CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Somebody is not cut for
marching
THE
WONDER OF WWW |
Have you
always been to countries beyond your shore ?
Today, travelling and holiday trips are
common features of our society. The most
handy stuff everyone carries with them is
the cell-phones. A few carries iPads. While
I was in a bus in Spain I talked back to
friends at home and sent them pictures that
I captured on the move. A few using Skype to
communicate with their kids and grand
children. No wonder a university friend of
mine was laughing at me and asked me to
throw away ham radio. "Tell me in what way
ham radio is better then the modern world
wide web ?"
I think in a
way he was right. Even today take the
amateur radio operators of the world and
investigate their time spent on the social
media and radio communication ? The
superiority of internet technology over the
radio is beyond comparison. The other day I
called a grab car. As the taxi moved I could
see him where he was. And on the Whatapp
similar facility is also available. I asked
myself 'why I need the APRS for ? ' And the
need to use RTTY, AMTOR, FACTOR etc when
messages can be sent across the world just
by typing ? Send now and nano seconds later
it can be read by the recipients on the moon
and other galaxies.
The answer is
simple. It is a matter of taste. If you find
sending message through digital mode suit
you then go with it. The millions who love
to use the WWW then let them enjoy
themselves with this style. My radio has the
digital modes but I just ignore them.
I spent about
99% of my communication time on WWW. Once in
while I would go on the radio to call CQ on
Morse codes for a kick. It is something
different that not everyone knows. It
provides a satisfactory feeling and the
feeling of personal achievement. It is not a
technology but it is a code. And it is also
not for comparison.
Which
traveller would choose to leave his/her
smart-phone at home ? Which ham radio
operator would bring his rig along during
the trip ?
06/04/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
DON'T BE
SOMBONG JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE GREAT |
Most of
the Malays do try to support the Malay
Business. I did so just out of pity
especially the poor goreng pisang woman near
the Siamese temple at Jalan stadium. Even on
food alone there are so many stalls and
vendors, yet we chose to go to a particular
stall for the same reason. But I found that
some businessmen, Malay or Chinese, are
thinking that they are giving their services
and helping the customers whom they thought will
be suffering
without them. A few are high handed and
arrogant.
I am
sure there are many other people who are
like me, having the sincere hearts and hope
to see
their business flourish. I do not hesitate
to move somewhere else if they think they
are popular and wealthy enough and people
would be begging from them despite the show
of their poor attitudes. And when they were
facing the closure problems they started to
blame the people for not supporting them.
My most
recent bad experience is with a food
restaurant that I have been frequenting for
more than 50 years. The towkey is Majeed who
is now in India leaving his two sons and a
few workers, all from India. I was quite
friendly to one son by the name of Mansoor.
I always brought souvenirs and even shirts
for him. Within these few months I made
key-chains with with his image for him, his
daughters and his driver. I did not charge a
cent for him and the daughter,
Last
week I bought a kilo of prawn for his
workers to eat costing RM45. And I bought a
kilogram for me and asked Mansoor to keep
for later consumption. I would ask him to fry when needed.
Mine was big enough, 15 prawns altogether. I
did not count what I presented to him but
they were a little smaller than mine.
It was
yesterday when I asked him to fry my share.
But I noticed the
prawn's size were very much smaller
than the ones I handed to him. I asked about
the change in the sizes. "Cikgu, I don't cheat
you...bla bla bla..." I didn't argue. I knew
he was a very dishonest and selfish man.
Would I mind ? I have somewhere else to go
for my usual breakfast and have been regular to
this place for two years now.
And the
other one is a Radio supplier in Kuala
Lumpur. I was looking at an advertisement
and noticed a radio that costs RM2.35K. I
sent a message saying I needed the radio as
fast as possible and asked for the bank account. After
two days I reminded them about my request.
In the evening I got a phone call telling me
that the price was RM2.5K. I asked whether
the transceiver is in stock. There was a positive answer
and the voice said he would send me the
bank's information.
After
receiving the account number, I made
a transfer. I remember the staff told me the
radio would be ready either by Thursday or
Friday. A couple of days later I Whatsapped
asking for the status. The reply didn't
sound friendly "I did not not say it will be
ready by Thursday or Friday but I said that
we will order by Thursday or Friday. Today
my boss is busy. So we will order next
week..."
I
posted back saying that my intent was just
to support the shop. If the supplier could
not attend to the customer might as well
return my money so that I could buy it
somewhere else. And the money was banked in.
You
see, I also adhere to my own principal, "the
money is mine...the good is yours...if you
don't want to sell done.." This is a Malay
vendor.
The
prawn story made me believe that one cannot
trust a man just because he is a Muslim, a
Haji or a clerick.
A
sombong, arrogant and selfish person will
somehow falls. I truly believe it as I have
seen it happens verily in front of my eyes,
not one nor two, but too many of them. Serve
them right.
05/04/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
TOWER
FEVER |
It is a
craze now among the amateur radio operators
erecting antenna towers up to 70 or 100
feet. We talk about it over lunch and dinner
among us, about the sophisticated yagi and
other exotic system. I did not feel jealous,
sad or happy about it for my heart isn't in
venturing DX transmission anymore. I have a
hard time thinking of where to fly my drone.
Surely I could not travel hundreds of miles
away for videoing distant places.
Last night
while discussing towers and the antenna
systems we touched a little on the cost
factor. Constructing a rotary with aluminium
rod would be near to RM300, the coax cable
is about RM350. A tower could be up to RM3K.
In the old days only a handful could afford
towers. Today it looks like that there will
three out of ten operators will be putting
up towers.
Not many
have skills to construct the piece. At the
moment the radio hobbyists are lucky to have
ironsmiths who are amateur radio operators
themselves. According to one that many
people desire to have a tower to himself but
would hesitate when hearing of the price. In
Perlis alone the number beat the whole of
Malaysia in the yester years. This is the
present trend.
Not me.
You want to give me a free one, I don't want
it. But if you give me a 40 foot bamboo, I
will be very happy to accept it. A 40 foot
dry bamboo will be very light to hoist it
vertically up single handed by any old man.
The late 9M2AT had wanted to give me a three
element yagi but I declined it, That's why
There is nothing in me that pushes me for
the tower.
I
estimated there would be about 200 towers by
the end of 2018 in Malaysia. I won't be
surprise if the number exceeds a few
thousands.
Importing
them is of course a big hassle while the
local builders are too limited. Those who
start now will reap the benefit of the price
and facility. There could be a situation
where when we have the money but we don't
find the goods. I am certain the import
materials would be at least double the local
made stuffs. Our local manufacturer and the
radio enthusiasts have shown the world of
our capability of hitting European stations
with the 59+ and 599 signal with only 50
watts.
Those who
invest on the antenna system have reaped the
rewards and have encouraged others to follow
their footsteps.
05/04/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
NAJIB IS
SMART ? |
It may not be
true. But it is in my belief as I see it in
my way.
When we say
Najib is pawning the country away to the
Chinese the whole bunch of UMNO guys
defended him. And I have been saying that
anything that touched by Najib will turn
into a mud. The last Zahid admitted that he
had to comply with the request of the
Chinese on the ECRL matter. These two
leaders thought they could hoodwink the
Chinese. They are real in a deep shit now.
And they are trying to hide their
treacherous doings under the Fake news law.
What concerns the Malaysians most is the
giving and selling of land to China. What do
these Malays tend to gain to hide all their
dealings with the Chinese. Bashah had to
answer whether he leases Langkawi to the
Chiunese. I wonder even Boon Siew would sell
his Langkawi's land to China.
When we say
and talk of China's design, it was the UMNO
chief who would quickly jumped forward to
defend any hideous intent. One UMNO chieftain came up with 'why make so
much noise...we have been a vassal state of China
before...If China wants us they would have
taken us 600 years ago...." There were talks
of Trengganu fishermen being chased away by
the Chinese navy. The Chinese media
published about China still demand the
Bandar Malaysia. Najib had said that The
Forest City wasn't even on Johor's land.
Najib will
bow to China for sure. Tiong Lai is asking
the Chinese to come back to MCA as the party
has done much in drawing China's mainland to
support the local Chinese and will ensure
their security.
Najib can
never win against the Chinese. Never. He is
so very scared of China now, ether he is too
dependent on them or he knows the gun is
pointing at his head. Militarily the Chinese
is superior over the Malaysians. And now
they are at the strategic point; Lumut,
Sabah, Port Dickson, Melaka and Pahang with
a 7 kilometer wall in Kuantan itself.
Malaysians weren't even told about the
military agreement we made but exposed by
the Western media. Najib can never read the
Chinese mind. All what he sees is Chinese
money to relief him and the country from a
gigantic burden. He himself had said
'...don't make the Chinese angry else they
will withdraw....the Chinese brings in
prosperity. Yet he was telling Trump that
Malaysia will help the United States to make
the country better again.
Our fear have
become true day by day. UMNO leaders are
being pinned. Worst are to come.
Let me tell
you that it is the Malays who are burying
the Malays. It is the Malaysian Muslims who
help in this massive suicide. I wonder
whether Zahid Hamidi has any worry at all
about the Chinese grand design. One local
Chinese said 'Najib kena kau kau now over
the ECRL....' This is the way we it.
Najib should not take things for granted
because it can cost us the disappearance of
the Malay race.
We used to
hear the phrase MARUAH BANGSA, the honor of
a race. We can never attained the standard
of MARUAH BANGSA if we continue to be
dependent on the others. Our total lives
will be beggars all the way till our last
day.
05/04/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
SUPPORTING THE LOCAL AMATEUR RADIO SHOPS |
To
the old timers the existence of the local
amateur radio shops are great blessing for
us. A lot of us had to struggle to look for
a a decent transmitter when we first
obtained our tickets. The nearest we could
get was from Singapore and the hassles of
bringing one home was very tiresome. There
wasn't even cables and coaxial plugs. I got
a second hand FT101 from a fellow amateur.
Coaxial plugs were given by hams from
Penang. And the cable from Eshee and Eshee
got them from 9M6MA, the written off used
units.
For
a long period our source was from Singapore.
And that people were fluting with all sort
of laws.
When
I discovered that there are several shops in
the country are supplying the communication
equipments, I found that it was indeed a
heaven. It cuts the usual hassles by almost
100%. We can forget about the import permit
and spending money to make a trip to the
Southern tip of Peninsular Malaysia. At the
same time we are supporting the local
vendors.
I
don't mind if the price is a little higher
than somewhere else.
Some
of you prefer the cheaper homebrewed
equipments from Indonesia. I bought one
table microphone with a compressor but it
was as good as useless. I won't want to take
risk with a transceiver if there are factory
mounted components around. I would have to
trust Yaesu or Icom more than the unknown
brand.
I
would recommend a new comer to buy an
antenna tuner as well for it saves a lot of
time and energy when we are going on several
bands with a single antenna like G5RV. There
is no need for a kilowatt liner amplifier
which may angered your neighbours. The local
supplier has the tuner, CW keyers, coaxial
plugs, coaxial cables and even the antenna.
But tuner is never a cheap stuff
though you can only find a couple of coils
and capacitors inside it.
Of
course they may not have the type of rig
that you want. Then you can always look for
alternatives suppliers even from overseas.
What
an amateur has to think most is about the
antenna that he is going to use. each person
must have his own target and solution. I
have been with a dipole for centuries. I
started with a bamboo mast and cutting a
wire using the formula 462/frequency, cut
the coax to the multiple of quarter
wavelength, and went all over the globe with
only 50 watts. Remember the bandwidth is
also a factor of the wire diameter.
If
you don't want to cut your own you buy from
One or Wave communications.
Good
luck.
04/04/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
PREDICTIONS |
Predictions began since mankind
acquired reasons and common sense. In other
words it is a guess as to what will happen
in the future time. It has not been a
scientific method as to what people
currently predict about whether basing on
what they see in the sky with satellites and
sensors. But the predictions were base on
the insight. Any such accuracy would make us
think they are prophetic and divine in
nature.
I always predict the future, not through an
insight or with the help of technology but
merely a feeling of happening due to the
human behaviours.
Here are some of my predictions that will
happen;
1. When PAS is wiped out of Kelantan and
many other places Hadi Awang will be very
happy. To appease the PAS members he will
talk about the fate and the divine design of
the God Almighty. Winning is not important
but unity is.
2. On the election day you will see busses
ferrying people to vote in many places from
point A to point B to point C. They will be
paid with the handsome amount. And will end
at the attractive places in the evening like
Padang Besar or beautiful beaches before
sending home.
3. Any protest or accusation of election
cheatings will be charged under Fake News
law.
4. BN will win and they will declare on the
popular vote.
5. A short time after that there will be a
rise of GST, cost of living continue to
shoot up and the rates and other taxes will
be increased. Again God will be blamed for
all the difficulties face by the citizens.
In fact I have made predictions before GE13
and all came true. That was put in the
Facebook. The cyber trooper or the strong
supporters of UYMNO who had been debating
with now seem to disappeared from the time
after the GE13 till now. I learned many of
the UMNO people are suffering more than the
opposition. Those who voice their critics
were people who were economically sound and
could cope up with the increasing cost of
living. Many can afford to buy a RM750
houses, while the UMNO supporters continue
to live in the flats and terrace houses.
And of course my final prediction is the
Malays will be a third class citizen in the
future under Najib and UMNO.
04/04/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A SAMPLE OF A
FAKE NEWS |
How fast does
it takes a news to travel ? With the modern
technology it takes less than a second. It
is hard to distinguish the veracity of the
new info received at times while in some we
can dismiss them instantly.
The above
article is not a minute by minute live event
but a view a writer just made up from his
observation. He picked up from a newspaper
but the paper is not a government's
spokesman. The last picture was obviously
carries a fake ideas. Both US and the
Chinese leaders did not point their fingers
at Najib.
I don't
believe the article as I know it is with bad
intention. But I do not believe Najib and
his ministers words themselves. Everyone is
talking about money, about millions here and
millions there, which they should have been
given long ago even before the eve of the
elections. What I know the nation will be
getting worse and the poor Malays will be
the most to suffer. And I never like the way
Najib bribes to win. Najib only cares about
himself, not his party nor the nation. To me
this is the first world's leader in history
who bragged and boasted about his own
greatness. Islam forbids this.
If he cares
about UMNO and the nation, he would have
resigned instead of making war with his own
people.
I think it is
not Najib has no shame to been as the
emperor with invisible dress but it is the
fear that haunted him most. He will do
anything at all to make sure he will not go
to jail. But it is just a nightmare that
will never happen even if he decides to
rest.
02/04/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
US-CHINA WAR
- only my view |
The US-China clash won't be the old
conventional war, deploying military
personnel and tanks. The Star-War weapons
began in 1980's and now it is 2018. The time
was long enough to undergo nano-seconds
technological progress. In the 80s already
lather beam destroyed airplanes and tanks.
They are in the sky now and could neutralize
all the North-Korean missiles immediately as
they are fired.
What prevent the US attack on North Korea
and Iran is not the fear of unexpected
retaliation by a little conscience and
humanity left. It is about the total
destruction of the innocent children, men
and women. Moreover these enemies hope both
can have economic benefit through patient
and negotiations. China is aggressively
expanding her trade territory at the same
time checking the American fleets around
this region and the Indian ocean.
However, if there is some mishaps somewhere
and the war is declared, places outside
China will be bombed by the American new
weapons are Kuantan, Port Dickson, Melaka,
Sabah, and Lumut. Within 2 weeks China's
arsenals on the mainland will be banished
and paralyzed.
It might be said that the Chinese defence is
in obscurity. The United States does not
take for granted and simply underestimate
her. There are millions of Chinese Americans
as well of China Chinese. There was a
Chinese lady scientist who went missing
after her success in levitation 'alien
technology' vehicles, unknown whether she
went back to China or murdered. The Chinese
scientists may have developed their own
stare-war weapons.
The Chinese have acquired a myriad of
advance technology known to the Americans.
At the moment if the war breaks out between
them I predict that it will take less than a
month to end and the map of Pahang, Sabah,
Melaka and Perak will be changed.
China does not like war as she is already
gaining much land and money from Southeast
Asian countries, Pakistan, Sri Langka,
Maldives and African countries without going
to war. They are using a different weapon
trying to extend themselves even as far as
Australia. Maldives prefer China to India,
nearing itself to the island of Diego
Garcia.
I am sure China will make attempts to buy
the West with money as many of the Americans
and British are corruptible.
02/04/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
IS NAJIB HONEST TO THE PEOPLE
? |
If
Najib is good and honest with the people he
would have given them things he promises in
his election campaign. He had put them in a
very difficult economic situations by taking
away subsidies and spin words over them but
on the eve of the election he told the
people if BN wins he will give this and
that. A good leader won't do such a dirty
thing, trying to cheat people by lucrative
offers and promises only now. He had said
almost the same thing before GE13 but the
promises were never carried out.
If
he is honest he would have given things to
appease the rakyat 2,3,4 or before the
election time. BUT he boasted that all the
previous leaders dared not impose the GST.
He is telling the people GST will not be
halted and that there had been a hint that
it will be raised to 26%. He frightened the
people that without GST the country will be
ruined.
We
have been without the GST for decades and
with the subsidies again. Why ? Because we
used the money wisely for the benefit of the
nation. I know that Najib has been paying a
lot of money to enhance and to save himself
to foreign lawyers, consultants, advisors
and even individuals. He is a strong
believer that CASH IS KING. If Najib is
honest he won't utter the words "...if we
win, you will get..." He would have given it
long ago.
He
truly has a gigantic fear of losing. And he
wants to win not to save UMNO but to make
sure he will not dwell in a dreaded
incarceration. All these need money. Before
China where did he take the money ? How much
did he pay to individuals to write rosy
pictures on Malaysia and himself ? Free ?
The payments were so huge that GST itself is
insufficient unless he increases it or doing
something else. China came in to fill the
holes of 1Mdb.
The
worst thing in his life and of ours is that
he defended China, allow the Chinese naval
power to master our sea and ports, giving
away land to the Communist. Security wise no
country would ever strip it's own defence
under any circumstances. And the UMNO
people are blind enough not to see the
Chinese design even at the early stage.
If
UMNO wants to win clean without having to
cheat at all, is to push Najib out and let
him rest with his spouse for good.
I
thought Maharhir was bad enough during his
tenure, that nobody could excel him. But now
it turn out that there is a specie that I
have never seen before in this country who
enslaved the people, cheat and lie to them
constantly, made them pay for higher prices,
abolish subsidies, giving away our
sovereignty without realizing it, being
ridiculed by many countries on 1Mdb woe and
being called a thief, a crook and a
kleptocrat. He inflicted a very severe
mental injury on most of us.
You
can wonder how much Najib is willing to
spend to make sure the covert investigation
of the murder of Kevin Morais, Najadi, PI
Bala and Altantuya. Whether he was involve
or not, direct or indirectly, there is
always a fear.
Taking all the sum of money spent to save
oneself really can make our country go
bankrupt or sold away to foreigners.
But
by design I know BN will win.
It
is the people who will suffer. The worst
will follow. Najib and Rosmah will be save.
PAS
will say that it is fated by God.
31/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
FAKE
NEWS AND PINOCCHIO |
The
affairs of Malaysia is very palatable in the
whole wide world. Almost everyone follows
the story about the 2.6 billions that went
into Najib's account. People put bits and
pieces together and came out with their own
accounts. The Thais likened Najib to
Pinocchio. The former World Bank manager
called Najib a Crook. The Korean media
broadcast news on Rosmah's greed and the
expensive diamonds. The words we spewed, the
contradictions we made, the people we arrest
and now the Fake News laws. At least the
Asian leaders are more polite and show
respects to our leaders.
If our
pictures are blazoned and the world saw Noh
Omar was sleeping in parliament what do you
think the world be thinking of our law
makers ? Surely China and USA would want to
know Noh's educational level and all of his
school's records. Being a leader is one, but
having no shame in the eyes of the world
make Malaysia a country full of political
jesters.
Already at
the start of Fake News Law the world is
saying it is made just for one man, Mr Najib,
and the government of Malaysia will declare
that all the news about Najib and Rosmah are
fake. And the penalty was more stringent
than rape as some people pointed out.
Government can create Fake News but the real
and the truth are all fake if they are
related to crimes and corruptions of the
government.
I think
there are enough people who regard Hadi
Awang, Najib Razak, Apandi Ali as shameless,
immoral and even criminals. Amanat Hadi
would categorize him under a terrorist group
and until today he speaks like one,
condoning the crime of stolen money. No
normal thieves can be free of incarceration
even if he returned the stolen goods. And
now Najib is telling the world that the
Chinese give money to Malaysia without any
obligation. The worlds are not fool. UMNO
members may be.
What the
world could not see is how Najib corrupt the
voters to vote for BN. Money was spent for
the free trips by busses. All paid for.
People in debts are cleared in their debts
if they vote for UMNO, Students entering
higher learning collected special monetary
gifts, public were invited for free meals.
The world know of the postal votes that
almost all are voting for UMNO. If we count
all the postal votes they are hundred times
more than the postal voters.
To Najib
what is fake that the event of happening is
not seen. He asked Dr Lim Liong Sik to proof
that he stole the EPF money that went into
his account. When people accused UMNO of
giving money to spend PAS asked the proof of
the event. But I would claim that I
know the money was not transferred through
the bank. Cash was given to PAS and PAS
hurriedly looking for ways to finish the
stacking of millions in the room.
Things
that are not seen do not mean they did not
happen. Nobody see our father having sexual
intercourse with our mother. That did not
mean they id not f***k each other.
Azlina's
defence of the Fake News Law to stop storied
on MH370 and about pork in MacD. Isn't it
very lame ? Does she think the world would
buy it ? There is another fake news I would
want her to know that the fishermen from
Trengganu was chased out when they were in
Malaysian waters by the Chinese navy.
You see
our nose will not grow like that of
Pinocchio as we are telling lies each day.
Najib and Rosmah should have some shame. The
world is looking at them.
And the
locals have been asking about the lies from
the government ? We all remember well how
one Melayani was brought in to discredit
Sarawak Report and to say everything
reported was a lie. And as time passed they
came out to be true. Didn't Najib say he did
not know Jho Lo ? And before China came in
Mahathir always asked show us the money.
Najib said it was in Singapore bank.
Singapore denied it. He came up with the
word UNITS. They don't have the money but
they have the units.
What a
joke till today no legal action is taken on
WSJ and DOJ and those others who called
Najib a THIEF, Kleptocrat and a crook ? And
didn't we read somewhere the law is going to
be applied to foreigners ? Azlina should go
and tell WSJ and DOJ on their faces that
they will be slammed with fake news law,
impose a fine of RM500,000 and jail them for
5 to 10 years. Some might suggest that
Malaysia should send a team of gangsters and
Mafia to put them in a tin of cemented drum.
It is true
that people do create unfounded stories. If
our police is so excellent to find Anwar's
DNA in Saiful's anus a few month's later, it
wouldn't be difficult to look for the person
who create the fake news. Didn't Najib sue a
few persons for coming up with fake news
stories ?
30/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MAINTAINING A
HIGH STANDARD HAM RADIO |
Why lament over the present fate of Malaysia
Ham radio. What is it to identify it from
the other radio hobby. One of you might say
RAE. Why talk about something which is not
relevant to the radio ? Users do not even
know what and how a balance modulator work
and would not be able to explain sampling.
Yet thousands of people are on the air now
without RAE.
I remembered arguing with senior hams of the
future of the hobby when they popped up with
new philosophies on quantity over quality.
They want Malaysia to have millions of radio
operators in order to be at par with other
nations. They wanted to be the
champion and a leader.
Ham radio had been a grand hobby for
centuries. The
members created the standard and it's exotic
nature sustaining it's position. The path
towards becoming a ham was hard and
challenging. The fittest survived. The
identity of Ham Radio was clear and well
dictated. It is synonymous to Morse codes.
Morse rpresent identity and never touched on
relevancy. I always relate it to religions;
Koran to Islam and Bible to Christians. And CW to Ham Radio. I will always stand by my
believe.
The path starts with getting to know people
in ham radio. And he becomes a SWL. In some
countries SWLing is mandatory to apply for a
ticket. It is from here one will learn the
SOP, terminology and ethics. And RAE by
essay writing in English are further
hurdles. There is no guessing like the
multiple choice. A 7 year old kid will not
get zero in the test in the present day test
system. Uneducated and rogue lots could be
filtered out. Then the hardest that needs
resilience, patient, discipline and self
organizing is learning Morse codes. It is a
character building tool. Having passed and
overcoming the security check, one has to be
on CW for one year before he is able to come
on phone. It is a systematic protocol
depicted by it's own flowchart.
Today the whole system breaks into pieces in
most of the countries. In Malaysia the
'no-code hams have wrested almost every
aspect of amateur radio and chasing the old hams in away.
The attack on code-hams intensify mainly on
matter of mental prowess and ability. No old
ham fought back bur rather moving away to a
new world, keeping in touch among them
through the Whatsapp group.
It is a good sign that the young Malaysian
enthusiasts are gearing themselves towards
becoming ham operators. It is the duty of
the old hams to assist them when asked, to provide helps and guidance
without pecuniary gain. Many do not know the
very basic of starting and ending a QSO
like how many time to call CQ or CQDX, to
mention 'de' followed by their call sign and
either to use only 'AR' , 'K' or 'AR K'. I
also found that they just stopped without
passing back following the call
signs-mentioned procedure and 'K'. At least
the MCMC can take the initiative for a few
hour briefings. I am really concerned about
the subject matter as to maintain the hobby
as a high standard and systematic in nature.
I think the MCMC can start to invite all the
new 9Ms stations and those 9Ws with
intentions to work on the mode to be at the
office in the coming CW test or whenever it
is deemed convenient. There will be
many experience hams who will make
themselves available in the briefing and the
workshops after the examination is over.
What say the MCMC ?
29/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A VIDEO
CHALLENGE |
Blue water is one of the rare places
in my state
Lake Darul Aman-still low flying
Pendang Resort |
This
lady was never wrong to say that
drone is not for an old man like me.
It is a challenge for a 71 year old
man to play around with. But I did
not hunt for the machine for the
machine's sake. It is not like
flying a kite to pass my time. It is
the aerial photography that interest
me most. Without the video capture
capability I won't have spent a lot
of money for it.
It is
imperative for a photographer to be
well proficient in drone flying, for
close shot. Drone without sensors
tend to crash against the objects
near to it. My drone does not have
all the sides sensors. I dare not
dare to fly for a close shot. A
regular and constant practice is
required to attain the skill.
Having captured a video I need to
produce it into a presentable clip
for viewing. This is also another
challenge; the search for the
software, learning how to use it and
executing it for the final
production. Young people are more
energetic in looking for a suitable
application. You have to try and
test each one of them. It really
taxed our time.
I
finally settled for a free software
that comes a bundled with MacBook
Pro, called the iMovie. So I worked
my movies on this program. My first
few videos were my experiments and
learning to fly. I was always scared
to fly above 150 feet. But as time
went by I braved myself and leaped
higher and higher.
Videos must be short for public
viewing. A clip of 3 to 4 minutes
would be suffice and avoid boredom.
But I made a long delayed movie, as
I wanted to observe what was below.
One
of the clips that I realized of it's
rareness in existence in our area is
Blue Water. I flew it abiut higher
than than the lake Darul Aman. As
for the later I could not cover the
whole complete lake. It would have
been more spectacle if I could climb
to 1000 feet or so. Our rule allows
us to fly only at the maximum
altitude of 400 feet.
If
you want to see more of my videos
just check in the Youtube and type
man4855 in the search engine.
Besides I also made movies using my
normal handycam. The video below is
sent by a friend I met in Maldives
and I edited for the Youtube
posting, mixed it a little of my
own.
We
would not boast of our virility. But
we can boast of our amazing survival
rate for we could take care of our
future much better than the younger
people. Says Pua Chu Kang ," Don't
play play aahh" |
27/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
HAM
RADIO IS NOT FOR CROOKED FELLOWS |
A teacher who claimed to do his PHD didn't
even know how to mention Budi Otomo. We were
all laughing at his other follies. Later we
came to know about certificates from online
universities and the term ghost writers. In
other words there are fake degrees. And
there are also quake doctors.
As I observe the people of calibre are never
fear of facing problems and hardships. I
have seen lawyers and PHD holders and other
engineers who sat for the Morse test and
passed with flying colors. It immediately
created doubts in me once such a high esteem
persons are giving stream of excuses when
asked to prove their mental prowess.
I would accept that age factor could hinder
many things. But if that is the limit then
there is no ethical and moral season to beat
about the bush to ask for a higher position
and status. Though corruption has become a
norm in this country, let it not seep into
the amateur radio world. What is so special
about a person to ask for a licence A
without having to sit for the Morse test,
while others had to flock hard and sacrifice
their time and money to follow the
regulation.
I love to ask a PHD holder as to the field
of his expertise. It is not to know the
depth of his knowledge but to know whether his
PHD is a fake one or he obtained it by a
dubious mean. Titles, big names,
wealth and doctorates do not impress all
people at all the time but their qualitative
output and behavioural patterns do matters.
There are several hams who were in the
United States as workers and students, who
sat for RAE and Morse test and obtained the
US license. When they returned home they sat
for both of the test again and got the
Malaysian tickets. They did not ask to
reciprocate because they are NOT guests of this
country. They are the citizens of this land.
The MCMC must learn the philosophy of
reciprocity and understand the concept of
guest treatment.
If one can maneuver to get one thing into
his possession it may indicate that one can
maneuver to get other things too, like a
liar will always lie even at his death bed.
Remember, wealth, position, qualification,
tall antenna, a million dollar transceiver
and working satellites is not a passport to
get a free class A ticket. Such a privilege
can be conferred to the Head of states, the
Agong and the Prime Minister.
The authority must not be seen as corrupted
or abusing of it's power.
21/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A GLASS
AND A VISION |
I put on an
eyeglass since 1964 and restored my visions
without it in 2018 by doing cataract
operation. It was about 54 years ago. I am a
changed man now, transformed from a handsome
young man to an ugly old dog, with a totally
different look and deteriorating energy and
mobility. And I do not look at the mirror
anymore. My last eye operation done was on
the last 26th February 2018, barely less
than a month. I thank God for allowing me to
see the world again with my naked eyes. I
know that my days are numbered
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Our
tradition says that if you are on
the verge of death table there comes
a moment when your vision comes to
clarity and your memory goes back
since childhood days and you can
remember fantastic things.
I
realize that I am right on the spot.
I
enjoy the glassless sight for quite
a number of years, not only seeing
the environment around me but also
of exotic places in the world like
Turkey, Balkan states, Japan and
Maldives.
For
show of style I can still don
eyeglass without power, which is
always available in hyper-market for
as low as RM5. In fact a couple of
weeks ago I had had a spyglass on,
without power, but has a camera
within it. I was naughty enough at
my age to photograph some beautiful
young girls at a fast food
restaurant. It was all just for the
fun of it.
White
hair, dark spots on my face, and
wrinkles have become part of me. I
do not want to bother with them.
There is no point for anyone to
spend a fortune just to look young
after reaching 60. It made people
laugh and giggle. Some people look
like the actors and actresses of the
Chinese opera.
I am
really amaze at people who can still
recognize me with or without
spectacles. Even with my dark
glasses they accosted me. Sun glass
at least protects me from the glare
of the bright light especially after
the eye operation.
Paradoxically one would be putting
an eyeglass as one grows older not
the vice versa. Whereas I donned it
when I was young and put it away at
the older age.
Spectacles talk about vision. Some
says 20-20 is a perfect vision. The
vision does not come from the mere
eyes. It is the mental state that
has the ability to analyze the
future. He sees and judges things
around him. This is really a near
perfect vision.
With
or without a glass God let me see
the same things. I see with my ear,
mind and eyes. I do not fall to wild
news and what
people are telling me. When I see a
bad apple I recognize one. I know
which is real and which is fake. I
can see a good and recognize the
evil, a
liar, a treacherous, a cheater.
But
honesty is now fading. It hard
extremely hard to find even one
honest and a sincere person.
The
people are losing their visions.
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20/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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POLITICIANS LIKE HADI as I see it-my
view |
There are several Malay politicians with the
filthy mouths I really hate most. Either
they are deliberate in spewing statements or
having empty cells in their minds. Hadi
Awang had been speaking like a terrorist
since his 'Amanat' till now. But when come
to money, every of his speech sounds like he
is a diehard UMNO man. He has sold Trengganu
and Kedah to UMNO and now he is selling
Kelantan away.
Second in my list is Salleh Keruak. He even
said that the seizure of the yacht was a
fake news. And he defended Jho Taek Lo as if
Jho Lo is his breadwinner and a father to
the Melanau race. Keruak is not a Malay. He
did not show any shame in blazoning his
statement for the world to hear.
For
Najib and Zahid to lie and deceive the
Malays, it is not a surprise to me. But for
a religious man who behaves erratically and
talking for and like an UMNO strong man, it
is a great puzzle. So much so when I look at
Hadi, I do not see him as a man anymore. At
times I was tricked to think that Satan
appearance is just like this man.
Amanat Haji Hadi
“Saudara-saudara
sekalian, percayalah. Kita menentang UMNO,
bukan kerana nama dia UMNO. Kita
menentang BN bukan kerana nama BN.
Kita menentang dia kerana dia
mengekalkan perlembagaan penjajah,
mengekalkan peraturan kafir,
mengekalkan peraturan jahiliyah.
Oleh kerana itulah kita menentang
mereka, oleh kerana itulah kita
berjuang melawan mereka. Percayalah
saudara-saudara, perjuangan kita
adalah jihad, ucapan kita adalah
jihad, derma kita adalah jihad dan
kerana kita berjuang dengan
puak-puak ini, kalau kita mati
kerana berlawan ini mati kita adalah
mati syahid, mati kita adalah mati Islam.
Kita tidak payah masuk Yahudi, kita
tidak payah masuk Kristian, kita
tidak payah masuk Hindu, kita tidak
payah masuk Budha, tetapi kita
menjadi kafir dengan mengatakan
politik suku agama suku”. |
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As
the head of PAS we could conclude what the
party is now, a 360 degrees about turn, to
praise and support UMNO, even to show love
on MCA, the non-Muslim party that is anti
Islam.
Now
they are defending of the land alienation to
China that if China wants to take Malaya she
would have done 600 years ago. The gullible
people might have wowed their arguments,
assuming all people having the same thought
at all time. Even their thinking differ from
from their kids' thought. Different men from
different time do not carry the same
thought.
These forked tongues politicians are not
cheating Mahathir or people who are awaiting
for their death, but they are cheating their
own race, the coming generations, who will
suffer the fate of the current Palestinians,
the Orang Asli, the Red Indians and all
other natives of the world.
They
are just stubborn and myopic. Politicians
like Hadi are nothing more but the traitors
to the nation and the people.
19/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE
DRONE AND THE HASSLES |
Playing
with a drone is not a toy matter when we go
for the mid and the top range. Each may cost
us between RM3.5K to RM30K. It is not cheap.
I always compute the opportunity cost of
owning one. In case it goes missing or
crashes, it means the money simply go down
the drain. We simply cannot be careless when
flying it. Some flew away by a simple error
of not setting the home return correctly, or
being blown by strong wind, battery drain as
it flies too far. Only fools would fly their
drones as to cause crash with air-planes or
tall buildings.
My
involvement with this little craft was not
even 23 months yet. I have yet to learn
plenty more on flying and photography
techniques. And editing it to produce a good
movie is not trivial either. It needs a
software to do it. I cannot buy it as I do
not own a credit card for the payment. But I
finally realized that in my Macbook there is
one called the I-Movie which comes free with
the purchase of Apple Mac computer.
Unfortunately version changes has also
change the utility. A few functions may not
exist in a new one.
That's not
all. If you want to upload on the Youtube
and put songs and music, you would not know
which are copyrights and which aren't not.
The Youtube provides free music. Some may
not be appealing to us. We may like the
evergreen oldies like Green Grass of Home or
Love Story by Andy William. An old man like
me will never like the rock music.
It is
indeed quite a hassle from the start of
flying a drone to the final clip production.
Some song owners allow public viewing but
with advertisement allowed condition.
I saw a
few clips without song and music but the
sound of the drone only.
I think it
is not common for old folks to play around
with the quad-copters. It is true that a
lady friend told me that drone is not for
old people to play with. Leave it to the
younger people. And a few universitry
students I met in Maldives were surprised
when I mentioned I should have brought the
drone along. They did not think a man as old
as me to own a drone.
Actually
drone is not my passion at all. I just love
artistic scene and panoramic view. The
spectacles is just like looking and admiring
a beautiful lady. I wanted to try to capture
aerial view of the earth and what's on it.
I finally do it.
17/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY AND BAD as I see it-my
view |
There is nothing that we can do when we
encounter with the ignorant, the the stupid and bad
people. The ignorant and the stupid will
vote and choose the bad people to be their
leaders. The bad people will rob their
earnings and sell the country behind their
back. They are so selfish that they would
not care what will happen to the people who
vote for them. If anything happens they
would fled the country carrying billions
with them.
Let
me pose a question on a very recent event;
that the Swiss government confiscated about
400 millions of money that was said to be
belong to 1Mdb. The government of Malaysia
did not claim it. 1Mdb said said the money
did not belong to them. Whose money is that
? Swiss had confirmed that it was a
laundered money. And there is another
question about the attempt to pay to DOJ to
drop the 1Mdb investigation and the case.
Why not Najib sued DOJ and other officials
who called him 'a thief' and 'a crook' ? The
bad people will be thinking how to twist and
spin the case. The stupid and the ignorant
will believe what the UMNO leaders will tell
them.
Try
to call Najib a thief in public and see what
action will befell on you. Najib had sued
several publications and even Lim Liong Sik
over the matter to say that he is cool. And
Ghani Patail was sacked and Kevin Morais was
suspected murdered by a command. He is not
that cool and just to ignore the world's
accusation to his wrongdoings. A cool man
will not mentioned the word 'your
grandfather's head' with anger and emotional
outburst. If you watch his speech on the TV
you will know his true color and his real
characters.
The
stupid people give their earnings to Najib
while living in a small abode and wearing
cheap clothes. The money was donated away to
foreign institutions and individuals to
promote Najib's popularity. Millions were
paid away to buy support and acceptance,
using middlemen and consultants. They are
happy to get a few dollars from Najib and
pay more on their daily purchasing of
essential goods and foodstuffs. Rosmah buys
million dollar watch and these people can't
even buy a hundred dollar time ware.
While many saw Najib was selling the
sovereignty away to China only a few could
see the poor fate of the country. Najib sees
the money. UMNO sing the prosperity. People
like me see the dark side of the Malay
future. It is the end.
17/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHEN
DEATH IS NEAR |
I went to
pay my internet bill at the post office and
requested for the renewal of my driving
license for another 5 years. "Uncle it will
expire in 2013," said the clerk after it's
completion and my payment of more than
RM150.
"I will die first before the
license expires," said I. It is not only me
who think of the near death. Mahathir
repeatedly said the same thing, as he is
already 92 and going 93. Dark spots already
began to fill our faces, and wrinkles had
begun to take shape. I asked myself whether
Rosmah ever thought of death and growing
old. I know she is above 60 though much
younger than many of us. Nothing indicates
that she realized of her ageing.
The lady
clerk responded, "Uncle, there are young
people who die first." Then I remember of a
31 year old Italian soccer play who had just
passed away recently.
And I went
to hospital this evening to visit a friend
with multiple clots in his head. He is 56,
much younger than me. Indeed the clerk was
right.
Only if
Rosmah had thought that she was old, the
Malaysians would be far more at peace and
living in tranquility. She believes that she
is young and beautiful. Her needs are
insatiable.
Many
people are advising Mahathir to quit
politics and rest as he is too old for all
those. But nobody dare to tell Rosmah to
stop being greedy as she is also is heading
towards Mahathir's direction. And my
direction too. It is true that at our dawn
of life we ought to repent, to see back
whatever we do wrong to God and to the
people, and to give all back things that we
steal or rob or plunder and appeal to the
people for forgiveness. Remember when we die
no amount of ornamental decoration, the
world of wealth that we own will make us any
better than the earth and the ashes. The
grandeur would be over.
At the
junction of heaven and hell God will ask you
why did you support a thief and a robber.
You will answer that you don't know. How
could you have niot known when other people
had told you but you arrogantly defied them.
And Najib will wave at his people to join
him in the hell together.
13/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
IS THIS
FAKE ? |
Is
this fake ? This kind of stuffs will go deep
into the world's history book. That's how
Najib will be remembered by the rest of the
World. While he is living, both of his wife
and him will be seen as people without
shame. Someone will examine what kind of man
Najib is.
We
have never thought that we could have a
Prime Minister who is being investigated by
the world of taking people's money. and own
very expensive jewelries to beat even Emelda
Marcos.
If
these are all fake, slanders and defamation,
it is of a great magnitude of lies that
should not be allowed to happen. Najib and
Rosmah must immediately take any form of
actions against the perpetrators. Lee Kuan
Yew once sued a foreign media that lied
about him and won. The worst that Najib can
do is to close US Embassy and declare war on
the United States, Switzerland and probably
Singapore. And the IGP, the police chief,
should issue arrest warrants on those people
including the former World Bank personnel
who labelled our Prime Minister as a crook.
MSNBC published the above footing on the
Youtube with Najib and Rosmah's image on the
fore.
Rosmah should not wait even for a day to
act.
We
are all waiting for the UMNO's war brigade
to bombard US's bastion in Kuala Lumpur and
burn down the building because of the great
insult.
11/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
FOR THE
CHINESE VOTES |
Whether
Kuok was right or wrong, surely he had
insulted the dead, Tun Abdul Razak. Because
the dead knows nothing then the living must
have to bear the insult, the son of Tun
Abdul Razak. He is Majib Razak, the current
Prime Minister who standing there right in
the middle of a group of Chinese and Gerakan
MCA who are defending the Sugar King. Being
desperate for votes and to ensure of his
victory Najib himself has to defend Kuok to
appease the Chinese. It means Najib himself
shows no respect towards his farther and the
MCA members do not respect the Prime
Minister.
It also
means the Malays who are supporting Najib
are in cohort with Kuok in insulting Najib's
father. This is partly a form of comeuppance
for Najib. And worst to come when once a
book on Jho Lo is distributed worldwide for
sale. It will further brought a disgrace and
shame to him as his name, characters and the
lie about 2,6 billion donation will be
published.
The hate
and murky relationships among the Malays
will be worsened as Najib is banning BERSATU
and suppressing the people. Distrust and
hatred will grow, and the destructions
befell the once peaceful race. Even now when
PAS shows support of UMNO and the practice
of corruptions and lies, the respects on
clerics and Muslim preachers are dwindling.
They are seen as evil, the Satan in Muslim
robes.
It is not
about Najib wins the election but about the
end of the Malays under Najib, about the
sale of Malaysia to China, about the
disunity among Muslim Malays.
This is a
real Najib who accept the insult on his
father for the Chinese votes. Even if the
MCA urinates on his face and shit at his
backyard he will still smile and vow to them
for the votes and re-election. His component
party members love to see Najib in a great
desperation.
Kuok may
not mean to attack Tun Abdul Razak but to
fire a shot at Najib himself indirectly, for
being unhappy with the whole of Najib's
stun. If he did hate Tun Razak, he would
have done it a long time ago. Najib has gone
too far and too much. His spouse is the
worst ever Prime Minister's wife in our
history.
To many of
us Najib is a shame.
10/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A
BOOK ON JHO LO |
This
is a great time for Jho Lo, Apandi Ali and
Najib to make money out of the oncoming book
by two WSJ journalists on Jho Lo. I am sure
the book will mention the 2.6 billion in our
PM's account and about Apandi Ali's
demeanour. It will have to contain all the
fake information. All Najib has to do is to
engage foreign lawyers and consultants
either to sue both of them or buys all the
books in the markets. And Jho Lo can ask
Apandi to declare that Jho Lo is innocent
and not a con-man, and accuse the WSJ of
slandering and pin the junk paper to
suffocation.
But
the book will be release in September, a
long time to go. Many people will die of
various causes by that time. That may even
include Mahathir. I am also sure that the
book will be banned. Otherwise millions of
copies will be sold here. Libraries in
colleges and universities throughout the
world will at least keep several in their
shelves. Some may keep it in microfiche.
What it means is that when one dies his
filthy doings will live forever.
09/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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SENTIMENT,
FACTS, LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE a puzzle in my
mind |
It is a puzzle why the Malays in UMNO are
defending Jho Lo whom they have not met,
talked or even personally seen. Said Salleh
Keruak, the Deputy Prime Minister and
several other UMNO members are very vocal
defending this man. If Najib, once had said,
that he did not know Jho Lo, it means he has
nothing to do with any fellow UMNO man
whatsoever. Then the rule of common sense
comes into effect. He has to be the buddy of
Rosmah and Najib. Following the money trail
by DOJ it proves the common sense was
something a truth after all. What was
written in the DOJ's report was a fact.
It is also a fact that 1Mdb paid twice to
the IPIC, the false one and the real one.
The Malaysian authority does nothing about
this but we can be sure that the FBI will
look into it, to find out about the false
IPIC and again would trace the money trail.
It is a fact that Najib took several months
to reply to the question on where the money
in his account came from, and he sacked his
own Deputy for questioning about 1Mdb.
Then there was a story about Azees and 3
million ringgit. A Zenith firm sent Azees a
letter claiming 3 million ringgit for
consultancy's fees for the state's undersea
tunnel project. Then the letter was
retracted. The events raised the enigma
again. It did not make sense for a big firm
to deliver a letter and after Azrees making
some noises the letter was withdrawn. Azees
should have sued Zenith as the money
involved was not small. Knowing Azees's
relationship with Rosmah and the following
events, the members of the public have to
appeal to the common sense to know what's
happen behind the curtain.
The real story of Najib's United States'
visit was finally revealed. Najib boasted he
was respectably and honourably invited by
Trump and he was a close buddy of the
President. Yet he had to find his own
lodging and the White House announced about
it and even said 1Mdb is an independent
body. The former World Bank chief called him
CROOK. He was called a Kleptocrat of the
worst type. These are all facts. When he
came home UMNO supporters welcome him as a
hero and a statesman. And he boasted and
swaggering in front of those people. They
are using sentiments.
Is the statement that Najib is selling this
country to China is a wild nonsensical guest
accompanied by a deep sentiment ?
Let me presume that racial sentiment is high
among the UMNO members on the DAP Chinese,
and start my argument here.
The Malays and UMNO members who are
anti-Chinese first vent their frustration
against DAP. They even threaten the Chinese
business community in Kuala Lumpur. Then the
Chinese envoy went to the location where the
Malays threatened a havoc. The Malaysian
authority questioned the Chinese envoy about
his visit.
What does this show ? It shows that China is
willing to protect the local Chinese. And
the local Chinese depend on China to save
them from the reckless Malay politicians and
hooliganism. MCA took a credit for it and
for the relationship with China. Things went
on, Malaysia signed a defence agreement with
the Communist China. Kuantan, Lumut, PD and
Sabah could be used by the Chinese navy. And
in Kuantan 8 foot wall was built for 7
kilo-meters long. Najib defended the wall.
A Chinese university was built in Kuala
Lumpur where thousands of students from
China came to study. Najib is happy about it
as it brings prosperity to the country.
Stealth projects that go to the Chinese
spread. UMNO is trying to hide them from the
Malays.
If UMNO says that DAP wants to rule then it
means the Chinese wants to rule. With
China's assistant the local Chinese stand
stronger, strong enough to kick UMNO out.
It is therefore a mixture of facts, logic
and common sense to say that Najib is
selling the country away.
08/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
REZA
AZIZ'S USD60 MILLIONS AND ADMITTANCE OF
CHARGE |
God is Great. That's what Allah Hu Akbar
means. It is nothing strange and ever
religion say God is Great. It is all about
Apandi Ali and all those who prostrate to
Najib and enhance him as akin to a Messenger
of God. Apandi says the 1Mdb's money is
intact, untouched and all are accounted for.
And the rest follow suit and believing in
the Prime Minister.
Those informed and have the ability to
analyze events know Najib is very guilty.
There have been attempts to bring those
against Najib into incarceration, including
the owner of Sarawak Report. believing that
Money can buy everything Najib was said to
bribe both of the American Presidents, Obama
and Trump administration.
To declare that 1Mdb did no wrong, all
monies were in order and Najib did no wrong,
is now blazoning throughout the world who
Apandi Ali and all of those Ministers are.
The admittance of Reza Aziz is one of the
explanations why Apandi Ali made the Audit
Report on 1 Mdb as Official Secret Act.
But that is not all. It is further
tarnishing the image of Islamic religion,
giving a picture of how a Muslim can lie and
perhaps commit a murder to save himself from
being accused as a thief.
Winning an election base on colossal and
massive scale of corruptions that are going
on will not halt or erase Najib's guilt. As
I have said continuing investigation is
going on to see who really murdered Najadi,
Kevin Morais, PI Bala and Altantuya. If
Najib is found to be one of the men behind
these killings, then the next course of
action will be known. Remember both the Arab
leaders were killed by their own people, not
by the Americans.
At least Najib should be ashamed of himself.
FBI and DOJ do not fabricate things like
what the Malay government are doing. Even
the Australian government which is so dear
to Najib, is now vocal about the CID chief
and the EPF money design. The Swiss took 400
million what was known as the laundered 1Mdb
fund. Singapore has found those involved in
1Mdb guilty and jailed them. The Korean
media was puzzle at Najib who still stay as
a Prime Minister (without shame).
Winning an election will not be the end of
his scandal and his vice.
Do you all remember that Najib denied that
he knew Jho Lo ? Didn't he ? Najib is now
ready to spin again and asked all his key
men to sing the same song ? How come Reza
get so close to Jho Lo ? How come Najib was
with Jho Lo on Equanimity ? DOJ is not
stupid.
08/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
I BOUGHT
A MAGNIFYING GLASS |
I just bought a magnifying glass, in fact it
is a second one, after forgetting where I
put the first. Before having my right eye
cataract operation I was able to read a
small print with the eye. Words get blur if
they are brought nearer. A distant of 1 1/2
feet away would be just nice for a clear
reading if words are not too small.
The price of the glass is RM2.50 at the DIY
shop at Giant Superstore.
The size of the printed words may not be an
issue to young people but they matter most
to the elderly, like people above 70. Eye
glasses do help a lot. I find that I need a
near vision glass for reading purposes. But
I can't say whether a tiny print is readable
even with near vision stuff. I used to snap
pictures of the tiny written words, on
Chinese instruction manuals that came with
the goods. Then I perused them back
enlarging the pictures. As to short
information like a serial number on on the
iPhone6 and the battery percentage my
Samsung watch it is more convenient using
the magnifying glass.
As I said when you don't have the glass and
you want to read the small print which you
can't, you can take a picture with your
hand-phone and enlarge the picture for more
vivid image. You need to resort to the
magnifying glass to read this number on your
only sole iPhone that you have. Mind you,
you can check whether your iPhone is a fake
or an original set. I checked mine the
iPhone server said the serial number was not
found, which I presumed it is a fake one.
To some it reminds them of Sherlock Holms.
The hat and the glass are the two items that
symbolized the famous English detective.
Holms would use it to magnify marks as to
trace finger prints or any minute articles
as evidence.
You don't have to wait for an eye operation
or to cross into the elderly world to buy
this glass. You may have to buy a real large
one, to put it between a large mirror and
you, to see how handsome or beautiful you
are.
BUT I the glass is a magic window for me. It
shows me more of the world, of UMNO who
knows no sin nor God. Whatever money they
can take, they take. The EPF money was
pocketed. The proof is so strong that they
are struggling hard to deny it.
07/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
FAKE
NEWS FIRST SONG |
The first
to sing the Fake News and Forgery songs was
the EPF guy. He said all the documents
produced by Sarawak Report were forgeries.
The battle continues. one says it was fake
and the other one says real.
Najib does
not have to deny it. He will just say, "Yes
I take the EPF money. So what ? "
07/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
KNOWING OUR
BOUNDARY |
What to do and what not to do is determined
by God, the law and regulations, the tradition,
and just from a group of friends. The buddy
culture is the term I would like to use to
the latest in the line. A member of the
group must follow the group's way of life if
he is going to accepted, else he would be
thrown out and be on his own.
I was informed that the 9W radio operators
were told by their fellow friends not to sit
for the Morse test. They regard the attempt
to study the codes as a deliberate mean to
breakup their relationship with other
members, and these people may be boycotted
and ridiculed. Those who want to stay intact
in the group would abide by the rules,
simply follow the policy set by the
group community.
How cohesive is the member of the group ?
How far they will go to help each other in
case of crisis ?
How much are they willing to depart with
their money to rescue their friends who are
in need of cash ? That can gauge of the
members.
To many of us, we would encourage anyone at
all to improve themselves. There is no
reason to fear that they will leave us as
their targets are met. Instead we also should
follow them, not to stop them. We cannot
make enemy with successful people. They have
had done a hard work to go to colleges and
universities, to be lawyers and engineers,
millionaires and tycoons. they have
resilience and dexterity, patient and
positive attitude.
I have said so time and again that it would
be no harm if you don't want to go for Morse
codes. That won't make you a stupid person.
You will be what you are. But do not
discourage or shoot a gun at those who want
to experience the new world. There are young
people in the United States who traverse the
air through CW. And 98% of their thousands QSL cards were marked CW in the mode.
It lives as long as HAM radio lives. As it
dies Ham Radio will die too.
For most Malaysians who choose to go for CW
the journey is not smooth, cheap and easy. It is not
thinking, talking, imagining or begging. It
is an effort of planning and organizing,
listening, practicing and time sacrificing.
Lots of expenditure had to be spent. Going
for a test itself would at least be RM300.
We make our own decision whatever concerns
our own interest and welfare. No man with
extra knowledge and with ability to converse
in many languages could be more stupid than
those without. It would have been different
if God forbids a person from taking the
Morse test. Or it deemed a crime by a
nation's law to know the code. I heard from
one ham that "they do not sustain me nor
provide bread for my family...if they
boycott me, I have thousands out there to
work with..."
Let me remind everybody again, that a
community of amateur radio must have
courtesy, ethics, well behave and all other
respectable characters. It is not a place
for anyone to be rude, rogue, breaking all
the rules and regulations in the world.
These could be the people who will destroy
the sanctity of this hobby.
The hobby is not a platform to parade one's
status, qualification, wealth, power and
mental prowess.
To be called a ham therefore it is not proper
to forbid anyone from sitting for the Morse
test.
05/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
CHASING
TECHNOLOGY |
A fake iPhone6 costs as much as the real
one. You wouldn't know the different until
you were shown the comparison. the fake ones
are flooding the market in this country. Of
course they are from China. I knew mine was
fake when I was sending the serial number
online to the company, it said the phone was
not found. I did not want to confront the
seller as I had soaked mine in the salt
water while having a good time in Maldives.
Furthermore I only dedicate it for my drone.
It is better to buy from the Apple outlet
though they may be much more expensive. Big
companies may sell the original version,
like Maxis or Celcom.
A new technology that I am keeping my eyes
on is called Moverio glass manufactured by
Epson. One of the uses is a monitor for
drone aircraft. It is very popular now in
the United States and the seller customizes
them for the drone owners and offering them
at a discounted price. It is about USD700
and RM4K sold in Lelong. Those sold in
Lazada cost more. For a RM4K is too
expensive for me. If I were to live till
2020, I will buy it then. I am sure the
price will be reduced.
Again we have to be beware of the fake
items. We can spend a few ringgit for the
fake stuffs but not a few hundreds or
thousands like the iPhone 6. Nobody cares
about it. And they are even advertised on
the Facebook and at other public accessible
media.
There is no Epson shop in my locality though
there
are many shops that are selling Epson
printers.
Chasing technology and try to own them will
cut holes in our pockets. This is where a
strong self discipline is required. It can
us to be patient and wait longer, may be for
some other new inventions and prices may be
sliding down. We remember when the first
calculator hit the market, with a prize tag
of more than a hundred ringgit. And now it
is less than RM10. Similarly to the printers
and even the smart Phones. Apple started
with several thousands and the new ones like
iPhone 6 costs about RM1.6K.
In the meantime I just follow the progress
of this Moverio gadget and continue with my
iPhone as a monitoring device.
04/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
FAKE
NEWS STRATEGY |
The
propaganda and War Departments of the
government of Malaysia have been striving
hard to counter all news those show disfavor
towards the country. If we can still
remember how one Lester Malanyi was brought
out to discredit Sarawak Report and to say
all articles by the media are all fake and
lies, particularly on the 2.6 billion that
went into Najib's account. And later the
Wall Street Journal published almost the
same story. The government of Malaysia
announced of the legal action against WSJ
and to date nothing materialize.
The
government is now singing the Fake News song
to instil in the minds of the netizens that
news and statements that do not come from
the her and the government's media are all
fake. And whatever from the government,
ministers and the ruling party are all facts
and nothing but the truth.
There are
several news and stories that are published
by the international media. First is about
the negotiation to corrupt DOJ and the White
House. Secondly is about the seizure of Jho
Lo's yatch and finally about the involvement
of the Prime Minister in stealing of EPF
fund through deceptive means. Below is the
continuance on the use of EPF, Felda and
Felcra funds.
As
to whether it is a cookup stories or not we
just have to wait and see.
The
government is very fortunate that the Malays
and the the UMNO members are not English
educated and do not understand English.
Bashah, the Chief Minister of Kedah, and Noh
Omar, the law maker, were not so well
educated. So are a few other Ministers. And
secondly Sarawak Report is blocked in the
country and people do not know how to make
it accessible. But the World can read it and
send any news to their friends in Malaysia.
Even the WSJ is not reachable to almost all
common men as they have become paid news.
To the Prime
Minister the most and foremost not to know
of the alternative news are the UMNO
members. The Fake News song is to be sung by
all the members. To this day Najib is very
successful. UMNO people do not even know of
the Defence Agreement we signed with China.
Their ignorance and being stupid is a vital
asset to him and his wife.
When you read
Sarawak Report's articles do not take them
for the truth immediately. Time will tell
whether they are fake or real.
Faking
things, fabrications and disinformation are
the jobs of a special unit, the Propaganda
Unit, which is now integrated with JASA and
all the government think tanks to combat
against the opposition parties and the
whistle blowers.
What we to
believe must be based on facts and real
documents and situation. For example we can
tell whether something is a lie or not by
the time taken for a simple question ie.
"Where do the 2.6 billion came from ? " To
say it was a donation will take less a
minute. It won't take 6 months to come up
with the answer.
04/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
ANOTHER FAKE
NEWS |
How
many billions of our money will Najib be
willing to pay to Trump to drop the 1Mdb
probe ? Judge by yourself the veracity of
the article by the WSJ.
This
is only a story.
02/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE FATE
OF MR NAJIB RAZAK |
The
Americans are not interested in all other
Malaysian leaders but Mr Najib Razak and
intensify their investigations on his
rogueries, his involvement in the death of
Najadi, PI Bala, Altantuya and Kevin Morais.
They are also looking into Rosmah's
influence on her husband as well as her
direct interference in International
matters. Having gathered the proofs they
will decide as to what course of actions to
take,
Mr NAJIB
being interested merely to save himself had
been building barriers and great wall to
save himself, thinking China and Israel
would be able to save him. At home like
Saddam and Ghadafi he could command the
courts and the armies to fend himself,
overlooking the possibility of US-China's
negotiation to deal with rogue leaders. Once
the murder cases have been firmly
established the message will pass through
the world leaders and the international
police. It will be highly possible even his
favoured countries will take action to
confiscate his properties and money left in
their lands. All expenditures and donations
made to foreign institutions with the stolen
money will be seen through opposite views.
We can't
say what will be next to happen but to wait.
It is not about winning an election but
about the establishment of his involvements
in those murders. We all do remember of
Saddam's denial that he was the one who
murdered the Kurdishs and Gadafi in shooting
the aircraft.
All eyes
are
focussing on Malaysia. The jailing of Rafizi.
the burning of EPF and the ways BN corrupt
the voters and the court actions and
decisions. And remember that a murder is a
murder no matter a million says it is not.
In law circumstantial evidence counts. It
will be too bad for us if our AG and the
judges are seen to be in cohort with Mr
Najib to sabotage the freedom and democracy
of the country. And it is a big wastage of
our resources if Najib is losing more and
more friends throughout the world. The
blazoning news by their media on the
Malaysian Prime Minister tells us what the
rest of the world think about us.
Mr Najib
can hope for the best by his frequent visit
to Mecca. And he might have to transfer some
of the funds to help Saudi Arabia to lessen
her economic problem. It is not an
impossible happening in the trading of help
and favor. The common saying in Malaysia is
'you scratch my back and I scratch yours'.
But mind you Najib took a few months to give
a simple answer of 'donation' when it only
took less than a minute to say so.
The
investigators saw all those events, and
Najib could not halt the eyes targeting his
demeanour and movements. FBI and CIA have
stretched their tentacles shockingly far
enough.
01/03/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
fake
news ? |
EPF
building was said to catch fire. But Many
did not believe it was an accident. Sarawak
Report came up with a story, also making
Najib as an actor, planning to steal the
money. Again some will believe it and the
UMNO members will not. Here is the story
In
the old days we received statements of our
account but nowadays it is not there
anymore. You would not know how much is your
saving. The scheme to steal is now followed
by PNB. Investors' saving books are now
void. People have to depend on ASB/ASN to
know their balance. When Najib decides to
steal the money, he will need to ask
somebody to burn the server building and
destroy the evidence.
It
is a scheme device by crooks.
Denial by EPF
Secret Mega-Hospital Hoax Or A
Scheme To Scam Billions?
TJJR Diversified owner,
Junaidah binti Hussin, is
tagged as June Aida Hussin
on Facebook
The power point presentation
laying out the so-called
‘Integrated Medical Cities’
project, to be underpinned by
RM10.64 billion worth of bonds
from EPF, is big on grand plans,
but scanty on the detailed
implementation.
And, three years after
agreements were apparently
signed, the first of 15 such
developments, planned by project
coordinator, Junaidah binti
Hussin of TJJR Diversified (M)
Sdn Bhd, remains visible only as
an empty lot in Sabah – the plot
has not even yet been purchased,
although the bonds were
apparently signed over by EPF to
support the scheme in August
2015
The proposal, originally
presented in January 2015, was
to build these major complexes
across Malaysia, at a cost of an
eye-watering budget of RM47
billion.
The centres are projected to
include specialist units,
hotels, nursing schools,
business and commercial
complexes, retirement homes and
residential areas with
accommodation for the elderly
and is described as a major
humanitarian project for the
nation, as well as a
money-spinner for the investment
fund.
Ambitious plan for 15
Integrated Medical Cities
And yet the company behind the
proposal is a one woman band.
TJJR Diversified (M) Sdn Bhd was
incorporated in Malaysia in on
29th August 2013 and is owned,
save for one share, by a 48 year
old law graduate named Junaidah
binti Hussin (also known as June
Aida Hussin).
In her power point proposal she
claims the enterprise will cost
the government nothing:
“It is a project… to assist
the government to build more
hospitals with no cost and
also to provide affordable
high quality medical
services nationwide. TJJR
will be fully responsible to
fund the whole project until
completion..”
This ‘strictly confidential’
project summary was produced by
TJJR Diversified (M) in
conjunction with an affiliated
company with the interesting
name of Triple Nice Tales Sdn
Bhd, of which Hussin is also a
director.
Another key operative on the
team is a graduate of interior
design from MARA named Azlan
Shah Md Radzi, who is described
as the CEO/ General Manager of
TJJR Diversified (M) and is also
a director of Triple Nice Tales.
Proposal drawn up by
‘Project Manager’ TJJR
Diversified (M) Sdn Bhd,
together with ‘Project
Coordinator’ Triple Nice
Tales Sdn Bhd
It seems a daring, if not
preposterous, proposal to be put
forward by a company controlled
by just one woman with no
previous experience in managing
vast public development
projects.
Azlan Shah Md Radzi – Key go
between between TJJR and EPF
Despite the claim that the
enterprise will cost the
government nothing, the
documentation makes clear that
TJJR Diversified (M) is planning
to rely on the massive injection
of public money, through
billions of ringgit of
investment by the Employee
Provident Fund (EPF), thanks to
an alleged collaboration with
the Department of Health. EPF
comes under the control of the
Ministry of Finance.
So, while the government might
not be paying directly, the
Malaysian public will funding
the project at the government’s
behest through the country’s
state run pension fund,
according to the scheme.
There are immediate questions as
to why a public savings
institution controlled by the
Ministry of Finance, would
invest in a multi-billion
ringgit project managed by the
likes of TJJR Diversified (M)?
In the company’s incorporation
documents TJJR Diversified (M)
laid out its areas of business
as “renting
and leasing of furniture,
pottery, glass and other house
wares, as well as the
manufacture of precast
concrete…. and wholesale of
industrial machinery“.
There is no mention of major
financial transactions,
involving the transfer of
billions of dollars or
mega-construction projects in
Malaysia.
Official Project?
Acting officially?
So, is the RM47 billion
Integrated Medical City project
an official EPF investment or a
‘dark operation’ designed to
raise money for the Minister of
Finance, as signalled by sources
who have alerted Sarawak Report?
EPF has today denied the entire
proposal as a ‘forgery’.
However, the evidence is too
extensive to be easily
dismissed.
What is indicated by the
documents and correspondence is
that no other EPF executives
apart from, allegedly, General
Manager Ja’afar bin Rihan, were
officially involved in the
decision making process on the
project or its funding.
Moreover, Ja’afar appears to
have adopted an apparent alias
of ‘Jaffar bin Raihan’ half way
through the correspondence
relating to the project, whilst
retaining the same title and ID
number. He has denied that this
alias is related to him and EPF
now says it has reported
forgeries to the police.
Yet, kicking off the project was
an EPF headed letter, signed by
Ja’afar bin Rihan in his own
name and in his capacity as a
General Manager at the fund,
clearly identifying him with the
initial stages of the idea. This
letter, dated February 9th 2015,
purported to award the role of ‘coordinator
for strategic collaboration
between EPF and the Ministry of
Health‘ to one Azlan Shah
Md Radzi, in his capacity as a
director of Triple Nice Tales
Sdn Bhd:
“With great pleasure we
would like to inform you
that we have decided to
appoint you to be our
Coordinator for the
strategic collaboration
between EPF and the Ministry
of Health for the Integrated
Medical City” the
executive wrote apparently
on behalf of the fund:
Original commission in Feb
2015 by Ja’afar bin Rihan to
Triple Nice Tales under his
own name and job title
The next step appears to have
been a follow up letter on 29th
April 2015, this time to the
affiliate of Triple Nice Tales
Sdn Bhd, which was TJJR
Diversified (M). On this
occasion the EPF headed letter
was signed under the altered
name of ‘Jaffar bin Raihan’ but
using the same job title as the
one Ja’afar bin Rihan himself
has regularly used in other
correspondence (General
Manager, Business Development &
Administration Section, Capital
Market Department, Investment
Division).
This letter appears to be a
continuation of the same
negotiations and confirmed that
EPF had further awarded TJJR
Diversified (M), the role of
‘Project Management Consultant’
and stated that the fund had
also agreed to put up collateral
in the form of RM10.64 billion
worth of bonds to back the
project:
“..EPF hereby is pleased to
appoint your company [TJJR]
to be the Project Management
Consultant for EPF. With
this appointment, EPF will
provide the latest
registered and approved list
of Government/or
Government Link-Companies
Bonds owned by EPF with the
total amount of
RM10,640,000,000.00 (Ringgit
Malaysia: Ten Billion Six
Hundred Forty Million Only
as Proof of Fund (POF)….”
In this letter the alleged EPF
Manager addressed TJJR company
director and CEO, Junaidah binti
Hussin, by her known alternative
name ‘June Aida Hussin’ and
signed himself as ‘Jaffar bin
Raihan’.
Extended signature – ‘Jaffar
bin Raihan’ hires ‘June
Aida’
Further documentation relating
to this project shows that
separate EPF and personal email
accounts appear to have been set
up under this variation of the
spelling of Ja’afar bin Rihan’s
name. These have tested to be
working email accounts, in that
emails have been received not
bounced:
Denials From EPF
Late yesterday the Employee
Provident Fund issued a lengthy
and emphatic denial of the
previous article by Sarawak
Report outlining its
negotiations with two foreign
companies run by fraudsters and
the evidence that RM10.64
billion in EPF bonds had been
diverted as collateral to the
hospital project:
In a statement today, EPF
said, its has never had any
dealings nor entered into
any agreements of any sort
with Limage Holdings SA,
Limage Southwest Holdings,
the individual known as
Matrai nor any parties as
stated by the Sarawak
Report.
“As such, no transfer of
bonds nor funds of any kind
to any of the aforementioned
companies, parties or
individual could have
occurred as alleged,” it
said.
According to EPF, a fake
‘Letter of Indemnity’ dated
Aug 20, 2015 addressed to
Gyorgy Matrai of Limage
Holding S. A. alleging an
agreement between the EPF
and Limage Holdings S.A. was
made known to the EPF on Oct
26, 2015.
“As this was clearly a
falsified document, the EPF
lodged a police report on
Oct 28, 2015.
“A ‘Letter of Award’ (LOA),
titled ‘Development and
Construction of Integrated
Medical City Project For EPF’
from TripleNiceTales Sdn Bhd
dated May 18, 2015 was made
known to EPF on Feb 24,
2016,” it said.
As there were third parties
misusing EPF’s name and
suspicion of fraud was
involved, EPF said, it
lodged a police report on
Feb 26, 2016 stating that it
has no knowledge nor
involvement in the
transaction referred to in
the LOA. [BERNAMA]
In other words the fund is
claiming there has been a
bizzare and detailed hoax
involving numerous letters,
emails and communications
stretching over two years for
reasons that appear unclear. The
matter seems to have been barely
investigated.
Moreover, during this whole
period, Sarawak Report has
learnt, there have been ongoing
legal proceedings, initiated by
a senior UMNO politician in late
2015, who is claiming what he
believes to be his share of
commission on the bond deal that
EPF is denying ever took place.
Established connections –
Junaidah binti Hussin and
Ja’afar bin Rihan are both
on the team of a ‘noble
heritage’ organisation
headed by a member of the
Pehang royal family.
The EPF version of events
further conflicts with frank and
detailed testimony provided to
Sarawak Report by the present
director of Ladylaw Securities,
the Australian former government
servant, Nic Manikis, who has
confirmed his company did enter
negotiations with EPF managers,
specifically with Ja’afar bin
Rihan.
Indeed, Manikis has confirmed to
Sarawak Report that he himself
met with Ja’afar bin Rihan and
Junaidah binti Hussin (aka June
Aida Hussin) of TJJF Diversified
at EPF’s headquarters in KL in
2014.
He has also acknowledged that
EPF documents relating to him
(letter and emails of which
Sarawak Report has copies) are
in fact genuine not forged.
Manikis has explained that these
investment negotiations with
Ladylaw Securities, which he
believed to be entirely above
board, did not reach a
conclusion. He has told Sarawak
Report that the EPF executive
together with Hussin started to
appear to focus on the separate
hospital project and stopped
getting back to his company.
Manikis confirms, nonetheless,
that he has since late 2015 been
receiving legal demands for an
alleged US$20 million (2%)
commission on money allegedly
raised from EPF on the part of a
senior UMNO figure, subsequent
to the apparent signing of the
alleged deal with Limage
Holdings to transfer the bonds
in August of that year.
Sarawak Report understands that
the legal demands have also been
directed at TJJR Diversified (M)
as an alleged partner in the
planned EPF deals with Ladylaw
Securities (as confirmed by
Manikis) and also the hospital
project involving Limage
Holdings.
The series of demands, which
have been lodged with Manikis’s
Australian lawyers, provide
evidence that this politician,
who claims he was instrumental
in the negotiations, is of the
firm belief that the money has
indeed been raised from EPF via
the assignment of the bonds.
Manikis has indicated he will be
contesting the legal demands,
which he says are baseless,
because although he had promised
commission should his firm
receive an investment from EPF,
no deal was realised with
Ladylaw itself. However, today
he has commented on EPF’s
denials in an email to Sarawak
Report:
“So EPF first became aware
of Ladylaw in Jan 2017……
really!
Unless of course Jaafar
doesn’t work at the EPF…..
which I am convinced he
does.
EPF awareness of Ladylaw
coincides with [XX’s] second
letter of demand received in
Jan 2017…. I can see how
Ladylaw was being drawn into
something sinister rather
than what we believed to be
a relatively straightforward
property investment
proposal.”
Humanitarian Project?
Contrary to the denials of EPF,
Manikis has also confirmed to
Sarawak Report, that the alleged
devisors of the ‘hoax’ project
for the Integrated Medical
Cities scheme, namely Azlan Shah
Md Radzi and his colleague
Junaidah binti Hussin, were
already well known to Ja’afar
bin Rihan at the time the
presentation was produced in
January 2015, having interfaced
with him at EPF on a series of
separate investment proposals
over the past few years
involving Ladylaw Securities Pte
Ltd.
Ladylaw Director Nik Manikis
hired Azlan Shah Md Radzi as
Project Coordinator in
Malaysia
Azlan Shah Md Radzi was, amongst
his several other roles, the
‘Project Coordinator’ for
Ladylaw Securities, whose
directors acknowledge that they
worked with both EPF, FELDA and
FELCRA officials on a number of
billion dollar investment
proposals for these and other
Ministry of Finance funds since
2012. (see next article)
There is considerable
correspondence relating to these
negotiations, which makes clear
that the Office of the Prime
Minister, on the prompting of
the Prime Minister himself,
was actively supporting
Ladylaw’s proposals.
Memos and documents viewed by
Sarawak Report show that the
founder of Ladylaw Securities,
Dr George Miller, made an
original approach to the
Minister of Finance, Najib Razak,
as far back as September 2012,
which appears to have been
received favourably.
The presentation centred around
proposals to purchase mega
property investments in
Australia and Canada, for which
funds such as KWAP, EPF and
FELDA would supply Ladylaw
securities with billion dollar
investments.
As presented to Malaysia’s
Finance Minister / PM Najib
Razak in 2012
Sarawak Report is informed that
Najib then personally encouraged
the directors of Ladylaw
Securities (which by then
included Nic Manikis) to make
separate presentations to
various funds, including EPF and
FELDA, to solicit their billion
dollar investments in its
proposed schemes.
Manikis confirms the
correspondence which shows that
Azlan Shah Md Radzi was
Ladylaw’s ‘Project Coordinator’
in KL and he says that Azlan’s
contact at EPF was Ja’afar bin
Rihan.
Manikis also confirms that
Junaidah binti Hussin and her
company TJJR Diversified (M)
were brought into the EPF
negotiations with Ladylaw by
Ja’afar, who described TJJR as
EPF’s ‘proxy’. On Ja’afar’s
request Manikis had agreed in
principle that 30% of any
profits from an EPF investment
would be returned through TJJR
Diversified “as
long as it was transparent and
above board”.
What Manikis was unaware of at
the time (until being informed
by Sarawak Report) was that
Ladylaw Project Coordinator,
Azlan Shah Md Radzi, was also a
director of TJJR Diversified:
Conflicts of interest? – the
links between Azlan Shah Md
Radzi, Ja’afar bin Rihan and
Junaidah binti Hussin
Limage Holdings S.A.
The 2015 project to invest in
‘Integrated Medical Cities’
appears to have followed a
different model to Ladylaw’s
property investment proposals,
whilst involving many of the
same operatives and, once again,
the transfer of astonishing sums
of money to a little known
foreign company.
Documents suggest EPF’s ‘Jaffar
bin Raihan’ engaged TJJR
Diversified (M) which in turn
employed as its ‘foreign
investment partner’ Limage
Holdings SA, based in
Luxembourg.
Limage Holdings is a financial
investment company, owned by a
single Hungarian national,
resident in the United States,
called Gyorgy Matrai. In 2005
Matrai was arrested in
Switzerland and detained for two
years, under investigation for
money laundering, fraud and
forgery.
Gyorgy Matrai, sole owner of
Limage Holdings S.A.
In 2006 a court order was made
to the United States for
informaton on their resident’s
bank accounts and Matrai was
eventually found guilty and
sentenced to two years’
imprisonment (already served
pre-trial) and millions of
dollars in fines. In 2014 the
Swiss courts rejected an appeal
by Matrai against his
conviction.
Undeterred, documents show that
EPF and TJJR Diversified entered
into a ‘Cooperation and Service
Agreement’ with Limage Holdings
S.A. on August 20th 2015 to
manage a staggering sum of RM10
billion, supposedly to fund the
medical cities project.
EPF has now stated that papers
have been forged and so far
Gyorgy Matrai has not responded
to emails from journalists.
Nevertheless, according to
extensive further documentation,
TJJR agreed to enter into a
‘Revolving Financing Agreement’
with Limage to fund ‘various
Scientific, Cultural and
Humanitarian Development
Projects’ under the Kyoto
Protocol over a five year period
involving “capital assets..
totalling USD7
Billion“.
The priority was stated as being
“part
of the development of the
Integrated Medical City and
related infrastructure
developments”.
The role of Limage Holdings is
described as being “able
and agreeable to obtain
financing facilities” and “to
prepare the necessary and
required paperwork for TJJR ..
to be the beneficiary of the
required revolving L/Cs [Letters
of Credit]. Funding to be
arranged by Limage to be the
Lender”.
Development of a deal
This agreement between TJJR and
Limage can be seen to have
evolved out of an correspondence
just two days earlier, 18th June
2015, when a purported EPF
executive named ‘Jaffar bin
Raihan’ employed a private gmail
address
– jraihan.kwsp@gmail.com– to
contact Gyorgy Matrai at his known
email address.
The email invited Matrai’s
‘expertise’ and ‘support’
regarding an investment
programme, using as collateral
RM10.64 billion worth of EPF
bonds with the stock codes
VZ120003/22/23/24/21 and
PX140020 and DZ012851.
These, bonds had been “assigned
in the name of TJJR Diversified”
in order to “financially
enhance the funding possibility
of the Humanitarian project
which is being taken up in
Malaysia”, according to the
email.
The purported EPF executive
explained that TJJR, as the
designated ‘Project
Coordinators’ were now the
‘legal assignees’ of these bonds
and ‘awarded the rights to
utilise these bonds for
attaining funding for the
development of the project’.
Matrai had replied positively
the same day to say he was eager
to be involved, but that it
would be better to describe the
enterprise not as an
“investment” but as “a leveraged
financial transaction”, in order
to avoid giving the impression
the product was being offered to
brokers. At the same time he
requested more information on
the humanitarian projects EPF
wished to fund, thereby
indicating a total ignorance of
the grand hospital programme
that had been devised as the
reason for EPF’s investment.
Promoting his company’s
services, Matrai went on to
claim that as a Luxembourg
company, Limage Holdings was
authorised by regulators to
leverage up to ten times any
investment deposited with it.
He told the purported EPF
executive:
“We are going to utilize
your bonds as capital on
cash value we are able to
obtain funding against them,
and leverage that cash value
to finance the projects you
designate..”
In accordance with the agreement
of August 20th, Matrai, through
Limage, invoiced EPF for a RM10
billion bond payable to the JP
Morgan account of an affiliate
company, also owned by him,
Limage Southwest Holdings in
Danville, California.
Invoice from Gyorgy Matrai
to EPF
The invoice stated that the
payment would be met by Pledged
Collateral as determined by the
EPF Bond table, which was
annexed. This confirms that no
less than RM10.64 billion worth
of bond notes owned by EPF in
various Malaysian stocks,
including the PLUS highway
project and Tanjung Energy were
passed over to Limage/TJJR.
Listed bonds handed over by
EPF’s ‘Ja’ffar bin Raihan’
A further letter of indemnity
from EPF exonerated Limage and
fraudster Dr Gyorgy Matrai from
any possible charges of
wrong-doing in the context of
the agreement.
The letter was stamped with a
seal and notarised by the KL
based notary Wong Kien Cheong
and signed in his presence by
one ‘Jaffar bin Raihan’, who
presented the identity card
number belonging to EPF
executive Ja’afar bin Rihan.
Forged? Letter of indemnity
to protect Limage holdings
from legal liability for
EPF’s bonds
Forged indemnity?
The assumption is, therefore,
that the EPF executive did
indeed sign off the indemnity,
as checked by the notary against
the ID card presented. However,
Ja’afar bin Rihan has said that
he is the victim of forged
documents and therefore of an
extremely elaborate hoax for
reasons that so far remain
unexplained, despite the matter
having been reported to the
police.
USD2.4 billion Raised Through
HSBC ?
Further documents viewed by
Sarawak Report indicate that
several months later, on 22nd
June 2016. HSBC Bank, acting on
behalf of its client TJJR
Diversified (M) Sdn Bhd, issued
a transfer notice for US$2.4
billion to Matrai’s Limage
Southwest Holdings LLC account
in California, citing it as
payment of the invoice issued by
the company for RM10 billion.
The EPF bonds were the
collateral for the money,
according to the Hong Kong based
HSBC officer, Penny C L Tsang,
who quoted the same invoice
number – Invoice No. CC
0003-08202015-08302025-1 – as
the one quoted by Limage in
August 2015 (see invoice above).
“We are acting on behalf of
our client TJJR Diversified
(M) Sdn Bhd. Further to a
memorandum of understanding
with the trustee agreement
which is managed by HSBC
Hong Kong, HSBC Cyerjaya
Malaysia and HSBC Labuan to
facilitate the Management of
Assets to Blocked the EPF
Bonds as well as fund
management. All referred and
relevant documents are
attached herein.
This letter is to notify you
of this bank’s intent to
issue upon instruction a
SWIFT MT 760 with a face
value in the amount of Two
Thousand Four Hundred
Million US Dollars
(2,400,000,000.00) for the
exclusive use and benefit of
Limage Southwest holdings
LLC as payment of the
attached Invoice No. CC
0003-08202015-08302025-1 …….
The signed HSBC letter
quoted Gyorgy Matrai’s
original invoice number
Moving such sums involves a
great deal of regulatory
procedure, however, and only in
September 2016 was the transfer
to the United States ready to
proceed, according to further
apparent documents viewed by
Sarawak Report.
Leveraging US$4
Billion To Return To
Malaysia?
In the meantime, further
evidence shows that TJJR
Diversified (M) was making
arrangements for the transfer
back of a leveraged cash amount
into Malaysia.
In February 2016 the company
entered into a private
‘strategic partnership
agreement’ with a company in
Hong Kong named Profit Inc.
Development Limited, whose major
shareholder is a 36 year old
Chinese national named Ms Lin
Fang.
Ms Lin Fang proprietor of
Profit Inc Development Ltd –
US$4bn deal-maker
The purpose of the agreement was
for Profit Inc. Development to
assist in the transfer of a
staggering USD$4
billionfrom Limage
Southwest Holdings in California
back into Hong Kong for the
stated purpose of engaging in
various ‘investments’.
However, the terms of the
agreement provided merely that
once Profit Inc. Development
received the enormous sum it
would divide it the cash between
the two parties, retaining a
massive 20% cut for Ms Lin
Fang’s enterprise.
The US$4
billion appears clearly
connected to the original
arrangement with Limage to raise
cash for TJJR from the US$2.4
billion raised from the
EPF bonds. The two parties drew
up detailed draft banking
documents signed by Junaidah
Hussin and Lin Fang to cement
the deal.
Signed agreement to transfer
US$4 billion back from
Limage
US$4 Billion Transfer Problems!
However, as 2016 came and went
it appears there were problems
organising the transfer via the
Hong Kong company. US$4 billion
is an enormous sum to get banks
to agree to move without cast
iron guarantees and Central Bank
approvals. Such sums can affect
currencies and stock markets.
By February 24th 2017,
therefore, it would appear TJJR
Diversified was entering into a
new arrangement, this time with
a Malaysian company named MJR
Global Services Sdn Bhd, also
with a view to transferring what
seems to have been the same $4
billion from Limage Southwest
Holdings LLC in the United
States.
MJR Global Services had been
incorporated just weeks before
the approach from TJJR
Diversified (M), in November
2016, and its sole proprietor
was a 21 year old Malaysian
named Mohammad Junaidi bin
Abdullah. Yet this was the
entity TJJR engaged to assist in
organising an RHB current
multi-currency account in
Petaling Jaya to receive a SWIFT
transfer from Limage Southwest
Holdings for the US$4 billion
raised on the EPF bonds.
Mohammad Junaidi was to be paid
RM100,000 for his pains on the
date the account was opened and
then a staggering commission of
25% of the US$4 billion “payable
immediately after the fund
clearance from the Malaysian
Government and Malaysia Central
Bank”!
Gyorgy Matrai Invited To
Discussions At RHB Bank
This strategy for returning the
EPF money also appears to have
been abandoned, because by July
2017 TJJR’s CEO/Managing
Director, Azlan Shah Md Radzi,
had begun organising direct
negotiations between fraudster,
Dr Gyorgy Matrai of Limage and
RHB bank, where TJJR Diversified
(M) Sdn Bhd seems to have
finally opened a series of
accounts at the RHB Tower office
in KL.
Brought in to smooth out the
cash transfer problems – Dr
Gyorgy Matrai
The negotiations between Matrai,
TJJR and RHB executives,
including a Vice President and
Branch Manager named Razali Haji
Mohd Noh Hashim and a Senior
Vice President Khir Badrul Bin
Mohamad Shaharudin, were to
discuss what was now being
openly described to the bank as
funding for the “Development
of the EPF/KWSP Integrated
Medical Cities Project in
Malaysia”.
Azlan Shah Radzi wrote to Khir
Badrul Mohamad on August 29th
2017:
“We are pleased to inform
you that RHB Bank has been
officially nominated as the
banker on behalf of the
Limage Southwest Holdings
LLC and JP Morgan Chase Bank
NA to undertake the project
monitoring and progress
payments. This is to inform
you that the project funding
arrangement is currently in
place”
On the same day Azlan Shah Md
Radzi informed the bank that
three plots in KK Sabah had been
negotiated as being available to
launch the start of the project.
In a document described as
“Verification of Land Site” the
sites registered under title
numbers 015683002/2989/3998 are
shown totalling 18 hectares.
Research in the land registry
shows that these plots are
currently still under the
ownership of the Sabah Housing
Department, which has taken out
a RM25 million charge on the
land, with none other than RHB
Bank itself.
Sabah scrubland – the plot
for the supposed first
Integrated Medical City, as
presented to RHB Bank,
remains unpurchased
Documents indicate that the bank
was passed the details of the
hospital project supposedly
supported by EPF and the
Ministry of Health, presumably
to provide justification for
plans to transfer over a billion
dollars from Limage Southwest
Holdings in California into the
new TJJR Diversified account.
Officials at the bank appear not
to have queried why the project,
involving a planned RM48 billion
of EPF investment in
collaboration with the Ministry
of Health, had yet to be
publicly announced.
Sources have told Sarawak Report
that the real purpose for
bringing the cash back into
Malaysia was to fund BN’s
election hand-outs and that by
late 2017 the transfer was
becoming urgent as delays
continued.
It is probable that these delays
would have owed to further due
diligence questions by the bank,
for example on the detail of the
project, given the increasingly
tight strictures on banks
concerning large payments of
this kind.
For example, the bank would have
been expected to enquire who had
been engaged to build the
hospital complex, given the vast
sum of money being imported?
It is certainly notable that in
September 2017, a full two years
after the RM10.64 billion worth
of bonds were allegedly assigned
as collateral by EPF for this
alleged medical cities project,
a new player was introduced in
the form of the construction
company, purportedly hired for
the job.
Panama Based Construction
Company
Owner and director Andres
Salazar Tortolero
The construction company with
the strangely translated name of
Diver Module Sdn Bhd had only
been incorporated in Malaysia a
month before, on 17th August
2017.
It is owned by a group of
Venezuelan brothers, named
Salazar Tortolero, as a
subsdiary of their company in
Panama with the Spanish name of
Grupo Diversica S.A.
The Panama company’s Facebook
page indicates a fairly
modest-sized company, mainly
specialising in residential
property building and
renovation. However, following
a payment of US$180,000 to the
Diver Module Sdn Bhd bank
account in KL on October 18th,
an elaborate presentation
appears to have been made
available, detailing the extent
of the capability and expertise
of the company to act as the
construction group for the
Medical Cities Project.
Edgar Salazar Tortolero –
Venezuelan consbtructor
brought in to build Sabah’s
Integrated Medical City
The power point presentation
drawn up by Diver Module Sdn Bnd
indicates access to an
international team of
Panamanian, Spanish and
Venezuelan experts in the field
of building hospitals and cites,
as well as major construction
partners, including for example
the British giant construction
firm Bovis.
Sarawak Report has no evidence
to suggest that any of the
claims made by Diver Module are
not entirely correct. However,
we question why such an enormous
Malaysian project appears to
have been handed without tender
or any public announcement to an
otherwise largely unheard of
Venezuelan-owned construction
group, based in the notorious
off-shore haven of Panama,
especially given this
multi-billion dollar enterprise
was allegedly bankrolled by EPF
in an alleged coordinated
venture with the Ministry of
Health?
EPF has now stated that the
project is a fraud and that its
executives are not involved.
However, sources have informed
Sarawak Report that finally, in
January of 2018, a sum of US$1.6
billion was indeed
transferred back into TJJR’s
Malaysian account at RHB bank
via JP Morgan, which holds the
Limage Southwest Holdings
Account in California.
The sources claim that, as with
the funds from 1MDB (which
arrived back in Malaysia just
weeks before the calling of
GE13) the purpose has been to
provide BN’s leader with a new
GE14 billion dollar election
account to hand out cash to
voters…. courtesy, it would
appear, of their own stolen
savings!
Wow the faking news and documents are
shockingly complicated. Is this really the
end of time ?
28/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
My Rest
Day Tomorrow |
Tomorrow I will go for my cataract operation
at Kedah Medical Centre. I was supposed to
have it done in 2011 at the Hospital
Sulatanah Bahiyah but I had to pospone it
since there was nobody to look after my
bed-ridden wife then. When the hospital
rejected my application to continue with it
recently, and they did not reply to my
appeal letter, I chose to do it in a private
medical place. It is expensive though,
making an appointment with a doctor had cost
me RM250. The operation cost is RM3.2K. I
don't know how much I have to pay for the
medication. I am suppose to go in the
morning and come back home in the evening.
The nurse did not encourage me to stay in
the ward. But I think I want to stay there
for a night, so that I don't have to come
home and go back again the next day for the
removal of the eye cover.
I
did not tell anyone about it except for one
radio friend and writing it here in my blog,
as to me, it is only a trivial matter. I
think I can take care of myself.
For
10 days I will stay home except. I will slip
out just to buy a brunch and a dinner at the
nearby stalls. I will be active again except
for doing heavy work and carrying things
above 10 Kg. The nurse said it will be no
more than a month. That will be fine for me.
There are plenty of things to do at home.
25/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
ANOTHER
PUZZLING THINGS |
It is only my view. If you don't like like
just ignore it. Again it is about Amateur
Radio. First, it is about a word that many
of you might have not heard before,
PRIVILEDGE/PRIVILEGE, which implies that the
license given is a privilege, differs from
the word RIGHT. Thus a privilege can always
be withdrawn without any reason and the
authority cannot be wronged not to approve
any license, and without any obligation to
provide you with a reason. I think it is
wise to look at the example of a visa
application to the United States. To apply
for the visa one has to pay a fee about
about RM500. One will be called for an
interview. If fails the money will not be
returned.
During a telecom time a licence could be
withdrawn from an operator who spoke to a
pirate station, and he himself was known to
be a pirate and involved in any illegal
non-ham radio station. Even a CB equipment
has to be registered.
Secondly it on the word RECIPROCAL LICENSE.
As I understand reciprocity carries together
the citizenship and the call sign. A
Malaysian citizen does not reciprocate on
itself. Else Mr XX who live in Ulu Temeling
would sit exams conducted by the whole world
and passes several of them would apply for a
Malaysian license without the local RAE. He
is not a citizen of Myanmar to use the
Myanmar certificate for the reciprocal
license.
A Myanmar citizen can apply for the
reciprocal licence. He is regarded as a
respected guest. The authority, in show of
respect and friendliness, can present him
with the best ever radio class as it seems
fit.
Then it took me days and months pondering
why the Malaysian hams love to sit for the
FCC test. We have several hams who were in
the United States, passed all the tests
taken there, are still sitting for the local
RAE and CW test for the Malaysian tickets.
And none of them ever blazoned of their US
call signs. There were people with the RSGB
certificate still had to sit for the local
RAE.
When I was asked to sit for the FCC test
certainly I would ask for the reason, unless
I find it interesting to have some fun or I
want to show to the rest that I am a very
clever ham.
I do not mean to harm or hurt anybody. But
it could not escape my mind to observe new
things happening. Neither would I regard
those as my enemy nor doing the wrong thing.
Thirdly it is about the forcing of one's
will on others. The platform of the exchange
is the Facebook. Let me give you an example;
a ham went back to his kampong and called
for someone on the frequency. Nobody went
back to his call. As he gave a remark about
it, there were numerous other radio
operators who started to condemned and
insult other fellow amateurs, complaining of
their conducts. The way things went, radio
operators were asked to stay on the local
frequency all the time.
That was just one of the demeanours paraded.
And are they proud of it ?
21/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MALAYSIAN HAMS PUZZLING ME |
When
I started with a HAM radio, I started with a
dipole because that's the only knowledge
that I had had. I computed the length by a
simple method, 462/frequency. For a 10 meter
dipole it is approximately 16 feet long, a
15 meter is about 22 feet, 20 meter is about
32 feet and 40 meter is approximately 66
feet. I never go on 80 or 160 meter. It was
beyond my dream for it was too long for the
space that my land can offer. And I only had
a 20 meter and 40 meter dipole. The 20 meter
is for long distant communication and the 40
meter for local chats. So much so 40 meter
was called the local band frequency.
Countries around Southeast Asia were not
considered as a long distant nations. For
working on a 15 meter band I used the 40
meter dipole.
It
was indeed appropriate for people without
big land space to have the shortest dipole,
the 10 meter band. And it would be funny for
people living in such a place to acquire the
160 or 80 meter band. Then they complained
and lamented about them.
For
these people the answer is a Vertical or
Magnetic Loop. I worked with hams on their
motorbikes and motorcars from Europe,
amazingly strong enough to band my S-meter.
The flat dwellers have been encouraged to
build a magnetic loop. In Malaysia 9M2SX had
been enjoying with his loop tremendously.
We
had a choice then, either to work with the
local or distant stations. Ragchewing with a
distant stations need a strong command in
English otherwise we would go on CW or Morse
codes which generally limit the exchanges of
information on name, location, weather,
equipment used, power, antenna and it's
height. The distant stations were achieved
on 20, 15 and 10 meters. Occasionally we
could hear fellow Malaysians on 20 meter
band.
I
was trying to figure out why the Malaysian
hams asked for 40 meter band and then
complained that the antenna is too long to
fit the space, and they are asking for 20
and 15 meters to accommodate their needs.
Are they going to talk to the locals or the
Americans and other Europeans ? Why don't
they just trade 40 meter for all other bands
?
22/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MY
ISSUES AND PROBLEMS |
I
struggled with my drone, my movie editor and
the Browser I have in my old Macbook. Of all
the stuffs an Application called the
Mackeeper harassed me the most. Mackeeper is
a software that makes you believe that it
will take care of your Macbook. I accidently
downloaded it as I was unaware of it's
fraudulent purpose ie to tap some cash out
of your pocket. It is so bad that it is
making it's way into several applications
and software and behaves like a virus.
In
fact it is a kind of virus and malware you
should have not downloaded unless you are
willing to pay.
I
tried to delete files that I saw the word
Mackeeper. I erase the Safari and the Google
as I found that I no longer able to open up
a file I wanted to upload to the Youtube. I
replaced them with a couple of new ones. The
effect was the same. Instead I was using a
new used MacBook which I recently purchased
from a friend.
It
came across my mind to copy Chrome from this
machine and copy to the old Mac. You see
every time I tried to download Chrome or
Safari with the new browser the Mackeeper
would show itself, that I have to do the
downloading through it and after I agree to
install the Keeper itself.
After the transfer and a little manipulation
everything came back to normal. But it is
not my intention to upload my work via this
old Macbook to the Youtube channel. It is
just a backup unit for any eventualities.
I am
much more careful with my drone now, reading
and studying the menu before I make a
flight. I just found out that I could not
apply the Home Landing to where the drone
controller is. There are two types of
landing, to where it takes off and to the
location of the controller. I could use the
second one as the notification always say
that the GPS for the device is weak. I use
an iPhone6 as the picture is clear and
without any lagging. My Asus phone can
execute both of the landing methods but the
lagging was too bad. I tried with Samsung
Note2. There wasn't any image on it's screen
at all. So I have to settle with the first
type of landing.
The
drone itself needs all sort of calibrations
and setting up. The shop set the IMU thing
for me. Slowly I worked on the compass
calibration. Then I worked on Gimbal/camera
unit to fix the tilting issue. The next I am
going to study more on precision landing.
Such words were not heard since the last ten
or twenty landings.
There are more problems ahead, which are not
the drone and computer related alone. They
are queuing up one after another. At least I
have my plan of actions for each one of
them.
21/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE FEAR
FACTOR |
Am 82 year old politician advised a 92 year
old politician to rest and forget about
politics. At 72 I myself felt politics can
ruin my remaining few days, pushing the
blood pressure far above the normal rate,
and causing unnecessary worries, and made me
living in fear of the future. I quit
newspapers and TV to get away from it.
But Whatsapp and Facebook popped the sudden
emergence of lecturers and propagandists. That'd
how I become to know the degree of China's
involvement in Malaysia and their rigorous
activities, many are stealth in nature. This alone brought a great fear
in me, foreseeing the desolation of the
Malaysian race. And I see Najib is playing a
safe game internationally, and striving hard
to retain his status as a Prime Minister,
His victory is a disaster to the people, for
they will have to bear the higher cost of
living, especially the Malays.
It is the fear factor that made the concerned
people care to speak out regardless of their
ages. Even a man in a grave yard would yell
at Rosmah and Syahrizat if he could. Those
who have seen the past and the present would
be able to forecast the future. The future
is not in 20 years time. The future is now.
If UMNO members failed to see the underlying
truth it means nothing more than they are
blind to the core, extremely myopic.
Najib is willing to do anything to save
himself. Anything. Wouldn't that worry us ?
The most distressing is to surrender our
sovereignty away without him realizing it.
He is too desperate to save his neck and
allowed himself to be lured into China's
trap. Our concern is, he is not going into
the trap alone. He is pulling us together with him.
We understand China is a progressive nation.
Our leaders are telling us that we must lean
on China for bread and butter, be it's
vassal and slaves. We were once at par with
South Korea. We started together to build
our nation. I am sure some of you might know
what IMP was. The Koreans never stopped.
Then the Chinese followed. And now Najib is
telling us not to irritate China or else we
will be starving without them. He does not
believe he can do anything substantive.
Shahrizat failed in NFC. Najib failed in
1Mdb and FELDA and MARA ruined the Malays.
Is that not the reason why he wants us to
depend on other nation, instead of building
a strong nation by ourselves.
The Malays are too stupid to decipher events
around them. They can't see what's in front
of their noses.
We are concern with the culture of lies and
thefts. Thieves go scot-free, the persons
who pointed at the thieves have become
criminals. It is odd to nature and odd to
most of liberal and thinking men. But it is
not To God. God has said that towards the
end of time there will rise people like
this, shameless and without morality in
their skins. And claimed that they are God
chosen.
Who in the right kind of mind can ever
pretend nothing has happened except the
morons and the inhabitants of hell. Then
that 82 year old man must be living in the
camp of satanic clans. It is very despicable
of a man who condoned cruelty and thefts.
20/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
SLOWLY
SLOWLY CATCH THE MONKEY |
After I crashed my drone and plucking it on
a tree where it got stuck, the dilemma never
end. It was barely a week I had to bear with
the afflictions. And when I went to shoot my
friend's antenna, I saw wavy images on the
screen. Reading from literature, I found
that many others were facing the same
experience and different people giving
attribute to variety of causes, some were
too technical and using bombastic terms that
made the problem more complex and hard to
deal with. Just a day before the Chinese New
Year i took to the drone vendor. A young boy
made an adjustment to the rubber holder of
the gimbal. He took less than 10 minutes to
do it, So much with the theories and
technicalities.
Then yesterday when I wanted to film a
traditional archaic building, I saw the
picture tilted to the left by a few percent.
I continued to shoot but with the unhappy
mood and in desolation. At home I googled
for the reason. The explanations were too
quick and too fast to understand. I finally
calibrated the gimbal by automatic mean. At
the same at the location I discovered my
Return Home function did not land the drone
at the same spot where it took off. It was
okay before this. And again I was reading
about the problem. Many suggested that the
aircraft should be allowed to hover a few
seconds a few feet up before proceed with
the flight task. In fact that was what I did
when I first started to fly, as I was
studying the monitor.
This morning I went to the usual quiet open
place bringing a small plank for the lift
off. I executed the RTH, lifted it about 5
feet and let it hovered for about a minute,
and push it upward and forward to about 10
feet up and 100 feet forward. I pressed the
home button. Immediately it shot up to about
300' as the RTH altitude set by me, and the
drone began to return home and landed on the
same spot. I tried several time, also using
the RC button for the same purpose, it was
perfectly performed.
As the shooting was done before noon, I
found that the tilting was gone and the
landing was perfect.
The next thing I want to learn is about the
speed, not of the frame or drone but on the
movement of the drone when I rotate it. It
will be the task that I will do tomorrow.
18/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE
FUTURE |
There are dreading years ahead of us which
have been painted with sparkling lanterns
and heavenly glory that the Malays will lead
a better life in the days to come. Yet UMNO
is spreading about the promise of Lee Kuan
Yew to the Malays in Singapore. They are in
fact have given the pictures what China will
do the Malays by their own display. This is
what MCA is telling the local Chinese, that
the relationship with China means the glory
and the winning of the Chinese struggle.
The poor Kampong Malays are gullible and do
not see the happenings out of their mental
border. The propaganda is simple. That China
will be bringing prosperity to them. And
Najib will say that he is a Malay and he
will not sell the Malay souls to the
Chinese.
There were stories of the boat people who
threw their kids into the sea to save
themselves. Such a specie will do anything
at all for their own safety. Najib declared
that he is a Makassarian, a Bugis Warrior.
And Zahid Hamidi proclaimed himself as a
Javanese. Both have thrown Anwar and Rafizi
who are also of their kind into
incarceration for their own personal
glories.
UMNO have always thought that nobody could
hoodwink them by the autocratic and despotic
nature born in them. Yet after more than 60
years of independent they continue to say
the Malays are still behind economically
under their own ruling, and putting the
blame of the plight of the Malays on DAP.
The organization was in fact had been
contracted by cancer unknown to them, eating
their flesh bit by bit.
The masses do not know the mental state of
Hishamuddin for signing the defence contract
with China which allow the Chinese maritime
power to surround the country and could ever
taken the country within a few days in case
of a confrontation. An attempt to arrest the
Chinese workers in Johor failed as there had
been assurance that Chinese workers are
considered as honorary citizenships and
could work here without the normal
paperwork. We could also see who is in
control of Proton now.
Look at the game people play on Najib. First
the Jho Lo who dragged Najib deep into the
deep shit of 1Mdb. Then the MCA leader who
is controlling Najib's mind by injecting
fear on Najib's mind of China's fury. Najib
has become like a puppet, with an invisible
hand behind his back. The Chinese knows
Najib is in a bad shape that can even match
his fate to Saddam Hussein. They will ask
for more. And he has to give. That explains
the Kuantan Chinese Great Wall for the
length of about 7 miles. Najib helps to
defend the goodwill of the wall.
UMNO members are too blind and short
sighted. It is a great pity for the Malay
race, the coming generation. It is all of
their making.
I do not believe much in the above video
footing. But it is a thought to ponder.
UMNO and the Malays have been facing
failures after failures in their ventures.
Some they can hide. Others they could not.
It ranges from FELDA to Tabung Haji, and
from businesses to corporations. Everyone
knows what has happen to NFC, MARA and FGV.
cont.
|
NO MORE OF
BLIND SIGNING |
The MCMC
still requires the new applicant of the
radio ticket to have the signature of the
class A operators. The other day my
neighbour rang me up saying that his friends
want me to sign the form. My neighbour is
just a block away, having a mobile 2 meter
antenna on his car and a Slim Jim at his
home. I never knew his call sign or whether
he is a licensee, though I presume that he
is one. And I do not know
who his friends are.
I just told
him that I would not sign for someone whom I
do not know at all. I advised him to contact
the regional club station that always have a
signing ceremony for the newcomers. It would
be better that way as they could meet with
the other members of the group.
I decide to
put a stop on signing on people I have never
seen, talked or recognized. I felt guilty of
approving such people with unknown
characters and behaviours. It had been a
part of my responsibility for making the
hobby moving towards the declining
condition. What we once termed as wrong and
uncalled for are now have been a common
usage and practices, The new licensees are
harsh in attacking the class A operators.
They use the platform to show their prowess
and mental abilities and even to parade
their status.
I want
to quit signing for people whom I do not
know their background and attitudes in the
past. At the
signing parties there were a fat thick brim
of papers to be signed even without the
owners at the parties. I was even told there
were collectors of the forms who brought to
the parties did charged the owner for a fee.
It was not only defeating the purpose but
also brought a stinking odour to the hobby.
And when they come, each starts to add arms
and heads to the mud god, hoping the
additional feature of the mud god would
enhance it's power.
We have it
enough. It has gone too far and too much.
The gods are all over us. I am sorry, I
won't sign for the unknown anymore.
17/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MONEY FROM
HEAVEN |
|
Toward the
end of days, there will emerge a Dajjal
(anti-Christ) calling the masses to side and
adore him. Those who do will be given with
money and luxury.
The shadow
has been shown. Here are the people, the
money and a kind of sinner that has no
shame, morality and humanity in them. There
are verses in the Holly Koran that mentions
this happenings when the days are near.
Noh Omar is
just one that you see here, but there are a
bunch of them, the unspeakable inhabitants
of hell. They buy the people and also
thought they can buy God too. I am sure you
have seen how they were trying to corrupt
God.
The poor
masses do not realize that they are going to
be sold to China. Their flesh will be eaten
slowly and the blood will be sucked
recklessly when the time comes.
Though I am
old and ready to die, I really hope to see a
few of them die first. I want to have the
biggest and the joyous celebration of the
century. And I am so sure many millions of
others will do the same.
To God I pray
not to allow the gangsters, criminals and
the mafia to rule us forever. There have
been death and blood on their hands, people
arrested and jailed for telling the truth.
They have the lie manufacturing factories to
lie and deceive the people.
This is the
picture depicting the future, of the evil
Dajjal and the followers.
|
MEN AND
ANIMALS |
OutSyed The Box
Saturday, February 10, 2018
The Guilty Cannot Sleep Easy While The
Victim Sleeps In Jail.
This country is now acting out a script
that is worse than the worst Bollywood
movie or Malay drama.
The thieves are sleeping easy while the
brave young man who took so much risk to
expose them has been sent to jail.
Folks, do you recall that Whistleblowers
Act? Well they can take the act, roll it
up and shove it up where the sun does
not shine. It has become a useless
piece of toil_t paper.
It was crafted after Flying Buffet 1 and
Flying Buffet 2. (Yes Dato, go and check
the language.)
At one briefing I was informed that if
you want to be a whistle blower, then
you absolutely cannot talk to anyone
(aka Press, Media) before you seek
protection under the Whistleblowers Act.
If you speak to the Media, then you are
no more protected under the
Whistleblowers Act.
I think this is a brilliant idea to
protect
WHEN THE MALAYS BECAME SO
STINK
I live for more 7- years and
have seen enough about the
Malays. At nearing my death
this very race has become so
stinking smelly to the
worst.
The Malays were once known
to be docile, friendly and
honest were seldom known to
be thieves, robbers,
murderers and wild and
inhumane.
They were victims of the
scrupulous, cheated out of
their lands and driven to
poverty.
Today they become drug
peddlers, thieves,
kidnappers, and cheaters.
When they owe you money they
ran away without paying.
The magnitude is very
alarming and the way they
execute the plundering and
the robberies are using
government and security
forces, and make them legal
by the law.
They have no morality, know
no God, fear no God, believe
in no hell. And they are
justifying their crimes by
using religion and their
race as the Malays.
The Malays have are now
known as the shameless being
like many animals. Proven
with facts that they are
thieves and being called so
by the world, they still
walked over the globe like a
naked emperor with an
invisible dress.
Everyday in the social media
we read about people
lamenting of the unpaid
loans. I myself have two
persons who ran away from
it. And one more is hunting
me for hundreds of
thousands.
I don't know who else among
the Malays to trust.
The social interactions
among the Malays are indeed
artificial in nature. They
smile, show their goodness
and speak politely to you.
But they may be the gangs of
criminals, supporting
suppressions and cruelties,
and plan to suck anything
from you anytime.
13/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
the
crooks. If even the Head Legal Eagle can
be fired from his job overnite, how much
protection do you think the
Whistleblowers Act is going to help
you?
In other countries, you can speak to the
Media, you can speak to whoever you
want. The whistle blowers acts they have
there will
still
protect you. The FBIs Witness Protection
Program is a good example.
Back to the thieving people. You know
you have done wrong.
Legally and cleverly you have dotted all
the 'I's and crossed all the 't's.
Pandai lah korang. The paperwork is
proper. You are the people who made the
system. You know how it works. So you
have escaped.
You know you did not need RM250 million
to buy cows. The idea was buy the cows,
fatten the cows, sell the cows, make
profit from selling the cows and then
use the profit to buy the Nissan Murano,
buy those condos etc. That would have
been ok.
But that takes too long isnt it? It also
takes something called work. These
concepts are alien. It does not fit the
party image.
So just cut short the movie script,
take the money now and buy the cars and
condos - for cash. I met the boy who
sold the Murano for cash. They too have
gone bust. Sad betul. Another easy money
story that bit the dust. Never ending.
So you folks are happy now?
Sleep easy at night?
Enjoy sweet dreams?
Attend weekend parties and binges?
Oh I forgot, you dont need weekends.
Every night is Saturday night.
It was public funds.
You dont have to go to school to know
that.
Taxpayers money.
Lets put it another way. It was a
loan. A loan is a loan is a loan. Ok,
we got that. Now, lets say it was not
a gubberment loan. Say it was a CIMB
Loan for RM250.0 Million. The CIMB loan
was disbursed, to buy the cows.
Then the cows got held up.
The cows were late.
The cows did not show up.
No cows or not enough cows.
Do you think CIMB would have agreed if
you said, 'Ok, cows are late. Cant
do much about that. Meantime, we will
use the loan money to buy condos, buy
the Murano, set up a couple of high end
stake joints etc' ?
Do you think CIMB would have agreed?
Totally impossible isnt it.
You can only do this type of crap
because it was a gubberment loan.
As I said, you created the system. You
are in the inside loop.
The young man did not dig out the info
by himself. It was yet another
whistleblower who leaked the
information. They knew what was
happening was wrong. They knew what they
were doing was morally and ethically
right.
They were brave people.
They are the good guys.
You are not.
And now the good guys are sleeping in
jail.
They have wives, children and family.
Forget about their loss of income,
paying the rent, paying the car
instalments etc. Forget about a young
mother left to care for her kids all by
herself. Its going to be tough. Daddy is
in jail.
But who assures the wife and kids that
daddy is safe and secure while he is
sleeping in jail?
Who assures the family ?
The thieves are still whooping it up.
So you folks are happy now?
You folks sleep easy at night?
You still have sweet dreams?
You attend weekend parties and binges?
You still have some of that cash lying
around?
Buy a ticket to that stone building.
Go weep and wail.
You know - to wash off your sins.
The stone building will not speak.
It will just stare back at you.
The building does not even know you are
there.
The young man is sleeping in jail tonite.
He will be there for a while.
Because of you.
All the good people in the country are
so proud of him.
We are so proud that in our midst there
is a young man who stood up so
courageously against common thieves.
He is a hero.
You are common thieves.
Sleep with that tonite.
And every nite.
Syed Akbar Ali at 2:25:00 PM
|
Malaysian amateur radio - the impossibility
of oneness |
It is easier to talk than done. A person, a
preacher, a politician can talk for days in
and days out, even about mankind becomes the
Master of universe. We have been hearing
about unity, oneness and classless society
for decades. Yet countries stand on
different philosophies. The master-slave
relationship never cease. Prejudice on race,
skin color and religion is still deep under
the skin.
In the history of the Malaysia amateur radio
there had never been a call for unity in the
past the hobbyists were all with a common
spirit. It had never been a platform to
parade ability, smartness and
honorary titles. The hams followed general
rule and practiced the tradition of the
hobby. The oneness was shown by the existing
of only a single society. You may attribute
this to the size of the fellow hams in
those days and you may be right.
Today the composition of the people in the
amateur radio shows the multiplicity of
their origin in the form of the clubs.
societies, the lingo they used and the types
of repeaters. ASTRA originated on the racial
ground. And, there is a MARES. And the quest
for money making among the fellow amateurs
began to show it's appearance.
The display of an ego by fellow amateurs
were becoming clear. It is better for me not
to pinpoint what are they. There seem to be
almost a complete freedom for both the
licensees and those without to let
themselves be heard with their own styles,
terminology and procedures. Some may find
them tasty and others are not. Instead of
closing gaps they created greater crevices
and cracks.
In my previous article I mentioned about the
creation of a mud god which I was trying to
relate it to the radio hobby.
Politicians always call for the Malay Unity.
It is easy to say than done. How could we
befriend the crooks and the robbers , the
drug vendors and the kidnappers ? The Malays
themselves are making themselves more and
more repulsive.
You can't force the good and the bad to mix,
to befriends and to honour each other. It
comes naturally even within a family
members. Many of us only want other people
to listen to us and agree with our views. We
would not want to listen to others. When I
talked of the past none like to hear about
it. And each wants to define amateur radio
in his own way.
It is the suspicion, distrust, selfishness
and ego that separate men between men. It is
the display of one's status in the creation
of ladder of ranks. The addressing of a
person to elevate him as a superior and
authoritative member was unknown before. I
did mention about this subject in my
previous essay, mentioning the late King
Hussein of Jordan as an example. We had a
ham among us who was working on a laser
technology as a hobby in the yesteryears but
never to blazon of his expertise for a
respect.
What do we expect when fellow hams denounced
the others as stupid and narrow minded ?
Certainly there is a world of difference
between the old hams and the new amateur
radio operators.
If the mud god is taken as an analogy then
the real essence of the ham radio is dead.
It is losing the identity, cruising deep
into the new world. It's a progress it is.
But it is a departing progress.
cont.
10/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
QSL VIA
BURO |
There may be changes that may have not come
to my notice for I am long out of touch with
ham radio activity and the progress in MARTS
world. But I think MARTS still retain some
of the old system, like the QSL cards'
system.
MARTS PO Box used to be 777 Kuala Lumpur. It
might have changed now. It is of interest to
the members as they may have to inform their
counterparts when asked. Most of the
stations contacted would send their cards
via their bureaus. And all cards will be sent
to the above address.
If
you haven't known then you can share with
your other friends too, that MARTS has two
QSL bureaus, the Inward and the Outward QSL
bureaus. All cards which came from other
places to be distributed to it's members
will be gathered by the Inward bureau, the
manager of which will sort out the cards
according to the call signs. And he will
forward the respective members. The Outward
bureau will sort out the cards according to
the countries and dispatches those away.
What you have to know is the address of the
Outward bound QSL manager because you will
be sending the cards to him.
Always send the pack of cards the cheapest
way. You wait till you have 50 or 100 cards
before you start to pack them. Try to ask
the post office and the courier service for
the cost. And you know what to do next.
I
don't know what you may have on your card.
But I would like to remind you that the time
should be in GMT, not the local time and
never demand for money from the other party
as this has never been a practice of the old
hams globally. There was one Indian ham who
ever did this and he was the talk of the
world then. But if it is a norm now it is up to
you to decide.
Remember that in the old days there was no
internet yet. There was no such thing as
common logging on the network. A log is
acting like a proof of our confirmed
contacts with another stations.
In
spite of the existing of the web logbook, I
would recommend that a real logbook is kept
on your own desk. And you can have both the
local and GMT time being recorded. Once
there was a court case in this country of a
ham going to court on a certain issue. He
was using his logbook to show an alibi, that
he was at home and was on the radio during
that time. But the lawyer argued the logging
was wrong as the stipulated time was in GMT.
That's the reason why I recommended that
both of the time should be recorded. And in
your home station you must have clocks to
display both of the time.
A
logbook can tell us the history of our chats
as well as the stations that we heard from
the beginning. We tend to forget who were
the few people to whom we started with
when we first qualified as a radio operator.
And it can tell us with almost 98% accuracy
as to who and when a person obtained his
license.
I
know that most of the Malaysian amateur
radio operators have their own ways and
styles. In whatever form and progress we
make we must always remember not to go
overboard. Let me give you an example;
A
man made a figure of something that look
likes just a man from a mud. He called it a
god. And he told everybody else to bow and
pray to the figure, which we call it an
idol. The idol is put in a high place, well
decorated and painted with colorful paints.
Some time later another man suggested to add
an arm to the idol. Hence an arm was added.
Someone suggested for more arms and two more
heads to be added to the god. So they added.
That looked great enough.
As
time moves on more and more additional
features
added; the human nose changed to the
elephant trunk. And the people danced and
prostrated with joy and praises to their
god.
So
when I saw more additions made to the
traditional IOTA and JOTA, I was tickled to
death thinking of the story of the idol
maker of the god. So make sure the QSL card
may not have additional features to make it
looks enough like the mud god. A progress is
not without a price.
08/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
THE HAJI AND
IMAM CAN HALAL EVERYTHING ? |
Some of you might still remember a story
about a Palestinian man who was sitting
beside me on a plain to the United States.
It was in the 80's, a long time ago. I was
still young and energetic, no more than 30
years old. The man asked me to recite one or
two surah. I recited more than 5 and he was
very glad to hear a non-Arab was able to do
it. So we chatted and chatted until the air
hostess came to serve us a drink. He asked
for a wine and I for an orange.
"Why don't you take wine ? " He asked me. I
didn't have to reply vocally but just smile
at him. "Don't worry Abdul Rahman,
Bismillah and it will be halal..." as he
gestured the wine would change it's state
the moment it passed the throat by the word
of God.
It was a few years ago that Ustazah Mashitoh
Ibrahim said that it was alright for a
Muslim women to be prostitutes for the
bread. And again she went to campaign
against Hudud law.
For those who have heard of Padi Kunca, they
are very well verse how it comes about. The
Haji and the Imam, being trusted and
respected, were trusted with their land for
the small loan to perform pilgrimage to
Mecca.
It is easy to switch from halal to haram and
vice versa. To make corruptions halal just
level them as gifts, and to make gifts as
haram, call them corruptions. When Hadi and
the PAS ustazs bought luxury goods and build
million ringgit's houses from the money that
purportedly given by Najib, they call it
SEDEKAH, or alms or gifts from God through
Najib.
It was not a new stuff that has emerged. I
have said that for more than 50 years ago. I
had been told not to trust a Haji or any
holly man with money and woman.
A good person is not found in the turban or
how many time he went to Mecca. It does not
a person's skin color, race or creed to
reside. In this blog I narrated about a
woman who went around town to feed the stray
cats. And how the Chinese came to help
lifted my falling wife, and a Chinese man
whom I saw gave an alms to a Malay beggar.
To many people Ulama' are now ceased to be
clean and trustworthy. Money comes first
before God. They made themselves so very
repulsive. They are just like the
Palestinian man I met on the plane.
Whatever haram can be made halal for their
own favor.
Look whatever response from some readers
that represent many millions other citizens.
I am not talking about politics though in
the current situation it coincides with
political events. It existed even before I
was born. The vices of a few religious
figures were really disgusting. Their
repulsive characters are prone to attack by
the other religious groups, making Islam the
laughing stock.
Hajis and the ulamas must show the good and
admirable examples, never to spin words and
to justify the criminal doings. No amount of
drug's money sending people to Mecca could
make the money halal, and no amount of
pretension not knowing of the bad money
would bring them to heaven. They should not
condone thefts and robberies, nor exonerate
the sinners as heroes.
At least they can regret for the sins and
plead God for forgiveness instead of
blazoning praises to exonerate crooks and
criminals at the expense of other people.
One reader mentioned about the Imam jumping
queue at the expense of other Haji goers,
depriving others of their turn.
There are two categories of people who must
always take care of their status; the
clerics and the royalty groups, in order to
sustain respects from the communities. The
former should not be too egoistic on their
religious rites expertise especially on
marriage and death. The chaos and disorder
can lead to splinter groups who can
organized themselves to overcome problems
with the rejection of the clerics. Let not
these people be called a band of robbers
using God as their shield.
I know of a mosque where there will be only
a few people going for the prayer if a
certain individual becomes an Imam. Heaven
is not made for them alone and hell is not
only for non-Imam and non-Hajis.
03/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MALDIVES -
PICTURES SPEAK A THOUSAND WORDS |
People
swam with the sharks, dolphins.
turtles, stingrays and other
fish. I did not because I didn't
know how to swim and I didn't
know how to use snorkel.
It is advisable to those who
intend to visit Maldives to
start learning how to swim and
practise in snorkling.
I just stayed on the boat and
watch those animals and fish
surfaced for the oxygen. Anyway
I could see those creatures very
clearly.
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There are too many beautiful
pictures that could not find
space for them. What I published
here are not the most scenic and
spectacular, since I just opened
the folder at random. My dream
has been fulfilled and I thank
the mighty God for the blessing.
I paid RM4050 to an agent while
the university students I met
only paid RM2.5K, purchasing
their own tickets and made their
own booking. My flight from Alor
Setar was on the 24th January at
7.50 am arriving KLIA2 at about
10 am. I stayed in Tune Hotel
until 3,00m pm for RM99,
together with a lunch. From KLIA
the flight to Male was almost
8pm with quite a long delay
owing to a bad weather. It was
at 9.30 pm ( about 12,00
midnight in Malaysia) that the
plane landed.
I was not in a group and I felt
a little uneasy. At the arrival
hall I did not see anyone
holding a board Arena Hotel,
where I was suppose to stay.
There were more than 50 people
with placards with the hotel's
names. It was while I was
queuing up to change a little
sum of local currencies that a
hotel man approached and asked
me for my hotel. I was relief.
"Let's go," he said. I followed
him.
There were several other
passengers. The jetty was about
10 steps away from the airport.
The boat took us 45 minutes to
arrive the island of Maafushi.
The hotel is quite a walk from
the jetty, about 5 minutes of
walking distance. From my room I
could see the beach.
At 6.30 the next morning I
stroll the beach. The hotel
worker helped to snap my
picture.
People started to fill the beach
at 9 am till the evening. I took
the liberty to dive into the
salt water myself, enjoying the
cool and shallow green sea
water. There were fish as big as
my palms visible.
The outing program for the
second day is night fishing.
There were 8 of us, taken by a
speed boat to nowhere.
I caught to fish at all from 5pm
to 8pm. While the rest were
excited with the large catch.
It was the 3rd day that I was to
follow a group for snorkling. I
was the only one who could not
swim. In the middle of nowhere
everybody went down to swim with
turtle and other creatures.
I did not. An hour later the
boat moved to some other
location to see the dolphins.
Everybody had a fine time but me
remaining alone on the boat
filming the sea creatures.
Not a distant away was a
Sandbank where we were to have
out lunch. It was just a nice
small island, atoll, to relax.
It was a sunny day.
We went back to the hotel at
about 8.30pm, tired and hungry.
on the fourth day I have the
choice to go for a repeat tour,
to enjoy the beautiful Arena
Beach or to visit a resort for a
price. I chose to visit the
resort at a cost of USD100.
There were three
USD 100
for a day visit
resorts
to choose from. I chose the Adraan Maldives Rsort. Visitors
can have all the facilities and
enjoy as the residence do. The
drinks are free as much much as
one likes. There was good buffet
lunch. If one choose to stay in
a resort the price range are
from USD600 to a few thousands
per night.
After the shark feeding event
our all visitors were taken back
to Maafushi island. I had had an
early slumber after my final
packing, ready to return home on
the 28th Jan 2018, at 8pm
flight. I would have almost
another day tomorrow. The boat
would send us back to the
airport at 4pm.
Maafushi is a small island with
a population of less than a
thousand. It doesn't have big
shops or malls. There are only a
few souvenir shops along the
streets.
Everything is sold at USD price.
The fridge magnet cost USD5 to
USD7 each. You can buy about 10
pieces in Asian countries. Fruit
juice is USD3, nasi goreng USD7.
And at the airport a beef burger
costs USD15. As our hotel
provides btreakfast and dinner.
I have to spare for food for
only two days of lunch. One of
the 4th day of the package and
the other was the last day.
There are thousand more of
Maldives's photos to be
published in this page. In the
meantime I am doing some
preparation to create a video
footing of my visit to the
island.
And the treatments I received
from the university students
were great.
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FOOD-There
is no alcohol in the public islands.
Maafushi is a public island where there
are schools and other government
agencies. But you can find alcohol in
the
private islands. Other than alcohol all
are halal. I have not tasted the food
outside the hotel and I could not
estimate the cost. I noticed the prices
of fruit juices sold in the stalls. A
glass of pineapple juice is USD3. I
tried the Nasi Goreng at my hotel. A
plate cost USD7. The Thai Tomyam was
also USD7. The Chinese fried rice full
of fish, cuttlefish and prawns was
USD10. Tomyam was the best ever. The
fast food, Bugger King, at the airport
displayed the average price of the
various delicacies at USD15 a piece.
THE
PEOPLE-
All women covered their heads. The
elderly covered their whole body like
the Arabs. The men are handsome and
slim. There are many Bangdeshis working
in shops and hotels. In Maafushi or Male
I have yet to see fleshy and fat people.
The officers were strict but polite.
Everyone tend to accost you when they
come across you. My judgement is that
they are as courteous as the Japanese.
WHAT
I SAW WHILE GOING TO MY HOTEL
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01/02/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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STILL
BAD VIDEO |
First take off,
straight up. I can still see the
drone
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Though feeling exhausted from Maldives's
trip, I can't wait to fly my drone on
the tracking mode. One clear place was
at the stadium car park, where I had my
drone crashed. I was about to buy
another one at almost half the price to
bring it to the island.
It was in the evening that I went to
fetch the copter, took to the stadium
straight away even without doing any
calibration and checked my video
setting.
I wanted to do the tracking mode. What I
saw on the Youtube and what the salesman
told me about the tracking procedure
were different. I tried to follow the
instruction of the drone shop. Hovering
at about 5 feet, I walked away from the
drone hoping that it would follow me. It
didn't. Then I walked around at 360
degree angle, about five feet away. The
drone rotated to follow where I was.
I thought I would try again some other
time and decided to do some video
recording. I had put the high speed
mcroSD, 100b/s and of a 4K type to
replace the old normal one.
First I took it up as high as you can
see in gthe furst picture. I adjusted
the gimbal so that it won't look
vertically down. The I started the
recording button. Then I pushed it
forward, did not remember whether I
pressed the tapfly mode. Tapfly is
making the drone flies by itself. My
eyes were focus on the monitor.
I could not recognize the place.
Stricken by panicked, I looked up. I
could not find any drone anywhere.
Slowly I reverse the paddle to bring it
back. I also rotated it 360 degrees to
see the stadium. No stadium was visible.
I saw coconut and banana trees. Fearing
that I would hit any, I took it up
higher and slowly moving it backward.
Finally I could see the stadium. Yet
there was no drone seen. Facing the
stadium I tried to bring the drone
nearer. I could see the cars moving both
in my monitor and the real life cars.
But I still could not trace it.
Somehow I looked vertically up above my
head. To my relief I brought it down.
It is true that I should follow the
beginner's mode. The drone would not fly
more than the set radius and always be
visible to the sight.
At home I used the I-Movie on my Macbook
Pro to open the movie. It was not smooth
and jerky, unlike the previous one where
I used the normal card and run the
recording at 2K 24 frame per second.
Tomorrow that's what I will be doing. I
may be bringing my laptop along to check
the movie quality.
However I can trace my own errors from
the staggered movie. I know where I was
and where I went astray. It flew too far
away out of sight.
It is a starting new adventure into a
new world for me. I am glad to see a
nice view of swimming pool, Sri Malaysia
hotel, the stadium and the Elephant Hill
within a picture. To me the spectacle is
great. And on the other side I can see
the view of the city in a distance. It
wasn't in my imagination even two years
ago that I would come this far.
It will take years before I could gain
enough competency with full confidence.
Mind you this drone has the capability
of going 7 miles with transmission
enhancement equipment. To fly beyond our
sight we have to fully concentrate on
several things at the same time. The GPS
map can show us the route but there are
several obstacles that we wouldn't have
known.
A drone is something that you don't give
to a friend to try to fly. If it
crashes, it is a costly affair. It is
expensive to do even a minor repair. Mavic
Pro is brittle. I saw so many users sent
theirs for repair. Just ask your friend to buy a basic
set that comes with two batteries,
tagged at RM3.8K. A battery itself is
pricey. It is RM350 a piece. Mind you
again that this is China made. They are
selling the United State Mavic Pro in
our local market at a much higher price,
indicating there is a differet in
their quality.
The aircraft can be flown without a
monitor. But without it we can't do the
calibration, setting the various flying
mode and see what the drone is seeing.
People use the iPhone or Android. Some
use the bigger one like an iPad. I began
with an Asus Gen5 but there is a lag and
delay in the image. It was as good as
useless. Then I changed to an iPhone6
with a fast processing speed. The image
is perfect. Comparing to all other smart
phones the Apple phone, iPhone6, is the
cheapest.
Drones are sold online. I prefer the
local shop as I could ask for various
assistances. The chain store in Malaysia
is called N4. In my hometown N4 is
located at Aman Central mall, on the
second floor. Online price could be
cheaper by even RM1K, quite a
substantial amount.
For newcomers there are abundance of
literature on the web to read and learn
how to fly, from the basic to the more
advance maneuvering techniques. If you
are not an English scholar, the video
footage, is good enough to teach you
many things. Else you have to find
flyers to learn from them.
Those with a smaller budget can always
start with the cheaper version like the
Mavic Sparks. It is as good as the Mavic
Pro but the flight time is just 16
minutes. It is still ample to record of
an aerial view of a location. A complete
unit costs about RM2.7K.
Remember, friends might request you to
capture a footing of their houses. They
do not understand the various
constraints and problems. Tress and
electrical cables and other running
wires here and there are big hindrance.
It is a big risk to take. You have to
explain about the sensitivity of the
aircraft, the cost incurred if it
crashes. You need to decline it.
But let me warn you that you mare get
bored easily with this hobby when you
have no more place to go for the
photography. It is not like fishing or
amateur radio which may keep you in the
hobby for 40 or 80 years, if the company
is good.
Unless you have several kind of hobbies
with you and you can fall back on anyone
of them alternatively.
MAVIC PRO
I have a long way to go, very very long
way. My immediate task is to manage my
video footing, to experiment with
various sizes and speed, then followed
with the color setup. This too may cost
money as the 64Meg SD card would cost us
between RM200 to RM250 each. Again,
never buy the online China made storage
devices. The ones I purchased from
Lazada were all fake. FAKE.
Once settled and the video is excellent,
I will proceed ahead step by step,
ignoring the time taken. At least it
keeps me occupied. A university student
I met at Maldives was looking puzzle
when I narrated how I fill in my
solitary life with various activities.
"Uncle do you have all the time to do
all those ? " She asked. I told the
group that I wrote blog, making movies
or the Youtube, play with ham radio,
writing computer programs and now the
drone. her friend answered for me, "It
is not a problem if we are used to
them."
They even asked me about the pin badge
that I donned on my chest. They were
surprise when I told thatbthat I made by
myself. One of them had peruse the
making of the badge on the Youtube
footage as I told them of my Youtube's
account of man4855.
It just matched with a lady's conception
of an elderly person as she forbid me
from buying the drone. "Let the young
people play with it. Just don't waste
the money." She shows concern. But it is
a general conception of old people by
the younger generation.
I remember, when I was young I loved to
solve mathematical problems. It never
ended there. When I am on the drone I
still have to solve the myriads of
problems. As Morse codes sharpens my
thinking, the drone piloting keeps my
mind alert and I still have to continue
my thinking process. I escape from being
a 'brain dead' person.
I wish myself the best of luck in my
experiments afterwards, the video
improvement operation.
Try to avoid thinking about Najib and
Rosmah for a time being. Make youself
busy, else it will shorten your life
span.
30/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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WHAT OUR
RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD KNOW |
I am sorry if I may offend you. I am merely
going to state statements which I THINK it
is true in law and practices. I know not
many people read my blog. A few fellow
amateur radio operators may. And I
deliberately do not broadcast for the public
perusal. The few of you can help to tell
your friends for them to ponder.
First it is about the legality of owning a
radio transmitter. I have to admit
that I do not know of the new rules of law
about the new regulations. Therefore I am
going to say about what I know of during the
old administration.
In the old days, not only transmitters were
not allowed to be kept without the approval,
but the selling of the receivers were under
the control of the authority. Shops were not
allow to import and sell any receiver with
the BFO unit attached. Of course none of the
shop in Malaysia were allowed to sell rig to
the non-licensee. The type of rig has to be
printed on the ticket. Telecom officers
would visit hams' shacks at random to ensure
that hams do not flout with the regulations.
This implies that no one is allowed to have a
transmitter without a license.
Someone mentioned that during emergency
anybody can use any transmitter to ask for
help. It is similar to a person having no
driving license, drive a car sending an
accident's victim to a hospital. Ask
yourself can any Dick, Tom and Harry does
that ? Emergency or not a wrong has been
done. The law has still have to fine him. It
is akin to killing robber who intrude into your
home to rob you and threaten your family.
You can be hung for killing him. That is the
law.
You can be charged for carrying a
transmitter but not charged for helping
people. There is always a hand-phone that
can do the job. Your lawyer has to argue it
in court. Your politician can legislate to
change the
law.
Secondly it is about using a PTT. I heard
someone was telling the new operators that
PTT is not to be used in HF transmission. It
is only for 2 meter repeater work. In 2
meter it has to be released to prevent TOT.
Actually in HF, PTT means what it means to
say i.e 'push to talk' . When you talk you
press the PTT. When you pause and stop you
release the PTT. Read the example below
(Press PTT) : My father has just came
home. (Release PTT for a second)
(Press PTT): He is now resting
in bed (Release PTT for a second)
(Press PTT): Why, do you want me
to tell him .......(Release PTT a second)
Why the press and un-press of the PTT ? It
allows someone to chip in or to break in
during the end of your sentence or within
the pause. There
might be an emergency or priority traffics.
Otherwise one may press it for half and hour
and talking away happily, giving no break
and no one would be able to come in. Se give
a term to it, a long winded person.
This has been our practices for decades
until the smart guys came along and took
over everything.
Thirdly, it is about the QSL bureau. There are
two categories of QSL bureaus; the outwards
and the inwards bureaus. We usually say
"Please QSL via the bureau/buro(CW). All
cards coming for our operators would be
received by the inward bureau. If you want
to send out cards, you gather them till 40
or 50 cars and send them to the outward
bureau. A person in charge of the bureau is
called QSL Manager. This is the
cheapest way of sending out the cards.
In the old days QSL cards were regarded as
printed matters. I would send 50 or 100
cards to 9M2DW, Datuk Tan, for the postage
cost of 40 or 50 cents, wrapped in such
manner that
the cards were protruded and visible. Today
things are different. Old ham operators
through their representatives, even sought
for tax exemption for amateur equipments
from parliaments. And the endeavour was
fruitful. MARTS could always work out
to make the QSL cards as printed matter
again with much cheaper cost.
This explains the reason why no Malaysian
hams seek money from foreign hams for them
for QSL cards. One Indian ham used to do
this and it became the talk of the world in
those days.
Remember there are people from our country
who are thumping their chest proclaimed that
they are heroes while other people from some
other parts of the world denounced them as crooks.
23/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A SAGE AND A
SENILE |
They are talking of young and old, of death
and longevity, with an obvious insinuation
that the old people will die first. A young
amateur radio operator said that one foot of
the old ham is already in the grave yard.
And the person died before those old people.
Some old guys are still having the natural
black hair and natural teeth while the much
younger people are using dentures and having
white hairs all over and becoming more and
more baldy.
It has been a long time that I do not read
newspapers. If I do, the first thing I would
peruse, is the mortuary page, scanning the
age of the persons who went to meet God. You
just try it. You are sure to find many
people who were younger than you are were
dead
before you. I am not talking about the death
by accident, murdered or suicide. But
if you believe in predestination then the
three type of death mentioned here could be
included. Old or young will die when their
time come.
I lost count of the number of my staffs,
colleague and friends who had passed away. I
shed my tears as my young and close
subordinates left without warning of their
demise. I joked and laughed with them at the
workplace. They were so young and innocent,
and I never expected that God would want to
take them first.
You may take all the precautions to prevent
yourself
from accident, engaging a thousand
bodyguards, having medical check up every
couple of days, taking the best medicines
and healthy food, but when when your time come brace
yourself to meet God. That was
what I saw as several world leaders did. And they too
died despites their precautionary measures.
Hence, there is no wisdom to belittle those who are
older than us. They may be senile, sick
and die before we do. That would be a natural
cycle. But what if we are the
first to be struck by forgetfulness,
senility, cancer and other deadly disease ?
I don't mind dying. I am already residing in
the death territory. When we can still run and
walk, move and climb stairs, stand for 4
hours, they are all bonuses to us.
From our border we push our head out,
looking outside it, to see who falls and who
dies, who cries and laments at a cut and
agony, mentally and physically.
The most painful feeling is not in our age but
in
the disrespect we get from the rest of the
populace. We will go all out to command
respect even to the extend of legislating law
to force praises and respects
towards us. It is our words and deeds, our
care towards our kind and society, and our
kindness and sincerity that earn us public
respects. It is not our age or our position,
nor our status and titles award upon us.
The older one gets the more experience one
gathers and more things one sees. Hence one
tends to speak with a strong basis of the
previous examples, the causal effect factors
that have been displayed, knowing the good
and the bad. Wisdom thus emerges with age.
Old men like Aristotle, Confucius and George
Washington, Fidel Castro are few among the
many sagacious men remembered by the people
in history. Their distant visions were at
infinity. They were adored by the people of
their nations. Do they have to go the world
over and pay to be called a sage, a good man
and the father of democracy ? Do they have
to exonerate themselves ?
Senility and forgetfulness could hit a man
of 40s. By the time you reach 60 you tend to
forget where you keep your things and what
you said yesterday and spew the opposite
today. There is also a possibility that you
may walk naked throughout the globe thinking
you are putting your dress on. You may even
parade your own immoral character. You may
not know what shame is.
I am 71, toothless, grey hair, a senile and
would forget things almost everyday. Yet
there are people at 90 and 100 whose hair is
naturally black, with full natural teeth and
analyze events with strong reasons. They are
active in mobility and sharp in thinking.
A friend told me that when he was young he
was a little surprised at his father's
activities of listening to the radio
broadcasting station when to his mind, his
farther should be busy with reading the
religious publications and only wait for the
prayer time. And in my last essay someone
said to me that drone is for younger people
to play with, not for an old man. Several
persons looking blank and daze asking me how
could I go to Maldives alone. I hardly
understood what made them so surprise of my
going without company.
If a 70 year man call a 90 year old man OLD,
he is forgetting that there are millions of
others also calling him OLD and SENILE.
21/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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TOYS FOR
AN OLD MAN |
My
drone isn't back yet. It is nearly 14 days
since it was sent to Kuala Lumpur for a
repair work. The work only started a couple
days ago. Probably they will take some time
to do the calibration and testing to the
gimbal and the camera. In the meantime I was
studying the tracking and the tapfly mode.
Tracking is to follow an object without
using the remote control. The drone will
follow the object wherever it goes. It can
be a person walking or a car moving. The
tapfly is to make the drone fly by itself at
a constant speed.
After this morning's breakfast I set out to
find a convenient place to test my
drone when I return from Maldives and before
going for an eye operation. At least I will have
7 days to enjoy flying it prior to the eye
work. The first place where I
went to was the Taman Jubeli Emas to survey the
area. It is quite an open location with a field
in the middle, wide enough to fly drone
drone. But outside the area are the
electrical cables running from North
to South probably a few hundred miles. It
would not be advisable for a newcomer like
me to fly over the cable to capture the
image of the paddy field and the Elephant
Hill (Gunung Keriang). Otherwise it will be
a scenic view. However I registered it in my
mind that it would be in the list of my
training ground.
Then
I went to the airport. The scene was
spectacular and beautiful. I could fly my
drone about 1/4 mile away from the main
structure. Even at 30 feet it will look very
lovely. Then when I thought over, it is not
wise at all even to fly at a very low
altitude of below 30 feet. I have to cancel
my intent, and I will have to think of
another location.
This
is a serious and expensive toy that yields
no return like the hobby of fishing where
you can make profit with the catch you make.
Adult toys are all expensive. That includes
Smart Watches and the mobile devices. Samsung
cell-phone is still with a tag of more than RM3K
on the shelve,
while the iPhone cost less than when it was
first came into the market. My Smart Watch,
Samsung Gear S3, costs RM1.3K. I call it a
toy as you can play around with it. It has
almost everything what a cell-phone has.
These
things
keep the old and jobless men busy, and
passing their remaining time in an enjoyable way.
In
the past, the young men always regard the
old people as senile. They always receive
scolding from their children, being yelled
and shouted with shrieking voices. Their kids prefer to lock them
in the house for fear of losing their way
home when going wandering around aimlessly,
or cars might knock them down while crossing
the roads. I am in this category. Most of us
have reached near the border of the graveyards.
But
it does not mean that we cannot play around
with the smart phones, fancy clever watches
and flying drones. I even have a desire to
build a drone that I can drive myself on, only
if I can have a pair of the drone motors
like the E-Hang. In fact I have been googling around for the powerful fans with
the intent of buying them.
The
Ultra-Lite plane is much easier to build
than the sophisticated drone. They have a
hobby club in Europe. People build small
light airplane using a two stroke small
engines used in motorcycles. There are
blueprints published for the hobbyists.
Because they don't have commercial pilots
licenses they took a low flight level far
far away from towns, cities and the
airports.
These are the hobby and the toys for the
adults. They involve resilience, positive
attitudes, the knowledge and a small amount
of money.
20/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
GOLD DIGGER
REVISITED |
A DRONE, A
RADIO |
Why should
I be looking for trouble when I am really at
ease with only a few things to worry about.
Nobody is telling me what and what not to do
and a dollar I have is the dollar for
myself. The moment I have a woman friend I
will have to brace myself for the turbulence
to come. So far a few women's friends have
been asking me for favour related to money
matters. I have narrated about a woman who
requested me to redeem her jewelries from a
pawn shop, one was lamenting about her
business problem and wanted me to lend her
RM300K, another wanted to borrow my car for
a week and the last one advised me not to
waste my money on drone.
They were
all only a jest for me. Two of them don't
have time to send me to the airport which is
about 7 km away, only 15 minutes of maximum
time.
Try to
imagine if one of them is my spouse. A
dollar that is in my hand will be smashed
away. The 5K holiday trip will double to
10K. And she will be forking all that I have
for her comfort and luxurious life style.
Again, my freedom will be restricted. I
better feed the stray cats, giving a little
to my mosque, extend a little alms to the
needy, like a woman I describe in the essay
below,
A friend
said to me last night, "What is mine is
mine, what is yours is mine." This is not
about care and sharing. I know there are
people who care., But care does not come
when a couple is at a distant away. It is
not about asking a new car and big money and
other luxury goods. It is about being
selfish and greedy.
A food
stall waitress. where I used to go for my
Crab dinner, had been asking me several
times, "Are you alone ?" I just smile and
said that I was alone. I would have guessed
why I did not bring my wife along. Several
restaurants that I always frequent asked me
the same question.
One of my
female student, about 40, wanted to
introduce me to her office friend, a single
mother of six children whose ex-husband is
still living. She jokingly said that "buy
one and get 6 bonuses". The question is why
should I indulge myself into unnecessary
trouble. That would be the worst nightmare
of the century.
The lady
who wanted to borrow my car is more
interesting to note. She works as a
ticketing agent and knew I was making a trip
to Spain and Morocco. I always updated where
I was during the trip on the FaceBook,
publish pictures of every scenery. When I was
in Madrid, I received request consistently
and persistently to buy a set of Real Madrid jacket. I did not
know who she was. But I thought it was one
of my students. Nevertheless I was ,looking
for the jacket when I was in the Real Madrid
stadium. It was not cheap either, almost
RM1K. I did not buy for the price, not even for myself to don.
This lady
is also an official of the state football
team. Her circle of friends are all VIPs,
players and other dignitaries. She wouldn't
bother at all of my queuing under the hot
sun for a ticket. As I narrated about the
story of the ticket procurement in the
FaceBook, a few of my students offered me a
football pass which I declined. This lady
never mentioned a single world about helping
me to buy a ticket as she is very much in
the position to do so. At time when I went
to the travel agency where she works, she
would ask me to buy her a rice delicacy. I
bought for her.
I changed
my ticketing agency which is a couple of
blocks from her office and found it much
cheaper than buying from her. Then after
several months she messaged me up and asking
me to borrow my car. I okayed her request
with the condition that she must send me to
the airport for the next trip about a week
away. She thought a little and said she
could not do it. A couple of days ago she
messaged me again asking for my car
immediately as her car broke down. Being
bold, I did not reply till today.
I found a
word HOG that gives two meaning to it, a pig
and a selfish and greedy person. It seems to
fit many of the ladies whom should be
labelled as Gold Digger. In Malay it is
called "Pisau Cukur" (razor blade).
Why should
I pull all the trouble clouds over my head
when I am so free and so much with pecuniary
abundance. It is just jumping into the sea
of fire and barbed wires.
When I
heard of their plights, actually I felt pity on them.
Two of them are maried. Their woes
should be solved by their own husbands. I
can assure myself they won't give me even a
pittance if I were to go broke. They will
come out with a myriad of excuses. And the
same people can afford to buy a RM3K smart
phone. They would always go for the latest
version. I have seen a woman with an
expensive phone went to collect the BR1M at
a bank. One own three luxury cars, each
child has a Wifi in the cell-phone. I don't
have the extra data usage just to save cost,
no Wifi outside my house except for the
Public one.
Yet these
people rushed for my goods and my money.
They are not young, voluptuous and
attractive anymore to be gold diggers. One
of my female students mentioned of the
phrase Sugar Daddy on the FaceBook. I
commented it was not appropriate to be used
by any lady of above 35 even. She is 40
plus. It is more suitable for the teen and
old man.
These days
the Muslim Malays are losing their morality.
They steal, cheat and lie.
19/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Stepping back just 10 years ago, never in my
mind I ever imagined of a new toy call a
DRONE. It didn't even exist at all in my
vocabulary. It was only HAM RADIO which
meant everything to me, that the best I will
ever have. For good or for bad the radio has
gone into a bad shape, losing it's grand
identity. with pollutions of all sorts. But
I still keep my ticket and made myself heard
in the old language of the original ham
radio. the Morse codes. While others hung up
their microphones, pull the bog switch.
And some surrendered their tickets.
This new technology emerged, the drone and
quad copter, swept the world by surprise,
generated millions of dollars to the economy
of China.
I kept my eye on it for some time as the
price is still high, reaching up to RM5K to
start a hobby with the mid range quality.
This drone I am talking about is DJI Mavic
Pro, which can fly up to 27 minutes with a
single battery. It commonly comes in three
pieces, giving about 60 minutes of filming.
Look at the footings below taken by this
drone.
Certainly it would be my alternative choice
to radio gear. There are so many types
available at the toy shops costing only a
few hundred ringgit but the flying time is
too short and not as intelligent as the
E-Hang ghost drone and the Mavic Pro.
|
THE BED |
FOUND 3
LAYERED CONTAINER |
I have been
sleeping on the couch for a long many years.
The bed where my late wife had been sleeping
is just beside the couch full of all sort of
stuffs; kid's car, gift towel, chargers,
travelling plugs, video camera, iPhone, iPad,
androids and other junks. They are easily
reached when I need them. It is very
convenient as I don't have to strive
searching for them. I forego the mess for
the ease of search.
I think it is
a high time that I should use the bed and to
transfer those gadgets somewhere else where
I can still grab them easily. Probably a
small portable table with rollers would do
the work. And I have better hurried to make
the change, by starting to look for the
table in the furniture shop. The price may
be less than a hundred ringgit.
It is a
single hospital bed with rails on both sides
to protect the sleeper from falling in case
of a wild dream or a nightmare. Certainly
the bed is for human not for appliances or
mini cars or the cell-phones. If you have a
small wife or husband, both of you can still
squeeze in it. I think it is the bed for me to
lie on when I die. I am sure my wife's
spirit and soul would approve of my going
back to sleep on it.
I have been
sleeping on a comfortable bed all the time
when I travelled overseas. The bed in Hong
Kong Disneyland, Harrod Medan, Pratunam
Berkeley, and many others are of cosy, large
and soft. I could stay in them for the whole
day cuddling the extra pillows. Imagine
there were six pillows on one bed for me
alone. Sometimes at my age I don't mind
spending a little to feel and taste the
comfort of what the rich and the famous
felt. Hotels are still affordable but not
the First or Business class on the plane,
too expensive for a few hours journey.
But the
homeless sleep on the sidewalks and on
streets and anywhere they can lay their
heads on. They would get use to it after
several years and satisfied with what they
have for survival. Some regard them as a
menace to society, painting a bad image of a
city. There are many of them in USA, China
and Malaysia. Most of us are better off in
many ways.
To the
Malays, a bed is the last place where they
are laid to rest before they are interred.
18/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
I
am glad at last I found exactly what I have
had in my mind, a container or table that I
can put all the commonly used stuffs in it.
It is not a table but a three layered metal
container costing me only RM98. It has
rollers on it and I can move it around
easily.
My
hospital bed is now clear, looks neater,
ready to accept me anytime. Things are still
jumble mumble on the new container. I will
arrange them probably tonight.
I went to
a furniture shop after my breakfast and saw
a wooden table with the price tag of RM260
but without any roller. I bargained for a
hundred ringgit. The owner, a woman, reduced
it from RM260 to RM180. It was more than
what I budgeted.
I wanted
to try my luck at the Giant Mall. If I could
not find any I planned to return to this
shop. To my happiness I found a couple of
this type of tray which were already fixed.
The rest were in their boxes. I asked the
salesgirl whether I could buy the ready
fixed one saving my time in fixing the
various parts. She okayed it. I bought it.
|
BUSY
THOUGHT AND MUCH MOVEMENTS |
A
lot of things were swirling in my mind this
morning while I was on the way to have my
breakfast. It was about 8.30 am, passed the
time of children going to schools and
government offices began to operate. Private
business would start about 9.30 or 10.30 am.
Yet the traffics was very heavy. Why were
there so many cars on the road today ?
Is it because of development and progress ?
Are the number of people are increasing in a
very rapid mnner ? It took me almost half an
hour to arrive my destination, which
sometimes only took me about 15 minutes. I
remember visiting New Zealand and Australia
where it is hard to pass even one car along
the long journey. And in New Zealand it is
hard to find tall buildings.
On
the way back I planned to stop at a tour
agency and Giant Mall. At the tour agency I
want to get my boarding pass to Kuala Lumpur
and at the same time wanting to buy a
luggage of 15 kilograms from Alor Setar to
Kula Lumpur. This is the first
time in my life that I ever want to bring a
few photographic equipments with me to
Maldives, to capture the spectacular view of
the glamorous and scenic environment; a Mavic Pro drone, a video camera and the
video stand. Of course I cannot put the
drone and the camera in the luggage
compartment. I need to swap them with by
hand bags and carry the drone as a backpack.
I
reached the agency at 9am. It wasn't open
yet. There were two Banglas there sitting in
the front chair outside the office. They told
me that it would open at 9.30am. I decided
to come here again. And made my move to the Giant
Mall about a mile away. I wanted to buy Cat
Food and Clorox for the animals when I left
for Maldives and the Clorox to whiten my
toilet bowl. I was surprise, the Mall which
usually already opened by 9am, was found to
be closed. I decided to go home and to visit
these places at a later time.
I
have to re-arrange the things I want to
bring; where to put the video stabilizer,
the video stand and other appliances. How
would I carry them to the counter of the
airport. I don't even have a plan as to
how to go to the airport from home yet. May
be this evening I have to make some
enquiries about airport parking for 6 days.
If it is more expensive than the taxi fares,
I might as well book a Grab car. I cannot
depend on anybody to help me. One person
whom I have given 10K loan several times and
wanted a loan of RM300K always have no free
time to help
me. Another person who wants to borrow my
car for a week also has no time provide the assistance. How would I describe these
people ? And when they want my things the
kept on pestering me. It is alright if they
are always busy but they should get help
from somewhere else.
If
anything, I have to be ready by the 23rd of
January, including the transportation
arrangement. In fact I have stuffed all of my
shirts and pants in the bag a few weeks ago.
A few more electrical appliances and cables
that I must forget, a charger of my watch,
for my iPhone6, Samsung and Asus Zenfone.
They are all different. Those take space too. I have to dump them
into the luggage as soon as possible.
(
pause - I am going out again )
Once
again I arrived the tour agency. There were
three girls and one man in the office. They
told me the ticketing lady had just gone out
for some urgent matters. They did not know
how to printout the boarding pass or to
process the
luggage booking. I left the ticket document
with a lady, briefed her what I needed and
went off to the Giant Mall. I bought four
packets of cat Food costing RM16.48 cents
per packet, a big plastic container of
Clorox and a brush. I paid a little over
RM88.
The
airport was about 7 miles away. As soon as I
procured the three items I drove there to find out how much a parking cost.
It is RM15 a day. It will be RM90 for six
days. I decide to go either by a taxi or a
Grab. I have a few more days to make the
transport arrangement. I came back home
first instead of going to the travel agent,
for I am thinking of going there at about
2pm. Right now is 1.45pm.
Surely I have to make another pause again
(Pause)
As I
was about to go into my car, I saw a young
woman about 30, well dressed in traditional
costume. I approached her and asked what she
wanted. "I need some donation," she said. I
would not believe that she was a beggar or
as someone so unfortunate. She could
work anywhere at all for her living. I only asked
her how she came this far. "I walked," she
answered. Not wanting her to walk under the
blazing sun, I gave RM20. I walked away and
entered my Viva. I looked into the mirror. I
didn't see her. Neither could I see her as I
reversed my car. How could she vanish within
a wink of an eye ?
The
lady from the tour agency rang me up saying
that the 15KG luggage was RM28 and the
boarding cards were ready. I told her that I
was on my way to see her.
Having settled with the ticket and the
luggage my mind was thinking of the
transport to the airport. If I have any
problem in the Grab taxi arrangement, I
would to take my car along and sacrifice
RM90 for the 6 days. I forget to take down
the phone number of the parking owner. I saw
the name, Faridah but I can't remember the
phone number. Since this is the first time I
am carrying a luggage on Air Asia from Alor
Star to KLIA2, I might as well try to be at
the airport at about 6am and do my prayer
there.
The
video stabilizer is small. It may fit the
bag that will go into the luggage. I might
carry the video camera tripod and the drone
with me. The drone has it's own backpack.
The gear3 watch charger may go with me.
But
the drone is not with me yet. The shop said
it usually take one or two months. The other
guy said 2 weeks the the day. He requested
his KL department to try to send it back by
23rd January.
It
will be okay even without the aerial movie
of the island. On the coming July I will
make it again, cancelling my probable trip
to China or somewhere else. China's Silk
Route is not cheap. It will cost me about
RM12K.
I am
suppressing what is worrying me most. It is
the politics and dreadful things did by the
politicians. It can kill me thinking about
it, shorten my life by a few days or weeks.
Though my days are numbered, I don't want to
live till 80. It will be torturing , not to
face the folly leaders but to face the
people who support them. These are the
people who will have to bear the burden and
may be chased out of their land.
The
election is around March. I wonder whether I
can go to vote because I will be having an
eye operation about the end of February.
Somebody is losing a vote from me.
The
eye operation will cost RM3200 for the basic
fee.
Eye drops may add to the cost. My estimate
expenditure
is RM4K for everything. I also am thinking
of resting for 10 days in the ward. That
will add another RM3K, estimate at RM300 per
night for a single room. It will be financed
by my saving. I should not be worry about
that. The medical Centre informed me that I
could go home immediately after the
operation. Anyway I will have time to
consider my option.
It
will be after May that I will make myself
active again. It also means that I can
accumulate enough money for the next trip.
No
wonder some people chose to be drunk, merely
to forget all what may be worrying them. There is another alternative
to it actually ie to
find solace in God.
17/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
ANTENNA
IS THE MOST IMPORTANT IN RADIO TRANSMISSION |
I am
not jealous at all if you have a 70 or 200
foot tower. If you have money or enough
skill to erect your own tower by all mean
you can go ahead with your quest. But it is
not of everybody's privilege to own a sky
reaching antenna due to the financial
constraint. A tower needs a strong base to
stand, to
be joined by several parts of about 10'
each. A 70' tower requires 7 parts of it. To
hoist them, a crane has to be hired. It is
impossible to manually raising one by one as
seen in the video below.
This video displays a homebrewed
tower construct by a fellow ham in Malaysia. He saved
a lot of money for using his own labor.
He also made his own rotator.
I am not going to write about the tower to
show of it's usefulness a for an efficient
distant communication, but of the reason
why I do not attempt to construct one
for my base station.
My first consideration is the age
factor. Everyone is getting older and
weaker. A time will come when the
antenna needs to be serviced and the
coaxial cables changed. Or the coax may
break from the antenna by an extremely
strong wind. When this happens, it is
beyond my energy to fix the demage. The
safest way is to hire a crane, which is
not a free service.
It is not advisable to seek help from an
able bodied ham to climb to the top, for
I was aware of a few while fixing the
problems, and an
Indonesian ham was electrocuted while
fixing hos log periodic.
That was what I advised my friend, to be
more careful and to take every
precaution possible. And never think
that the guy wire will retain it's
property forever. Poor quality strands
can get rusty over 5 or 10 years if you
don't grease them from time to time.
More so is the impact of a very strong
wind can be very fatal. It has blown the roofs and the
houses away to a new location.
Hence I would choose the less hassle system which I don't have to
climb and can bring up and down my
antenna single
handed. I traded it for the poorer
signal for an efficient
transmission.
While you have to ability to pay and the
ability to discharge your energy, it is
wise for you to put up the best ever
station. An antenna is the juice
of the ham radio.
15/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
SMART
PEOPLE IN AMATEUR RADIO |
When you live
long enough you tend to hear many things and
see many things. You don't have enough space
to pen them down one by one. There were too
many and too much to say. Here I am trying to
recall a few that I could still remember,
together let us ponder.
First, there was a
student who has just begun his university
education, talking with his friends and I
happened to be there. He was belittling his
teacher saying," He only passed SPM and we
in university." During this time there
so much polemics about academic
qualifications and people were displaying
university stickers on the trear glass of their car.
On one car I saw similar sticker with the
phrase "SAYA DFARI
SEKOLAH ATAP". Sekolah Atap means to imply
the old primary school where teachers never
even go to secondary schools. Of course it
was very sarcastic.
Secondly
there was a colleague of mine who was sent
for a month computer course. After a couple of
weeks he told us that his lecturer didn't
even know such and such a software, boasting
of his knowledge and ability in computing. I
was indirectly categorized as stupid as well
because I did not know what kind of a
software it was.
The worst
came from insolent kids who challenged their
parents for forbidding them from mixing with
bad companies. They cursed and yelled and
said their parents were uneducated and
stupid. One parent told me that his kid
called him pig. I don't know how many young
people regard their fathers as senile, old
fashion and outdated. Having heard from
several parents, I made a point to program
respects and filial in my students minds.
I can't say
whether this character is only found among
the Malays or it is a global phenomena.
I really hate
such a swaggerer, trying to show of their
ability and prowess, thumping their chests
and telling the world that they are the
greatest and the smartest lots. Others are
stupid and narrow minded. I have been called
stupid many time and by many amateur radio
operators.
They don't
have to wait long to be called
stupid by their own kids. Their kids learn
Arabic and Chinese language, new Maths and
other new stuffs. These same people will not
be able to tutor their own primary school
kids. I have witnessed that
parents could not teach or helped in their
children's homework. What their kids
learn would be
strange to them. When they can't they
will send their children to tuition classes.
Their own grand children and children will
put them in the category of senility, call
them
stupid and outdated.
Lately I read
a lot of remarks from a few guys saying that
those hams who know Morse Codes are stupid
people. They condemned the Class A licensees
for rejecting Hitech progress. They called
CW as dead, useless and stupid.
Never mind
that we are stupid or moron. We hope they
can teach us something about hitech; what it
is and when the term was first used. They
can teach us the concept and how sampling
work, and even explain the bluetooth
circuitry system.
I really want
to see how their kids will treat them when
they grow old enough. I want to know how
they feel when their kids reject what come
from their mouth as unsuitable in the
present era.
All we know
that the rubber scientist like Zainal is
stupid and the Japanese scientist who
designed an amateur satellite is stupid too.
These people are good in CW. The engineers,
college and university lecturers and the
Indonesian ham radio designer, who know
Morse codes are all stupid.
15/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
IT IS
FREEZING |
Everybody is complaining about freezing. It
is about 22 Celsius right now. But it is
quite awkward to don a pullover made of
wool and walk in town. Malaysians don't even
wear coats on their daily business or while
at home. The Malays are fond of sarong with
bare bodies. And they don't put on shoes or
sleepers inside the house as the Europeans
do.
I
can't stand even the 25 degrees Celsius
though in hotels I would maximized the
temperature to that level. It is different
when the sunlight is on my skin with even 15
Celsius. That was the temperature I
experienced in Los Angeles California, that
I would only have the normal T-Shirt on my
body.
However it seems that Malaysians love cold.
On ERL and busses the air is unbearable.
With a plain shirt my body would be
shivering and shuddering vigorously. This is where cuddling
is more comfortable.
We
can't predict the number of days the cold is
going to seize us. Nature does not blazoned
loudly what it is going to do. Men have to
spy on it's plan, using satellites and
shamans. Small cyclones that rapped houses
without warnings would take everyone by
surprise. But Malaysians had been warned
about the severe weather by the
Meteorological Department. I am not aware of
it as I hate watching TV these days. They
are more of a propaganda unit to inject lies
to the people.
Even
if we know, we can't command nature to quit
freezing the people. If we feel cold enough,
just get something to cover our body or try
to do some rigorous exercise. That reminds
me of the first time I stopped at Narita
airport when I saw a few people jogging
outside with merely a T-shirt. I thought it
was just a normal temperature and tried to
walk out but had to make a 360 turnaround as
the air was very cold. Some guys jumped and
swam in the cold water in the Arctic.
We
complain about cold, there are people who
live their lives in the Northern Hemisphere
and the Arctic. We complain about the
intense heat, there are millions who make
the hot deserts their homes.
15/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
BROKE...MYSELF TO BLAME |
|
Really my
pocket went dry. I need to immediately
stopped buying things again until the image
of the King resurface. It is
almost a week before it will be replenished by
the pension fund. I can restrain myself and
forget about shopping. After all it has been
many years that I did not spend on toys and
gadgets. The Macbook Pro, the drone and the
iPhone 6 took heavy toll on me. I can't even
spare RM200 more. Imagine among the three
only the iPhone is with me. The Macbook, a
used set, is still with the seller, whom I
should call 'grand daughter'. Her mother was
my clerk before. The drone is still under
repair in Kuala Lumpur.
I won't
force the Macbook to be sent to me the
fastest because I have the same one which is
still working which I use to make a movie
for the Youtube. She can bring it back with
her when comes home. But I am a little
unhappy with the drone. The shop informed me
the repair job takes 14 days however small
the damage is. It has to wait for the turn.
I don't think so that I can take to Maldives
to record the beautiful scenery. I have to
make another visit probably in six months
time.
I am not
very worried at my financial woes. I have
some marginal amount left enough for my
meals for the next 7 days. My electrical
bill was only RM35 and I have paid it this morning. I
have no outstanding bill to worry about. And I
don't owe anybody any money. The rates,
insurance and road taxes have been settled.
Whatever dues have met the target and long
honoured.
Though
life is much harder than before I can live
comfortably. And spend on luxuries like a
tycoon.
When I
have money, I spend. When I have none I
deactivate myself a little, stay home, no
travel and of course no spending for my
friends. I become a hermit for a while.
If I am
broke, there isn't anybody to be blamed but
myself. If I am poor there are millions more
who are poorer than me. There are kids
without parents, and men being evicted from
their homes. There are people who can't get
jobs and have to resort to stealing food to
feed their families.
Even
millions who have not seen drone and can't
afford even a cheap descent quad-copters.
Many working people with a dream of going to Maldives
but can't afford to spend their earnings
elsewhere for their priorities are buying bread
for home.
Considered
all, I am one of the luckiest.
15/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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JUST A DAILY
WALK |
DARKNESS AND BAD LUCK |
I took a liberty to start my walk at 4 pm
today as I saw the black clouds were moving
swiftly from all directions, to beat the
possibility of raining in one or two hours
time. My conjecture was right as the
raindrops began to wet the earth at 5pm
sharp. I took a shelter in the nearby shed.
There were not many people at the track,
probably about 6 or 7 only. As the rain was
getting heavier people began to disappear.
It has been three days that the downpours
started at about 5 pm. I managed to squeeze
in between the interval of the first and the
second one. It could have started at 4 and
stopped at 5pm and started again at 6.30. It
would be at 5 that I took to walk and
finished the exercise at 6pm.
I would not push myself to walk for more
than 4 rounds, 1.2 km per round. Yesterday a
woman I followed might have scared at me,
turned and asked me about the possibility of
the downpour. She told me she would do it
for 6 and sometimes 7 rounds.
She has to be very strong to walk about 8.4
km at quite a high speed, whereas I felt so
dead tired and exhausted. At this point I
have to disagree with Ustaz Al-Azhar Idrus
about women whose physical strength are
inferior to men. There are women who could
complete 10 rounds running, overtaking men
in the tracks. And Ustaz Hadi Awang who
believe that women are always inferior to
men and their places are to do the domestic
chores and raising children.
I came home after the drizzled stopped and
started to stare at the cell-phone and this
very laptop again. Political postings has
been an entertainment to me. It will shorten
my life if I take it very seriously. It can
even kill me if I continue to think and
ponder the fate of this country.
A friend posted a short anecdote just for a
joke
Najib and Mahathir went
into a bakery on a campaign trail.
As soon as they enter the
bakery, Najib steals three curry puffs
and puts them in his pocket.
He says to Mahathir,
"See how clever I am? The owner didn't
even see anything and I don't even need
to lie. I will definitely win these
elections."
Mahathir says to Najib,
"That's the typical dishonesty you have
displayed throughout your entire life,
trickeries and deceits. I am going to
show you an honest way to get the same
result."
Mahathir goes to the
owner of the bakery and says, "Give me a
curry puff and I will show you a magic
trick."
Intrigued, the owner
accepts and gives him a pastry. Mahathir
swallows it and asks for another one.
The owner gives him another one and he
eats it as well. Then Mahathir asks for
a third pastry and eats that, too. The
owner is starting to wonder where the
magic trick is and
asks, "What did you do
with the three curry puffs?"
Mahathir replies, *”Look
in Najib's pocket*."
It is much better than the cursing and the
slurring. Reporters are jokers as well. They
would choose pictures of politicians that
depicts poor characters or images. For some
personal reason I love to look at Rosmah's
latest pictures.
As I perused the web and read the relevant
messages the clock arms changed positions.
Now it is almost midnight.
Days and weeks passed quickly. What were 40
years ago was just like yesterday. Except
the mirror that always act to remind me of
my age.
The daily chores for tomorrow will be the
same. I hope there will be no rain. If I
could not finish 5km, 2.4 km is good enough.
14/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
It is a
gloomy morning today, 14th January 2018.
There was a little drizzle while I was on
the way for my breakfast. The cloud is thick
above the head, covering the whole area as
far as my eyes could see. But it was not a
dark, rather grey, indicating heavy downpour
is unlikely within this few hours.
It is chilly
inside my house even without the fan on. My
hand phone shows it is 73 degrees F which is
about 22 Celsius. Yet I am shirtless,
sitting cosily on my sofa, watching Youtube on my
TV about dogs and cats, filling my indolence
and laziness, and at the same time I am typing
this article intermittently.
Mansor, the
son of Majeed who runs a restaurant, has
just arrived from India. He said the weather
in India is very cold. I am not
surprise at all because January is still in
the cold season in the northern hemisphere.
The sun will be moving to the north around
June.
The other day
I was chatting with a friend who said that
he like to travel in cold weather. That's
what I have reading so far about the
Malaysians who prefer to travel in Winter.
Some want to experience the world of snow.
I told him
how I hate cold. And travelling in winter
would need a big bag for thick clothing. And
the Winter Jacket is not cheap either.
I don't
complain of rainy or sunny days. I can dry
my clothing on both days. I can still go for
my meals and anywhere I want to, except for
an evening walk, which I can still do it
with an umbrella or a raincoat. I used to do
it before but ceased the habit later.
What is there to complain about.
Clouds have
names. I wonder whoever gave names to them.
I can only remember the Cirrus and Cumulus.
And I don't know what's the one currently
hovering over us call. I predict the
possibility of the rain by the color. The
dark ones will surely carry enough water to
pour on us.
In the olden
days we used to capture the rain water for
washing, cooking and bathing. The water for
domestic used was never lacking as rainfall
would always be there except in December
when there was the North East monsoon. But
we have enough storage. I remember having 2
big vases filled with water. Moreover the
daily tides would further replenish us with
water for washing and bathing.
Our faith in
God were very strong in those years. We
believed God would bestow upon us with
abundance of life, to provide us with enough
sustenance. Indeed, my relatives farmer
brought rice, my fisherman uncle brought
fish, my mother planted vegetables and other
green foodstuffs. We survived without income
and money.
We were
pleased with nature in whatever forms they
were, even death and deadly diseases. In
fact I later realized that death brought
balance to human life, checked the
overgrowth of the population and the livings
have an abundance of land to stay on. As
compared to today the younger generation do
not even own a house and no land to stay on.
But we always
have a fear of darkness. It could have been
a sign of the coming of evil specie to rule
us for another 10 years and sitting on the
satanic thrown the spectre of a woman with
horns on her forehead,
Darkness can
bring us a very bad luck. |
A DRONE, A
VISIT AND THE MONEY |
I do not
procure the drone toy just for the pleasure
of flying it but for joy of capturing the beautiful scenery
and landscaping using it's
camera. I figure 15 to 25 minutes of on the
air
is ample enough to cover a reasonable size of
a landscape. The price of a medium class quad
copter which flies about 27
minutes on a single battery is about RM5K.The
package comes with three batteries, giving a total
time of more than 80 minutes. With a pre-plan
shot the job can cover quite a wide area. It
means one has to plan where and what one
wish to capture within the duration.
There are
many things that one has to learn before
flying. If there is a club, a new comer can
always learn from the members and can avoid
fatal error on the first few flights. An
accidence can be very costly.
My original
intention was to bring the toy to Maldives
on my visit to the island on the coming 24th of January.
My dream shattered as it crashed, hitting a
tree, owing to my own carelessness. There is
nobody but myself to blame. It
was sent back to China for the replacement
of the broken gimbal holder. It takes 2 weeks for the
repair job, long enough to pass my visiting
date. I have to rely solely on my
video and my phone camera.
I will make
it up when I make another visit the island
again in June or July. That
will give me enough time to slowly fill my
purse.
Mavic Pro is
one of the best drones available in the local
market. They are numerous of them on the Online
stores like Lelong, 11th Street and Lazada.
I thought buying from the local shop is more
convenient for advice and consultations. And
I bought from N4 stall at Aman Central. The
video below was showing me staring at the
controller to find out what are the
functions available. I was pressing the menu
and changing the settings by trial and error
while the drone was hovering in the air.
Mavic Pro
does not come with a monitor. It is flown by
a remote controller for the normal basic
flying. With the monitor we can do the
calibration, choosing the various flying mode,
setting the automatic home return of the drone in
case of the battery power has decline to 30%,
and make the drone follow a moving object
like a car or a person. It is good for selfie too as it can snap my whole action
along the ground I move. The drone can
follow me. I don't have to have someone else
to shoot. It is a simple
feature which I have not tried yet.
Interesting indeed. If I were to climb up a
coconut tree I can make the drone to follow
me from the bottom to the top of the tree, at the same
level as me. It takes creativity and
imagination to maximize the capability of
the Mavic Pro.
The drone and
the trip cut a big hole in my pocket. So
much so I could not honor my promise to take
someone with me to the beautiful island in
the Indian Ocean. May be on the next trip I
will try to fulfil it. And most of us will
heave a sigh when talking and thinking about
money. It is useful as much as it is the
root of all evil. I could not help myself
but laughing when someone was consistently
pestering me for a 300K loan. I am not
thinking of the inability to pay but more so about where about I am
going to dig the money from. I travelled and
bought things just on my pension saving.
While someone
is advising me to stay foot and prepare for
my death, I am struggling hard to enjoy the
ecstatic of life, the appreciation of exotic
and beautiful nature, the pleasure of having
the amazing technological commodities around
me and to use and manipulate them as I wish.
Imagine a simple old man like me occupying
his remaining life with things that many
younger men and women do not. Most of the
mediocre people are enjoying life much more
than what the wealthy and the famous. We
have time for good food, for photography,
for fishing, for ham radio, for computing
and for playing drone. The Ministers and the
tycoons miss so much things in life. What a
pity.
13/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
NAJIB'S
APPEAL TO GOD |
THE GREAT
DISASTER |
Najib and
Rosmah pray to God and seek for forgiveness.
Again he does not do a correct thing as
always. His sins were to the people, to the
Malays and the Malaysians. He sacked his
Ministers, jailed Anwar Ibrahim, taxed the
poor citizens and spewed a lot of lies. And
the worst is he is selling the nation to the
Chinese and defended his doings.
God may
forgive him and Rosmah for committing sins
against the Al-Mighty. Even that doesn't
give him any right to keep the pink diamonds
and continues to fork people's money,
devising schemes where millions and billions
could be siphoned.
For
allowing the Chinese navy to encircle
Malaysia and weakening out military
maneuverability by his defence ties with
them which in a long term will burn the
country. It is a very treacherous thing to
do.
He thinks
by a single trip to ask for forgiveness he
can free himself of the guilt.
Don't
blame the judge for throwing Anwar in jail.
Remember that may be the cause of the
missing hundreds of innocent people on
MH370.
If Najib
really wants to repent, he just take a rest
and read what people say about him or deny
them in the court of law. At the moment
there are people who presume that Kevin Morais and Najadi were killed by him,
Altantuya's death was under his knowledge.
She was killed by Najib's own bodyguards.
How could he ask the dead to forgive him.
The burden
of sins he carries against men is too big
and monumental. He can plead for forgiveness among
the living men. He just can't say "Sorry" to
a man whom he put in incarceration for
years. He can't simply say that he feels
sorry for making the people continue to
suffer for his harsh
taxation.
I can't
figure out how Rosmah could ask God to allow
her to keep the stolen things as if she is
asking God to condone theft and crime, to
sympathize with her arrogance and lavish
expenditure and all her vices and conducts.
As long as
China own lands in Malaya and restrict our
military capability and posing the constant
threat to our security and sovereignty in
our backyard and in his home town, Kuantan,
his sin could not be erased however hard he
tries to do it.
God may
forgive him but not the citizens.
But I am
sure he will be a hypocrite even to God. He
can expect the worse comeuppance in the next
6 years, and if China takes over Malaysia,
he can expect the worst of his life. He may
have to have a few thousands bodyguard
around him till he dies.
13/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
I am sorry
that I have to believe the AG and the
Justice Department of the United States, not
because I have a particular bias tendency
but because they follow the money trail
using bank documents. They were one step
ahead before Najib could work out for the
destroying of the evidence. And Najib fell
short of legal action even against the Wall
Street Journal.
And time
after time Najib lied to the parliament
about 1Mdb's fund in the BSI bank Singapore.
And Majib finds a hard time to pay the
interest to 1Mdb loan and the money to pay
to the IPIC for the second time. The first
payment went astray.
It is
unspeakable of when the people around him
discharging their duties to advise him not
to let Chinese Communist to have a footage
in our land, to build their military bases
anywhere at all around Malaysia.
He thinks
he is a very smart person that he can
control and hoodwink the Chinese for he has
never been a military man though he was put
in charge of defence once. Then he defended
his actions, telling the people China will
bring prosperity to the country. It is true
China will try their best to make the local
think of the benefit of being in this
country. UMNO themselves are distributing
videos among the Malays to show how PAP, Lee
Kuan Yew, cheated the Malays.
Israel
only takes Golan Height, only a small area,
of the land space.
China
takes much more land area for both
commercial and secret naval bases than
Israel did of Syria.
A man, any
man, who thinks money is god will always
think of money. Najib thinks of money more
than of the strategic and military way of
thinking. 1Mdb itself is a government
business venture to raise money.
Government
is to manage for the welfare of the country
and the citizen. That is the main and the
principal task. To run it, it must collect
taxes. And that was what all the previous
government was doing all along. We call
foreign investors to create jobs for the
local populace. Today we call foreigners to
work in this country by the millions.
When
disaster took tolls and the damage were too
bad he thought he could resolve the major
issues by reconstructing things, and he made
things worst than before.
Ministers
live in a very comfortable zone that they
refuse to compute the future of the nation.
It is a very great tragedy.
|
RADIO
TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS |
Ham Radio
started with people making transmitter using
vacuum tube. The idea was to make a high
frequency back and force current passing
through a coil of wires to create a moving
magnetic field. This movement is termed as
oscillation. The designed circuit
with, the valve, the coil, the capacitors is
called oscillator. To provide intelligence
to this magnetic wave someone device a
method of controlling the transmission. That
system was called Morse codes, intelligent
enough, to be recognized as letters and
numbers.
Then they
tried to see whatever happened if the
electron flow through the valves were
disturbed by changing the amplitude by
inputting audio wave at the grid, and to the
cathode. I tested mixing a music from my
tape recorder to a valve oscillator to
understand the history of radio transmission
in the past, and a proper antenna, the music
could be heard on the short wave radio 10
miles away.
The old
hams started with the Morse communications
and continued to improve in Amplitude
modulation. Some came up with the idea of
suppressing the carrier, but the wave
without the carrier would move in the shape
of the modulated audio signal. They were
smart to come up with the balance modulator
that was clever enough to cancel the carrier,
and also using crystals to filter the main
carrier, leaving the Upper and the Lower
Side bands. A switch was added to pick one
of the two signals.
As the
interest grew and finer components added the
transmission became more stable and the
audio quality improved. Rigs began to step
into the commercial world. But when wafer
and microprocessor technology came into
forth, it revolutionize the theme of radios.
Competing with it was computer
communication craze, with simultaneous
transmission of video and audio, across the
continents, in microsecond. They made our
heads turned crazy. Some feel that they are in
a strange world. Indeed, everywhere we go we would
see people staring at their cell-phones,
young and old. Cell phone has shrunk the
world.
As the
race continues the past remains a history. The
shape and structure of amateur radio cease
to retain the old tradition. Younger
generation of radio enthusiasts would have
not known what a triode and a pentode valves
are. And they became users rather than the
builders. More and more new gadgets enter
the shelves and convinced the people that
those are part and parcels of ham radio.
Keyboard is used to send CW and even to
receive the codes. Picking up stations is
through sampling rather than using LC tuning
to pick up desired station in the front end
of the receiver. And a single complex black
chip takes over the large components
arrangements. Old stuffs will fade and gone
once new inventions come forward. They are
cheaper and smaller in size. We all know of
the type of the old video and image storage
device, the large magnetic tapes that were
being phase out by the CDs and in turned
killed by memory sticks and SD cards.
Only a
very small portion of the hobbyist are
homebrewing stuffs as things are flooding
the markets. It is more convenient to buy
than to make. Whoever ham radio operators
are using a vintage single valve unit
homebrew transmitter to send Morse code
today ? As I have said that it is more
convenient to buy than to make, except for
the antenna.
Even the
the DIY genius buy components and arrange
them to make a project, but they do not make
the components themselves. Each module of
though is composed of a complex logical
thinking and arrangements. ON the contrary there were much
lesser logics and reasoning poured in in the
construction of a transmitter.
Whatever
outside the ham radio were claimed to be
part of it once the members dragged them in.
This is what happen to the trunk radio which
were once used by the lorry drivers.
Malaysian amateur radio operators are taking
it in and declared it as a part of amateur
radio. Why were the term amateur radio
radio not given to those drivers ?
A close
look at the whole situation it precisely
denotes the death of the traditional ham
radio. People struggle to paint their radio
shack as a ham shack by having a radio with
rotating knobs, manual CW key, electronic CW
keyer, a hand microphone, coaxial cables, as
oppose to having only cell-phone and
computers only for communication. Imagine
you lie in bed and use your phone to talk to
repeater and you call it a ham radio. And
you call it progress.
12/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
GOLD DIGGER
WOMEN |
WASTING MY
MONEY |
I only
know a few women friends from a distant,
including a house maid whom I frequently
hired monthly. They are in the 40s, 30 years
younger than me. And all of them look
upon me as their farther. And I think they are
thinking that I am an old man with money to
spend. Why not, I have been posting pictures
of my visits to the Facebook. Nobody knows
how I saved by cutting corners and restrict
myself from smoking, buying newspapers and
subscribed to satellite TV. The last three
alone save me a few thousands in a year.
One asked
me to redeem a necklace from the pawnshop,
another asked me to buy an almost a 1K good
for her in foreign land and yet another
asked for 300K loan. They are all married.
And I always told myself that it was the
work of their husbands to replenish all of
what they want. Wow ! A 300K loan. I have to
be a millionaire to have that much.
Are all
women like that ? I remember during my trip
to Morocco, a group of ladies were buying a few
thousand ringgit leather jackets like
nobody's business. And I whispered to one
lady in our tour group that I won't want to marry with
such a lady because I can't afford to meet
their expensive taste.
It has
been three years since my wife passed away
and I am living alone in solitude. In a way I
have so much freedom; do whatever I want, go
wherever I feel, buy whatever I desire and
eat whatever I wish for. One distant woman
friend advised me not to waste money on
drone. Let the hobby be for the younger
people to play. I would expect such care and
advices from people who live with me.
The happy
momentum of my life would surely be
disturbed if I were to marry again. I would
never know which one is a gold digger and
which one is a docile lady. If there is no
domestic turbulence there will be a greater
amount of financial commitments. It would
even probably halt my travelling program.
For instant, going to Africa would double
the package fee from RM17K to RM34K. It will kill me.
The kind
of women that scare me most are the gold
diggers. I sometimes wonder what do they
think and perceive of themselves. Do they
prized themselves as pay per sex, pay per
sleep ? An American Filipino lady I talked
to at Los Angele airport 30 years ago told
me that in America there is no such thing as
love but money.
Aren't
there any non-gold digger woman around ? The
fact is nobody
wears a ribbon or a scarf written of
their virtue, or imprinted on their
foreheads of their kinds. With some effort
and luck we can however find a perfect lady
over time. Beauty is secondary or
unimportant. Docility and obedience would be
good enough for some men. They take whatever their
men give, not asking for more, without
lamenting for the small gifts.
A company, a
wife, would certainly brighten my life. But
it limits my freedom and
movements as far as travelling is concerned.
To a
certain extend, it is better and safer to
stay single. There is always freedom,
nobody tells me what and what not to do, and
free from a nagging wife. I hope nobody would
treat me as a bank or a millionaire. It
really scares me.
10/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
The first smart phone I bought was Apple
Phone 4. It was a very expensive stuff then.
It costs a fortune to own one. Though I had
money during those days, it took me weeks to
consider to buy it. A year later when I got
by ASB dividend I bought one for my
daughter. But someone stole it in her
office.
Due to carelessness the phone went into the
washing machine, dropped several times from
my table and the pocket of my shirt. The
efficiency dropped. I bought Samsung Note 3.
But I seldom used it for my iPhone 4 was
still servicing me. My son took it in
exchanged for his Note2.
The phone batteries never last long, may it
be the iPhone or the Samsung. I carried both
on all my tour trips. Then I read about
Zenfone 5 which can store much electrical
power. It was less than RM700. So I bought
one.
I have no interest in Chinese smart phones
like Appo, XioMei or Lenovo. So were their
laptops. There were several reasons for the
dismissal. Nevertheless they are cheaper
than most of the brands.
I also purchased an Apple computer, the
Macbook Pro. Like the iPhone it is robust,
strong and durable. I didn't have to worry
about virus or any malware.
I have to console myself for spending much
of my money for nothing. I also think that I
am going to die soon. There is no point
accumulating wealth anymore at my age.
Today I buy another phone, iPhone6 to be
solely dedicated to my drone. Nobody will
approve my buying particularly my wife if I
were to have one. Whether it is for good or
for bad, this is the type of freedom that I
enjoy. |
I-MOVIE
AND THE STORAGE |
ATTACKING
MAHATHIR
Mahathir
is no more a young man. Even though he may
live till 150 years, he will be lacking
energy and mental alertness. But as soon as
the Pakatan Harapan announced that he would
be a Prime Minister if Pakatan were to win,
he was fiercely attacked by Najib and his
people.
Certainly
we should take interest why there was a
great bombshell.
Mahathir
had said that if Pakatan wins, the first
thing he would do is to arrest Najib. In
fact many millions of the citizens of Malaya
want Najib and Rosmah arrested. This is what
Najib fears most.
For
refusing to be incarcerated and probably
tortured Najib will use all his means not to
lose the election by hook or by crook. There
was a rumor that 4 million postal votes have
been created, and the cheating will be rampage including the ballot box tempering.
If the
Malaysians cannot handle Najib, the Chinese
can. |
The only free
video editing tool is the I-Movie of the
MacBook. It may not be the best but it
provides enough facilities for simple movie
production. I do not find a way to insert
texts at any position of my choice. I have
to use the Title facility for some
descriptions.
As I
continue to make movies, lately the computer
kept on flashing, telling me the storage on
the resource disk is almost full. I deleted
all the movies I can find to give me 5 to 10
Giga storage space. It was last night that
the deletion did not free the storage space
anymore.
Then I
decided to look what's inside the library.
To my astonishment there are files and
movies that had not been deleted. They
reside quietly here without me knowing it.
On releasing all the movie files laid in the
folders, the free storage jumped to 160G. I
was overjoyed. I don't have to worry about
working on the software again.
I
simply wanted to have a taste in
sending movies to the Youtube. It
was late, last year, in 2017 that I
began to make a crude movie tutoring
on my Baofeng programming. I
downloaded free Windows software and
worked on it until the expiry date.
Then I can't run all the free stuffs
anymore. It was at that time that I
remembered my ailing MacBook. The
keyboard refuse to function as the
minute red ants had made it a home.
I have to resort to the external
keyboard.
From then on I have been using the
I-Movie as my main video editing
tool. I don't have to worry about
the storage anymore.
09/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
MY DRONE
CRASHED |
My drone
crashed on the 4th day. I ignored all the
precautions, thinking that I won't make any
error. On the second day I tested it in the
open space near the my jogging track
following the setup shown in the Youtube. My
TV said that it did not recognize the
format. I used Quick Time to watch. The
movie was jumping and jerky. On the third
day I experimented with the video size, ISO
and the shutter speed at home. The video on
my monitor was not smooth. That would be
difficult for me to fly the drone using the
monitor. I use ASUS Zenfone 5 as a monitor.
When I watch the playback the movement was
smooth, no jerky effect, I tested with 2.7K
and 1280 X 720, 24 fps.
It was on the
fourth day that I decide to take it outside,
to film it at 24 fps at 2,7k resolution, and
to practise the stick and gimbal
manipulation. I dared not fly over trees,
buildings or stadium for fear of hitting the
objects unless I could watch the monitor
screen clearly. It was too bright to be able
to see what's on the screen.
The clip
above shows my flying path which does not
show objects except for the white floor of
the parking area of the stadium. And I was
squatting near my car to get some shade.
Towards the end of the footing it shows the
three that my drone crashed into.
After flying
I brought back the drone to my vicinity and
allowed to to hover 14' above me near the tree,
while I was trying to make changes to the setting.
My hand somehow accidently hit the stick,
driving the drone to the tree, crashed and
dropped 14 feet down.
The crash
broke the holder of the camera, It was a
brittle plastic. I didn't know how to fix it
back and took to the shop where I bought the
plane. The salesman said that it had to be
sent to China if Kuala Lumpur could not
repair it. But I have to pay for the cost.
He said it will take 14 days. The cost will
be expensive if the gimbal breaks.
The drone is
DJI Mavic Pro, made in China, is pretty
expensive. It is 5K. In the United States it
costs only USD1K. It should be about RM4.2K.
When someone coaxed me to buy the drone for
photography I began to search from Youtube.
I thought it was American made. To me
whatever made in the West, Japan and Korea
are strong and durable. After making the
purchase only I realized it is made in China
when I looked at the battery. It was printed
the word Guangzhou and China.
The only
thing I can do is to be extra careful when
flying it again. I don't want to play drone for
flying sake but rather for an areal
video capture. On 24th January 2018 I
thought of bringing it to the beautiful Maldives
islands. With it I can record my own video
without asking anyone for help. As a believer I
have to accept it as a fate, predestined by
God the Almighty.
Giving an old
man like me to hold and fly a drone is good
enough. There are millions of other
Malaysians who may not have a dream like
this at all. That's why I am not very worried about
the crash and the repair cost.
Whatever providence I have is much more than
enough.
09/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
LUMINOUS
PAINT AT REAR END OF THE MOTORBIKES |
Luminous pain
should be made mandatory at the rear of all
motorcycles. Almost a hundred percent of
motorcyclists are not aware that their back
light are not working. It poses a great
danger to the high speed oncoming cars from
their hind.
Malaysia must
impose this rule. Factories have to paint
all the rear end yellow or green luminous
paint at the production line. The main
hazard is at the roads without a special
lane for the two wheelers. Riders that ride
in the middle of the road are really
inviting death. What more if they were to
wear black attires ridding black motorbikes.
I rarely met
anyone riding without both the front and the
back light at night. In places where there
are streetlights they are visible to the
naked eyes and do not pose any danger at
all. If you are driving say from Alor Setar
to Kangar you will face with a long road of
darkness and pass almost invisible riders
along the route. Though the speed limit is
70 kilo meter per hour, most cars will move
at 90 or 100 k/h. The potential danger of
horrid accidences are high. Any impact would
be fatal and deadly.
We should not
wait for the accident to happen before we
legislate the law into effect. Neither
should we wait for the statistical number to
show up. Motorcycle owners can always buy
luminous stickers and stick have it fixed
themselves. The vehicles vendors have to
sell the motors only with ready luminous
facility, by pain or stickers.
Similar rules
should be enforced on bicycles for easy
visibility especially in kampong areas. Some
poor people may be using bicycles at night
to go to sundry shops or their friend's
houses.
We are talking
of "Prevention Is Better Than Cure", to
eliminate any possibility of potential
danger, of unnecessary maim and death. It is
worth to sacrifice a few ringgit for the
safety of all.
If a light
bulb of your two wheeler goes kaput make
sure the bulb to replace it is of equal
voltage required. Motor shop loves to give
the lower voltage one. It glows brighter but
the filament will snap a few days later. If
the voltage is higher the light will be
dimmer. It is also a hazard. You don't have
to worry about the blowing bulb and less
bright one with the luminous paint or
sticker. It is good to put on the helmet
too. In fact the whole helmet should be
luminous. I saw this on some of the new
bicycle paddles. It has always been a relief
to us to be aware of the objects in the dark
before our eyes. You can kick the brakes
immediately.
Walking people
wearing all black are the most dangerous. If
you want to commit suicide, just donned
everything black and walk in the middle of
the dark road. Else wear the all luminous
dress and walk in the middle of the road,
singing Elvis Presley.
08/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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NAJIB OH
NAJIB |
China has
always been smarter than Najib Razak who
thinks he can hoodwink everyone in the
world. They began by securing military bases
in Malaysia, with their firepower much
superior to the Malaysian arm forces. They
moved fast. No Malaysian army could defeat
them by any mean. Take my word that more
land will be sold to China. This time in
Kelantan. Assume that Najib has bought
Kelantan at the price of 90 millions. He can
sell part of Kelantan by billions to settle
the loan. And Hadi is never worried about
it.
If you read
the feedback in the social media, you will
find that the non-Muslims are attacking
Islam furiously linking it to Hadi and the
PAS leaders, who were accused of condoning
thieves and liars. By the act of Hadi they
believed that it was true money was passing
hands and being shared among the PAS
leaders. He said that winning elections are
not important. PAS has religion in front of
the party. AND UMNO on the other hand had
claimed that
they were responsible for the stability and
the sanctity of Islamic faith in this
country. In short Hadi has declared that
Kelantan is being sold to BN.
The
Kelantanese do not have any insight of what
will happen to this traditional Malay belt.
Try to tell them that selling the state to
Najib means selling it to China, they will
snub at you. These are what the stupid
Malays are good for, either they challenge
you to a fight, snubbing you or say The End
Of The World Is Near after they found their
foolishness causes them grave mishaps
which are irreversible,
The culture
of lies and cheats will permeates PAS that
made Islam very repulsive. And among the
Malay Muslims some will cease to respects
the Ulama.
It has not
happen yet. Kelantan has not fallen yet. And
China does not have a military base yet. But
it will happen once BN takes over. It does
not matter to Najib because he has a home in
Makassar and Zahid Hamidi has a home in
Java. Both of them declared themselves that
they are Indonesians. That's the reason
why they have no heart on the Malaysian
Malays and even the country. Sold all, and
it will not affect them at all. Of course it
will not affect me also for I will die soon.
I am just like Mahathir whose days are
numbered.
There is no
way that China will give up Lumut, Melaka or
Port Dickson. These are strategic naval
bases to control Malacca Straits and Indian
Ocean. They are thinking of circling the
Island of Diego Garcia also. If Malaysia
wants them back, Malaysia will have to fight
for them. The Felda people and the kampong
people do not think where they are going to
go if China takes over this country but
Najib has thought about his new home. The Malays will
be chased out of this country like the Israelis do to the
Palestinians. The White Americans did it to
the Indians. The White Australian did it the
Bushmen. It is not going to be the end of
the world, but the end of the Malays.
Then the
living generation will one day say that
their fore-fathers were worst than the
Morons.
When we drive
a car there is a blind spot you may not
realize. There is nowhere in the mirror you
can see the car behind you. The same
situation exist in Najib and UMNO's mind
about China, what their leaders have
designed Malaysia to be, and the
multi-pronged approach into actions. They
want the public not to see and know what
their dealings are with the Chinese who will
be of singing the song of Malaysia
prosperity that they are bringing in all the
time. I saw a Chinese movie on Tibet, which
sang the same song of development and
prosperity to the Tibetans.
If God let me
live for two more years I will be able to witness
the spoils of Hadi in Kelantan and the
expanding Chinese military bases in Sabah.
08/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MALAYSIA
AMATEUR RADIO HA HA HA |
When there was a news that CW would be
scrapped and there was a massive leeway to
qualify for amateur radio, I predicted the
worst would fall on the fate of the once
great hobby of a matured and well informed
community. Without following the path there
would be chaos and turbulences. The path
began with Short Wave Listening to learn the
ethics and procedures, seeking an Elmer, sit
for RAE, learning Morse codes, go for CW
test, and wait for police clearance (in
Malaysia police clearance was formerly
compulsory).
My prediction does not go astray. First
there were new terminology used like PTT
instead of a mic or a microphone. Secondly
they are following the pirate procedure and
lingo. There have been broadcasting, double
re-transmission, cross frequency
transmission, using trunk radio system on
amateur band, selling transceivers to
non-amateur with programmed repeater
frequencies, using other people call signs,
insulting fellow amateurs on Facebook and
bragging their ability and degrading other
fellow hobbyists.
You want to see hatred, go to amateur radio
world as well. Here you can find rogue
people which was once unknown to the members
of the radio fraternity. The gist of ham
radio traditions and practices have
disappeared. The spirits and the identity
have evaporated. A few try to resurrect the
glorious past without success but are facing
a monumental barrier.
An insult on a fellow amateur for public
perusal is uncalled for. I think it is good
for legal action. It will open the eyes of
the authority. Probably they too will have
to go to court to clarify some of the
relevant issues.
I have just contacted a victim of the
attackers, who told me that one of them
works as a car mechanic, one works in a food
stall and another is a radio supplier. It is
this radio supplier who sells the trunk
radio sets for the amateur frequency.
The point is the whole of amateur radio in
this country is not protected from any
filthy denomination. Are we going to
say that it is only 0.01 percent of these
people is bad contravening the Malay proverb
'Kerana nila setitik rosak susu sebelanga' ?
In a society of noble people we can't afford
to have even one bad apple. We have been
having too many bad people already. We would
expect a peaceful place of calmness what we
called sanctuary for the peace of mind and
tranquillity.
When will the turbulence end ?
05/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A WOMAN
FEEDING STRAY CATS IN TOWN |
Tonight I was
lucky to see this woman again while I was having
my dinner at a stall. It was quite dark with
a little light. But I figured she is about
30 to 40 years, carrying a torch light and
bags of cat food. This is the second time I
met a woman who would look for stray cats in
town and feed them. The first time I saw was
more than a year ago accompanied by a man
whom I supposed was her husband. I recalled
that she was a little older than the woman I
saw just now.
But I have
heard this tale from a friend before,
about a Chinese woman who would go to the
fish market every morning to feed the cats
and talked to the animals. She even brought
medicine for them to those she thought were
sick. I don't know whether they are the same
woman. I am sure some of you might have seen
the same scene somewhere some time. Going
round in the dark with a silhouette feature
certainly is without any ulterior motive of
gaining popularity nor publicity. It is not
like calling all the media to broadcast our
donations to the poor folks. Good deeds can
always be stealth and unseen.
You don't
have to be a Malay, Chinese, Indian or White
Man to be good because goodness does not
choose a particular race to dwell. On the
contrary it does not license for a
particular race to be a criminal and bully
all people of different culture and belief.
My monthly Indonesian maid is so concerned
about her cats that she would allocate a
small portion of her income for her loving
pet.
It is hard to
know what really inspires this woman
to be what she is, possessing such a kind
heart to help stray cats. It is quite an
expenditure. A 2KG packet of food costs
about RM17 for the Giant brand. Recently I
paid RM15 in Padang Besar for the same
amount. It would last for approximately 6 or
7 days to feed 4 to 5 cats. The total cost
per month for the whole city could at least
be around RM240.
Probably she
believes as many of us do, that the animals
will pray for our sustenance. She feels of
the great providence bestowed upon her and
her family. At the end of the day only
happiness and satisfaction that permeates
deep into her heart.
Let us pray
for kindness and care be born in our souls,
to feel pity upon the poor and the
unfortunate, to contribute what we humanely
can within our mean and capability. Let us
pray so that we not be a monster, a
braggart, a sinner and a liar. Amin (amen).
05/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A DRONE |
What joy
will I have having a drone ? I am thinking
hard now whether to purchase a Mavic Pro
RM5K drone used for photography purposes. 5K
is not cheap. It doesn't come with a
monitor. A friend suggested a monitor solely
for the drone only and with the drone
software only. I think he is right, which
also implies that I have to buy a drone and
a pad or a cell-phone.
The
main problem is always the money. It
is almost the prize of a transceiver. The
decision is always a critical one.
After a
deep and profound thought I decided for a
drone. I went to our local supermarket, Aman
Central, searching for a shop which I saw
selling a kind of drone somewhere around
last week. I never expected to see so many
kinds of drones, the Spark, the main Marvic
Pro, the Phantom and a few of others. This
is a real drone shop in town. I do not have
to buy it online anymore.
The salesman has to make an
order of the type of drone that I need, the
complete Mavic Pro. In a couple of days time
it will arrive and I will have to start
learning how to use it step by step.
Is this the alternative to
Ham radio ? It is hard for me to say. I am
too old to form the City Drone Group where
we meet and discuss drones and organizing
activities pertaining to the hobby. The
existing of such a group to a certain extend
can hinder the members from bad company, of
rogue and rude individuals. The higher the
cost of the hobby the lesser will be the
individuals without courtesies. My theory
may be false but it is worth to observe the
relationship. If it is true and the members
comprise of all the happy go lucky,
intelligent guys, I may spend more time on
the new stuff.
From the total constructs of
amateur radio today, it is detouring
completely from the traditional Ham Radio.
The identity is missing. It is dead.
There are more interesting
stuffs around that Malaysians are still
ignorant when it is a ritual in the Western
countries like building the ultra-lite
aircraft, the flying machines like a quad
copter carrying a single person, and the
quest for anti-gravity propulsion system.
04/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
REDEFINITION OF RADIO REGULATION TERMINOLOGY
? |
I JUST HEARD |
During
the days when the word internet was not
thought or dream of communications were
hard. It took days and months to send and to
receive news. The fastest was to use radio
or telegraphic messages. I still remember
vividly that we would rush to the police
station to send news of someone's death to a
family member living a distant away.
We
would be waiting for the letters from our
parents and families who were on pilgrimage
to the holly land, which would arrive a few
months later.
Malaysians went to USA and Great Britain to
study. Rich parents could afford to talk to
their kids on the phone. A minute of call to
the United States is about RM45 from
Malaysia. It was cheaper to dial home from
America to Malaysia. It was about a dollar a
minute, less than three Malaysian ringgit.
A few
parents attempted to use the ham radio
service by talking to another ham in USA and
the ham connected the call to their kids and
the conversations went on in such a manner.
I remember having a chance to hear such a
conversation on my radio. Later I heard the
authority interfered and banned it. Our
senior told us that such a re-transmission
was not allowed.
There
two things that I learned from the old
telecom. First, the re-transmission was not
allowed. Secondly the broadcasting was
forbidden. And I remember in my law class we
were told that there were strong rationality
for every law made. In any new situation
where where might exist conflicts we have to
go back to the rationality behind it. It has
to be carefully observed so that there can
not be any misuse.
As to
the radio rules not all agree to use
identical clauses. France does not not allow
the use of the D-Star, the combination of
radio with the internet. The FCC is using
different rules. France has her own
rationality behind it. The view on VOIP and
the computer CW need to be discuss in great
length by the authority.
In the
case of using computer for CW, I think, it
is just the same as using the RTTY or other
digital mode. The effect is different when
using a fist to send and a brain to copy. In
fact there is no need at all to use radio
communication as more messages and images
could be sent through the internet.
What
keep amateur radio to be different is the
homebrewing of equipments and skill of
sending and receiving Morse codes. Even
voice communication cannot inferior to
internet Skype protocol.
We have
to decide whether we want to be precise on
definition and conditions to be used with
RE-TRANSMISSION and to be firm with the ruke
on BROADCASTING. We need to be clear on each
and consider the long term effect of our
decision. Of course we have to take into
account of the current communication
technology that are within the grasp of the
masses.
03/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
I just
heard that the Thai authority is taking a
stringent action on the non-citizen who are
caught carrying transceivers or transmitting
in Thailand using with foreign call sign. I
don't know how true it is.
Assume
that the case is true we can be certain the
penalty will know no mercy. try to do what
we may think it is legal in Malaysia but the
Thais look at it in another way,
You have
to apply for a reciprocal and carry the
document with you. You cannot bring your FCC
license for the reciprocal as you are not
the citizen of the United States. Never
think that when you do not have the
reciprocal you can use any other foreign
call sign. The United States does not arrest
you because the law is not broken in their
country but the host nation may.
Reciprocal
is the hidden concept of giving a special
privilege to a guest. As one leave the
country the reciprocal cease. An authority
has the liberty to give the best of the
status to his guest, including an honourable
special call sign to be temporarily used
during such and such an occasion.
Whenever
you are in Thailand, just take extra
precaution and don't ever try to smart as
you are in Malaysia. Landing into trouble is
never a sweet experience. |
EVERYTHING HAS AN END
Why care about the end of the
world. We should ask ourselves when will it
be our end. Well known people in history
like Hitler, Idi-Amin, Genghis Khan and
Alexander The Great were the names of the
past. Rosmah has been struggling not to grow
old but just look at her facial and
countenance. She is becoming older with
wrinkles. And Najib has grown grey hairs.
Mahathir is counting his umber of
days. So most of us are.
The only thing to know is who
would go first and who would be later, and
what will go first and what followed later.
If you are not a believer
than you can use your reason. There were
predictions of the possibility of the comets
hitting the earth. If there was once a big
bang, could it not be happening again ?
Rosmah is
much younger than me. I have been hoping I
live long enough to see her ending. But she
will not go good in the history book. What
she does and her total demeanour has vexed
many Malaysians. We have read about Ghadafi
being sodomized by someone who had hated him
so much. And Saddam Hussein being hung by
his enemy, in cold blood. A few people asked
me what would I do with Rosmah. Questions
were in vindictive mode.
However
wealthy a person is and whatever number of
bodyguards surround him he will not have a
peace of mind. At difficult times he will
push God aside and maneuver his way through
to save his neck and hoping God might
forgive him. Whereas I believe that those
who forget God will also be ignored by the
Al-Mighty. No religion condone lies and
deception, stealing and cheating. A life of
a sinner may be prolonged so that he may
live to suffer in this world as well.
An arrogant and a high handed
man will find himself helpless when the day
come. If he thinks he is young others will
find that he is old. If he thinks he is
strong, other will find that he is weak.
People will flock to a new man who is
stronger and powerful, for bread. One reign
will be replaced by another. It is a cycle
of life. It is not a prediction nor a
prophesy. And when he dies there is no Datuk
or Datin in his current status can buy
heaven for him, no amount of gold or
diamonds can seat him as a King nor a
President. The moment he stops breathing
that is the end of him. The Sultans will end
and go back to the ground. When most
of us are all gone, what will live is the
story of a great thievery, the plundering of
public funds and the unique characters of a
duo. It will be told from generation
to generation until the end of time.
cont. (article went
missing-this is a re-written effort) |
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2008 is the
year full of deceitfullness, lies and
misery. Millions will suffer at the high
rising cost and taxes, and unemployment.
Among all the races the Malays and the
Indians will fare the worst. The Chinese is
the fittest and their surviving rate is
high. Najib will be selling more and more
land to China and has to meet what the
Chinese demanded in return for the favor
given. UMNO leaderships will be defending
their actions while the whole
citizens are continued to be plundered.
The
economy will not be better no matter what
Najib does. Nobody wants to admit that
Malaysia is in the hands of Goldman Sachs
and Chinese Communist. He has buried the
country into a deep shit.
It is the
year when we will be seeing those who vote
for UMNO will cry and lament and regret on
their own doings, the year of further
conflicts and distrusts among fellow Malays,
and the spread of hatred against Islam
by those non-Muslims who saw Hadi as a
disguise of an evil. I saw Hadi as a man who
had disgrace Islam and prefer Najib to be a
Prime Minister.
Last year
it opened up enmity between the people and
Monarchy. The number of dissenters have
increased as I have predicted. They express
their views in the social media displaying
the lost of respects towards the Sultans.
2018 is
surely to be a very gloomy year. Pity the
citizens and pity the people. There is
nothing to celebrate but a lot to pray.
01/01/2018 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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