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A
STRANGE AND UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA UNMO called Lim Kit
Siang a Communist. Now it is likely our leader will
be addressing the Chinese Communist Assembly. Is it
not weird ?
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Raymond Francis
Somebody is not cut for
marching
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SURABAYA - ACCOUNT CLOSED
My account for Surabaya's trip has
closed. It includes every cent spent on
the trip and all expenditures after the
trip using the money drawn. The last of
it was the last night exotic sea-food
dinner at Kuala Perlis. The total amount
was RM2K. It was a modest spending,
average amount for the Asean trips by
the tour package or on our own.
I did not buy anything at all, no
souvenir nor a Batik shirt. I walked to
places if they were just below five kilo
meters, not to save my money but for my
walking exercise which has been my daily
routine at home in Malaysia. I took a
Go-Jek boy for the sight seeing but I
paid him handsomely. He even begged to
take me to the airport on the last day.
I agreed, just because I pitied him. He
is 21 and married to a 20 year old
beautiful wife.
I had wanted to spend on food but I did
not. I tried the hotel mee and a
pineapple drink. I was charged about
RM75. The mee was unpleasant and saltish.
I went to a seafood restaurant and I saw
it was a mud-crab not the sea specie for
my religion forbid the crab that can
live both on land and in water. I have
to settle for the Fish and Fries at the
nearby Mac Donald.
To date the best hotel I ever stayed in
Indonesia was at Lombok. It was on the
beach. The food was excellent. The Nasi
Goreng was very delicious.
30/10/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
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A MOMENT AS
KUPANG TEMBAGA |
TRAVEL LITE |
I
go back to my childhood life,
about 65 years ago when mud and
marshland were our part of our
play fields, a simple happy life
of the normal laymen. Now that I
am retired and I can't be of use
to anybody, nobody sees me
anymore. Knowing my status and
position I refuse to seek helps
or favor, or to assert my
individuality. People like me is
called Kupang Tembaga.
I
love to be like everybody else.
In buying a ticket for a soccer
game, I queued under the blazing
sun like everybody else. A
person of a high status and from
an aristocratic family may
engage someone else to pave an
easy way into the stadium with
ease. When I was working people
gave me a pass for free. My
subordinates sent me dishes of
my likings to my home.
But I still have my pride. I can
go anywhere in the world if I
want to and enjoy a four or five
star hotel room. I am proud that
I can make a little annual
contribution to the local mosque
and for the community service.
Having have a colossal
experiences with the local
people, I prefer to help those
people who served me well. In
this case it was the Indonesian
maids who got the most. I am not
a wealthy person. But I consider
myself to have received an
abundance of God's providence, a
sustenance enough for my cats,
the birds and a few needful
poor.
The other night at the local
stadium I was chased out of an
area where I put my video tripod
stand to capture the match. I
did not argue or said anything.
I just moved out. Then a few
people approached me asking
whether I was from any media
organization, to which I gave a
negative reply. A man asked me
about my previous job and
retirement date. It happened he
was a technical teacher. I told
him that I taught computer as he
asked for more. Then he told me
the story about himself and
about him ending up as somebody
powerful. We talked for hours
before the game started.
After him there were several
others who became our chatting
mate. That was a majestic moment
for small people like us could
taste.
It is nothing strange in
becoming a Kupang Tembaga. Even
the former Prime Minister
himself, Dr Mahathir, is falling
from his grace too. To fall from
grace is something that I always
have expected. But it does not
steal my pride away.
On the 24th October I will be
flying to Surabaya. In January
next year I plan to go to the
Maldives and enjoy the beautiful
scenes of nature. Life isn't
boring, isn't begging and isn't
miserable. There is no more
swampland or a river with limpid
water where we can go and jump
and swim like the childhood
days. We can still set foot on
distant lands. To a certain
extend the life of a simple
people is free, no fear of being
murdered and surrounded with
bodyguards. We eat in a small
stall, on stools provided by the
laksa man on his motorcycle, and
in restaurant.
The best of the recent life is
that we do not hurt other people
or cause them to suffer. We don't
steal nor cheat. Being a laymen
could at time be rewarding.
22/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
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The ticket agent told me international
luggage sold at the minimum of 20 Kg. I
wanted only 10 Kg in case I may find
something attractive in Surabaya. 20Kg is
too much and cost about RM90. Even my big
bag weigh 18Kg when I packed it with
clothing and other essential items. So I
rejected it and would only carry a backpack
and decided not to buy anything.
I usually took several gadgets with me like
a spy glass, a pair of spy watches, two
hand-phones and twp watches. This time I
will only take a Samsung Smart Watch, a
Casio Radio Control watch, an Asus
cell-phone and a newly acquired Panasonic
video cam. And of course with their
respective chargers. The handy cam is
specially purchased for my Maldives trip.
For 5 days I bought 5 pairs ankle socks
yesterday. I will leave the worn ones at the
hotel. There are 10 pieces of round collar
T-shirts and 4 short pants. From Alor Setar
I will don a long pant. I weighed my
backpack yesterday and the scale showed it
was 5 kg. I think by tomorrow it will not be
more than 7kg as allowed.
23/10/2017 |
FROM BILL
GATE, WATER GATE TO BALI GATE |
FATE |
If you want
to be wealthy you read more about Bill Gate,
emulate him. He is more clean than Jho Lo, a
con man who had conned a leader of a nation.
If you want to learn about UMNO and Najib
try to study what Watergate is. And if you
want to learn about Bali Gate, go to Bali
and ask to see the CCTV and feel the bed of
the special room.
Bali Gate is
about love between a man and a woman like
any other love stories. The story was
published in the Youtube for public perusal
and enjoyment. And some people downloaded
it, to keep as a grand souvenir.
Bali is a
beautiful island, not far from Lombok, about
3 hours from Kuala Lumpur. I have been to
Lombok but not to Bali yet. The populace are
Malays professing Hindu religion. It is the
scenario of this culture and the food issue
that killed my interest to visit Bali. But
since the love affair of the Bali Gate, it
arose my desire to be there and stay in the
room where the play stage was.
Love is
blind, they said. I am talking about love
not infatuation. Whatever are behind and
front of the lover, matters not. A fragrant
of a fart smell sweet. You forget a tiger
behind you, the kids or the legal spouse at
home. I would admit it if I fell in love
again with whoever and whatever human or any
other specie. As a human I will admit with
shame. What again if my love becomes a
global story.
We used to
tell people to mind their own business. They
would if they see a fair play in the game.
But they are indulgent in the game. They
incarcerate you if they hate you. They will
come up with thousand and one excuses if
they like you. Even if nobody cares, it is a
question of morality.
But Bali Gate
is a sensational love story, the epic of
marriage, love, affair and divorce. The
black force is within their own home. Not
the avenge of any outside force.
21/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
On 21st October 2017 was a second semi final
match between Kedah and Felda United. Kedah
was without the main players as they were
injured or received cards to ban them from
the game. A man beside me said that if he
knew Liridon was playing he would not have
come to the stadium. So were we. We were all
worried but with high hope that Kedah would
work extra hard.
When the game started Kedah looked very
promising. As the time passed Felda was in
control and have the ball possession of
about 80%. Felda was very aggressive
in the attack. But every shot failed, even
with ball that defeated the goalkeeper, only
to hit the post and reflected to the goal
keeper. There were more than ten near
misses.
We thought we were doomed.
But a couple of rare attacks and a ball
passed to Sandro, found it's way into the
net giving Kedah the score of 2 goals.
To me it was just a fate. Pure fate though
our defense was hard to get through. |
OUR CYCLE OF
LIFE |
2nd Semi
Final-Kedah vs Felda Unitd |
I
started to charge my two
batteries for my Panasonic handy
cam thinking today is the day of
the second semi final match
between my state and Felda
United. I even had my tripod
ready to record the match at the
stadium tonight.
Afterwards at about 10 am there
will be spectators queuing for
tickets and I intend to put them
on my video too.
While I was about to go out I
asked myself whether I went to
mosque for the Friday prayer.
May be I went. The memory was
fuzzy. Then I looked at my
Samsung smart watch to check the
date. Today is not the 21st as I
was thinking. It is Friday the
20th.
Surely it is a symptom of a
decayed mind. How could I shake
myself from senility ? How many
other people of 70 are like me ?
My late wife did tell me about a
man who did not remember his
home and his family as we were
talking of ageing and
forgetfulness. I just thought it
was a rare phenomena. People
cannot be that so bad to suffer
from amnesia without any cause.
Mind you if I were to be in the
stadium I would yell like a
young man. No wonder young
people were looking and smiling
when I shouted at the players,
referee and even at our own
coach. At times I would remind
them on the Facebook that their
time will come soon. And that's
what I always hope Rosmah Mansor
to know too.
At least I am still doing the
video work and photography,
monitoring and reading Morse
codes, writing computer codes
and laboring myself to upkeep my
home clean. The rest I leave to
God to guide me. It is nothing
to lament about. It is just our
cycle of life.
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When I go to
the stadium I yell and shout with a
shrieking voice. Young people would look at
me and smile. I know what are in their
hearts. It is odd and strange for an old man
to behave in the barbaric manner.
There is a
live telecast tomorrow. I could have stayed
at home with pop corns in my hand and eyes
glue to the TV screen. Yet I am willing to
queue up for a ticket under the blazing sun.
RM50 for a ticket without a seat number is
considered expensive. If I were to go two
hours before the game, I can assure myself
that I will have to stand all the way until
the match is over.
I pay RM50
not only to watch the play but to shout and
yell at whoever call me to do so. For a bias
referee I am sure I will have the followers.
And I want to be an outside coach as well,
shouting for a player to run instead of
waiting for the ball, to open their eyes, to
pass the ball to the right person etc etc
But can we be
guarantee that there is no corruption.
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ARE WE SANE ? |
It was
afternoon that I went to the Star Parade
Maxis outlet to buy a Pre-Paid SIM Card to
talk to my maid in Indonesia. The Malay girl
showed me the the card and said it was RM20
with RM15 credit. On the card it was written
RM10. So I asked the girl what was the RM10
for ? She said nothing. I asked her several
time and she was still mum. Because I needed
it so much I just paid her RM20. She asked
for my ID card to have the SIM registered.
When the process was completed I took my
stuff and walked away. At home I received a
message from
Hotlink
that said that the reloaded amount was
RM9.43 and bla bla bla with other messages
that I did not understand.
I am happy
with the price because I could talk to
Madura except for the mysterious RM10 on the
card and I received no explanation from the
Maxis girl.
That wasn't
as bad as my experience with the boys at a
restaurant near the airport. As I took a
seat a waiter arrived to take the order,
"Sup tulang, fresh orange, udang goreng
kunyit," said I. He walked away but I heard
him mentioning "sup ayam". I called him
again and asked him to repeat the soup that
I asked for. "Sup ayam," he said. I
corrected him.
The drink was
first served, within 2 minutes. About 25
minutes later another waiter brought me a
plate of rice and the bone soup but there
wasn't any friend prawn with turmeric.
"Where is another dish, prawn with turmeric
? " He went away. Ten minutes later another
boy brought me a plate of cut-squids fried
with the required spice.
What really
went wrong ? Are we all insane ?
Every now and
then I would go to Medan Selera after my
evening walk to quench my thirst with Fresh
Orange. This place used to be a popular
culinary heaven, always filled with eaters.
But now only about 11 stalls still run the
business. I was told that many closed shop
because they did not pay the rental and
electricity bill. The average rental for a
stall is about RM3 ringgit a day. I didn't
believe my ears that the vendors could not
afford to pay just that much.
We are living
in an insane environment. It looks like that
we are somehow being dehumanized. Many are
confused.
It is a
pathetic scene. It is our fate.
20/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
NEXT TRIP IS
TO SURABAYA |
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I don't have
an auto compute system in my head. Every
time I plan to travel I have to start
afresh; counting again the number of days
and how many T-shirts, trousers, socks and
underwear I have to bring, and what kind of
luggage I have to take with me. The next
trip is just around the corner, to Surabaya
for 5 days starting on the 24th October to
28th.
Checking on
the small bag I found the the zip stitch was
cut. The bag maker used the normal sewing
method when attaching the zip. Since I have
the stitching set I decided to do the repair
by myself. I did it. And I save some money
again and in me comes the feeling of
fulfillment and happiness.
This is the
life of the simple and ordinary men like me.
Whatever we are capable of managing by our
own labor, we do it. We fixed the pipe, trim
the grass, cleaning away dead leaves,
cutting down branches and small trees. And
in between times I squeezed myself to read
an e-book stories on my smart phone. After
Asar prayer I prepared to go to the evening
walk, an hour of daily routine. In Surabaya
I had to compensate it by taking a long
distant walk. Instead of a taxi I will just
walk to some of the attractions, if they are
about 4 or 5 kilometers away. The local will
wow me if I tell them that I walk from point
A to point B.
Only tomorrow
I will go to the car spare part shop an ask
why my hazard and signal light do not
flicker. If the job is simple I will buy the
component parts and have them changed by my
hands. It is this Saga that will take me to
the airport and I will leave it there for 5
days. The currency exchange was done at a
sad rate; for a million rupiah I paid
RM318.00. It is merely for food and
transportation, no shopping or buying
souvenirs. People whom I gave things never
even have time to send me to the airport.
They are always busy.
For my cats I
will leave 4 kilograms of cat food in the
open. These animals seem to know that I will
be away. When the food is depleted they will
go somewhere else to search for their
sustenance. When I come back, they will be
back.
I wish myself
good luck.
18/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
THE RICH THE
POOR, THE YOUNG AND THE OLD
Those who were born with the silver spoons
in their mouths would not be able to grasp
and imagine what life is for being poor. The
poor kids are always under nourish, lack of
protein and to retard in their growth. They
don't have land to toil. The number of
vagabonds are increasing in numbers. They
strive for a living.
The rich used their wealth to get things
done for them. If they are obsess with money
and having no time to do anything else they
become fatter and susceptible to chronic
diseases. But they enjoy the luxury of life,
unknown to the poor. What do most of us know
about yachting and pink diamonds.
When the poor become old men and women they
become like a wild dog. They become burden
to the younger generation.
There were so many cases where the offspring
with families would engage a maid to look
and stay with their old folks. This will be
less problem to the wealthy old people. The
themselves could engage someone to look
after them.
I would not want to stay with my kids for I
never want to get hurt by any of their deeds
or the words they may utter. Further more
the values professed by the old and the
young are totally different and opposite.
I learned there are many other old people
who are like me. May they be Malays or
Chinese. As long as they can move, they
would take care of themselves.
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TURMOIL AND
MORE TURMOIL |
BEWARE |
I would like
to recall the past remarks that UMNO had
spewed and what happened after that. First
about a tiger killing a man in Gua Musang as
it was a PAS country. A few weeks later a
man was killed by a tiger in Melaka, a BN
state. Again Kelantan was criticized
vehemently about the flood. And a few days later Trengganu, Pahang and Johor were flooded.
Also other BN states. Guan Eng was put to
shame on buying cheap land, and later the
MCA leader was caught doing the same thing.
Then Guan
Eng's family and other opposition members
were smeared using similar sexual
relationship to put their whole family into
shame. And they were trying to do the same
to Syed Saddiq. Though Islam forbids such a
despicable acts Hadi was mumed about it
as a religious cleric who claimed that he is
only for Islam. There was a contradiction
between his words and deeds.
The
comeuppance or karma is alive and kicking.
The story was
about the extra-marital affair between
Zulkifli and a married woman in Bali. The
video is
published in the
Youtube. Starting from now people
don't talk anymore for fear they might be
killed. Even the late PI Bala was suspected
of being poison in his food.
Many of the
truths have been known. The guilty persons
just put the law, the police, the army
before them. No amount of money and denials
can erase the sins and the dirt accumulated
on the miens. The disease and the bacteria
has started to grow an spread. And
contagious too. You don't believe me if I
say even the Saudi King's current economic
suffering is due to the infection. He lied
and paid for his sin.
Yes it was
the same readers who passed the remarks. It
is not about the MACC, it is about his
morality. It is just a naked man getting
angry and running amok with a parang
displaying his balls and manhood all over
without shame. Millions of Malaysians and
even the world have seen the video.
Shamelessness
of a man is like you see cats and dogs
having sex in front of all men and animals.
It is worth than a thick skin.
Dzulkifli
does not have millions to pay the husband of
the ladies to help to deny the affair. He
also criticized a Federal Minister and the
government for not giving enough fund to the
agency. He pays for his bravery, a hero
without cause.
18/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
Politicians and top brass
individuals unknowingly were
followed by hidden camera for
nothing more other than for the
reason of blackmailing them. |
Evidences are planted or
fabricated to arrest a
person. If the police wants
to arrest you they can
always plant drugs in your
car or in your house
compound and then arrest you
with charge of possessing
the drugs.
This is the most common ways
to charge a person. |
The other common an
popular way to get you
busted or even killed is
to charge a person as a
terrorists.
Muslim individuals are
the main victims and in
Malaysia the Malays have
been identified and
related to the ISIS
group. Those who are
considered as enemies,
their names ar submitted
and recorded in the
International Terrorist
database. |
A person deemed to
be a threat may be
cleaned from the
earth surface by
killing him. The
murder is done
through food
poisoning via
your own cook, the
used of gangsters
and other paid
professionals,
sabotaging your
vehicle of the
transport that you
are taking.
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Removing a
railway track
that the train
you are
traveling on,
sawing the stilt
of something
that you may
stand on. This
is less serious
as compared to
all the above. |
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WHEN A MAID
IS BACK |
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The maid I
told you about rang me up yesterday telling
me that she is coming back but has no money
to buy the plane ticket. Her husband is not
fully recovered yet and will not follow her.
At Madura island they have no job. I asked
her to borrow first and I will reimburse
when she arrives here. It was a great relief
as I heard of the news. I could pass part of
my labor to her to ensure I will have a
flawless compound.
She also
needs to phone all others who had been
employing her or else they would have taken
new helpers. But I doubt she did it. This
time I planned to honestly tell her about
thieving for not all Malaysians will
confront maids who were found stealing
directly except for very valuable and
expensive items. Most will not hire or
reject the dishonest maids without telling
the reasons. As such they would lose their
sustenance.
People I
talked too spoke the same things about
maids. Everyone said maids stole things.
And I will
also tell her about the comeuppance or Karma
of being dishonest. Bad luck will befall the
family at home and they will never cease to
be slaves forever and die as one, without
having enough money all the time. It is the
sins that they made that they reap with
lifelong misery.
Independent
maid like her earned about RM3K a month,
much more than working with a single family.
But she need to be fetched from her home.
She told me that where the house to be
served was far she had to take a bus half
way. She had to pay a rental of RM250 a
month, and sent home the big bulk of her
earning. Her son who was suppose to make a
business had been failing to run one.
I called her
Mila. That is not her real name. Maids
always used nick names and tried to hide
many things about them.
Anyway I have
done much to my house, repairing the leakage
pipe, clearing the fallen leaves and
poisoned the weeds and the grass. The
foliage turned yellow and dropped dead. I
will have to give a clear instructions on
the way to use the weed killer; the need to
use face mask and the rubber glove and the
method of spraying it by studying the win
direction.
I never asked
anybody, not even a maid, to laundry and
iron my clothing, or cleaning my shabby
radio shack. It is just a feeling of
responsibility, something that could be
traded with money. Mila had wanted to iron
my shirts but I disallowed her. And she
didn't mind.
She usually
took about 4 hours to complete her work and
I paid her at least a RM100. She would not
waste her remaining time. As always she went
to render her service again somewhere else.
She said she get between RM50 to RM70 for
it. She had so much money that some were
stolen by someone I thought by her own male
friends who always frequented her abode.
There were some Indonesians reside in her
area. One of them was a thief. And I told
her of my suspicion.
In the
meantime I just take care of my home alone.
It keeps me a little busy and jolly.
16/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
Mila always reminded me that
should I take a wife, she must
be strong and healthy and good.
"Take a wife who can take care
of you or else you have to nurse
her when she is sick," she told
me. She suggested a woman of 45
plus as the youngest. I am 70
and not man enough to satisfy a
woman of that age. She laughed
when I told her.
She has somebody in mind from
Madura. If I want she would
arrange it for me. Of course I
just smile. Marriage is not like
buying fish in the market.
It is not an easy thing. You
can throw the bad and stale fish
as you like but you cannot do it
with human being. There is a
burden and a big commitment.
And one is bound to hurt each
other in our speech and deeds.
At the moment I feel at peace
and happy staying alone. I am
very free to do what I like and
travel where I wish. |
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GREED |
MALAYS ARE
GOOD ? |
I have a
small saving in ASB, the annual interest of
which is small as compared to Bank Rakyat
and the Public Mutual. While others were
rushing for more dividend and profit, a
friend of man told me not to be greedy.
"Stay put with your saving and never hunt
for more" he said. Other friends encouraged
me to buy hold for the value will never
decline and the profit was great.
I stayed put,
did not moved away my saving to any other
profitable agencies. There were numerous
advertisements in the newspapers, trying to
convince people on the profitable
investments in gold and the off-shore trade.
I always remember the Pak Man Tello craze. I
discouraged others because it was never
logical to reap a big profit within
short period. Yet teachers, government
officers and even Head of Departments became
the big Towkeys, I thank God for instilling
into me a strong discipline to contain
myself.
Years later I
read in the newspaper about the lost of
offshore gold investments. And I reaf about
the fake gold dipped in real gold giving
very much less value than paid for. I had a
big laugh, really a big laugh.
Below is what
is being viralled on the docial media today.
_Utusan
Malaysia Online 07 Oktober 2017 3:00 AM_
*KUALA
LUMPUR 6 Oktober 2017* – Kira-kira 1.7
juta mangsa penipuan 27 jenis skim
pelaburan melibatkan kerugian bernilai
RM4.4 bilion dicatatkan di negara ini
sepanjang tempoh Julai 2013 hingga
September 2017 lalu. Pengarah Jabatan
Siasatan Jenayah Komersial (JSJK), Datuk
Seri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani berkata,
dalam tempoh berkenaan, pihaknya
menerima lebih 2,500 laporan mangsa bagi
kes. “Kami beberapa kali mengingatkan
orang ramai agar tidak mudah terpengaruh
dengan skim begini kerana tiada satu
pelaburan yang dapat memberikan pulangan
tinggi. Agent atau _leader_ syarikat
biasanya akan mengambil deposit daripada
mangsa untuk dilaburkan dalam syarikat
tempatan." “Pakej pelaburan yang
ditawarkan oleh suspek adalah antara
RM350 hingga RM55,000 dengan menjanjikan
pulangan tinggi."
Senarai skim penipuan pelaburan yang
dikenal pasti.
1. Crude
Palm Oil
2.
Highway Group Resources
3. Mekah
Islamic Hotel
4.
Federal Reserve Chicago Bond
5. RJB
Empire Group
6. Venus
Fx 7. AAM Academy
8.
Celoreng Mindef
*9.
Kongsi Makan*
10. Bit
Coin - Bit Kingdom
11. JJPTR
12. Bit Coin - Al Mubin Agarwood
13.
Exorbitence Influence Sdn. Bhd. (Krubal)
14.
Richway
15.
Pelaburan Emas Royal Gold
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The above
list does not include the sale of
steroid under different names. What
happened to Rosmah and Najib is nothing
more than greed. This is more serious,
devastating and fatal. They even sell
the country including Kuantan to China.
I think
we should be contended with whatever
providence we have. I am glad that there
people who are happy with trinkets
instead of expensive gold and diamonds.
It is better to give the extra you have
rather than trying to draw more. I still
believe in the Malay saying 'Orang yang
tamak selalu rugi' ( the greedy people
will always lose).
15/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
What has gone wrong with the Malays. They
cheat, lies. beguiling people, peddling
drugs, becoming drug addicts, and letting
themselves being bullied and robbed and even
legalize criminal activities.d
Hadi
is a spiritual leader residing on the state
of Trengganu where youths on drugs are
infesting his own state.
And our leaders don't have time for the
Malays. They just said so, throwing ten to a
hundred rinngit to their supporters and reap
millions to themselves.
Some of the Malays are not greedy but are
hard up of money. Thousands lose their jobs.
Graduates are jobless. But these people were
baited just before an election, unknowingly
they are being beguiled by Najib's
machinery.
d
I think the Malay leaders and Head of
Departments are not far sighted in their
visions. They think they know the world when
they know very little of all things. They
can't see the future effects of their
current actions. That if they were to do
anything substantive.
They just listen rather than thinking and
investigating the realities.
When I tell them the future is bleak for the
later generation they could not see how it
could happen.
They just couldn't care less and take things
for granted.
All what they care is about getting rich the
easiest possible way. Almost everyone cheats
to amass quick wealth.
Of the picture shown above, two were with
heart problems and suffered a stroke before.
Why ? Do you ever realize that the hot
tempered and emotional people to are prone
to have the high blood pressure ? What it
meant was they have been using their
sentiments and emotions more than their
rationality. I can bet that Jamal Yunoss is
having a high blood pressure.
When Tan Siew Sin was a finance Minister
Malaysia had so much money that the country
created jobs for the citizens. Jobs reduced
joblessness and resulted in lesser crimes,
thefts and robberies.
Now, when the politicians sees money in the
coffer they are thinking of forking the
money to be divided among themselves by
various means and ways using gigantic terms
such as citizens projects.
Is it not interesting for UMNO to admit that
they were and are thieves ? They were
Mahathir stole from nation's coffer when he
was in UMNO. So UMNO during his era were
thieves. Then they said that if Mahathir can
steal, they too can steal, and they steal
until all the they admitted the country
would be a bankrupt without GST. It means
there isn't any money left.
Malaysia was so hard up of cash they have to
sell the land and the interests to China
purportedly for the prosperity of the
citizens.
There is a saying goes 'The fish rot from
the head'. If the top cheats, the bottom
will cheat too. If the top lies, the bottom
will do the same.
When I read all about 1Mdb, about the
payment to fake IPIC and then later to the
teal ones, and about the money kept in the
offshore countries, I smell the scam of the
century.
The small time Malay scammers are just
learning. The people need money quickly to
be rich in the quickest possible time.
Reading a few headlines, how ridiculous they
were, they still provoke our minds. They
talked about murdering through cook to make
a person died of heart attack, implied to
the death of PI Bala, the warning to some
not to die like Kevin Morais, all
insinuating they were killed by the
scandalous Malay leaders.
Are the Malays that bad ? |
FELDA-HOTEL
OWNERSHIP IN LONDON |
KARMA |
First you download and save
the video. Then you listen to it from the
beginning to the end. Then you read what
Sarawakreport's article. Try to see whether
there is any relationship between them.
15/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
KARMA is just a nice word to use. In Malay
it is called BALASAN ALLAH and the English
term for it is COMEUPPANCE. The term
mentioned by the normal Malays is CASH. It
means whatever mayhem done on others will be
receive immediate punishment by God. A
person who committed a dreadful and sinful
act does not have to wait to be punished by
the Al-Mighty in the next world.
We also have to ponder why some notorious
criminals escaped the comeuppance or
punishments in this world.
I don't think they do. We just do not know
and in what manner.
As to those criminals before our eyes we
just need to observe and be patient. They
may be strike by a severe mental agony
making them sleepless. In fact you can see
their pain when they deliver speeches.
The punishment is creeping in. The final one
you need yet to see. |
HOW TO
STEAL A COUNTRY WITHOUT BEING KNOWN ? |
It is imperative
for us to recollect how Malaya
passed hand to the British. It
was never known by the bulk of
the ordinary citizen. There
weren't TV, papers, radio or any
form of circulations. The
citizens were busy with their
daily livelihood. All the
transactions, the agreements
were made by a handful of
people, the Sultans and the
Temenggong. There were no wars
and no protest by the Malays who
were mostly farmers and
fishermen. The rulers get what
they wanted, still recognized as
the Head of States and earned
handsome income from the
British.
China in
Kuantan
Taking a country
did not mean the British had to
bring Sepoys from India and
stationed them in every kampong,
taking the ownerships of land
belonging to the people. They
just made rules and regulations,
run the police force and created
the army, introduce legal
systems and judges to preside
over the court houses. There was
a power to arrest and punish of
those who broke the rules.
Taking a country
by conquest is almost unheard of
though Iraq, Libya and
Afghanistan seemed to like one.
The United States does not rule
those countries directly. More
subtle methods are applied. More
new ways adopted.
To take a country
the master does not need the
consent of the populace. He has
just to deal with the leaders or
the head of the target nation.
The more desperate the leaders
are and the more corrupt they
are the easier will be the task.
Since money is King then rain
them with as much cash as they
want. Beautiful ladies would
follow to entertain these
leaders, provide them with
ecstatic sex. Quietly and
cautiously coax for agreements
of various types. Buy land with
the highest price and say for
the prosperity of the country.
As land change
hand the leaders will tell the
masses that these are all for
the benefit of the people and
the prosperity of the nation.
The master begins to create
puppets who will entertain the
people with lies and propaganda
"for the prosperity of the
country and for the benefit of
the people". The populace does
not know that their country was
already sold. A country is taken
away without them knowing it.
Slowly and
steadily the culture and
practices of the Master will
begin to seep in. You wouldn't
know your country is being sold
away.
13/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF. |
|
NICE WORDS
People
love to hear nice words and praises you
utter on them. Here are some of them
Hi sweety
You are
cute, slim and pretty
Believe
me, you are going to rich and successful
when you grow up
You pay
26% GST is for your own good. You will get
the benefit soon.
China will
bring prosperity and make everyone wealthy
and comfortable.
Con men,
scammers and people want something from you
will always use nice words for you to hear. |
THE JACKET |
|
It is simply a fine day today,
As usual I went out for my
breakfast. It was about 9.00 am.
A plate of Roti Jala and a black
coffee cost me RM4.80 but the
Roti Jala's gravy was very
delicious with plenty of meat
slices. The shop just on it's
front is selling it for only
RM1.60. People chose the more
expensive one.
By 9.30 the culinary feast was
complete. I remember about
taking my old shabby jacket to
seamstress for a repair work the
day before yesterday. It was to
be picked up yesterday but it
was due to the tumult over the
flood and the heavy rain, I
totally forgot about it. And
today after my Roti Jala
session, I drove to the shop.
The lady about 50 asked me, "How
old are you ?" I didn't know
what made she asked the
question. Probably I looked old
enough. I told her that I am 70.
"Wow..", she exclaimed. "You are
very strong." She charged me
RM3.00, a darn cheap price. I
should have asked her whether
she is single or a divorcee. I
smiled, paid her and walked
away.
Things to matter is not about my
age and the Chinese lady whom I
think I should frequent but
about my jacket.
The jacket has been about 27
years with me. The color fades a
little. So are the other dresses
of mine that are still used till
today. I do not find any more
creative and beautifully
designed shits anymore in the
market today. This one I bought
in a super-store Indiana because
it was cheap, a China made
stuff.
I
donned it during winter and it
really kept me warm. And on
every other trips I made to the
West years later during Autumn
and Winter I would used it
again. The last I wore it was in
Jordan about a couple of years
ago.
I
realized the stitching parts on
the arms were cut. To buy a new
one would cost me at least a
couple of hundreds, and the
remembrance of the seamstress at
the corner of the town made me
hurried to the shop. May be I
would use the jacket again some
day.
a
|
1983 in Belgium
12/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF
|
|
KASSIM AHMAD |
How Far Can we Hate A Person ?
It depends on an individual makeup. Some
people are very forgiving on matters
other than money. Others may be to hurt
to forget. You may have heard about a
man who sodomized Muammar Ghadafi even
after his death and continue shooting a
dead man on and on out of an intense
hatred and anger.
I never forget things said or done on
me. I may forgive but I may not forget.
But running away with my money would
make me hate a person till his death. He
does not exist as a man I once know. It
means I will reject all his invitations
and matters of sickness and death. Of
course Islam forbid such an intense
hatred.
If his acts does not inflict mental or
physical pain on me but only having his
own belief contradictory to mine I may
not go to the extend of causing hurt on
him. The most is I will avoid him.
Between the mosque Imams and those who
still follow the burial rites and
who interned Kassim Ahmad with respect,
we can judge whom we should give our
utmost respects. It is not a matter of
their siding with Kassim's view but they
believe it was their moral duty to treat
a dead man.
The Imams just excommunicated like the
Christians burnt those they took as a
witch, even by the mere suspect.
I wonder how Kassim would be treated if
he were a man with ready money to throw
to anybody he wants to. You all have
seen Mahathir who was once a powerful is
being treated today.
Take your time to ponder and observe the
truth in your imagination. |
I am
not a religious man and I really don't
know what the Quaran and the Hadith say
about it. My view may be in conflict
with my religion, Islam. It is about
Kassim Ahmad. He passed away recently.
There was a controversy because no
mosque and no Muslim official want to
give him the Muslim burrial ground,
saying that he was an infidel. Finally
he was buried in no man's cemetery.
I have
a couple of question to ask my Muslim
friends who read this article.
Firstly, if any Mulim were to meet a
Chinese corpse somewhere in a remote
place, what is he going to do ? Ignore
the dead body ? Dig a hole deep enough
to bury him ?
Secondly, a Muslim is found dead in an
Australian desert and he was found by a
Christian Australian, what do you expect
the Christian to do as to the later the
Muslim is an infidel ?
There
had been a picture taken on a few
American armies who urinated on the dead
corpse of the Iraqis and angered fellow
Muslims everywhere. What then do the
Muslims expect the Americans to do ?
What
is our stand on the infidels ? We cannot
have any relationship with him at all ?
Cannot accept his gifts and supports
?Cannot talk and touch him and wash his
dress ? But our social intercourse with
them are close and cordial. What is
allowed and what is forbidden ?
If you
notice carefully our UMNO leaders only
talk of Malay unity rather than Muslim
unity. Racial division is created by
almost all of the UMNO leaders, always
the MALAYS and the CHINESE ( Ma Hua ).
Any mention of Chinese in this
particular essay means Ma Hua, not the
Chong Hua. And we have been debating
which is more important, the Muslim
Unity or the Malay Unity. remember there
are thousands of Chinese Muslims in
Kuala Lumpur itself.
I even
heard of a discrimination between the
Malays and Indian as well as Chinese
Muslims, indicating that the race is
more important. Then Kassim Ahmad is a
Malay. He is not a Christian, a Buddhist
or Hindu to be cremated as one of them.
Mind
you if a devout Muslim is buried in a
Christian cemetery with a Christian
cross in a Christian land, that won't
make him a Christian. And vise versa
that if you buried a devout Christian in
a Muslim cemetery, he won't be a Muslim
by such a burial.
Ask
any Muslim and any Christian "Are we all
not the creature of God ? "
Are
the Jews, Hindus, Christins and even
Atheists not a creature of God and that
if they aren't we swallow them in any
way we like ? The Holy Book of the Jews
might say hat the non-Jews must be
treated like dogs and they can be
killed, but you need to ask the Muslims
in the heart of Israel are they treated
like the animals and tortured like one ?
However Kassim Ahmad has been buried.
The
issue here is not so much on the believe
and religion but it centered on living
in a community and society. Either we
like it or not we must not stay aloof
and refuse to join the congregation the
society makes during marriage and death,
contribution of various kinds, involve
oneself in community work, and other
join venture. If we reject people then
the people will reject us. The problem
with Kassim probably he stays away from
the community.
And
in life we need to be a hypocrite.Kasim
Ahmad refused to be one.
12/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF
|
|
VERY
HEAVY DOWNPOUR |
|
It is raining very heavily.
It is hard to say where the
rain clouds came from for I
have been seeing they were
from the West and the East
when I expected we are
having the Northeast
Monsoon.
A few days ago a Minister
called the Malayan to get
ready for flood. Why should
he when UMNO and Najib had
claimed that flood only
happen in states ruled by
the opposition parties.
However it was a relief days
after the announcement only
sunshine brightened the
days.
I don't expect flooding in
the West Coast of Peninsular
Malaysia around this time of
the year but it will be one
in December on the East
Coast. Monsoon does not
recognize political parties
nor Rosmah Mansor, the
Philippines or Malaysia.
Sadly enough the mob was
attacking Penang very
fiercely on the recent
flood, for the raising sea
water as if the Chief
Minister has the magical
power to command the sea to
raise. A long time ago PAS
government faced a similar
mob attack.
I do not wish the flood to
drown Pahang or Trengganu or
any other BN states. I only
wish for the earth to shake
and swallow Putrajaya. Their
sins worth that much. And I
pray for worms come out of
Ku Nan's face. Do not say it
is something impossible and
absurd.
The downpour has been razing
for two hours now. If it
happens in Kuala Nerang area
at the same intensity for
just 4 hours more some area
can braze for the
off-seasoned flood.
For us, the believer with
religion and God in our
hearts, we pray for God to
lift us from all the
misfortunes. It was not us
that had a foul mouth. We
don't lie and steal. We
still have morality and
shame. We don't try to bribe
God. with any stolen
money.
Though we recognize that
politics is dirty, as a
Muslim, we must not step
beyond our border. But we
are too arrogant and destroy
the sanctity of our religion
and working hands and gloves
with the devil, to bully the
poor and the helpless and to
suppress those who are
advising us to do good and
to away with morbid sinful
activities. The least Rosmah
can do is to return the pink
diamond to the treasury.
11/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
|
The rain has stopped. The picture below
was taken about 20 minutes ago. This is
in the BN state.
|
USEFUL
DAY TODAY |
|
What a
useful day I made of myself today from
sweeping the dead leaves on the ground
to fixing the broken pipe outside my
house without having to look for a
plumber. It is not finished yet as far
as compound cleaning is concerned. I did
it little at a time, working and resting
intermittently. I watched the Youtube
and typed article like this one.
Then I went out to have my winter jacket
which I had been using since 1980
repaired. There is no harm in making
preparation for the trip during the cold
season though I haven't any plan to
freeze myself up. After leaving the
jacket to the seamstress I proceed to
buy a video camera stand that I may be
using to record a soccer match. The
stand costs me RM150. I didn't even
bargain.
But when
my maid returned in a few months time I
would engage her again to continue with
the chores. Ah Hwa might have not
return. I don't know where he goes to.
Ah Hwa is a poor Chinese odd job person
who has always been a good man.
I wish
Mila will come back with her husband so
that he could replace Ah Hwa. I cannot
do all the manual jobs by myself. In the
meantime I just wait and wait.
In away I
could save some money by DIY. It does
mean that I am a miser and do not spend
at all. Though I do not buy an expensive
fully automatic 1.3 car, I still want
comfort when going for vacation, a
spacious room, soft bed and excellent
food. Of course I don't want to fly a
business or First Class. I can't afford
it. But saving money here and there
could total up to a few hundred;
newspapers RM135, cigarettes RM200, hair
dressing RM15 etc etc
Soon I
will go for my daily walk for an hour.
10/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
SPENDING MONEY
There is no consistency in my
philosophy. I must be a nut. I use to
say that money shouldn't be spent
lavishly and unneccasarily. I used to
say,"If I can go to a place by my Kancil,
why should I use a Honda..." That's the
reason why I choose a manual and lower
CC car over an automatic one of a higher
CC.
But
when come to food and having a holiday
abroad I pour my money like water. U
would travel 50 to 60 kilometers just
for a dinner. How about the cost of
traveling ?
This is the kind of inconsistency that I
am talking about. |
DRIVERS
AND DRIVING |
|
Watching the Youtube clips
on women drivers scared
me to death.
You need to see to believe
some strange things. The
other night a lady parked
her car behind mine while I
was buying a ham burger. On
seeing me going back to my
car she followed me. Then
she asked me a very
illogical question, "Can you
go out ?"
It was a ridiculous
question. I asked her to
reverse my car for me. She
went into her car and took
more than 5 minutes to move
away to a new parking space.
I am not a male chauvinist
but that's what I have been
finding on the roads, of
ladies running red light,
didn't stop at the
T-junction and drove at 30
km/h in the middle of a busy
traffics. Similar situations
were observed when a Haji or
Lebai were behind the
wheels. May be somebody can
explain of the strange
phenomena.
|
10/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF
|
THE
DRIVERS NOT THE CAR
Car
insurance for the old cars are very much
higher than the new ones. Customers are
anxious to know how old cars had had
accident in the last 10 years as
compared to the old.
Accidences were more on the recklessness
of the drivers. In USA the
insurance for the young drivers are
always more expensive than the old
drivers.
Malaysia BOLEH. |
GREAT
WALL OF CHINA AT NAJIB'S BACKYARD |
No. It is
a Great Wall of Najib.
The rule
is simple. If Najib can hoodwink our
fellow Malaysians, he too could be
beguiled by the Chinese. Of course it is
always for the prosperity of Malaysia.
The Malays are damn stupid. Real stupid.
Now that they are running a road show is
nothing more other than to re-enforce
their innate stupidity. This is Najib's
price CASH IS KING. Karma or comeuppance
has slowly shown. Look at Rosmah
carefully and closely. I don't have to
tell you what you will be seeing. You
will see yourselves.
Below are
some of the pictures of James Bond
girls, seen as before and now.
They say
to us not to judge a person by the
wrinkled mien . But the intensity of
ugly look and the body size could be
seen as a karma for the unspeakable
sins. And how the Chinese bullied Najib
in Pekan displays how useless is our
leader. I dare say that it is Rosmah and
Najib and a few members in his team are
ruining this nation.
None has
the ball to have a stand like Syed
Saddiq who has the guts to reject such a
huge amount of money.
10/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
WITHOUT A HELPER |
I have
never labored myself to any hard manual
job. Cleaning the inside part of the
house is considered a light job as
compared to cutting woods or trimming
the grass and toiling the land. But 80%
of my small land is covered with soft
cement. Cracks cost foliage and wild
grass and plants grow. I used to pay
someone who I always called for minor
repair to do all the cleaning and
clearing. Lately I could not contact him
anymore. My phone calls were never
answered.
A teacher
friend introduced a maid who would work
and paid by the time base hourly method.
Her nickname is Mila. I asked her
whether she was willing to do the job
outside the house. She agreed. I paid
her differently on the outside job. She would
take about an hour or so to finish the
task. Then she proceed with cleaning the
floor. All together she took about 4
hours to complete. I did not pay her
according to the time base as agreed , but rather
on the piece work. She got more money by
this way. She was very happy giving me
her service.
Then her
husband has a stone in the kidney and
went back to Indonesia. The operation
was very costly she told me. It was done in July but the stone
went scattered everywhere causing
chronic pain and unbearable. She went back around 28
August during the time I was in Chiangmai. I could not get her phone
number to find out the condition of her
husband. She did tell me that she would
be at her Indonesian home for three or four months.
With her
absent and Ah Hwa is not available the
foliage outside become larger and the
wild grass become taller. The branch of
my rambutan tree was also pushing against the
top part of my house.
The first
thing I did was I procured a saw to saw
a nuisance branch. It taxed my muscle. I
rested several time and repeated the
sawing work until it finally
detached from the main tree. Then I went
around looking for weed killer. It took
me more than two weeks to find the shop.
Shops that sold these stuffs were either
closed or moved to a new location. At
China Town, I made inquires from shop to
shop until I found one. Weed killer and
root killer were in liquid form and they
were quite pricey. I bough a bottle of
each. The vendor advised me to get a
spray and gave me an instruction how to
mix the liquid with water.
On the
same day I did the spraying. A few days
later I went to check the result. Their
colors changed from green to yellow. It
is today that I went to clear the
foliage. Some roots were closely tied up
together. It was so stubborn. 60% of the
outside area is cleared. I need to
finish the job by tomorrow. In the
meantime I mixed the weed killer with
the water again and went to spray just
the root part. I am certain these
grassroots will be killed.
I wish
the maid would be back soon with her
husband. I want to engage him for some
plumbing job and to do a little repair
work here and there. It is tough without
a maid. What she took a few hours to do
I took a week to accomplish the task. I
am sure she will be surprise to see my
compound is a little tidy without her.
Living in
solitude without a helper will be quite
difficult at times. My time is when
leaves begin to cover my ground and wild
grass has gain a considerable height.
Things begin to look messy. Within these
few months I want people to think that I
still engage outside hands to look after
my tiny abode.
|
HAM
RADIO - COST FACTOR |
I
preferred my own CW trainer and my own
electronic logging. I am no more active
in developing software for sale or own
use. One of the items I put in the
logbook is the simple dipole antenna and
a yagi calculator. I incorporate the
formula in it for a quick result,
avoiding copying from other people.
Dipole is
the simplest and the cheapest antenna.
You don't have to consult an expert or
get people to come and fix the antenna
up. I would use the formula
476/frequency to get the length. The
antenna handbook, the ARRL and the
articles on the websites will provide us
with a more accurate formula, not only
the 476 stuff.
A modest
ham with a low budget is recommended to
start with this cheap antenna and a
cheap rig. The cheapest of the
Indonesian home made is about RM1.5K for
20, 15 and 40 meters. A branded one is
RM2.5K. Unlike the old rig, the new
transceivers need a separate power
supply unit, costing between RM300 to
RM600. It is not an optional object,
without which the rig is dead. That
comes to about RM3K for a start. And
another costly but an essential item is
the coaxial cable. I would estimate it
to be RM600.
What I
did not mention is the antenna tuner
because some operators cut their antenna
to match the frequency, climbing up and
down to adjust for the lowest SWR. But I
would advice a tuner even for a new
comer. This simple gadget with coils and
capacitors could cost an amateur
operator as much as RM800. It is worth
the investment as it gives us the leeway
to operate on a greater spectrum, say
from 14.005 to 14.350. There is no need
for the operator to climb up and down
again.
Basically
the hobby drains quite a substantial sum
of money, even for a simple setup. Added
up to this is the declining value of our
currency compared to the neighboring
countries. It automatically pushes the
price up. Situation will never be better
and will continue to deteriorate day by
day.
However
if you are loaded with money and wealthy
enough even to own a helicopter, you can
start straightaway with a high end
station with a tall hydraulic tower
system, a sophisticated rig above RM12K,
a system which can automatically rotate
your log periodic antenna to the
direction towards the call sign of the
country, the powerful linier amplifier,
and a shack with a complete accessories
and essential items like an expensive
thermometer and a 24 clock. I think at
least a RM100K is quite a comfortable
spending.
To be
blunt and rude I would say that it is
worth to buy a land on mountain or hill
top, or in a wide open field, or on an
island in the old days, not anymore
after the 21st century, for amateur
radio has lost the exotic essence of
it's grandeur and dignity. Rogue people
with vulgar words have been aired on the
air and repeaters. It is similar to the
basic economic principal of demand and
supply that quantity determines the
price. Too many goods lying around would
drive the price down. It's scarcity and
high demand would push the price up.
What a
radio operator does not have to buy as
an item is the ability to understand and
speak English. It is an essential
accouter for him to enjoy the pleasure
of a long chat or what we termed as rag
chew with stations crossing our borders
and our seas. Or else it is limited to
countries using Malay as a lingua
franca.
Money in
a way creates a different level of radio
operators.
Whatever
the most important of a radio station is
a good antenna system and the higher the
better. It could be ten or twenty times
more costly than a rig but it is the
most worthwhile spending one could have
sacrificed in one's lifetime.
09/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
HAM
RADIO ROUND TABLE |
Radio
operators are still quarreling on the
operating procedure. I noticed an
emotional outburst in expressing a view.
The root of the problem is amateur radio
in the 21st century did not begin with
the SWLing. It started with racial tone
and condemnation and jealousy at the old
hams for no logical reason. ASTRA
emerged out of such a feeling, as
suggested by the name itself. And I
remembered how the old hams were
condemned on many things that drove them
away from the band. Then there was no
SWLing as the old amateurs used to have.
I had
been a SWL with the number 65162. Most
of us listened to the conversations for
at least two years and we knew almost of
the hams. We visited their homes, talked
on their radios and learned many things
from them. SWLs did not claim we were
better than our elmers. And what I am
about to narrate now may be scorned by
many of you. But I am telling what we
were experiencing when we were the SWLs.
The local
hams met among themselves on 40 meter
band. Several frequencies were used,
mainly 7030, 7035 and 7040. The CQ
calling was made after the office hours.
The number increased one by one and it
went to even 7 persons. If the number
was too big they might ask for the
permission to ask someone out to have a
separate chat on different spot.
There
were groups from Ipoh, Penang, Kuala
Lumpur and mixed participants. Idris,
Eshee, Tengku Archie, Rajamani, Arvatar,
Ari were usually in a group. Hock might
join them. Chong, Chow, Leong, Ewe and
Chin might be in another. There are many
more that I am not going to mention
here. The Malaysians boys were using the
round table type of QSO. This had been
the practiced for ages. Not the
Indonesians. When the Indonesians broke
in to join there was always a confusion,
and they had to break the tradition and
the the Malaysians tend to forget what
the topic of discussion were. The
Indonesians went back and forth.
What was
the roundtable mean ? It is like a
circular motion, a group sitting around
a round table. Let us say there are 4
persons around the table A,B,C and D. A
will pass to B, B to C and D to A. In
between there might be questions and
answers for example while C was
explaining something, A might interrupt
to ask a question. C answered his
question but passing the microphone to D
for his turn.
During
the roundtable there might be a late
comer as he had just returned from work
or someone who had long been listening
to the conversion felt to contribute or
some had a message for one of the
member, he would break in by mentioning
his call sign. You may want to know when
can a new comer give his call sign. This
is when the art of talking comes into
effect.
What is
this art ? It is the art of pressing and
un-pressing of PTT when talking. When a
person starts talking, he presses the
PTT. When he stops talking he un-presses
it. Usually we un-press the PTT at the
end of each sentence.
The
listener usually broke in when the
station comes to the end of the sentence
or stopped talking. 9M2EG and a few
others like to use the word 'break'.
They were always accepted. But used the
full call sign. Once in a while a joker
just caughed and everyone would know who
he was.
In the
round table the new person was given the
honor to take the mike. He might want to
add to the discussion, to tell any news
or to call someone out to be with him
somewhere else. Whatever his intention
was, he would pass the transmission to
the next person. Say E broke in while B
was talking, the next person was C. The
round table started to move again.
What if
one forget whose turn ? he would have
just ask the group, "Whose turn next ?"
Was that
a mandatory style to follow ? Nobody
mentioned about the mandatory practice.
Malaysians just did that for decades.
And we the new comers just followed
them. By the time we became hams we
would master almost all the
technicalities, helped by being the SWLs.
None of us would come up with a new
system and philosophy because none of us
were too smart to lead the world. To us
ham radio is not a platform to parade
our prowess, smartness and technical
genius. 9M2RS, Rashid Sultan, was one of
the persons who worked for 9W license,
and he is a Dato' but never bragged to
show what he did and calling himself a
Dato'. I never spoke to King Hussein.
Rusli did. the Jordan King gave his name
just as Hussein. I spoke to Saudi Prince
who gave his name as Ahmad.
Somebody
in USA wrote about making ham radio
great again which implies it's sanctity
and dignity has declined.
08/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
MIRROR
MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE FAIREST
AND PRETTIEST OF ALL
Beauty
is to the eyes of beholder. Amazingly
Rosmah is getting slimmer and prettier
than before. It is something to be proud
of by all Malaysians. She is not 70 yet
but a few more years. She should not be
denied of quality and nice ornaments.
She is not you and me but the First Lady
of Malaysia.
If you
were to gauge the level of popularity
between the Prime Minister and the First
Lady she would leave Najib miles behind.
So much so people prefer her to Najib to
be our Prime Minister.
To me
Rosmah is a gift to the nation. I have
never seen all the past PM wives were so
outspoken as her. She said that she was
busy with managing the nation till she
has no time for the badminton. What did
the rest of the First Ladies did for
their country ? She could speak English
well and her son goes to Chinese school.
Isn't
that great ? |
BRUNEI ROYAL WEDDING |
There
was a glittering ceremony of Brunei
Royal wedding, exotic and with full of
grandeur. The bride and bridegroom were
beautiful and gorgeous. The whole
country celebrate. There were
dignitaries invited from overseas.
As a
Malaysian I yearn to see our delegation,
our leader and his First lady to see how
spectacular she was. Till now I could
not get Datin Rosmah's large picture.
Probably she had requested Brunei not to
publish any of her image.
But
I found Taib Mahmud's wife and the
handsome Taib himself who never look old
for his age and a young wife. A man with
money can always buy his youth and
MANHOOD back to enjoy his married life,
something that most of us would not be
able to do.
But I
will keep on looking for her picture and
pictures of the spouses of other
dignitaries to compare and contrast
their look and elegance. We all love to
keep the album of the late Princess
Diana and pictures of Sophia Loren for
their beautiful and handsome features.
Ladies all over the world would cut
their hairstyles to emulate Diana and
wanted to look like her.
Just look
at the beautiful princess, The red dress
is simply adorable. I have never seen
such an extraordinary dress as fantastic
as it is. Let us wish the pair the best
of luck and till death they depart.
|
CAN
YOU RESIST 5 MILLIONS ? |
In what
condition a person can reject a five
million offer as a bribe ?
It is an
intricate essay to pen down to open up
on such a topic. While it is not
everyone who has a strong character like
Syed Saddiq, there are several persons
around with such a commendable morality.
If you are already have enough saving to
take of care of your whole life and you
have a steady income which spend on half
of it by the end of the month, money may
not temp you anymore. Instead you would
give away a small portion of your money
here and there to the poorer people.
In such a
condition no amount of money can buy our
principal. The word 'our' here implies
to mean people of Syed Saddiq honesty. It
is the quality in a person who is fit
enough to be a leader, incorruptible and
able to put temptation aside.
Many of
us never have enough money even though
our income is high because we are
spendthrift and lavish. We change cars
every now and then, travel the world
over 5 times a year on a business class,
buy a RM30k per pound meat from Japan,
own a helicopter and a jet, go shopping
in Lifayet and Herod in London, donning
million dollar pink diamond, spending
unknown amount on fighting ageing and
want a comfortable life all the time.
Even a
person who claim 1Mdb fund own a RM4K
smart phone and driving a Honda. The
unending desire and lust, failing to
thank God for the providence and living
on loans can break a man's morality
down. He will lose himself, never to
know shame nor fear of God's wrath.
Only if
we know that a corrupt and a debase
person will be look down scornfully like
a wretch animal worse than a cur or a
pig in a sty, we would have checked
ourselves. You will surely be tempted
only by even a few thousands. For a
million you would not care what people
may call you, a Satan or a pig or even a
whore.
If you
live a modest life, within your mean, no
loan and enough income and saving, you
can forget an offer of corrupted money
by any amount for any reason. Your
internal reward is huge enough to last
you till your ending day.
Really, I
thought that people who frequent the
House of God are pious, honest, sincere,
thankful for the providence. But to my
surprise they too cannot be trusted with
money. Some are greedy. They even
quarrel on the usage of funds for the
mosque and other community collection.
You cannot trust a Haji as much as you
cannot trust a thief. And never think a
Haji and a cleric never lie in front of
God.
Long
before Najib was born te Chinese already
said that you can pay a Satan to pull a
bullock cart for you. My wealthy
neighbor, when the son was going or his
study to Japan, the ceremony went just
like sending someone to the Holly land
in Mecca. Why of such a respect ? Money
talks. They were, I considered, as poor
people from the village.
If you
have enough and live a modest life, an
extra ringgit or a million does not
matter much. Rejecting dirty money does
make you any poorer. In the eyes of men
you may be called a fool. In the eyes of
God you are a man of heaven.
We all
know we are only human and fallible. Our
insatiable lust will make us submit to
making money as our god.
08/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF
|
THE GAME |
Najib
plays the game well. The opposition
didn't. Only Lim Kit Siang seems to
understand the concept DO OR DIE. I
heard this was what Najib has instructed
to BN machinery. At first Najib
convinced the war machines that the
money in his account is for the survival
of the party and the government. Then
followed with the big incentives to the
leaders. Cash is King came into effect.
He collected all the brain to do the
brainstorming to kill the opposition by
all mean. He paid the foreigners to
support the global and local moves. And
he will first kill PAS even before the
General Election. They were to play the
game of mind control.
The
disadvantages of the opposition is
manifold. They don't have enough money.
And time is against them.
Najib
knows the different between a media and
the people in the media. What he got to
do is just to corrupt the people in the
popular media, similar to what CIA did
to Pravda, the most popular Communist
news in Russia before the downfall of
the Berlin Wall. It is very well done in
the Malaysia-Chronicles and also in the
Malaysiakini. It is the money that
commands and rules. You also see this when
PAS members announced to join UMNO.
The final
thrust is the Budget before the GE14.
People will fall and forget what will be
coming forth before them after they
voted for BN.
That's
why many predict that BN will win. Najib
will be happy as he escapes
persecutions, and claim that people will
not vote for him if he is a Kleptocrat
and a murderer. People are with him all
the time. And I too will predict Najib
will win.
But the
game isn't end there. It is not the
fight between Najib and the people that
concerns me. It is the game he is
playing against China. Najib and his
team are thinking they are smart enough
to contain China's expansion in term of
territory and other interest. I know how
Musa Aman is thinking. But any person of
a high caliber must understand there are
better persons than he is. In short the
Malays will sink and Najib will sell the
country and the culture to China.
The
economy will be so bad that he has to
let China revive it. That, China will
promise. Within 10 years Malaya may
prosper but the sovereignty will fade
away. We have seen this in the
restructuring of Proton. This is what we
call selling our soul for money.
I don't
vote for the promise. I vote for the
reality of now. If it is suffering then
vote for UMNO will increase greater
sufferings. I predicted this before GE13
and it came true. The UMNO cyber trooper
has since disappear and I said it served
them right.
Someone
who may read this article may keep this
piece as a proof to see how real the
situation will be after GE14. It is true
what Mahathir had said that if not now
it will be never. I predict that
Malaysia will be a province of China.
07/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
THE
MAGIC POWER OF EVIL |
At first
I watch Yif. Then I watch Dynamo. The
documentation on Dynamo convinced me
about Rosmah Mansor. Yif and Dynamo are
not the ordinary magician with hidden
tricks. They are magicians with
superpower. Many of them are young men.
The documentary says they are using real
magic with the help of either Djin or
Satan. Then I remember of a lady in a
palace who could control the mind of the
people. And now I begin to believe in
the strong power of Rosmah Mansor. She
knows she is very strong. She tried to
use her power over the world leaders
like Putin, Obama and Trump.
I have no
proof. It is my strong conjecture
compounded with a strong feeling which I
believe comes from God.
In the
old days the Malays believe in Hantu
Raya, a being with a man who looked
after him in ways that we didn't know.
Hantu Raya was no to harm the people in
the neighborhood but to protect the
master from harm and theft at his home.
We would not passed the man's home at
night for we may not find the way out
till the next morning.
The
magicians confined their power to
entertain people with various kinds of
happenings that the mind cannot
comprehend. If it is with Djin that may
be the agreement to be made. The master
may be allowed to make money but not to
commit any crime or murdering people.
Nevertheless the document says that the
generation of Satan have been born.
Then I
saw several
other footings covering
names like David Blaine, David Copperfild, Houdini, Takayama, Criss
Angel and others.
Forgive
me Rosmah if I suspect you deploying
similar arts which you might have picked
from somebody to control the minds of
the gullible people and other human
beings of weaker minds. I have heard
from a woman who seem to be near you
that she felt so scared when she was
near you.
I know
you will win the election and become
more powerful but I also know the size
of the sins made when the populace are
being made to suffer. My savings for
more than 50 years are now halved of the
real value by Najib's inefficiency and
self interest to save you and your
family. And the worst ever and the most
treacherous is the selling of this
country to China. This can never be
forgiven.
But the
demonic and evil power of magic still
made the great magicians died and grew
older. I am watching Rosmah closely to
see whether the face undergoes any
change and showing sign of growing old.
I believe anyhow some stronger power
outside the devil will pop up and put an
end to the dark power. If evil can give
power to a man, God too can choose some
men to have much stronger power over all
the demonic black art. I believe that
God will answer our prayers.
I am not
of the type who believe in magic of
spirit, ghost or voodoo, started at the
young tender age. At 7 I already
challenged my friends to walk across the
graveyard at night. I did it, I walked
through the grave yard after a night
prayer. And I do not believe or scared
of the haunted house.
And when
people told me about Rosmah having a
demonic power I dismissed them all. It
was the same as I dismissed Mona Fandi.
Until now after watching the documentary
on demonic magic I still do not believe
in the power of Mona. And I hope my
conjecture on Rosmah Mansor is wrong.
Though
this video is a mere for knowledge and
entertainment, I also learned the
behavior of Najib through the various
types of descriptions, the quotations
and comparison between the words of the
magicians and the bible. I have not got
into depth of the Koranic verses to
compare God's words and the demeanors of
Najib and his Ministers. Even long
before this I did mentioned how the
ministers had elevated the Prime
Minister to the level of God. And Najib
himself admitted that he was God's
chosen.
He
believes he is an invincible man.
07/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
HOW MUCH
MONEY CAN YOU LEND ? |
A friend
was asking me for a RM300K loan and
later RM50K. I didn't have that much.
But I knew that it would take me 50
years to accumulate that much. It was a
request without any collateral, without
witness and just a cash to be handed. I
did that for RM10K for two times and I
get back after more than 1 month of
promised payment. One went beyond 2
months.
My
question to you is how much money can
you lend to your friend ?
My
brother in-law wanted me to transfer all
my saving into his account to show to
the immigration before applying a Visa
to study overseas. He has a land which
of course valued more than my money. I
told him to seek a lawyer for the
temporary exchange of his land and my
saving. He refused to accept it,
distrusting me. Yet he wanted me to
trust him.
I think
some of you might say 'depend on how
much I have'. If you are a
multi-billionaire you may decide to give
away even RM500K rather than lending it
out. People who borrow seldom pay you
back even with a lawyer to oversees the
transaction. They chose to be declared a
bankrupt rather than paying back a few
hundred thousands.
They
would not want to befriend you if you
say that you do not have the money. In
my case I hardly get a simple favor
before the loan request, and now the
situation is the same. Even my phone
calls were not answered. But I suspect
another approach for the RM10K loan. It
is better not to have any saving at all
n my current account.
I truly
believe that those who asked for loan
were really broke. As for my friend the
money was needed to pay the salary of
the workers and the loan to the
franchisor. I could feel their problems
and could depart with the lower amount.
But I could not risk my whole life
saving. So is your friend. From the
readings I found lenders were lamenting
as their close friends ran away with the
money. Every cent you give as a loan is
always a great risk.
We were
told of man who lent some money to Dr
Mahathir's family more than 20 years ago
but passed away. The man was very
surprised on one unexpected day when Dr.
Mahathir came to repay back the loan.
People were asking how much has
Syahrizat's family had paid of the RM250
million loan back to the government.
Lending
money is almost as equal to be a
guarantor. When I was working I forbade
my staffs to be one. My advice fell on
the deaf ears. A few years later they
came back to me reporting their friends
who had moved somewhere else refused to
pay back their loans to the third party.
My answer was simple, "Sorry.."
I don't
live beyond my mean. I don't buy things
on loan, never have any credit card. I
computed my future, to look after myself
at my old age without having have to
depend on anybody. I hope you would do
the same, never to live beyond your mean
and try not to purchase stuffs on loan.
And never to give any loan even to your
best friend. To depart with a few
hundred ringgit as a gift would free
tour mind. If you have millions, you can
afford to donate a few thousands.
I need
money like any other. If you care to
donate to me I welcome you. Thank you.
06/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
WE
FEEL YOUNG |
I tell
you honestly that I never feel old.
Because everybody says I look old and
tired, and being treated like a senile
person I trained myself to admit of my
being old. Only just now I drove to
Kuala Perlis with a poor eyesight along
the night at the speed of 110 km/h. The
reason was simple. I did not feel like
an old man. I felt I was just like
myself 20 to 40 years ago.
The
Malays believe that is a bad sign. When
old people can remember all the names
and all the past events it indicates
that the door to the grave yard has
already opened. If it is regarded as a
bad sign, it is a good sign to me. The
faster we die the better for the younger
generation. We take away their burden
with us. Nobody should pretend to shed
his tears when every death is for the
better of mankind.
I noticed
many of you are very conscious of your
look. You buy creams of all sort to be
look nice and young. But each day your
age is climbing. I cannot stop to become
70. And you too cannot stop to be 70. Do
you ever try to imagine how you will
look at that age ? Modern medicine is
experimenting on the maintaining of the
cell property and doing skin grafting to
make you look young forever. I remember
reading a story on Dorian Gray. And
everyone knows the story of Count
Dracula.
People
with money would spend millions for the
elixir of youth. Will you be one of the
persons who will be forever young ?
I am
making an interesting observations on
three great people, namely Dr Mahathir,
Datin Rosmah Mansor and our Prime
Minister to study the correlation
between their ages and their wrinkles.
They have all the mean to buy the young
feeling and the young look. I remember
Raja Azlan Shah who forever look young
and handsome, but unexpectedly went to
meet God too. We would never know.
I would
suggest that young people should not
scorn and belittle the old people
because they will there too. They will
not realize that time really flies,
decades pass just like a week. Then all
of a sudden you feel you are heavy to
move, pain in a knee, aching in every
part of your body. It is at this point
that you will realize where along the
timeline you are standing on. You look
in one way you see a long line. You turn
the other way you will see the end of
the line is near.
We are
all human. We feel the same way.
06/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
NEXT
PLACE TO GO MAY BE BANGKOK |
People who
were with me to Spain Morocco seem to have
non-stop traveling one after another. Within
a year they would have visited 5 or 6
countries. They usually went with one large
luggage and came back with two large ones. I
always knew they had a lot of money but I
never asked anything about them, their
wealth and their jobs. I can't even remember
their names. I would always stay aloof on
the bus, realizing that I am just a small
man.
A small man
like me also have a big dream sometimes. I
want to enjoy the comfort of life, traveling
to places where the total cost is low and
stay in a big cozy bed. After my recent
visit to Chiangmai with a tour group on the
24th October I have a phobia a little of
following a group tour. Today they want to
maximize their profit, cutting hotel
lodgings as much as they can, and putting us
on the bus from 7 am in the morning till
almost midnight, making you tired and
exhausted. Many years ago we put up a night
at Somasir island on a trip to Medan.
Nowadays, they will put us on only 45
minutes on the Toba cruise and straight away
to Bukit Tinggi. The China 6 day China trip
in coming November is as hectic as any
other. If I were to go I would have to pay
between 9 to 10K, which I can't afford.
I feel bored
now, and am thinking of going somewhere on
my own. The other day I went to the railway
station hoping they would sell a ticket to
Bangkok. We have been having the
Butterworth-Bangkok express for more than 60
years. Te first time I went to Bankok when I
was 18 years, buying the ticket from Alor
Star to Bangkok, return, for only RM69.50.
About three years ago there weren't return
ticket anymore. The one way ticket was about
RM130. Today the service has halted. I need
to go to Padang Besar railway station to buy
the ticket on the Thai side. That wouldn't
be easy.
I would not
to fly to KLIA from Alor Star and then fly
again northwards to Thailand. Even to fly
from Penang will be quite complicated in
term of leaving my home to the airport.
Despite the indecision I searched for the
Bangkok hotels. The last in Bangkok I stayed
at Berkley Pratunam. Just now I was looking
at a Muslim Hotel, Al-Meroz. After the 50%
discount the price is 2,475 bahts. With the
deterioration of ringgit it is about RM325
per night. For three nights stay it would
cost me about RM1K.
I was just
thinking of having the best of the Halal
food during my stay and take boat rides
following the local tour. I would estimate
another RM1K for the pleasure of sight
seeing and luxurious meals. No shopping.
Just to get away from my boredom.
For the
Penangites the van pickup will be in front
of their door, take them straight away to
Hatyai and continue to Bangkok by bus. The
Malay tour agencies are never motivated
enough nor creative enough to look for
customers. Everyone is looking forward to
bring the Muslims to Umrah.
If not
because of the Halal food I would not have
followed the Muslim tour agencies. Many are
arrogant and think that they are giving
services and helping the people. The only
word that I can use is arrogant. They are
always more expensive than the Mandarin or
English tour. Yet many of their customers
could afford to spend about RM20 for each
trip. It looks like that they spent about
RM100K per year to travel. They reserved a
minimum of RM5K for shopping.
My next
traveling budget is RM3K for complete
expenses. It is ample to go to nearby
places.
05/10/2017
ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
DESPERATION AND HELPLESSNESS OF UMNO |
Najib and his
henchmen should be calm and do not show
their madness and desperation. Ku Nan is
seeing apparition and the demise of UMNO and
his downfall. He is so mentally disturbed
that he made use of the primary school
children to reverberate support for UMNO. It
is a sign of deep desperation and fear. And
Mustaffa Mohammad was telling the Malaysians
that Proton is under restructuring when it
was the Chinese who has the full control and
made complete decision, Mustaffa was in bed
sleeping. RESTRUCTURING is a lovable word of
Najib. "1Mdb is undergoing RESTRUCTURING".
Why should Najib need to restructure a
profitable body ? Then he made a very
expensive dash to the United States trying
to plead Trump to call off the DOJ
investigation. I remember well what Rosmah's
daughter had said about the greed that made
his brother sold his soul. She yell to
her
mother to save her brother, Reza. Am I wrong
to say that it was the sole reason for
Najib's
visit ? The so-called Photo-op was was just
to tell the Malaysians Najib did not steal
the money. At home Keruak was shouting his
head of that if Najib was bad Trump would
not have invited the PM . He beat the drum
out of desperation to exonerate his boss.
How many UMNO
members have seen the perilous position of
Malaysia falling into China's hand ?
China is gaining their grips at a very
rapid phase stealthily and quietly. UMNO
warlords have become the spokesmen for China
and defended the sell out of the nation,
putting greater danger in international
safety abd security, as
tension between USA and China is
heightening. The threat of the third world war
is not a trivial matter. The spark will be
triggered on North Korea affair.
The selling
out of our honor, integrity and sovereignty
is not for the benefit of the people but
solely for his family and himself. He is so
desperate to remain in power and not to let
any other person outside his bloodline to
replace him. It is very possible that any of
the the following PM
may incarcerate him for the murder
of Najadi and Kevin Morais. It is a dreaded
thought for him. He is seeking helps from the Chinese, to save him from the
grim horror.
Don't you
think Lim Kit Siang is not happy over
China's relationship with Malaysia ? I put this question to UMNO who
called LKS a racist and a Communist. Isn't
Najib has fulfilled his wish ? Yet the Malaysian Chinese
abhorred him for the world called our PM a thief,
a Kleptocrat and a crook. Najib got the
audacity to lie when he was in US soil.
Sensible people do not believe in the lie
but rather to stand by the proofs shown by
the court of
Singapore, the Zurich government, the WSJ
and the DOJ.
Najib should
not be worried about his possible arrest
warrant by foreign agents because he does
not commit any crime in those countries,
including America. He will only become a
target if he is found to corroborate with
China against the United States. Both the
Chinese naval vessels and the Americans are
in Malaysian waters spying each other's
moves. Dark
clouds are on our head and US eyes are on Najib
and his team. Maintaining neutrality is not
by words and rhetoric by the hidden deeds,
which will produce a pungent odour to US ally. And China will not
release Najib or Malaya in the fight against
USA.
China will
continue to ask and ask. Najib will give and
give. When they become so desperate at the
ending point, they will do all the crazy stuffs.
But things are too late. That's the grand stupidity of UMNO.
04/10/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
|
A GREAT
PROVIDENCE and DESTINY |
Islam forbid
swaggering, boasting and trying to show off
our own vanity and achievement. We may have
disobeyed it without our realizing it. Let
us all the time pleading for forgiveness for
it may not be our intention to deliberately
trying to show off our prowess. I later
learn that humility is being a domain of
other creeds and race too.
I have
admitted that I am not a smart person, a low
achiever, never passed my English and never
did well in school. Whatever I will be
talking is the story of a one eyed-man
telling a group of blind man to share the
real experience that even a small man like
me could grasp by the will of God. It is
just a nostalgia,
It was in
1981 that I went to Ohio Athen school to
acquire knowledge on Vocational Education.
Athen is about 3 hours away from Columbus
where the airport is. There were many
Malaysians at the school taking various kind
of courses. Combine with the other Muslims
the total number was quite large. I stayed
with a family, Abdul Karim. One of the
subjects I took was Statistical Research.
Malaysian friends warned me not to take the
paper as it was hard to pass. There would be
at least 60 percent failures. Many of them
took the simpler disciplines like Takraw and
Badminton. I told myself what benefit could I
gain from those fields.
I was lucky
in my class there was a Korean girl, a
university lecturer in Korea who knew about
the subject very well. She was kind enough
to tutor me every evening at the campus. And
finally the test came. The professor called
it a quiz. I don't remember the duration of
the exam time. Surprisingly within 10
minutes many Americans students handed the
test sheets, when I was still struggling to solve the
findings using a chi-square. Me and the
other foreign students utilized the whole
hours. Outside the room I saw a few American
students and said, "Wow...you people must be
genius..." They smiled and said, "Oh
well...either we know or we don't. No
point wasting time
sitting in the room...". A
few days later the result list was pinned up on the
board. I got an A. The Korean A- or B+(I
don't quite remember), probably an A-. The
bulk of the Americans score a stretch of Es.
My close
friend was in Bloomington Indiana. During a
Summer break I took a Greyhound bus to his
abode. The ticket was very expensive. At
that time I computed it was about RM250 of
Alor Setar to KL's equivalent trip. I met many
Malaysians in Bloomington, the Malays and
the Chinese. I kind of like to this place.
When I went back to Athen I discussed my
desire to make a transfer to Bloomington
School. The Korean girl wanted to follow me
but I told her my wife would be coming. I
pitied her. If I were still single then, I would have
married a Korean wife by now.
I noticed
that the authority in Indiana asked the Ohio
side of why I was given a working Visa. There
was quite a discussion between them. I heard
vividly what the lady said, "He is our
guest." Finally Indiana also agreed to gave me a
working Visa. That's how things work there.
I applied for a family home home in Indiana.
As my family arrived we straight away
entered the house where my friend stayed. He
came back to Malaysia about a week earlier.
Most of my
classes were at night. That was the time
when working people were free for further
education. There were mothers, grandmothers
and grandfathers. There were farmers and
office workers. I also had PHD candidates from
Canada and the United States, the military
officer, the Egyptians and the Africans. I
was the only one from Malaysia. One of the
interesting courses I took was Public
Administration and Finance. It is quite a
hilarious to notice that after Mahathir took over
and until mow we were doing just the
opposite of what I had learn. To me
privatization is an evil.
Some of the
Malaysians were too busy to know the
performance of their countrymen, who were
smart and who were not, who scored CGPA 4 flats
and who didn't. I didn't
bother to be busybody. I never let people knew what my CGPA was. Until today I didn't bother to
broadcast it. When the final exam was over,
I have 6 weeks left before my scholarship
expired. I use the time to audit computer
literacy. I would go to the computer lab in
the morning and came home at 10 pm, so much
so the students thought I was a staff there.
It was here where I start to develop
program.
I came home
in 1983. A year later I wrote to the
university applying for the university
scholarship to do a master degree in
computing. The university replied that
it agreed to my request but I need to make a
direct application to the
computer school for a place. I gave a long
thought to it. I was to serve the government and
my students not to elevate and satisfy my own
ego and interest. I should
not be too greedy. I had had much of the
providence already. The fact that the university had
agreed to take me again was enough to award
me with untold happiness. Couldn't I proceed
with a doctorate ?
I am glad
that I don't have an ambition. I don't
have any
desire to be wealthy, nor to be a big man or
a leader. What God has given me is more than
enough. What I may need more is knowledge,
which nobody on this earth surface can have
them all. We can't even possess one percent of the
known and the unknown. Much yet to be
discovered. What we may know today may be
obsolete by
tomorrow.
I know that
one thing that I cannot be wrong, that
success in life and to become a millionaire are
not shaped by university education. There
are several local millionaire who are
without college degree. Boon Siew and Guan
Thong didn't even finish Primary.
They didn't rob, cheat nor beguiling people.
It needs hard work, patient and providence.
Common sense does play important role in
making a person wiser in making the right
decision.
But I am a
strong believer in fate. The world can argue
and discount it's substance and existence.
The faith cannot be shaken and destroyed. Each man has his own
destiny.
By simple
logic I won't be able to have what I have
been enjoying, from having a college education to
the ecstatic globe trotting.
I have been to places where I never dream
of, from the young age of 18 till 70. And the traveling program
will continue as long as I live and as long
as I my capability and mobility permits.
I had been
traveling alone by myself for many years to many places and
had encountered all sort of people, from
beggars in Disneyland area California to the
homeless. I had been mugged and robbed by
the street people in Downtown Los Angeles. I
saw fantastic and beautiful villages and
landscaping, hundreds of big fish swimming
against the water in small brooks, and small
towns beautifully laid out, jovial and kind
people all over. It was just fantastic. When
you follow a tour group you tend to be among
the group members.
Imagine how I felt when I saw heads
of institutions cutting down trees and
knocking down toilet wall to deter students
from smoking. And mind you generally the
landscaping and the arrangements of building
structures of non-Muslim countries are
always better than the Muslims. Have we lost the aesthetic
sensibility in us ? Look at Al-Hambra, built by a Muslim
which should be a bench marking to to the
other Muslims to be followed by
the head of departments here.
I always
remind myself that there are better people
than us and there are more unfortunate
beings below us. Never ever think a
millionaire is already at the peak of the
world and a PHD holder is unbeatable by any
man. The grandest of a man does not
lie in his wealth, title and profession but
in his wisdom, honesty, sincerity,
considerate, clear vision, helping others
and other good deeds.
I am far from
being a man of honor for I am rogue and
arrogant. I don't like people who need m
help to impose their rules on me as if my
presence would cause them harm. I would feel
insulted and my service is of a small value.
I have it narrated in my article entitled
Incident At A College Gate. I abhor a
supercilious people, a braggart and a bully,
a thief and a liar. And I always get myself
into trouble. I am repulsive to many.
I saw others
too were endowed with a great abundance by
the Almighty. They have the money, respect,
family happiness and the luxurious of life,
both Muslims and non-Muslims. They too
believe in providence and doing good deeds
to humans and animals, serving people and
community, humble and rich with kindness. As
I said that there are people above us and
there are people below us.
Other people
have greater adventure and achievements, in
their quest for knowledge and seeing places and
doing service to the
community. I read their articles and met
some of them in persons. I came across a few
young adventurous girls in Turkey on their
own, and two young girls going all over
Japan, and my friend's daughter who travel
alone to the deepest part of China. Some of
them even scored 4 flat with almost A+ in
all subjects. Never belittle a person when
you see him, and avoid judging a book
by it's cover.
I have a
friend, also not with a college degree, but
very well known to the world for designing a
very high quality amplifier, and expert in
electronic design an won several
international skill championships.
We try to
carve our own destiny. In the modern world
let us call it a setup process. We decide
which switch is to be on and which to be
off, to do good, bad or auto. The objective
will be synchronized with the mental and
physical capability. Then we work hard to
achieve it. Somehow I didn't. I used to say
'Let the wind blows and I follow the wind'.
In the setup language we say that every
switch is put on to AUTO.
Many people
asked me to look for a wife. It is not a
simple task. I said, "Destiny will decide. I
may not know how and in what manner a wife
will come if my destiny says so..."
This question
about predestination has been a widespread
discussion mainly among the Christians since
the Middle Age in Europe and later among the
Muslims till today. It is a deep and
profound topic beyond this page to pen down.
Mankind are required to strive and to work
hard all the time, then leave the rest to
destiny. As far as I am concerned I just did
as asked but on most cases they are a kind
of reflex actions as response to
environmental stimuli. I followed the wind
as it blows.
As I never
dream to land in Hawaii and USA, I also
never dream to set foot in Tel Aviv and
Haifa and the whole country of Israel. But I
did. Of course it is nothing to be proud of.
It just never cross my mind about it. If you
are a little observant you will learn many
things from the visit.
At the young
age I never have any sparkling fantasy, to
be where I were and be as I am now. This is
what I would call fate. It is my destiny to
be just a normal mediocre man. There are
millions of others above and below me.
Thanks God for the providence.
03/10/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
FAILING
SENDING CW TEST |
In the old
days we never knew of an ham to passed the
listening test but failed in sending. But
today failing in sending is a very common
feature. The reason is simple. The MCMC uses
machines for the CW test, for both receiving
and sending, What an ear hears may not be
the same as what the computer senses. A few
senior hams have expressed their concerns to
the authority before computers were
commissioned as the testers. It fell on the
deaf ears.
Sitting for
the Morse test is very expensive nowadays.
The fess plus traveling and hotel expenses
could reach almost RM600 to RM700. One may
have to travel about 300 miles away to the
test center. In the old days the test was
held at any place wherever an officer with
the Morse capability resided. There wasn't
any in Alor Setar. So I got to go to Penang.
I would have not passed the exam if a
machine was used.
I was sad to
hear that candidates who get through the
listening test but failed in sending. It is
a very discouraging phenomena. It never
happened in the old days but has become
common happenings at the present time. I
know these people are capable in Morse codes
but the rule and systems barred the 9Ws to
transmit on this mode.
Let me say
that the world will not discard CW. At least
the police and the army must be kept alert.
They can't leave things to the machines to
copy what the criminals or the enemies may
be sending, for there are new techniques to
beat the machine. The Indonesians are fond
to use these rhythm. In other words for the
sake of national security and as tools to
monitor criminal activities Morse codes will
not be swept clean.
I would
not say that there is an attempt to fail the
candidate deliberately but I would just say
it is is just a strange phenomena.
02/10/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
CHINESE
FISHERMEN IN MALAYSIAN WATERS |
Rather than
trying to defend the issue Najib should
start thinking how to make the Chinese
fishermen do not come into Malaysian water.
Chinese boats have a dual purpose of making
themselves busy in the South China Sea up to
our water. The first is to keep an eye on
the American warships, where they are and
the size of the armada. These boats are
protected and followed by their sub-marines.
We have military ties with China and we
cannot bar the Chinese to pursue their
rigorous defense against the United States.
Donald Trump has been informed of this
Malaysia0China Defense Agreement.
Secondly
their fishermen come together to catch the
fish leaving our Malaysian fisheries at awe.
It creates the catch scarcity and drives the
fish price up. Najib sent Jamal to blame DAP
for the rocketing price. In fact he has to
give way to China. We see this in the
honorary citizenships to the Chinese
nationals. It won't be good for all
Malaysians.
We also need
to ask what is the function of Majuikan.
Isn't price stabilization is one of it's
function ? If we can't define and describe
this government body well then let us let
Jamal to be a fisherman. There are thousand
of UMNO members who can go to sea. Why let
DAP take control of fish price ? BN is the
government and in control of the country's
affair, why it threw the blame on someone
else ?
20 years ago
I stayed in Athens Ohio and Bloomington
Indiana, and witnessed the price of raw
food, which were very cheap and affordable.
As if we can't follow the price control
mechanism and quit blame other people on our
own mishap and deficiency . Najib went to
extend of telling the foreign journalists
and investors that the bad economy is due to
irresponsible opposition parties. How, may I
asked the opposition could influence the
condition of our economy ?
Fish is a
good source of protein and could help to
develop the growth of the brain. Research
had been done to see why kids in the East
coast of Malaya are more intelligent than
from the West coast. It was found that 'Ikan
Tongkol' was the main factor. The
skyrocketing of fish price would hinder
protein consumption by the poor people,
mainly the Malays.
I always go
to Kuala Kedah and Kubang Rotan to buy fish
almost directly from the boat. I did not see
the Middlemen of any DAP members. The catch
were brought from the boat onto the sale
floor. Prawns were still RM70 to RM80 per
kilo. So were the other catches. In the West
coast there is no trawler from China. But
let me tell you that there are many drug
addicts around here.
We can accept
that the government want the fishermen to
earn a better income. But there are many
more people who are worst off than these
people. Of course we would blame the
government for the failure to control the
fish price. Najib can afford a few thousand
ringgit meat slice from Japan, the poor
kampong children can afford to remain stupid
as the source of protein is beyond their
reach.
|
RED LIES |
There are a
few people who simply cannot tell lies. It
is not about the feeling of guilt but it is
the discipline that blends in his blood.
Among the UMNO minister I would guess
Mustaffa Mohammed is one of such a man. And
the most to tell lies all the time is Najib
Razak. It is the truth that his supporters
do not like to hear. Who ever forget about
Rakyat Di Utamakan ? And all donations
to the party must not be in personal account
? The list of lies is beyond the space of this page.
Lying is a
habit and later enters your blood. You feel you are at the top of the
world when people shows that they believe in
you. Every time you tell lie you got a kick
out of it. You can sleep soundly and with a
smile on your face just because you have
deceived and fooled the people. You can even
deny saying you do not say things which were
clearly recorded and broadcasted to the
world.
Similar to
lying are faking, spreading propaganda and
fabricating. I find a lot of them in the
Youtube, some with vile purposes and others
for no reasons. People are finding out the
truth of aliens are working with the United
States government and about the truth of the
crop circles. It was lies that led to the
invasion of Iraq and the bad perceptions on
the global Muslims.
Liars get
pleasure out of lying especially when they
see people believe in them, not knowing
others could see through their skins. Even
the non-educated knows that even 50 years of
saving pittance could not even half a
million. If somebody gives me a hundred
ringgit, it would not take 6 months to
declare the money was donated. As a man who
used to developed computer soft wares I can
give answers to questions within seconds and
minutes. That's the ways we could trace
lies.
Lies will
always be red when they are criminal in
nature or to save one's skin or fatally
treacherous like selling a country away.
They will come in ways of excuses, rebuttals
and throwing the blames on others. At times
followed by threatening, riots and murder.
This you can see if you study the detail
episode of the 911, the destructions of the
World Trade Center. And of course if you
look at your own backyard.
White Lies
are suppose to make a person happy by the
praise of a good look and elegance, to
prevent a fight out of jealousy and for
everybody's good and benefit. To me it is
still cheating. I would prefer truth even if
it hurts.
Once a liar,
forever a liar. And the face has turned to
be a liar's face.
01/10/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
LEARNING |
I went to
an evening class to learn Mandarin in 1962,
just for a year, out of personal
compulsion. It was interesting and very
fulfilling but fate as it was and
being folly not to use it for more than 40 years
things began to
get rusty and finally I lost one important
lingo. I can remember only a few words now.
Then I began
to learn Thai in 1972 for a year, practiced
reading and writing the characters, a long
train of words joined up together to make a
sentence. And again like Mandarin, I forgot
the Thai alphabets. As I am getting more matured,
my memory started to fade. The learning
curve shows a quick descending momentum.
With a limited vocabulary I made it my lingo
conversing with the tour leader on the
recent trip to Chiangmai.
As a
Principal at vocational college I wanted to
expose the students who took commerce as
their choice to Mandarin. I wrote to the HQ
asking for a budget. It fell on the deaf
ears. That was in the 80th. Then I wrote to
MCA, a political party asking for a teacher.
Instead they showed me the price for a
teacher's procurement. Now I realize that PM
maxim that Cash Is King is true.
Today foreign
language and Mandarin are a part of the
primary school curriculum. It is a great
deed. But parents seem to ignore it and take
it very lightly. I went to the extend of
paying for the class, and even failed to get
any funding. Yet some people take things for
granted.
I'll tell
you why you shouldn't stop learning under
any condition, even at the declining
learning curve. Our duty is to fulfill the
brain cells.
Human brain
has a huge storage capacity unknown to men.
We need to fill each of the cell with
knowledge that is huge as the universe and
galaxies. You have to be an immortal to try
to fill it with the colossal gift of God.
But our life is too short even to be a
criminal if not a sage.
As we fill
each of the cell we are enriching ourselves.
We would feel better. The more knowledge and
the more we know, we tend to become humbler.
We won't want to belittle the others and
tend to respect other human being. We would
not mind at all if people call us stupid or
moron. The common response was a nice smile.
If we don't
try to fill in our mental storage we tend to
be ignorant. We are susceptible of being
deceived, conned and lied. It is through the
various information that we can relate
things and events and enable to compare and
contrast phenomena, having greater
analytical ability and sense every
contradictions made by crude people.
You may not
be a graduate, an engineer, a doctor or a
lawyer. At least you are able to pluck words
like statin, circumstantial evidence,
anti-gravity and levitation. You will know
and understand what Nikolai Tesla was doing.
Depth acquired through reading from
different sources can help you in many
things. Of course you may be called a
pseudo-XXXX . You are not going to preach
what you know. But you would know a danger
of statin, for instant. And if you know the
history of Malaya and how this country came
under British rule, you would be able to
forecast our future if similar structural
cases exist today.
You don't
have to attend a culinary school to be an
excellent cook. Knowledge and skill could be
acquired through apprenticeship as well as
learning. It makes you a better and wiser
man.
I don't need
to say much more about the importance and
benefit of elevating the brain contents.
Our main
barrier is the lack of time. It is worst for
the working mothers and those who have to
moonshine to feed their families. Life is
not as easy as before. There is a greater
competition in all areas today. Even a
retired man need to divide his time for God
and the world. I have been computing
for the space in time for learning Tamil and
Japanese, just for fun. And you too can
gather knowledge and skill just for fun and
happiness.
01/10/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
NEGARWAN
MALAYSIA |
Nergarawan
Malaysia is a great and successful
Statesman. Thousands of UMNO supporters
gathered at the airport welcoming our Prime
Minister, a great Statesman ever in the
history of Malaysia, from the visit to
United States and a stopover in London.
Donald Trump called him A FRIEND and walked
him to his car personally. Najib was
received honorably and had prove that he is
an innocent man or otherwise Donald Trump
would not have invited him. The meeting was
a successful one and the investment in the
United States would bring much profit to the
EPF. Mahathir had to pay millions to meet
Bush.
Najib is also
responsible for exporting durian to China.
Under him the economy is the strongest in
this region and the ringgit is the
strongest ever. Our GDP is experiencing 50%
growth.
Soon Trump
will be visiting Asia. He will step on the
Philippines but Malaysia. Read the comments
made by his enemy
Damn you
Trump. Najib Razak has promised to
invest billions into the American stock
market & skyrocket the US economy and
make America Great again and now Trump
has decided to skip visiting Malaysia,
the all important Rising Star nation on
his Asian tour. PAS was right, the
Kafirs cannot be trusted.
So
much for calling you friend and
walking you to your car. Ahh these
Americans, how short-lived their
affections are. You should have
listened to me, Najib. Instead of
sending them all to China, you
should have a given Trump a couple
of baskets of our premium durians.
And without you even saying so, he
would know they were Musang King.
Anyway, to reciprocate his
hospitality to you when you went
state-side, you could stand at
Dataran Merdeka and wave as Air
Force One flies overhead. Then you
could tell us all how you saw him
wave in return. By the way, are you
still proceeding with the jetliner
purchases? Just asking.
30/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF
|
TRAGEDY
THAT CONTRIBUTED BY PAS AND UMNO |
UMNO and PAS
just see whatever Najib gives to the
Chinese. Then they blame the Malaysian
Chinese. Is it not awesome ? Awkward ? And
while the Cyber Troopers and the JASA were
trying to portray Najib as Pahlawan Negara,
National Warrior, the Chinese are quietly
winning and controlling one after another.
They were insulted in Pekan, surrendered and
gave honorary citizenship to the Chinese
national, slowly giving away our national
security for China to control, land and
other interests. I am not at all surprise
whatever is happening to Proton legacy. And
more will be coming. The Malays will be
wiped out in front of UMNO and PAS eyes, not
because the doings of DAP or Mahathir but by
UMNO and PAS themselves.
Mind you JASA
is headed by a doctorate holder. I would not
know what made them so blind, selling our
integrity and sovereignty away. And Nazri, a
lawyer even defended those who betray the
race and the country. They are talking about
profit and money neglecting their honor,
creed and race.
A man like
me, Mahathir and those whose days are near
do not lose anything. Many of us can survive
till our last days. Heifner the Playboy
founder died at 91. Mahathir is 92. The late
Sultan of Kedah at 86. We are fearful of
what is going to our generation. What I am
sure to happen Malaya will be a vassal of
China. This is under the watchful eyes of
the PAS and UMNO Malays. They are being
duped by Najib, who goes all out to save
himself at the expense of national interest
and the interest of the Malays. It is a
great tragedy.
If there is
any other country which is willing to take
me I will leave this country immediately. It
is a mental torture, more painful than a
heart pain. Hokien uses a Chinese and a
Malay word to express the agony 'BEY TAHAN'
|
IF NAJIB IS
NOT A CIVIL SERVANT WHO IS HE ? |
The CHOSEN
ONE among mankind is a little above the
Prophet. We called him Rasul, the Messenger.
To be a Messenger he must be a Prophet. It
is not you or me who said, "Disobeying Najib
is disobeying God." It was published and
blazoned in the newspapers calling the
Muslims to bow to the Prime Minister. They
were words of the ministers. Try to remember
whether Najib himself ever said he was God
Chosen. A High Court judge seems to imply
that Najib is not one of us, not a layman,
not a civil servant and is different from
all other Malaysians.
Was it agreed
by the rest ? Read some of the views below
Najib as PM
is not a public officer, High Court rules
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Odin
Tajué: Here’s
Corruption and Crime Commission of Western
Australia's definition of 'public officer' -
“The term public officer is defined in
section 3 of the Corruption, Crime and
Misconduct Act 2003 by reference to the
definition in section 1 of The Criminal
Code.
“Public officers include
state government employees, police officers
and employees, members of government boards
or committees, members of parliament, local
government elected members and employees,
all employees of public universities,
employees of government trading enterprises
and some volunteers.”
Is MO1 (Malaysian Official 1)
not a member of parliament?
From the Legal Dictionary -
“A public officer is ordinarily defined as
an individual who has been elected or
appointed to exercise the functions of an
office for the benefit of the public. Public
officers may be classified into different
groups - executive, legislative, judicial,
etc.
“Executive officers, such as
the president (of the United States) or
state governors, are public officers charged
with the duty to ascertain that the law is
enforced and obeyed. A legislative officer,
such as a member of Congress, has the duty
of making the laws.
“A public
officer whose duties include administering
justice, adjudicating controversies, and
interpreting the laws is called a judicial
officer. A de
jure officer
is one who is legally appointed and
qualified to exercise the office.
“A de
facto officer
is an individual who appears to be legally
qualified and appointed to an office but is
not due to some legal technicality, such as
failure to file a financial disclosure
statement within the time prescribed by
statute.”
Going by this definition, MO1
is also indeed a public officer/official.
Poetic justice has been
served again on former PM Dr Mahathir
Mohamad for his declawing and castrating of
the judiciary - besides a few other
malefactions of his.
Anyway, one has no choice but
to wish he and his colleagues better luck
with their appeal.
Vijay47: I
am sure that somewhere within that maze
called the law, there must be some
gobbledygook that suggests that Malaysia's
prime minister is not a public servant.
High Court justice Abu Bakar
Jais is no doubt a direct descendant of
Solomon as he had dispensed with such
irritations as deciding on the merits of the
application.
The good judge, however, has
kindly revealed that Najib and his band are
members of "an administration" though he
refrained from informing us what nature of
creature an administration is.
Thus, the people are caught
in a Catch-22 chicken-and-egg situation -
what avenue is open to the public when a
leader, aided by a conniving Parliament and
pliant regulators like the attorney-general
(AG) and that inspector-general of police
(IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar, allow him to
continue unfettered by the demands of the
law?
I hope, Abu Bakar, that
unlike many judges of late, you were guided
more by legality than the syariah.
Gerard Lourdesamy: The
learned High Court judge has opted to give a
very narrow and restrictive interpretation
to the meaning of public office and public
officer when in reality there is a huge
difference between the two.
The PM as a member of the
administration is a holder of a public
office exercising executive functions and
powers. But for the purposes of the
constitution, the Government Proceedings Act
1956 and the Interpretation Acts 1948 and
1967, he is not a public officer or public
servant.
The tort of misfeasance in
public office applies to anybody or person
exercising executive functions or powers.
The cases from the UK, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand and India have held as much. It
is the nature of the exercise of power by
the office that matters and not its
nomenclature.
The Federal Court in PP vs
Mohd Khir bin Toyo had correctly interpreted
the meaning of public servant and public
office after considering the constitution,
various statutory provisions and the common
law cases.
Anonymous 706151436780066: It's
no small matter to trifle with a court
decision, but this time the judge has
clearly misdirected his mind.
There can be no doubt that
Najib is an officer of the government and in
the payroll of the public. He has a duty to
30 million Malaysians. If he does not
perform as a reasonable person holding the
post, he is in breach of his duty and
committed a tort against 30 million
Malaysians.
The judge could not have
missed that Najib has committed a wrong. He
chose to find an escape route for Najib
using some fictional legal reasoning but it
defies common sense and violates the
ordinary citizen's sense of justice. I hope
the Court of Appeal will right his error.
Slumdog: This
ruling says everything about the justice
system in Malaysia. “The judge made the
ruling in chambers and decided to strike out
the suit without hearing the merits of the
application.”
We have to marvel at the
incompetence of this judge to make such a
nonsensical decision without hearing the
substance of the application, unless of
course he is beholden to Najib.
The judge only needed to
research the definition of public official
in other democratic jurisdictions around the
world to conclude that Najib is in fact a
public official. But hey, this is Malaysia.
Moontime: If
he is not a public officer, then how come he
is performing all the duties as one? It just
doesn't make sense. Then again, nothing
seems to make sense here in Malaysia anymore
as long as we still have a kleptocratic
government in place.
Bluemountains: How
can Najib not be a public officer when his
salary comes from public funds? Further, if
Najib is considered a member of an
administration, does it mean that he is
immune from prosecution despite having
committed wrongdoings?
Former Selangor MB Mohamad
Khir Toyo, who was a member of an
administration, was prosecuted and sentenced
to prison for having committed wrongdoings.
Gaji Buta: Anyway,
how about the finance minister? Is this
position also not a public officer? Maybe
the 'misfeasance' was less as finance
minister, so this could be the less
preferred legal route.
Maybe the finance minister
had committed the misfeasance, and turned to
MO1 to assist him in covering it up?
Just so happens that both
could be the same person? Can one person be
tried separately as two different people or
posts?
Godfearing: It's
time for Dr M to taste his own medicine.
It's time for him to revisit what he did to
the judiciary when he was PM. You reap what
you sow.
Ericlcc: Does
it make any difference whether Najib is a
member of administration or member of public
service? They are to all intent one and the
same.
Both derive their salaries
from the same source. Both make decisions
that impact on public affairs. The only
difference maybe members of administration
have higher status and prestige compared
with members of public service.
Anonymous 1230461438193244: I
think the key word here is 'public' and
'civil'. Did the judge deliberately or
otherwise misinterpreted the two words,
'civil' and' public'?
Civil service does not
include those employed by the Parliament. PM
is the holder of a public office, so he is a
public officer.
P Dev
Anand Pillai: Yes,
a nonsensical decision, if they are capable
of getting a pension from the
consolidated
fund and as a member of parliament of the
constituencies that they represent, then
what kind of special category do these
people belong to that they cannot be sued?
He is public officer No1 as
he is elected as an MP first and then
becomes prime minister and derives his
income from the public purse, which means
the funds in the Treasury.
So, what kind of judgment is
this?
Anonymous 2336891439170985
- Menteri Besar or Chief Minister of state
had been proven to be a Public Officer as in
the case of ex MB Khir Toyo being convicted
for corruption. CM of Penang or Chief
Minister Lim Guan Eng was charged for
corruption as a Public Officer. If he was
not a Public Officer he would not have been
arrested and charged. Both MB and CM are
Chief Ministers who serve under their BOSS,
the Prime MINISTER of Malaysia. If the MBs,
the CMs and all Ministers are considered as
Public Officers by the courts and the MACC
how is it that the Prime MINISTER or
MINISTER in charge of all the MINISTERS is
not a Public Officer? Do not take us for
fools!
Restless
- Congratulations Justice Abu Bakar, u have
created a precedent for yourself. Bravo. All
Malaysians will remember how you have
twisted the law to define public official
against all legal norms to protect just one
MO1. That leads us to think what s in it for
you? For the next case u shall preside on,
be assured all informed Malaysians and
worldwide interested parties would have a
reservation on yr judgments. Not only yr
judgments, but also your integrity,
professionalism and values. What a shame to
compromise for a pittance!
fairplayer
- The judge had deliberately burnt the case
to ashes???? Hope not. MO1 is Public
Official No.1 of Malaysia, right?
AngryBird
- He is a figure beyond human definition
.Only God can.That's what made the judge so
scared to do his duty normally
ad mor
bob the builder
- May be we should ask UN or UK to define
the term PM and whether a PM is a Public
Officer of a country or a chair
warmer.............!
change is in the air
- HE IS USING IS OUR MONEY TO FLY HIS FAMILY
WHENEVER AND WHEREVER HE LIKES AND LIVE IN
THE HOUSE WE PAY FOR IT..HE PAYS NO MONEY
AND WE HAVE TO GIVE HIM A BIG SALARY.HE
DOESN'T HAVE TO PAY FOR HIS ELECTRICIY BILLS
AND ALSO WE HAVE FOR HIS CARS , CHAUFFERS
AND SERVANTS ETC...HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A
PUBLIC SERVANT LIKE JUSTICE BAKAR CAN
DECLARE NAJIS IS NOT A SHIT/PUBLIC
SERVANT!!! is beyond imagination.
RM2.6 billion turkey haram
- Odin Tauje, your judgement really put the
judge to shame. Based on facts and
precedents quoted by you, Najib is 2.6
billion percent a pubic servants
Democracy
- It does not matter if PM is a public
officer or not. Any elected person can be
sued for misfeasance while acting in the
elected post unless he is a dictator.
bravemalaysian
- Perhaps the good and learned Judge was
trying to open a can of worms. Perhaps he
was trying to say this group of usurpers of
power were not duly elected and are an
illegal group of pirates, thereby
disqualifying them from being called Public
Officers. I don't know really why the Judge
gave such a ridiculous decision and am
trying very hard to read his warped or
brilliant mind...
Anonymous_40f4 -
The
Kangaroo has been instructed from the top,to
throw out the case.So he and his other
kangaroos work hard to 'cookup' some crooked
reason to dismiss the case.Many times they
dismiss on technicality which they couldnt
find in this case.As always, the kangaroo
will be well rewarded.The country would have
been a better place to live,if only we had
honest kangaroos who follow the law and not
rewards.The blame for all the mess in the
country is partly on the corrupt kangaroos.
JBond
- KANGAROO Only know how to HOP to get more
DEDAK!! All court cases against SCUMNOputras
ARE SANDIWARA. BOLEHLAND IS TRULY SCREWED by
this DESPOTIC REGIME. Only way out is REGIME
CHANGE!
Worldly Wise
- As chairman of 1 MDB he did not conduct
himself like a public officer. He conducted
himself like a kleptocrat. A kleptocrat
cannot qualify as a public officer. The
Honourable Abu Bakar Jais J was right in a
poetic way ! The judge's potential is wasted
in the High Court. His perspicacious mind
should see him elevated further.
Only him$ in this world is
not public officer but ....US President
Donald Trump , all MPs & what not are public
officers.
You see some of the arguments are very
profound.
My question is very simple; if he is not a
public servant then what is he ? Surely he
is above the working and the non-working
men. Sharp observation and analytical
finding we would generalize that Najib is
even above the rulers and the Parliament. By
their own statements the chosen one descends
from above and void of all human rules and
regulations. In other words he can do no
wrong.
In Malay we would call him a DEWA-DEWA,
sounds like a Sanskrit word Deva. As such he
exists by himself and on his own. He does
what he likes, take whatever he wants. Hence
a man from above is not a public servant but
a god, deva or even seen as a Prophet. It is
up to the court to say that he is either a
Prophet, a Deva or a descendent from the Sky
Kingdom.
29/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
GULLIBLE
ME |
I thought I
have a strong mental power, invincible
enough to fence off any attempt to deceive
and persuade me to believe in what they are
saying. When friends talked about a watch
that has a radio control I bought a RM2.7K
Casio while I was in Tokyo. In the most
recent another friend posted a video clip on
Whatsapp on
Drinking Baking Soda
I quickly fell to it when I first should a
consult a doctor or a dietrician. Thinking
that I am going to die soon I should not be
worried much to face death and can bear to
take any risk.
What I did
was I immediately went to a super-store and
hunted for baking soda. There weren't any
baking soda on the shelve but baking powder
and bicarbonate of soda. I bought the later
for RM1.60, came home and checked the
difference, between baking powder, baking soda
and bicarbonate of soda. I found that the
last two were the same. I took a tablespoon
of the powder and put it in a glass of
water, stirred and drank it. It was
yesterday's evening before going for my
evening exercise. You know what ? I farted a
lot. I didn't feel like I was going to die.
Today, this
morning I tried again. May be it was due to
my empty stomach that I had to rush to ease
my loose vowels several times. I was not
scared then. I believed the toxic materials
were released from my body. And I took it
again in the evening. I hope I am still
alive till the end of 14 days. If I do I
will inform you how I feel.
The word
gullible means 'easily persuaded to believe
in something'. It is certainly dangerous if
someone has the ill-intention of deceiving
us with the aim of squeezing our money out
of our pockets using various forms of baits.
Politicians love to bluff us before
elections and will start to suck our blood
out thereafter.
Everybody
lies. Some lies to save themselves and to
gain benefit, to cheat and deceive. Some
lies to save you from being hurt, to cool
you down and make you happy. As far as a
person's health is concern we have to be
extra careful. The expensive supplements you
may be buying may contain steroid. There are
plenty of them in the market using various
Arabic names to be sounded like Islamic. I already
wrote about the recital mineral water of Koranic
verses, sold at different prices
according to the number of verses read on
the water. And astonishingly people bought them.
You can
request directly from God to cure you from
your illness. Why pay someone else to do it
for you. And at the same time do a
little research from the internet. But you
need to remember at least 20% of what you
see on the Youtube are lies. I don't
understand their motive for trying to
beguile the netizens.
There were fake videos on World War 3, on
electronic projects, and on religion. Even
the clip on the use of baking powder for
good health may be fake too.
28/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF
|
NEVER
DREAM OF THE TECHNOLOGY |
I did not
check my internet speed these days. No need
because my Smart TV is displaying the
Youtube videos directly from the internet
without any jerky effect or without
interruptions. I quit watching Youtube
movies through my PC or cell-phone. The
screen is large enough to make it a home
movie and accompanied by the more than 25
year old home theater audio system. The
output is amazingly clear. The Wifi is fast
enough as many houses around this location
are opting for the Unify, leaving me a clear
lane for the digital traffics. At this very
moment I am watching a Talent Champion, a
young handsome Black man singing. It is
simply lovely. The time on the wall is
already 3 pm past my lunch time. I halted
for my prayer for about 10 minutes and
returned to my fantastic entertainment of a
direct Youtube on my TV.
You may not
know the time when we were born. It was the
time before Sputnik made a debut that
shocked the Americans, the days of the ice
shave, where nobody knew what a TV was. We
would dismiss as nonsense and laughed at
anyone who were trying to tell us about a
box that could show soccer matches on the
other side of the globe. There wasn't even
an electricity yet at that time. I walked
around naked in my kampong without knowing
what shame was. We cooked and bath using the
water that we captured from the sky using big
vases and any containers available. If we
wanted any pipe water we had to go to the
public pipe water supply with pails, Mind
you we did not feel life was difficult nor
miserable then. And there were flood
everyday. We enjoyed the high and the low
tied. All our houses were standing on tilts.
Decades later
before the internet was born I already read
of it's theoretical concepts but never came
across my mind that it is permeating my home
and phone, my camera and my TV. What a
monumental leap from those days when I
walked naked throughout my village.
The forms of
entertainments are different but the level
of satisfactions are the same. Nevertheless
I have to give credit to the modern
technology.
28/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
MY
CAMERA IS COMING |
I finally
ordered a Panasonic handycam via the
internet. This is not a 4K version which is
about RM4K but the cheaper RM1K, the
HC-V380K. I think it will arrive tomorrow.
This will be my second handycam. The first
one was Sony which I gave away to my radio
friend when I thought I would not be using
one again. I did not expect to be an active
traveler again at my old age. Now it seems
my interest expands. I want to make movies
and documentaries to be posted to the
Youtube. If you were to see me you would be
frowning at me," What is this old man doing.
Better go to the mosque and pray to erase
all the past sins."
I expect
to make a trip to Maldives next year in
January. From the descriptions by our
Malaysian visitors the islands were painted
as one of the most beautiful places on
earth. It deserves a real video camera, not
the smart phones.
But in the
meantime there is an urge me to for a visit,
a long one with more than 2 weeks or so. All
the tour packages are hectic and short. The
arrangements made in such a way to maximize
profit. Except for Indonesia, Vietnam and
Beizing all other trips would cost us RM1K a
day, whereas we can go on our own saving at
least 50% of the cost.
I am also
stuck with the cold weather at about this
time of the year. Dress to keep you from the
cold air are bulky and thick that will
occupy most space in your bags.
A couple
of days ago I went to the train station
making an inquiry about the ticket to
Bangkok. If it was available I planned to go
to Bangkok for a week. Unfortunately the
Bangkok Express rail has stopped. It was on
operation since the British time and stopped
during Najib's era.
So, no
decision yet. The traveling companion is
about to be in my hand tomorrow.
My friend,
Lim, 9M2LC, a radio friend has all
equipments to take for traveling. He has
enough experienced with them. I saw many of
his beautiful pictures captured when he went
for his trips. He advised me not to buy a
video cam, because nobody is going to see a
very long movie. He said a smart phone is
good enough.
Lim talked
base on experience. I talked base on lust
and sentiment. I want to satisfy my lust.
The next
thing I need to buy is a video stabilizer.
The prize range from RM90 to a few thousand
ringgit. I think I will choose a cheap
version. After all I am not a professional
guy. I just want some descent capture not
the haphazard and junky output. It is
digging holes in my pocket really. Certainly
I need to buy a high capacity memory stick
again.
Whatever I
am going to wait and see.
28/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
LEGACY
OF MAHATHIR IS OVER |
When Mahathir
was a Prime Minister I had wish that he
would vanish. Finally he resigned. It was a
great relief. I thought we would never have
I bad government again. The worse of
Mahathir were too much to tell but I
remember in those years when Malaysia was
unknown in the West except for Penang and
Singapore, an American in Hawaii mentioned,
"Oh Mahathir ?..." when I told him I was
from Malaysia. It was the first time the
West began to know Malaysia by knowing the
Prime Minister who dared to fight the
Americans and pegged the ringgit against
American dollar to protect the country. I
remember writing to the American President
to ignore Mahathir. I said, "Never mind this
man. He cannot harm the United States. It is
his character to verbally spewing words." I
defended him though I was a nobody.
I always hope
the Prime Minister after Mahathir would
clean the country and would look after the
welfare of the country. Instead it turned
out the new Prime Minister has turned the
country upside down. To me the nightmare
started with the lavish expenditure of
Rosmah Mansor. Then I heard about Rosmah's
activities in Putrajaya narrated by the
civil servants, about the purchasing of the
new jets, about Rosmah using the jet for
private purpose, about FLOM and about 1Mdb.
Mahathir was not in the limelight yet.
It was the
first time I started to know Tony Phua who
constantly mentioned about the 1Mdb.
The shock
exploded when the Wall Street Journal
blazoned the news on a large sum of money
that was in Najib's personal account. Najib
denied. The UMNO members started the war of
words saying the opposition were jealous of
the success of 1Mdb and said if Najib was
dishonest he won't keep the money in the
local bank.
Things get
hotter as there was the question of paying
the interest of the 1Mdb loan. Then came the
GST which is really taxing the people and
subsidies were lifted. Najib himself
admitted the loan was too big.
The chaotic
scenario with lies and counter rebuttals,
the threat to sue the WSJ, the arrest of
JUSTO, the final admittance of the money in
his private account, the SRC's money used
for personal purchases, the resignations of
two second finance ministers, and the
sacking of Mahyuddin, and more of
unbelievable selling our sovereignty to
China, all made Najib the ever worst person
I ever seen throughout my whole life.
Seeing the
country is breaking apart with the economy
worsen Mahathir stepped in. Najib and his
gang find it convenient to attack his mentor
by digging the past of Mahathir's past
legacy. To me they were past history.
Resurrecting them won't clean what is called
robbery by the international investigator.
Najib has not sue the journal portraying him
as a thief, do not take legal action on DOJ
that call him a Kleptocrat. It is to his
advantage to take action on DOJ which said
lying about pink diamond stealing and all
other accusation. Now they are calling him
with a debase name 'Crook'.
Najib is
saying indirectly that he can steal because
Mahathir lost money from FOREX. How about
paying to fake IPIC and paid again to real
IPIC ? How about lying to the parliament
about the money in BSI Singapore ?
AND he keeps
on saying our economy is good and our
currency is strong when in real life we are
kicking thousands out of jobs and our
ringgit is sliding badly and we are losing
to Thailand and Singapore. When he takes our
money he says it is for our own good.
We are not
living under Mahathir now. His legacy is
over. And he is not going to live much more
longer. He is already 92. I forgive him for
his errors. I always knew he did not steal
money. And more so I did not feel
economically bad under him.
I am concern
about now. Lies, deception and fabrication
is just like drinking a cup of coffee. You
ask Najib and the gang a simple question, he
will take a long time to answer. Some even
takes 6 months. Why ? They are thinking and
discussing and trying to create one. When
the donation story were to become known
through investigation the world began to see
how far Najib could go to implicate the
Saudi King, thinking things would end there.
Most of the answers could be given between a
second to 15 minutes at the most. The most
recent is when the MCA takes days to answer
the land bought for public use, when it
could be given immediately. You could guess
what was happening between those days.
They can
deceive the local but not the world.
Singapore and Swizerland had concluded the
1Mdb case, the leaked audit report mentioned
the problems, Apandi disappeared himself
when the Swiss investigator came to meet
him. The
court in Singapore and the Swiss government
had proven Najib was lying through his
teeth. And finally Ghani's driver was shot.
Simple laymen
understood the Mafia method of warning or
killing a person. They know how and when the
authority used the police and when to ask
the gangsters to do the job for them. You
never knew the laymen could put together the
jigsaw puzzles of many hidden mysteries.
From the
beginning I have known that Najib will hide
behind UMNO. He will tell UMNO the money in
the bank are all for the party. He only gave
to the MCA and MIC part of it recently after
the theft story had blown up. Hence the
stolen money has been shared among them.
Everybody hope to get some share of the loot. Najib gave as much as
he could to save himself from serious
accusations, not only of theft but also of murder.
Two of the murder cases were link to 1Mdb.
He knows if BN goes down he will be arrested
for crime of felonies. People had assume that
he already keep his money either in
Australia, New Zealand or Uzbekistan.
We are mull
on the subject of China. It is a dreaded
things really shook me, the greatest fear of
my life. My heart and soul shivers seeing
the future of this country.
All Najib is
doing now is beguiling the rakyat. What does
he stand to gain ? Wrecking a nation is one,
blind to see the Chinese design and the fate
of the nation is another. He is ruining the
country just to save himself.
Mahathir is
not a case that I want to hear or know
anymore for his legacy has passed a long
time ago. Life is not about the past but
about now and what's going to be tomorrow.
It is not about me and older people, for we
will soon be gone. After we have closed our
eyes the story of the Government of thieves
will be penned as an anecdote of various
international versions. Najib will be
written as what the DOJ described him, the
most gigantic Kleptocrat, in the history of
the world.
27/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
CHINA IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN UNITED NATION |
Trump invited
Najib to go to UN General Assembly, "We will
soon having UN General Assembly. Please do
come...."The President had no need to tell
Najib about it as he and everyone else knows
it. The news says he skips UN and so far
there is no news of his replacement. Last
year he sent Zahid Hamidi.
There are of
course speculations why he refuses to attend
the assembly. Dismissing all the
speculations I would say he is tired as he
has just come back home. Flying to New York takes
more than 17 hours. It is a pain even on the
best plane. Others believe that though Trump
called him 'friend', American media were
humiliating him. Several TV stations
mentioned him as Kleptocrat and Newsweek
called him a crook. They also exposed his
join defense agreement with China. I think
the last story carried on by Sarawak Report
was a little stale. It is most likely the
whole world leaders look at Najib with a
hidden perceptions of who he is as the world
media has formed a negative perception on
him, with deep scorn in their hearts. In fact the FBI suspects Najib has been
using a fear tactic of threatening the
witnesses. They pointed the gun shot at
Ghani Patail.
Any further
afford at paying the foreigners to boost his
image will be a very monumental waste.
But this is
the time that Najib can have Photo-op again
with the world leaders, shaking hands with
them and show to the fellow Malaysians. To
mingle among those people and shake hands
with them are proofs that he is not a
Kleptocrat and a crook. That was what he
said and what the rest of UMNO people
reverberated. Never mind about tiredness. He
can go and stay in Trump's hotel again.
It could not
be that Najib is ashamed to show himself
there. If he is he would have resigned a
long time ago and let someone to take his
place. He hasn't any because he believes he
is right in doing anything at all. Nobody
saw with their own naked eyes about the
money that went into his account, about the
SRC money that crept in the same bank, how
he used public funds to boost his image and
how millions were given to people who
supported him. Nobody can show proofs. And
now even the Muslim clerics support him.
Najib may be
aware that all eyes are on him but not his
officers and Ministers. The Chinese and the
North Koreans are always wanting to
capitalize his weaknesses. The world
embassies are watching all the politicians
and government civil servants and the
judiciary systems, and the nature of freedom
and democracy as claimed by Najib.
And he does
not believe that the declining ringgit and
economy are due to his bad management. He
blames the opposition. Of course we are
asking ourselves to what extend the
investors listen to the opposition,
convincing enough to follow them.
Is it worth
to turn his back on UN and put a total lean
on China ? This scares me. I believe China
already regards Malaysia as a vassal state.
She will make sure Najib will live forever
and happily stroking his back. As Najib's
loving phrase Cash Is King has become a part
of his blood, the Chinese will apply it on
him and the rest of the party members.
Now there is
no turning back to the United States. He is
too far in Chinese border. Remember Rashid
Mydin and Samsiah Fakeh, the two Malay Communists
who stayed in China ? Can't we make a point
?
26/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
CORRUPTIONS AND MISDEEDS |
When money is
given to you in return for a favor the
question of corruption arises. Money given
in proportion to the service given or for
the goods purchased in good faith are not
categorized under corruption. As such we pay
for the bus ticket and to a person who labor
his service to clean our home. Say a million
is paid to you to lie and cheat and to do
other misdeeds are corruption and sinful.
But a million
given to you without any ulterior motives to
be distributed to the needy is not. In many
circumstances we would know whether there is
a motive behind it. A minister in parliament
had said, "The people are ungrateful. We
gave them money but they did not for us." I
did not say it. You did not say it. It was a
minister who said it. Is not the same as
'You scratch my back and I scratch yours' ?
A top
military officer or the top cop may be given
a colossal sum of money behind our back
solely to prevent rebellion could be viewed
in different perspective. I would say 'take
the money' and resign from the job. Compute
how much is enough for the old age and
donate the rest to the mosques and other
needy people. And pray for the person who
gave the money so that he would be a good
man one day. Yes, take the money and quit
the job. Therefore the element of corruption
is removed and no misdeed is done.
All boil back
to honesty and sincerity. When everybody
sees through you as a sincere and honest
person you will earn a due respect from 90%
of the people. Another 10% are people who
will always yell at any good or bad man, at
whatever good things they received. They
could be ignored.
Mankind has
his duty to God too. He must believe in
sins, hell and heaven. Hell will be the
abode for a man who supports thieves and
murderers and he cannot bluff God saying
that he does not know the bad intention of
the giver. And he cannot say that he only
does his duty and obey his leader. He cannot
pretend not knowing the evil purpose of the
giver. It is his duty to find out the truth
by various means and methods. He cannot
simply dismiss proofs just because his
emotion says so.
It is our
duty to save our country from destruction.
Warnings have been given by many people. If
you don't heed them you will bear the
consequences.
Remember,
taking the money is not wrong if you avoid
doing misdeeds. Just quit your job after
taking the millions. Fear not because God
will side you. Evil will be destroyed. The
end will come.
25/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
MALAYS
DO NOT SUPPORT MALAYS ? |
MARA
Electronics closed shops and the Minister
blamed the Malays for not supporting the
Malays. Since I have not been to those shops
I don't know what were the products put to
sale. There were several reasons why the
Malays did not go to the shops as much as
they turned their back on the KR1M chain
stores. It was probably goods sold by MARA
electronics were more expensive than Lowyatt.
Secondly there were not much choice and what
is most likely the people hated Najib.
There is no
question of the Malays supporting the
Malays. I foresee there will be a much
greater hatred among themselves as one
section who will blame the other section for
voting the increase in GST and supporting
Najib for making life is more difficult.
Looking at the general Malays there will be
no bloodshed in spite of the intense hatred.
The minister
should also understand the human psychology.
The hatred towards fellow ethnic group will
loom to the ill feeling towards
Islamic clerics who were seen as the strong supporters
of the sinners and who corroborated in the cause
for the increase GST and other taxes. The poor
non-Malays may extend their hate towards
Islam.
When a group
of Islamic leaders were seen practicing
un-Islamic behaviors the sight is very
repulsive. They were parading the bad image
of Islam. How about sending the Malay
gangsters to throw chairs and sleepers at
the former Prime Minister ? The Malays also
saw the arrogance of Tengku Adnan, Zahid and
Nazri. They did not forget the RM250 million
NFL issue. Don't they see the link of thefts
and robberies of rakyat's money. I don't
create the issue but being blazoned by
government's media themselves.
Being Malays
do not give them passport to commit crimes,
form gangsters, paddling drugs and suppress
the rakyat. Would the criminals plead to to
judge, "Please spare me, I am a Malay."
And Najib is
more interested in himself rather the Malay
race. He sacked Mahyuddin and those who
questions 1Mdb further splitting them.
Why not the
minister called UMNO members and PAS to
support MARA electronics and KR1M ? Jamal
Ikan Bakar has enough gang to support those
outlets and Haji Hadi has all the PAS
members to be behind those shops.
We have
Uptown in Alor Setar run by Malays. It is
always packed by fellow Malays and also the
non-Malays. There are plenty of
electronic stuffs, shirts and shoes. All at
reasonable price though many were more
expensive than the DIY outlets. Buyers like
frequent Uptown merely to give support to
the poor guys. I joked with them asking them
to put Najib's picture in their stalls. They
just smile. There was one food shop that
used to fly UMNO's flag is now without the
flag.
You know what
? Nobody from UMNO can unseat Najib in
whatever way. Anyway they have to answer to
God for putting the rakyat in diffulties.
25/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
I AM SORRY
NAJIB. TRYING TO LIE ? |
A few million
Malaysian did listen to the tape you were
talking to Trump. Not only they listen to
it, they also keep the video with them tightly. That was
recorded and kept. The American even have
more than 5 or 6 cameras to record your
countenance, the body and the eye movement.
Every part of your body language including
the movements of your fingers were captured.
The Americans have better experts than what
you have in Putrajaya.
Nobody added
to what you have said. Nobody
misconstrued anything. They said exactly as
what you have spewed out. Even the American
media repeated what you told trump as
recorded and sealed. That video is the
signature. There is no such thing as "I
men...I mean....I mean..." It was not heard
in the record. And you can't tell the United
State that the defense agreement with China
is not actually an agreement. US must not
misconstrued it. " I don't mean......as a
serious matter. It is just an honorary
friendship."
Surely you
can tell your UMNO guys who do not
understand English the opposition lied about
it. Is it not similar to saying "I don't
know what I signed....I don't mean to sign
the 1Mdb documents...." And when you lied to
the parliament your henchman said you did
not know about it as it was mistakenly
written by your officer. And when the SRC
money went into your account you said,
"Prove that I steal the money..."
Unfortunately
many of us are school teachers. We caught
boys who broke rules and those who committed
crimes. They talked the same way as you do,
twisting and spinning. Without your absolute
power behind the AG we would have pinned you
for what you are trying to enrage us, lying
and spinning.
Noh Omar and
Bashah may not understand English as they
were both from the lower end of educational
background. And among your cyber troopers I
only found one smart English educated
person. But he would follow you even knowing
what was said in the video. Yes money is
King is indeed a true maxim. You can't twist
the Chinese because the philosophy started
in their soceity. They are much smarter at
trapping people.
The more you
annoy the denizen the angrier they become.
You have been talking nonsense all these
while and paid millions to the false IPIC
and paid again to the real one.
Remember
Najib, you sacked Ghani Patail and put
Apandi in his place so that Apandi will stop
all the talk on 1Mdb. I still remember you
and your gang said, "Since the most top
judiciary said there is no wrongdoing in
1Mdb the rakyat must not talk about it." You
wanted to make it illegal to talk about
1Mdb. Do you remember it ? We know how Ghani
was evicted and million others know who kill
Kevin Morais and why. Years after the
declaration and ultimatum, it is still a
main subject of discussion worldwide. The
West calls you Crook and Kleptocrat.
And you were
trying to pin Mahathir in order to divert public
attention on thievery and 1Mdb. I just
talked to an ice seller. Said I, "You sell
apple and oranges. You sell orange at a lost
and made profit from apples. Taking the
minus and the plus your total profit is
splendid. You know what ? Najib ask
for an investigation on your lost only..." That was
what exactly happen. I heard people in a
coffee shop were already knew about the
dirty job.
Najib, you
will not be defeated in this general
election for Malaysians are gullible and short sighted. I know
what you will do after winning by beguiling
them. They will submit like slaves. You will
pawn this country to China, forking our
money to pay her for all the loan. And you
also have to pay for your debts, and to
fulfill your promises to Donald Trump. Like
Tibet and Zimbabwe their sovereignty were
gone. Many of us will die before you. Our
generations will live and curse you and pray
for you to go to hell. At
your old age you will regret to what you
have done. Mahathir made a big error in
choosing you as a Prime Minister. You will make a grave and
fatal error by giving Malaysia to China.
What a damn.
What a tragedy. You want to increase the GST
to 26% ? I am sorry for you Najib.
25/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
TONIGHT'S
GAME 24/09/2017 |
Football is
something like rugby in the United States.
What we called football here is termed
soccer in USA. I think soccer is more
convenient to be used to differentiate it
with American football. In Europe ticket for
sports is never cheap. People pay hundreds
of equivalent Malaysian ringgit to watch
tennis or football or soccer. And they
filled up all the seats. But we cannot
compare price as what we have in Malaysia.
It must be viewed through the whole economic
standing and system. To put in another word,
it is AFFORDABILITY.
Today I paid
RM40 for a game between my state,Kedah
versus Selangor. It is a second quarter
final match. The first match was at Selayang,
Selangor, where Kedah edged Selangor 3 goals
to 2. Kedah team is not consistent enough.
The last match against FELDA we were
disgraced by our opponent by quite a big
margin. I noticed the tactical move deployed
by FELDA but not Kedah. And tonight Selangor
will field an Indonesian, Andik, to put
Kedah in a great turmoil. It looks like the
coach did not instruct our players to mark
Amri Yahya and Andik closely. Both can
sprint like a 100 meter runner, while the
Kedah fullback could not run fast enough.
I commented
about players who smoke were fielded and a
woman asked what's wrong with players
smoking cigarettes, citing that it won't
have any effect. I believe they will get
tired very fast. In a competitive soccer we
can't afford players who can only play for
30 or 45 minutes. They should be able to run
and play for 120 minutes and not to be
exhausted.
Two import
players will not continue their contract
next year. I don't know for what reason.
Both did not say they want to retire. They
have not decide in which team they would be
playing.
To me RM40 is
not small. I usually bought the RM20 ticket.
The grand stand is nearer to the sitting of
the coach. I promised to myself that I
would yell at him if I conclude the bad play
is due to him. If Kedah fails to enter
Semi-Final it is a doom for the rest of the
season. The stadium will be empty. But many
a time I had to stand up for the whole match
as the seat were filled up. They did not
have numbers. Some wise guys even put food
and their bags on the seats as if they paid
for those seats.
I queued for
the ticket this morning. I saw a long line
at about 9 am and proceeded to have my breakfast.
By 11 the line was shorter. My queuing time was
only about 20 minutes.
I hope Kedah
will win the game.
24/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
|
SONGS
AND LYRICS |
I listen to
music and songs once in a blue moon. This
morning I switched on my home movie
amplifier which has been defunct for almost
a month but I had it fixed last night and my
TV with a You Tube capability, to listen to
songs. You may be wondering what kind of
songs a 70 year old man like me is listening
to. I think many of you might not have
heard of them before. These are Bunga
Tanjung by Hety Koes Endang, Ye Sama by
various singers and Besame Mucho. I do not
understand the lyrics of Ye Sama and Besame
Mucho but I love what is said in Bunga
Tanjung.
Bunga Tanjung
is about a lady who finds no man owing to
her nature. It reflects the modern situation
of many single women. The lyrics are
beautifully laid out. It seeps deep down in
my heart as well as the other two songs, as
well songs that I do not mention here. You
can sing just one song and you can make a
living out of it your whole life, provided you have an
excellent vocal.
If you were
to ask me whether I know the last Malay or
English song, I will have to say sorry. But
I do know Siti Nurhaliza and the late
Sharifah Aini, for my late wife loves
Sharifah very much, even at her bed ridden
time.
Music can
influence people. The beat of a drum can
captivate us without our knowing it. Part of
our body will move at the sound of the
beating. Melodious and soft music
listened at midnight can sooth our souls.
Muslims are forbidden to continuosly absorb
themselves lest they forgot their duty to
God.
Of course I
don't listen to these music the whole day. I
would switch off my TV after 15 minutes at
the most. Each day we have to divide our
time for the planned tasks and schedules.
This is what the working active people do
and this is what a man waiting to die
does. Even the most pious man does not read
the holly book everyday and pray to God
every minute of his remaining time.
Music and
songs come free these days. You have tons of
them on the websites readily downloadable. I
would be looking for suitable music to be
inserted in my home-made video clips. Young
people might not think that old guys could
still do things as what people below 50 do.
Some of us have greater mobility than the
young. We do video editing, writing
computer codes, play chess and enjoying
evergreen songs. And now I am hunting for a handycam.
You may not
believe me that I even think of enrolling
myself in a music class to learn violin.
It is not
that I don't have any defect. I have plenty of them.
My hearing deteriorates badly. I went to the
hospital hoping that they could cure me.
They didn't. They just told me that I cannot
hear voice of a high pitch. That's all. And
I have all kind of sickness. You name them.
I have them all. Though I think that I am
going to die in 5 years time, who knows I may
continue to breath the fresh air for 20 or 30
more years, much dreaded years. I would
pray to God to lift it off.
I have pain
in my body. It comes on and off. I strived to
throw the pain away by my mind and by doing
vigorous exercise. It worked fine. I feel
fit and strong. I want to see the world
while I can, make my life meaningful and of
course enjoying entertainments.
From time to
time, not at regular interval, I will
entertain myself with Widuri, Bunga Tanjung,
Ye Sama and Besame Mucho.
24/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
CAN'T BUY
EVERYTHING WITH MONEY |
People of our
class are limited in many ways. We may
have money but cannot buy what we want
because they are not there in the market. We
have money but we cannot fly on airplanes
because there are no more vacant seats. We
may have money but we cannot buy a wife
because we are too old or because we are
ugly. Whatever we cannot have what the ruling
class can.
I carry
around enough money to buy a Panasonic
handycam but I could not find one in any of the
outlet and shop in Alor Setar. I tried the
online store that sells video cams but what
I want was not in
my list. It reminded me the previous
unforgettable experience of my failing of
going overseas for the unavailability of a
seat on the plane. Our limited means barred
from stepping outside our realm into the
world of the rich and the powerful. We can't
afford to purchase
things from overseas, or to fly a First
Class or a business class.
At a super
store I was mum when I suppose a BN woman said,
when I lamented on the increasing cost
of living, that "...never mind about the high
price as long as the things are there..." It kept
me spellbound. Now you know why people
still vote for UMNO despite the astronomical
inflation. It is always better
than having money but we cannot buy
anything.
The people of
higher class can have their breakfast in
Kuala Lumpur, lunch in Taipei and dinner in
Tokyo. And buy anything at places where
goods are in abundance, anywhere in the
world, the nearest of which is one hour to Singapore
or Bangkok. Anyway we the normal and
non-political people do not need these
privilege. Nevertheless we must always
remember that we won't die for being what we
are.
I know many
people will be disappointed tomorrow for not
being able to buy tickets to watch the
Quarter Final match between Kedah, my state,
and Selangor. Tickets will be sold out.
People will still buy from the black-marketers at double or triple the price and
others will fail to have one even at a
higher price.
In such cases we say the demand exceeds the
supply. The point of contention is, one can
have ten banks of money but it is not an
assurance that one can have whatever one
wishes to have.
It is not a
law of nature. It is more of an accidental.
The old storage systems are being replaced
by the cards system, making many hardware
stuffs obsolete. Many industries have to
face closedown unless they follow the
progress of modern technology. As for the
creation of scarcity due to excess
demand there is nothing that we can do. A
live telecast of football is not the same as
going into the stadium to watch and yell and
to curse the refereeing.
Of course we
can buy sex but not love. Women have a dream
man in their life, a dark, tall and handsome.
To some a good, kind and loving men. We can't go on a podium and yell
our head off "Who want to marry me, I am a
millionaire ..." Even a discreet choice may
not end in matrimony.
Such is a
life of the normal and ordinary people of
our class. But we have ample space and time
for God and to practice our religious
beliefs, and talk to our Creator and thank
for the providence bestowed upon us.
24/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
|
COMEUPPANCE |
Comeuppance
can come up in different form. There will
come a time when you look at the mirror and
say "I am really old". We never feel that we
are old until some tells us so. But people
are hypocrites, always praise you and how
beautiful you are. People around Rosmah will
always make her feel young and beautiful and
how graceful and glittering she is.
To me I
believe this lady has stepped too far though
I have discounted her pre-marital age. And I
believe very much God will punish her in
this world, warning her that she should not
be too boisterous and think that she can
treat mankind like the low class animals. I
have been hunting for her last video and
pictures to see her physical shape and her
facial countenance as well as her skins
wrinkels.
I believe the
picture above is the latest of her image.
And I observe every part of it in great
detail.
To most
ladies being fat or obese is a problem and a
burden. They try to slim themselves with all
types of drugs. I saw a lot of them on
the online store. Like any other ladies Rosmah too wants to be thinner so that she
can walk without dragging herself. What we
all know is that she plays badminton and
probably there are of exercise gadgets in
her home to burn her fats. Of course that's
not the concern of ours, on her private
affair. There is nothing wrong in trying to
live a long life, to look young and spend
money in the effort. She can be what she
wants and do what she likes. We should mind
our own business.
What concerns
me is whether our money are forked for
personal used. And whether her looks
displays the picture of her sins.
To me being
extra fat and the growing old look is a
comeuppance when she looks at herself in the
mirror. It is a pang in her heart, the fear
of getting older and older. The fiction of 'Miror
mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of
all' resurrects again. It could result in a
mental torture.
Mahathir
realized that he was called Firaun and
Mahafiraun. Does she know her enemies were
calling her Hyppo and Fat Mummy ? You judge
yourself by the above picture. It is our
concern because she is our First Lady. She
has to be elegant when walking for the Guard
of Honor or along the Red Carpet in a
certain festivities. How she stands among
the wives of other world's leaders.
It will be
the comeuppance if she fails to stop ageing
and wrinkles in her necks.
Mirror mirror
on the wall, who is the fairest of all ?
23/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
DINNER
AT KUALA PERLIS |
Driving alone
at night along a dark road from Alor Setar
to Kuala Perlis is very hectic without
donning my spectacles. The old route is much
shorter than through the highway up to
Changlun and then take the Changlun-Kuala
Perlis expressway. The former route is more
heavy with traffics and the road is curvy
like a snake. However I took the old road
and started my journey at 7.30pm. I never
expected the bumper to bumper traffics as
there were slow drivers, going only about
40km/h. Rather meeting with disappointment I
decided to go alone. There was no rain along
the road.
I arrived the
destination about more than an hour later
and present myself at my favorite stall at
the end of the sea-food complex. I
selected 3 pieces of crabs and four small
squids. Both were to fried, the crabs using
spices which we called Garam Kunyit and the
squids cut to small pieces and soaked into
wet flour to be fried. Once ready and the
dishes were laid on the table I was
surprised to see the squids were too much.
There were crabs, rice, vegetables, a
doubled apple juice and of course the
squids. I didn't wait long because at that
time there was only one family there. Then
the number of customers multiply.
The size of
the crab is small, 20 times less than what
you may find in San Francisco Bay or at
Sydney Port. They were cut to 4 parts. The
meat was compact, worth the money paid for.
With curry and chilies the taste was very
excellent. I really enjoyed my dinner. It
cost me RM44. The only drawback was
mosquitoes were biting my feet. All in all I
get complete satisfaction from the delicious
morsels.
I wait no
longer when my stomach was full. The
leftover squids was half the original. I
could only finished only 70% of my Apple
juice. At exactly 9.30 pm I drove home
taking the Kuala Perlis-Changlun expressway
and continued onto the North-South highway.
It took me exactly an hour to arrive my
home.
I am never in
favor of driving alone without a company to
talk to. I have to tell myself that I am
already 70. We tend to forget that we are
already old. We don't have to wait for
others to call us 'uncle' or 'grandpa'. But
as life is we cannot expect to have all that
we desire and hope. We have to learn to be
independent. I would only wish a dead man
could manage his own funeral. Try o imagine
how God could make it happen.
In a way I
spent less for food by going alone. And I
can drive at any speed I wish without
antagonizing anyone. My student love high
speed. Others may want slower driving. My
relaxing mode is 60KM/h. Daytime highway
speed of 90km/h is very comfortable for me.
Isn't there
any sea-food restaurant in town or nearby
places ? Quite plenty if I may say so. The
best one and not so pricey is called Anjung
Kuala about 10 miles away. It only operates
at night. Located at quite a remote place,
night driving is extremely difficult and
dangerous for people like me. And secondly
they did not cook as what we instructed them
to do. In town Krabi restaurant is good but
each meal would cost me about RM50. A small
crab is sometimes meatless and yet they
charged me RM26 per crab. As I briefly
narrated a restaurant in town charged me
RM65 on a small meatless crab, 2 small
prawns and a small fish.
I would avoid
the restaurants that did not follow
customers need. For instant I asked for
chickenless fried rice but they would bring
me the one with plenty of chicken meat.
Their principal is 'take it or leave it'. We
still have to pay. It is a typical of most
of the local restaurants. Pizza Hut is not a
Seafood restaurant but be careful with the
price. price charged were not according to
whatever shown on the menu sheet. Among the
fast food Pizza Hut is the worst.
When I went
traveling I brought some money with me not
to buy souvenirs and T-Shirts but to buy
some selected foods of my choice, may it be
in restaurants or by the roadside stalls.
Outside Malaysia I always keep my eyes open
for the Indian or Pakistani Briyani. But I
don't travel overseas, hunting for food like
a friend of mine.
23/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
AN
EXCERPT FROM MARK TWAIN |
I
just began to read Mark Twain at the age
of 70. You may have read his writings at
the age of 18. I am not a reader anyway.
I only read when I want to pass my time, not the
paperbacks but the e-book in my
cell-phone. Vintage stories are usually
free. I very much want to donate to
those who made the e-books available but
I don't have a credit card to do so.
Without the availability of the E-book I
will stay a moron forever. I expect I
can improve my English by familiarizing
myself with English phrases and
sentences.
Below
is a short anecdotes which I find it
hilarious while reading it in the fast
food restaurant, KFC, after the Frday
prayer. It tickles me indeed. And let us share
this episode by this writer, Mark Twain.
AN
ENCOUNTER WITH AN INTERVIEWER
The
nervous, dapper, “peart” young man took
the chair I offered him, and said he was
connected with the Daily Thunderstorm,
and added:
“Hoping it’s no harm, I’ve come to
interview you.”
“Ah! I
see. Yes—yes. Um! Yes—yes.”
I was
not feeling bright that morning. Indeed,
my powers seemed a bit under a cloud.
However, I went to the bookcase, and
when I had been looking six or seven
minutes I found I was obliged to refer
to the young man. I said:—
“Oh,
my goodness! what do you want to spell
it for?”
“I
don’t want to spell it; I want to see
what it means.”
“Well,
this is astonishing, I must say. I can
tell you what it means, if you—if you—”
“Oh,
all right! That will answer, and much
obliged to you, too.”
“In,
in, ter, ter, inter—”
“Then
you spell it with an I?”
“Oh,
that is what took me so long.”
“Why,
my dear sir, what did you propose to
spell it with?”
“Well,
I—I—hardly know. I had the Unabridged,
and I was ciphering around in the back
end, hoping I might tree her among the
pictures. But it’s a very old edition.”
“Why,
my friend, they wouldn’t have a picture
of it in even the latest e—— My dear
sir, I beg your pardon, I mean no harm
in the world, but you do not look
as—as—intelligent as I had expected you
would. No harm—I mean no harm at all.”
“Oh,
don’t mention it! It has often been
said, and by people who would not
flatter and who could have no inducement
to flatter, that I am quite remarkable
in that way. Yes—yes; they always speak
of it with rapture.”
“I can
easily imagine it. But about this
interview. You know it is the custom,
now, to interview any man who has become
notorious.”
“Indeed, I had not heard of it before.
It must be very interesting. What do you
do it with?”
“Ah,
well—well—well—this is disheartening. It
ought to be done with a club in some
cases; but customarily it consists in
the interviewer asking questions and the
interviewed answering them. It is all
the rage now. Will you let me ask you
certain questions calculated to bring
out the salient points of your public
and private history?”
“Oh,
with pleasure—with pleasure. I have a
very bad memory, but I hope you will not
mind that. That is to say, it is an
irregular memory—singularly irregular.
Sometimes it goes in a gallop, and then
again it will be as much as a fortnight
passing a given point. This is a great
grief to me.”
“Oh,
it is no matter, so you will try to do
the best you can.”
“I
will. I will put my whole mind on it.”
“Thanks. Are you ready to begin?”
Q.
Indeed. I would have taken you to be
thirty-five or six. Where were you born?
Q.
When did you begin to write?
Q.
Why, how could that be, if you are only
nineteen now?
A. I
don’t know. It does seem curious,
somehow.
Q. It
does, indeed. Whom do you consider the
most remarkable man you ever met?
Q. But
you never could have met Aaron Burr, if
you are only nineteen years!—
A.
Now, if you know more about me than I
do, what do you ask me for?
Q.
Well, it was only a suggestion; nothing
more. How did you happen to meet Burr?
A.
Well, I happened to be at his funeral
one day, and he asked me to make less
noise, and—
Q.
But, good heavens! if you were at his
funeral, he must have been dead, and if
he was dead how could he care whether
you made a noise or not?
A. I
don’t know. He was always a particular
kind of a man that way.
Q.
Still, I don’t understand it at all. You
say he spoke to you, and that he was
dead.
A. I
didn’t say he was dead.
A.
Well, some said he was, some said he
wasn’t.
A. Oh,
it was none of my business! It wasn’t
any of my funeral.
Q. Did
you—However, we can never get this
matter straight. Let me ask about
something else. What was the date of
your birth?
A.
Monday, October 31, 1693.
Q.
What! Impossible! That would make you a
hundred and eighty years old. How do you
account for that?
A. I
don’t account for it at all.
Q. But
you said at first you were only
nineteen, and now you make yourself out
to be one hundred and eighty. It is an
awful discrepancy.
A.
Why, have you noticed that? (Shaking
hands.) Many a time it has seemed to me
like a discrepancy, but somehow I
couldn’t make up my mind. How quick you
notice a thing!
Q.
Thank you for the compliment, as far as
it goes. Had you, or have you, any
brothers or sisters?
A. Eh!
I—I—I think so—yes—but I don’t remember.
Q.
Well, that is the most extraordinary
statement I ever heard!
A.
Why, what makes you think that?
Q. How
could I think otherwise? Why, look here!
Who is this a picture of on the wall?
Isn’t that a brother of yours?
A. Oh,
yes, yes, yes! Now you remind me of it;
that was a brother of mine. That’s
William—Bill we called him. Poor old
Bill!
Q.
Why? Is he dead, then?
A. Ah!
well, I suppose so. We never could tell.
There was a great mystery about it.
Q.
That is sad, very sad. He disappeared,
then?
A.
Well, yes, in a sort of general way. We
buried him—
Q.
Buried him! Buried him, without knowing
whether he was dead or not?
A. Oh,
no! Not that. He was dead enough.
Q.
Well, I confess that I can’t understand
this. If you buried him, and you knew he
was dead.
A. No!
no! We only thought he was.
Q. Oh,
I see! He came to life again?
Q.
Well, I never heard anything like this.
Somebody was dead. Somebody was buried.
Now, where was the mystery?
A. Ah!
that’s just it! That’s it exactly. You
see, we were twins—defunct and I—and we
got mixed in the bathtub when we were
only two weeks old, and one of us was
drowned. But we didn’t know which. Some
think it was Bill. Some think it was me.
Q.
Well, that is remarkable. What do you
think?
A.
Goodness knows! I would give whole
worlds to know. This solemn, this awful
mystery has cast a gloom over my whole
life. But I will tell you a secret now,
which I never have revealed to any
creature before. One of us had a
peculiar mark—a large mole on the back
of his left hand; that was me. That
child was the one that was drowned!
Q.
Very well, then, I don’t see that there
is any mystery about it, after all.
A. You
don’t? Well, I do. Anyway, I don’t see
how they could ever have been such a
blundering lot as to go and bury the
wrong child. But, ‘sh!—don’t mention it
where the family can hear of it. Heaven
knows they have heartbreaking troubles
enough without adding this.
Q.
Well, I believe I have got material
enough for the present, and I am very
much obliged to you for the pains you
have taken. But I was a good deal
interested in that account of Aaron
Burr’s funeral. Would you mind telling
me what particular circumstance it was
that made you think Burr was such a
remarkable man?
A. Oh!
it was a mere trifle! Not one man in
fifty would have noticed it at all. When
the sermon was over, and the procession
all ready to start for the cemetery, and
the body all arranged nice in the
hearse, he said he wanted to take a last
look at the scenery, and so he got up
and rode with the driver.
Then
the young man reverently withdrew. He
was very pleasant company, and I was
sorry to see him go.
22/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
BAD
BUSINESS |
These few
days I went around town and supermarkets
hunting for a video camera. They don't sell
video cam anymore. People jumped to smart
phone to do all their recordings. The sale
were either slow or nobody bought it
anymore. I saw a lot of changes have taken
place. Many big and well known shops have
closed down. Some super stores were almost
empty. Business seem to be very bad. Similar
situations are facing the food shops and
stalls. People rush to the cheaper stalls or
do their own cooking rather than eating out.
The other night when we went to Kuala Perlis
only a group of us were making the order.
If you are a
pensioner, or on your own, you tend to have
a fix income. When you go to shops and
stalls you will find higher price tags
compared to the previous price. Imported
foodstuffs and goods shot up by 100% plus on
some imported snacks. The decline of our
currency is inversely proportional to the
imported goods and commodities. We either
cease buying them or would reduce our
purchase.
We need to
examined closely without prejudice why our
ringgit plunges.
The removing
of subsidies, increase in toll price and
gasoline further push the price up. And the
people have to pay GST to every good and
service that making their income shrinks
considerably. In no time they find their
pockets to be empty. The best resolution is
to stay at home and wait for the next income
to roll in. The livelihood of businesses
depend on the ability of public spending. As
the people literally earn less they will
spend less. Unable to sustain shop rentals
and paying salaries, business has to be
closed.
Before the
GE13 I said that life would be more
difficult if UMNO were to win. The future of
our young men will be very bleak. Prices of
commodities will go sky high. The people
were beguiled. What has happened is beyond
our imagination. Our leader does not know
that he is selling our sovereignty to a
Communist country which we were once banned to
visit or perused their books and magazines.
Our
Malaysians of Chinese origin had learned to
survive for centuries in Malaya. With the
encroachment of China that may kill their
businesses they can still stand.
They have much finer visions than the Malays
and the Malay leaders who only know one way
to get rich.
Even
1Malaysia shops are beginning to close down
for the same reasons.
What
contribute to the poor economy ? The
government blame the opposition for telling
lies to the world. Najib is denouncing
Mahathir and trying to incarcerate him in
the Forex RCI moves, blaming for the lost
but turning the blind eyes on the profit on
the ringgut peg. He called for US
investments during the Photo-op visit
recently hoping our ringgit would revive. It
did give a brief jerk a 4.2 ringgit to a
dollar and stays there then until now. The
Thais are still superior to us and we buy
many things from them. And now they are
investigating our businessmen who stealthy
are buying land and set up other businesses
in the land of the elephants.
Not only the
purchasing
power of money has gone down, the real
income of the masses also declines. Shops
continue to close and sufferings mounted. When we fail we
would tell the denizens that the world
economy is bad, while the Malaysians do not
need to look at the world but only need to peep into
their neighbors turf, The Land of The Free
and Singapore.
|
WEATHER |
It is cold. But
not as cold as the snowy day, for we never
have snow here. At least not yet before the end of
time arrives. It has been raining since last night,
cats and dogs. If it were to continue for a week
I am sure Kedah will be flooded. So far no man has made
anything that could cover the sky to stop the
water from reaching our ground, and divert it into
the sea. Not even the United States can stop
the femininely hurricanes from blowing their
soft kisses which we
regard them 'strong and fierce' into the
state of Florida for centuries.
The last to pass was IRMA.
Politicians
love to politicize the rage of mother
nature, and link it to the failure of
mankind to stop the catastrophe. So far
their haughtiness did not spare them from
nature's wrath in the past. After the wild
spouting from their foul mouth the water
began to wreck their homes and villagers. I
remember how Pahang and Trengganu were hard
hit by the flood. And today someone posted a
footing of Tanjung Chali in Alor Setar was
literally sunk. It was just a reminder to
the moronic minds.
Flood from
the torrential rain is different from the
rising level of the sea water. If the sea
level remain constantly normal, the rain
water could flow into the sea. Similarly if
we are forced to release the water from a
damn, that it will find the way out as the
other. But if it comes from the sea we can only
pray and brace for the worst. Even the
aftermath of the disaster could put us in a
grim encounter of crocodiles and snakes on
our roofs and in our gardens.
We also need
to remember that earthquake had shaken
Penang and Kuala Lumpur before. And we have
hot springs on our land, the indicator of
the linkage of the underground crusts around
this region. We may not have any volcano,
yet our earth had experience the scary
rattles. When it comes no UMNO nor Pakatan Harapan
could stop it.
It is serene
and quiet now. There is no wind and no water
from the above. If the weather stays at rest
till tomorrow and the sun start to show it's
complete face in the morning, I think we can
smile again and plan our outings. Crowds
will be occupying the jogging turf again,
merrily jumping, jogging and brisk walking. It
has been two days since I didn't go for my
evening walk.
I hope the
weather will be fine tomorrow.
The
weather is never fine. It is flooding in
Arau, not only in DAP or PKR constituencies.
I would not want to pray for the flood to
ruin all the UMNO's villages or to blame
UMNO and MCA for the disasters. Let me ask
Najib, what cause the current bad weather,
nature or God ?
22/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
BEYOND A
MERE BUYING |
At time it is
wise to ponder why your customers always buy
from you. I am sure I am not the only one
who buy with reasons. Most people keep to
themselves, do not announce to the world
of what they do. There are people who
frequent a food vendor mainly with the sole
intention to help him/her, giving support
out of pity. I knew one elderly lady selling Goreng Pisang near the Buddhist temple whose
husband has passed away and I knew the owner
of a gas station who is not far away from
this Goreng pisang stall. For the petrol
kiosk owner, he employs several boys to attend the
customers to give jobs to them when he could
have run the station with only one helper. I
support him for the same reason, helping him
to help other people. It is not the maximum
profit that matter most, rather the relation
between his soul and God, the feeling of
responsibility. Likewise a few cents that
goes to the goreng pisang woman could help
her with a small sustenance.
We don't have
to go to shops where the salespersons or the
sellers do not show friendly attitudes,
arrogant and greedy. The other night I went
to a restaurant to have a meager lunch with
a small crab, two small prawns and a small
fish; I was charged RM60, a shock of my
life. No wonder there were only four or five
customers only were seen. Buying two packets
of Nasi Lemak by roadside would filled my
stomach for only RM2.40.
Remember that people who sell the packed nasi lemak are mostly from the poor folks.
I was told by
some of my friends that they too have
similar intentions of supporting and
to contribute a small sustenance to the poor
vendors. I suppose these sellers realize
that and humbly thanked their customers for
enjoying their meals there or buying their
goods.
Though some
of us are poor, there are more poorer people
than us. Let's share the excess of God's
providence with others regardless of his
race, religion and belief. We are all the
children of God (makhluk Allah).
I have
narrated about a Chinese couple who went
around town looking for cats and feed them.
I also wrote about my meeting a Chinese
teacher friend buying cat foods just to feed the
stray cats that always went to her home. I
saw a noble heart in them. Of course doing
good things to other people and animals is a
form of solace. It gives a feeling to
oneself that a duty has been done.
As a human
being we are not always happy with every
purchase we made. We have no choice but to
buy water an electricity, buying insurance
and other necessities, paying high rates and
tolls. We do feel the pinch. Our blood is
sucked day and night. And the suckers say
that it is all for our own good. We can only
curse and curse. We are helpless.
But when we
buy a packet of Nasi Lemak or a ringgit of
Goreng Pisang, our sincere and human hearts
go together with the purchase, to help those
poor guys to feed their families and wish them
the best of luck from the bottom of our hearts. It is
beyond a mere buying and paying. It is a
grace and humanity.
21/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
UMNO DOESN'T
KNOW BUT PENTAGON KNOWS IT |
Najib knows
what Trump is thinking about him now. From
his speeches we can be certain that he is
very unstable mentally. The White House
announced to the world that DOJ is an
independent body, having the sense of
unfavorable repercussion. By today the
Americans know that Malaysia is with China.
What could he hope he will get from his US
buddy from the joint defense agreement with
China.
Najib has
sold the country to China and yet the UMNO
supporters take him as their god, calling
him Negarawan instead of a traitor. No
matter what he did and spewed, his guilt
haunted him. I would say he decided to
announce his resignation. If he did the gang
around him will follow him, drowning
miserably. The clip below will enlighten you
the total scenario. Soon DOJ and US Congress
will know of Najib-China's relationship. And
they will know what kind of a person he
really is.
The falling
of Malaysia to China is inevitable. Anwar
Musa, Said Keruak, Rahman Dahlan and all of
the outspoken Ministers will have to bear
the responsibility. Those UMNO voters will
carry the unforgivable sins to their graves.
They could not claim that they were ignorant
and did not know about it. They have been
warned by people like me, who have no
interest in political parties like Pakatan
Harapan or PAS.
Islam forbid
self-praise and despise braggarts. And worst
forbid murdering. Instead of being neutral
he is a comrade of arms. If the war with
North Korea is imminent then China will use
Malaysia to fight a war against USA. Of
course it has not happen yet. But that's
what the United States will see the role of
this country. The existence of this
potentiality is enough to response to
Najib's hypocrisy. If a red card is flashed
at him for criminal act to prevent farther
investigation against 1Mdb, USA will
classify him under a rogue Kleptocrat.
Both clips
expose Najib-China military ties. The second
one says more about him.
20/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
PRODUA
SERVICE CENTER MERGONG |
My Viva has
6000 more miles or 06/10/2017 before the
next service. I choose to do it tomorrow
because it has been a long time in my mind I
want to drive to any unknown and uncertain
destination. Just drive on and on. May even
be to Thailand as far as Krabi or farther.
My student forbid me from going to Cameron
Highland as it is a raining season that
there might be landslide and other fatal
mishaps.
But it is
quite a boredom living in solitude at home.
The last time I went out was to Chiangmai, a
very hectic and uncomfortable trip. I have
had a good rest since I came back and am
contemplating for another trip by myself.
That's why I need to service my car for the
long distant travel. The service center is
at Produa Mergong.
Mergong
Srrvice Center is one of the best I ever
met. Compare with Proton at Jalan Gangsa
they are sky apart. Waiting for hours at
Proton is really a hell, seats are not
comfortable. It is never of their concern.
Unlike Proton, Produa at Mergong provide us
with reasonable comfort. I could even dream
in slumber while waiting. There is a movie
to entertain us. There is an abundance of
food and all sort of hot drinks and mineral
water of either hot or cold. In the morning
there will be Nasi Lemak or Bihun Goreng and
other kueh. You won't go hungry.
A few months
back I asked one of the staffs whether all
Produa in the country provide similar
service and facilities, to which I was told
it wasn't.
Produa did
ask me to change the ECU. I don't want to
change it because it is too expensive. I
just want them to thoroughly check the
ignition fires to all the cylinders and
change all the spark plugs. Of course the
usual oil change and other inspections are
imperative. I believe the engine yellow
light will not be all the time on again. If
ECU is the problem let it be as long as the
engine, the break and gears are working
fine.
I think the
Produa Malaysia should be aware of Mergong
is doing and promote it as a bench-marking
service center. Happy customers won't curse
as others were cursing Proton. I remember
years ago when I found the Proton staffs did
not entertain people who went into the
showroom. The price label were not the price
of the car shown. There was no show of
customer friendly. These were the Malays.
And at Produa Sungai Korok I found that
salesman was very funny. Before I finished
questioning on the characteristic of one car
he jumped to the next car. I have one Proton
to go for service. I have no choice. But I
am eager to go to Mergong servicing
tomorrow.
I am doing a
serious computation of my age. If I have
about 4 or 5 more years to live I want to
enjoy the comfort of Bezza, another Produa
product.
19/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
FINDING
A HANDY CAM |
It is hard
to find a videocam in the local shop. The
last time I found was in Giant Mall selling
a Chinese made handicam for a hundred bucks.
I bought one, brought it to Chiangmai, but
found the picture quality was too bad. About
3 weeks ago I found a Sony at Aman Central
but the salesman said it could not be opened
to see. I bade good-bye to Sony's product.
I took
almost three days going around the city.
Non-sell any handy cam. The online stores
sell plenty of them, from the Chinese to the
high end Japanese brands. What I want is the
RM999 4K Panasonic. I want to know what else
come with it. Does it have a power supply,
the CD editing software and other basic
accessories. Lazada even mention NO
WARRANTY.
I need a
handy cam as I intend to visit Maldives
islands in January 2018. I believe the
scenic beauty is amazingly fantastic. I want
to keep the sight shared in my chips and CD.
I know why
camera is hard to sell. People flock to buy
the smartphones. To me a RM3K or RM4K
Samsung is too high a price. And I already
have an excellent Asus Zenfone5 with a very
long life battery to serve me for the whole
day. Appo and Huawei will not charm me, just
because they are China made. I don't trust
Chinese product anymore. I remember a
salesman told me that a Chinese computer
power supply cost RM45 and the Japanese was
RM450. He said the different was in the
quality of the components and the design
that would not emit the stray RF.
However in
term of quality it does not mean what is
Japanese, Taiwan or Koreans will provide the
best grade. A RM500 cam cannot be better or
equal to a RM4K one.
The bitter
experience with Sony had promised me to
denounce all the Sony product. Last night a
friend told me the bad thing about Sony is
the battery won't last long. I first reject
this brand name just because of the poor
attitudes of the sales agents. I used a
simple maxim, "The money is mine. If they
refuse to sell, I will refuse to buy." I
will not beg just to buy a product. I prefer
to go without it.
I found
electrical and electronic shops open and
close. Rentals are high. The sales are slow.
Salaries have to be paid. Those who repel
the buyers will eventually suffer. People
don't go to buy appliances everyday but they
go to Mac Donald and KFC every other day.
I don't
know where else to go to find this video
gadget.
19/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
REMEMBERING
9M2SB |
Among the old
hams I talked to was 9M2SB, Bahar. I don't
quite remember the first time I worked him.
I guess it has to be around '70s. Bahar was
in Perak State Education Department and I
was a teacher in Vocational Secondary
School. Because we were both interested in
computing and computer program the whole
bulk of our chat were around the subject
matter. But Bahar has an extra talent. He
plays musical instruments. His love has been
a violin.
Though I had
had no musical accompaniment in me I have
always love music and songs. When Datuk Tan,
9M2DW, joined in he would be making the
conversation lively with the Keroncong
stories. Bahar is still alive and kicking in
Ipoh. His brother, Pak Dolah, 9M2DS (Dondang
Sayang) had passed away. Both married
Chinese wives.
Bahar moved
out of the ham band for the same reasons as
others did. Nobody could coax him back into
the band. Our outlook on amateur radio are
identical. And I discovered later that old
hams throughout the globe are sharing
similar frustration.
Our common
practice was that we started occupying the
band at about 5pm, after office hours. By
our standard Bahar was known as Sugar Baker
or Sambal Belacan. By the modern standard
only the international phonetics apply.
Those who do not follow the international
will be ridiculed. But in those days the
bands were so beautiful that the used of
alphabets were good and clear enough.
Bahar is
older than me. I don't remember by how many
years. He can still fill the air with the
lovely Besame-Mucho with his viola. That was
the song that I last heard from him when I
visited him about 20 years ago. He said that
his 40 meter antenna had dropped down. I
never want to persuade him to come on the
band because we don't have places anymore to
be among ourselves. But a radio that has
been sleeping for years without having it's
switch on will gather dusts and cobwebs.
Many said that it ceases to function under
similar condition. He has Yaesu FT101. As to
whatever happen to it I don't know.
I don't know
how Bahar keeps himself occupied now.
Probably like any other pensioners he has
not enough time to do wjatever he wants. I
hope to see him again before we both kick
the bucket.
19/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF
|
BEGUILING THE
GULLIBLE |
Beguiling
the gullible people is fun. To some it is a
profession, a highly paid carrier, to right the
wrong, and to cheat the blind. It has become
a norm, a good deed to lie and a crime
to tell the truth. This very short essay is
not for public perusal, to challenge and
fight the powerful Najib but to put in words
what God Almighty has already known the
content of my heart, the picture of my
sentiment, and as what my mental faculty is
computing the events. I never want to
declare I am the perfectionist and would
never go wrong. God hears and knows my fear.
A government
has a massive machinery to deal with the
people besides the outlaws to carry out some
selective dirty jobs. The police and the
army are used to covertly spy on fellow
Malaysians to protect the leaders. The
propaganda and psychological units combine
to do the brainwashing job. During
Mahathir's era the JASA's unit was not so
dominant as it is now. Najib has given the
ultimatum that the unit must make sure that BN
will win the GE14.
Surely BN
will win the election even without any
ultimatum, or without JASA.
The populace. especially the Malays, believe
very much in Najib and believe that UMNO is
their savior. There is no question about it.
Even PAS, the party that once labeled UMNO
as heretics and infidels nod their heads of
approval and believe what Arulkanda talked
about 1Mdb. They were impressed and
appreciative when 1Mdb sent the Muslims to
the holly land.
By the way I
remember the 6 day Arab-Israel War where by
numbers and the Muslim countries were
confident they could walk all over Israel
within hours. They did not expect the major
historical disgrace that is still persisted
till today. Najib too possess the fear, a
dreadful feeling of the possibility of
losing the battle that made him look at
Australia, New Zealand or Uzbekistan as his
new home. He knows that if people believe
that he stole their money for his wife and
family comfort he is done and may be accused
of murdering Kevin Morais.
He has to
send messengers all over the country to tell
the people that he is not a thief and a
crook. To me he will continue to lie so long
as he is not cornered like he lied to the
parliament about the cash in BSI bank in
Singapore. When there wasn't any he said it
was in UNITS. When his denial about him
keeping a big sum of money in his account
was exposed it took almost 6 months for him
to say it was a donation from Saudi prince.
It is a fun
to beguile the gullible people. Is he so
sure they will be blind forever ? Najib
knows they are not, He made use of Hadi.
Though we don't see the movement of money
with our naked eyes, we sense the stealth
transfer. He knows the Malays will vote for
PAS.
I heard
voices from the Chinese that they won't
choose thief and murderers to be a leader.
Islam also mention about thief and murderers
becoming leaders. If morality prevails then
immoral men will not be chosen to lead the
people.
The sane men
will not condone thieves and crooks, will
distance themselves from shameless person
who day by day are spouting praises on
himself, calling himself a respectable
persons by the whole world, Trump called him
FRIEND, doing this and that for the country.
The behavior is very strange and abnormal.
Please be very honest; is that not a sign of
a minor mental disorder ?
It is sad to
say that Najib has lost a total respect from
many laymen. I came across in the social
media which is also participate by the
government cyber troopers that a few
extremely angry people said "F**K YOU, Najib."
To me the swear words do not matters much but
it is the displaying of the disappearing respect in
a person. It stripped naked of a person's honor. If
it is not expressed in the media the curse
and insult is reverberated in the home,
public places or even in the whole nation.
But lucky we
are Malaysians. He would have been thrown
out mercilessly if he is in Thailand.
Najib is very
confident the deception will work, as the
simultaneous campaign is hitting the trail,
followed by money and gifts. They are to
attack Mahathir to stop the populace from
choosing the hibiscus flower in the
election. The gullible will forget about the
larceny. Praising oneself is to erase what
was published in the Western media that he
is called a CROOK and a Kleptocrat.
Winning is
already a certainty. But after winning the
voters will pay their due. Like GE13 I said
they deserve it. Reap whatever they sow.
They are not aware the Chinese University is
already in Kuala Lumpur. When the Malays
realize the sovereignty has been sold UMNO
will ask the Malays to blame DAP. What a
pathetic.
17/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF
|
THE
HIBISCUS FLOWER |
I have not been in favor of
Dr Mahathir during his tenure and after his
retirement. At the helm of Anwar Ibrahim's
trial they were several people who were
known to conspire met their death in
mysterious way. But not Mahathir. At that
time I asked my friends whether they could
guess why Mahathir was still live ? The reason I
hated him most was he sent stealth special
branch into mosques and madarasah and even
the festivals of wedding feast to spy on the
people. Several outspoken religious clerics
were arrested. I said God wants us to see him
punished in this living world.
We were not wrong.
But it does not mean Najib is
the righteous man today, neither a man to
represent God as some of his Ministers
claimed. I did not find living under
Mahathir was economically bad. We had the
subsidies, a high ASB dividends and good and
foodstuffs were cheap. I do not find it
justifiable for Najib to spend money to
boost his image. I knew the 1Mdb issue was
not not started by Mahathir. And I see
clearly how Najib is ruining the country.
I believed that the fury of
the Al-Mighty over Mahathir was on his
remarks on several religious issues. By
mysterious way God made him to choose Najib
for the comeuppance. And now he is facing
it. The man he chose had been seen as the
worst man in Malaysian history by one
observant man in my village even when Najib
was a defense minister.
I foresee Najib as the last
Prime Minister and the remaining history of
Malaya under a Malay leader will be under
his family line. Malaysia will be under
Chinese stealth rule, managing the nation,
either directly or through an invisible
hands. I even feel that Rosmah will be
chosen to rule in case of his demise by the
UMNO supporters.
I bet with myself that Zahid
Hamidi will not be the next Prime Minister
despite the show of his undivided loyalty.
By the time he resigns and the successor
outside his bloodline will punish him as he
is punishing Mahathir right now. 25 years
from now he will be as old as the ex-Prime
Minister. I won't see the agony he and his
wife will be facing for I will die long
before this.
I still believe that Najib
steal the 1Mdb money. When the money was in
his account he was quiet about it. Years
later after the WSJ exposed it he denied. It
took several months for him to come up with
the donation story. It is this much that I want
to say about my believe.
This is the first time after
several ministers that subsidies are
cut, GST was introduced and the cost of
living soared. I compared our condition to
Thailand and Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei
and with other nations, and I see their
growing prosperity. I am amazed by the Thais
who are beating us by leap and bound. The
Thais gives priority to their agriculture
while UMNO does not.
Our poor and plunging economy
is not due to the world economic catastrophe
but it is due to Najib's sheer lavishness.
Whether Mahathir is alive or
dead, angel or devil, I am looking forward
to give a vote to the beautiful hibiscus.
You may say I don't vote for the party but
for the flower. I submit to it. I find it
nice and beautiful. Let's go for the flower.
16/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
A TIT FOR A
TAT |
At a recent
funeral of His Royal Highness the late
Sultan Of Kedah I saw several Sultans from
other states came and they were given abodes
to stay. It has been our tradition for
decades. Likewise when the other Head of
States made a visit to Malaysia we would not
ask them to find their own accommodations. I
really don't know what happened with the
recent visit of our Prime Minister to the
United States. Probably the United States
government had made an arrangement of some
palatial hotel somewhere else to be stayed
free but our team prefer to stay at Trump's
hotel. Or even they did not make any booking
at all.
It is merely
a trivial matter. But it could be
misinterpreted in another way. Already there
is a war of words going on about the whole
visit which was said to be designed by
Najib's Propaganda and Strategic Unit for
Photo-op to be used to tell the world that
Najib is not a Kleptocrat. Thus much money
was paid to ask Trump to invite Najib. And a
few Ministers already declared that Trump
will not invite Najib if he is a crook.
Americans had said that Najib must not use
their President as a tool to save and
promote himself. May be some may have seen
that was what Malaysia did with Saudi's
King.
What
significant was it for the White House to
announce that they did not book Trump hotel
for Najib and his entourage ? And why it has
to announce that DOJ is not a topic of
discussion. DOJ is an independent body. They
were not
vital for them to tell the world about it.
But they did.
And the
meeting with Trump's team was extremely very
brief. It was recorded in detail and the
whole world observed the body languages of
all around the table, the Malaysians as well
as the Americans.
The visit of
Singapore's Prime Minister was accorded with
a high dignity. Did Singapore's Minister
paid for his own hotel ?
Surely the
Americans are happy with the promise that
Malaysia is going to strengthen the United
States.
Some even
called our Primr Minister a CROOK, a very
harsh and insulting words.
Should we
just standby and do nothing to see how the
American threat our Prime Minister ? Let us
invite Trump here and ask him to find and
pay for his own lodging. A tit for a tat.
15/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
THE EXCHANGE |
A rebuttal against claims about the PM's US
visit
Reezal
Merican had put a sound argument on PM's
visit to USA which the laymen like us would
not understand. For lack of space I avoid
printing it here, only the response of the
readers.
Public
response
15/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
ONLY
OPINION |
It was this morning that I
read the Newsweek headline as shown below.
But when I was searching for the same
article again this evening I could not find
it anymore. SR had the time to catch it and
published the same article I read. To me it
is just an opinion and it is up to us to
agree to to reject it. It is lucky the FELDA
people and the Malays do not read this or
else doubts will emerge in their minds on
how the meeting did really come about.
I also read about the
impeachment of Trump.
Surely all eyes will be on
the behavior of the whole of Malaysian
entourage while in Washington. If it is true
that Rosmah brings bad luck with her the
fate of Trump will follow that of Obama. And
Najib will continually pay the professional
lobby specialist. What we do not know
exactly how much of our GST's money are put
aside to pay for foreign service merely to
enhance Najib and Rosmah's image.
15/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
PUZZLING
QUESTIONS |
1. Who put Najib as Prime
Minister ?
This question has been
answered before by UMNO, PAS and Najib
himself. It is God. One Minister said those
who disobey Najib means they are disobeying
God, either enhancing the PM to the level of
God or giving him a divine status.
2. If Mahathir was a dictator
who worked with him to execute his order ?
If Mahathir was a dictator
who would feel the pinch of his dictatorship
? Of course not the UMNO members. We the
people and Lim Kit Siang felt the pain, the
mental agony and hardship. I myself didn't
like Mahathir. So were thousands of others.
But how come we can forgive him for his sins
over us but not Najib ? If Mahathir was a
dictator he has a sense and a conscience. He
has shame and he did not sell Malaysia off.
HE STEPPED DOWN. Dictators won't.
People has been likened Najib
and Rosmah to Bonny & Clyde, and said that
Rosmah was the actual Prime Minister. Of all
the Ministers spouse it is Rosmah that came
to the limelight. The people see them as
robbers without any shame and conscience.
3. Why it took several months
to give a simple answer as the money in his
account ? It should have been
immediate and all letters from Saudi King
should be immediately shown ? And why deny
when WSJ exposed it and wanted to sue the
WSJ ?
4. Who sign the money paid to
the false IPIC and where is that money now ?
How much was the total payment to both the
false IPIC and the real one ? Where did the
money come from ?
5. Why was Ghani Patail
sacked ? And who ordered to the killing
Kevin Morais ?
6. Why don't Najib sue WSJ
and DOJ for calling him Kleptocrat ?
7. Who shot Ghani Patail's
driver ? Why ?
For every question there are
two opposing answers. There is only one
truth.
14/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
DO YOU
SEE WHAT I SEE |
To save Reza,
Rosmah's son, Najib is willing to go to any
extend and pay as much as Trump wants. They
planned the discussion to be done more
secretly and privately at a longer hours.
That was the reason why the White House
meeting was short and brief. At whatever
cost Najib wants to win and willing to
settle the damage by any amount, to which I
think he will be successful. UMNO will use
this to blazon in the media for more than a
week or even months until the General
Election. On any account Najib will win.
Then the
nightmare begins. The voters and the
citizens will have to pay a very high cost
to vote Najib back to power. Only with the
help of God he will be thrown out with
disgrace. Taxes and other charges will
increase immediately. Goods and foodstuffs
and other services will go sky high. The
affordable who are mainly the business
community will say to those UMNO voters, "Serve
you right..."
I bet that
Najib will not step down. No one else other
from his family will be the next
replacement. Zahid Hamidi and other UMNO's
heroes can forget to be a Prime Minister.
The strongest
party which can prove that 1Mdb's money was
stolen is the FBI and DOJ. They have proofs
on the total manipulation, seeing through
all the stealth movements of money. That's
the reason why Najib wants DOJ to stop the
proceedings. And that's why he promised
America to help in restructuring American
economy.
You must
remember that issues on 1Mdb and the 2.6
billion in Najib's account was not brought
by Mahathir. The former Prime Minister came
in much later than Tony Pua and after the
exposure by WSJ. But Trump will be told all
these nonsense was masterminded and designed
by Dr Mahathir. The home discussion is to
plead and beg as it possibly done to the
Saudi Prince. Of course God knows everything
and blew the truth into some of the people's
minds.
However smart
Najib is in outwitting Trump he will not be
able to do so with the Chinese. The Chinese
sub-marine docked in without any fear of our
retaliation. To them the desperate Najib is
in their palm. It is a chance they are
waiting for, that Najib will ask them for
more money and like Ah Long they will give
him the money to replenish the dry coffer
that goes to 'make America great again'. To
them they might regard Najib as a sick man
to help a rich country financially while
letting his own citizens suffer.
Mind you
somewhere in my article, a long time ago, I
already mentioned of how America will get
involve in Malaysian affair by cruel policy
of Najib. I even said there might be a
covert action to setup an ISIS group. Nobody
would have believe me and dismissed it as a
crazy notion. And today we see Najib is so
desperate to buy DOJ's off by offering a
colossal sum of money from the meager
pittance we have left. The result will be either
the citizens will be squeezed or we have to
sell our sovereignty to China.
14/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
LEARN FROM
YOUR KIDS |
He is in form
1 now. I take him as my grand child. His
mother, father and his uncle were all my
students. I like to talk to the small kids,
the younger they are the more pleasure I
have from the conversations I have with
them. When I was in the soccer stadium I
would ask them about the players and the
soccer schedule. They would tell me many
things that I wouldn't have known. So is
this kid who would tell me about many things
on computer.
Tonight this
kid told me about a Chrome Book. He said
that the chrome book is not a computer but
the software. The first time I heard about
the Chrome Book is from Rusli, my radio
friend, who bought a Chrome Book when he was
in England. To fellow amateur radio
enthusiasts we rather use G-Land to mean
England. In my mind a Chrome Book is a set
of computer that having a special software
built into it. This kid was telling me that
I could use any PC and install the Chrome
Book software.
We could be
very well out of date in many things. The
boy told me that now they have the I-Core 9
machine in the market. My time was the 8088
processor. When 80286 came into the market
it was already a fantastic achievement. The
last I heard was Pentium, and I decided not
to know the internal structure of the
processor anymore. It took a kid to tell me
about I-core 1 to 9.
What we
learned 10 to 70 years ago is different from
your kids learn and know today.
Kids learn
how to say grace and prayers. They learn
about new maths and sciences. If you are not
a teacher you can't teach them at home
anymore. There would be numerous things that
you would not know. You send them to the
tuition class for perfection. Then you can
learn many things from them. Ask them to
teach you Arabic or mandarin or French. Ask
them about whatever at all on computers.
There are many things you can depend on
them.
This boy is
smart enough to elicit knowledge on Visa,
debit and credit card. He was trying to
understand Visa and Debit Card, whether they
are the same things. Rather than to hide
things I explained the concept of American
Express and Visa, and what is meant by debit
and credit card. I knew he is interested in
buying things on the on-line store like
Lazada, especially cheap computer
storage. I told him that Lazada mostly sell
goods from China. I explained about
Japanese, Korean and Chinese products. The
last is the worst in term of quality and
selling fake goods. My aim was to discourage
him from thinking of buying things online.
Never think
you are smarter than the kids for many of
them think you are senile and need to learn
many things.
13/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
MALAY
LEADERS THINK THEY ARE SMARTER THAN THE
CHINESE |
I am sorry,
very very sorry to say the Malays are the
most stupid people in the world. They are
happily selling Malaysia to China. PAS
approval of Najib and his policy shows the
party has gone crazy and haywire. I don't
think I am wrong to suspect they were being
drowned with a huge sums of money like Najib
is being trapped with money from China.
Najib said, "Under my nose Malaysia's
sovereignty won't be sold..." yet under his
nose he said that how did he knew what he
signed for on the 1Mdb's document and his
lies to the parliament were all came from
his officers, not him. He didn't even knew
how SRC's money went into his personal
account. He is so good in everything that he
took more than 6 months to tell the
Malaysians that the 2.6 billion in his
account was some donation from Arab prince.
Among the
most stupid leaders is Zahid Hamidi who
thinks Najib will make him the Prime
Minister. Recently he wanted to show the
power the Malaysian authority has, by
arresting a few Chinese workers without the
documents working at the Forest City, and
later had to vow to the Chinese, giving
honorary citizenships to the later. Zahid
does not know the implication of such offer.
Malaysia is already helpless. The incident
in Pekan was anther proof of Chinese showing
of her hegemony. And Nazri fought for the
Chinese. A few weeks ago TV Malaysia was
broadcasting to show how much benefit we
gain from Proton and Bandar Malaysia to
mislead the people. Now when the CEO of
Proton is from China these Malays say
nothing about it. Instead they are
demonizing Dr Mahathir to close the view of
Najib selling the country to China.
The future
will be bleak to the Malays and to most of
the local Chinese as the Mainland China will
take over trade and businesses in favor of
Chinese nationals.
How many UMNO
members are still blind to the Chinese game,
and think they are smarter than the later ?
Zahid Hamidi
will find that he cannot do anything at all
even after he realizes the impotency of
Malaysia. While still in power he should try
to investigate how and what Najib had done
to weaken him. It is not that Najib does not
like him but because Najib has to make sure
that there will be no successor will
persecute him at a later date. Najib may
even surrenders the nation to China as long
as he is safe.
As sure as
the sun will rise tomorrow Trump will ask
Najib, "How is China ?" Trump has been
briefed as to how much land and interests
were given to China and how much money has
Najib took from the country. Everyone
focuses on Najib's reply to see how they fit
the facts they have in hands. The JASA team
will be trying to assist the Prime Minister
in his reply.
Whatever the
negative outcome the JASA and the Malays
will not admit of their own stupidity and
foolishness. If if they begin to see of the
Chinese design they are powerless to do
anything, not even asking USA to rescue
Malaysia. When there is a second time the
Chinese warships dock in Malaysian water,
Sabah, everyone is startled about it. Those
who bark are barking at the wrong tree,
blind to see the Chinese encroachment and
the show of supremacy over the country.
Never mind
about Keruak and Rahman as they are from
Sabah. They can lock themselves in the
closets at home as to whatever happen to
this country. Even Najib can run away to
Australia, New Zealand or Uzbekistan. Where
could the rest of the UMNO members go ? One
must not forget that the Chinese base in
Malaya is not to fight the Americans but to
fight the terrorists who will rebel against
Najib. These terrorists are the frustrated
Malays who find their country has been sold
to China.
If the
leaders are stupid, what can we expect from
the kampong Malays. If they are smart they
won't be deceived by Najib's money and other
corrupt goodies before the election.
The Malaysian
Chinese will find their fate will be like
the Hong Kong people. In Hong Kong main
factories are being transferred to mainland
China.
Look at Najib's face.
Where is the winning smile ? No calling off
DOJ. Rosmah should be at the fore
Notice what
the White House announced on Najib's trip.
It was clearly made known that DOJ is an
independent body and there is nothing in the
talk will be about DOJ. Secondly the
whole world were told that it was not the
United States that booked Trump Hotel for
Najib and the whole team. And to our
surprise and shock Najib told America that
Malaysia is going to strengthen American
economy. None of us fabricated those
statements. They came from the live mouths
in Washington.
A few days
earlier Keruak himself said the invitation
meant Najib is cleared of DOJ.
A friend of
mine asked me whether Najib will be arrested
? My answer is NO. Whatever wrong done in
Malaysia that did not involve American law
in America is not for them to pursue legal
proceedings. It is the Malaysians themselves
who have to deal with Najib. DOJ will deal
with any wrongdoings done in the United
States or any attempt to use their citizens
in running criminal activities. Somehow they
may announce to the world that Najib is the
MO1 and he is a confirmed Kleptocrat. The
rest is up to the fellow Malaysians to
decide their own future.
But the
Malays are not only stupid they are also
very helpless. The Honorary citizenship
affair just passed through their eyes. No
UMNO members can do anything. No Malay
Ministers can rebut Tiong Lai and Nazri.
Nobody will analyze the implications of the
statements by the White House.
Believe me
that more stories about Najib's visit will
be blazoned in their media. I read a letter
to Najib which may be a freak and faked to
defame him, about his possible involvement
in the death of Altantuya and Kevin Morais.
The Chinese already know the whole
happenings and incidences. Trump may have
not known of the real events yet. They
Americans won't be reading books paid by
Najib to write but will get the first hand
information from the diplomats, the past and
the present.
You may ask,
"What proof have you to say Malays are
stupid..."
If they are
smart they won't let our sovereignty be sold
to China.
If BN can say
DAP is the top dog and voting for Pakatan is
a vote to DAP then we ourselves can say
otherwise, which is a very real dreaded
things to happen, the signs of which have
been clearly shone.
13/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
NAJIB USA
VISIT |
I do not pray
for Najib's mission to fail but I would not
give a hundred percent sure that it will
succeed. Whatever the outcome we the
citizens will want to know the cost incurred
to materialize the visit. Donating to the
Party fund is not a crime or corruption in
the United States. Saudi Arabia and Israel
both have been donating to the campaign
funds all the while. And we also want to know how much was
paid for the lobbying. Is the money
from China or from the taxpayer ? Would Rosmah say it is from her savings ?
I have
narrated about the effort to procure the
extra-large fuel tank by Argentina from a
United States company during the War of
Malvinas. After paying a huge sum of money
for the hardware, the United States' customs
confiscated them. The after shock was great.
The simple event forbade the Argentinian
fighters from reaching the British
battleships.
We cannot be
sure whether Trump will call DOJ to halt and
to provide briefing about the money
laundering and the investigation of crimes
done on Malaysian soil in relating to 1Mdb.
Though whatever happened in our country is
not the affair of the United States, the
Americans will want
to know the complete story about Najib.
Indeed it is very interesting to hear Najib
had said that "Whoever is the enemy of USA
is also the enemy of Malaysia..."
Remember,
Americans are not fools. They created the
INTERNET, a wonder of the world that
required a great mind to do it. They will
come to know whether Najib is trying to fool
them sooner or later. And Trump may even
talk to Obama over a cup of coffee. These we
can't tell either. They will compare
Mahathir and Obama and laugh among
themselves. Pray that they do not ask the
detailed reports on Najib and Rosmah from 2008
till now and to analyze whatever he claims
he does is true as shown by the report. It
just take ONE American to narrate the ouster
of Ghani Patail and the death of Kevin
Morais.
In a way the
visit is good for everyone. Najib is happy.
His administration is happy. The interests
on Malaysian leaders and the spouses will
catch more attentions. As I already said
that we wouldn't know whether the visit will
enhance his image positively or it will be
full of disappointment at the later time.
12/09/2017 ABDUL RAHMAN RAOF |
UNFRIENDLY
MEDIA |
The Wall
Street Journal and the New York Times are
not so-friendly Newspapers in the United
States lambasting Najib as Kleptocrat and
splashing his face with multicolored paints
of dishonestly and corruption. Najib in
fighting back said Malaysia practice greater
freedom of speech, democracy and the rule of
law under him than under Mahathir. We don't
know what's the media going to do next. Many
expect the media will be asking Najib about
the 2,6 billion in his account and the
dismissal of his deputies and those who
wanted to know more about 1Mdb during the
media conference. Will he say DOJ is lying
about all the transactions ?
We will see
the outcome of the post meeting when Najib
returns to Malaysia. At the moment what I
can say Najib is at the gambling table. He
may win or he may lose. Even winning the
election with the help of China the case of
theft and several murders will not be closed
and forgotten. Investigators will have to
establish whether it was Najib who killed
Kevin Morais and Najidi. And the unfriendly
people in the United States may be running a
covert operation to deal with him.
Najib must
hope and pray so that the people in the
American Embassy do not think and see as
what the learned Malaysians see, of the way
our Prime Minister maneuvers.
We are lucky
that Trump is a White man who does not
believe in bad luck or otherwise it just
take one wise guy to say the wrath of Irma
is a bad luck brought by Rosmah Mansor with
her. Even the unfriendly media will not
blazon the freak idea.
Below are the
view expressed by some Malaysians on the
current issues. | |