud. Maimonides, Mishnah
Torah, (Chapter 10), p. 184:
"It is a mitzvah [religious
duty], however, to eradicate Jewish
traitors, minnim, and apikorsim, and
to cause them to descend to the pit
of destruction, since they cause
difficulty to the Jews and sway the
people away from God, as did Jesus
of Nazareth and his students, and
Tzadok, Baithos, and their students.
May the name of the wicked rot."
We
would understand better why the
Israel army bombed and maimed the
Palestinians and even
shoot to kill
the young Palestinians
boys and girls. The Talmud taught
them so, hence leaving no feeling of
guilt at all. Nobody could do
anything as the army is too
strong
and almost
invincible. In the eyes of the Jews
according to Talmud the non-Jews are
nothing more than the animals.
Surely it looks like there are
differences between the American
Jews and those in the occupied land.
When
fire burned Haifa and Natenyahu
called for international help the
first think that strike my mind was
how could we help those killers and
murderers. We are just animals to
serve the Jews.
As
for my teachers I could not hate
them for sins committed by the
Israel army on the innocent women
and children.
29/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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A MAN WITHOUT
SHAME |
Humans are
infallible. Either in the past, present or
future we tend to make mistakes. Some are
small and some are big, some are accidental
and some are deliberate. Borrowing money and
refusal to honor the payment is not
accidental but deliberate. But it is hard
for us to control our lust and greed. The
temptation is great when the opportunities
are before our eyes. We commit sins and ask
God to forgive us. Before anything we
already thought that we are forgiven and
walk freely as if we are a very clean men.
A believer
can create two types of sins; a sin against
mankind and a sin against God. A woman who
sells her body for bread is not doing sin on
another man. She needs to ask God for
forgiveness. A man who owes another 500
bucks and run away from payment is doing sin
against a fellow human. He cannot ask God to
forgive him. It is similar to stealing,
robbing and plundering public money.
It is our
task to build an honor into ourselves. We
would feel our internal value and the
standard of our morality. We have the pride
to ourselves of being a man with integrity,
honesty and good. What will loom in our mind
and body is the feeling of shame if we were
to do any wrong. Would you go naked in
public with 1 thousand dollars ? A friend
said that he would do it for a million but
will move to other place after then. But
there are people who can do so for free and
shamelessly parading their bare bodies in
big cities. A known thief can walk across
the stages of the world without the same
feeling. Why ? It is because they have lost
the feeling of shame, consciousness and
guilt.
We all still
remember what Clinton said over Lewinsky," I
don't know that woman...I don't know that
woman..." which later proven that she played
an oral sex with him. He walked all over and
later the episode was forgotten. The Chinese
termed such a person as 'thick skin' or
faceless person. He will
eventually lost respects and threat as a
lowly human being. The man who owed me money
emerged in the facebook today as today is
his birthday and I saw his face with
disgust, a man without shame.
Some of us
seem to be saying that it is alright to
steal because others are stealing too. It is
alright to commit crimes because others also
committed crimes. It is okay to sell drugs
because they are good for heath. It is good
to steal because it brought wealth to our
kind. Nudity, profanity, same sex marriage,
robbing and pilfering are all norm in their
culture. They would fight and defend the
right to plunder, murder or lying. Not only
they are shameless but also interred
morality deep down in the core of the earth
crust. It spells the end of morality. In the
absence of morality, conscience and shame
what are we ? Civility that we claimed to be
with us is a complete farce.
Each day we
pray to God to restore shame and sobriety
into our leaders, in both bodies and souls, to
lift off
the blindness and madness that have devoured
them deeply. And those notorious
hypocrites among the laymen who committed
sins day after day, cheating their friends,
showing no respect towards their parents,
condoning crimes and corruptions be dealt
with in accordance with the depth of their
vices and sins.
Let morality
prevail and shame be restored and repentance
filling the atmosphere.
27/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
SIAL ILL-OMENED,
BAD LUCK |
The word SIAL is near a taboo among the
Malays. Traditional society forbid biting or
canning children using brooms as it could
bring back luck on the kids. The Hokien's
for it is 'soi/sui'. That explains why the
Deputy Minister Tajuddin was called a SIAL
after he said that the only lady with a 'kok
( which he mean cock )' was Teresa. His son
entered the parliament premise to attack the
lawmaker who spewed the word to his father.
Surely an atheist and a non-believer or a
man of science will not believe the
existence of bad luck.
But there are such things as bad news. Here
are some of them
The latest report by iCapital on Malaysia
economy
- Domestic demand too small to sustain
growth - Household debt at unsustainable
level - export plunged - Ringgit plunge
- Tourist arrival plunged - Private
consumption under threat - Car consumption
is one of the highest in the world - Govt
revenue plungged - Oil & CPO on prolong
downtrend - Cost of living increased
drastically but household income remain
stagnant - Ringgit to stay at level above 4
to US $ for many years to come - Production,
EFFICIENCY, COMPETITIVENESS for Msia all
below par compared to other neighboring Asean countries
- iCapital warned Property whether
residential, malls & commercial or office
are OVERSUPPLIED!!!
iCapital warn Msia are SLIDING PATH VERY
FAST !!! It asked WILL MALAYSIA BE THE NEXT
ARGENTINA ?
While the World Bank reported that Msia
education are worst than VIETNAM!!! Very
very bleak & groom outlook for Malaysia
economy for the next few years. This have
not factored the hideous corruption
destroying the country
You may say there is nothing wrong with the
above. It can happen anywhere. But from the
day we celebrated our independence till
today, we had never face any greater
turbulence as bad as it is now. No
commercial airliner went missing all along
those years and our economy had never been
so bad and the national coffer had never
been empty.
The Malays are about to kill each other and
the fire of hatred is getting bigger. It is
triggered off by a team of private army
trying to force the Malays to bow to Najib
using violence. Ismail Sabry said that
Najib's word are God's words. Opposing Najib
means opposing God. The other loyalists said
that Najib is chosen by God to be a Prime
Minister. Najib is perfect and can do no
wrong.
He introduced law as a deterrent, trying to
put fear among the people not to criticize
his leadership and 1Mdb. He sent out trade
missions everywhere. He said he wanted the
1Mdb to be restructured. The money paid to
the IPIC went missing.
In Singapore the court was told about what
happened to 1Mdb's money that Najib said
there was nothing wrong with it. No money
was missing.
It is not Najib not doing anything. He tried
his best. But like a fairy tale story he was
not a man with a Midas touch, a man who
touched anything that turned into gold. But
whatever he touched became the dirty shit.
One bestowed by a good fairy and the other
by a wicked witch. In Najib's case the cloud
of bad luck is too thick almost impossible
to eliminate.
Marcos and Taksin's were fated in a similar
manner, the bad luck brought by their wives
buried them in the mud. He has to look for
someone who dare to tell him the truth
without fear of being punished. Laymen and
top politicians had spewed their curses and
insults but none so far go the extend of
using the term SIAL. It is too degrading,
synonym to the word pig, dog or bastard,
which do not bring with them bad luck.
The report by the iCapital is an economic
and social phenomena. There is no element of
mysticism. It is just a result of an action.
It could contain some bias views as other
Asean countries also experience uncontrolled
bribery. Only it was not as great as 1Mdb
heist (heist is the term used by
international investigators). If there is a
major fire breakout as is happening in Haifa
now then we would sense an element of
mystery in it's display.
But we can be sure the word has a great
impact or otherwise Khairuddin's son would
have not run amok in the parliament.
Following that the netizens in the Facebook
began the name calling on him by the
thousands.
Whatever it is we are living under the dark
cloud gloomed by the SIAL atmosphere that
has permeated the whole nation. There is
nothing that we can do other than to pray
for the curse to disappear.
26/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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LOVE
CHINA ANTI CIA ? |
Annuar Musa
must clarify how much he loves China and how
mad he is with the CIA.
What do we
have here in Malaya ? MI6, Mosad, CIA, FSB,
DGSE, BND, ASIS , RAW, CSIS, ISI, MSS and
what else ? We have not include Singapore,
Thailand, Indonesia and other friendly
countries intelligence agencies yet. And
what about ours ? Malaysian intelligence was
once the best in this region. For many years
we have been cooperating with CIA for being
the closest of our allies, feeding them with
information of terrorist movements just
to appease the United States. We arrested
our own people for selling the centrifuge
chunk to Pakistan. It would be
unthinkable for our military to be working
for the Chinese intelligence MSS.
Our love
affair with China is too very recent after
Najib found that he is almost cornered by
his own doing which resulted in the distrust
in our leadership followed by the rapidly
plunging economy and our currency. I would
not believe that we can quickly turn to
China to defend our nation against any of
our enemy, holding to the pillar as our
savor. But by the words and deeds of Anuar Musa and the government it is to
indicate that we are taking a hostile stand
against CIA and the United States. Voices
were heard that CIA tried to unseat Najib
Razak. Najib's Red Army are telling the
villagers BERSIH is run and financed by the
Jews.
Since
when did our intelligence are working hand
in gloves with China's MSS ?
Maria Chin
was arrested for being a CIA agent ? That's
what Annuar Musa had told us. Khalid denied
it but only mentioned the police confiscated
documents. We don't know what documents were
left by Maria in her office. It could either
be on donation by Soros or the document
concerning CIA's affiliation. If it is about
receiving money, Najib himself said he
received 2,6 billion for political use. And
Maria should be arrested a long time ago.
United States
took a very active role to defend Malaysia
against Indonesia during the confrontation,
bringing in the warship and the marines. The
Australians and the British provide the ears
over the air. Surely we need to explain why
Maria was detained over the CIA issue. The
police and the military will have to shudder
and say,"..the politicians are fool..." and
they will have to be told to be on the
lookout for MSS influence over the Malaysian
politicians.
The espionage
games will be more and more complex and
complicated. The war vehicles purchased from
China will be the pivot. The Chinese has to
guard the technology. The Americans want to
know what's are inside. And Najib is only
interested in saving himself. Already his
men had said Najib has nothing to do with
the arrest of Maria. And even Zahid said it
was not under his order. Not many
politicians are aware that we may have many CIA
operatives among the top military personnel.
I have said
in my remarks before that Najib is not
scared of the IS causing havoc in this
country but he fears more on the arming of
the local dissidents by the United States as
what had happen in Syria. This is unlikely
to happen unless people are facing a more
hazardous and difficult life, soaring cost
of living, dissidents shot or killed.
The best that
Najib can do is to step down and apologize,
and leave everything to fate. An innocent
person must not fear of retribution. If by
the will of God he has to go to court he has
all the evidence to support his innocence.
He has nothing to fear as he did not take
any public money. Whatever he has are from
his family's wealth and the donation from
Saudi's Kingdom.
It all
started with 1Mdb, the lost money, the high
interest rate, the loan that do not seem
could be depleted. In the turmoil bad people
seizing the opportunity to draw as much
benefit as they could. Tons of advice came
to his ears. I can't say whether there was
anyone who whisper to him that CIA was
planning to unseat him and it would be safer
for him to turn to China to save his soul.
And his right hand men follow to lash CIA's
face.
Taiwan, the
arch enemy of China also has her own
intelligence here. As she is inclined to the
CIA and the United States she is not happy
with Malaysia-China courtship. Local Chinese
used to be divided between Taiwan and
China's supporters. We don't know what is
the situation today. It looks like there is
a strong current beneath the still surface
water.
Remember the
MSS is one of the best intelligence
organization in the world, probably more
cunning than the CIA.
25/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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WHO CAN RIGHT
THE WRONG ? |
You may
not believe me that there are people who
still believe that the world is
flat. No
matter how much proofs and arguments are
expounded there is only one ultimate truth.
The right and the wrong in human judgment is
a matter of taste, likings and culture. We
all know the story of Robinhood, a man made
a hero though he was a thief. Murderers are
honored and
pirates were knighted. Anything
at all are viewed in opposite perspectives.
A
comprehensive value system has to be set by
a society to avoid contradiction. Each item
has to be scrutinized in detail; the definition
is solid and beyond rebuttals.
Once upon a time we defined LIE as a lie.
Today we hear LIES AND WHITE LIES to justify
a lie. People can still lies for the good it can
bring to the individuals and companies involved
to maintain
peace and happiness. Then we can keep
inventing lies to our boss to make him
happy, and going flirt with other man or
woman and telling our spouses that we are at
our office.
Stealing is
another act or behavior that has been
heatedly debated. Thieves always have
reasons and rationality for stealing. A man
steals to feed his kids and family, to give
to the poor and to keep the company strong.
His friends and people in his community
would approve thefts and robberies. It would
be more justified to steal from the victims
declared as their enemies, the heretics, the
terrorists or groups of different creeds and
races.
The list can
go on and on.
Mankind no
more believe in the ultimate veracity, the
divine truth. They practice religion as a
culture but without internal beliefs and
faith. They fear man to God and prostrate to
another human, more than to God. May he be a Haji, a monk or a
priest.
Religion is now being used to make money, to
command for obedience, to enhance popularity
and to justify criminal acts.
Who then will
determine the right and the wrong ?
The answer
could be made simple if we want to and could
be complex if we love to spin things. Mao
Tze Tung pointed to the power that comes
from the military strength. Others say it is
from a pen. Yet many believe in the extreme
wealth. The power of money has been
discussed for centuries. It buys people with
weapons, gangsters, court decision, the
police and justice department. No ordinary
citizens but the politicians have these
power. And it is them who determine what is
right and what is wrong.
Nevertheless
nations made rules and regulations on what
constitutes legal and illegal deeds,
practices and entities. And each
organization has it's own rules and dos and
don'ts. Nobody is allowed to keep public
money into his own account and behaves in
manners of his own likings. Banks are
forbidden to accommodate terrorists and
other illegal funds.
We can choose
to follow and abide by these written laws or
snare and ignore them. When a man thinks he
is invincible and very powerful, he will put
himself above the law as he is a law
himself. In the era of dragons and sorcerers
powerful kings and emperors would decapitate
a man for a slight mistake. During the
Japanese occupation in Malaya thieves were
beheaded. Absolute power gives a man to
right the wrong and to wrong the right.
When God is
dead and religion is archaic we see
normality in same sex marriage, legalization
of marijuana, public sex and nudity and
powerful people rob and pillage the poor.
There is no fear in retribution, hell and
God. But we do know what absolute truth is
and what wrongs are. They are not objects
for rhetoric and arguments.
What are we
to do ?
24/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
OBAMA
TOUCHED ON NWO |
I heard with
my own ears very vividly George Bush Senior
and Obama talked about the New World Order.
You have to listen carefully to Obama's
speech from the clip in the previous
article. The objective of the world order is
to lift off hunger and poverty among
nations, and to free the world population
from suppression. He mentioned briefly about
the calamities in China which the United
States played an important role in the
rescue effort. In philosophy the New World
Order is a Shangarila, a heaven for the
masses on this world.
Obama is
going out and Trump is replacing him. Some
schools of thought believe that United
States is run by an invisible hands.
No matter what Trump has promised to do, to
undo the Clinton legacies, somehow he will
be charmed by some powerful force to carry
on with the New World Order. We have to wait
and see. I don't think I will be wrong in my
prediction.
But Obama did
not mention how to lift off hunger and
poverty. I still believe that there need to
some form of controls. The pillar of NWO
stated that the world population must be
reduced. But how ? The fastest and the most
effective is through war. In other words
some people must be killed. Who has to be
killed ?
I don't think
I would be wrong again to hypothesize that a
list will be drawn, brought to a meeting for
the approval of a committee members. The
first will be the terrorist. Second the
Muslims. And third the hardcore criminals.
The death in Syria and the Muslims in
Myanmar already has spoken. There is no
serious effort to put an end to the
killings. Iran will be listed as a terror
nation, followed by the North Korea.
And how many
Malays are left in Malaysia ? At least 30%
of them have been announced as terrorist by
someone in the ruling party. Najib told
Hillary that Anwar is the head and the main
leader. It looks like the killing is about
to take place. There is a strong tendency
for the civil war to break out among the
Malays.
How else the
NWO could decrease and control the world
population ?
Hillary and
Obama had been asked about the alien working
hands in gloves with the United States. Both
dodged the solid answer. Intellectuals are
trying to relate the NWO with the other
universe and Anunarki which may be Lucifer
is receding back to earth. It is like a
fairytale stories. Mind you that the
anti-gravity vehicles are plentiful now
successfully made in the United States using
alien technology. It is a bizarre tale.
The first
American President, George Washington
followed by several others believed they
were descendants of ancient gods, powerful
enough to rule the world, the brightest
among the elites. They are called
Illuminati.
You will be surprise you can find the
symbols of illuminati in Kuala Lumpur and
Putrajaya. They are huge too. TPPA is an
Illuminati project and designed, and Obama
took a task to materialize it. Najib is
happy about it.
In
the United States people are wondering
whether Trump could survive the presidency
or met the fate of J.F. Kennedy. The
Christians protest the NWO as it is a
Satanic design. The ancient god will return.
What do you think of PAS and Hadi who
condoned the NWO by supporting TPPA ? Would
they answer to God that they are not aware
of it ?
23/11/2016
- Abdul
Rahman
Raof |
JUDGE BY
YOURSELF |
Towards the end of the speech .
Fast forward to 48.48 minutes
and listen very carefully what
Obama says.
Corrupt
leaders "who siphon off
development funds into Swiss
accounts"
|
Sooner or
later people will come know our true
color no matter how hard we try to
appease and charm them, or give them a
massive amount of money to court their
support. And they whisper to their
friends and even to their enemies. Obama
did not refer to any particular person
but we could have guessed the person in
his mind. Don't you think he would not
tell Trump about it and Putin too ?
And would
we say China truly believe we are from
heavenly angel, clean and honest and
trustworthy ? We would be panting
running around to tell the world that
half of the Malaysian population are
terrorists. Won't the arrest of Maria
Chin be unknown to Pentagon and they
would give a thumb up to Najib for
arresting a lady terrorist ?
I think
Najib should stop paying the foreigners who
said that they could fight for him. With
good money everyone wants to compete for
the service including the American con
men. As I have pointed out before as to
what happened to the Argentinean agents
who went to purchase the larger capacity
fuel tank for their war planes to be
used against the British in the War of
Malvinas. They paid the money but the
tanks were confiscated by the customs
while on the way out. In the '80s there
were a lot of White American con-men
preying on non American
investments. One Filipino American told
me, "Americans love money very much. No
money, no love."
Things
are like a game of football or chess. We
think we are the best team and could
beat everybody else all the time. We think we
would never fall. JUDGE BY YOURSELF.
22/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
Interestingly, Obama also talked about The
New World Order for the betterment of the
world population especially the
overpopulated Asians and of poor countries.
Listen to him again carefully on both
siphoning off development funds and the
World Order.
|
SOCCER
AND THE FUTURE |
Teachers took
student's study time for soccer training for
almost 365 days. I never like it for I
believe it was not the right thing to do.
There are only 8 hours of schooling time a
day. They would be able to learn languages
and mathematics, sciences and health
education.
The soccer
time must be well organized and charted,
what skill to teach and practice, what is
the total time programmed for each. All must
be clearly laid out. It is just taking the
students out of the classrooms, put them in
the field, giving them a ball to play days
in and days out.
The life a
professional soccer in Malaysia is
short. You
won't find a team that would accept you by
the time you are 30. Your performance will
slow down. You cannot move as fast as
before. New blood will take your place. If
hurt it is the end of you.
The Ministry
of Education came up with sports schools
where students of special skills are housed
here. They are to represent the state and
the nation. But again we need to work out on
the ration of the school leavers to those
who end themselves in their respective
fields. Can the people the Ministry of
Education provide us the figure ?
Those who
find themselves in professional soccer will
have to compute their future, their future
financial security. Unless the government
formulates some form of a pension scheme the
sport is opened to corruptions. Punters pay
and the players need to collect as much as
they could and as fast as possible before
they are forcefully retired.
To be a
millionaire like Ronaldo and Messy one has
to acquire such a skill. Could a Malaysian
earn as much as those legend ?
We used to
beat Korea and Japan with the old amateur
system. It would have been all policemen in
the police team and all army personnel in
the ATM team.
Surely we
want our team to be one of the top and
respected team in Asia but we also need to
think of the future of the players. And we
want to know the national plans are organized
and programmed. Do they have the schemes
laid down in the curriculums and syllabus ?
We need to
have a central plan else we will find abuses
in sports schools. There must be a lesson
plan and the teacher must carry out what is
in the planned. The clips on the left are a
few samples that can be included in the
sports curriculum.
I think we
have to believe our overall thinking
methodology and attitudes. They influence
our way of life and how we do things.
Our words
depicts our mentality. Immorality cannot
build a strong nation. Arrogance,
selfishness and ego with poor knowledge and
bad vision will make a perpetual Don
Quixote.
22/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE OLD
FAITHFUL |
I would consider my Kancil as an ailing car.
The whole body is full of dents, a real
junky as good as scrap iron. I don't
remember how it got all wrapped up. On the
engine part it seems to work okay but for a long
stopping could raise it's temperature to a
ghastly level. The bonnet cannot be locked
as the internal deformed are too serious. Inside the
car itself is like a garbage bin where every
litter stuffs were thrown on the floor. The
car is for me alone. It is not for carrying
any passenger for it would certainly brings
me a big disgrace and shame.
Believe me, when I am in the car I feel like
a king and as an invincible man. I am not afraid at
any big and new car at all. If they knocked
me they are going to suffer. And I noticed
most drivers distant themselves away from me
, trying
to avoid kissing my back or even dare to
caress any part of the body. It is my first
choice as my conveyor whenever I want to
travel by air, train or bus. I would park my
car somewhere at a corner and leave it there
for the whole trip. Nobody will tempt to
steal the poor ugly old car. If anybody
wants to steal it he is always welcome. I
can get rid of it without any pain.
This car has served me well. It took my wife
to the dialysis center and back home from
the beginning to end. I could easily
transfer her from the wheelchair onto the
car using a plank as both of the seats are
at equal level. Though my wife has gone to
meet God, my feeling of gratitude to this
dumb machine still persist. I don't simply
throw the old faithful despite of it being a
lifeless chattel.
I bought Viva for fear this old Kancil would
come to a halt anytime on the road. If that
happen it would be detrimental to my task
taking my wife to the medical center. But
the seat is a little higher by an inch or so. With a slight
effort the transfer could be successfully
accomplished. I occasionally used it for the
job. Kancil and Viva were of the same Produa
family, low and affordable price, that I
could pay in cash without having have to
think of the monthly payment and loan. I cut
cost by rejecting the extra accessories and
opted for manual gear.
On the coming 13th of December I don't have
to beg from people to send me to the
airport. My Kancil will take me there. I
have had a bitter experience before when
people were too busy in managing their own
affair. It was true that they were not my
slave to demand them to do the service for me but it
was me who had been their slaves most of the
time, running
errand for them and even gave them huge cash
loan when they suffered acute financial
difficulties.
Friendship with non-living things and
animals are more rewarding than to the
modern mortal men. A human can be deceitful,
crude, rude, irritating and ruthless. I came
across counterfeits from CIMB ATM machine,
an officer who said she had posted the mail
because the computer system said so, a
Tabung Haji officer who tried hard to dodge
the department's error and tried to shift
the blame on me, Hajis who lied and vow to a
man than to God. Animals won't cheat you and
they don't have any designed motives to rob
and plunder you. A dog may
bark if you hit her but a car says nothing
if you hammer it.
Then you might say 'Go and live with those
animals and junks'. Is it a problem ? No.
Just treat the mankind as animals and junks.
Then we do live amongst those. Otherwise we
need to draw a line of social interaction, set a
limit of trust and friendship, recognize the
hypocrites and the predators and leeches
that suck your blood. Minimize your contact
with them. With some, you can talk to them
on the street but never to bring them into your
home.
It is not that I am hostile to fellow
mankind
but that's how they are when compared
to some of the animals and inanimate objects. Try
to watch animal footings and sometimes you
may wonder how beautiful they are.
People tend to abandoned the old possession
over the new ones and they do the same to
their fellow humans, be it in their domestic
lives, work places or politics.
21/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
DARK TRIP TO
KANGAR STADIUM |
I know a trip
to Kangar will take me about an hour. As I
had registered in my mind that 19/11 at
8.45pm I must be in the stadium to watch a
soccer match I had to leave my home just
after the Maghrib prayer. I drove Viva. It
took me about 20 minutes to cross town to
reach the state road to Kangar.
The road was
not empty. There were a string of vehicles
moving at 60 km/h. I had no choice but to
zigzag, overtaking one car after another like
a hell driver. Mind you I am already 70 plus
with a poor eyesight. There was no street
light. I couldn't see a thing. It was like
an invisible hands behind the wheel. May be it was.
When I arrived the town I could not see roads
and streets. I did not know where I was and
where the stadium was situated.
The town was
almost deserted like a ghost dweller. Shops
were already closed at about 8.30pm. I drove
and drove until I did not know where I was.
I saw a Seven Eleven and decided to make an
enquiry. "Which way is to the stadium ?" I
asked a boy at the counter.
"Uncle go
straight until you arrive a traffic light.
Turn left. Then go straight ahead until you
see another traffic light. Turn right. Then
you will see a hospital. Go straight till
you see another traffic light. Drive until
you see the stadium..."
I thank him
and followed his instruction. I drove
straight and came to a traffic light. There
was no road to the left except a few hundred
yards away from it. Nevertheless I took the
left corner at the junction.
I saw no further traffic light but only
junctions. I did not see any hospital
either. It was too dark. Then
I saw a petrol station. I stopped at the
station and made another enquiry. A man told
me to make a U-Turn and follow the road
until I saw the hospital. There were two
more traffic lights and I had to pass them
before I could see the stadium."
This time I
decided to look at the sky rather than
the hospital but to follow his path as
described. True indeed after the traffic light
I began to see light in the sky, not from
heaven but from the stadium on the right
hand side. I followed the brightness, taking the
available path to the light. Finally I
arrived the stadium. The ticket was RM5.
The game was
entertaining and enjoyable. The grandstand
was filled with the Kedahkians. The rest of
the stadium was almost empty. Kedah won a
magnificent victory of 4 - 0.
Now how to go
back ? I decided to resort to my compass in
the Amdroid, to follow roads that would take
me to the South. I drove without any sense
where I was. No car behind to overtake me
with Kedah plate number so that I could
follow them. There were none in front
either. Only later I saw a huge signboard
and followed the arrow, still in the
dark as to where I was at the driving time.
After taking
several curve roads I saw another sign
board. Then I knew where I was. I was about
to rejoin the main road leading to Alor Setar.
The traffics were less heavy. I sped up to
100 km/h whenever the road was empty. I
followed the lorries before me for quite
some time. I began to feel hungry. I had my
dinner at about 11.15pm just before entering
my city.
Don't ask me
whether I was afraid. I had been to many
places alone, walking or driving thousands
of miles, lost my way in several places in
the United States and Hawaii, being mugged
in the lonely street of Los Angeles and walked
across a dark grave yard while I was a kid
to meet the challenge of my friends. It is
all in your mind. It was a joyous
experience.
It is 1.40am
now, 20th November 2016. I am still alive
and kicking despite the deadly feat on the
road, blinded by the darkness in the absence
of photons. I thank God once again. And hope to
wake up again tomorrow to see another day.
20/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
UNEXPECTED THINGS HAPPEN |
Unexpected
things do happen from time to rime. It can
picture the goodness of a man or the evil
nature of human specie. Only yesterday
someone said that a pensioner's pension
money in his account will be taken back by
the government immediately after his death.
Surely I have to believe him if is a new
rule. Najib has taken a huge sum from the
pension fund purportedly for his own use,
never paid it and pretended as if nothing
has happened. Since he is the most powerful
man in the country, above the Agong,
parliament and law he can do whatever he
likes. The country has no money despite the
GST and nobody knows where the money went
to.
At one
instant I curse Najib for his cruelty and
sinister behavior. At another I think it is
not as bad as the property in New Zealand
where more then 60% of the property of a
demised man would revert to the government.
It gives no chance for any wealthy man to
own the country to himself. We could call it
lucky that Najib does not know of such law
exist in New Zealand.
So I plan to
spend all my pension on receiving them and
to keep some enough for my annual traveling.
It would be just a pure bad luck to those
who are not aware of the new regulation.
Nevertheless the veracity of the news need
to be confirmed. I just do not want to take
any risk. Nobody would expect such thing
could happen.
And today
again another unexpected thing happened when
I went for my usual breakfast. I ordered a
plate of rice with beef and sat down to eat.
Beside me was a lady and her husband. I
guessed they are between 40 - 50. The Mamak
accosted me as Cikgu (Teacher) when
delivering my food. The lady said something
to the receptionist which I could not hear.
Then I turned to the lady. She smiled, "Cikgu
I pay for your meal." I thought she was my
student. But when she asked me where I
taught before and how long have I been
retired then I knew she was not my student.
I addressed her as Cikgu. "I am not a
teacher. My husband is a businessman. I did
not quite hear who she was. "any teacher is
my teacher," she said.
You see
unexpected things and events do happen in
our lives. It may be good or bad. Having
faith in God could cushion us from any thud
of shocking news. I would not want to wail
and lament on misfortunes or we can suffer
from mental and physical illness. Sadness,
worry and morose could kill cell
spores in our mind. Our longevity is
shortened. Life is too precious for younger
men.
19/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
WHAT TO
REMIND ME PLEASE |
Time and days are becoming important. people
are keeping diaries on what they are going
to do and when. There are so many things to
do today that we have a hard time remember
and to cope up
with the schedules. We tend to forget the
event if nobody reminds us of the coming
occurrence.
During the days when we were awaken up by the cock
crow, I never heard of the word diary.
The number of wedding invitations are
mounting. I began to get worried. One of the
important date is the 19th of November 2016.
Lorries collecting used clothing and other
usable gadgets and items will come to
collect them on the same day. I have three bags ofor
them. These will be distributed to the
poor in the northern state. 19 is also the
date that I will be going to Kangar for
a soccer game, Piala raja-Raja (Royal Cup)
between my state and Perlis. The game will
be held at 8.45 pm, which means I have to
start early from my home, by at least one
hour. And 19 will also
be the Bersih 5 Procession in Kuala Lumpur.
But whatever is going to happen in Kuala
Lumpur will not affect me here.
I am just concern about it. On the same day the
Indonesian maids promise to clean my house.
What also occupies my mind is the trip to
Jordan on the 13th December. It is a trip
with a mix feeling of worries and joy, worry
because of the severe weather and the bulky attire and joy
because I am going to a new
country.. So far there is no
invitation that falls between 13th and 24th
save one. It falls on the day arrival to
Kuala Lumpur and my home town.
I don't have proper rooms in my mind to keep
all records of the what I am going to do. I
usually did early traveling preparation to
make sure I will not forget to bring things
with. I need to check the medicines for
fever and flue, for cuts and bruises and
headache and vitamins. The next day I would
ask myself again what other important
assortments like the universal charger and
plugs, and even a scissor and knife. I
bought a raincoat but I don't remember where
I kept it.
I will be moving in a cold temperature from
the warmer air. Surely I cannot start
donning thick clothing from here. I have to
decide whatever I need to carry in my bag
pack; a sweater or a jacket ? I dare to put
on short pant if I were to go to Los Angeles
in December but I dare not take a risk on
Jordan. You see, I have to think even of
such a simple thing. Mind you I am no longer
a young man. I am 70 over.
Rather than having a diary it would be wiser
to let my computer reminds me of the daily
activity. It is a simple codes to list down
the task. What I need to do is either
leaving the computer on all the time or to
have it run the first thing in the morning.
While working my machine will remind me of
my student's and teacher's birthdays. It is
a wonderful world indeed.
I am looking forward to being alive tomorrow
to deliver by stuffs to the poor and drive
to Kangar to enjoy the football game. So
wish me luck. Should I be reminded of all my
oncoming tasks ?
18/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE GAME
NAJIB PLAYS |
It is not my intent to criticize or support Najib's policy on the expansion of Chinese
schools in the country. As published in the
newspapers Najib told the Chinese not to
forget him as he will expand the number of
Chinese school in the country. No one talked
of reopening of English schools after
admitting the low standard of English in the
country.
But what I would like to highlight is our
Red shirt hero known as Jamal Tongkol, a very
close friend of Noh Omar and Najib, who took
the oath of allegiance to protect
the Prime Minister with his life. UMNO and
Jamal formed a group called ANTI-DAP force
and told the Malays that the movement is to preserve Malay
dignity. In the Facebook postings I always
asked the nature and type of dignity in
preference. Soon he will see
a great number of Chinese schools looming
before his eyes. These do not come from the
opposition or DAP but from his own boss, the
Prime Minister himself. Doesn't it make a
thing to Jamal Tongkol ?
The inconsistency is very glaring. Najib can
love Hillary and hate Trump in one minute
and love Trump and dispel Hillary in
another. He used Jamal and his private army
to attack the Chinese and at the same time
he courted and flirt with China and for
votes he promised more Chinese
schools to MCA.
We can say 'never mind Najib...' but what do
we say about the invincible hero who got a
bloody nose ? Didn't he see what Najib
has done
to the Malay dignity ? Why blame DAP and
other PKR members ?
Savagery does not promote civility. Burning
cars, attacking passive people and the showing
of the stupid silat are the disgrace to the
Malay race. Protecting crimes using OSA and
other laws made the Malays looked so
helpless and feeble. Almost 100% of the
remarks against Jamal were Malays and from
the expressions, they
hate Jamal to the core.
Seeing the unstoppable attack by the
denizens,
Najib's team start to play the False Flag
games, attiring the dismissal behavior to
the other group, using their own people and
blame their opponents. False Flag can go to
the extend of killing their own citizens for
bigger personal gain. The 9-11 and the
bombing of New York Trade centers were
proven to be False Flags, a game played by
several interested persons.
Views in the social media pointed Najib as pushing the gangsters to be
more aggressive, a diverse stunt to turn
away the lifting of
subsidies, increasing the price of cooking
oil, hospital bills and inflation due to GST. They try to make big
mountain out of a mole on Guan Eng's property purchase,
hoping to erase the 2.6 billion that went
into Najib's personal account. Netizens do
not lose track on Najib and Rosmah's using the SRC's money for
personal use, the missing money paid to the IPIC,
spending on foreign
advisors, lawyers and the donation to
American Presidential coffers. The greatest
thing about Malaysian democracy is questions
on 1Mdb are barred in Malaysian parliament.
What made Jamal and UMNO so sure that their
victims will never retaliate. I am not going
to narrate how and in what form retaliations
can take place. It will not be the Chinese
against the Malays but the Malays against
the Malays. During the Gee Hin and the Hai
San days the Malays already fought among
themselves under the White and Red Flag. If
that happens it will surely be a bloody one.
The issue is about kleptocracy that brought
misery to the people. The economic downfall
is due to
the lost of international trusts on our
leaders. China is not investing but making
business with us, to market their products. Those who wear the Yellow
T-Shirts can never be devoured because they
understand the real issues. Any subsequent
attack on Bersih members could result in
devastating and ferocious counter strike.
This is not a prediction but a causal-effect
factor.
The followers of Jamal, many uneducated and
jobless youths don't even know what a
dignity is and whatever is left other than
the butt-dance and the display of their
brawns. If there is any bloodshed it is Noh
and Najib to be blamed. The game played is
very dangerous. Indeed the vision is myopic.
The Prime Minister should have a habit of
reading the feedback on the Malaysiakini to
know the thought of the masses. Like a
gentlemen he could probably arrange a dialog
with the unhappy citizens.
Amazingly, if you make a survey probably 95
out of a 100 will not blame Najib but Rosmah.
Why ? My clairvoyance too is pointing my
finger towards the First Lady. Is it not
mysterious ?
16/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Where can you
run ? |
How could I
escape from sensational news ? Last night
while having dinner at a restaurant there
was a long news on the arrest of Rafizi.
Surely I would have to follow up what's it
was all about. Again I was trapped in the
scuffle. I was thinking of contemplating on
my trip to Jordan next month, to think what
kind of clothing to bring with me, to plan
food for my cat and to have my house cleaned
by a maid before leaving.
The night
before I studied the December temperature in
Jordan. The average will be 14 degrees
Celsius. I would not bother if is 14 or 15
in Los Angeles where I could donned myself
with T-Shirt and breech or a Bermuda pant on
a windless sunny day. I don't think Jordan
would offer the same comfort. A friend of
mine who is now in Iran lamented on the cold
weather.
While
visiting other countries with a package trip
I would never have a leisure time to browse
websites. By the time we entered our hotel
room we will be too tired and exhausted. We
will be told to wake up in the wee hours of
the morning for the subsequent trip. At
least for 10 days I can forget the great
Malaysia, keeping myself away from the
brawl, Jamal, Najib and Mahathir.
I never like
cold weather or snow anymore. I had been
carrying my cloth about a mile away for
laundry in Winter while three months stay in
London. And knocking ice from my car when
icing in the United States for almost three
Winter seasons. I promised myself not to
travel to any cold horizon anymore. I also
hate to carry Winter clothing that take much
of the luggage space. It was registered in
my mind that June, July and August would
just be nice in the northern hemisphere and
December till February in Australia and New
Zealand. I just want to accompany my friend
Rusli for the sight seeing.
This is
almost the end of the year. I know 2017 will
never be a good year. The election will be
around March. Malaysians will be facing a
more gloomy period after Naib continues to
rule. China's presence will not help us. My
life won't be as bad as the others and I
doubt whether I can live for more than 5
more years. Only last night I had a sever
pain in my stomach thinking I would not wake
up this morning. It came without warning.
Hospital ? No more. People who have gone to
hospital will die sooner except for a minor
ailment.
I never want
to die in Jordan though someone told me that
the trip will be tough. The border security
will be very strict. Nobody can tell what
can happen while you are moving on a bus. We
may be killed by the mines.
I tried hard
to divorce from politics as it can shorten
my life. But men are political animals and
living in the savage world animals. When I
go to buy drugs at pharmacy, goods in sundry
shops, stall for food I am reminded of the
poor declining economy, GST, spiraling
prices and the smiling politicians, sadist
enough to see people bear the sufferings.
They say it
is a small world. You have a breakfast in
Kuala Lumpur, lunch at Ho Chi Min City and
dinner in Tokyo. It takes 18 hours to fly to
New York. Wherever you are you can get the
local news in no time, which used to be a
few months before the internet technology. I
remember during the last GE; whenever I
opened up a Youtube footage, the first to be
displayed was Najib's greeting. Where can I
run ?
I hope Jordan
will be a little different and hope somehow
and some way would change my thinking. We
will be going to Tel Aviv, giving the chance
of the lifetime to see the Jewish community.
Surely it will shape my mind to a certain
degree though it is not a place where I can
pray for the best of my own nation. And
Rafizi while in jail will have a good time
to be closer to God and lament for Devine
intervention to end the cruelty and evil of
the treacherous rulers.
15/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
STRANGE
PHENOMENA ? |
CASE 1
Let us start
with four man with a plot of land each.
The first man
standing in the middle of his land and start
calling for an investor. Come a wealthy
business man from China with his gadgets of
tools and goodies and open a shop on the
land. The man says he has an investment on
his land.
The second
man, instead of calling people to his land,
he goes to India. He signed an agreement for
an Indian company to build a railroad on his
land costing 5 billions, another agreement
that the Indian government to buy the banana
planted by him in one corner of his land.
The total commitments are already known. And
he tells everyone that he has an investor to
his land.
The third man
calling for a businessman from USA to erect
a factory manufacturing goods to be sold to
whoever stay within his land. And he also
call it an investment.
The last man
lured another company to come on his land as
there are things that could benefit the
company. It is a limestone that could be
turned into various by-products unknown to
many men like the filter of a cigarette. The
company agreed. It set up a company, employs
local residents and mines the limestone. The
by-products are exported to the whole world.
With a huge profit the company pays all kind
of taxes to the man happily. There is no
mention of the total value incurred during
when the wooing is made unlike the second
man who announces the value of the
investment.
Does it not
sound weird on the first, second and third
man ?
CASE 2
What's the
different between savagery and civility ?
Savagery is a picture of brutality, ruthless
and merciless. It is towards animal
behavior, wild and without the use of
rationality. Civility is more towards
kindness and polite behavior, considerate
and rational. There is a new and strange
trend of settling disputes between the youth
group using verbal poetic exchange or
through hip-hop dancing. It is certainly
more civilize than fist fighting and using
batons hitting each other.
We call the
present world as the civilize world. We go
to school, get education, develop teamwork
and co-operation and practicing mutual
respect.
But right now
people drop bomb that kill women and
children. They made weapons that could
penetrate underground bunkers and killed
unarmed men in a far away land. In the '40s
atom bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki killing thousands of civilians. In
the '60s the Western nations flew thousands
of miles to drop million tons of bomb in
Vietnam for no solid reason. The killings
went on in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the
Middle East.
They justify
the killing under the name of war. Then they
created the term terrorists for the
nationalists, freedom fighters and those who
fought political criminals who rule and
plunder national wealth. You see Tariq Aziz
as a war criminal but not Bush. You don't
see any American or British listed as war
criminals. All you need to do is to declare
war on a certain country that will justify
your killing the innocent people.
To murder is
alright to some people and a crime to
another. Altantuya, Najadi, Kevin Morais,
Jalil could be food for our thought to
ponder about.
Adam Smith,
the classical economist and the philosophy
of New World Order believe that people must
die in a great number within one short
disaster for the good of mankind as a whole.
It reduces the population explosion which
brought hardship and poverty that can lead
to increase crime and instability. It is
akin to what Najib was saying 'the more I
tax you, the more benefit you will get'
CASE 3
What
should be the work of the police and what
should be the work of the army ? The FBI and
the CIA have different things to do as well.
The police is for the internal peace and
tranquility, to protect the masses against
criminals and sinister persons. The army is
to protect the nation against foreign
enemies and intervention and excursion.
But there are
countries that giving the order to the army
to declare war on their own citizens,
shooting and bombing them. The citizens who
opposed them are branded as international
terrorists to justify their actions. The
term terrorist was first used by Henry
Kessinger to described the Palestinians who
fought for their homeland, and later adopted
by international communities for their own
convenience on their own citizens to retain
their power and status quo.
CASE 4
PAS hated
DAP because the latest vocally opposed Hudud
but love MCA and MIC though both parties are
equally vocal rejecting the Islamic law.
CASE 5
Sarawak
Report is blazoning what is the content of
the Audit Report that locked Rafizi behind
bars to the world. Surely Najib has to send
his team out to explain why Rafizi has to be
locked up. The world would come to know
more. What has been in the OSA is now has
traveled out the Putrajaya's secret room. Is
it not an enigma ?
These are
among a few of the numerous happenings that
obviously shown to be strange.
Doesn't God
know of all these going to be a part and
parcel of humanity ? Certainly. While God
creates the predestined of natural
behaviors, God also provides mankind with
freedom to make choices. Almost every living
man wants this freedom to do what he wants
and what he likes on his free will without
any external pressure or force. We are
guided to make the make the best choice for
our own good and the good of the society
without compellation.
You just look
at those men and judge yourselves whether
they believe in God and the next world. Do
they care about sins or hell ?
15/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WORDS,
RHETORIC AND REALITY |
By the grace
of God I became the Head Master of a school
when my hoped at the young age of wanting to
work on a ship as a labor and settled down
in a foreign land. I was never a diligent
student and never fared well in all my
school and public examination. As to how I
became one is not important. It is just to
relate to the topic I am about to write
here.
My
school won the championship of the beautiful
landscaping for several years on end awarded
by the city counsel, the Ministry of
Education. The grass was well kept, flowers
bloom elegantly and trashes were hardly
found on the ground. Our toilets were well
maintained.
I was not the
person who design the landscaping. The
credit went to the gardeners, teachers and
the students. People may come out with
theories, plans and blue prints and will lay
down all the tasks step by step A gardener
could have use thousand words to explain his
plan.
I just told
them that the contract is simple. I need a
clean surrounding, grass to be short all the
time and I don't want to see dead plants and
trees. "I don't want to supervise you
working. You can rest and do nothing if
those three things are seen as they are."
It
was the head of the gardener who went to
receive the prize awarded by the town
counselor. Praises were given to them, the
students who did not litter and the teachers
who drove the esteem of the students.
The reality
is the result, the winning, the recognition
and our school being made a bench mark. The
idea was simple, to create a conducive
learning environment.
We can talk
and talk day and night. We can say anything
at all beyond human imagination. We can trot
the world over and fly across the universe
mumbling 'I won't die...I won't die...' for
any number of years, but the words will not
keep us alive. A weak man can say he is as
strong as Hercules. A poor man can say he
has billions in his saving. A great thief
can say he is a philanthropist. A
robber can say that he robs you for your own
good.
I do not
believe in words spoke by people even by
close friends. I sense the reality and
analyze the happenings.
This man claims that he is
invincible. He cannot be killed
bu bullets, wood or iron bars.
Metal weapons won't penetrate
his body. Today while causing
trouble at Ampang Kuala Lumpur,
he was punched and blood flew on
his face. |
The verbal
war blazoned in the media and what is really
happenings tell us that words and rhetoric
can deceive us. We do hear what a Minister
said about GST helping the people as prices
would come down. Najib says his financial
policy is for the good of the people. One
has to be worse than a moron to believe
their rhetoric. Price of medicines have shot
up more than 100%. Hospital patients were
about to pay to complete total fee had not
because of the coming election ( Government
postpone it after the election). That would
be more than RM300 a month medicines alone.
Price tags at the super market skyrocketed
double and triple after the 1Mdb issue and
GST.
Hiding from
us is the massive amount of money going out
to foreign mercenaries fighting for Najib's
life.
It has been
traced that the money that went into Najib's
personal account had traveled in devious and
dubious ways. These are reality. But words
can be used to deny and create stories.
Rosmah said that people simply accused her
traveling overseas when she was invited by
the host country but short of telling them
the price for the hired jet and on the globe
trotting flights.
Instead words
were used to attack the last Prime Minister
Mahathir, degrading him to the devil, when
Mahathir is no longer a Prime Minister. But
Mahathir has stepped down. The current
plunging economy and the ringgit is not of
his doing. The missing money paid to IPIC
was not of his scheme.
The most
interesting part of the rhetoric is 'We are
the best country among the Islamic nations.
We are a strong and wealthy country...' The
the next day another words were howled again
'the poor economy is caused by the
opposition, Mahathir and you people...'
I am not
making stories. Those were published in the
media, both the government and the alternative.
They used
words to spin and lies and to convince the
public of their righteousness that no evil
was done. They told the young Malays that it
is time for them to defend the country from
being taken over by the Chinese, and they
can trust the great warrior name Jamal. With
some magic words and chants the youths will
become invincible themselves. Footings were
published to scare the enemies and to draw
the Malay youth support.
Instead of
cooling things down the politicians put fire
to the dumb followers. While Jamal got
punched Noh Omar and Najib are enjoying
expensive and exotic meals. Even when the
Malays die killing each other they may be
busy playing golf somewhere somewhere else.
The police is
aware of the potential danger. There is a
danger of a dreadful civil war. They know when such a
horror burst, the guilty politicians will
leave the country. They observed well. They
see the reality, not listening to the rhetoric of the
politicians.
Read the
remarks below posted by a netizen
Same shit that happened in Italy during
World War Two when the Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini had his party youth wing
wear black shirts and behave like fascist
hooligans. Guess what happened to Mussolini.
He was caught trying to flee with his
mistress and executed, following which his
body was dumped in the city square of Milan
and subjected to horrendous abuse by angry
citizens. Let that be a warning to Najib and
Rosmah.
It
is depicting the furious state of mind of
the populace. No amount of rhetoric and
words can appease and pacify the angry
people. Yet Najib is still singing and
dancing.
14/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
BRACE FOR
ANOTHER BAD LUCK |
I have
written about the mystery and element of the
unknown, contradictory to the substance of
sciences yet created a firm belief in the
unseen and the unknown practiced by the
modern men like the Feng Sui, the luck
brought by numbers and the consultation of
astrologers. Quantum science has been
talking about ubiquitous element and the
behavior of non-living particle as it is
observed and not observed. It even went
further to explain the idea of reality and
illusion, bringing together philosophy and
science on the same podium.
My question
had been 'WHAT'S NEXT ?' on several short
articles as we can't tell what other ominous
happenings will hit the country after a
series of bad luck like the missing MH370
and the shooting down of MH117. Truly indeed
it followed by 1MDB woe that affected our
economy so very badly hitting hard on the
citizens all over and the financial
condition of the country.
What are we
having today that could ignite an explosive
that can drown the population in the near
future ? First we have the current
Malaysia-China relationship. Second we have
the army of UMNO ready for the civil war.
Third the unexpected victory of Donald
Trump. Fourth the ringgit is being hit the hardest
in relation to US dollar. Only God knows
what will happen when all boil together.
The cloud has
always been dark. The lady who is like a
witch in a fairy tale stands stolid chanting
spell and wailing curses hypnotizing those
whose eyes have been blinded and whose
hearts have been closed by God. "Catch the
witch...catch the witch..." were the chorus
of voices heard. People can no longer stand
the pinch of the rising cost after the
lifting of almost all of the subsidies. Only
if they do see what and how the money
collected from the people were heinously
applied to erase the money that went into
their pockets. "Mahathir was cruel on the
enemy....Najib is cruel on all the
people.....".
How many
billions more do the Malaysians have to
donate to the Republican's coffer after Najib
jumped from Democrat and Hillary to Trump ?
How much more do we have to pay to the
mercenaries to run the job for Najib ? How
far China is willing to go towing on
Najib's line ? But we know that China won't
want Najib to give up his post. She will
help Najib to win the next general election.
It will be Najib and Rosmah who will escape
but not the general population.
What Najib
fears most is not the rebels from the IS
group but the rebels armed by the United
States as what was happening in Syria.
Though the possibility is remote, we would
not know what the element of mystery can do.
The non-Muslims time and again mentioned the
word karma. We hear the word almost everyday
from the laments in the social media. They
pray for the retribution. Someone used the
direct words 'let they die in the plane
crash or car accidence...' It depicts the
degree of anger and hatred.
What's next,
I don't know. Anything can happen. But it
will surely taken us by surprise. It won't
be like a team of Pharoah's army drown in
the Read Sea by the will of God.
12/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
DO NOT
SHORTEN YOUR LIFE |
Should we
be thinking about men ?
If you have
known and understood about the nature of men
then it would be folly to waste our time to
care about them anymore. It will prolong
your life if you ignore them, read no more
about politics and watch no more TV's
propaganda. It is hard to find a real clean
and good hearted and God fearing man. Almost
90% of them are selfish and callous, putting
their self interest before the welfare of
the others no matter in what dress they
donned and Holly Books they hold.
Time should
be spent on doing the work that we are given
to do; a businessman looks after his
business, a teacher thinks of how to
elucidate knowledge, a retired man plan his
daily activities and try to fulfill them
before the day is over. I spend time on
computer, smart phones, reading stories,
evening exercise and thinking what and where
to eat. I talked to the cats when I fed
them. I watched soccer from my android
almost every night enjoying splendid games
shown on the screen.
The lesser
the thinking about mankind and politicians
the less worry and anger the more we can
enjoy the fulfillment out of our activities.
We can keep our blood pressure down.
Sentiments and emotions that over ruled us
can kill us. We will be susceptible to all
sort of chronic diseases if our hearts are
full of fire all the time, angry at the
despicable liars and filthy behaviors of
mankind.
We are
gregarious animals. Either we like it or not
we are living in a society and we depend on
them on many things. We need people for
food, marriage and death. We need to help
one another. True. But we have to be very
superficial in our relationship. Not to get
any deeper involvement in the affairs of the
others or be passionate enough to lend them
money when they ask you for pecuniary help.
A stranger or
a thief may not burden us with problems as
much as the politicians do. The later can
drive you crazy and physically sell you out
and even kill you. To know their schemes
will pinch your longevity away by a big
bulk. In no time you will be killed by a
heart attack. A woman, who would fall sick
during a full moon even wailed with a
shrieking voice "...why won't somebody shoot
them..." , bursting the degree of anger
towards the inhuman specie with reckless
power.
It would be
different from news and media who love to
sensationalize issues of human being. They
would make a mountain out of a mole. Many
were paid to broadcast deceits and lies.
If you think
their games you may know more than the
truth. But at the same time ill feeling will
devoured you. You spend your time thinking
how to make them evaporate and crack in
pieces. Nothing will happen. You can't sleep
well. Your health will become worse. You may
end up yourselves in hospital wards and may
die there.
I find that
many opt to think about God. They would
write about being good and the eternal world
in their Whatsapp messages one after
another. I don't read them either for I
don't need their guidance and advice to be
good and go to heaven. I just follow my
religious teaching, try to be kind to poor
people and animals. But that's one of the
ways to run away from thinking about
mankind. Others spend their times in reading
the Holly Books or the Holly Scriptures
making preparation for the next world,
praying to God Almighty to place them among
the good people in heaven. Others do morning
and evening exercise and watching drama
between them, eat and sleep.
Taking care
of our health also means we have to take
care of our food. You are what you eat. I
remember reading it somewhere.
Eating habit
is part of self-discipline. You won't
exercise it if you do not monitor your own
health. Measuring equipments are cheap to
see the blood sugar and pressure reading. We
are to see the relationship between the type
and amount of food intake and the readings
each day until we come to know which are
killing us and which are not. But by some
reasons or other people with the mean do not
want to keep the instruments and do not want
to know the state of their health. There are
diseases that we sometimes don't feel and
don't see, a hidden and silent killer.
Most of us
are not wealthy and well educated. We can't
afford to buy the numerous supplements on
the shelves. There were talks that Dr
Mahathir had been consuming a medicine that
cost him a few hundred dollars a piece and
Najib together with Rosmah go for the
anti-ageing fountain of youth that
intervened in the cell natural processes,
replacing the raw ones with the new ones. An
angry woman said, "They think they will
never die." To which I said, "ES.That's what
the anti-ageing are for." So they can
eat and eat and eat.
Not me and
some of you. You eat a lot you may become an
obese, fat and heavy to walk, too much for
insulin to breakup the sugar.
Then you
inhale poisons into your lung. You think you
are invincible as if your body is too strong
enough to fight against the heart damage. I
saw a few boys smoking a few puffs before
starting jogging. They think those puffs
injected energy into their bodies. I knew
they won't last. They will get tired quickly
and will die earlier.
Happiness is
when we don't have worry. We run away from
human's bad and mischiefvous nature. We know
for certain we are in good shape. Just try
the mantra.
11/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE KENDURI
SEASON |
We may not
have the 4 seasons of Spring, Summer,
Autumn and Winter but the Malays have their
own seasons for celebration, the season of
marriage. The season of marriage falls
during the school holidays, the longest is
the November-December vacation. It is the
joyous days for the young couples to be
legally together in bed after the dazzling
and sprinkling day wedding ceremonies. Malay
marriage is becoming very costly. The
bridegroom has to pay a dowry and present
expensive gift. The average dowry is 10K,
mostly above 15K. The festivity only would
cost between 10K to 20K. And the auspicious
day chosen will be on the public holidays.
So much so a person like may have to attend
to more than 5 festivals in a day.
During the
school holidays the members of the family
could gather. Nobody is busy with sending
and picking up their children from schools.
Kids who are at boarding schools away from
home will be together to rejoice the event.
To date I have already received four
invitation cards. When I was younger I
record the date in my laptop which would
shout at me to attend the wedding when the
day arrived. It was not one day that I had
not switched on my computer. On booting the
machine would cry a reminder loud enough
through the external microphone attached.
Since my wife
fell sick I stayed away from the machine.
Later the hard disk went kaput and installed
with a new one. Nobody reminded me of the
wedding day anymore. Sometimes I remembered
looking at the card and sometimes I forget.
Some I only looked at the day and forgetting
the months. I usually missed to attend by a
month. Then I wrote on a piece of paper and
stuck it on the door leaf. Yet there were
days I simply forget to look at the paper.
Right now I
could not find the card of the 3rd. December
marriage invitation. I have the rest at one
place and I had written on one of the cards
about this one so that I will not forget
when the time comes. I hope there will be no
distraction on the date. Friends might call
me to accompany them somewhere or urgently
need help to look at their computers, which
could make me forget of the ceremonies.
The festive
is called 'kenduri' would
start at 12 am and ended at 5 or 6 pm. In
cities and towns food is under contract. In
villages the denizens get together to
prepare the delicacies. The bride,
bridegroom and their families will be seated
at a special table and fish, lobsters and
other special dish are spread.
Imagine if
you have say 5 kenduris to attend,
how much food can you consume in each house
? I would not stay longer then 10 minutes at
each kenduri. The last is usually the
house of a good friend where I could stay
longer to have chats with friends whom I
have not met or seen for a long time.
But December
is also a month when we go for traveling. It
is a good time for a family to take the
school going children for a picnic or going
to exotic places as carved in the history of
the world. Great Wall China and Pyramid
would be among some of the attractions. This
year I will be going to Jordan on 14th of
December. I would not be attending any
wedding festival that falls during my away
dates.
Whatever the
holy matrimony is a day of splendor and
delight. Everyone puts a smiling face and
having joy and laughter. It is a happy
tradition that is still strong in this part
of the world where the institution of
marriage is still sacred and sanctified.
People still own each other and there is
love to cherish and devour.
10/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MALAY BRAIN |
Najib paid a
lot to boost his image to the world. Would
we know how much donation he had made to the
Democrat's coffer to get the favor of Obama
and Hillary ? The Malay leader is not scared
whoever won the Presidential election. All
he has to do is pat on Donald Trump's back and
donate to the Republican coffer now that
Trump is becoming the new American
President.
For a few
billions dollars there are a lot of
foreigners trying to bid for the work for
Najib, like any other mercenaries. Money is
plentiful.; raise tax, cut subsidies, get
help from China and sell national assets.
QED. To appease the Americans on the
purchasing of the Chinese navy vessels
American agents will be allowed to study
the warships, giving military advantage to
the United States. What Malaysia will be
telling Trump is different from what we told
China. And we also need to list out more
Malaysians as terrorists or IS so that the
Americans will like us better.
The Malays
are not stupid after all. They are powerful
in rhetoric and masters in maneuverability.
We have the think-tank group to do all the
thinking. We can change stealing to donation
and using BBC to broadcast to the world to
spin for us.
Malaysia is a
great land. The leaders were praised. Rosmah
had been receiving awards after awards which
the wives of other Presidents and Prime
Ministers didn't. And the First Lady is the
second runners up among the beauties of the
world.
Najib is a
Malay. Mahathir is a Pakistani in origin.
The world is witnessing who is smarter now.
The Pakistani is beaten to the ground. There
is nothing that Mahathir can do to Najib.
The prowess of the Malay brain has shown the
proof.
The plan has
long been laid out if Trump were to win the
election. Immediately after the winning the
BBC has already announced that Najib is a
golf buddy of Trump. And Trump has only one
golf buddy from the great nation of the
world, Malaysia. Malaysian leader is not a
Pariah. We have a jet akin to Airforce 1.
Najib's bodyguards exceeds the bodyguards of
American Presidents.
Hillary
Clinton is not as smart as Najib Razak. She
should have learned from Malaysia how to win
an election and how to make Democrat to
retain it's superior status perpetually in
the continent.
The Malay
brains from Pandikar Amin, Apandi, Rahman
Dahlan, Noh Omar, Keruak, Ismail Sabry and
Ku Nan are priceless. At their death the
brains should be taken out from the skulls,
preserve in the cold for the scientists to
study the structure of the cells and the
neurons to find out what made them so
intelligent and witty. It is indeed an
incredible feat to be able to make the
opposite sides of the American Presidents to
love the Malay Prime Minister.
Even China
loves Najib as much as Trump.
Amazing,
fantastic and incredible. Do not under
estimate the brain of the Malays.
10/11/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
AMATEUR
RADIO TOTAL DEPENDENCIES |
Amateur radio operators must learn to be
self dependent, not hanging
on others to do everything for him.
He has to have some basic tools at disposal
like the soldering iron and the solders,
pliers and a hammer, multimeter, a wire
cutter or a scissor to enabled him to cut a
dipole antenna, to solder the coax plugs to
the cable and to trouble shoot some simple
equipments. I would guess more than 90% are
ever ready, some even with sophisticated
apparatus.
Calling people to set up the station
including a simple dipole and overseeing
others working is uncalled for for a licensed
radio operator. At least he must learn how
to do the soldering work despite not knowing the resistor
color codes. And I hate to hear all sort of
excuses. In good health an amateur must be
independent and not to summon friends to hang up
a wire antenna for him.
If called,
I am oblige to give a helping hand but I need the
person to provide me with the tools for the
job. It is naive to say tools are kept
somewhere, repeating it for a long three three years.
And refusing to buy new ones because they
are there somewhere. I would not accept the
lame excuse. It is irritating.
"Hang it somewhere so that they are visible
to to you," I would tell the person.
My school clerk used to tell me, "They need
to help themselves. You must not do
everything for them. It is theirs not
yours." She hit the nail right on it's head. We
cannot encourage indolence to be in our
midst, wanting free stuffs, with invented excuses. And I told this man
that I would not bring my stuffs again. He
has to make sure that he has to get ready
with whatever
necessary for the job.
I don't mean to be mean or cruel. It happens
that I was a teacher. Students should not be
spoon fed. Even in Islam we say God helps
those who help themselves. The poor
attitudes will be carried until adulthood
and it can develop into lies and deceit.
Laziness is a sickness. It is worse if the
mouth speaks louder than the body, spewing bad
words on others and spreading fallacies ton
persons whom he always ask for help. Funny people seem
to appreciate lies and willing to be slaves
and deceived. They believed his lies.
Of course we cannot do the gigantic tasks by
ourselves. Putting up a tower and fixing
elements to beam antenna may need a team
work. But it does not take more than person
to erect a 20' aluminum pipe. It does not
even need a 5' concrete base. And how
difficult it is to solder a coax plug to the
cable ? I am talking of an able bodied man
with a bag full of excuses and
justifications.
There are still elderly people in the ham
radio fraternity, age over 70 who still
manage their stations by themselves, doing a
simple repair and even works on their own
towers.
I am not a strong man. Neither do I have
skill in constructions. Hence I adjust my
objective to my ability. I have to put away
my ambitious aside. I do not want to exploit
on the good hearts of other people for the
benefit of my own. People asked me, "Why
don't you call Hairie to put up your antenna
? " Did I ever answer the question ? I would
have just keep quiet. I have been putting up
my own antenna all along. I still solder
though my eyesight is extremely poor and my
hands are trembling. I buy the tools for my
job if I don't remember where I put them. I
must not have full dependency on my chums
and buddies for everything on earth.
I never judge people by the rhetoric and
what he always say. I see the deeds and the
results. I do not respect a man who
consistently repeated the same mistakes
which I would not consider it an error but
rather than the habits and the detestable
attitudes. My words may be harsh but it is
true in a civilize society. A man of vanity
must prove his dexterity and readiness, not
to cause problems to others.
One may ask what's wrong in a full
dependency on others ? A feeble man who
humbled himself, admitted of his weaknesses
is different from someone who always boast
of his greatness and know how, and even
claimed giving away antenna of his own
making to other ham operators. Would anyone
be calling a friend 400 miles away just to
put up a dipole for him ? It is an
absurdity.
09/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
DO YOU WANT
TO LIVE FOREVER ? |
Reading
English stories won't improve my English. I
should had acquire the habit at the young
age. But during children and young adults I
was a moron, hated books and schooling. All
I dream of was to be a blue collar labor and
working on a cargo ship and settled in
foreign land. What I am now is totally the
work of my fate. I developed the reading
habit at the dawn of my age when memory is
fading rapidly and senility devours my mind. Thanks
to the smart phone and the software makers
that allow me to download the E-Book that
provides me with pleasure and helps me to
kill my time.
One
interesting Japanese short story I read
yesterday was about the elixir of life, the
immortality of a person. He lives forever
and never grow older. A King who was sick
was afraid of death and refuse to die. He
was told that there was a country called
Horizone where nobody died. A paper bird was
made for him to fly to the land. After
arriving he seek for a shelter and decided
to be the denizen of Horizone. He was very
happy for several years but he noticed the people
there were not happy. Everyone wanted to
die. They drank poison. Nothing happened.
The were bored with life. After many number
of years the King too did not want to live
forever. He flew home using the paper bird
but while crossing the sea a storm came. The
paper bird got damp, crumpled and fell into
the sea. You need to read the story to know
the ending.
Reading this
it reflects our human nature. Many people
crave for perpetual life and immortality. We tend to blame Najib and
Rosmah who spent millions on the anti-ageing
potion. It worked well on Rosmah for she
does not seem to look old except for her fat
body. Najib had said he wanted to rule for
22 years more. So are the others on the
ground. Millions of dollars are spent on
skin care and other anti ageing supplements.
Women love to be young and want to stay
young.
We don't talk
of immortality, just living until 200 years old
is enough; what will be passing us within
the 200 years ? Our friends and the love
ones fall sick, sufferings from diseases and
other disabilities and later die. We the
immortals are
still strong. Then we may be looking for new
spouses who will grow older with wrinkles
and sickness before our eyes. We remainl the same. I
don't see any happiness at all when seeing
our chums and love ones are going away. What
if we have enemies and people do not like
us, throwing slur after slur on us generation after
generation. There is no meaning to life
despite our wealth and luxury.
We will live
in misery if society is unkind to us, our
children show no respect and people in
power are cruel and brought hardship on us.
We will feel bad and disturbed when our
leaders act like a devil and gangsters rule
the nation. We have two choices to make,
either to live long enough to see the change
or we leave the world and exit the present
life for the new.
If suicide is
not a sin in Islam and poisons are sold
everywhere as much as the elixir of life we
will see people will also drink poison as
many would go for the youth potion.
My life is
not miserable though living alone. I have
got almost everything a man would have
wished for. I can still move about with
great strength and dexterity and enjoy life.
No doubt life is becoming more difficult to
bear with, the increasing burden of rising
cost, I won't suffer the economic woe
forever. My days are numbered. I don't think
I will live till 80. While still breathing I
have to keep myself fit by daily exercise
and consuming vitamins. Last night while on
the state road from Perlis to my hometown I
drove 100 km/h in the darkness of the road.
What it means is I could have been killed.
But it was not my intend to commit suicide.
It is a matter of taking risk of between
living or death.
When I was a
small kid, I remember reading a religious
book (kitab) kept by my mother about the end
of time, where people can resurrect the dead
from the grave, clonning
human being and giving mankind whatever they
want to have as long as they accept the Dajal or an
anti-Christ as their god. Is it today the
nearing of the end of time ? Genes and cells
can be controlled by human intervention
using drugs to allow the new cells to
replace the old ones, almost akin to
overhauling an old engine of a car or other
vehicles.
Cash is King.
It is cash that can buy the elixir of life.
All eyes are focusing on Rosmah before they
die and leaving the First Lady forever
young. I don't want to live forever. Do you
?
08/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
BE ON
YOUR OWN |
My 20 foot aluminum pipe carrying a 2 meter
slim Jim shafted into 3 foot iron pipe broke
by the strong wind. The iron pipe was full
of water. I should have a hole at the bottom
to drain the water out when it rains. The
rust is too bad. The aluminum rod does not
rust but somehow the part within the iron
pipe seemed to weaken and it broke at the
end point of the pipe. The slim Jim hit the
TV antenna. I left it there for several
days.
It has been raining cats and dogs. Sunshine
was short. Dark clouds covers the sky as
early as the sunrise. At time the days
became dark starting from noon. Only two
days ago I climbed the car porch top using a
ladder, spread the two meter antenna from
the TV's and hoisted up the mast, leaned the
bottom against the pipe and tied it with the
nylon rope. It is standing so prestigiously
again but with a reduced height, more than
ample to trigger the repeaters 60 miles
away.
I don't like to seek help to erect an
antenna. All along, from the day I began as
a ham I cut wires to make a dipole, and hung
it to either a bamboo mast or an aluminum
pipe. Bamboo had been my favorite for more
than 40 years. It always give me a very
great efficiency as compared to the metal
mast. The setup has always been simple and I
did not require any extra hands to make it
possible.
Though I prefer a simple homebrewed I also
bought one G5RV during my visit to Dayton
Hamvention in Ohio a long many years ago. It
is half-size which I heard people called it
G5RV junior. After being strike by a
lightning, I replaced the old dipole with
the purchased one. The new one is still up
there till now. And I don't have any
ambition to enhance my radio station to a
high class majestic station. It is my life
to be simple and lowly, and mediocrity will
be my optimum standard.
Somehow like me, the coaxial cable is
ageing. Weathering could have the while
plastic insulator brittle and had broken into
pieces on
the inside unknown and unseen to me. I need
to buy a new one. But the price has gone way
up by more than 100%. I keep on postponing
until today. May be I have not been so
regular anymore on the band. I dislodged
myself from sending QSL card which I used a
software to have them printed from my
logbook. I didn't want to work DX stations
for fear they might asked for the card.
Only three days ago, to my surprise I
receive a card from YB3DIK with a self
address enveloped with stamps transfix on
it. I could not ignore it. I hunted for my
misplaced cards as I don't remember
where I put them anymore.
Finally I found it but my printer isn't
working anymore. I also made a badge pin with my
image, printed the date of our QSO and
his call sign, and accompanied by my QSL card
written by ordinary ball point pen as to
confirm our contact. I hope it will reach
him soon. The next time I worked a DX
station on any band I have to mention that I
do not QSL anymore.
For a DIY man homebrewing and constructing
is his cup of coffee. For a man like me it
takes an urge to drive me to do thing, out
of
necessity, required a strong push to act or otherwise
things won't move. I used to cut aluminum
sheet, drilled holes and molded into a box for
an amplifier and a transmitter. Those
machines were at my work place where I taught. I really forgot to make an
electronic keys then.
Today, my sight deteriorates and my hands
trembles. Yet I struggled to do the
soldering. I usually took the PC board to a
shop, bought the replacement components and asked
the shop to solder for me. They did not know
what the project was. I just told them
to place the components on the various parts
and to solder them.
Sweeping the floor, ironing dresses and
arranging messy house need a mood. But the
floor always drive me to fetch a broom as my
feet collect dust. If I
am out of T-Shirt to wear I would iron one
for my use. When my mood blooms I would iron
everything that I have washed, sometimes 10
to 15 T-Shirts were ironed at one go.
Finally the arrangement of items to make
they look neat were done a little a day. It
may take a week before things look tidy.
I did employ maids to do the inside and
outside cleaning from time to time. But I am
not happy with them as I found things
missing. They were not called for nearly 3
months now. I keep on thinking what to say
to them about the things found missing. But
I must.
There is something that I have done to
myself for a number of years. I crop my own
hair without using mirror but the
sensitivity of my hands and fingers. Surely they have
been pretty messy or otherwise the custom
officer at KLIA2 did not say my hair looked
like a Japanese, and yesterday the Mamak at
Majeed Restaurant wouldn't have commented
that my hair looked nice. If you ask me the
price for dressing a head, I would have
admitted that I do not know. It was my late
wife who started working on my head, since
1980's. When she was sick after year 2000 I
took over the job, working on my own hair. Try to add together the
hair cropping, the ASTRO, and the newspaper
cost, how much have I had saved. And I don't
smoke either.
With Najib's fiscal policy the burden is
climbing fast and heavy to bear. In spite of
the increase of cooking oil and gas
by leap and bound I am heavily concentrating
of doing my own cooking. I have to start
thinking where to keep the fish and
vegetables and the easiest delicacies to
cook. Mahathir was cruel but Najib is worst
than any living specie I can ever think of.
Animals have passions towards their kinds
and other human specie, but these few human
are despicable beyond God's creation. They
have no pity, no remorse and no shame. He
hit us extremely hard.
You have to learn to be on your own in order
to survive.
07/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
SOCCER -
WHERE IS OUR PRIDE ? |
Sports is not
merely an entertainment. It is also a
nationalism. It is not strange to promote
friendship with the nationalistic feeling
and sentiment. Once the Soviet Union and
other Communist countries regarded the
winning and championship as the success of
socialism over capitalism, as a mean to
depict the strength of Central Planning. The
dominance is a symbol of power and progress,
the greatness of a nation and a race.
Beside
Olympics soccer is celebrated as one of the
prestigious events of the world. It
generates economic activities. Crowds throw
up their money for seats, food and
beverages, for T-Shirts and other souvenirs,
and for transportations. When they wanted to
introduce soccer league in the United States
economy was the reason given to push the
program on, putting as the same level with
American Football and the Baseball.
People love
to see the display of skills and the
teamwork.
In Malaysia
soccer had been there for a long time. There
were local club leagues organized by
interested individuals and at the national
level there was a Malaya cup. Most state
players were from the clubs. Most of them
were working people; school teachers, clerk,
businessman, police and from all walks of
life. The departments cooperated with the
state football organization by allowing the
players to go for training and attending the
matches. Almost everyone was financing
themselves. And most of the players were
local born or reside in the state. A state
team is a pure state team with native
players. Prison was the only non-state team
entering the Malaya Cup later on where
players came from all over.
In those days
it was almost impossible for Kedah to beat
Penang and Perak. Kedah had been beaten game
after game for many years. But there was one
day when the inferior state broke the
barrier. The thick and strong wall was
broken, I don't remember the exact date
of the first victory. Since then Kedah had
lifted itself from the pariah status ever.
The real
glory of winning shambled when professional
soccer was introduced. It became freak as
states began to use players from other
states. What if 8 out of 11 players are not
native denizen. Even 6 out of 11 is
disgraceful enough. Yet the state has the
audacity to claim of it's vivacity and
acuteness of managing the team. It is just
like hiring mercenaries in a war. It is
nothing to record in history of the pride of
winning a battle. When JDT claimed to be the
most efficient and well manage team as they
snatched several championships, others asked
JDT how many of the players are the native
Johorian, 7 out of 11 ?
Allowing
foreign import is to add entertainment to
soccer game. People love to watch the skill
of these players and they made soccer
interesting to watch. Minus these imports,
we expect the rest to be from the local
people. Winning a championship then is a
lustrous and sparkling success boosting the
pride to the apex of the world. This is
where the real pride lies. The sentiment of
nationalism is fiery blending itself with
the joy of entertaining soccer.
I have never
been happy to watch players hired from other
states in my home team. We neglect our own
boys by not molding them into a great and
skilled player with a strong discipline and
full of commitment. During the days when
Kedah was the underdog to Penang and Perak,
crowds did not stop going to give support
because Kedah played very well. The
spectators believed that one day the
opponents would be beaten. They were never
wrong.
Have we done
enough to scout the local talents,
encouraging tournaments in every district
and enlist the best ones into the state team
?
To the crazy
and fanatic fans all they care is winning.
The composition of the team is unimportant.
06/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
SMART WATCH
TO ENJOY WITH
When
I was in Tokyo last October 2016 I
noticed some beautiful watches with
beautiful and sprinkling display on their
faces. I stopped admiring the beauty for
some minutes, with my heart pounding urging
me to buy it. I told Rusli about it. Rusli
said that it wasn't a normal one, but need
to be used together with a smart phone.
Pairing a watch to a phone does not interest
me. I want an independent watch with less
hassle on charging the battery,
Only recently I decided to know more about
it. I just simply googled it down using the
words Smart Watch. There were numerous
literature about it.
Basically smart watch contains WIFI and GPS
enabling it to be used as a smart phone
depending on the internal software inserted
into the chip. Without the internet
connection it picks up satellite's signal to
ensure of the clock accuracy. I do not know
how the GPS map works. If signal can be
received I am sure it can also send a
signal. Soon enough it can be used as a
world wide communication network by itself
without depending on the smart phone and the
wifi. In five years time it will be very
cheap as the calculators. We remember once
calculators cost us near to hundreds of
dollars but now available at below ten.
Visiting the phone shops in town I hardly
found any watch on display. I was showed a
voucher when I asked about it. One vendor
showed me a China made RM84 watch without
the GPS and the software was limited. It was
ugly unlike the ones I saw in Tokyo. I
regret that I didn't ask more about the
capability from the salesman then.
In the meantime I just jot it down in the
list of my dream.
05/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
MAJID FREE
MEAL |
This miser
guy shocked me today. He is the one of the
two sons of Majid Nasi Tomato left to manage
the restaurant while Majid is taking a long
siesta back home in India. Majid is about my
age, schooled in St Michael Alor Setar and
went back to India for a spouse. He trained
Mansoor, his son, to cook. His other son is
a stingy cashier who would not less me even
a single cent when I didn't have enough
small change to pay.
As usual, I
would rush to the shop for my lunch after
Friday prayer. I
enjoyed White rice and the spicy beef curry.
By 2 pm almost everything would be sold out.
They cooked some White rice for themselves
and for a few late customers. Today nothing
was left on the counter. "White rice," I
shouted as I walked in. "Finish.....but
wait, we have some for you...we still have
the beef for you,"Masoor said.
After
finishing I was prepared to pay. The miser
brother said, "FREE." I looked at him in
disbelief. He raised his two hands and said,
"Amen"
Majid
restaurant is located at almost an invisible place
at one corner of the old town. It is not
along the main road. There are no houses
nearby except for a few commercial
buildings, no bus to take us there. Yet every morning customers
flocked in and queued for the delicacies. They
have beef, mutton, fish and chickens. I
would consider the food is very pricey. I
saw people paying RM20 - RM50 for a meal,
probably for more than one person. My rice
plus fish cost me RM5.50 and rice plus beef
is RM4.50. To me it is reasonable as I was
never charged for the warm water and a few
pieces of cucumber. Else where I have to pay
for my drinks.
I don't know
why the brother gave me the free lunch.
Sometimes I
had my late lunch at KFC. My favorite is
wedges, slices of potatoes the size of our
fingers, soaked in oils to cook. It costs me
RM7.20. The reason why I consume this type
of food is it does seem to shoot up my blood
sugar level. These few days the girls gave
me a free meal though I insisted on paying
for them. That could surprise other
customers behind and beside me. I know the
reason why I got the free meal. I did not
charge them for the keychains I gave them.
It was a bit taxing but I didn't have the
heart of taking money from them. I had the
intent of charging them RM3 a piece to cover
the material cost.
At times I
pondered about life and death trying to
understanding the happenings and the
mystery. God makes things work in mysterious
ways, giving us providence and sustenance in
the form unexpected and undreamed of. It is
not just about the food. It is also about
our health and mental state. We can have
billions of dollars with a poor mental
state, mental delirium, fearful of the
unknown, about being shot, kidnapped and
murdered.
I cannot do
good things everyday. I only have cats to
feed on. Cats staying at my neighbor's house
would rush to my house when they saw I came
home with my car. Najib charged GST for the
animal's food as well. Prices had gone
double and tripple. I bought the local packaging from
Giant costing me RM14.60 per bag. It would
last me 5 days. Cat's prayer was heard. For
a miser not to charge me the RM4.50 meal is
something incredible though the amount is
small.
05/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
LIES AND
DECEPTIONS CONTINUE |
I stopped
watching the national TV for more than 10
years except for the soccer games. And I
quit buying newspapers as well at almost the
same time. Thanks to the new smart phone
technology that keeps me occupied with
entertainment and news. But the internet is
expensive by a pensioner's standard. I have
to bear with it. The money for the newspaper
and the ASTRO could offset the internet fee.
I hate to
hear and read lies. Everyone can tell lies,
either the main stream or the alternative
media. I just need to match statements
to reality to trace the fallacy. One says
our economy is the best among the rest of
the previous administration. And at another
time he blamed the opposition for the
deteriorating economy.
I am not the
one who would side Mahathir against Najib. I
look at the issue in hand; the price tags of
everything in the shelves, what are sold and
from which countries. There are many
products which formerly manufactured here
are now made in Thailand. European goods are
replaced with the Chinese. It is hard to
find durable goods and other home tools
nowadays. The taxes and quit rents keep on
climbing. People are losing jobs. These are
facts.
The internet
keeps me occupied with free soccer software
from Emirate, jokes and comedies from the
Youtube, movies from all countries and
wireless chatting with friends. Lately I
read stories from the free e-book. Imagine a
life without this small gadget. You would
have to glue your eyes to the one eyed
monster. Or going out with friends for the
eyeballing. Or going fishing. You won't do
fishing at night, would you ? Now with the
little company you can enjoy life, taking
your mind away from the misery brought by
the evil politicians.
I have four
laptops, old ones with almost broken
displays. Two run on Windows XP and one
Macbook colonized by minute ants that failed
the keyboard. One other is a slow Intel
Celeron wrapped in the notebook's casing,
running on Windows 10. The Macbook is for
downloading movies. The Aspire 4720Z without
anti-virus is for writing blog as this one,
and another Acer is not connected to the
internet used to process pin badge and
developing computer software. I don't follow
the progress of the technology. I sense they
are trapping you to depend totally on them
and they will start to squeeze you for
pittance. They serve my purpose and they
have serve me very well for many good years.
At least I can avoid hearing lies when
working on these machines. They are
wonderful.
Probably
there are many more people who are staying
away from the newspapers. Utusan Malaysia is
almost on the verge of bankruptcy as less
people are buying it. I can't say about the
New Straits Times and the Stars. Many Malays
think Sinar Harian belongs to PAS when it
belongs personally to Najib. These are the
propaganda machines that suck. They are
destroying the Malays and the nation. They
are responsible for the worsening of the
social and economic instability. They do not
foresee the future of the Malays by being
the mouthpiece of an irresponsible
individual. But in actions and demeanors
they start to blame the others for losing
their strength as days gone by.
To say the
Malays are dumb, ignorance, short sighted, stupid and arrogance
would drive them to untold anger, fury and
madness. Leaving them to do what they wish,
they are killing their own race slowly and
unknowingly. It has been more than a year
Najib is running around thinking he could
put things in order again. He jumped
worldwide trying to woo investors. When the
economy plunged he tries to offset by
stupidly enhance local taxes, take away
subsidies, selling Malay land to developers.
He used the media to lie and lie, deceiving
the populace of the greatness of Malaysian
economy under Najib Razak.
With money
Najib penetrates all media including the
internet. Nearing the election time you will
see him first as you click the YouTube
video. He will appear to the popular pages
that you do not call for. It is very
irritating indeed. If I could I would not
want to subscribe to the internet anymore.
But it is something that I could not do. My
mind would be half dead without it.
I don't have
many more years to live. I don't know
whether the time will come when I will start
to buy the newspapers and watching the TV
again. All I can see is there may be civil
war after I die. There will be hunters and
the hunted. The fugitive running to foreign
land will be tracked even down under the
grave yard. Bodies will be mutilated, their
hearts will be bitten and their asses
sodomized as shown by the history of
mankind. Vengeance is cruel and savage. But
that was the picture in China after the
peasant Revolution, in the
Cambodia-Vietnam's border, in Iraq and
Libya. The Jews hunted the Nazis to the
hidden jungles of South America.
Let us pray
to God that Najib would repent, and hands
the post to a new leader. And the nation can
start to work together again to repair the
monumental damage Najib has done.
03/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
WE HURT
PEOPLE, WE FORGET |
Funny. Not only refusing to give 20 minutes
of her time sending me to the station after
a 20K loan, she also did not reply to my
messages and phone calls. Formerly we used
to chat every other day and her whole family
would ask me for breakfast with them. I took
obligations to feed her fish, picked up her
son from school and tuition classes when she
was away and went for vacation. Her husband
was also my student, a Class A contractor
and a strong man of UMNO. We used to have a
friendly engagement about UMNO's policy of
taking away the farm land for property
development.
I was damn angry and furious when she
refused to help me. I locked her off my
phone for more than a month but I later
realized that would be too harsh. Yesterday
I rang her up because I wanted to take her
son to dinner. Sometimes I needed a company,
someone to talk to or hear stories from
others. She never replied. I sent a message.
She also did not reply. She has been very
moody on and off. As a result I told myself
that I would not want to help her anymore. I
know a retired old man like is as good as
dead and useless. What help can I have to
offer ?
Today I read in the Whatsapp message that
she needs money to pay her staffs salaries.
It is a bad day for her because I don't have
anymore cash. She has a husband to ask. I
messaged back, "I have just paid for my
Jordan's trip and the trip will be soon. I
also need the money to bring with me. How
much do you need anyway ? " She never
response.
I have sworn that I will not lend people
money anymore. No pity. No sympathy. I have
read too much about human being and their
nature. And with this one, it keeps me
wondering her total character. Didn't she
forgot how she treat me ? I have decided not
to call for her help for my trip to Jordan.
I will drive and leave my junk car at the
airport. I am not going to buy any souvenir
to anybody including her kids.
I gather she must be confused or selfish or
callous enough only to think of herself and
not the welfare and the feeling of the
others.
I don't have any political affiliation. I am
not a businessman. I have a small income
from my pension and a small saving in the
ASB. I just don't waste unnecessarily. I
switch off unused light and stopped my
air-condition when the bill shot up over
RM200. I used a small car. I don't have
extra income.
I just wish her all the luck. Her husband
with the million ringgit project which he
won could have finance her business. When
they were wealthy they guarded their wealth
and hid them from close friends as though
others were greedy enough to siphon cash
from them. I don't remember asking anybody
for a dollar when I really went broke. I
would starve for the day. And I would still
pay for their dinner even if it drains my
purse. They said it was an Arab hospitality
on their guests where meals are concerned.
I said funny because people still have the
audacity to ask help from someone who they
once neglected and dispel, and from those
lenders whom the loans were not honored.
They thought their sins were forgotten and
forgiven. The impact could be so hurt
leaving a deep scar in their victims. Let
they wriggle themselves through. I better
escape myself from any further pain. Enough
is enough.
02/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
A
DANGEROUS GAME |
Among Najib's opponents only a few I
perceive to be sharp and smart. They are
Rafizi, Tony Pua and Shafiee Afdal. I could
not point the non-vocal individuals who are
as smart as those people. Alternative media
like Malaysia-Chronical and Malaysiakini may
strong enough with their rebuttals but I
sensed they fail to see a few of the hidden
plans and intentions. They forget that Najib
is having huge resources in his palms,;
manpower, money and law.
His opponents is trying to establish his
motive for inclination towards China. One
went to the extend of accusing Najib of
blackmailing USA not to take action on his
son in law or otherwise he would buy the
military hardware from China and at the same
time opening almost free access to the
Chinese traders to run, expand and construct
transportation and other infrastructure in
the country. They said that Malaya will be a
province of China.
Would the United States be mad with Najib
for buying warships or submarines from China
? What you may know is that it is the United
States that provide the money for the
purchase. They want to know the Chinese
hardware technology. Once bought the United
States will be theoretically strip every
inch of the Chinese arsenal. This is where
Najib's opponents have not been thinking.
It is not wrong to guess that China is thinking
about 1Mdb too, seeing the way how she could
resolve the woe. But nothing is for
free, except like the big donation from the
Saudi Royal family to Najib, incredibly so
very generous so much so about being
bombed by the rebel. The Chinese is not
buffalo that you can pull by the nose. They
will kowtow to Najib to reap the maximum
benefit.
I have been thinking whether China is stupid
enough to reveal her security by selling the
most advance military hardware to Malaysia.
The French sold us the refurbish sub-marine.
USA had sold us the rejected warplanes from
it's desert. Our military is so very close
to CIA and I am sure we were given enough
advice on the purchase.
Najib is very desperate as the Western
investors are shying away from Malaysia
except for the existing fast food and
communication companies which have been
forking billions to be sent home. Have we
not lock ourselves from producing our own
medicines by the TPPA? We asked them to buy
our palm oil when the consumers were told it
could cause cancer. Now we are begging China
to buy more of the oil.
Najib is not deliberately making USA angry
with him. He has his own game like a man
with two wives whispering his love to both
of them. Interestingly enough Malaysia will
be a place full of spies playing games
counterespionage against each other.
Pentagon will be more intense in observing
Malaysia and the game Najib plays. It will
decides whether Najib should go or not, not
the President.
China invites Najib and his family and she
wants to hear words from the Malaysian Prime
Minister. Then she has ears and eyes in
Malaysia to validate his words. It is also
likely the Chinese would be offering a
sanctuary to his family in case of the
change in government. Whatever
Malaysia will be an interesting country to
deal with. Malaysian ministers are depicting
themselves as great jesters of the world
without an iota of shame. The whole world is
enjoying the show.
Though the local alternative media is saying
Najib is warning the United States, I do not
believe so. He thinks he is trying to
appease both nations by his usual gifts and
donations. He also think he can get all the
local Chinese to support him by his China's
love affair. Mahathir did the same when he
was the Prime Minister, making a visit to
China before the election. Can this offset
the rude behavior of UMNO's thugs and
gangsters on their anti-Chinese war ?
Malaysia could be a pawn in getting the
Chinese technology on the war machines by
USA. If it is it would put the Chinese in a
great lividity and outrage. The outcome is
left to conjecture. In the meantime the
maritime cold war is heating up with US
carrier parking just off the coast of
Kelantan and Trengganu overseeing the
Chinese activities in the Souuth China Sea.
02/11/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
SWEET AND
SOUR OF MALAYSIA CUP FINAL |
Thousands
of fans traveled hundreds of miles to watch
the final of the Malaysia Cup match. I
watched the game at home. Dinner was early
so as not to upset my stomach when the game
is on. I came back at about 9 pm before the
game started.
While others
predicted that Kedah would win by the margin
of 2 - 0, I had no confidence at all but
with full of hope we would somehow overcome
Selangor. I knew Selangor has always been
speedy especially the smallest player from
Indonesia, Andik. But I might as well keep
my fingers cross.
What I know
is not known by the tenth thousands of the
fanatic fans. I was surprise to see the
lineup as one of the players whom I would
not want to be in the Kedah team was there
in the field. He is a heavy smoker. Now, I
remember seeing him in several games, more
than 80% would passed back the ball backward
as soon as someone passed the ball to him.
When I was in the stadium I would shout at
the coach to replace him. I don't know his
name.
Selangor
didn't seem to underestimate Kedah. They
were instructed to mark Liridon, Thiago and
Shane closely by several persons. Selangor
players would do anything to bring these
players down to the ground. The tackle was
hard. Shazwan broke his arm. They moved fast
and were within a short distant from Kedah
players.
Rizal broke
the silence when his distant volley passed
over the head of Selangor goalkeeper and
went into the net. That was after half-time.
A few minutes later Selangor equalized owing
to the defense mistake.
The smoker, I
mentioned didn't perform at all. He seldom
get the ball. Once or twice he passed
backward as his usual habit.
The game
lingered till more than 92 minutes with 1 -
1.
There was a
penalty kicked. I switched off my TV. I
believed if it was a penalty kick decision,
it would be Selangor's game. Earlier on for
the first 20 minutes my heart rate beat
faster than usual and returned to normal at
half-time. It remained so until the 92nd
minutes.
Minutes later
a former school clerk messaged me 'TOMORROW
IS A HOLIDAY' . Then a girl from KFC
messaged me 'We won'. Only this morning I
watch the penalty kick posted on the
Facebook. Surprisingly the player whom I
don't like because of his poor health habit
took the kick. He failed to score. I could
forgive the rest but not this guy.
I don't mean
to be mean. But there is something that we
must not allow in a sportsman. Fans spent a
lot of money, having faith in the team, took
a risky trip to provide support. A winning
does not end everything. Soccer has a long
way to go, longer than our longevity.
Malaysia need a discipline and a high class
player.
Remember,
Rizal caused the winning but he was not the
only one in the field. Credits have to be
given to all those who worked very hard.
Three of the players from Kedah were
seriously injured. Sorry Selangor, you lose
the game because God decides to give the win
to the team which you have wrested them to
the ground with the dirty tricks you can
think off.
31/10/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
CAN'T COPE
WITH THE DEMAND |
I made a mistake. I always wore a badge pin
displaying my picture on my T-Shirt. Only
one day a girl at the KFC asked me about the
pin. She wanted a piece of her image and
wanted to pay for it. She took my phone
number. The rest of the girls and boys were
not interested.
When I reached home the girl sent me
three pictures; her husband, her kid and
hers. The next day I went to have the
pictures printed using a laser print
together with our Jordan trip pins to
replaced the previous ones with a date
error. After working on the pin I went to
the restaurant and threw the pieces to the
lady. I walked away when she asked me for
the price. I was in a hurry for my evening
exercise to see her excitement.
When I returned home I saw more photos on
the Whatsapp, all of them need two pieces of
keychains each. I don't have much materials
left and it would be too costly to give away
free as the material itself is expensive. I
know everyone hopes to get them for free
after noticing this lady whose nick name is
Bella waving to the rest with what she gets.
Otherwise I would not have got the extra
request. Probably out of courtesy they would
be asking me 'how much ?'
I just love and enjoy making the pins. I
like the end product. If I can I want to
give free to everybody. I have given away
more than RM250.00 of pins. And I tried to
force myself to stop. Surely it would be
easier if I don't have them anymore.
The pins are almost finished. I am afraid
other staffs might be asking me for more. I
don't like to disappoint people. I said I
made a mistake because I was trying to show
off and bragged that I made them by myself
and told them I used to give away FOC to the
soccer fans.
Now I feel I can't cope with the demand.
30/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
EVEN BASIC
KNOWLEDGE IS UNTENABLE |
Ham friends
are using electronic jargons that I don't
understand. They showed me the measuring
equipments I don't have and I have never
seen. I am very amazed by their acuteness.
Instead of knowing the advance and the
state-of -art technology I am still
struggling to understand the basic electronic
circuits and how it works. Why the
components are placed as they are and how
each of the cthem reacts to a certain
action.
Surely the
diagram below is considered primitive bt
some people as
compared to the know-how on satellite
technology. We would expect a person who is
very well verse in the world's best antenna
system, the triple conversion of the radio
design would be able to explain the circuit
as shown below. Doesn't it look so simple
and less complicated ?
I would want
to know what are those components and why
they are placed there, where the current
starts and where it goes to and why it is so
arrange in that structure. Why the R1 and R2
resistors, why the RFC at both of the grids.
What are these grids called and what do they
do ? Why the capacitors C6 and C10 are
grounded after the grid etc. etc. Do we see
C1 is paired with L2 and C2 with L3 ? Why
are they paired ? Why coils are used and how
do they function ? Why capacitors are used
and how they are different from the coilds ?
When I am too
busy trying to figure out the circuit
behavior I do not have time to think about
the more advance nature of things.
I always
think the understanding and the building up
of oscillators are important. One should be
able to design an oscillator without
referring to text books. What if one goes to
a place where transmitters are not found but
only components and wires are available and
the place is strike by calamities, wouldn't
an oscillator be able to help one to send
out an SOS ? A SWL was experimenting with a
single transistor oscillator sending a
message from his home about 4 miles away
could easily be copied by me. Surely a
single tube oscillator could be much more
powerful than the minute component.
For God's
sake let us not preach the wrong things to
the new people. Poor readability is signal
due to the band condition is different from
the QRM and QRN caused by other digital
communications. Even without those
disturbances signals will still be poor with
bad condition. Or one does not need to use
PTT on HF because HF is not using a
repeater. I usually restrained myself not to
point out the concealed errors so as not to
make him feel humiliated either in front of
the crowds or me.
However
new technology today is amazing. I love to
repeat stories on how I could send pictures
and talked to people back home in Malaysia
from Balkan and Spain whole moving on a bus,
and the most recent visit by Rohizat to
Australia sending me reports at sea while
watching whales. Do we need all the ham
gears, the SSTV and sending images on HF
when we are away from home and in foreign
countries ? In fact we are now waiting for the google satellite to
open it's door for the two way communication
using a smart watch, and mind you watches of
today need no rechargeable for a long number
of years. They don't need towers and the
long messy cables.
What's on the
high-tech is not for me to pursue. It is too
minute and moving too fast. They are to be
bought, used and thrown. New gadgets would
take over and some toys are
interestingly strange and fantastic. What we may
lament is they are not free like the ham
radio. The internet cost is expensive. I am
paying more than all the utilities combined.
Nevertheless radio operators spent more time
on the internet rather than the radio
chat.
But the old
technology is not totally dead. We still
have time to grasp the concept and have fun
in constructing and designing the basic
vacuum tube amplifier, imagining a bias,
computing the ohm law to control the voltage
drop and the amount of flow of current
through the circuit. We can still stare at
the schematic trying to trace and understand
the balance modulator and the LC units.
The old radio
technology spread the circuitry of the basic
which is deemed too primitive to most
people. Even this lowly primitive knowledge
is beyond my grasp. How could I understand
the sky if I can't even understand what's
beneath my feet.
2910/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
WHEN THERE IS
A NATURAL DISASTER |
Calamities can happen at a national level or
at a regional level. What usually happened
were at regional level. A Tsunami did not
wash the whole country as the earth quake or
a typhoon. Only the affected area were
paralyzed, where people were hurt or killed,
foods were destroyed and communication
networks came to standstill, for the
machines were destroyed, electricity cut,
towers were razed to the ground. At the
initial stage messages of mishaps could be
communicated. They halted when there were
electrical failure or the networking towers
and system broke down.
It is the rescue missions that have to come
first. The military and special rescue
forces forces that need to be sent to ensure
there will be no lootings and robbery and
even killings. take place. This is the time
when the enemies take the opportunity to
avenge, like the Yellow Shirt would go
hunting for the Red Shirt leaders to put
them away for good. We would notice that
there will be yellow lines put around the
disaster area, to bar the member of the
public from encroaching into the area to
cause mischief. Volunteers have to be
registered and have to follow the stipulated
regulations.
They can't act on their own, for the same
reason.
The search and rescue may need a
communication equipment, from the mobile
phone to a transceiver. All rescue teams are
equipped with their own communication
equipments. They communicate among
themselves or with their HQs to send
reports. The pertinent question follows is
how long the battery will last ? It all
depend on the area they have to cover and
how long they will be moving without
returning to the base. If there are 5
personnel each carrying a radio, only one
man needs to have his radio on. But in
several calamities the land is distantly
separated from the safe area. Or the flood
water takes several days to recede, battery
life is an urgent factor. With the
state-of-the-art technology there is already
a perpetual battery life. A few still need a
solar charging and the rest needs no
charging. Bloom technology is one of them.
To surmise, manpower, security and
communication capability is utmost
important. Don't we have enough manpower in
Malaysia to combat regional disaster ?
Don't we have a system to ensure there won't
be theft and robberies to deal with the
possible crimes ? Don't the police and the JPAM have enough communication equipments ?
We have to understand that there are
perpetrators ready to swallow their victims
during flooding or the earthquake. They
would swarm in a group to do lootings and
other mischief. It
was reported of the missing items during the
flooding in many areas before. Hence the
enforcement of the security must be tight.
There was a ham operator who made an illegal
extension of his house, when caught
submitted the house extension was for
natural disaster. He said that he was one of
the
important men in the rescue mission. How was
the extension of the house has to do with calamities ?
And the ham operators set up their stations
at RTM for the same reasons as if all other
departments did not do their work and only
the ham operators could. People can seize
the opportunity for benefit or to gain
publicity.
EXTEND RADIO EQUIPMENTS TO THE VILLAGERS
-
During the last flood in Kelantan there were
people at the remote places did not get the
help. Nobody reached their places. Why ?
Because they did not have telecommunication
facilities. We should be concerned of the
citizens in remote places and think how they
could call for help when disaster strike.
Wouldn't it be wise to supply them with
communication equipments and to educate them
on how to get free electricity ? During
the peace time denizen from each region
could be brought for basic technical course
on the related subjects.
Today's hams are individuals with wide
experience in many fields. There are PHDs
and university professors, technical
teachers and instructors skilled in handling
machines, capable of designing a system to
get a generator going and enough knowledge
on wind turbine or solar energy.
These people will call for help not only
during calamities but also on any other
emergency cases.
LEARN HOW TO SAVE ONESELF
-
Try to imagine that one day you wake up to
find your house if full of water, climbing
higher and higher to your roof top. What
would you do if you are a ham ? Are you
emergency ready today and now ? Then try to
reflect what sort of survival kits you
need in case of such a disaster.
Hams must be taught how to save themselves
first before on others.
SHALL HAM EQUIPMENTS BE MADE AVAILABLE TO
ALL ?
-
Hams are not supermen. When they think they
are, they tend to be nosy and push themselves
forward as if they are the most capable in
rescuing work. They try to convince the
politicians of their absolute strength. But
then RELA too is licensed with the communication
equipments . They too are the vital part
of the extended manpower.
Non-licensed operators whom we called
pirates time and again questioned whether
they could use their communication tools
when helps were at stake. Would we dispute
over the right to transmit to save lives ?
We cannot just ignore the question as we
have been doing, and everyone must address
this issue seriously. The discussions and
the decisions must be well documented and
kept. Remember a ham is not ubiquitous. So
are the members of other agencies.
Random help should not be dismissed.
We have to be clear in drawing a line
between a manpower and a communication
equipment. As for manpower anybody can be
called to join the SAR mission. But what gives
strength to a ham operator is a radio. And
what gives strength to the radio is the
power supply.
"Hey, we have radios here and we can serve
in the SAR," the hams says. But why not let
all other young able bodied citizens get
access to the equipments as well. Wouldn't they
be handy too ? If we think of saving lives
then we should not erect a 40 foot wall to
stop them from saving people.
CHANNEL UTILIZATION
- Channels for SAR has to be set as to what
frequency and functions as to avoid
duplication and conflicting of information. During the last
MH370 mishaps, there was a ham who reported the
finding of the plane's tail
part was found in Langkawi and words spread.
This is not a fun game or
about a missing cat. Facts must be
established,
authenticated and validated. If a debris was
suspected, nothing is established yet. It
had to be examined by an authority. After positively confirmed
then a proper procedure had to be invoked to
convey the message to the central office
through the set channel. The relevant
authority decides whether the news could be
released.
Ham bands were not suppose to announce
anything other than assisting the authority
in the required nature.
AWARENESS - It is not wrong for
the ham operators or any other organized
masses to form themselves into a backup unit
of SAR. The members should learn how other
nations deal with similar situation. In
Indonesia ORARI was called in to assist in
the Ache's Tsunami. It had a systematic way
of sending and receiving information, the
filing system to file up documents of every
corresponding of messages, name of the operator
must be told, time and date recorded and the
contents of the messages. They should also
study the roles of ham operators in Japan
Tsunami.
They must also be made aware of the possible
crimes that will rage the affected areas
like looting and robberies. They have to
make sure none of the members would resort
to the dubious crimes and discuss in detail
of the necessary steps to avoid tfelonies.
They need to know the portability of
equipments and how to save power supplies,
the use of QRP and how to transmit
effectively with the lowest power.
THE ROLE OF SENTIMENTS - Sentiments
seem to cloud Malaysian amateur radio over
reasons. It has been a battlefield between
the old and new hams, between groups of
operators. Arguments could spark not from
the substance point of view but from who
said it. It has been a platform to exert
vanity, who is smart and who is stupid, who
fit to lead. People are showing strength
through political or royal affiliation.
We used to have a Mantra book to consult and
all abide by the guidance. We accepted it as
a normal practice. The book spell almost
everything for the hams. There was a unity
of ideas and SOP. Reason and fact ruled over
the sentiments. We still fail to see the
role of the Rescue units and the role of
radio authority. It should not be a tug of
war to perpetuate power but to promote
cooperation and mutual understanding.
People just love to be at the apex by
pounding their greatness, the show their
unchallenged prowess, waving their
contributions and membership strength, leap
forward to parade their ego.
My favorite phrase 'people talk of the sky
kingdom but not even knowing what's going on
on the earth...'
.2810/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
HUSNI'S
DEADLY QUESTION |
Najib always has a way to wriggle himself
out. Even Obama and Hillary Clinton came
under his spell. He spin and twisted facts,
and many even accused him of murdering Najadi,
Kevin Morais and even PI Bala. He paid
handsomely to get support and the people to lie
for him. Two of his strongest men had resigned
and one of them decides to put pressure on Najib. The Netizens
expressed their fear on Husni getting
murdered as Kevin Morais. They already made
judgement even before a trial.
Husni posted several questions and knew what Najib's team is going to answer. For every
answer there will be more questions
followed. In the meantime Pua is exposing to
the world how the SRC's money was channeled
into Najib's personal account.
Can Najib's survive United State's support ?
The breakup of friendship between Rosmah and
Michel Obama and Najib with Hillary Clinton
is inevitable, but will not affect the Malaysia-USA
relationship.
Knowing this Najib has to prepare more cash
donations to both the Democratic and
Republican coffers. I am quite skeptical
with the report published by Wikileaks about
George Soros's negative perception on the Malaysian Prime
Minister, though every of Najib's maneuvering
moves were observed as detailed by the Wikileaks.
All eyes are opened focusing on Najib and
the democracy of the parliament. Without
bias, the ambassadors are
observing all actions drama with close scrutiny
and full of
objectivity. They sense the lies and the
truth. So are the Malaysians, the former UMNO members and Sarawakians who felt
themselves being badly cheated. It will not take long
for the educated to understand what really
happen to our GST collectiony and why Najib
continuously
commanded for more cash. It created an
intense hatred towards Najib.
But BN can still win the coming election
through the dubious means. And will argue
that it is popuar among the masses, just
like what happened in Iraq and Libya. Saddam and Gadafi
won a landslide victory. Yet they were murdered by
their own subjects. Gadafi was cruelly
sodomized after his death.
You notice that the number of Najib's
bodyguards increase by days, may be even
more than Obama or Vladimir Putin. Have you
not been wondering why ?
I believe Najib will be safe if he chooses
to repent. The proofs are clear. Escaping
persecution does not mean he is innocent. If
he walks out, the Malaysians may forgive him.
2710/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
ME RICH ? |
I live on my pension. It is a meager sum for
an old time pensioner without the present
high grade system with big salaries. I save
more than 60% for traveling and other
enjoyments, consuming the rest on food base
on the opportunity cost consideration. If I
planned for an expensive dinner but ended up
with a four dollar meal I would consider the
difference as additional saving. My average
dinner costs me RM7.
But when I took a trip to distant
destinations friends are thinking I have a
lot of money. I save 1K a month, enough for
the traveling expenses. I sometimes feel
money is always there though I may only have
RM10 in my purse. I keep on buying cat food
for the cats I know and the cats I don't
know, the stray cats.
I bought materials to make badges and key
chains, going for laser printing and work on
producing the finished products. I
distributed them free and even posted to
some. All consume money. They are from my
pension money. It is still enough. If I
don't go out much except for my meals I do
not spend much.
However I feel the pinch as the prices of
commodities and the medicines rise by more
than 100%. I really know what is happening
to the economy and the country. I see the
bad future of the Malay community who love
to dig their own graves. And I even sense a
strong bloody conflicts near to the civil
war will engulf this country.
My only advantage is that I won't live long
enough to see the disaster strike. I only
have the chance to witness how the Malays
destroy themselves and how their leaders
contract the mental delirium.
I am one of the few who still live till
today. We lived when we can still buy a
chocolate with one cent, using jute rope as
our belt to schools, fresh water from the
sky. Najib was not born yet then. What do
the sons of kings and Orang-Orang Kaya know
about the real poverty and hardship when 100
million isn't enough yet.
Everything has changed. Poverty in those
yester years differ from the modern one.
People did not starve and resort to theft
and robberies if they were out of money.
There were land to grow food and plant trees
that bore money. Today the Malay politicians
enact law to take away their land and
leaving the new generations landless and
houseless.
While still alive I might as well
enjoy what is left over. Like many others I
too have a dream. I want to have a taste of
luxurious hotel, staying in a reasonable
cozy home and try to do what many other
people capable of doings. I came to know a
little of computer programming, having my
own blog, and doing a little of traveling. I
may not be smart but I enjoy reading on the
progress and the development in the world.
Funny I start to do most of these when I am
about to die.
I feel I have knowledge in me that I have
not departed. How to depart them when people
are so smart nowadays. I know at least two
places are still using my software, the
local vocational college and a car workshop
belonging to a ham friend, Rohizad. If I die
who is going to service those programs ? I
wrote to the Kedah State Education
Department, offering them a free course in
developing a bio-metric program to teachers
in the state. There was no reply. I didn't
understand them at all. At least they should
response giving a short reason for accepting
or rejecting it. As always I murmured to
myself that let fates decide.
On 14th. December 2016 I will be going for a
tour in Jordan. My pension's saving is just
enough to pay for the trip. Old clothing I
used in 1980's in the UNited Stated will be
used to keep me warm at the low temperature.
I will only buy a new pair of shoes which I
will be using for my daily exercise when I
come back. Already a friend commented,"A
rich man can travel here and there laaa"
The girl working in the embroidery shop
asked me the other day, "Uncle, how much is
your pension ? "
"Two thousands," I told her. "A thousand
kept for traveling. The rest for other
things. But I cut corners. I don't spend on
dress or cars. I only spend on myself. If I
overspend, I will stay home all the time
except for food."
I consumed Lecitin, Vitamin E, multi-vitamin
and other supplements. I also buy strips to
test my blood sugar level. Prices have gone
up astronomically due to the TPPA agreement
and the GST. That is taken from the rental
of my late wife's home, a sum of only RM250.
I know there are many more people who are
hard up of cash. Beside the garbage hunters
and the bag snatchers, I always saw people
advertised their hand phones and other
stuffs on the Facebook as they need money
badly. There are many young men and
women who were laid off due to the
deteriorating economy. At the night market I
began to see an increasing number of
beggars.
However I have decided to stop giving away
free badges and key chains. The ordering of
materials is not a simple and trivial
matter. All cost money. What hurt me most
was when a lady who rejected the badge pin
displaying a soccer player in a sassy
manner. She called me back when I turned
away saying "Don't want free thing done." I
would have returned to her call if she were
a bit courteous to me. A former student
asked me to make one for his use. I made him
a keychain and a badge pin. Instead of
coming to get the pins I was asked to go to
his place.
There will be no souvenir when I go to
Jordan or anywhere else. I never bought
anything for myself except for a watch in
Tokyo.
VANITY -
How could a friend of mine knows about my
qualification when I myself have forgotten
what I have ? I wrote about my going to
school in the United States, and that's all.
I jotted a little on my learning basic
programming in a Radio Shack. I told about
learning statistical analysis from my Korean
teacher. Those tell nothing. I am scared
about my being boastfulness. I may
have whispered about someone being stupid as
I saw his negative attitudes correlated to
the level of education. God forbids vanity,
belittling others and boasting of one
knowledge and qualification. Forgive me God
for my sins. Please distant me from being a
braggadocio.
Isn't that we have aplenty in our midst ?
SUSTENANCE
- Rohizat has returned from Australia, a
trip paid by a battery company. He was the
only Malay out of 36 rewarded. It was an
expensive one but all paid for by the
company. He has been traveling to many
places before. The other night we have a
chat on Whatsapp, and he told me that many
people are jealous of him. He is just a man
who runs a small workshop. I know his income
as I observed from the data while fixing the
computer stuff. My algorithm could show any
range of his income as he would like to
choose. Though I am not a close friend of
his, he chose me to have a daily chat from
Australia. He did quip that I have a lot of
money. I told him I just live on a meager
pension fund whereas I knew the secret of
his income. He laughed.
"I won't get jealous if you are that
wealthy," I said. "You have been working
hard. You fought for your survival. It is
God's providence to you." The Chinese
believe strongly in God's providence and
sustenance. My Chinese friend once told me,
"If it is not yours, even on the verge of
entering your mouth the food will drop." And
somewhere in my essay I wrote about a
Chinese lady who went around town to feed
and talk to stray cats.
But God tells us to avoid lavish spending
and to be a mediocre in everything. We
contribute when we have enough to do so. We
don't when it puts us in difficult
situation. I know when I am just above the
subsistent level. I don't want to be a
wealthy person or to own a billion dollar
yatch and an exotic car and a private jet.
Though sustenance is from God, the receiver
should know how to appreciate it by a soft
whisper of saying 'thanks' , rather than
grabbing it and look the other way. It can't
help a giver to feel frustrated. It is a
pang in the heart to do good deeds to some
people some time.
26/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
NEW RADIO
CULTURE |
Rarely I would put my 2 meter rig in my car.
Today I had it set in my vehicle as I was
driving to Arau to have my dinner in the
Royal Town and at the same I wanted to send
my gift to 9M2KDX, Afiq Azlan whom I
promised a present if he were to passed his
Morse codes examination. I took a long way
via the highway that took me about an hour
to arrive. I just sent a message to Hairie,
9M2GET that I would be having my dinner in
his town.
Hairie replied while I was driving. I pulled
off and read the message. "I am at my
friend's house sorting some MUET's job...The
meat shop closes today..." He told me about
a delicious baked meat stall about a month
ago, not far away from Manan's house. He
knew I was going there.
I went to an Indian restaurant and had my
meal there. I told Harie that I would be
leaving Afiq's belonging at his house after
my dinner. I just did that after the nice
meal. I put the plastic bag on the shoe rack
and drove home.
My 2 meter was parked at MARTS Jerai, a
national link repeater. I heard a station
with intermittent signal, hardly readable as
there was a heavy noise. I heard the
mentioning of the net controller. I did not
take the same route as I came, instead I
used the Arau-Koding road. The total time I
took was about 35 minutes. And all along the
way the noise kept on coming as the net
controller was trying to talk. I wouldn't
know may the problem could have come from
the repeater at Gunung Jerai, or everyone
else were not able to copy the transmission
as I did.
I asked myself whether it was a deliberate
effort to stop the net. If it was then who
could be the culprit, the fellow amateurs,
the pirates ? Is it an ongoing happenings
whenever someone is trying to run a net ?
At a point I heard a station talking
something but I was not sure to whom he was
speaking to. He closed the station by
saying, "seven three eight eight"
Really I do not know what has been going on
the band. I did not monitor any telephony
stations anymore. But while on the road for
a long distant ride I need noises to keep me
awake. I have a radio in my car but I do not
like the programs. People sell things
through radio nowadays. And the songs bored
me. Only the '60s would sooth me with lovely
melodies, and songs with nice music. Without
them I prefer to listen to people talking.
Lorry drivers used to be on 800+mhz. But
there are not there anymore. Aircraft is
still there.
I don't know how many other old hams are
still monitoring on these bands. Only Hanafi,
9W2TZ has been trying to raise the old hams
to come on 40 meter. But they are not there
anymore except for 9M2FX, Kamal Tan. Even
the men who fought for the 9Ws did not come
on the band. Many organized themselves using
internet chat to communicate.
If the interference as I had heard was
deliberate and the signed off was with 73
and 88 come together, then I would surmised
amateur radio in Malaysia as HANCO. But it
is normal to the bulk of fellow hobbyists in
the country today.
There were also complaints in the United
States. It is hard to say how much the old
and the new hams are throwing insults on
each other and how many chose to leave the
hobby. But new ideas and terminology loomed
and spread. An accepted term like OP which
stands for operational procedure but used to
imply Operator was never used in the yester
years. NAME and QTH were traditional terms
used for every new contact to denote the
operator's handle and location. I never
remember anyone using OP or QRA. We learned
from our elmers that 73 ware to be mentioned
by men and 88 by women, like in Thai
language a man would greet with Swasdee
Krab and the women Swasdee Ka.
Elmers do not exist anymore. They are
considered as a bunch of old fashioned hams
waiting to die. They were constantly under
attacked as stupid and illiterate in radio
knowledge. It is a global phenomena. True,
many have died. And many have gone above 80
and waiting to die. You call them to come on
the band, they turn their away from you
pretending to be deaf.
It happened that my passion in CW coincides
with sustaining mental alertness. Developing
software, playing chess, robust reading and
hunting for meaning of words would take me
away from a deep senility.
The new radio culture may looked awkward by
the old timers but it is an accepted
practice. The constant engagements among the
members broadcast to the world is something
normal and nothing to lament about it. If
you say it is HANCO then just keep away from
it and do not monitor them.
The main reason why I brought the 2 meter
equipment with me last night was to enable
me to communicate with Hairie when I reached
Arau. But the later did not bring his mobile
set when he went out for his job. I thought
there would be more decency on national link
repeater, to allow the net to be run
smoothly without deliberately disturbing the
net controller.
Regrettable indeed.
24/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHAT IS
HAPPENING TO THE MALAYS |
We have been reading hell about the Malays
lately from stealing of money belonging to
orphans to the vicious circle of gangsterism
of the politicians. The Malays have made a
headline in the world news as thieves and
robbers and as murderer. But the evil tone
of human being is found in everybody else
over the globe, some more stinking than the
devils prowling the universe.
The only feature is that the Malays were not
distinct in such a demeanor. They were used
to be known as docile and submissive, god
fearing and trustworthy. Those laudable
characters and morality seem to be vanish
today. Between hell and money they would
choose money, between God and money, they
would grab the cash. They are blind to the
future consequences to their own race.
I have enough experience to call them
callous and selfish. They look good, soft
spoken and honest but you can never trust
them with money or any other thing. They do
not keep promises and walk away with the
money they borrow from you. They are
insensitive towards the plight of others.
The
picture on the left shows 2 kids whose
family were killed by accidence. The uncle
seek public donation for the kids. The
amount remitted into the account was near to
RM400000. Only 12K were used for the kids.
60K was in the bank and the rest were not
known.
The donation for the orphans was not
given as the money was paid to Faizznur who
claimed that they were not under the name of
the children. The court attended the case
but only 60k was found. The news went viral
and drew the wrath of the netizens.
According to the readers this is not a sole
solitary happening here among the Malaysian
Malays.
Robbing and stealing has become common and
seeping into the culture. You can't park you
car or motorbike at any remote locations far
from public perusal. Someone will be bound
to drive them away or take your car battery
or carry your car tyres with them.
The most unfortunate is when the bad Malays
with bad school records become politicians
and ministers. Their manners are despicable
and no words can describe them. Because they
dressed like the Muslims and called
themselves Muslims, the religion is being
insulted by the non-Muslims. They cited the
issues of the stolen billions supported by
religious figures.
After mixing with several ethnic groups I
tend to think marrying a Chinese girl is
much better than taking a Malay girl as a
wife. I may be wrong. It is just my feeling.
The vanity of the Malay women is too glaring
compared to the Chinese ladies who are
generally more humble and courteous.
Where is God ? I thought the Indonesian
Muslim maid could be trusted but they are
great thieves as well.
Lies and not keeping their words among the
Malay Muslims are described as 'biasa' which
means '...it is alright..' I have a friend
who can call off the promised date which I
kept by cancelling all my other activities
on the said time and day, who did not
deliver a wedding gift as he did not
remember where he left it and who tell lie
after lie like drinking a cup of coffee. I
have a Haji friend who took a loan and never
to return for the payment. I met a person
who seek donation for religious school, who
went for the world tour after world tour
with his wife that cost far much more than
the collected donation.
For choosing money over God means God is
dead to them. They simply do not believe in
hell and the eternal retribution.
23/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
UMNO, RESPECT
AND THE MALAY DOOM |
What transpires out of Najib's budget speech
is unknown to me as I did not wish to listen
to it at all. As I browsed the websites I became aware of the opposition's walkouts with
placards 'WHO IS M01'. This angered the
Prime Minister who said that the opposition
embarrassed themselves.
The rest of his loyalties followed suit to
bark the enemies.
Among the public response are shown below.
It shows the PM lost a total respect by a
huge number of the Malaysians. In the FB the
Malays use name calling, casting the lowest
curse with filthy words. In 70 years of my
life I never heard a Malayan addressed the
Prime Minister as low as they yelled at
Najib.
The walkout is nothing compared to how Najib
is perceived. The common words used are 'thief,
murder, no shame, bad character, thick skin,
liar..." These people believe that BN
will be defeated by the clean election and a
true democratic process. The cheats are not
only through the delineation but through box
stuffing and box exchanging. Democratic
process is a farce. The bias courts will
side the government.
From the standard of English I would say
that they are people of higher learning,
smart and could be professionals. Unlike the
FB comments the above remarks are much
sharper. Most Malays are not intelligent
enough to present the rebuttals.
There is no sensible person who will approve
of Najib's way of handling the public fund. I
believe my conjectures on how the funds were
utilized were not wrong. A lot was paid to the
world to save Najib's image. And
locally he hope the BRIM receivers would
erase all the hatred towards him. He
has no choice but to play racial card, and
using gangsters to terrorize the common men.
Wouldn't the less educated people having the
same degree of anger bur prefer to shut
their mouths with an immense feeling of
vengeance ? History has shown this in the
past events in various parts of the world.
Time and again I have mentioned about the
popularity of Ghadafi and Saddam. They were
sodomized and killed by their own people.
The pursuit of their enemy will be learned
from the Jews who hunted the Nazis way down
in South American continents. And I reminded
about God's intervention to deal with the
Malay Munafiq. A Munafiq is a
person who constantly lying, cheating,
deceiving and causing hardship to the other
Muslim.
The lost of respect make people look upon us
as a pariah, very lowly and very filthy.
Najib has been called a thief. And he has
not taken any legal action to erase the
label on him from the records of several
nations. Unless and until he sues those who
branded him as a thief, he is still regarded
as one. And as long as he is using the
taxpayers money trying to pay the perpetual
debt of 1Mdb, he will still be regarded as
cruel and irresponsible.
The fate of the Malays are doomed with Najib
in power. Sadly enough the UMNO supporters
are very blind and they never learn anything
from anyone.
Readers of this article, the police and
those in power, keep note of what I am
saying now. The Malays are doomed. The
future generation will suffer worst than a
slave as what the Palestinians experienced
under the Israel rule. All because of the
making by Najib and his loyalties.
23/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WAKE UP NAJIB
FROM THE FANTASY WORLD |
We dream whenever we go to bed and at
siesta, that we are the hero saving the
world from destructions, from the malice,
avarice and evil of human lust and greed,
from hunger and suffering. We dream that we
are the most powerful, the invincible and
everyone is afraid of us. We dream we are
powered by the Almighty.
Fantasizing is imagination. What we usually
imagine differ from the reality of its
dynamism. There was a joke about Sammy Veloo
who spoke in one of his election campaign,
"We will build a bridge for you." A man
asked him," Sir, we have any river here. Why
the bridge ? "
"Don't worry. We will build a river for the
bridge."
Sammy was fantasizing without looking at the
fact, the reality of the environment and the
desire of the people.
A vision has to be based on the real things
that exist and the ability to see the clear
path to achieve the objectives.
When Najib told the parliament that 1Mdb
money has it's cash in Singapore bank he
created an image of a bunch of money in the
BSI and he wanted all the Malaysians to see
as what he imagined. In real life there
wasn't any. He did not use rationalization
and demand for facts. He said he would fix
the 1Mdb by restructuring it. In his mind he
could solve the woe. It emerged as not only
a failure but he had to pay extra billions
for the fund for IPIC went missing. And many
more acts of walking in the sleep, throwing
money and there aren't enough for the
consumption. He continues paying millions to
boost up his declining status and respects.
Unfinished with it he was seen to be in
close contacts with the local hooligans who
went around threatening others with death.
Would you imagine that Rosmah and Najib had
contacted Obama several time even with tears
pleading to help his family members against
persecution in the United States ? You would
claim it is your right to fantasize things
as well.
When our economy is declining Najib says our
economy is stable and strong, then throwing blame
on opposition members trying to lie to the
public. Then he says government agencies
must go for austerity drive. Yet his wife
paid millions to fly to Turkey to receive a
useless award.
He believes that he will bring in new
investors from England, America and other
new countries like Iran and the ASEAN
countries. How could the new people come in
when they see others are moving out to a
more peaceful country. Goldman Sachs, the
banker and the chief world terrorists might
be interested in making money with us.
The Prime Minister could be sure that if a
clean election is run that he would have to
pack home even before the election starts.
Najib never want to know the reality. He
does not want to see the real number of
citizens who are un happy with him, using
thugs to stop the Yellow shirt from
marching. Why not we see the truth so
that the government can modify the
structure of the failing system, to rectify
the errors and to sit and discuss how to
solve the present woes and the secured
future of the citizens, not to enrich his
cronies.
It is a reality that you cannot declare war
on the Chinese for they were born here
before your grand fathers. They developed
the economy and own a huge piece of land.
You can't chase them out of the land they
bought from you. They did not put Anwar
Ibrahim in jail, nor destroy your lordships
'Ketuanan Melayu', nor make the Malays poor.
If you say DAP opposes Hudud, so do MCA,
GERAKAN and MIC. The Malays today is not the
making of DAP but of UMNO itself.
Najib should visit those who live in a flat
and even apartment not on the pre-arranged
basis and not chosen by his aide and
supporters.
Brushing away avarices of his office and
ministers under him will accumulate
dissatisfactions and tensions among the
normal men who are hard hit by the rising
cost of living.
Najib can be the most powerful man in the
world, an emperor in Malaysia but what lies
on the ground will not be healed. He will be
cursed till he dies. Drugs and crimes will
not recede. The number of poorer Malays will
increase. Jobless youths will be the
liabilities to everyone while the
politicians and UMNO continue to drive the
Malays to beggary in their own country.
All Najib has to do is to wake up from his
dream and face the reality of life, to
resolve the cry on the ground. He can't
afford to continue forking the money from
the masses to undo his errors. Our current
history is not the history of Mahathir nor
of his anti-Najib's moves. Our current
history is the history of Najib and his
legacy of splitting UMNO and kicking people
out of UMNO. Incredible indeed.
I am certain people would forgive his errors
if he were to say sorry for his mistakes. To
err is only human.
20/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
YOU HAVE TO
TRUST PDRM |
Some
people are simply mad. They demand for the
arrest of Jamal, the hooligan who threatened
death on the Chinese and who yelled at the
Chinese as pig. Jamal was arrested after his
Dubai trip. He was handcuffed and will
remanded for four days. But then it was the
same people who are now saying the arrest
was just a play of show by the police.
Funny, nothing is right for these people.
They would bark at you if you point at their
inconsistencies.
The police arrested Jamal, not because of
the public pressure. They have their own
computer forensic and could trace whether
the posting of the threat was from him or a
fake. We all knew Jamal too much by now, a
very arrogant man who shouted at the police
for not taking actions on the BERSIH's
peaceful march, tearing and toasting
lawyer's summon letter into the toilet bowl,
and walked through cities like a great big
mafia.
The PDRM is concerned with peace and
stability. They would act the same on any
front that could lead to bloodshed and civil
war. The violence approached of the Red
Shirt, Jamal's private army, could push the
anti-Najib group to organize themselves and
planned a bloody counter attack in a big
way. It ould have been very difficult to
control if 600000 people ran amok in Kuala
Lumpur and Putrajaya. The police took the
death threat by Jamal as a very serious
matter.
The police even know details of the 1Mdb
fiasco and what really had happened. The
pro-DAP persons would be in the same
situation if they were asked to act on their
leader for provocative acts and statements
or even on clear corruptions. I think we
have to trust the police. Those who believe
in Karma must trust more.
I even believe that Najib and Rosmah will
meet the day soon despite of their enormous
and unchallenged power. You may think I am
weird for believing in God's retribution.
There will be the comeuppance. As to how I
don't know. But it will be. Najib as a
finance Minister has failed and has brought
hardship to many people. He spared no one at
all, the blind and the sick have to pay for
his lavishness.
For 4 days in a lockup and being handcuffed
is shameful and degrading as if a man is
turned into a pig. Even if Najib ordered the
police to release him things will not be
vanished. The request will be recorded and
thickened the evidence against Najib when
the later is taken to face justice. Any
attempt on the part of the politicians and
AG to force the police to do things against
their will will not leave any happiness
among the force. They will follow the order,
bitter against their taste.
You may not notice how Rosmah is fighting
against God. You will understand if you
notice her activities and know what God's
forbid. She does not want to grow old and
spent a lot of money on fighting ageing. But
each day she becomes heavier and heavier.
You see how she walks on stages. That's the
payment for being arrogance against the
Al-Mighty.
The rest, we just have to keep our fingers
cross.
It will be soon that all of Najib's
supporters will come to their senses. The
spell will end. The chants will disappear.
The immigration, the SPRM, the police and
the army do understand as much as the masses
know. In fact they know more than the Wall
Street Journal or the Sarawak Reports.
19/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
COMMUNITY
OF JOGGERS |
The term joggers here means everyone who
does the evening exercise either by walking
or by running. The phase and speed differ
between persons though none pushes like 10.2
seconds 100 meter sprint. The average
walking speed is about 12 minutes per 1.2
km. I always took a leisurely steps
finishing 1.2 km for 15 minutes.
Familiar faces would say 'hi' to each other
when passing. Several walk and run in a
group of 4 to 8. Many are in pairs, man-man,
woman-woman and man-woman. The peak numbers
began to show at about 6 pm. By 7 pm most
were prepared to go home, the Muslims would
be rushing to catch the Maghrib prayer. It
was during the final phase of the exercise
that some of these joggers group together to
stretch their bodies.
There were three of us today doing the final
phase. One of the 58 year old man whom I had
mentioned in the previous articles. The
other one was quite new. I remember seeing
him only about 3 months ago. It was this new
man who asked me,"Are you 60 over ? "
"I am 70," said I.
"Wow you are strong ah ? "
He looked at the other man and said
something in Hokien which I understood as
showing astonishment to my doing exercise
everyday. The preceding conversation was in
mix Hokien and Malay. The new man is 58 and
he played soccer when he was younger. "You
are very strong, "said I to him. "You beat
everyone of us in walking. In response he
pointed at the other man. " He is stronger."
Then I mentioned about seeing the Kedah
soccer player smoking cigarettes. Both gave
an abrupt response. "No discipline." as if
they could read my mind, a form of
clairvoyance. We talked about the effect to
the lung and how it could degrade the
performance. We agreed about the
deterioration of the stamina.
The new man asked me again about my former
job and where I currently stay. "I am living
alone now," I told him. "I have to keep
fit."
"Your wife and kid ?"
"My wife passed away and the kids are in KL.
I prefer to stay alone." said I.
"Why ? "
"Our thinking are not the same. The younger
generation think differently," I
said. They both agreed.
"Ai Ya....my kid," the 60 plus man said." I
borrowed their cars and they scolded me for
not refueling it. Ha ha...kids"
My kids never listened to what I told them.
They have their own views and even warned me
not to meddle in whatever they want to do.
They said that they decide their own
future. I worked out one to be a teacher
like me but he walked out that my wife had
to pay more then RM24K back to the
government for the breach of contract. I had wanted the others to do
medicine. Even my wife told me not
interfere. They had even raised their voices
that had had hurt me deeply. Stuffs that I
will carry to my grave.
That I did not tell the two men.
The 58 year old man said that to keep fit we
need to eat a lot of fruit at night. I said
that I did not know what kind of fruit to
take. Dokong could kill me. Another said
that he can't breath well when taking a lot
of them. " I am OK with dokong," the fittest
man quipped. "Your anti body is strong,"
said the 60 plus man.
In my area there is hardly a fruit stall
found. Fruits are available at the super
stores. They are not only expensive but also
of low quality. Certainly I would keep
their advice in my mind.
I saw joggers coming with Mercedes and BMW.
I would not want to be in their rank for I
think I would not fit their category. the
taste may be different. I figure it is
easier to be with men of equal status. The
Indian man whom I described as a fast walker
before knows almost everyone of them. He
told me a certain car number belonged to
which businessman. I didn't put effort to
remember the cars or the car numbers and the
nature of the professions. I did not accost
anyone for I do not know their state of
gregariousness A greet from them were welcome, a
simple 'hi' could start the
ball rolling. There is a deaf and dumb young man
who is a special
person to me, He could communicate with me
despite of his drawback. He narrated about
accidence and about the Hindu Procession on
their auspicious occasion, carrying Kavadi
etc.
I sensed there is almost an equal number of
the Chinese and the Malays, with the young
new comers of the Malay girls and boys. It
is better for these boys to utilize their
time in keeping fit rather than showing off
their skills on the motorbike, which also
brought shame to the Malay communities in
these localities.
There are also aerobic groups here.
Last time there was only one. But now
there is an additional one, taking over our
parking lot instead of dancing on the empty
space off the bitumen area. I called it
dancing because it did not look like an
aerobic at all. As compared to the other
team, this new one committed less movements
and strides. I bet that they won't get any
thinner or even sweat after an hour of their
workout. What could we say. The park
does not belong to us.
About 96% of the participants are female of
ethnic Malays. I would not recommend any
male to take any of these people as a wife.
I would endorsed the other group as the
aerobic movement is more strenuous, with lot
of bending, larger phase mobility, arms up
and down, left and right.
I hope it will not rain today. The rain has
just stopped but the sky is still dark. If
it rains I will not see the same faces
again. The faces of the community of
joggers.
17/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHEN FOOTBALL
PLAYERS SMOKE CIGARETTES |
I was deeply disturbed the other day when I
saw several Kedah state players were smoking
after the training session for the 2nd semi
final against the Police on the 15th October
2016 at Hang Jebat Stadium. It was about 8
pm or so during when I was having my dinner
at one of the stalls erected for Nasi Lemak.
I know that those smokers will not be in
shape for more than 45 minutes. They will be
slower than their opponents in running for
the ball.
Robert Albert would not bear even the smell
of the smoke wherever they were players. We
can have the best coach in the world but we
cannot build a strong team with the
indiscipline players. We can't afford
to have pity on these players but to sack
them. In every agreement of a contract the
clause of smoking must be stressed. It is
the first and the last warning, that the
offender has to face the music.
Soccer players only depend on professional
football for their living. It is their bread
and butter. They are digging their own
graves if they accept money to favor a
certain group or hurting their own health,
poisoning their own hearts. No wonder
sometimes I did hear of players who died
because of stroke.
Foreign players are more
discipline |
I whispered to one of the Kedah soccer
fans about what I saw. She asked me
for the names. I just told the person that I
did not know them by names except for the
import players and Badrol and Syazwan. Both
were not there. So were the import players.
I remember when I was working way back in
1969, that I did not accept a skilled player
into the house team because he could not run
and that he got tired too easily. Speed is
utmost important to me, Skill must come at
the early age. Once one become a state
player or joining a professional team one
must already have the skills of dribbling,
ball-controlling and tricking. There are dos
and don'ts. The pattern of attacks and
defense in the field will be determined by
the coach.
It will surely frustrate the supporters who
have been spending money for the games. Many a
game could have brought a decisive victory
instead ended up with draws, narrow wins or
a disgraceful lost. Some parents take their
whole family to other venues hoping to see a
good game. During the 1st semi final the
RM15 ticket were sold at RM70 by black
marketers. We could have guessed how much
money will they spend to bring the whole
family to Melaka.
I would just hope the police team players
also smoke as much as our players. The
Malays in particular are not so discipline
in managing and controlling themselves. It
is very difficult for the mind to beat the
biological dysfunction of the heart and
other internal organs. And the placebo
effect will not work.
I have been going to the jogging track
almost everyday. Those who can run for 2 or
3 hours non stop are not young people. They
could have covered more than 25 miles each
day. The younger people run and walk, some
covering for only about 2.4 or 3.6 km. I
would have guessed these are the smokers or
people who want to quit smoking. But it
should be a taboo and totally bared for the
sportsmen and women. They are not merely
hurting themselves but also the supporters
who have a high hope on them.
I started to lose confidence on the coming
match and the matches to come. I just hate
to see a bunch of indiscipline players in a
state team who do not control their diets
and their lusts. They disappoint thousands
of spectators who put so much trust in them.
14/10/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
The second semi final was over, resulting in
a draw. Kedah could have won but missed
saved by the goal post. I was closely
observing the performance of the local
players. Badrol lost several balls
unnecessarily. He was not alert enough and
he failed to deliver good corners. The coach
replaced him with Syazwan which I thought
was the right decision. One or two began to
slow down towards the end of the match. It
was at a state of delirium and everyone was
defending. When there was an opportunity for
the counter attack our locals were out of
fuel.
Someone must talked about food and health
and how they could influence performance.
To me Kedah did not play well, not like a
champion.
I hope for some miracle to happen.
15/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
POOR ECONOMY
WHO SUFFERS THE MOST ? |
When the economy is in a bad shape not
everyone will suffer. The business community
will pass their burdens on the consumers.
The professionals like lawyers, engineers
and doctors may not feel the pinch as their
big income could offset the rising cost of
living.
We would assume the most to suffer were the
kampong folks and the jobless youths. It is
not surprising those who went out wearing
the red shirts could sell their soul for
RM20 - RM50 showing how hard up they were
for the cash. Those who supported Najib are
in fact digging their own graves and willing
to be smashed by the poor economy and
Najib's policy. And how easy on Najibin's
camp to blame the Chinese for their plight.
Day by day they succumb to Najib's rhetoric
about the wealthy Malaysia doing so well in
economy unchallenged by other Muslim
countries in the world.
The threat of the 'flying parang (machete)'
and 'China Babi ( Chinese are pgs)' are
merely to defend the crimes done by Najib
who pocketed the money belong to the
citizens, using for the glory of his wife
and divide among his favorite ministers.
Trying to divert the attention to the issue
of the major thefts did not seem to work.
Millions of Malays do not buy what Najib is
trying to propagate. The Malays are losing
their jobs, and many are reading the news of
how 1Mdb and SRC's money went into Najib's
account. That does not consider on the core
issue of 1Mdb loan itself.
Those who are against Najib right now are
not vagabonds and beggars. They are people
with enough bread to go around and some are
wealthy people. Ironically, it is the poor
and the lowly who are suffering the most.
Asking Najib to go is merely asking the
people to save the nation. Najib thought he
could do it but along the way he met with
failures after failures. The so-called
restructuring the 1Mdb does not reduce the
predicament. Money on the IPIC trail went
missing. He tried to suck more from the
citizens through GST and the stoppages of
subsidies. The ringgit kept on plunging.
Investors were moving out. Now he is trying
to woo the British and American investors,
the Iranians and other Asian nations. I
believe that with Najib as Prime Minister
and his wife as his main advisor those
investors will have to think twice. Surely
they would prefer Vietnam, China or Thailand
to Malaysia. Vietnam would be more stable
and attractive.
Of course we do not want Najib's mission
to fail. We pray so that it will succeed.
But if it continues to bring disaster to the
country and the people, a new leader
must quickly be sought to replace him.
Otherwise it will be his supporters who will
suffer the most. I had said the same thing
in the Facebook during the last GE and his
trooper buzzed in to deny the
allegations. After the election and the
economy started to dwindle, pinching the
denizen,
I no longer saw those cyber troopers
anymore. The new taxes do not benefit them.
The rising cost of houses do not benefit
them. The worst is the prices of daily
groceries and other necessities jumped up
hysterically to
more than 400% in some. The retailers just
passed the buck onto the consumers. The Mat Rempit of the Red shirts suffer the most.
It is a tragedy and a pity the Malaysian
leaders can live and sleep at deceiving
their own kind, the Malays. They wouldn't
care of the number of workers laid off and
the graduates without job. The money on our
coffers could be used for emergency purposes
but instead were plundered under various
schemes and projects. And these poor Malay
keep on digging their own grave. Each
time they went to buy supplies each time
their faces turned sour and grumbled at the
rising prices. The hard hit farmers could
not bare the pain chose to sell their land
to the developers for the quick cash,
reducing the total size of properties for
the younger generations to own, and taking
away the food producing area, to depend
foodstuffs from foreign lands.
When we see the poor Malays lament for the
bad luck they have, just ask them to seek
help from their UMNO brethrens, the Wanita
UMNO in their villages. Else, serve them
right. That's the price of condoning crimes.
13/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
Najib PUSHING
FOR THE CIVIL WAR ? |
Playing hide and seek with God ? Najib has
been lying to everyone but his wife. His
greatest sin is the 1Mdb loan which has been proven
to find it's way into into his own account. He lied to his
Ministers, the police, the army and to the
parliament.
He tries to deceive the world leaders,
applying his belief that money is king,
giving donations to the various world
organizations and twisting facts to Obama
and Hilary about many things.
He uses the complete government resources
for his own personal comfort yet he told the
men surrounding him that everything of his
doing was for the
party. Actually Najib never care about the
party, the
Malays and UMNO. He kicked his own ministers
who asked him about the 1Mdb from their
posts and from UMNO.
It is a great sin, and insulting the God
Almighty to cause calumny on others, on Anwar Ibrahim, and branding those who are
against him as terrorists or IS members. He
tried to disfigure Lim Guan Eng, Azmin Ali
and now Shafiee Afdal. He used the gangsters
to stop the marching of the unhappy masses.
He has the biggest man behind him, Apandi .
He instructed UMNO leaders to say that UMNO
has nothing to do with the Red Shirt
gangsters. His hit man is Jamal who thinks
nobody could touch him as he is an errand to
the Prime Minister.
His act in fact can led to a civil war among
the Malays. It is not impossible for the
Yellow Shirt guys who were hit, kicked and
harassed to organize themselves and prepared
a violent counter attack against the read
vandals.
A big flare up always start from a small
brawl which later loom to a huge fire, which
can take lives away.
Each day the hidden and filthy events
emerged for public perusal. The propaganda war
never seem to side him. The colossal
resources deployed could not halt the
dissidence from marching on.
He thinks Malaysia is far from Iraq and
Syria and Egypt. I see the cases and the
issues are almost similar; strong government
and weak dissidents. In Syria it bagan with
the arrest of school children and shot by Assad army. In
Iraq the Kurdish were suppressed and
murdered. The oppressed had seek help from
the Uiited States. Assad and Saddam and Ghadafi
won a land slide victory. So were Taksin and
Marcos. But the ballot boxes could always be
changed and stuffed with ballot papers using
gangsters and special forces.
The critical issue in this country is not
about Chinese taking over the country but
about Najib's refusal to step down after
being shown the 1 mdb fund was
diverted into his account which he
kept them a secret until exposed by foreign
publications. He played the donation game.
To dodge the accusation he transferred the money out to Jho Lo for
the safe keeping saying he had returned the
cash to the
donor. Now he is juggling what to say about
the SRC's money, and the swapped credit
card for personal glory and beauty.
The point is the world is following closely
through their embassies. The ambassadors
know the real stories as many of the other
Malaysians. They write volumes of reports
which will be kept in their databases
presented back home. They
will not interfere in our affair as long as
they benefit from the bilateral
relationship. We are sending millions to US
coffer everyday from the fast food outlets
and telecommunication systems. And now that
we are in TPPA Najib could take a deep
breath.
What UMNO, Najib and their psychologists are
doing is pushing the Malays to run to the
side of the Chinese. If Najib continues as a
Prime Minister it is very likely he will do
worst things and the Malays would prefer the
Chinese to take over. In the Facebook, I
heard comments from the Malays that DAP took
care of them better than the BN government.
When this happen the civil war is almost
unstoppable. The military will step in. We
can be sure Najib will be out of his job.
With the above pictures the people are
saying that whatever spewed out from Jamal's
mouth was from Najib. The warning of the
civil war came from Jamal himself. Now he denies it.
Everybody denies everything. By God's grace
more will be known. It is not the IS who
will start the trouble. It will be Najib's
men.
Trying to lie that they have nothing to do
with the gangsters ? Pictures speak louder
than words.
11/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
ABOUT BEING
ON THE ROAD |
Our character and morality can be stripped
and exposed when we are on the road. It is a
real place to test your patience and your
humanity, your selfishness and
consideration, your real self. Let us first
begin with a scenario of an empty street and
road at 2 or 2.45 am when cars and
people are hardly seen and the policemen are
still locked in the station, and you come
across a red light; would you stop or just
continue with your driving ? Some cars stop
but not all of them. Certainly your action
is part of your character.
As the night recedes to fall and the
daylight is getting momentum more traffics
would fill the road. Parents send their kids
to schools and workers start to drive to
their workplaces. You would see parents
dropping their kids in the middle of the
road then maneuver their cars to the left
and right taking a 45 or 50 degree turn
causing traffics to halt.
If you are on a lane at a T junction
touching the main road you may experience
a very long wait for the car passing to cease. But very rarely
the coming vehicles will give way for you
to exit the lane to the road. It is between the
right-of-way versus flouting the rule for
courtesy and consideration. We go for our
ultimate right rather than giving
consideration to others. And we would
not want to know the concept of defensive
driving.
A defensive driver must always consider and
prepare for any eventuality of the
carelessness and the recklessness of the
other drivers who are in front of him or at
the junction. I have narrated about my going
out of a junction, not seeing a car coming,
and I was hit by a fast coming car. I had to pay him
RM600 because my conscience told me I was
wrong for moving out without noticing the
current state on the road. If the
car which knocked me were to drive at an
allowable speed and had pressed his break,
he would not have knocked me. He didn't
because he thought his was the right path.
The public, however are patient with double
parking cars that block the other cars
during the Friday payers and the game of
football. At the mosque the outside car
drivers usually went to their cars as soon
as the prayer were over so as not to
allow the inner car drivers to wait. While
at the stadium people were waiting and
chatting until they were able to move. But
this should not happen in the city at normal
time. You may find an empty car behind yours
blocking you. You can wait for five or ten
minutes but as long as an hour. In Youtube
I saw a parking empty car was rammed by an
angry driver whose car was blocked.
Other than people traffic lights may test your patience too.
Along a mile of a road there could be 10
or 15 traffic lights and you may be caught by
everyone of them. They turned red every time you
reach them. What if
you are in a hurry ? Or when the light turns
green it takes about a minute before the car
in front of you moves, as if the driver of
the first car falls asleep. And the one
behind you is honking. Honking can drive
some people crazy and ever ready to smash
your windscreen.
I can talk of the real madness on the road
in my city but not on other cities whether
within the Malaysian territory or outside
our border except for some places I saw in
the United States. When I was in Irvine,
Orange county California, I saw a very long
queue at about 6 pm. I figured, it was a
daily affair after the office hour, when
workers from Los Angeles drove back home
outside the city. I did not notice any rush
to overtake the queue from the left or
right side of the road, or trying to cut in
between them or honking. It
created in my mind the believe that the
Americans were more civilize than us.
In small towns the drivers would stop for
the animals and birds and human to cross the
road. Unlike here cars knocked the
motorcyclists or the pedestrians who crossed
the road to death and everyone got away with the
crime. The blamed was put on the dead
because
they crossed the road without looking at the
coming vehicles. In the same country the
sight at junctions where the
cars arrived almost at the same time, showed
that the
car that arrived first was allowed to go
first. Would we do it here ? Would anyone care if you talk about
defensive driving ?
How about a woman using an Ipad as a phone,
and talked over it while driving in the
middle of the road about 30k/h ? It got on
my nerve and I felt like stopping and
yelling at her. The anger would shorten our
lives by a minute or even days. It drives
our blood pressure up to the peak causing our health
to deteriorate.
There is no effort on the part of the
government to enhance the civic mindedness
and civility of the road users other than
arresting the guilty drivers and issuing
summons.
By contrast in Holland people cycle to the
work place, eliminating smoke, honking and
congestion. The number of cars in Amsterdam, the capital
city, is much less than in our small town, Jitra. As we pass by the offices and
factories we will see thousands of bicycles.
You won't die if a bicycle knocks you.
09/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
WHY WE
MUST NOT SHOW OFF |
Is it be wrong to celebrate a success and
achievements ? Surely there is nothing wrong
to mind one's own business and to enjoy with
rupture at something one strived to have as
long as one does hurt and cause pain to the
others. It can hurt people's feeling when we
brag to force our will on the others. I had
narrated it before about a university
lecturer with a PHD delivered his speech in
the PTA meeting which went something like
this, "If you don't have a PHD don't try to
argue with me..." Instead of him thinking
others as pariah, the parents and the
teachers of that particular school looked
down upon him with contempt. He had made a
fool of himself and people keep on talking
about his arrogance till today.
You may not believe me if I told you that
there are people with Datukships and AMN who
never told anyone about the award and never
print it on his letter. There are people
with CGPA of 4 flat who looked stupid and
acted stupid when they were hauled with
degrading titles.
If I were really a smart person I won't dare
to declare as one, for fear I would not be
able to answer questions even within my own
fields. People can always test our acuteness
and the real ability by asking simple
questions. For instant when someone work
Morse codes with me I always assessed his
ability so that I could adjust my sending to
his ability. If they send me a fast CW I
would purposely asked him several questions, may be as simple as 'your name please
?'
if he did not give me his name or 'what is
your working condition ?'. You would guess his
credential if he did not reply to it at all.
Sometimes I repeated but the return reply
was 'Thank you
for the contact. 73". What if someone were
to ask me to explain the LC circuit and how
do we apply to amateur radio usage and
application or the operation of the balance
modulator ?
Knowledge multiply by leaps and bounds each
day. Whatever kids want to know tomorrow may
not be explained by me.
Just now I watched a soccer match between
Malaysia and Singapore. It was a draw. We
had been beaten by Papua New Guinea with a
big disgrace. We had lost to Emirate 10 - 0.
The Korean beat us in Takraw. Yet our prime
minister said that our successes in sports
were due to government's policy. And they
continue to boast and boast over everything
else.
The last we heard was the 'Malay youth rise
up to fight for the Malay honor'. Obviously
with a sudden reflective response was to ask 'What honor
do the Malays have left ; stealing,
spinning, lying and being called thief...?'
We are beaten in economy, sports, and
education. Yet we have the guts of going to
the United Nation to tell the world that we
are the first nation in the globe that
created the One-Stop center and very
successful in Eco-System. We are the model
nation to the world.
Our kind of international bragging and
swaggering of course hurt no one, within or
without. People probably just make a furtive
glance and smile at our pomposity. With the
absent of shame, conscience and morality we
would simply brush away those contemptuous
look upon us. The Chinese used the term
'thick skin' or 'no face'(bo been).
There are always better and worst people
than us. All we know that we are showing off
to someone whose skill and knowledge are
par-excellence. The ignorance and the
unskilled may slowly improve themselves
through hard work without telling others of
their progress. This applies to individuals
as well as to nations.
The Japanese didn't go to the
international arena
to tell how great they were in managing a
very efficient railway transportation
system, 2.33 means exactly 2.33, never early
a second and never late by the same token.
The Chinese never boasted of their space
achievement in the same assembly. And yet we are
telling the world how great we were to have
the 1-stop center. You may not remember that
our Minister had been telling us that our
education system was the best in the world.
Islam forbid pomposity and showing off (riak).
The Chinese may not be Muslims but their
culture call for humbleness and they strive
hard to maintain their tradition, fearing it
would be swept away by Western practices and
beliefs.
On the other hand those of the lower group
who do not attain the capability of the
smart should not condemn the capable
people who do things which the lower guys
could not. An electronic engineer who
builds a project which would reduce the
burden of labor cannot be accused of showing
off. An inventor who flies on a a floating
pad is surely happy and proud of showing his
invention. There are parallelism between his
qualification, knowledge and ability with
the product quality of his yeild. If you
ask him on any part of the flying machines
and the technology involved he would be able
to explain to you explicitly in minute detail. Yet the same
inventor would not claim he is the master of
all. The Americans I knew were not shy to
say 'I don't know' on whatever
things outside his knowledge.
We should remind ourselves that we should
not be impressed by words words and
rhetoric. Look at what his hands bear, the
glittering environment under him, the
natural luster that shine on it's own. God
will elevate the status of the humble and
lowly person.
08/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
THE MINDS OF
THE NEW CHILDREN |
Last night I took with me my student's son
who is waiting for his UPSR examination
result. This Primary school kid was telling
me about the local and the public IP. He
said his friends were not able to play the
on-line games because they locked to the
public IP. "They have to connect to the IP
of my server," he said."The public IP always
changed."
When he said that home computer must used
the router's IP I told him that he was
wrong. Different PCs and smart phone do not
have the same IP. And he said his is
192.168.1.9.
I am sure your kids too are well verse in
computer terms and could teach you how to
increase the performance of your laptops and
your smart phones. Imagine a standard three
or four boys can communicate with American
and British friends in English. And when he
talked about Java, I just listened to him as
I have not done in Java program yet. "You
have to download Java in your computer," I
told him.
"Do you write codes in Java ?" He asked.
"No. But you can learn by yourself by going
to the tutorial and print lesson by lesson.
Open up your Java and typed the codes as in
the tutorial and try to understand the
relation between the codes and the output."
When I asked his mother for permission to
take him out, the mother said he would not
want to go anywhere as he was playing a
computer game. The mother wasn't home but
assured me that the son won't heed any
persuasion. I went to the house. I told the
father, also my student, that I wanted to
take his son to Kuala Perlis. I waited
outside in my car. A minute later he was
out, jumped into my car.
He wanted to learn programming from me, He
expressed his intent long before his UPSR
examination. I knew that he would not reject
to my asking him to join me for a dinner.
Kuala Perlis is 1 1/2 hours away from home
by the highway to Changlun and took the left
turn to a new road. It would be about 50
minutes by the old state road which has
always been busy with traffics. For the
whole 1 1/2 hours he was talking nothing but
on computing, from the graphic board to the
RAM size and the making of the websites.
I love to talk to kids because they seem to
know more than I do. At football stadium I
would ask them question about the Kedah
player in the field. They will be telling
you amazing things that will surprise you,
especially on the import players. I wouldn't
have known any.
Kids don't lie but they talk through their
imagination. They may talk about fairies and
seeing a flying man. To us they may sound
absurd but to them they were real. Mixing
facts and fantasy will make the conversation
lively and interesting.
Now that kids know 192.168.1.1 and mentioned
the word DNS, port and URL, do we know what
they are talking about ? Why the IP at all ?
And he mentioned the phrase Public IP.
The kids are as smart as the network maker.
The network maker started as a dreamer,
seeing imaginary paths into homes, seeing
pipes and gates and the ID of each
household. When they learned the information
could be sent using electrical pulses via a
line and through the airwave they
manufactured the hardware that could convert
the pulses into meaningful words and vice
versa which they called MODEM. When we have
a message to be sent out we need to know to
whom it will be sent. The sender and the
receiver have to be in the network. Everyone
has to register for the internet service.
Every time we lock to the network we are
given an ID number at random. When we log
out the number will be given to someone
else. This is what the kid described as
Public IP.
I told the kid about the fixed ID using a
domain name. If we have our own server and
we want broadcast information then we have
to give a name to it uniquely different from
the others, like happy.com which has a fixed
ID say 212.188.0.12. We have to register it
and pay for the domain name. There is also a
free domain called NO-IP which givers free
service but it is quite complicated as we
have to do thing like port forwarding. Mind
you that kid mentioned port forwarding as
well. When we are broadcasting signals we
have to open up a port for our signal to go
out. Port is like a window. Usually we sent
out different things through different port,
the game and the email, the chat and other
stuffs. What we don't realize that when we
lock into another machine we sort of plug in
a socket for the computers to shake hands.
In fact you can browse the other side hard
disks from your home thousand of miles away
and steal his data.
The network dreamer dream of the paperless
office as files and a huge amount of data
could be kept in a small space and the
retrieval is within seconds. BUT humans are
not created to be sinless with high moral
value. Those with knowledge love to spoof,
send malicious things into other people's
machines, steal information and spoil the
remote computers. The kid asked me about the
anti-virus. And he said that anti-virus
created its own virus and killed them, spy
the content of our machine and slowed our
machine down. I believe him. He began to see
the disadvantages of computers.
Everybody seems to be very smart these days,
even the school kids know much more than
many of us.
07/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
GOD DECIDES |
The maddening of the Red Shirts fueled by
the obvious gang is not a good sign to all.
It could even lead to the dreadful civil war
pushed and triggered by the personal army of
one man. A small skirmish could lead to a
bloody fight as what had happened in Syria
before the rebels rose up against Assad.
The Red Shirts are to make sure the ruling
party will continue to rule by devious means
like delineating boundaries, threatening
voters, stuffing the ballot boxes and
exchange the boxes through tricky and
corrupt ways. But people are used to BN
however bitter the taste is.
Najib wants a quick election to tell the
world that the populace support him and it
is not the business of the world to know and
care what he does to the country. Let the
Malayasian decides on their fate. Will his
plan work ? His think tank thinks it will, forgetting that the millions
dissatisfied and unhappy people will not
vow to Najib's the misdeeds.
From the reading of the feedback we could
surmise that there are people out
there who keep notes and tracks and records
of those bad people protecting crimes and
corruptions, and decide to pursue these bad
people like what the Jews did to the
Nazis. They hunted the murderers to the
grave in South America. They did not
spare and forgive the murderers. The evil
crooks could not
escape persecution even after declaring themselves
to be dead.
Najib is strongly leaning on Obama and
Clinton. The war in Syria did not get the
unanimous agreement of the Congress and the
Americans. While Assad was trying to show he
was a friend of the Americans the local
Syrians abused by his army cried for the
weapons. Likewise it could happen here too. We have to remember that the
distant from the United States and Malaysia
is only Diego Garcia.
It does not take a long time for the
President of the United States to really
know who Najib is. The world is trying to
establish fact on the murder of Kevin Morais.
It may be linked to Najib's arrest warrant.
And there are millions of Malaysians who are
praying for the Red card to be flashed on
Najib by foreign countries. It would be the
comeuppance for his calumny on his enemies,
falsely branding them as terrorists and the IS. Najib has to remember of Saddam Hussein's
land slide victory in his last election. He
was not hung by the Bush administration but by his own
people. At least the Iraqis were not so
vengful as the Jews.
DOJ and the Swiss counterpart will somehow
have eyeballs to talk things over a cup of
coffee. Only God will know what may
transpire.
When you read the accompanying articles you
must not simply believe the content. It
may be a mere slander but it may also be the truth.
You have to look into it in a macro way
to extract the relationships. before jumping
to conclusion.
The money illusion game and trick is a trick
and a game. No matter how you do with it
people will know how you you juggle with it. We may be hearing
terms that we have not heard of before. Terms
like 'donation' has been a word of jest,
paying back to the donor is another bigger
jest though the cash movement has been
traced. Names like Tanore, Jho Low and
Najib have been synonymous. They seem to be
one and the same. It is an illusion. Someone
is a great illusionist. Denizens saw the
game.
The Malaysians have to put their faith in
God and pray for the well being of the
citizens. Let God decides what to do with
this one man and one woman. As for Mahathir
God has presented the punishment on him for
the living Malaysians to see. What will God
decide on Rosmah and when ? The more they
insult the God Almighty the severe will be
the punishment. Just wait and see.
06/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
HAM RADIO-
I shrink myself |
Instead of widening my radio boundary to
touch the expanding world of communication
technology, I shrank myself and my radio
world. I would not be interested in SDR or
Rasberry Pie, neither the new extended band
given to the amateur operators could pull me
there. I almost throw my microphone away
except on the VHF and UHF.
The migration from SSB to CW is a hegira for
me but in the retrogressive manner. Further
more I rarely go to 20 meter band as I
locked myself only on 7 MHZ, between 7.000
to 7.028. I parked myself on the bad spot
because that is the favorable frequency for
me. It is bad because the Indonesians who
are not suppose to transmit on SSB are
forever there as if the same persons do not
go to sleep at all.
I know that even the full pledge Indonesian
hams are not happy with what is going on on
the CW portion of the band. I did overheard
their conversation about the corrupt
authority. Like the local MACC there has
been no attempt to erase the ongoing
nonsense that have been polluting the band.
It is true that I am trying to steer away
from no-code amateurs. Instead of burning
away all my ham gears I might as well escape
to a remote zone where there are less crowds
and a few faces of identical interests. It
is hard with the kind of noise but I have to
tolerate myself. Big signals from a few new
9Ms would drown the audio level.
I have been in the ham radio since 1970's,
about a century ago. Soon will be 2017. I am
tired of collecting and writing out QSL
cards. I had thrown sack and sack of them in
the river. I had work on RTTY and had put up
a gorgeous antenna system that took me
around the globe giving people 59+ RST
report. Now with the help of computer and
internet we are exposed to the new mode of
amazing communication. People can talk
visually to each other. A friend of mine
said, "What's so great about amateur radio
when everybody can have a visual intercourse
using computers." He was right.
But other than games which I am not fond of
computers computers do not provide mental
alert exercise. Sports do assist the
flow of blood that won't put our brain to
laziness. Thinking does activate our mind.
Morse codes deciphering maintain it's
alertness. I could do the same exercise
using the ready application such as
Moresefree soft ware but it does not have a
human touch. Ragchewing live with a friend
covers the current topic. To me this is the
only thing left in the ham radio that
provides the service to my desire. The
shrinking phenomena is unavoidable.
People in the hobby cling to their smart
phones or PCs for many hours each day, more
than they are on the radio. But radio is
convenient when going mobile, less hassle to
run compared to the android. The radio
operators could put more focus on the road.
I would not encourage everyone to limit
himself to a single activity. He has a lot
to explore and to taste every aspect of
amateur radio, inside and outside his radio
shack; the field day, JOTA, the IOTA and
Light House events and climbing hills to put
up and repair repeaters. He should
experiment with the various type of antenna
system and the power used. The time will
come when fate decides that he has to spend
less time on amateur radio. And several have
gone to meet God before us.
I am sorry that I have said I will avoid the
no-code operators on HF on SSB, not because
I dislike them but because I have to stand
by my own principle and my belief in the
meaning of the traditional ham radio. It was
in a bundle, that accompany it is the Morse
codes. Like a religion, the Holly Book must
not be thrown away. Until the term Ham Radio
us removed and replaced by some other name
and the hobby is opened to every member of
the public without any compulsory condition,
my principle stands.
Living in a smaller world won't rob away the
pleasure and fun of my free time.
06/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
A WIFE |
A husband should help his wife in lessening
the burden of doing the daily household
chores. But he must not himself be totally
controlled by his spouse to order and demand
him to do the cooking, ironing, sweeping the
floor and washing clothes. She would sit
like a fierce queen shrieking and yelling at
her submissive and docile husband.
In Islam it is a big sin for a wife to treat
and bully her husband like a slave. It would
be different if the man finds it enjoyable
to follow and does what is required of him.
But a friend of mine has been grumbling
being controlled by the spouse to his
friends yet continue to obey as commanded.
Not knowing Islamic culture and a simple
Islamic law is not forgivable.
Imagine that every single thing you want to
do you need a permission of your spouse. A
ham radio operator has to plead and beg for
the radio hour and only allowed to be in the
shack after fulfilling a certain conditions.
I did not ask him what his wife did while he
was doing the house work, cleaning, washing
and ironing for fear it might hurt him. It
would be acceptable if they ere sharing the
jobs. While she cooks, he iron the cloth.
While he watering the plant, she cleans the
kitchen. It would be a craze if he sweat
himself and the wife is happily chatting
with her friends on the phone or on whatsapp
application.
Marriage is not merely for sex. It is more
than a companion. It is for happiness and
the peace of mind. Never mind about the hard
work and striving for daily bread. The poor
traditional people went to the farm land in
the morning, working under the sun in the
padi field and went home in late evening.
There were happiness in their homes and at
death they departed. Those were the days of
our great grand fathers.
People have been telling me to get a wife.
It is a hard thing to do now. I have been
mixing with plenty of ladies at my work
place and had begun to understand a lot on
their hearts and thoughts. I have been
befriending American ladies for almost 18
months, having a Korean lady companion who
taught me statistics for 3 months. The
experience was enough. If I was single I
would have married a Korean woman, my
statistical teacher. That was the nostalgic
period of 40 years ago. She was smart,
intelligent and humble. When she met her
fellow countrymen she would vow to them
elegantly. I noticed she was very patient in
elucidating concepts to me. So much so I
scored an A and she scored a B. MOre than
40% of the white Americans failed with Es
and Fs. What a joke.
How could I get a wife who would not shout
at me, commanding me to run house work and
set rules and regulations for me ? The best
thing of living alone is the total freedom
that I am having. I do what I like and when
I want. I hear no nagging and no shrieking
voice yelling at me.
I can have a company or a companion but not
a wife. It takes a long time to know a woman
and to have feeling on her. Taking a wife is
not a trivial matter. When friends said they
would help me looking for one, my response
was," Go and look for a poor, pious and a
good cook." A poor person would not demand
for a leather jacket and expensive watches
and iPhone 7. She would not go against her
husband and understand what constitute sins.
And she would do all the home cooking
without having to waste much at eating out.
05/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
|
EARLY WALKING
TODAY |
I just like to do my evening walk alone.
When I do, I would not be looking left and
right, backward or upwards. It is very rare
that I would look up the sky to estimate the
time when the rain would dropped ie when the
sky was dark. From time to time people
accosted me and walked at my phase asking
questions and telling stories. I do not
have a permanent group as the others.
There are three main tracks; the inner 0.8
km, the outer 1,2 km and the extended that
touched the main road which is about 3 km.
My usual track is the outer 1.2 km rout
which I would be walking for four rounds.
Probably there are more than a hundred
people exercising in the evening, flocking
the Taman Jubli Perak at about 6 pm.
I began to see young people these days, boys
and girls of between 16 to 18. The girls run
for a couple of rounds, completing about 2
to 3 km, non stop. A few boys jog and walk
intermittently. The Chinese ladies between
16 to 40 seemed to complete the extended
circuits for more than 6 rounds. They run
together with the men of mix races without
showing any exhaustion.
Today I went extremely early after my late
lunch at KFC, my regular wedges. Because it
was still hot, I took the innermost circuit
as it is shaded by large trees in the park.
It was 3 pm. This track is specially design
to have different gradients and the ups and
downs. I get more tired easily here than the
outside one. The two little hills would tax
our energy and drive our sweat out. After
completing four rounds I went for the
outside lane, walking under the hot sun for
one round.
As I was finalizing my exercise I saw this
usual man arriving with his motorbike, a
Chinese man who always greeted me as passed
me. While I was doing a light exercise I
told him of my limited coverage. "Never
mind,"he said."As long as you do it
everyday. I have been running here since I
was twenty. Now I am 58. In those days I
came in the morning, arriving here as early
as 5 am."
This man, as I have been seeing him, has
been running for hours on end, starting at 4
pm till after 6.30 pm. He did not run fast but taking a short step. I computed he is
doing more than 25 km per day. "Must take
care of our health," he said to me.
One of these days I want to snap some pictures of
the regular guys. A couple of Malay men
about 50 plus walk briskly like floating on
the air without their feet touching the
ground. They would overtake every slow
joggers. And a group of Indian men who
walked almost as fast as the two Malay men
took the extended circuit.
It is 5.30 now. I think I still have time to
for my second exercise after bathing and
praying.
The pin badge bearing my picture and name is
on my chest all the time. I made it. I wear
it.
04/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
AT LAST MY
GOODS HAS ARRIVED |
Yesterday I lodged a report to Consumer
Association about the good that was
not delivered on time. And the Consumer
Association acted fast. At 4 pm a courier
company rang me up and asked the way to my
home. I paid on the 24/09/2016, posted by
the company on the 26/09/2016 and received
on 03/10/2016.
I pondered what could be the cause for the
delay when all my previous purchases took a
day or two to arrive. The first reason
was the company Ta-Q-Bin does not have an
office in Alor Setar. And secondly the
driver of the van must be some sort of a
nut. It is an attitude problem. It is
a common problem to a work place. I used to see the
postmen and the courier van resting
in a park, taking siesta and slept on the bench,
and in the old days the TNB(LLN) workers played
takraw during the working hours at their
favorite places.
I took the company to task for refusing to
send me a new supply. I told DIY that once I
received the goods by Ta-Q-Bin I will bank in
another payment. It was their refusal to
take the responsibility that drove me crazy
and reported them to the association.
Previously I had a problem with Tabung Haji
who refused to remedy their error in dividing
of my wife bequest. I found TH was very
stubborn and arrogant. I was pushed around
by days. The officer tried to look for my
mistake but could not find one. It was
nearly a month the promise was not honored.
Before I took a legal action, I decided to
lodge a report to Biro Pengaduan Awam.
Yesterday I received a letter from Tabung
Haji that the matter has been resolved.
An adjustment has been made. But never to admit
their error. The letter said they did that
because my kids agree to the adjustment and
TH was under the order of the Biro Pengaduan
Awam.
I have no choice but to conclude that Tabung Haji is
the company that is filled up with arrogant and
garbage
officers, concurrent to the reports on its
wastage and misused of the public funds.
04/10/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE
MALAYSIANS OR THE MALAYS ? |
1. While others spent money on the ham gears
and fishing facilities, I spent on making
the pin badge. I made some on my own accord
and distributed to my friends. But I
received request from individuals, from my
old students and friends. I was glad to make
one for each of them.
First I would look for their pictures from
the Facebook. Having found them I copied to
my thumb drive. Then using my template with
the old graphic soft ware I resized the
pictures to fit the template. Depending on
the design it took about 10 to 25 minute to
complete one image. These images were
transferred to Word 2003 and copied to the
thumb drive again. It was taken to be
printed using a color laser print to one
photographic shop in the city center. The
shop charged me RM2 for a shit which
contained 6 images.
Posting the keychain and the badge is not a
trivial matter. The thick enveloped cost me
money. The postage too costs money. It
troubled me a little. I have to decide that
if anyone were to request a free souvenir he
has to come and get it himself.
2. A couple, my wife relatives, would be
seen going from house to house selling
various type of cookies. They were about 60
years living in a place called Anak Bukit.
Their daughter working in an oil company in
the United States, first having an American
husband and later married a Malay after her
divorce. I could have asked my wife then why
should the couple keep on peddling cooking
when their daughter was having a fat income.
I saw another mother whose siblings are in
top position of the society and one marrying
a wealthy celebrity went on peddling food
supplements. My mind kept on wondering
whether she has not have enough daily bread
to feed on, or just a mere hobby for her.
3. A friend of mine would be asking me to
fetch her son from school, her daughter from
tuition class at night, feed her fish when
she traveled across the state. Her husband
asked me for a RM50k loan which I did not
oblige for I did not have that much. She
asked me for another loan for RM25K. I gave
the requested amount.
About a couple of months later,
I asked for 20 minutes of her time to send
me to the train station that takes only 10
minutes each way. She
said that she was too busy. Neither did she ask her
husband to help me. Nevertheless I could
resolve the problem with a little bit of a
hassle.
4. My wife has passed away. She used to have
a walker to assist her in walking. Because
of her size, I could not lift her when she
fell.
When we went traveling and she fell on her
way to the toilet, the first to rush to lift
her was the Chinese. Not one time but
several. At the bank when she wanted to come
out of the car, the Chinese were the first
to rush to help her.
One day, when we arrived home, there were a
few Malay girls waiting to collect
donations. I was busy preparing the wheel
chair to transfer my wife on the chair. The
task was quite hard. Those girls were just
watching. No one tried to help me or trying
to show any attempt of any kind.
I had to shove them off after my wife was on
the wheelchair.
The numerous scenes of human scenario of
disappointments and frustrations may enhance
the mistrust towards our own fellow
denizens. Sometimes I asked myself what has
been happenings to the morality and culture
of the Malays ? Or are they common
happenings amongst the other Malaysians too
?
There is a Malay saying 'Buat baik
berpada-pada buat jahat jangan sekali'. Do
good to others but don't kill yourself and
avoid hurting others at all time. And our
society is still importance to filial piety.
If you hate your farther so much for his
wrongs on you, do not ever take a single
cent of his bequest. I do know of sons and
daughters who stopped their parents from
selling and peddling for their own breads.
You lose nothing from distancing yourself
from selfish and arrogant people. You only
lose his company. On many occasion you
will not be a victim anymore. They can be
very scrupulous and very inconsiderate.
Generally the Malays are very short sighted.
They can't the future and they refuse to
compute the coming events. They become so
very greedy, wanting to be rich quickly in
the mischievous ways without thinking of the
consequences, and would not want to put
their thinking cap. The masses prefer to bear
the burden caused by their leaders and
defended the sins and crimes of the evil
ministers.
God, religion and conscience seemed to be
dead. At some places mosques were raped;
carpet and other properties stolen. In many
places the mosque's collections were
snatched during the prayer time. The
stealing of shoes are untold. We would not
expect that to happen at the Holly places
and the House of God. Those who did the
odious acts never show any guilt or morose.
You will understand your fellow specie more
if you are on the road at a busy time and
when the traffic is heavy and congested. I
need not elaborate about it. Almost all of
you have seen and experience it. You and I
could be one of the inconsiderate, selfish
and reckless guys. At other time we tend to
show our goodness, courtesy and smiling
faces.
What cause the degeneration of the Malays ?
04/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
|
DIY PRINT DAN
TA-Q-BIN |
Hari ini ialah 01/10/2016. Saya membayar
RM116.60 kepada sebuah syarikat di Kuala
Lumpur bernama DIY bagi pembelian barangan
jenis souvenir pada 24/09/2016. DIY
menggunakan khidmat sebuah syarikat hantaran
yang saya tidak pernah dengar sebab syarikat
ini tidak ada di Alor Setar. Di sini saya
biasa dengan GDex dan Skynet. Saya meminta
DIY Print menggunakan khidmat GDex tetapi
permintaan saya ditolak atas alasan ia tidak
mempunyai akaun dengan lain-lain 'forwarding
agent', kecuali TA-Q-BIN.
Pada 26/09/2016 barangan diserahkan kepada
Ta-Q-Bin. Sehingga ke hari ini saya belum
menerima apa-apa. Menurut DIY rekod tracking
menunjukkan bahawa barangan tersebut sudah
dihantar kepada saya. Katanya lagi mereka
tidak salah.
Apakah yang terjadi ? Saya tidak tahu. Saya
kira mungkin ramai orang lain juga sudah
mengalami apa yang saya alami. Kelmarin
sahaja saya tidak ke mana-mana kerana DIY
memberi jaminan bahwa barangan akan sampai
dan meminta saya tunggu di rumah.
Saya suruh DIY menghantar yang baharu. Kata
saya kalau saya terima dari kurier saya akan
masukkan pembayaran sekali lagi. Syarikat
enggan berbuat demikian. Apa yang saya
fahamkan ialah kalau barang itu tidak sampai
itu adalah urusan saya sendiri, bukan lagi
urusan DIY.
RM116.90 adalah banyak bagi saya tetapi ia
tidak membunuh saya. Saya berpegang kepada
prinsip kejujuran perniagaan. Saya rasa DIY
tidak pentingkan pelanggan dan tidak
mempunyai 'moral obligation'.
Saya membeli mesin membuat badge dari DIY
dengan membayar di sekitar RM1200 dan
membuat beberapa kali tempahan bahan
keychain dan badge. Bukan dengan
tujuan perniagaan. Cuma hendak memenuhi rasa
ingin tahu dan membuat pelbagai hasil
mengikut citrasa saya sendiri. Sewaktu saya
hendak ke Jakarta menghadiri konvensyen
radio saya meminta sebuah kedai membuat
pin badge untuk dibawa ke sana. Kedai
tidak membuat hanya sekeping. Saya perlu
tempah 20 keping dengan harga RM2.50. Dengan
membuat sendiri saya boleh menghasilkan
kepelbagaian.
Saya menggunakan cetakan laser untuk gambar
sebab ia tidak akan pudar walaupun hsilnya
tidak begitu cantik seperti dengan
menggunakn ink-jet. Saya suruh kedai
mencetak gambar ini setelah siap membuat
designnya. Apabila selesai saya memberi
badge pin dan keychain ini kepada
rakan-rakan dan pada orang lain secara
percuma. Bukan kerana saya kaya atau ada
banyak duit, tetapi untuk memperolehi
kepuasan hidup. Biasa pula kita menghabiskan
berpuluh ribu dengan penggunaan bagi hal-hal
yang tidak manfaat.
Saya tidak fikir barang-barang itu akan
sampai. Ta-Q-Bin akan memberitahu DIY yang
mereka sudah hantar.
Walaupun amaun yang terlibat hanylah
RM116.60 saya akan mengambil tindakan
undang-undang dengan kos yang lebih mahal,
atas dasar prinsip. Tetapi sebelumnya saya
akan membuat aduan kepada Persatuan Pengguna
dahulu. Ada lagi beberapa tindakan yang
boleh diambil selepas ini. Pada saya DIY
yang tidak ada tanggung jawab. Terpulanglah
pada syarikat untuk mendapatkan kembali
barangan atau gantirugi dari Ta-Q-Bin.
01/10/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
HIRED KILLERS |
Hired
killers. We wouldn't have known what is
happening in the dark side of the world. But
we could always make a wild guess as to the
silhouetting activities unknown to many. We
know that there are hired killers who
recently shot several persons in the country
using merely short guns. We don't know who
hired them, the cost of the service and how
negotiations were made.
It has to be
a lucrative business and probably many
unemployed men are loitering for the job.
The Malays being naive and lazy prefer to
beg for a living and won't dare to get
involve in violence and killings.
Professional
killers are witty, intelligent, tough and
excel in combat. The ex-servicemen like a
seal is more suitable for the job. Snipers
would have to be very expensive to hire.
More often than not they end up themselves
as mercenaries.
In Malaysia a
few murders was seen as planned and it took
more than one man to run the execution.
There had to be someone who waited near the
victim's house and followed his car. Then he
would rang up the hit man to complete the
job. We could have guessed the man who paid
for the killing was not in the country on
the date of the shooting.
Never think
of becoming one. Moles are planted
everywhere, at the arm factory and even the
delivery agent could be one. The gun runner
may sell you a gun for a few K but he could
get more from selling the information to the
government. And never think of hiring one
too.
Funny in USA
a person was asking a man to kill his
girlfriend for $600 and $25000 to kill a
spouse. In England the lowest was 200 pounds
and the highest was 100000 pounds. I would
not accept that much to do such a dirty job.
You need to enter the dark side and
transformed yourself to learn more about
these killers. We are talking about a plain
hit man who carries a job just for me, not
about exchanging favors between the
underworld and the top government officers
so that their illegal business could go on
without disturbances. Or the agreement
between a bad politicians and the gangsters.
Tamil movies love to create the stories of
devious cooperation of the two worlds.
The lives of
Ghandis and Anwar Saddat were not taken away
by the hired killers. So was Osama ben
Laden. They killed under order or on their
own accord due to excessive hatred. The
newest trend is the suicide bombers. Hired
killers won't do suicide. They won't spend
their free time looking for explosive
materials and build up a bomb. They would
approached the target and fire a gun at
point blank. They are not regarded as
terrorists, just a professional killer.
Knowledge of
bomb making and the availability of the
materials poses potential danger to all. A
lonely quiet man with vengeance may make an
attempt to pursue the knowledge on explosive
making.
Ask
ourselves, to what extend that someone wants
us to be killed ? You may hire someone to
cut a finger of a man who refuses to honor a
5000 ringgit loan but not to take his life
away. The worst you would do is to kidnap
his love pet. Even under an intense
injustice and calumny the denizens do not
run amok. In general the Malays in
particular are still docile and submissive.
The top echelon whose position are
threatened are known to use hired killer to
put an end to people's lives. We saw this in
the death of Jalil who investigated the Bank
Bumiputera. I can't help thinking even Kevin
Morais was killed by a hired killer if not
by a gang group who is doing a favor for
someone.
Don't even
think of being a sniper. The gun is too
heavy and too expensive for you. You don't a
space to advertise your job. If you are
jobless go begging or plan some robberies on
some rich guys with exotic cars and a huge
mansion. If you are caught you will have a
free lodging and food in jail. Vagabonds and
homeless do not threaten people's lives.
From the few
video images we could conclude that contract
killers exist in this country and probably
they are hard up for money.
30/09/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
MAKING FUN OF
ZAHID'S ENGLISH |
I am never a fan of Zahid Hamidi, the
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister. But when
criticism was thrown upon him, I have to
examine the veracity of the story and to be
as objective as possible. The Deputy Prime
Minister was sent to the United Nation in
place of Najib. Then there were news that
the assembly was almost empty when he took
the stand to deliver his speech and his
English was too bad and he was talking
nonsense.
I saw two separate videos, one in a blog and
the other in the Facebook. The clip in the
blog showed Zahid was talking about the
progress of the nation. The audio was clear
and intelligible. The hall was almost empty.
Zahid was trying hard to slang it out the
British way but did not even come to near it
with a few difficulties in pronunciations. The
critics said he was wrong to mention
'silos', 'women and ewus', 'one point
center' and the utterance of 'President Najib'. I
could decipher that Zahid was talking about
Malaysia achievement in Eco System.
The people are no longer living in a cave. Women
and youths are working together towards the
progress and national development. We are the only
country in the world that has a single place where the members
of the public can go to settle bills and
other dealings without having have to run
to separate institutions to settle their
deals.
In the second clip the picture was fuzzy and
the sound was full of noise. I could not
make out what Zahid was talking about.
I am in no position to pass remarks on the
standard of English used. Certainly the
language used in the feedback I read from
Malaysiakini and a few others are of higher
quality. I sensed there were penned down by
professionals like lawyers and other
intellects. In fact they are far better than
the British and the Anglo Saxon Americans.
On several accounts I heard comments that
those who are poor in English are of low
intelligence. BN Cyber troopers and
Ministers could not speak and write English
well. Therefore they are the moronic group
of the Malaysian specie. Statements by
several ministers do in fact corroborate the
suspicion and the hypothesis.
There is something that we have to be aware
of. Our speech and ideas show our mental
state, our wit and our acuteness.
The representatives from China or Japan would
not go to the United Nation to boast of
their bullet trains and the state of the
arts of their toilet bowls. The Swedish
would not go to narrate on their free
university education. Yet we are bragging of
our one stop center.
I am sure those who were in the hall did
understand what Zahid was trying to
convey though he might have not used the
Queen English. You travel to England and the
Englishmen would be astonished to hear your English,
asking you where and how long you
take to learn their lingo. Certainly our
lawyers are far better than the native
Englishmen themselves.
And about the empty hall, we are in no
position to know whether the hall had been
empty all the while even before Zahid's
speech.
The whole world has known the 1Mdb scandal,
that a huge sum of money found their way
into Najib's account. Surely they do not
look at Zahid the same way as they look at
Japanese delegate. Every movement and words
spewed were observed and analyzed.
The legacy of Najib, Zahid and all other BN
supporters are hard to erase as it involved
the death of Kevin Morais, the founder of
the AmBank, and PI Bala. There is bound for
someone to suspect that Mafia has penetrated
the government of Malaysia.
It is not the quality and standard of
English used by Zahid that loom as a main
concern but it is the background clouding
our national leaders. At home we are making
fun of the DPM for his poor showmanship. The
video has gone viral but luckily only reached a
small number of audiences. The kampong folks
would not care much about it.
29/09/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
HOW GOOD IS
YOUR CW ? |
My definition of a good CWer may differ from
many others. Again it is only my view.
The basic criteria of a CWer is the ability
to receive and send codes by his ears and
fist. We have to find a new term for those
who solely using machines for the tasks. I
would not give the highest point to the
hams who can operate at 45 to 60 wpm and the
lowest to the slower speed guys. To me a good CWer
is flexible enough to adjust his speed to
his counterpart and making the other side
able to copy the total message with ease.
There has to be relative gaps between
characters and words like A and E or
otherwise it will be R.
Many a time I responded to a CQ call that
was about 20 to 25 wpm. But several of my
questions were not answered or I would get
the reply as QSB, QRN and QRM. On the other
hand when I worked Mazwan, 9MZN, he was able
to decipher my total message despite
numerous errors. If the guy had understood
me he would have respond to my questions.
I have been following JA1NUT and W6TT's
communications and enjoyed monitoring them. Errors were nil. The chat went
smoothly. Words were well spaced. To me, they are
great CWers.
Sending at a slow speed does not make a
person inferior. The Indonesian CW sifu who
can do Morse at 45 wpm and worked me
with only 12 - 15 wpm. He wanted to make
sure that I could copy every word of his. A beginner
should not be ashamed to start with 5 wpm.
Speed will pick up automatically as
decided by the brain. And age too played a part
as it influences the neuro-coordination.
The motor response is slower than the brain.
One tends to leave a character or a word
without one realizes it.
Last night 9M2ZN asked 9M2MCB several
questions at quite a high speed. And 9M2MCB
caught it and replied though he is
considered a beginner in the ragchewing.
It is good to be jealous if someone is
better than us . It
brews in us the desire to elevate our standard
a few inches, to be a better operator, and we can plan for the race. But it
would be bad to cause pain onto the others,
like pressing our key down to
deliberately cause QRM. Though
nobody would know it, but by itself it made us
very unethical hams. The bad heart blends with
our blood. It would be amazing if we
can still go to sleep without any regret
with our rogue demeanor.
A good CWer tunes outside the frequency in
used. He listens for a minute before sending
"QRL ?" Then he starts calling CQ. Some QRP
stations would put the word QRP before the
invitation. Many stations in the globe are
ever willing to let the QRP stations know
how they are received by DX from their
continents. We
encourage people to give an honest report,
not 599 all the way. Or we we could make a fool of
ourselves by asking them to repeat heir names and QTH
again and again.
You may be hearing a long CQ call without a
reply. Try to be courteous and go for his
call even he is a station from Israel or
North Korea. Keep sentiments and emotions
aside.
A good CWer is not an absolute status but it
is a status within a class; 12 wpm, 25 wpm
and 45 wpm class, as examples. A beginner
stays within his own class. We observe how
hard he has tried and what improvements he
has made. I would go for the
readability and the clarity of each
word through proper spacing, and his ability to copy the incoming
signals very well.
It is not wise to parade our prowess and
skill which almost no CWers have done till
today. We are still learning and practicing
on reading messages using free softwares in the
smartphone. Till the world ends our brain
will always be lacking in knowledge and
other mysteries.
We don't need to be a supermen. We have to
be tolerant at others' mistakes and hope for
every mutual understanding. Together with
ethics and the ability to communicate well
will make us a good CWers.
28/09/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
IMAGES
SWIRLING MY MIND WHEN GOING TO BED |
DEATH AND GOD-I went to a funeral this morning. My former
school's driver's wife passed away yesterday
after a stroke. She was 55. Death, in my
view, is always a better choice than living
in pain and sickness. That was what my late
wife pleaded from me when she was in great
pain, to release her and not to go for more
medication. And when I was alone the same
thought embraced me.
Not many people would be thinking of their
death especially the young ones. Wealthy
people struggle to fight ageing, wanting to
live forever. Najib at 64 said he wants to
rule for 22 years more. He foresees that he
will live forever. And we look up there we
see Tengku Nan, Ismail Sabry, Mustaffa and
other elderly politicians who go for the
world, money, power and fame. Some still
wear rings and necklaces despite being
grandfathers. To me those who do not think
of death do not think of God.
Not many prominent figure committed suicide
just because of too lonely or finding life
is useless for them. Many Hollywood and TV
actors and actresses preferred to say good
bye to the world. To the living it was
gruesome and bizarre.
I have to plan my death. If I were to die
suddenly especially at home then none of my
friends and relatives would know it. If I
were to die in a hospital then people would
know of my demise. I would sent them of my
hospitalization after I have asked the
doctor the chances of my being cured. The
answer has to be 90%.
I am not afraid of death and it be better
than living in the world run by an evil
ruler. I have seen too much of the sinister
stuffs beyond reason and imagination. The
last time I heard of a man who elevate
himself to God was the Pharaoh of Egypt. I
thought it was the first and the last, never
to expect it will pop and loom again in this
part of the world. It is very sickening.
I would not be able to tell the mystery of
life and death and I cannot interpret what
is in the knowing of the Almighty through my
human mind. I cannot put logic to analyze
the mystery of the unknown and to expose the
supreme power. All I know that beside
predestination humans are given a choice.
Even the choice is the submission, the
choice to do evil or the choice to end one's
life. There is a promise to humans for the
choice or submissions they made, a perpetual
abode in heaven or the burning of the
hellfire.
FREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION - There are
countries in this world that provide free
university education. Norway, Denmark,
Germany, Finland are among the few. You need
to do a little googling to create a list of
free university education. For a Malaysian
to enter any of those universities he need
to start learning the local lingo since form
3 and 4. If they are in English then
Malaysians can apply to do their degree
programs in these institutions.
We used to have University Al-Bukhary which
provide free education to the foreign as
well as Malaysian students. But it was
recently closed and sold to another private
entrepreneur.
Currently students who do not win a
scholarship has to pay on their own or make
a loan from a government agencies. Many
failed to honor the loan as many of the
graduates are jobless, and people in the
jobs are laid off. The defaulters are barred
from living the country. The government
defended it's action. Majority of the
victims are the Malays.
WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW
- I was 10 when we celebrated our first
independent. When Tengku Abdul Rahman became
the first Prime Minister we were in the
jolly mood. I adored Tengku very much at my
young age and would always here to his
speech whenever he made one. Our finance
Minister was Tan Siew Sin from Melaka. The
Chinese didn't like him because he did not
know how to speak Chinese. Like Tengku I
would listen to his budget speech. Tan Siew
Sin was the greatest of all finance
minister.
Tin and rubber brought wealth to the
country. Malaysia became so wealthy with a
big bulk of reserve. I say he was great
because he was not greedy with living in the
sea of money. He could have stole in many
ways without being known. He was trying to
combat with unemployment using the wealth by
creating jobs. There were various schemes
for the university graduates waiting for
vacancies. Retirement age was much earlier
than now. Today they are paying to the more
senile elderly till 65 and let the young
people get unemployed.
Of course the present generations may not
heard of the name. There will be someone
from the current administration who might
thrown criticism on him. The same person may
also criticize God for not making him the
most powerful man in the country.
The Tengku may go for an evening walk in
Kuala Lumpur Lake Garden alone, on his own
without a body guard. He knew that he was
nobody's target. Nobody would want to shoot
or hurt him. Only by accident the IGP at
that time notice the Prime Minister and
quickly rushed and scolded the Tengku.
During the euphoria of independence, there
was a man in the North by the name of Arshad
whom we knew him as Chad Gila (a Mad Arshad).
Chad Gila wore a songkok and shabby dress
carrying an umbrella. He would beg at the
railway station Bukit Mertajam. Almost
everyone would give him at least ten cents.
Then he would take some and gave to small
children 5 cents each. Chad Gila always
shouted the word MERDEKA and praised the
beloved hero Tengu Abdul Rahman. He said
when independent day arrived he wanted the
Tengku to shave his head. And you know what
? The Tengku did.
Arshad, the unsung hero of mental delirium,
unknown to the current and future
generation, has passed away. His neighbor
said he was a sane man who made sure that
his kids would have a proper education and
would contribute to the progress of the
nation.
I WANT TO MIGRATE
- Wealth, power and status does
guarantee happiness. I am not wealthy but
God has blessed me with great abundance. 80%
of my mind rest in tranquility and
happiness. But I can't run away from
unhappiness that stared upon me by political
happenings and family stuffs. The worst that
kills me is the politics of Najib and his
supporters. It is very painful and hit me to
the core. I am not an opposition member nor
the sympathizer to any of them. But I saw
clearly what Najib is doing to the citizens
and especially to the Malays.
They are happy to tell us to leave the
country. I think millions would like to. Let
Najib negotiate with any of the countries in
the world to buy a part of their land or
islands to chuck us out.
If anyone could offer me with an immigrant
visa for a cost I would be ready to pay for
it.
Many non-Malays have families outside
Malaysia, in Australia, Canada, Thailand and
the United States. A few has moved away
though their hearts are in this country. I
am ever willing to move in in any of the
Malaysians regardless of the ethnic group.
The lies and deceptions are unbearable. It
is a pity the Malay leaders do not realize
that they are killing their own race and
destroying their religion.
I lived under the repressive Mahathir and
detested him so much then but I had never
thought of leaving the country.
BOASTING
- Believe me or not boasting is a form of
sickness. I can't really say how far the
diabetes and hypertension could contribute
to vanity. But I have seen persons with such
a character do suffer from both of the
diseases mentioned above. I noticed that a
few who are good in English do regard those
whose command of the language are poor are
less intelligent than those with who are
refine in competencies. There those
lecturers and PHD holders in Malaysian
universities who scorn the non-college
goers. Of course my usual attacking response
was to ask them how much of the world are
within their knowledge.
There are millions of people with admirable
achievements but laying low refusing to
parade their successes. An American doctor
on the train I met to Bangkok did not allow
me to address him as a doctor though both he
and his wife were in medical profession. I
was a student then and was not prudent
enough to ask them their nature of work. I
Have a few PHD American and Canadian
students who were so humble and never made
us so very small.
But we are so simple to call others STUPID.
While many called some ministers stupid, I
chose to call BAD. They deliberately yell
statements that made people angry and
threatening the public using their own law.
DIFFERENT FORM OF INTELLIGENCE
- We tend to say people with high IQ,
college and university graduates and those
who score straight As are intelligent group
of masses. Lately the pundits defined the
physical and mental intelligence. A child
who looked quiet and stupid was seen to be
able to build complex objects which others
could not do.
Some men are good in lying, cheating and
making others work for them. They are good
in deceiving the public. They impressed
people in their talk. But they can't solve a
simple arithmetic problem and failed to
grasp abstract concept. They jumped to the
wrong conclusions. Yet people fell to them
and kowtow to the demands. One of the
classic examples is Ayah Pin of the Sky
Kingdom.
MANKIND CREATE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS
- Many people were given advised. A big
majority would not want to take those
advices because they think they have a
better idea. Some would attack you upon
being told the right thing to do. The show
of arrogance were sometimes distasteful and
very hurting.
I would stop giving them any view anymore.
When they are facing problems I would refuse
to listen to them. Good or bad they have to
swallow and live with whatever pain that
loomed. Each man has to solve his own
problem and decide for his own destiny. I
myself am having problem but at least I have
set the various plans to deal with them. My
advantage is that I am about to die. When I
die my problem cease and evaporate.
The Malays will fare the most. The
politicians did not forecast the future and
the the laymen lazy to computer the coming
days. They never think that one day they
will become old and sick. They never think
of what to do next week or month or year.
They always see the wrong solutions.
Then I would say go to hell with them.
That's one of the reasons I prefer to remain
solitary and plan to seek sanctuary
somewhere where nobody knows where I will
be. It is true the Penan and the natives
would be happier than the men on the top
echelon who have to put on their bullet
vests and deployed tenth and hundreds of
body guards.
MALAYSIAN HAM RADIO
- I tried to avoid making statements now on
Malaysian amateur radio for fear it might
hurt someone. But as I did short wave
listening and read from the remarks on the
facebook, I could not help but to rewrite my
previous comments.
The traditional concept of the traditional
people on life is to study the past,
comparing with the present and to decide the
future. From the observations the current
Malaysians from all walks of life only cares
about the present and a few tried to plan
the future. It is not the individuals and
the society itself to be blamed. It is
because of the new trend which somehow has
shaped the mindset of the modern populace.
Their philosophy and outlook towards life
and living has moved to a new directions.
They have different perspective.
In the Malaysian ham radio fraternity the
same thing has occurred. People flock to
contest, setting up clubs and repeaters,
going eyeballing and field days and sitting
for the FCC. Rules and dishonesty have been
set aside for there are new codes and ham
lingo that have never been known before.
There loom an intellectual competition as
who is the best and knows more, and superior
to others.
By the rules of the mind, time and space
there is nothing wrong with the new setup
and thinking.
The older generation experienced different
social and physical environment. I still remember a new guy
belittle 9M2ZA showing his disbelief that Zainal could speak German. I had to clarify
that he had a German call sign, spoke fluent
German and was a scientist. The new breed of
young hams are adventurous, lustrous,
smarter and knowledgeable. There are more
differences than similarities.
A WORD OF ADVICE, A SPACE TO
PONDER - The
veracity of any statement must checked and
validated. The status, shape and characters
may differ with time and places, and
generalization always contain fallacies as
it has always have exceptions. I tend to
make general statements many time expecting
the readers could interpret my intent. The
common theme today is on terrorists and
terrorism, something to boost the filthy
human ego. Hijab and dress the Muslims wear
are called the attire of the terrorists.
Muslims are said to be terrorists.
A person who refuse to follow your style and
thoughts cannot be called arrogant. You
can't impose your personal will onto the
others. An ego has to be checked and
restrained.
At time you may be thinking you are making a
better world for the community when in
reality you are worsening it. Then you stand
to defend your action. The wreckage is
beyond redemption.
27/09/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
NO
BUS WHEN THERE ARE BUS STOPS |
To go to town from my home by public
transport is as good as going to the moon.
We don't see busses passing the main road
outside with bus stops. There are bus stops without
busses. Why ? Because there is no profit.
The government does not allow the operation
of light vehicles as they have in Thailand,
the Phillipines and and India. The blood
sucking taxis are preying on the customers
at bus stations and other public places. A 2
mile ride would cost you RM15 per person,
not per taxi.
Households are expected to own at least a
bicycle to paddle to any location or else
they have to walk a few kilometers to wet
market or sundry shops. The distant from my
home to the town center is about 8
kilometers. Luckily I have my own transport to
take me around. But on occasion I need to
travel by train I will have a very difficult
time to get to the station. It is my habit
that I do want to bother my friends or
neighbor to send me to the rail station, bus
stop or the airport.
Some people would not be happy to do us a
favor. I tried to ask one whom I have helped
to feed the fish, picked up her son from
school and daughter from tuition class and
lending her RM25K but she gave me all sort of
excuses. It really hurts. All that I had asked
her was a twenty minutes of her total time.
When I lent her the big sum of money my
purse went empty. I never gave any excuse.
And I did want to hurt her.
For the last few years I drove to those
stations with my old shabby car and left it
at the airport or the bus station for days
till my returned. In my heart I welcomed thieves to take my
old car away. All I need to
do was just make a report to the police. If
there had been a bus I would have just to
walk a few hundred meters to the bus stop
without causing problems to others.
The government should not give an
alternative to taking a taxi, consisting of
the greedy lot of half-human specie. They
are half human because they charge
exorbitant prices and in some places they
refused to take you to the destination you
want.
I have been wandering about trying to
decipher the mind and the mentality of the
authority for their policy.
I remember what my Public Finance teacher
told the class that any non-profit public
service must be taken over by the
government. In the United States almost
everyone is access to bus rides. When I was
in the Disney Area I had no problem of
getting a bus to anywhere at all. From my hotel I could go
almost everywhere though I had a little
hussle
to change busses. I don't have to buy a new
ticket. Whereas in Tokyo people travel by
train more than by taxis. If we want to
prevent city congestion and to discourage
cars into cities we have to make sure the
public transport system can reach every
corner of the streets.
Bangkok has almost every mode of
transportation from the waterways to the
underground electric system; the busses,
taxis, motorcycles service and the tuk-tuk. Heavy penalties for
black smoke pollution can always be
re-enforced to reduce dirt in the
atmosphere.
Government is not to run a business. It is
to provide service and other
infrastructures. What the private enterprise
refuses the government has to take the task.
Government makes money through taxes. The
consequent said by my Public Admin teacher
is very well seen in 1Mdb. Political
involvements in such an undertaking usually
ended up in failures due to the poor management and
administrations. Politicians chose
incompetent cronies to run the show.
Try to run a motorcycle service which can
take one to one's required destination, in
no time you will be arrested. And nobody
even dare to try the three wheeler motor van
for the same reason. I won't drive to town
anymore if such a vehicle were able to pick
me up from my door step. The taxis can
still survive through competition and
passengers are in the hurry.
It is strange that Alor Setar is a city with
bus stops but without a bus.
21/09/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
VOWING TO A
DEVIL |
Would I sell my soul to a devil, to right
the wrong for money, making sins as my blood
and sweat, fight to defend a devil, to love
the Satan in return for comfortable living
and mountain of money and pleasure ? Humans
are too weak to resist temptation, too
strong to be the hero of the destroyer; the
criminal, the sinners, the con men, the
plunders, the gangsters and the crude
politicians.
Are we prepared to die of starvation rather
than begging ? There may be one out of a
million. If there is one out of a thousand,
that's considered good and powerful enough
to stand against all odds like the 300
Spartans against a huge enemy.
Remember that the fate of the world is
changed by only a few men. The world did not
have a million Ibn Sina, Ibn Khaldun, Omar
Kyayam, Tesler or Bell. We may not be
inventors and scientists. Some of them
suffered and punished by the social
environments. Their homes were rained with
stones and burnt and had to leave their own
village for a sanctuary. If the object of
invention represent the truth of science
then one must be willing to sacrifice to
defend the truth.
Between the two opposing parties both cannot
be the truth. One is a lie, fallacy and
cheat. People who has no access to
information and the ignorance would have
known which is the truth as evils in angel's
dress come with promises and gifts, wooing
with smiling faces. They vowed and prostrate
to the devil, chanting the devils mantra and
march to the fore unknowingly follow the
leader to the hell.
Evil exist before the existence of the earth
and mankind. So was the dual opposite
elements of good and bad, darkness and
light, male and female, proton and
anti-proton. They are not coincidences but
made activate the universe, and they are in
living organism they are created to serve a
certain purposes. And mankind is most
special as they are endowed with feeling,
emotion, greed, happiness, love and
jealousy. Their brains excel the brain of
other animals.
Science may dispel the idea of heaven and
hell, Satan and angel yet the progress in
technology created the weapon of mass
destruction, the killing goes on everyday.
There are laws, police and courts yet crimes
do not seem to subside. The world fails to halt
treachery and dreadful tragedies. The
believers understand what science fail to
touch, the mystery of nature that has not
been discovered yet; what we called the secret of God's creation. We
would have not known why God creates good
and bad.
The devil is real. Like the quantum theory a
particle can exist at many places at the
same time, so is the devil. It is
ubiquitous. It takes a form of human specie.
Ku Adnan, Syahrizat, Keruak, Dahlan, Rosmah
and Najib may come from the dark side. They
are strong and powerful. They have sold
their souls to the devil in return of
perpetual and absolute power. They are
selling the Malays and the country away.
They are deceiving the Malays and commanding
for their obedience and loyalty.
The ignorance and the stupid see money as
their God, ignoring the source of the notes,
halal or haram, legal or illegal, from the
selling of their own race or from the
selling of the country. Vowing to human
before God for sustenance, office and
pittance , bootlicking are acts of devil
worshipping.
However, there should be a limit to striving
for survival. You won't eat the meat of your
kids to live, would you ? But people
possessed by the devil would do anything.
Some old people would still remember the
boat people who threw their kids into the
seas to lighten up their boats. It was
bizarre but true, of prostituting one's wife
and daughter for money is a common practice.
They are drunk and brain dead.
A Minister said the Malays are wealthy. They
go to perform pilgrimage by the thousands.
But they also rush for the money from the
UMNO minister. Why Najib still gives
millions to the wealthy citizens ?
I told a lady teacher during the evening
walk about a young couple, whom I suspect as
a husband and wife, quarreling over
something. The husband showed her his empty
purse. I guessed that the wife had wanted
something that the man can't afford to buy.
Why in the first place the girl married that
man ? The teacher said that girls when in
love would not care about the husbands to
be, would not compute the future. And I met
several other married women who live in
hardship, small abode and all the time
penniless. I concluded that the Malays never
compute their future and the future of the
country. They are being led by those myopic, greedy
and heartless lunatics of Satan in disguise.
The strength of a layman lies in his mind.
He dares to face and fight an a colossal
enemy. Using his wit he can checkmate the
greatest general of his foe. If he dies, he
dies a real hero, a man who never surrender
and submit to the army of Satan. He will be
remembered as a man who does not sell his
soul to the devil.
I believe that a major collision will shake
the earth, men among men, meteor against the
earth. The faces of the living evil will be
stripped and their fate will be in the hands
of the suppressed populace. The guilty will
face a severe punishment. Even the followers
will not be spared. Everyone is talking
about the end of time. If you don't want to
believe in God then you have to believe in
what the scientists say.
People are pressing for the information
about alien beings in American and Israel
government. Historians talk about Lucifer
and Anunarki. The Muslims are talking about
the coming of the Dajjal. Their analysis
might frightened us but to the believers the
end is soon and inevitable.
21/09/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
For the
young men |
AN ALERT MIND
OF AN OLD MAN |
There are various ways to keep our minds
sharp; play chess, solving mathematical and
statistical problems, designing projects
that use E-Prom and other logic circuits,
deciphering Morse codes and planning
algorithm for computer softwares. It is a
vital practice for elderly people to keep
mentally alert, quick response to complex
problems, keeping self esteem and confidence.
The mind of the working persons are more
active than those who do nothing. The
continuous daily chores required mental
alertness as they have to make sure things
are done correctly without any error.
Chess playing should not be just to move the
pieces without thinking. You may do so at
the beginning but when come to 10 or 15
steps you have really to put on your
thinking cap. A game could take 4 or 5 hours
without a clock used. For those who do not
have time for the game, they can solve the
game problems as published in some
newspapers before going to bed.
A few keeps Mathematic and statistical books
of solving equations. At the leisure hours
they would solve problem by problem,
equation by equation, and checked the
answers by flicking on the back page. To
them the exercise is just fun but at the
same time it is sharpening their minds. And
designing projects is as challenging
as solving mathematical problems. As
they master the simple tasks they will
proceed to a more complex ones.
What could we expect from the senior
citizens who have no access to the tools and
the firmware as they are only available in
colleges and universities ? Compare with the
college and university students and
lecturers these group of people are less
smart and the decay of mental alertness is
alarming. At least I know how to write codes
and know Morse characters. Since I ceased from
software development, I chose Morse
deciphering to keep my mind alert.
DO WE NEED TO BE SHARP ?
- Actually there isn't any need for an
old man to be sharp. The younger generation
will still viewed the elderly slow walking
men as senile, and waiting for their hearts
to stop. His name will only be mentioned
again at the discussion of the bequest; how
much money he left and where about his
properties are. Interestingly before things
get settled the younger member of the family
was fatally striked by stroke.
To the Muslims the ability to memorize and
recites doas(duas) are appreciable because
we need these people at the frequent
kenduri arwah, a small festivity to pray for
the death. A doa can be as long as 10 to 15
minutes of fast recital. The reciter has to
be a person with a sharp mind and clear
memory, otherwise he will fumble.
Generally mental acuteness could help a
person to trace fallacy in an argument and
lies between words. These usually come from
politicians, con-men and individuals with
malicious intents.
THE ROLE OF EXERCISE
- Body metabolism tends to slow down with
age. Ageing also deactivate the speed of
blood circulation. I don't know how much is
pumped to the brain and at what rate. I
found that my ability to copy Morse
after every exercise is better and my
sending errors lessened. One could feel
mentally and physically fresh. I feel the
effect of my daily evening walk of only 4.8
km. I do not push myself more as I do not
consume food intake as much as I was
younger. More than half of the elderly
joggers and walkers do it more than 10 km
per day and at least 60% of them are
Chinese.
I believe that healthy mind in the healthy
body doesn't babble garbage as even many
young men do. Garbage contains lies,
fallacies, conflicting statements,
non-existing things and meaningless words.
You can hear them aplenty on the national media.
Amazingly we have the paid garbage spewing
specie to hoodwink the populace. An alert
mind would be able to recognize between a
devil and an angel.
KNOWLEDGE
FOR ENTERTAINMENT
- There are seas of entertaining knowledge
for an old man to pluck. The list is
available on the Youtube. There are volumes
of topics on UFO, taking us from the ancient
period to the present alien bodyguard in the
United States and Israel government, which
takes us on the topic of a new technological
invention of vehicles using alien
technology. There are clips on animals and
animal stories which give us a wide
knowledge and deep understanding of the
mammal's behaviors. There are inventions and
stories on inventors in a vast volumes
which we can't learn everyone of them. And
much more.
The point is they are full of fun and
enjoyment, presenting us with knowledge that
we have never known before.
The fact that one feels he is learning more
and more things each day will keep his mind
awaken and alert most of the time.
He doesn't have to do a math work, playing
chess, designing circuits and projects or
listen to Morse codes. He has his own time
to tap to any kind and subject he wishes to
learn. They are really entertaining.
17/09/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
TIKUS
BAIKI LABU |
I have not found the equivalent of the
English proverb yet. It is a Malay saying
describing a person who is trying to repair
thing or trying to improve thing, which in
fact is making it worse.
A system, procedure and institutions which
are well established, showing great
performance and successes could be turned
upside down by a new person under the
excuse of enhancing the current luster.
Observations show that when politicians or a
man with such inclination had bankrupted the
companies or making them run at a lost. An
institution which has shown excellence
slowly declined and losing it's prestigious
image.
I have made several predictions which you
may called a guessing game, base on my understanding
of human behavior, their ego, attitudes and
their visions. A big majority of our people
put their self-interest in the fore. And
many among them would not care less about
the problems they caused to others. Egoistic
persons would think that they are the most
smart lots. They would accept the fact that
educational level is not necessarily in
coherence with vision and analytical
ability. And the worst is when an egoistic
person merely wants to satisfy his lust. He
sets a policy, push it for execution and the
later putting the blame on the poor output.
I usually would reject a certain policy
from the beginning and would not want to
know the final result for I know of it's
disastrous effect. I would say "Since
they are clever then let them do their own
way..." And they did. The pumpkin was
becoming worst and worst, beyond repair.
simply because they have not seen, sensed, and know
the good one. Their standard of goodness is
the spoil they created. They dispel history.
The Westerners dig the past, spent time and
money and study whatever came within their
reach. They used carbon 14 dating to find
out the age, study the past culture of the
Egyptian pyramid, analyzing any graphic
materials or writing. They try to see
relationship between ancient culture and the
present UFO.
Our new leadership or the Head of Department
would want to destroy the past history of
the institution and wanting to build up his
own culture. Imagine a new Headmaster of a
benchmarking school that had won
awards after award each year decided to
knock down the beautiful structure and
altered the landscaping to make it a new and
better image,
until the school was losing it's luster, never
to win the prestigious
award again. The limelight was stolen by the
visitor institution.
I am not regretting to say that the Malays
have the most myopic vision in comparing
with their non-Malay friends.
The spoiler and the destroyer must not think
he can escape and be invisible. His deeds
would be recorded and remembered in history.
When the block of cards crumple and the
limpid water turned milky he would blamed
the system that he himself was responsible,
pointing fingers at others. Then he would
run from the scene. The pumpkin remains
messy.
The Malays are in the habit of destroying
themselves and then blame the others for the
mishaps. They are capable of destroying the
other Malays for their own survival. They
keep on playing the game until the platform
is slowly sinking. The thinking ones try to
stay away from the rogue gangs, hoping to
find some tranquil sanctuaries.
I touched briefly on the school system above
but the tragedy is not confined solely to
it. Just open your eyes to see what is
happening around you, what bother you in our
dear daily life. Many have expressed their
despair and frustration.
To me the rat is a pest. I prefer to stay
away from the pest.
One lovely word that I have been hearing is
HANCO !!
16/09/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
TEACHING
MYSELF COMPUTING |
I am lucky that there is no regulation
barring those without authority from penning
any topic on computer programming because I
don't have any formal course in it, neither
do I have any certificate from any colleges
or universities.
I remember when I was working and our
vocational school system decided to purchase
computers for schools I was not called to
give any contribution simply because I was
not a computer engineer.
And at another place and time some wise guy
introduced me to someone as a programmer and
one of the programmers asked me for my
diploma or a degree.
If you are not endorsed by any form of
authorization then you are not a qualified
person.
Since there is no law to impose on people
like me to say anything at all on the
related subject matter, I might as well take
the opportunity to write what I feel and
think. You are warned not to believe what I
say. They may not contain facts.
Computer programming can be a hobby to some,
and it is one for me. I do not go into the
system programming, the command for booting,
tracing the RAM, ROM and the CD and other
peripherals. I write codes on application
software.
How to write codes ? In a laymen's term we
use languages to do so. The basic language
is a machine code. Usually if you are
familiar with E-Prom you will find the chip
will basically have 8 pins for coding and 2
for power supply . A character is
represented by the pin the current
received. 00000001 means the current is
applied to pin written as 1. 00000010 means
the current is applied to pin 2 from the
left. They called the 0 and 1 as binary
digit. The 00000001 in numeric is 1.
00000010 is 2 decimal. 00000011=3,
00000100=4, 01000001 is 65 decimal. 65
represent A in ASCII code, and so on. But
for uneducated person like me we won't use
such a method of writing codes.
The experts divide
computer languages into machine , assembly
and high level language. Assembly language
is more on programming the microprocessor
like loading an accumulator with a certain
value like LDA. Then they used shift etc. I
saw a small boy using assembly language in
developing a computer game which amazed me
very much. And this too was not deployed by
me.
The high level language is the language
understood by human. The first I used was
called BASIC (Beginner All Purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code). Let me show you why we
say the language is understood by men.
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 END
Print and End are words used by men. When
the program is Run it will have to be
converted into the machine language by
another program called Interpreter.
Where did I learned those BASIC codes ? It
was from a Radio Shack, an electronic shop
that sold a Radio Shack home computer.
As time passed more and more high level
languages were developed, the GWBasic, te
Quick Basic, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, C and
university students learnt COBOL and
FORTRAN. Then came JAVA, Linux, Unix etc.
PC hit the world market. Smart phone began
to take shape. Industries grew.
The computer maker is different from the
software industry. Both designed following
the configuration of the inside machine
which we call a microprocessor. The early
processor was made by INTEL was an 8088 and
Motorola has 6800. These are hearts of the
personal computers. They were also called
CPU. Inside the CPU there are general
registers which we can imagine as pigeon
holes where data were kept, the control
unit, arithmetic logic unit.
Both of these industries wanted to make sure
the consistent and continuous flow of money.
IBM, Apple, Texan Instrument were on the
making of the PCs. Microsoft concentrated on
the Operating System, producing MS-DOS., followed by Windows.
And with other vendors began to develop
the high level language. I chose Visual
Basic as it was one of the easiest language
to learn. The commands and vocabulary were
almost identical to BASIC. There was almost
no limitation that the VB can do, from
communication to bio-metric and all other
applications you can think off.
You don't need to have a teacher to teach
you codes and algorithm. A few words of
codes ( words ) can do wonderful things. Let
me show a simple sample of a multiplication
table;
For I = 1 To 12
Print "5 X "; I; " = "; 5 * I
Next
The output is as below
5 X 1 = 5
5 X 2 = 10
5 X 3 = 15
5 X 4 = 20
5 X 5 = 25
5 X 6 = 30
5 X 7 = 35 5 X 8 = 40
5 X 9 = 45
5 X 10 = 50
5 X 11 = 55
5 X 12 = 60
|
You don't need a degree to write those, do
you ? Schools and colleges
adopted Visual Basic , C and Java . C
and Java are almost identical in command and
structure. I told myself that I will go to C
and Java as soon as finish with VB.
With VB I wrote a Winsock application, a
chat program which I published on my website
for a while. I opened up 9M2ZA's computer
from my home and pulled home a few of his
data. I developed a Morse Trainer and a
special logging program. I made quite a
substantial amount of money with
this language. I ended up with a finger
print system. With the ASP combined with VB,
I managed remote database, including keeping
finger data. But they were merely for fun.
A ham friend is still using my program in
his vehicle workshop.
BUT Microsoft is upgrading the Windows as
the new processor were being developed. It
started with 8088, 8086, 80286 and continue
to move to 64 bits pentium. New processors
and windows are rejecting the old high level
language, driving people like me crazy.
Apple computer with different OS have been
gaining popularity in USA, but not in
Malaysia yet. To develop a software for it
you have to use X-Codes with a lot of
restrictions. It is not an independent
system. You will have to pay in the
process of publishing it. We began to
see problems in developing programs for PCs
and the Smartphone.
People suggest the Open Source free system.
UNIX, LINUX and UBUNTU seemed to be the
choice. I have all the books, the UBUNTU and
even the linux compact disk. 9M2PJU is ever willing to
assist anyone in providing free Ubuntu CD
and all other helps.
But by now my mind is getting rusty. I need
to buy a new PC minus all the Microsoft and
Apple OS with an linux inside and start to
crawl from the scratch. I bought an E-Prom
programmer and did not even try programming
it yet. And it is wiser for me to understand
the gates and the logic practical work
guided by the literatures.
Even to arrange the logic gates
by designing a project will consume plenty
of time. In other words I could not handle
both Ubuntu and Eprom programming at
the same time. Age is catching up.
YOUNG PEOPLE
- I would suggest that younger people below
40 to utilize their brains to the maximum.
The younger you are the better. The
understanding and the absorption
capabilities
excel the elderly.. You can do it without
going back to school. If there is a will
there is always a way. I have shifted my
interest to reading FB and Whatsapp. In the
evening I go for my daily walk. The time is
too short for everything.
CHOOSE A LANGUAGE
- I would suggest Linux and/or C and/or
Java. Study the database structure and the
possible interface with the existing data
system like MySql. Create application for
data entry and saving them in the database.
And the data retrieval and the display. The
rest can slowly be explored and I am certain
that within by 2
months you can master each of the languages.
CREATIVITY AND LOGIC
- I saw people developing programs sitting
and typing codes without any reference
manuals and books beside them. I also saw
people refer to papers and books for every
sentence they were typing. I concluded that
that the ones writing algorithms from their
minds are more creative than the other ones.
Your creativity can help you in combining
various tools to form a new thing, which
more often than not will be different from
others. You know how to make a calendar and
make an alarm sound. But you have to be
creative enough how to make the PC remind
you what to do when the date arrives or to
automatically print a birthday card of a
person on the day.
The algorithm is deploying a much less
simple logic than designing interface for
some hard ware gadgets. By the old
programming methods the IF and THEN were
used all over to achieve the desired result.
INTERNET PROGRAMMING
- Java and PHP are powerful enough.
But the simpler one is the ASP. I do keep a
lot of data in my remote server. It may not
be a great one but it serves my purpose
well. I keep my radio logging in the server
and utilized it whenever and wherever I like
using my PC or mainly my Android to retrieve
and saving my data. This too does not
require a college or university degree. ASP
codes are all over. Pluck the right ones,
paste them and it will do the work for you.
Below is my remote logging ASP codes which
you may want to try. Use your imagination
and creativity to modify lines
<%dim NOMBOR,nom2,CAL,CHET
CHET=request("check")
if trim(CHET)<>"ON" then CHET="OFF"
NOMBOR=request("nobil")
cal=request("CALL")
ayat=request("rek")
if request("SUBMIT")=" Add Data " then
'on error resume next
Set Conn2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Provider =
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;"
DBPath1 = "Data Source=" & Server.mappath("\BUKULOG.mdb")
& ";" 'line10
Conn2.open Provider&DBPath1
SQL2 = "select * from BUKUlog" ' where
ucase(callsign) like '" & UCASE(CAL) & "'
and date like '" & trim(ayat) & "'"
Set RS2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS2.OPEN SQL2,CONN2,3 ''2,2
Set RS2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS2.Source = SQL2
Set RS2.Activeconnection = Conn2
RS2.CursorType = 3 'KeySet
RS2.LockType = 2 'Pesimistic
RS2.OPEN SQL2,CONN2,3
Session.LCID = 2057 '4105
Dim a, b, c, d, e, date1,text3,text4
Dim masa
Text3 =time ' Format(Time, "HH:mm")
date1 = date
If Left(Time, 2) > 7 And Left(Time, 2) < 24
Then b = Abs(8 - Left(Time, 2)): date1 =
date
If Left(Time, 2) < 8 And Left(Time, 2) > -1
Then b = 16 + left(Time, 2): date1 = date-1
a = Mid(Time, 4, 2)
If a = 0 Then b = b + 1
If b = 24 And a = 0 Then b = 0
if len(b)=1 then b="0" & b
if len(a)=1 then a="0" & a
e = b & a 'Format(b, "00") + Format(a, "00")
'If Len(Trim(e)) = 2 Then e = "00" + e
nom2=left(date1,2)+"/"+mid(date1,4,2)+"/"+right(date1,2)
rs2.addnew
rs2(0)= nom2 'DATE1 'request("t2") 'DATE
rs2(1)= e 'request("t3") 'time
IF LEN(LTRIM(TRIM(REQUEST("T5"))))=0 THEN
RS2(3)=p1 '"-"
ELSE
rs2(3)= ucase(REQUEST("T5")) 'MODE e 'time
END IF
IF LEN(LTRIM(TRIM(REQUEST("T4"))))=0 THEN
RS2(4)=p2 '"-"
ELSE
rs2(4)=request("t4")
END IF
IF LEN(LTRIM(TRIM(REQUEST("T6"))))=0 THEN
RS2(6)="-"
ELSE
RS2(6)=REQUEST("T6")
END IF
rs2(5)=REQUEST("CALLSIGN1") ' UCASE(request("t1"))
'CALLSIGN
IF LEN(LTRIM(TRIM(REQUEST("T7"))))=0 THEN
RS2(7)="-"
ELSE
rs2(7)=request("t7")
END IF
IF LEN(LTRIM(TRIM(REQUEST("T8"))))=0 THEN
RS2(8)="-"
ELSE
rs2(8)=request("t8")
END IF
IF LEN(LTRIM(TRIM(REQUEST("T9"))))=0 THEN
RS2(12)="-"
ELSE
rs2(12)=request("t9")
END IF
rs2.update
rs2.close
end if
if request("SUBMIT")=" Update " then
Set Conn2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Provider =
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;"
DBPath1 = "Data Source=" & Server.mappath("\BUKULOG.mdb")
& ";" 'line10
Conn2.open Provider&DBPath1
SQL2 = "select * from BUKUlog WHERE BIL LIKE
'" & REQUEST("T10") & "'" ' where
ucase(callsign) like '" & UCASE(CAL) & "'
and date like '" & trim(ayat) & "'"
Set RS2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
'RS2.OPEN SQL2,CONN2,3 ''2,2
'Set RS2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS2.Source = SQL2
Set RS2.Activeconnection = Conn2
RS2.CursorType = 3 'KeySet
RS2.LockType = 2 'Pesimistic
RS2.OPEN SQL2,CONN2,3
response.write rs2("bil") & " " & rs2(6)
rs2(5)=ucase(request("t1")) 'callsign
rs2(0)=request("t2") 'date
rs2(1)=request("t3") 'time
rs2(4)=request("t4") 'freq
rs2(3)=ucase(request("t5")) 'mode
rs2(6)=ucase(request("t6")) 'name
rs2(7)=request("t7") 'his rst
rs2(8)=request("t8") 'my rst
rs2(12)=ucase(request("t9")) 'qth
rs2.update
rs2.close
end if
if request("SUBMIT")=" Delete " then
on error resume next
Set Conn2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Provider =
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;"
DBPath1 = "Data Source=" & Server.mappath("\BUKULOG.mdb")
& ";" 'line10
Conn2.open Provider&DBPath1
SQL2 = "delete * from BUKUlog where
ucase(callsign) like '%" & ucase(request("T1"))
& "%' and date like '%"+request("t2")+"%'
and time like '%"+request("t3")+"%'"
Set RS2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS2.OPEN SQL2,CONN2,3 ''2,2
Set RS2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS2.Source = SQL2
Set RS2.Activeconnection = Conn2
RS2.CursorType = 3 'KeySet
RS2.LockType = 2 'Pesimistic
RS2.OPEN SQL2,CONN2,3
rs2.movelast
rs2.close
end if
if request("SUBMIT")<>" Add Data " and
request("submit")<>" Delete " and
request("SUBMIT")<>" Update " and
len(trim(cal)) > 0 then
on error resume next
'Session.LCID =4105
dim
numfield,nam3,DAT2,ada,yak,fail,ayat,namafail,myurl,bill,conn2,conn
'CAL=request("call")
'ayat=request("rek")
'on error resume next
Set Conn2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Provider =
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;"
DBPath1 = "Data Source=" & Server.mappath("\BUKULOG.mdb")
& ";" 'line10
Conn2.open Provider&DBPath1
if len(trim(ayat))>0 then SQL2 = "select *
from BUKUlog where bil like '" & trim(ayat)
& "'"
if len(trim(ayat))=0 and ucase(cal)="ALL"
then SQL2 = "select * from BUKUlog"
if len(trim(ayat))=0 and ucase(cal)<>"ALL"
and CHET="OFF" then SQL2="select * from
bukulog where ucase(callsign) like '%" &
UCASE(CAL) & "%'" '
if len(trim(ayat))=0 and ucase(cal)<>"ALL"
and CHET="ON" then SQL2="select * from
bukulog where ucase(callsign) like '" &
UCASE(CAL) & "'"
Set RS2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS2.OPEN SQL2,CONN2,3 ''2,2
Set RS2 =
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS2.Source = SQL2
Set RS2.Activeconnection = Conn2
RS2.CursorType = 3 'KeySet
RS2.LockType = 2 'Pesimistic
RS2.OPEN SQL2,CONN2,3
response.write rs2.recordcount
rs2.movelast
nobil=rs2("bil")
%>
You do see many IF and THEN. This is what I
call logic.
Since computing is a hobby it is all fun and
provide joy and happiness when the machine
show you the output you want. You don't have
to crack you head on studying the
microprocessor 6800 or 80286 because they
will be obsolete in no time. E-Prom can be
used in interfacing or for a stand alone
project. Again there are plenty of ready
codes for them.
At this juncture my meager knowledge has
been left thousands of miles away from the
progress. It is moving at an electric speed
with more breakthrough.
I found a ham operator like Salleh Hassan is
far more advance in this area. Like me, he
enjoys with his technological progress. The
ham radio operators are lucky to have
experts among them like Azlan and Khairol
whose knowledge can be tapped by younger
enthusiasts. Piju is another resourceful
person. He taught me many things.
Many of us are self taught. We may be duped
as pseudo intellect. We are not
qualified to give views of matters on
computers and computing because we are not
graduates in these fields.
You may be asking why I choose his very
topic to write.
It is just because I don't have any other to
write. To those who learn as you walk you
will find the beauty and joy of freedom that
a little knowledge is available anywhere,
providing opportunity for us to know things
like why the binary, hex and decimal
numbers, and why SHIFT concept was
introduced in the assembly.
It is happiness and satisfaction. We are not
completely dumb after all.
|
ADINDA - WE
DON'T KNOW HER |
You may know her. But I don't. Someone
published her singing on the Facebook. I
believe that you can understand the Chinese
more through her.
Adinda is
11 years old from Taiping Perak. She has an
amazing voice and she has all the time to be
perfected by a vocal coach. Her vocal coach
is Jacob Teo, 36, who runs a singing school
in Kuala Lumpur. She has a great future.
Adinda attends SJK(C) Sin Min in Taiping.
What can we expect ? She would be able to
speak Mandarin, English, Malay and Hokien.
That's what the local Chinese has over the
Malays. And many Klantanese sent their kids
to Chinese schools too.
She auditioned for Let's Sing Kids by
submitting a video of her singing, flew to
Hunan Province with her mother on July 1 for
the first round. See for yourself the video
of her singing.
It is touching to see how she is treated.
Pictures tell more than a thousand words.
Politicians divide use to gain the votes so
that they can continue plundering our
coffers and abusing their powers,
threatening another May 13 for nothing,
creating unnecessary hatred.
Adinda is another girl making us proud.
13/09/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE SMART AND
THE STUPID |
My primary school teachers had no college
nor university education. There weren't even
SRP/LCE then. But through them I could
learnt how to read, write and count numbers.
A few of them I still meet from time to
time. There was one whom I met in a wet
market about 35 years later by the name of
Cikgu Ismail. I greeted and accosted him. He
remembered my name and shed his tears just
because of the greeting.
Around those days there were stickers on the rear
window of various phrases, like 'OHIO
UNIVERSITY' ,'UNIVERSITI MALAYA','UNIVERSITI
KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA' etc. There was one
special car which displayed 'SEKOLAH ATAP'.
The message was laughable but had captured
the audience interest.
Yet I did hear with my own ears remarks such
as '..he doesn't even pass HSC/STPM...we are
now graduates'. A computer student condemned
his lecturer for not knowing how to use a
software that he got an access to. An ITM
student who came to sell a school software
criticizing the program which I developed
and used it in my PC.
Would I care about those smart guys who were
showing off their mental ability ? No. I
just went on my way. But I feared my
students might treat their parents poorly
just because they were less educated. I told
them that during the course of my
conversations to their parents I found the
wisdom in them. They talked about the future
of their kids and wanted a better life for
them. "Your parents might not know who
Graham Bell is but they have a vision
for you."
I hate a swaggerer or a braggart. There is
one in my vicinity who boast he knows
everything about radio and computer,
pounding
his pomposity in matters of receivers. And
as usual I only asked him to explain a tune
circuit so that a simple man can understand
with the detail comprehension of the circuit
in action.
Today we have tenth of thousands of
graduates in the country. And we also have
billionaire and tycoons who are not having
even a college degree. Believe me, you take
10000 graduates to sit for UPSR you will
find at least 5000 would be considered fail
in the exam.
I am not saying university or college
graduates are dumb. But everyone has his
weaknesses and strengths. And if we are
weak, there are weaker people than us. If we
are strong there are stronger people than
us. I have never wanted to underestimate
other people though I may be overestimating
them. A standard 5 boy knows more
computer stuffs than me.
I don't know many things and I forget many
things too. My elmer never taught me about
the RG value of a cable but I was told of
the required ohmage value of a cable and
it's preferable size. The old cable I used
was large in diameter than I am using now.
Farther than that I could say nothing. To me
the bigger the conductor the lesser the
resistance. And I would want to see the
screen too. Surely I am a dubbed as a stupid guy. And I
choose to stay dumb. My only happiness was
when ham stations all over said my signal
was blasting despite it's modest height.
That was many long years ago.
How could I be smart when I gained my
electronic knowledge through valves while
today the hitech chips have taken place of
the tubes ? I traced faulty amplifier
through the electron flow via the valves,
understanding the role of the cathode, anode
and grid. Today the hi-low and the logic
circuits are combined and applied. But who
cares about all those technical stuffs
anymore. Even a moron can set up and operate
a radio station, buy a smart phone, express
himself in a facebook.
There is one thing that one has to remember
that whatever wealth one has; money,
knowledge and mental and physical ability
God can always take it away from us. I hope
some of us can still remember Uji Rashid,
Muamar Ghadafi, Dr Mahathir, our great
badminton player Tan Aik Huang to mention a
few. There is no permanency within us. And I
feel the rapid deterioration of my memory.
When old boy Rusli left several of his
things in Tokyo recently I knew it was not
me alone who are absent minded. Even a much younger friend began to
consume Ginko to retain his memory.
I am in the world not to show my
intellectual capacity. It is just because I haven't
any, and not to parade my ability because it is
not within me. I like to tell a true story from
a true experience. It may sound weird and
you may think I brag a lot. It is anybody's
freedom to form his own opinion.
I considered myself lucky for having Chinese
friends and families and I have learned a
lot from them, the value of being humble. In
a small town everyone knows everyone else.
None boasts about his child but everyone else
knows whose son becomes a doctor, engineer,
lawyer and a Professor. There might be one
or two who can't help talking about his kid
who got excellent award at MIT USA. But he
never condemn other people who are less
smart in public. Even at the very moment
from the reading of the feedback in the
alternative media I could sense many learned
and great professionals by the English they
used and
the arguments they put forward.
But at time, putting up an argument or a
rebuttals you may dub a keyboard warrior,
meaning that you can only talk but nothing
done.
Freedom, democracy, civility are conceptual
ideas put in writing. Those people did not
create freedom, democracy and civility. Yet
we are all talking and practicing it. We
form parliament and reject totalitarian rule.
WE gathered the ideas from their pen. Those writers would have been called
keyboard warriors too by the current
standard.
I love what 9M2ZA used to say on the air
"...if I were smart, why can't I be a
millionaire..."
THE BRAIN AND THE ATTITUDES
- I don't have the authority to talk about
both topics. The following babbles may be
just a pure garbage.
I wouldn't know the working and the
intricacies of human brain. For a moment I
thought human brains of all races and
nationalities are the same though there are
an innate traits and the acquired components
from learning and environment. But when I
noticed the Morse codes operators handled
the electronic paddles differently I
realized they are not exactly identical. My
left paddle is the dah and the right one is
the dit, whereas the other operators have
the dit on the left paddle. I am not a left
handler to say the left brain controls my
physical activities.
So I have to assume that I come under the
category of a stupid person.
God endowed mankind with different level of
intelligence which we commonly measured
using the term IQ. There are a great number
who has the IQ above 120. They are not only
quick to learn and understand concepts in
depth but also able to see behind an unknown
and unseen. It is not an abnormal phenomena.
We would see these people in engineers,
lawyers, doctors and scientists. The
intelligent and the genius are not confined
to Tesler and Bell, but also existed among
the Malays and other Malaysians. The United
States companies are tapping their
intelligence in hitech and wafer
development.
For progress and development we need such
group of people. We saw the build up of
schools and institutions for educating
pupils of higher intelligence.
BUT we were all shock when our Prime
Minister declared that he preferred people
with loyalty to people with intelligence. We
would have guessed that he was talking about
attitudes.
I don't know where attitudes come from. Is
it from a brain, feeling or emotion ?
Likewise I don't know what creates an ego.
We commonly describe attitudes of having
positive or negative elements. The
willingness to fight, diligence, strive to
overcome difficulties contributes to the
positive attitudes. Surrendering before
starting, giving unending excuses, and
indolence are the negative ones. To the
Prime Minister loyalty is a positive
attitude.
Peace, harmony and stability do not come
from intelligence but from attitudes of the
masses.
Education therefore must cater for poor and
low achievers as well which are are now
casting aside. We turned the vocational
schools into vocational colleges with the
higher entry level. We instill good and
positive attitudes in them, enhancing the
economic value of each of the students.
Teachers have been telling us it is these
poor students who remember them most. The
intelligent ones would not even accost them.
THE STUPID FARMERS
- We are now living in a technological age.
We use machine for seeding and planting
while the old traditional uneducated farmers
were on their sweats and muscles. My uncle
was a fisherman. He came to town shoeless.
He read no text, and understood no numbers.
But those stupid and uneducated farmers who
provide fish and rice for the populace.
My uncle and other Malay fishermen went
bankrupt when trawler fishing came in. Their
generations became poor till today. And the
farm land have been taken away for real
estates by developers, engineers and
lawyers. A few got rich, many became poorer.
And the Malays as a whole are begging land
for housing from the government.
THE SMART SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS
- We would have wish the intelligent people
to use their brain to benefit the mankind.
Instead they built machines that could kill
innocent people without any morose. Thousand
of people were killed and maimed. They sell
computers, create all kind of malware and
force users to buy the antidotes. They made
drugs so that you need to consume them all
your life. Try to read on Mosanto and find
out more on what had really happen.
The comfort we get from technology comes a
lot with the side effects, diseases,
insurance fees and all other payments.
What is behind is the greed.
Being stupid in a way is also a reward. A
stupid worker in an office is less asked to
do all sort of jobs. The smart ones are
always the victims.
People will not come for help and advice. If
they call me stupid, I would just admit it.
I have better things to do for myself like
doing stupid thing throwing my money
visiting places in the world, when I should
have kept the money for my present and
future consumption. I buy cat-foods to feed
my cats and the wild birds. Also wasting my
money. I write stupid blog that brought me
no income.
My statistical professor used to say
'..funny.. people talk to their dogs but not
to their fellow humans..' Did he mean
sometimes animals are better than men ?
12/09/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
MY BIRTHDAY
IS TODAY |
Funny I had wasted my entire young days in
many things. Though not all things were
there during those days I just felt I missed
them. Personal computer without the internet
appeared in the early 80's. Internet
conquered the world a few years latter. I
didn't do much then until the dawn of my age
when I first began writing a blog, and
experimenting with the the remote database.
These are not the work of an old man. Old
man just need to rest, watch drama and and
other entertainments on the TV, pray and
frequent myself to a mosque and wait for the
time to die.
I should have been doing exercise when I was
young. I didn't. I started jogging at 50.
Today at the jogging track I notice there
are many young men and women finishing more
than 5 miles each evening, keeping
themselves fit. It would have been different
if I were to start at their ages and
continue until now. A lady friend repeatedly
telling me to take care of my health when
she should have said to the younger guys.
I ignored schooling and knowledge hunting
for I had no aim in my life. I saw no
future. At this age I realize the importance
of skill and knowledge. All the time I had
been thinking of becoming a sailor, running
away from home and live in a far away land.
Books, library and other source of
information scared me to death.
How could I not be believing in fate when I
am at this juncture right now. I am not a
vagabond, not a hard core labor and not
living in a foreign land. I became a teacher
and retired as one. I earned my degree in
Indiana university and taught myself BASIC
programming in a Radio Shack. I developed
computer softwares and ended the programming
in the bio-metric finger print system.
God has blessed me with more than what I
needed in living with a great density of
sustenance and providence. I have seen half
of the world and set my feet on them, have
consumed the best of the foods that million
of poor people would have not dream of. I am
not a millionaire or anywhere near to the
status of being wealthy. I share my meager
pension with the cats and the birds.
I never regret for not tasting beer and
wine. It is just like a Westerner running
away from the delicious durian. And I would
not want to try it.
For many long years since I was born there
had been no birthday wishes nor celebration.
This stuff seemed to begin to take shape, at
least in my life, when a public media like
the Facebook appeared and became a public
platform for mutual communications. It
reminds us of someone's birthday. I used to
make my PC announced the students and
teachers birthdays so that I could wish them
and provide free lunch for my students. At
that time the facebook was not even heard yet.
Today is my birthday. People sent their
wishes. What can it do ? They just reminded
me "Hey, you are still alive." I did not
even feel that I missed it when I was
younger. At 50 nobody said "Happy
birthday...." to me, not even my spouse and
kids. I did not celebrate theirs either. I
would not feel bad if nobody send me their
wishes. Things are looming only when I am at
the end of the road. A few steps more I
would fall into another world.
Tomorrow is Idil Adha. The house is very
gloomy. Only one kid comes back. The rest
were told not to return because Idil Fitri
was just about one month ago. I made no
preparation. I do not expect any visitor. It
would have been different if my wife is
still alive. Relatives would have come to
visit her as she was very sickly. But I did
arrange my hall, sweep the floor and iron
all my clothing. My shack is left
unattended, very disorganized and messy.
Afterwards I will go for my evening walk,
4.8 km. As I have said before, I should have
done so when I was 20 or 30.
But I do not regret what I have missed in
the past.
11/09/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE NOSTALGIA
OF THE OLD DAYS |
In the 60's and 7o's I used to buy the
Chinese paperback electronic magazines which
cost just a little over one ringgit. I never
read the articles simply because they were
written in Mandarin. But all the circuits
and components were shown in English. The
content was something like Practical
Wireless or Practical Radio. I built
amplifiers and transmitters from the
magazines. At that time I did not know of
the existence of a radio hobby.
The first time I saw
the ham radio was in a
movie, depicting two young men living at
different places playing a game of chess
over the radio. I thought it was just a fantasy and
a mere fictitious story. When I perused a Practical
Wireless at a small Indian stall I noticed
an advertisement on an RAE course of
amateur radio. The curiosity bloomed.
In the early '70s I came across a news in a
local paper about a JOTA station in
Coronation Camp Penang run by the Penang ham
radio operators. I drove to Penang with
Chen, 9M2FL, to the location. That was the
first time I encountered with the live
amateur radio. They had a Cubical Quad using
a bamboo spreaders.
In the subsequent years I made myself
available at the Penang Jota station, only
to return home at late night. I began to
learn how they managed to make everybody to
feel
the taste of radio communications.
There were a few hundred boy scouts and girl
guides. When the scouts had other activities Eshee would pound his straight key working
CW with distant stations.
I also wrote to telecom department asking
about the hobby. I was sent with the
syllabus and the amateur radio regulations
and the application forms for Radio Amateur
Examination and the Morse codes characters.
The first thing I did was buying a set of
radio books, BASIC RADIO, and a small
transistor radio. What I did with the
transistor radio was tapping the output and
using a capacitor to feedback which I get
the tone. With a cassette recorder I
recorded the CW characters by the touch-untouch
method of the transistor radio feedback. I
learned Morse from the cassette from my own
recording.
While I was studying for my RAE, I did SWLing by buying
two radio sets and put
them back to back, resolving the SSB signals
by beating the two. Every evening I would be
monitoring the Malaysian hams having a fun
on the air. Conversations were all in
English. It was nothing strange. After all
the exam was in English too.
From the radio I learned to copy Morse sent
by the police net and by the ship-to shore.
I knew that I was able to copy when I found
some sense in the messages. It was the
warning to the ships to avoid a certain area
as the storm was coming at a certain speed.
I did not remember how long I took to
complete my preparation for the radio test.
But I finally went to Penang telecom for it.
I did not know anyone in the hall but Chen
Kok Hoon. The papers contained two parts,
the regulation and on the technical side.
The regulation was simple. I remember
answering on how to keep a logbook and what
to record in them. And on the second paper I
remember answering one of the questions on
the working of either a superheterodyne
receiver or a TRF receiver. "Draw and
describe". I chose the former and drew the
detail including the components. Later I
discovered we were just to draw a block
diagram.
While waiting for the result I frequented
Eshees and Mal's houses almost every week,
sometimes alone and other time with my wife.
While my wife was in a car I would take a
few minutes to go on the air.
Result came and I passed. By the time I had
already gained enough competency in Morse codes.
Some time later I went for the test in
Penang. The CW test could be held anywhere
as long as there were examiners, the
employee of the telecom themselves. In
every telecom department there was a radio
section. If I could remember the CW test
began with sending. There were about 4
candidates. I did not remember how many
passed. One of candidates was sent home,
leaving the rest for receiving. I remember
he was sending at a low speed. I handed him
my paper, he looked at it and smile. :Sir,
your sending is slow,: said I. "No," he
replied."I sent you at 12 words per minute."
"Do I passed ? " "Go home and wait."
Waited I did. Everyday I waited for the
postman. When the result finally arrived, it
put me in great ecstasy.
There were not too many hams then. The
active ones were 9M2FK. 9M2GL, 9M3EG, 9M3RJ,
9M2CF, 9M2CG, 9M2DJ, 9M2BS, 9M2GL, 9M2AT,
9M2PZ, 9M2MP, 9M2AP, 9M2BH, 9M2YP, 9M2GV,
9M2HP, 9M2RS, 9M2MW, 9M2FZ, 9M2CW, 9M2FR,
9M2RI, 9M2SB, 9M2DS, 9M2AV, 9M2SS and 9M2DW.
These people would be on the band everyday
in a separate groups. Rigs were huge and
heavy, mostly with power supply built in. My
first was FT 101 bought second hand at RM800
from a local ham.
I had an inverted V cut for 40 meters using
a bamboo mast. My first station was at Anak
Bukit, my wife's house, a small house in a
padi field. It was from here that I worked
the Saudi Prince, King Ahmad Talal, an
American Congressman, a Hollywood actor,
scientists from South poles and many pilots
flying on the planes. My signal was
fantastic because of the flat water base
agriculture land. Then I moved to a new
location when I became a school's head. Also
using the same antenna system. At the time
the band was excellent. Only after 2000 I
operated from my current location, my own
home at Lorong Bayu. I had a 40 foot antenna
then hung to two bakau poles. The center
point was opened. My signal maintained until
the two poles were knocked down by my front
door neighbor who pressed his accelerator
that knocked down my fences, my pole and
pushed my kitchen in a few inches. It was a
bizarre accidence.
In 19802/83 I went to USA. Personal computer
began to take shape in those years. I was so
absorbed in the new technology so much so
that I forget ham radio. When I came home I
didn't know of the drastic events that had
taken place, about the MCMC taking over
telecom, about the existence of license B
holders, about the repeaters, about the old
boys I used to know are getting their own
tickets. I was on the IRC chat day in and
day out, enjoying a new mode of
international communication.
I can't say about Choo, 9M2HC, as to when he
acquired his ticket and 9M2AU and 9M2MZ too.
My rig in my store gathered cobwebs and
dust. One day I just try to switched it on.
There was light but there was no sound. I
sprayed the total rig with a can of mosquito
aerosol and turned the knobs left and right.
To my surprise I heard Zainal talking to
Choo. "My God these people are still alive,"
I said to myself. I thought nobody played
with the radio anymore just because I
didn't.
I computed it was more than 10 years that I
left ham radio. A few days later I received
a letter from MCMC about renewing my
license. Still I did not know anything.
Things confused me. However I needed to
check my antenna. While on my roof Hanafi
came to my house. The first words I remember
he said, "Abang Rahman..were you strike by a
lightning ?" He narrated about the new
structure, about him having a call sign and
now living in Alor Setar and about the 2
meter activity.
GIVING A CHANCE TO ENTHUSIAST AND OTHERS
TO TALK - Scouts always invited me
to open up a station mainly in Jitra. It had
been an annual affair. They would find me a
tall bamboo mast planted in the middle of a
field. I asked them to cut wires for a
dipole, soldered and hoisted it up. All
those committee members are now licensed
hams.
We prepared a paper with the format on what
they boys and girls were to say.
OTHER STATION CALL SIGN FOLLOWED BY OUR CALL
SIGN
MY NAME/NAMA SAYA........... SPELL USING
PHONETIC
SAYA DARI KUMPULAN ........ DARI SEKOLAH
.....TINGAKATN/DARJAH....
TERIMA KASIH 73
OTHER CALL SIGN FOLLOWED BY OUR CALL SIGN.
OVER.
Each one of the student would be holding a
card.
At any other time I invited these people to
my house and let them speak to the local
hams with my supervision. That was way back
before the coming of class B.
WHO WAS THE BEST AND MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE
HAM ? - Nobody cared about it. Nobody
questioned about it. When we were unsure of
anything we would put the question on the band
and discussed. I didn't even know their
professions and never asked them on the
band. I only knew when they themselves told
me. Nobody claimed to be an expert and nobody
condemned anybody about anything at all.
When we heard somebody calling CQ we would
go to his call just because we did not want
to frustrate him. We termed it a ham
spirit.
Anything about SOP and technicalities I
would put the questions to Idris, 9M2GL.
Anything about CW procedures I would asked
Eshee.
I remember that when a topic was discussed
everyone would resort to ARRL handbook, not
the RSGB nor opinions. And things get
settled very quickly.
I was told 9M2DJ was an expert in FT101. So
whenever I had problem with the transceiver
I would call him up. The solution was brief
and simple, "Look at the capacitor attached
to the pre-amp unit." That's what I did. Cut
it out. Tested it and changed with a new
one. The rig would go on it's feet
immediately. But Chong never claimed he was
an expert. Nobody was trying to parade his
ability and superiority over others.
Most of the time and most of us feel that
there is something that we can learn from
others.
THERE WERE NO WORDS MONGERING -
Nobody spoke ill thing about another fellow
hams. There was a unity. It was always fun
and a pleasure. 9M2DW had a lot of stories
to tell and it never ended. Bill would be
telling his story and mishaps during his
global trips and about golf. 9M2GV talked
about flying an airplane. There were jokes
and laughter.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF AMATEUR TICKET -
There were three types of ticket, a home
station, a mobile station and a club
station. Each has to apply and paid a
different fee. A mobile station on WS182 car
could not be used on WBB121 car. A club
station was commonly ended with C like
9M2KUC, 9M2TIC and has to be located at the
club address, not at a person's home.
RADIO SOCIETY - There was only one
radio society then. It was MARTS. Both SWL
and full pledge hams could apply to be a
member. I was a member with 65162 SWL
number. There were MARTS members from
Singapore too who would attend the annual
meeting held in Kuala Lumpur. The meeting
was shorter than the eyeball. Members prefer
to talk and discuss and would enter the hall
at their own leisure time. It was a very
short meeting, with questions and no
argument. Everything was pass.
Majority always won. Eshee would be the
Treasurer for decades. Datuk Tan the Outward
QSL manger for ages too.
MY FIRST STATION - In the good old
days there were no coaxial cable in the
market, and I did not remember any shop
selling the coax plug. When I got my ticket
a few boys cut me coaxial cables for 40
meters, Eshee was one of them. Likewise
someone sent me the coaxial plugs. In the
meantime I rushed for a 24 hour clock, a
thermometer, ready with a MARTS logbook and
a few other small prerequisites.
I learned to make a dipole from Eshee when
we had a Thai-Malaysia scout jamboree in
Alor Setar. from then on until now I only
use dipole and never dream of pitting up a
superior system.
Later on I received an antenna Coupler and a
roll of coaxial cable from one Johor shop
with an invoice. It was Datuk Tan who had
ordered for me even without my knowledge. I
was glad and thanked him for his good deed.
Eshee would be telling us on how to
synchronize to the WWV clock. The
thermometer is still there in my shack.
THE DISAPPEARING OLD HAMS - I came
back to ham radio after a long leave to hear
stories of the demised fellow hams, 9M2DW,
9M2EG, 9M2GV, 9M2AT. A few stations that I
did not work before appeared, 9M2FF, 9M2MX.
9M2FZ, 9M2MW, 9M2CG and a few others moved
to Australia. Later I heard that 9M2FR,
9M2PN, 9M2BS and 9M2DJ followed a silent
key.
Bahar, 9M2SB, is still alive but chose to
stay away from ham radio. In fact many
living old hams chose to retire. I too was
about to do the same but my passion for CW
keeps me alive.
WHAT'S MY FUTURE ? - Dorris Day sang
What Will Be Will be. For good or bad I take
it as a fate. You can't force the world to
like your thinking and follow your idea. If
people want to form clubs let them do so. If
people want to quarrel on repeater usage let
them enjoy the debate. If people prefer to
change the SOP and ham terms let them change
the tradition.
If people invite me for a certain radio
occasion I would go and if not I won't feel
bad. I will keep on pounding my key until
someone replied. If I don't like a certain
method of communications I just stay away
from it. I won't buy a new expensive antenna
or any new hard ware for hamming anymore.
Whatsaap is interesting enough. A few old
hams are gathering in the Whatsapp group
exchanging ideas and having fun with the
chatting. If I don't them I just monitored
the conversations.
The only bad comment that I would like to
make is 'the MCMC does everything for the
class B. The class A is thrown deep down in
the mud'.
04/08/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof
|
A NEW HAM I KNOW 9M2ELY
I never knew there is a female ham
operator by the name of Nazly Abu Bakar
until I met her at the Merdeka Day
station POLIMAS Jitra. I took some time
to approach her desiring to know more
about her struggle in passing Morse
codes examination. God gracious goodness
she is so a sweat lady with a strong
mind.
She went to a CW class, she said, with
all men but herself. The class was run
by 9M2RUL. Whenever she was at home she
would practice listening. It was hard
and painful. It took her about 6 month
to master and went for the test. The
rest of the men stayed away.
She passed and earned a requested call
9M2ELY. She is called Ely by her
friends.
She narrated about her self dependent,
going to hardware shops and did all the
purchasing for her antenna. She climbed
the roof to fix the aerial by herself.
This was what amazed me most. I began to
sense her strong character, dexterity
and a lady who believes 'what a man can
do, the lady can do too'.
She lives in Sungai Petani and drove all
alone for the event.
So far by now I know there are two iron
ladies, 9M2OUT and 9M2ELY. There are not
many ladies in the world with Morse
capability, a rare commendable specie. Oja and Ely could make the country
proud.
My only advice to her was not to use
computer in working CW because it could
drain our skill away by and by. Keep it
with the straight key that she has and
go on the air on CW working local and DX
stations.
What else can I say...I have a friend
who got his class B ticket way back more
than 20 years ago who refused to learn
Morse while many new guys are creating a
class to themselves. Only in my opinion
that one strong lady equals 10000 men.
02/08/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHEN THEY
KNOW THE TRUTH
Mahathir came late in 1Mdb issue. The
leak was from someone who knew about the
flow of money into Najib's personal
account. Mahyuddin and Shafiee only knew
after it was published in the Sarawak
Report. Najib is now aiming the gun at
high profile persons who had been
serving the country and his camp accused
these officers trying to topple Najib.
A simple minded person would ask "why do
they want to topple him ? " Why
Mahyuddin who has the future of being a
Prime Minister need to wrest the post ?
Why Najib replaced Ghani Patail with
Apandi and transferred officers from the
MACC ? Even without the Sarawak Report
the Malaysians would come to know about
it.
Najib is a Prime Minister. He admitted
that he did not know many things
including on the signing of the
important documents. The officials in
the finance Ministry had been working
very hard and found the nation has
difficulty in paying debts. The debts
piled up as Najib continues to spend
lavishly to sustain power and personal
comfort. Then someone suggested that GST was
as a way to solve the acute financial
problem.
Where the money went and how much was
used for Rosmah expenditure were also
known by his officers. The
advertisements on Najib and Rosmah in US
newspapers that would not come cheap.
There were payment for the personal jet
rentals. There were money transfers
without the corresponding economic
activity, called Brim. Surely the people in the
ministry were not happy with what were
going on. The pressure mounting and they
had sleepless night. Would we be shocked
by the resignation of Husni and Wahid ?
If there were nothing wrong Ghani Patail would
not have been kicked out. Zetty and other
ministers would not have resigned.
The ordinary people still do not know
what is an IPIC and what was meant by
re-structuring and the flow of money.
But university students and other people
who are accessed to the internet began
to understand the issue. Najib declared
war on those who questioned him. Those
he could sack he sacked. Those who he
can't he asked them to leave the
country. Those who know too much will
have to face the music.
The Malays who disagree with Najib are
said to be slave of DAP. There was an
attempt trying to create the IS story so
that the Malays would be categorized as
terrorist and recorded as a Red alert in
the international security record; like
Najib informed Hillary Clinton that Anwar Ibrahim
is a
terrorist. Even a man with a knife was
arrested as accused as an IS operative. You
may not know that your name may be put
under a terrorist list.
We know that a vast sum of money are
used to buy popularity locally and
internationally. Taking people's money
without corresponding increase in GDP
and National Income is just like
printing more and more paper money
without the gold or economic backing.
Najib thought by signing the
international trade agreement the value
of ringgit would become strong and the
economy would revive. And when Malaysia
economy plunged he blamed the people 'ALL
BECAUSE OF THE RAKYAT'.
Only later
Mahathir was called in. Information
flowed from various sources. But it was
his mistake to replace Abdullah Badawi
with Najib. And he himself had started
much of the problems. Najib made
it worse. Public resources were deployed
to the fullest. Money were spent to
enhance his image using the local and
foreign individuals. Rosmah continued
with her comfort and excessiveness. The masses were
told that Najib was a victim of calumny.
MCA capitalized on the confused Prime
Minister and demanding what they had
always want promising full
support to the Prime Minister. And Lies
thickened.
As I have said time and again that Najib
will not quit even if he were to win by
1 vote. If 90% were to vote for
opposition party the voters will be
viewed as unlawful terrorists influenced
by IS or any other organization. Those
who wait for Najib to get old will be
frustrated because both husband and wife
are on the anti-ageing treatment.
Now Najib is accusing Mahathir as a man
who divide the Malays and a big trouble
maker. We read the face book counter
comments,
blaming Najib as a man who divide UMNO by
his action of ousting his own deputy and
other UMNO members. Religion is used to
command obedience and support. A Minister
equate Najib to God. Others said he is
the chosen one and a shadow of God.
'Kalau
tak setuju, sila keluar
Umno'
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I smell a huge vote rigging, ballot box
switching and ballot stuffing in the
next GE. Gangsters will be deployed and
the public will be threatened.
So far the Malays still show their
docility. And the police is wise enough
not to use force on the street
protestors. Probably they have learned
of the Syrian incidence.
The huge wastage and the plunging
economy could be avoided if Najib choose
to retire. The support to UMNO will
revive. Investors will return.
Younger generations who lost their jobs
may get their jobs back.
It is a pity that Najib has never known
what poverty and hardship means. He has
been an aristocrat and living like an
emperor all his life. He does not know
the pinch the public felt.
I met a woman whom I would guessed to be
an UMNO member; she was surprise paying
a high price for a good she purchased. I
told her the price will be raised again in
the coming December. She said that she
would not mind paying more as long as
there are things in the shelves. But her
face looked sad and unhappy. In fact I
met more shocking people at the payment
counter of malls and super markets. Rosmah would have assumed that the
citizens are well off. Or she took
another turn, "Never mind if you don't
have money. Be thrifty and wise in
spending. I have all the money. It is
alright for me to spend millions for my
own comfort."
I am very certain even the new hand
picked second finance Minister will come
to a dead end when finding difficulty in
paying the loan. GST may not be enough.
Interest alone is soaring by day. The
ringgit continues to fall.
We still remember that Najib said "Give
me 6 months and I will put 1Mdb in order
again...We will do a RESTRUCTURING". The
date and time has long due. We have not
heard that the loan has been reduced.
Believe me our Prime Minister himself is
shivering at the sound of 1Mdb. It
is haunting him. Public fund to fill the
holes find it difficulty in paying the
loan and the interest.
Top economic people like Zetty and
Najib's former second finance ministers
knew it. Ghani Patail knew what really
happened. Abu Kassim read the
investigation papers. But many fear that
they could face the fate of Kevin Morais.
30/08/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MY PASSION
FOR CW
I realize
that I take toll in ageing. My defective
right ear is getting worse. So is my memory.
The concentration is short and mental
alertness is down the drain. It has been
quite some time that I did not work high
speed Morse codes. I don't have many
sparring partners but three. One had passed
away. One went missing. And the other has an
antenna problem. I fear I may be losing the
sending and copying skills.
On the
radio band communications in the CW mode are
some sort like a rubber stamp, people just
give the RST report and said 73, followed by QRZ. I can never learn anything from contest
except trying to copy call signs. The normal
NAME, QTH, WX, RIG, ANT, TNX FER QSO etc
would be too easy for anyone to copy even at
a high speed. The real challenge is to copy
the ragchewing stations.
I tested
my copying skill using a soft ware, copying
web articles in English and pasted on the
Morse trainer. At 35 words per minutes I can
copy words but I would miss the train due to
short concentration ability. I reduced to 30
wpm. And I found it was the best and the
most comfortable speed. But I have not tried
to write them on paper yet. Unlike the
Indonesians they can write down random
characters at the speed of 36 - 40 wpm.
Wonderful indeed.
I can
copy better than sending them. Using an
electronic key is quite a hell because I
have been using the straight key for years, from 1975
to 2012. The fingers could not coordinate
well with my mind. The mind is faster than
my fingers. The neuro-muscular coordination
is at its low ebb.
If
anybody has a desire to acquire any skill do
it at the younger age. Young people below 25
has the optimum working machine in the body
and the mind. I would be able to learn
Mandarin or Japanese effectively at the age
of 17. But near the vicinity of frontier of dawn nothing
can help anymore. Everything is slowing
down. I stopped programming which is
becoming tougher for my mind. I find a long
distant driving a hectic task. I do things
which do not demand complex thinking
procedure like making a trip overseas.
At the
same time I am computing the distant left to
the eternal world.
At least
I am much better than many other people who
are younger than me. Many had passed away or
acutely sick. But at the old age one may get
tired when one talk too much. When I go on
CW I would really having a leasure and a
real siesta. I rest my head on the lazy
chair, close my eyes and copy and send
messages. There were days when Hanafi,
9W2TZ, came to my house he just observed me
sleeping during the CW sessions. I could not
do it with AMTOR, FACTOR or RTTY. All those
digital boxes purchased in G-Land and W-Land
were thrown away more than 20 years ago.
The
longest that I have with me is the Himound
Pounder and an antenna Coupler, Leader 895.
And they will be with me till I die.
The
internet technology has brought tremendous
change to the world in every area. Senior
hams are now on the Whatsapp instead of the
radio. Younger radio generations opened up
various chat groups. People chat using
skypes across the world. Pictures were sent
in split seconds. Students living overseas
do not need amateur radio apparatus to
communicate with their parents.
We keep
on believing that amateur radio is the only
organization that can save lives and the
most important during disaster. We want to
believe it that way. We forget that it is
the equipment that helps in the
communication and we do not want everyone to
be given the right to use this equipment
without a control.
In
actuality most radio enthusiasts spent 75%
of the free time on smart phone or computers.
There isn't problem of band condition, QRM
and QRN, intruders and pirate stations
riding on you. What tied me to ham radio is
the passion for the hobby which I started
before the internet even exist.
I enjoy
the two world of internet and Morse
communication, one relies on my modem and
the other on my antenna. The internet is
always a travel companion, not only for me
but for all other travelers. They snap
pictures and quickly send them home even
while bus is on the move. Really amazing. I
chat with people back home on the moving
vehicle from Spain and Morocco; no radio and
no antenna.
But the
activities of the radio operators never die.
They have the ham festivals, annual meeting,
forming clubs, going expeditions and having
field days. Those keep the radio business
going and those craving to have their voices
on the air attain fulfillment. I believe
that amateur population increase through
campaigning and the requirement made simple.
Old timers are fading not because they are
all gone but because they are old and tired.
I am tired of talking and exchanging QSL
cards. The only attachment that I have to
ham radio is the Morse key. It is also my
passion. And I call myself a CW Operator.
I have
several CW applications in my smart phones.
Like listening to a song, the dit and dah
messages entertained me . I set
to 30 wpm as the rhythm to sooth my ears.
29/08/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
WE ARE NOT IGNORANT NATIVES
It was intriguing to watch two traditional
natives playing chess. And in the early '80s
crowds clapped their hands when I punched
messages with the CW key. We would have
thought the game of chess is a high class
game only known by the brainies.
And the language of Morse would not be known
by non-white skinned aliens.
I remember in those years also a Malay
computer student was asked by his professor
to take his place while he was away for a
few days in Ohio university. The boy must be
very brilliant. And Malaysians emerged a
world champion in squash. The most recent a
Malaysian lady rode a motorbike trotting the
world.
We can be assured that there are some
philosophers and scholars had begun to take
the task of studying the Malaysian and
particularly the Malay specie who has
astounded the world with their smart ways
absconding public fund and the ability to
manipulate facts and convince even the American president. How
many people have the intellectual ability
above others in the world, the
potentiality of looming competitively with
other advance nations.
A proficiency in Morse codes is not an
indicator of progress or civility. It does
not parade an intelligence and an acuteness
of a person. But the skill boost a person's
esteem and pride that he has something in
himself that other people cannot buy. He is
not an ignorant native who knows nothing the
skill of hunting and food gathering.
When Morse codes were not a requirement to
be an amateur radio operator the world did
not altogether halt and cast away their keys
and stop pounding on the air. Instead more
Morse machines and soft wares were produced
to send and translate the codes. Electronic
keys continued to be manufactured and sold
at astronomical price. Security agencies
will keep on buying the machines that can
translate it. In other words the world will
not kill it for safety and security.
Assume that Morse is blank, not in any man
and not in a machine, totally vanished and
non-existence. And let us assume again that
a bunch of criminals are with knowledge of
all modes of communications; these criminals
will surely used CW as their modes of
communication to be more secured. Even now
the no-codes operators would be keeping a
machine to monitor to the CW messages for
fear of any malicious comments about them.
When a traditional native speaks good
English, play chess, send and copy Morse
with ease what are we to say about him ?
It is encouraging that the radio enthusiasts
from Malaysia are rushing for the Morse
test. To them it is a challenge. They want
to prove that they are not dumb and
ignorant. In fact they can, and earn a great
luster to their effort. And they earned a
class A ticket with pride. Conversely it
differs from a fellow who hated Morse and
writing to MCMC requesting for a class A
license without seating for the test on the
health ground (spinning like a politician).
It is parading the vast difference in
attitudes.
Morse to ham radio is just like a bible to
Christianity and Al-Quran to Islam. It
carries an ID and part and parcel of the
hobby. It is the tradition of ham radio. It
is not a ham radio without it. The
preservation of tradition keep our moral
strong and preserving our identity. Imagine
a Malay person who dress English, dyed his
hair blonde, speak English, serve himself
only Western food and identify himself as
English. We see him a Malay just his facial
structure.
Some says culture and tradition hinder
progress. But progress do not bring peace
and tranquility to mankind. Drugs and crimes
do not recede. People labored for their
political leaders. The world is at a brim of
war and killings and bombing continue.
We do have sets and categories in a class.
You can't call everything by the same name.
Flowers are to flowers. Animals are to
animals. We can't call all flowers a Rose.
You can't wear just a shirt and walk out
everywhere without a trouser and a shoe.
Dress come in a set; the part to cover the
top part of the body, the bottom, and the
feet. Of course you can throw any one of
them and go to your office without one.
That's was what in the bundle of the ham
radio. You can add but not throw part of it.
From the observations many people defy the
call for abandoning of CW. Clubs grew to
preserve the culture. The CW band shrieks
every day and night. The brave ones go for
CW, homebrewed keyers and grouped
themselves. If we have chosen to ignore it
we will become a pariah in relation to those
people in other countries. The competencies
elevate our status. We have the means and
capabilities if we want to. We have a dire
to strive. CW is a skill that you cannot
buy. And you need to know that it had been
the ID of a ham radio for a long time in the
past.
We are not an ignorant specie, living on
trees, living on the mercy of the others. We
don't beg for a degree, diploma or a free
ham ticket. Malaysia will be heard on the CW
band and be part of the total buzzing and
chirpings. And in the international arena we
won't shy away from the Morse keys on
display, or just looking at them without
daring to test them.
Think of the two traditional natives of
Papua New Guinea who spoke fluent English
and playing chess with a deep concentration.
2808/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
JAPAN -
FIRST VISIT TO TOKYO
I have never been to Japan except a
short stopover at Narita in 1980 on the
way to Los Angeles. I was very excited
of the idea of going to the Japanese
Amateur Radio Festival to be held to Big
Sight, Tokyo. Rusli did all the bookings
and planning. I decided to follow his
plan. I paid him a total of RM4.5K for
the trips to Jakarta and Tokyo. We took
Airasia.
In fact we were not alone. At KLIA2 we
met two young ladies also going to Japan
for the first time on their own. We
learned that they were students and
seasoned travelers. They booked the
hotel at different location and had
drawn their plans for the visit. We also
met Aziz, Rizal and two other hams at
the airport. They all did drop their
luggage. The two ladies didn't.
The last train was at about 11.30 pm.
Fearing that we would not catch the
train we tried to minimize time-wasting
by not checking in our baggage.
The immigration was fast. We followed
the direction to the train line, the
Keikyu Line. We asked the two guards the
way to our hotel. The two lady officials
told us hurry and quoted the ticket
price. It was 570 Yen per ticket.
Down on the platform we did not know
what to do. We saw the two girls were
asking around. We too did the same. Two
young men and a lady came to our help,
giving us instructions that we need to
change train at Shinagawa, and followed
us on the train. At Shinagawa we bade
good bye. There was a lady student who
studied in Tokyo approached me asking
where I wanted to go. Then she rushed to
the two girls. I guessed she wanted to
assist the fellow ladies.
Again we asked a gentleman who stood
waiting for the train. He said that it
would be the last train and an only
train. We should not be worried. He told
us to keep an eye on the computer screen
on the train.
The train arrived. WE jumped in. There
was quite a crowd. The Japanese won't
push you around. They have a high value
of courtesy. The train announce "ASAKUSABASHI".
We jumped out. There were several exit.
We walked to the nearest and climbed the
stairs. It was drizzling outside. A lady
passed by. We stopped to ask her the way
to Apa Hotel. She walked us for about
500 meters to the hotel. We thanked her.We checked in at about 12 midnight.
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BUYING TRAIN TICKETS -
We had discounted a taxi ride from the
beginning. It would cost anyone a
fortune for anyone to hire a taxi.
Train, subways and similar form of
vehicles are common. There are busses
which we did not know how to use. A
train pass can be purchased by
foreigners from outside of Japan. One
can google for the JR, Japanese Railway,
and ordered a ticket. It is also
available in some stations in Japan with
a passport. For a week it would be from
RM800 - RM1500. It would save us if we
were to go for long distant traveling
within the country.
We wanted to take a local
train
for going between nearby places.
In every rail station there is a ticket
machine. We can use coins or paper note.
The picture on the left shows a 100 yen
and a 10 yen coins. For the first time I
went to a counter and just mentioned a
word 'AKIHABARA'. The officer looked at
me and said 'One four O platform 1'. I
went to the machine and chose 140 from
the list of numbers, and put 1 silver
coins followed by 4 bronze ones. A
ticker shot out. That's it.
To
go back to Asakusabashi I bought a
ticket first and went to the counter and
said, "ASAKUSABASHI' and the officer
responded 'One four O platform 6'.
BIG SIGHT -
It was raining on the 20th of August. I
woke up at about 10 am ( 9 am
Malaysian
time ). We went down for breakfast at
about 10.30 am. I always took a simple
breakfast but a lot of orange juice. I
had my food prepared for the victuals,
the Brahim fried rice cooked with boiled
water.
At 11 am we began our journey. I brought
my bag pack and had a smaller one. The
ticket to the Big Sight was 350 yen. At
the moment I don't remember whether we
changed train. Probably at Misabashi
station. It was a long journey. The
train crossed the sea. I think it was a
reclaimed land. There were full of tall
buildings around,
From the rail station to the arena there
was a roof. The rainfall didn't bother
us. There were many people coming down
the train heading the same way. I
whispered to Rusli that they probably
came for some other activities.
The crowds were all went the same way.
The queue for the tickets was long. The
ticket cost 1500 yen and it took about
45 minutes before we reached the ticket
booth. We were trying to look for Aziz
and his gang but could not find them.
Aziz had been to Japan Ham Festivals
several time already.
We were there until 4.30 pm. There was
no sign of Aziz. We guessed that they
might have been busy doing some
purchasing somewhere else or going sight
seeing.
THE FISTS-
FISTS is an international Morse club
founded in 1987 by G3ZQS.
FISTS History
The FISTS Club,
(International Morse Preservation
Society) was founded in 1987 by the late
George "Geo" Longden G3ZQS of Darwen,
Lancashire England, after recognising a
need for a club in which veteran
operators would help newcomers and
less-experienced operators learn and
improve CW proficiency. During the
first year, membership reached 300, most
of whom were in Great Britain and
Europe. The original Introduction
to FISTS by Geo holds
as true today as it did when he wrote
it. Geo also explains how
he chose the name FISTS.
The North
American Chapter (now
known as FISTS Americas) was formed in
1990 to assist 11 members in the USA
receive the newsletter and as a banking
convenience. Nancy Kott WZ8C of Hadley,
Michigan was named US representative, a
position she held until sadly she became
a Silent Key in 2014.
The Down
Under Chapter (New
Zealand / Australia) was formed in 1998
to provide a similar service to
Australasian members, with Ralph Sutton
ZL2AOH as the VK/ZL representative.
From a VK/ZL membership of four, there
are now over 100 members "Down Under",
principally in New Zealand. The New
Zealand membership is the largest in any
country outside England, Wales and North
America.
The East
Asia Chapter was
formed in 2004 by a few Taiwanese and
Japanese members to provide East Asian
members with various services in their
native languages.
CW Clubs seem to stress
more on using hands and fists to send
Morse rather than using the computers.
Piju, 9M2PJU, told me
about the FISTS booth. I had wanted to
see it. The first strolled around the
arena failed. We could not find the
booth.
I carried 10 pcs of
PIJU's souvenir to be given away for the
people there. Piju is a member of the
FISTS group. So with the late Rizal.
On the second round I
asked the people at the CW Operators'
Club as to the location of FISTS using
the S-Pad on my Samsung Note 2.(I lost
the S-pen. May I might have dropped it
due to sheer excitement of finding the
booth)
The FISTS was just near
the Japan CW Operators Club. We chatted
and took several photographs and I
handed the button pins and the
key-chains having Piju's call sign on
them. I gave mine a few.
I think the Malaysian
hams who have passion in CW should get
together to discuss Morse codes. It
would be fun to talk about the
experience of Morse sending and copying,
and about the
making of the homebrewed keys.
But we Malaysians are too
busy and having a multitude of ideas and
philosophies. And we have too many smart
people in our midst.
We have lost the real CW
operators as they are now detaching
themselves from the hobby, either
because they are old or because of their
health. Chow and Eshee were among a few
of these creatures. Eshee would be
pounding his straight key on the contest
at a great speed.
Morse keys at the
exhibition hall were sold like a hot
cake. Rusli coxed me to buy one for my
collection.
SHOPPING
- Akihabara is well known for it's
electric and electronic stuffs. Before
the trip I
did ask around of what things
should I bought in Japan. I got all sort
of answers. The one who convinced me was
Au, a radio friend on the Whatsapp. He
talked about Casio watch, the Oceanus
type and on every goodies about it. I
told Rusli about Au's suggestion.
As we took a stroll we
kept a look at the prices of items in
the shops that we
passed by. Almost everything in Japan is
expensive. After some time we arrived
the town center.
Rusli bought a cammera
and two Casio watches. One cost RM2700
and another at RM400. The camera was
about RM2000. I bought a watch and a few
other things at a later time. It was a
real crazy. Had not because of the high
price I would have bought more stuffs to
fill my bags.
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To me a watch was enough. I
had to buy something else
for my student and a few
friends who asked me for
something. |
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Window shopping was more
interesting and fun. |
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FOOD-
I brought with me six packets of Brahim
Briyani and Nasi Goreng Kampong combined
and a pack of maggi mee. I had no
appetite in Brahim. Probably ot was not
hot enough or it was too saltish. I
could finish three packs of maggi for
three nights. Only on the first day I
prepared nasi goreng for victual at Big
Sight. But I ate only half of it.
As we were walking we
came across Kebab sstall that written
the word Halal. And we did ask a
salesman where about any Halal food. I
also knew that under emergency I could
feed on shrimp bugger at Mac Donald. On
the second day onwards I carried with me
a can of potato chip and a bottle of
mineral water.
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Aladin was one of the Halal
restaurant. It is not within
AKIHABARA itself. One has to
take a train or walk for about
20 minutes here. There are a few
others but we did not go for the
search.
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Nearby our hotel there are many
small shops including 7-11 where
I bought fruits and juices for
evening consumption. The price
was not too expensive.
Rusli brought more foodstuffs
than I. He even brought some
sort of lemang accompanied by
daging rendang. And he brought
along the victuals with him all
along. When I was hungry at
Akihabara I bought a set of
shrimp bugger. You won't die of
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COURTESY AND CIVIC
MINDEDNESS -
Should I conclude that the Japanese has
a very high ethical standard. You may
see them bow while talking on the phone
as if the other party is in front of
them. When you are in Japan you must not
hesitate to approach and seek for their
help. We started with asking them the
way to our destination, what train to
take. Everyone would be willing to come
to our aid, giving us a detail route
plan or would either take us to the
place we want to go.
When the train arrived
nobody rushed to board it until all
passengers were out. In the train ladies
did stand up to give seat to another
man. I would not to accept it and prefer
to stand all the way.
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The city, small town and
the back streets were clean. People do
not litter, no garbage seen as what have
here in Malaysia especially after some
events like soccer match.
Public toilets are not
only free but extremely clean. I was
amazed even in the Big Sight arena the
automatic vowel cleaning system are
deployed; no need of the hand and paper
usage at all. It is just like the one in
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From the feedback on my
FB postings I learned that Japan is a
safe place. People can sleep with the
door unlock which used to be our old
practices where we slept with open
windows. And if anything got lost they
would get their belongings back.
At the airport while
going home to Malaysia I put all my bags
on a trolley; a hand carry luggage and a
backpack. Whenever I entered a
shop I would leave the trolley outside.
In one shop I made a purchase of two
beautiful T-Shirts. I was shocked to see
my backpack was missing. Panicking I
went downstairs to make a report to the
information center. I was asked to
return to the counter one hour later.
In the meantime I walked
around looking for the lost bag, both at
the level where I was and on the upper
level. I could find it anywhere after
more than an hour. Rusli suspected
that I might have dropped it somewhere
on the way starting from the place where
we started. I went down again, follow
the track carefully, asking the shop
attendance and airport officials. Nobody
saw any bag.
I had plain tickets and
those items I bought in Tokyo. I decided
to make a police report. Before going to
the police Rusli and me thought it would
be better for us to go around the area
once more. We did. At one corner I saw
my bag being left on a bench. I felt
very relief. I checked the content.
Nothing was missing. It must had been
dropped somewhere and picked by some
guys with the idea the owner would be
looking for it as we had done..
It was all about ethics,
morality, civic mindedness and a pure
clean heart. A Minister would resign
with a small mishap not even caused by
him. How would I not said the
deteriorating of ringgit in relation to
Japanese yen has something to do with
morality and our unashamed behavior.
ATTRACTIVE GOODS
-
One main problem is the
deteriorating value of our currencies.
The ratio from 100Y:RM1 is now
100Y:RM4+, I would compute it is due to
our leadership problems. It is just my
view. You may not agree with me.
Watches
are everywhere. Rusli wanted
watches and camera fully made in
Japan. They are more
expensive than the ones in
Malaysia. The watch above used
China made casing. That explains
for the cheap price. |
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All radio
transceivers are cheaper in
Tokyo as compared to the price
in Malaysia but it is too bulky
to carry. There are a lot of
refurbished iPhone 5 and 4. The
average price is between RM400 -
RM1200. If I had not controlled
myself I would have purchased an
iphone 4. |
2708/2016 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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TABUNG HAJI
AND MY WIFE BEQUEST
When bad
people were promoted to a post they
certainly would cause havoc to the
world.
It has been
more than a year that my wife has passed
away. Yet her bequest is not settled yet
with Tabung Haji. It all started with
the Property and Bequest Office which
charged more than a thousand ringgit for
the service of property and financial
allotment. Immediately after obraining
the letter of attorney I rushed to CIMB,
ASB and Tabung Haji. My wife's saving
was only RM12K. ASB and CIMB were the
simplest in procurement procedures as
only I have to be the active member
while the Tabhung Haji said that all of
us, me and my kids must sign at the
Tabung Haji's Office before the money
could be distributed.
CIMB
completed the process and handed me with
four checks within a week. ASB took
about a month. I had to wait for all my
kids to come home to present themselves
at Tabung Haji. I and my eldest son had
completed our jobs with TH at Alor Setar
branch.
About three
months later the Property Office called
me up to ask me to be present at the
office. I was told that the letter of
attorney given to me was wrong and a new
ones were handed to me. Trying to avoid
the problem to the officer I decided not
to take any action. I had lost more than
RM40K to my sons. But they are my flesh
and blood.
During the
last Ramadan my daughter came home. I
took her to Tabung Haji to sign and
handed a new letter of attorney with a
corrected mistakes. Then after the Hari
Raya I took my last son for the
signature and handed another document.
Just about
a couple of months ago I received a
letter from TH informing me that the
bequest had been credited to my account.
But I found the amount was so much less.
I brought the documents to the Tabung
Haji's office. It said the office was
closed and transactions could be done at
UTC Pacific. I went to UTC's Tabung Haji,
presented the letter and the document.
During the
discussion I narrated about giving the
old and the new PA letter. The officer
said that all the payments are made at
Kuala Lumpur HQ. He will investigate and
call me back. To mind you it took hours
before they came up with an answer.
Today, 5
days after returning from Jakarta, I
went to UTC to follow up the progress.
"The money was paid according to the old
PA," said the officer.
"I have
submitted two new PAs to Tabung Haji.
You cannot process the payment prior to
the completion of the total signatures."
"I don't
know. You go to the main office and
asked Haji Rahman. He may be able to
answer you."
So I went.
I met a desk officer and explained. The
officer went in and about 15 minutes
later came out to tell me that the
deceased file has been closed and
nothing could be done. "How could the
file be closed when the transactions
were not yet completed ? " I said. He
went in again. I waited for more than
hour.
The big
boss came to the counter with a heap of
documents. " We have closed the file,"
he said.
"You close
the file and process the payment before
the completion of the signatures ? "
He showed
me a document showing the old payment
ratio. "I gave two sets of new documents
at different time and why don't you pay
following the new ones ? "
"I tried to
call Kuala Lumpur. But today is Sunday."
"I am not
so in a hurry. But I don't like the you
do trying to find fault with your
customers and do not want to admit your
mistake. This is not much. But I will
not hesitate to get your answers in
court. This mean even the Property
Office will be called up by court."
"Give me a
little time."
"I can. But
why show me all these pile of papers
when thing is so simple. Your people
just did not read the new PA. I can
forgive mistakes and errors but it must
be remedied. Correct the figures and
issue a new letter. I give you the time
you want. The money involve isn't a
million. You have to remedy it."
I left the
office, the new TH one at the TH Hotel,
near the airport.
Will I sue
TH ? YES if they are arrogance.
14/08/2016
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
MY TARGET
ACHIEVED
I
have always wanted to go to Jakarta Ham
Festival as I heard stories on the great
Morse code competition. I have been amazed
by the ability of the Indonesian CW
operators from that part of the world. It
had been years since I had been monitoring
their CW net on 40 meter band. But the net
isn't there anymore. The last time I heard
was a commotion which might have been caused
either by the pirate stations of some rude
guys. There were gentlemen and ladies who
lead the network and sometimes they took
turn as the duration of each network session
was too long.
That's my main purpose
of the visit, to see some of the fantastic
guys. I had no intention of buying
equipments or to learn about their radio
organization like the ORARI. ORARI is like
the ARRL and RSGB.
My first plan was to
visit Tokyo Ham Fare which will be held on
the 20th and 21st of August 2016. I heard
from 9M2PJU that the FISTS group will open a
boost too. A FISTS is another
organization of CW lovers who reject CW
communication using computers. I asked Rusli,
9M2RB, whether he would be interested to go
to Japan. He agreed and at the same time he
told me about the Jakarta Fest that he would
go. I told Rusli that I would join him.
II prepared 20 button
pins with a motto CW is a class by itself
incase somebody might ask me for a souvenir.
All I realized they were not enough. The
trip was on the 5th, by Airasia. The flight
departed Kuala Lumpur at 7.55 and arriving
Jakarta at about 8 pm local time. We took a
Blue Bird taxi to our hotel, costing 150000 Rp. The Favehotel Zainul Arifin is at Jalan
Zainul Ariffin.
We decided to go to
the fare ground on the next day after breakfast. The
location was at a place called ANCOL park.
We
took a three wheeler. The ride cost us 45000 Rp
the gate of the park.
The park's entrance fee was 25000 per person. We
did not find the ham fare ground anywhere
after about 10 minutes walk. Whenever we saw
the an employee of the park we would asked for the
location of the ORARI
event. Nobody seemed to know about it.
However on further
enquiry we arrived at the destinationm,
after riding the park-bus , walking and
changing to another bus.
The
weather was hot and sunny. We walked about
and survey the booths
sales. A few booths sold the homebrewed
equipments. Rigs that sold for RM350 were
quickly grabbed by the visitors. We did not see any Malaysian
yet. Neither did we approach any Indonesian hams
who were busy chatting among themselves.
On the left there was
a beach. On the right there was a mall.
Rusli suggested that we went into the
mall to cool
ourselves. On entering the mall a few
Indonesian hams approached us asking where a
meeting was to be held. We just said that we
did not know. "There us a meeting," I told
Rusli. "Let's go and watch." We climbed a
floor. There was
someone talking on a loudspeaker on one
corner. We knew that the meeting was going
on. We took a seat.
A
few Indonesian hams seemed to notice us and
asked where we were from. We were told that
there would be a Morse competition after the
OTARI's meeting. More and more hams joined us and
we
introduced each other When I mentioned about the CW
net controller , fingers were pointed at
them.
CW
COMPETITION
There are 4 categories
in the competition; the slow, medium, high
and free for all. I did not request them for
the detail. Each category must consist of at
least 5 candidates. The males and females
were considered as one. If you look at the
picture below you'll notice the spectrum of
age difference.
There were 500
characters, 5 to each group to be sent and
copied by the the candidates.
They looked very
calmed. I would not be able to copy random
words by writing. Even the messages are in
plain language my hand would not be able to
cope up with the speed.
I did not record the
whole speed of different category. I
remember that in one, the speed changes in
momentum, getting faster and faster.
IOne
of the hams sent the clip to his American
friend who commented that it was a
crazy
speed.
HAM RADIO ID
I am sorry for being
bias. I do not ask everyone to share my
view. I have always maintained that ham
radio is identified with Morse codes. And
Morse is an integral part and an ID for the
ham radio. No one can buy it with money. One
has to instill the competency in him by
himself.
I feel so relief and at peace
knowing that there are people who are
keeping ham radio alive.
HAM RADIO
IS NOT ABOUT TALKING ONLY
Ham Radio is not about
talking only. It goes more than that; the
ethics and the attitudes. It should be of a
community of high grade people minus the
rouge and the insolent. We can't afford to
have a man who called himself a ham at the
same time be the head of the pirates and
dare even to express his unethical deeds in
public. And people who use the hobby to make
money as those who did in the Facebook
product advertisements. We loathe any vanity
hams who brag and swagger, pushing others to
be a leader like the rush for political
posts.
Ham radio is not about
paradding ones ego and ones social, academic
and political status. We address people by
ham name not by his nobility, King Hussein
never want to be called MY Lord or His
Highness. That was the way hams did for
decades to keep everyone on equal status.
People are quarreling
on matter of repeaters, not because of the
abuse but because the non-members were
chased out. They disagreed about the
formation and the members of clubs and radio
societies.
Ham radio should be
free of vices, braggart, evil mind and war
mongers.
LEARN
THROUGH HARDSHIP
Hard
work is a
commendable ethic. One has to move and sweat
for bread rather than begging all one's
life. Begging makes a person lazy and
indolent. It will blend with a person's
characters and attitudes. And the habit is
never a luster. High minimum pay will
discourage the desire to pursue college and
university degree. Easy curriculum will
hinder the
development of higher level knowledge and
the ultimate progress in science and
technology thus lowering international
competitiveness.
Good habit in a man is
transferable to any of his deeds and
undertakings. It will be applied to all
situations and circumstances.
I learned a lot
from my visit. It made me realize how small
I was and I am. In the world of amateur
radio no one can claim that he is the best
and the most perfect. There is a distant
difference between my ability in Morse codes
and my fellow friends in Indonesia. They
surely had earned their pride through
diligence and resilience.
12/08/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
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MY MESSY HOME
The decay is getting serious. I don't even
remember I have rooms in my house. Probably
I do not sleep in one. I sleep in the hall,
on the coach or floor and at time on the
sick bed of my late wife. I actually have a
room where my former maid used to stay,
small but well furnished. It could
accommodate two persons easily. I do not
remember this room at all. Around the hall
there are three rooms where my two sons and
my daughter would occupy them when they came
home. I have never been into their rooms
whether they were here or away. I would lock
them.
I would say the most tidy and well organized
is my daughter's. And I told her that I
would let it be used by Rusli if he were to
visit me because I was always well
accommodated when I went to Kuala Lumpur.
She agreed.
The hall is very messy, the worst is my
radio room where I stuffed in unwanted
things, small and compact. I used to sleep
in there but not anymore. It was hot and
stuffy. I had an air-conditioning unit but
using it would double my electric bill.
Without it I pay about RM50 a month, using
it would jump to RM250.
Once a month I would hire maids to clear the
compound, mopping the floor and remove the
dusts. They were paid by the hour. Because I
am a single man in the house they prefer to
come in two to avoid calumny and gossip
about any possible affair. Both are married.
Within four hours the job would be
completed. I always paid them two a hundred
for two.
The other day two of my ham radio friends
came with the express purpose of going to a
kenduri in Perlis. It did occur to me about
their lodging but my mind was seeing the
messy place of my home. I did not remember
of the maid's room. I was thinking of the
mosquito's attacks and so on. I did not
persuade them to stay with me. Only at night
I decided to ask them to put up a night at
my home. I tried to call them but in vain. I
asked Hanafi to ring them up. Also failed.
I have to remedy my error. I have to wait
for the next time. I will offer a lodging to
any of my ham radio friends who come this
way and willing to stay in this messy and
uncomfortable abode. Who knows some are
already used to mosquitoes and stuffy
environment and willing to accept the offer.
This very house will be left alone when I
die. I have a dreadful thought of living
till 80 because I will be too old and too
tired by then. That will be around the
corner. Ten years passes too quickly. I
never thought I would across the 21st
century. This is already 2016. My God.
02/08/2016 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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