9M2FR IS A SILENT KEY

9M2FR is a call sign given to a person by the name of Hock in Ipoh. It is a kind of a license given to a person who apply to operate an amateur radio station. Amateur radio once known as the king of a hobby because it was difficult to acquire for the license. The person must pass an examination called Radio Amateur Examination or RAE which was held in English and in essay form. Following that he must passed a Morse code test which is generally known as CW. CW and Morse code are not the same thing. CW is used to send Morse codes.

Hock had been on the air for a very long time. I don't remember since when, but when I came to amatur radio in 1978 Hock had been there already. As SWL I heard Hock, Ari, Dato' Tan,Eshee, Malcom and many others talking on 7 mega hertz almost everyday. Personally I have not talk to him eye to eye. When I came back to radio after a long leave, I did not hear Hock anymore. I was told that 9M2DW, 9M2GV,9M2EG and a few others went silent key.

What is meant by Silent Key ? Silent Key is a term given to those who know Morse code and have been playing with it every now and then. The key is silent when  a person stops sending. It could be due to many reasons why it stops transmitting. One of them is the person is dead. So silent key is used to mean a ham who is dead. It is only appropriate to imply to person who usually go on CW. It is NOT for those who never use the mode to transmit.

Hock was sick for a long time and had undergone several operations too. He was coax to come back to radio when he was on his wheel chair but he refused. To old hams Hock is still a friend. He may be gone but his spirit still lives and we can feel Hock in our heart.

To Hock's family we send our condolences.

BAD EXPERIENCE ON BIOMETRIC SYSTEM

I don't install my bio-metric finger print software in many schools. I don't go around doing the selling because I don't have the energy to provide services and continue with R & D. Not all of these schools are successful in running it. Guar Primary School request for the software when the school saw the program in SMK Syed Mohd Al-Bukhary. I don't remember how a school nearby to my house acquired the finger attendance system. SM Alor Janggus came to my house because the Senior Assistance was working in Bukhary before. As for SMT Jalan Stadium I have been there almost everyday. Kulim is quite far but since the Principal wanted it badly so I went to install and at the same time leave my code to the teacher concern so that he can repair as well as design his own software.

The school that failed is SM Teknik Lebuh Raya. They said that the scanner cannot read the fingers so they abandon the system without even informing me of the problem. I have yet to get back the scanner because it is very expensive.

All other remaining schools are running it quite well. I found the finger readers are in good shape. Not in SM Teknik where 34 scanners have been replaced on my own pocket money. Someone keeps on spoiling it. After about 3 to 4 months they get scratch and broken. Te last one is without the membrane yet the prism is badly scratched not by fingers by a sharp object. This time I am not going to replace it anymore.

From the observations and deduction it is believed a Muslim man is the culprit. This person may call him a Muslim but I think he does not believe in God. A bad man who called himself a Muslim will not be accepted by any other faith as well. I have two suspects base on the number of cheatings they have made on the school during and after my working days at the school. One of them had even went to the extent of changing his time in the main computer system and someone had lodge a report on him to ACA for leaving the school compound without permission during the working hours.

A person with the title Islam does not mean he is a good man. He disgrace his religion and race by his many bad behaviors.

I make conclusion that those other schools are having responsible teachers and workers.

The school that really fail was

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PAS AND DAP CAN NEVER MARRY

UMNO knows that PAS and DAP can never marry. Both see things in different ways and the agenda they are fighting for is not common too. The weak UMNO is exploit this situation to woo PAS members to support it. DAP will never agree to PAS religious agenda and policy. It has been voiced many time by Karpal and Kit Siang. If PAS dropped it's original philosophy the Muslims may not support the party and may shift their votes to UMNO.

But to give strength to UMNO means to encourage corruptions and misuse of power. Even at the moment of the death of UMNO the very weak members will still accept big money. We all are reading them everyday in the news. All involving a huge sum of money. The misuse of power includes the high ranking police officers whom we have seen in the case of Perak, entering the assembly with guns.

Yes the government provide good services to the people; hospital and clinics and looking at the  welfare of the rakyat. Government pensioners are well taken care off. Medical facilities are excellent and private citizens are paying very little sum of money for the medicines and checkups. But people cannot bare to see cruel things happening like evidence manufacturing, putting innocent people in prisons, taking away reserve land by force and gave them to business community at a low price, the criminals go free and many painful events.

Voting for PAS may not get as much things as voting for UMNO. PAS has no money. If you go to hear PAS campaigning you got to pay. If you go to hear UMNO's campaigning you may get benefits. Yet people choose PAS. 

The Malays accept DAP too nowadays because the party are fighting against corruptions. It will take action even at it's own dishonest party members. They will support DAP in the absence of PAS. At whatever cost PAS and DAP can never marry.

The only common purpose is both are not happy with UMNO.

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THE BEST KENDURI RICE TASTE

The school semester will begin soon. The kenduri will be over for a time being. The last ones will be on the 13/06/2009. In town contractors were called to cater for food. One house called for the most expensive and famous one. Even that one cannot beat one kenduri in one village. It was the house invited by one ham radio operator 9W2YIK, Nasser. It was not his house but his in-law.

There were no chicken and no kurma. The dishes were meat curry and Ikan Keli goreng cilli. I didn't take the fried fish but only a little meat curry. When I tasted the rice I felt like I was in the other planet. It was so very delicious. I can't describe the excellent taste. It was really superb. When I came home I expressed the  greatness of the rice. Just the rice tasted so very good. And it beats every other rice during the kenduri I attended so far.

I remember attending a kenduri somewhere in Bagan Buttuworth about 2 or 4 years ago. Also at one ham's house. That one also provide a very special dishes which I kept on eating.

When come to food we tend to think it has to come from a high class well known chef. But the kampong folks could cook better.

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I DONT HAVE ANTI VIRUS PROTECTION

I am not sure what's wrong with me. Am I going crazy when I decided to remove all the free anti virus soft wares ? Not only that I also I took away the yahoo and skype and reject all the computer updates. Now I am without any protection. I expect hundred of those soft ware spoilers would be attacking my lap top which I use to update my web pages and develop some programs.

Why I do such a silly thing ? With all those free stuffs my computer took a long time to come to a complete start. I have to wait for all downloads before I can go to the program I want to run. I had to go to toilet or do something else after switching it on.

Recently I downloaded Avast, the free anti virus soft ware. I removed the AVG Free. While I was developing and experiment with one of the programs which I thought was interesting, my screen went off. I guest that somebody was remotely controlling my computer. If it was the internal virus, Avast should have traced and destroy it. This happened two times. Finally I decided to remove all the free stuffs.

Today's software enabled the provider to see our PC's screen as if he is in front of it. Even the Windows has this facility. Most of us are not aware that our PC are seen somewhere else. They can close or remove files and folders in our hard disks. I know even Yahoo and Skype can see and control the remote PC if they want to.

Now my computer starts fast. If I need to reformat it, I will do so once a month. I need to control myself not to watch the naked women too much. Good pictures might temp me to download them and somehow they might hide some malicious codes within the picture binaries. 

People can do many fantastic things today. I hope I am less safer without the yahoo, Skype or anti virus system.

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Lee Kuan Yew's Visit

The Senior Minister does not see today's Malaysia but Malaysia after GE13. Lee does not want PAS and DAP to be at logger head. And probably his agent has made report on the strength of BN right now. If Manik Urai is not captured by UMNO then it will further confirm Singapore's assessment of  Malaysia.

The strength of BN is on TV and media. Beneath it is unknown. LKY must have known it and forecast all the possibilities. It is not a good sign for Najib who is trying hard to make sure the Malays will swing back to UMNO and the Chinese to MCA.

Now the government is deploying university Professors to help in planning and thinking for the revival of UMNO. But Anwar- Saiful's case is not over yet. The ongoing legal processes, police behavior and Patail's action could make the many hate the government again. Najib's visit to China may not offset the corruptions charges by the opposition against the MCA.

Malaysia's secret are well known by many countries. Thanks to the believe in the E-Government. Volumes of our information are in foreign hands. Even schools are ordered to use the normal e-mail to communicate with the education department. In short we are giving away everything to other individuals to know.

Singapore knows what it is doing. The most Malaysia can think is that Lee's visit is 'Sambil menyelam sambil minum air." But I say it is a straight forward visit. Najib should  assess his strength again because Mr LKY is using his body language to tell him about UMNO. If LKY meets TDM it is just the meetings of two old friends.

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UMNO-PAS TALKK

UMNO is saying that Anwar is selling the Malays to the Chinese. Nizar is displayed as a Chinese puppet. I passed the remark to a few Malays and their response were "It is UMNO who sell the Malays...." 

PAS has been a weak party since the independent. But it never resort to dirty tactic or evil mean to kill UMNO. Punching incidences occur occasionally when UMNO was accused as Munafik and UMNO's ulamak was considered as sandal ulama ( Ulama Terompah ). But at that time UMNO was strong and seemed to be invincible.

There is no need to talk of Malay Unity. If all the UMNO members became PAS then there is no point of UMNO-PAS talk. It is similar if PAS members crosses to UMNO. Nik Aziz is all the time right in his stand. UMNO is playing the game of survival.

Almost 20 years ago I already heard about this kind of things. Young people at that time was already talking of Islamic Unity than the Malay Unity. In Malaysia there are many non-Malay Muslims. In China there are millions of Chinese Muslim. To PAS a Chinese Muslim can be the head of the party and therefore Malay Unity talk is irrelevant.

If UMNO wants to regain strength it has to overhaul itself. UMNO should not have said "No we can't oust all the corrupt people otherwise we will be left with nothing...."But it has to take the bold and risky steps. TDM kept files of corrupt  Ministers but kept those just to control them. Today in the news people are looking at those known corrupt people together with Najib. Overhauling is difficult but it has to be done.

All the cheatings and bluffing must stop. If it is successful then the Malays might swing back to UMNO. 

If UMNO sees the DAP is ousting the Malays, it is not the fault of PAS. It has to look at itself. Since independent until now is UMNO successful in creating a united Malaysian ? Or only busy in amassing wealth and planning to take over land to enrich the developers. Or busy in planning big projects with government money and wang ehsan.

DAP is not a threat to the Malays. It only want the fairness. It was UMNO ho robbed the Malay land and sell to the rich business community. You must not forget when Boon Siew fought hard against his land was about to be robbed for private used rather than the government usage. Land can be acquired for schools and hospitals but not to be resell for super market. UMNO therefore should have not blame DAP or Nizar. That is not to talk about the forest in Pahang and Trengganu yet.

Again I saw statement on the right of the Malays to get the scholarship. The Chinese are not against it if their money is not used. Forcing a Chinese to give scholarship to a Malay will surely anger them. They are asking for fairness. Similarly to road and other public services in all state. UMNO cannot say that the money cannot go to Kelantan or Penang. The people in Kelantan and Penang are paying income tax too.

There are a large number of people who dislike the government for nothing. They are seeing things. A kampong folk can shout and yell anything, nobody hears him. But when Najib or Khairy winks people analyze the wink. The whole world sees and interpret it. The leaders, may it be UMNO or PAS, MCA or DAP, must not assess his own popularity base on his party members' support but on the whole citizens, the millions of them. They can't totally rely on university professors' view as well. But the worst advice may have come from the police. 

Whatever PAS members must know and learn the history of UMNO and what it has done to PAS. There was a short attempt to relate PAS to the international terrorist organization. People were told that Nik Aziz's son had a contact with Al-Qaeda. Do you remember it ?

If UMNO wants the Malay Unity let it pull all the PAS members to it's side. UMNO has all the media and the strength to do so. It has the money and the machinery. It has the big think tank and university professors. It has the police and the judges. I can't see why it cannot gain the confidence of the Malays to support it. Therefore the PAS-UMNO Unity talk is not relevant.

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KUPANG TEMBAGA

Kupang Tembaga is a termed given to a person who has lost power due to retirement from a service. Dr Mahathir said there is no point for Mr Lee Kuan Yew to meet him because he is nobody. He means he is Kupang Tembaga.

When I was a school Principal the office subordinates not only respected me , some of them would bring special delicacies during the big days like the Hari Raya. I thought they genuinely good to me. But after retirement I realize a few turned the table against me. From time to time I did say I am Kupang Tembaga to them, a toothless tiger. I can't help them in their promotions.

I am amaze with many new teachers who (were transferred there after I had left the school) were very good and friendly to me. They showed their respects towards me as if I am  their boss. I prayed for their successes in all their undertakings. If they are polite to me, the are polite to everybody else. Many old teachers are still friendly to me and I don't feel being rejected after many years of retirement.

I go to the school to see their computer programs, and teaching some of the teachers programming to ensure there will be continuity of program usage after my demise. I told them that I may go any time. The cemetery is calling me.

I notice the clerks are not happy with me because they think I push the computer program for them to work on. I could not say anything because I am a Kupang Tembaga. I wrote the soft ware but that was what the school want.

From 1998 till the time I left the school, that school was made a bench mark. A few hundred schools and institutions visited it. We were called to Sabah and Sarawak to give speeches on many things. But today the school has to visit Sabah and other schools to learn from them. The other day the school had a meeting among them as how to make it popular and attract visitors. One of the senior teachers said ,"Ask Cikgu Rahman."

What can I say. I am a Kupang Tembaga. The financial clerks are not in favor of financial soft ware. The typist said she has to do a lot of data entry. The web page was not updated. And many other computer systems are hardly managed. During my time the data entry system were very updated. I still have the database of the students from 1986 till the year I left the school.

When I was asked about it, I just said," Start by taking care of the toilets and school canteen." I know it is something very tough for the school to do now. Nobody would want to listen to my advice anymore. A Kupang Tembaga must expect this. New administrators after me immediately threw out what existed in that school. They first threw out the 7 computers connected to the internet because they said the machines will spoil the students. The plants in the toilets were move out saying people never put plants in such a place. Needless to say they overhaul the school.

I said nothing because it is not my school anymore. I just murmured to one of the teachers ," Look, it was not me who set the school as a bench mark and it was not me who invited those few hundred schools to visit it. There must be something in it that the Ministry wanted it to be a bench mark. Why ripped them off ? " Nevertheless I told the teacher to build the image of the school again as if I still manage the school. I don't think so he would heed to my telling him because I am a Kupang Tembaga."

I knew how Dr Mahathir felt when Pak Lah threw some of his projects. But it was wrong for Mahathir to do the road show calling UMNO to oust Pak Lah. Retired people are Kupang Tembaga, senile and incapable of anything. So be it.

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WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION ?

People are still talking about students taking 20 subjects. The government blamed for the scholarship. I and many others agree that scholarship should be put away. Poor students can apply for Zakat's money. There are foundations set up for this too. So let those who want to take 20 subjects do so if they could. It is just because our own kids are not smart, we don't want others to excel our kids by leap and bound.

There are more things which I considered funny and wastage and surely later will be revert to the old one or completely changed. All will be under the name of innovation.

I heard some teachers are blaming Tun DM. They believe TDM had been advice to Mahiyuddin and UMNO people. True or not UMNO will certainly be losing some votes as English will be an issue taking by the opposition.

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GOVERNMENT CANNOT PUNISH THOSE WHO FAIL ENGLISH

The Head of States like Iran, North Korea and China do not speak English in giving official speeches in foreign lands. Are we saying they are less smarter than us ? The open certificate show the subjects taken and passed. Some employers accept those who fail in English and some don't. The risk is taken by students. That is their choice. Some students study hard because they know the importance of English. If the parents don't appreciate the language it is their own funeral.

I have heard persons grumbling because of his disadvantage in acquiring knowledge thru the internet. He regretted and blamed the government policy. But I cannot accommodate his feeling. He could have learn English by himself and practice it with the fellow friends.

The government should punish the students because they are poor in English. The students must be old the advantage and disadvantages of proficiency in it. The schools must run the campaign and ensure each of the students are good in both of the languages.

At all time everybody should be proud of the National Language. The French and the Germans are very proud of their language. So are the many other strong and powerful nations. It is a national identity. WE encourage the students but not forcing them. We let them see their own future.

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THE STATE OF THE MIND

The other day while at an airport I saw a man putting the money in an auto-teller machine. I don't know how much but judging by the thickness of the 50 dollar notes, it could be a few hundred thousands. I was wondering whether he would move to other machines as well. If he were to do that to about 10 machines a day, imagine how much money were entrusted in him.

One might say if the amount reached the million dollar level, he might have absconded with the money. Do you think every man can be blinded with big money ? I don't. I believe there honest people with a very strong mind. He may not be a pious or God fearing man. A mental discipline can create a very honest and trusted man.

The wealth of an honest man is happiness and self satisfaction. He feels happy each day for doing good job. His income may be low just enough to support his family but the whole family is proud to have the responsible person.

Doing a good thing is simple. School boys just pick up chocolate wrappers and throw in the waste paper basket even though nobody sees him. We act on our conscience not to cause problems to others, following the rules and do good deeds. We do not take expensive things that are left unattended. We don't cheat and robbed people.

Some quarters of the society measure civilization by the degree of honesty and trustworthy. That's the reason why we see newspapers and books were sold without any attendance. You take a piece and put the money in as the amount required. Can you imagine what will happen if we do that in Malaysia. Most of the Americans I know have this very strong conscience.

Do not do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you could be a forgotten phrase. Some people would resort to anything to get what they want.

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VISION 2020

The Malays who claimed to be Malay leaders had a vision 2020 which can see at the distant of 1 mile. The big majority has the vision of the same distant. The Chinese has a Vision 2020 too but they can see more than 90000 miles. And finally UMNO realize it has no flesh and only left with skeleton. Pak Lah himself said in the UMNO General Assembly about it. I believed him.

Then they are calling the Malays to unite. In my previous essay I have said much about it. It is too late. The Malays realized UMNO only cares about their stomach. Nobody should be blamed for the complete deterioration. Even at the time of UMNO's crisis which Pak Lah was called to resign, corruption still went rampage and probably until now.

Some Malays are thinking it is better to talk to the Chinese about everybody's future as the citizen's of Malaysia. Put aside the racial factors and look at the real need of the people. UMNO had never thought of the Malay race but only of UMNO. It robbed what was due to Trengganu during PAS's era. It sacked some Head of departments and replaced them with UMNO. Rustam barred PAS leaders from going into Melaka and changed the state account from the Bumi's Bank to other commercial bank. It robbed the Malay land to give to business community.

If UMNO had had a sharp vision it won't be left with skeleton and making the enemy with the Malays. Ustaz were caught and punished during Mahathir's time. TV1 was not used to ridicule the Malays every night and Klantan State was condemned as the poorest as if it's poverty had killed all the Klantanese. There were attempt to relate Islam to Al-Qaeda. Musa was carrying mattress to court. Mokhtar went down to court to observe the judges and put fear in them. That was the Vision 2020 of UMNO.

Now UMNO is engaging university professors to put the vision right. But it chooses those who are singing the same tune. I am just wondering whether those professors can see a thousand miles. Remember what the British define a Malay ,"The brown skin people who are emotional and live on trees..." The easiest way for emotional person to solve problem is to arrest a person and put him away. That is the Vision 2020.

Nasaruddin, the PAS deputy, has a worst vision. He fell to UMNO's game of racial politics. That was what it uses at Bukit Gantang and other by-election, putting fears into the Malays of Chinese domination. Nasaruddin should have known there were a large number of Chinese voted for PAS instead of UMNO. He should have known that UMNO is using all the resources available to survive in the GE13, including all the psychological approach to break PAS. UMNO is already has it's victory when Nassaruddin responded to the Malay Unity Talk whether materialize or not.

How far is UMNO's vision now ? Are many still looking for how to get 300 billion stuffs to be shared among them ? Is that the Vision ? True, the one mile distant vision never change. I feel very sorry to myself and to Najib and to all the Malays. I would like to quote one Chinese lorry driver, "Working in Kelantan is easy because we don't have to pay money to officers......" That was said several years ago. Today, I don't know. Nik Aziz was trying to be fair to all as Lim Guan Eng is doing in Penang.

Can't BN offer a post of a Menteri to Lim Kit Siang and Nik Aziz ? You call this crazy ? Let's here what Najib is going to say about this ?

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WHY I AM SO VOCAL AGAINST UMNO

a. When I was working our local Director was an UMNO man. He had a group of officers who were strong men of UMNO. This director and one other officer whose held a high status in UMNO would have meeting almost everyday after 4 till night talking of transferring and taking actions on their subordinates whom they think were working for other party or did not follow their orders. They were very arrogance indeed. When the director retired people shun away from him and walked away when he went to kenduri festival. He moved away from town after retirement. The other continued to show his arrogance till his death.

b. One school gardener was almost like a King. He walked in and out of the school as he like on UMNO matters. That time nobody dared to touch any UMNO guy or face the music. Later we learned similar cases happen everywhere. Teachers too behave in the same manner.

c. There was then a policy that all those who are due for promotion must be screened to ensure they are UMNO members.

d. The peak was when Mahathir became a Prime Minister. I disagreed with many of his policies and his doing to the Malay communities. Some were obvious and some were not. He thought the Rakyat should be thankful to him, he disgraced Islam, ridiculed the Malays, trying to put away the Monarchy, misusing his power to manipulate judiciary, making Malaysia a Police State, asking the Malays to sell their land and use the money to buy shares, trying to abolish religious school and he made the hero out of  Musa, Patail, Dugong and the police .

e. Corruption were becoming more and more rampant.

f. Privatization started and some made the Malaysian felt the pinch. Private companies were stronger than the government. Contracts sided the contractors not the government. In the case of Cheras toll even the police sided the company , not the people.

g. Land were robbed not to make schools or hospitals but to make supermarket and shop houses. UMNO called this development. Hillsides are not spared. I have been to New Zealand and found the agriculture land are huge, no hill tops were razed for houses . Kampong people were cheated until this very day.

h. I just can't see the faces of some people. They may be good people. But I just feel bad when I see Toyo, Adnan, Musa, Merican and Patail. As I said they may not do anything wrong but somehow something that made those people look bad to me.

HOW ABOUT DAP ? DAP may look racial but what the Chinese is talking is sometimes right too. They do not want their money to be spent solely on the Malays. They feel that they are treated as a second class citizens. If UMNO felt that they do not treat the Chinese as a second class citizens they must prove it. So far I have not heard any argument from them. When UMNO said that DAP are rude against the Sultan, I was taken aback because what I have been knowing all along, it was Mahathir who had wanted to do away with the Sultans.

DO I HAVE UMNO AS FRIENDS ? Why not. I support Pak Lah. They said Pak Lah sleeps both UMNO and opposition. But I do not see any wrong dong of Pak Lah. Pak Lah is 100 time better than Mahathir. I got good friends who are UMNO. I got my former subordinates as UMNO and recommended for their promotion. We joked about PAS and UMNO.

DO I HATE NAJIB ? I pity Najib. He is at a lost. Other people said he is at a lost and many want to help him ( of course for promotion or getting other favor ). So they told him to go ahead and they will take care. That's why you see Bala went missing and police are quick to act. Of course Najib had to seek help and advise of his Taiko TDM.

CAN A CHINESE BE A PM ? Obama cannot make decision. Decisions must be approved by the Congress. IF UMNO puts Lim Kit Siang as a PM, LIM has to seek Cabinet's approval too. Unless LKS is as smart as TDM who kept records of his Ministers, have judiciary and police behind him. If they suspect LKS will go to seek help from his Tai Ko in Singapore then they can choose Lee Lam Thye. Don't you think LLT is not honest and sincere enough ?

WHAT DO I THINK OF PAS ? I appreciate their fighting spirit. They have fought many losing battles and never use any other mean to oust UMNO. They continue to believe in the power of God and pray whenever they see disaster coming their way. The members pay money to hear the campaign. Nik Aziz has always been a good man. He respects all races and religions as required by Islam.

WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN GE13 ? I see BN is banging for Sabah and Sarawak to help the part's strength. The government has to spend a lot of money to win the heart of all people. It does not exposed everything to public anymore. The control is taking place as what TDM did. It deployed university professors and other professional to guide it. They go to split PAS and Pakatan Rakyat. More Chinese and Indians are joining government agencies. Officers are given promotios.

If God wants, BN can fall in spite of all those efforts. Corruption and Anwar's cases could be a determinant factor. Police acts too can be very decisive. When people hate the police they will hate the government. I feel it is very brittle. Najib must not forget that Singapore is watching him very closely. He has to read LKY's body language. It means if UMNO falls, it can never come up again. No police or military can help.

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A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL FINAL WISH ( quote from Yahoo)

Colby Curtin

Pixar, Poor Grades, and a Lost Sense: Buzz Week In Review

by Mike Krumboltz

23 hours ago

Some weeks in the Buzz are thrilling. Others are inspiring. However, this past week was filled with some sad and discouraging news. Some of the noteworthy stories you may have missed: A child dying of cancer asked for (and received) a private screening of Pixar's "Up." A Chicago school announced that 44 of its 77 students won't graduate. Oh, and you know that nasal spray you've been using to help cure your cold? Turns out it might have taken away your sense of smell.

A child's last wish
10-year-old Colby Curtin died of cancer this week, but before she passed away, her final wish was fulfilled. The child had desperately wanted to see the new Pixar movie, "Up." Unfortunately, she was too ill to go to the theater. According to various articles within the Buzz, Pixar was told of Colby's illness. The company sent a representative to deliver a DVD for Colby to watch in her room. Though she could no longer see, her mother narrated the action. Colby died several hours after the movie ended, and searches on "up movie make a wish" and "colby curtin up" both soared.

Tough times at South Side school
A Chicago school made an alarming announcement this week. Close to 60% of its students won't graduate from the eighth grade. The startling figure sent lookups on "Myra Bradwell Elementary School" spiking. An article from CBS 2 Chicago explains that many in the community are wondering who to blame for the students' failure. Some are pointing fingers at the parents, while those same parents are claiming they didn't receive any notice that their children were struggling (the school board claims that written notices were sent).

What's that smell?
When will companies learn to stop trying to cure the common cold? Perhaps now, after the FDA charged Matrixx, the makers of Zicam, with selling a product that robbed people of their sense of smell. Matrixx called the claim "unwarranted." Still, the news caused a shockwave in Search as lookups roared on "zicam side effects," "zicam recall," and "loss of smell zicam." An article from CNN Money explains that because Zicam was classified as a homeopathic remedy, it was able to be marketed without "government oversight." Perhaps that loophole will soon be closed?

Also buzzing this week...
• Al Roker took it to the Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag on "The Today Show."
• The highly anticipated, if awkwardly named, iPhone 3G S hit store shelves.
• A rash of alleged UFO abductions struck our friends Down Under.

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PAS FELL TO UMNO

Even Nik Aziz finally succumb to UMNO. PAS like UMNO can't think far. But at least UMNO has it's way to go on cheating spree. Politics is just like a game of Chess. PAS does not read the mind of it's opponent whereas UMNO does and already won the victory. PAS bought what UMNO sold Hadi and Nassaruddin. It plays racial issue for it's own survival. 

What can the unity talk do ? Stop Lim Kit Siang from voicing what he thinks is right ? In term of stopping the anti-Malay sentiment , it has no effect. That has to come from BN's policy; the 52 year old policy did not work because UMNO was busy cheating the people to make money. The point of unity talk is to weaken the opposition. The next step is to woo PAS saying Anwar Ibrahim is a Malay traitor. It is already an UMNO's campaign theme about Anwar.

At the same time UMNO is wooing PAS members to provide strength to UMNO. UMNO still want to rule forever. PAS never learn from history. UMNO is synonymous with money. Amanah Saham Kedah and many other business dealings run by UMNO had gone with the wind. Land taken for supermarkets and shop houses. It does not protect the Malay interest at all.

UMNO does not have to anger anybody when people are asking for the fairness. If it had wanted to build the Malay economic power, it could have done so a very long time ago without using money from other races. It can manage it's own scholarship, university etc. But more than 90% wanted easy money, thinking of ways to gather wealth, making private toll roads, approving projects and even involve in business. Their interest always come first.

With the unity talk PAS will be losing a lot of votes in any election. But then it will be too late to realize that it has been cheated.

People are looking at Selangor and Penang. If the two states run well and everybody is happy about it, it proves that what UMNO is telling PAS now is totally wrong. The Malay women behind the state government were strongly backing Elizebeth Wong. That racial unity is more important than PAS-UMNO unity. 

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WE ARE ANGRY WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

Once we were listed as one of the world's corrupt countries just behind Indonesia, we are angry with the foreigners for saying so.We said we were clean. Singapore said that the rate of crime in Johor Baharu was high. Te police responded quickly saying it was the Singaporeans who came to Johor and committed crime. Then we were listed as a human trafficking country, we vehemently denied it.

Later one by one came to the surface. 

The Malaysians criticizes their own government more. Ordinary laymen targeted Government agencies. I found some of the complaints are true as the authority were making and adopting their own rules instead of following the stipulated laws. Some just disregard the law of the country. It ran from Central government departments up to the judiciary. 

We are not happy with the foreign governments which dictate terms to us. We called it as domestic interference of our own sovereignty. Yet in practice we allow one Ministry to dictate term to the other Ministry like the power of Co-operative over the schools. Even Takaful was given such kind of power to collect insurance from the student.

The judge judges the people. The people judges the government. Foreign governments judges Malaysia. Who cares as long as wealth can be gathered. If the country is torn out into pieces they can survive overseas.

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UMNO'S  MENTALITY

Finally Najib said the unity talk was not UMNO's initiative but PAS. Immediately after that UMNO started to attack PAS. It has always been that way before. Yet Nassaruddin fell to it. In Manik Urai UMNO made a police report on Nik Aziz's speech saying the spiritual leader is instilling hatred by comparing UMNO to Ayah Pin Sky Worship and saying nasty thing about UMNO.

That is UMNO's mentality. How is the party going to attract the Malays by such a mentality ? UMNO wants the opposition to say nice thing about the party and wants the opposition to call the rakyat to vote UMNO. I pity the party for having these kind of members' mentality. Educated people who read the news will straight away push UMNO out except those with similar mentality.

You don't expect those whose land were taken away to build super markets and shop houses to say UMNO is an angel sent by God to help the Malays. You don't expect the Malays to say nice thing about Mahathir who called upon the Malays to sell their land and buy shares. You don't expect the Malays to say nice thing about the party responsible for the rife in corruptions.

I remember so many of you that once UMNO was condemning Kelantan because the ruling party did not do anything to stop flooding. Days later bad flood happened in Pahang and Johor, the UMNO state. UMNo incited hatred by saying the government could not even take care of a tiger which killed people in the state. A few days later the tiger in the West Coast State killed the people. Then UMNO incited tha hatred towards PAS by saying Kleantan was a very poor state. Yet the nation recorded Trengganu and Sabah were among the poor states.

To me Manik Urai does not matter much. But if UMNO were to win the Malays will be sold again. But UMNO's Trengganu can be anything and can do anything. It even insulted the Sultan. It can't push the blame on one member. The whole party was responsible and should pay for it. Melayu mudah lupa ? NO. You can cheat some people some of the time but you can't  cheat all people all the time.

Every political party should  look before they leap. If they show their stupidity people will begin to hate them regardless whether they are BN or BA.

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FEW GREAT MEN ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Patail, Merican and TDM and many others of similar stock could be considered as great and successful people. The forefathers faced hardship in the motherland. Compare to the locals who originated from the Malay archipelago they are more aggressive and hardworking. The new generations have always thought they are Malaysians and some define themselves as the Malays.

The history of Keling was mentioned in the Malay Annal, Sejarah Melayu.

The indigenous people like the Orang Asli and the Malays were easy going people live on simple economic activity of food gathering and hunting. Their thinking were simple. They live a simple life. With the coming of the British and the booming of economy and the sinking of the Sunda Flatform the Malays were left behind. The Sayed, Syed and the Sheikh  were dominant in education and became learned group in the community.

To find justification the immigrants as usual always wanted to prove that even the Malays were not from the Malay Archipelago, hence the the Malays were also the immigrants. But to date we have difficulty in finding a language similar or identical to the one used by the Malays anywhere else. There is no mother country except the Malay archipelago.

Few great men are really are from Malay stocks. Most people who called themselves Malays have undergone mix marriage. From the facial outlook they are either of Chinese, Indian or Bengali's mix. People of mix blood are believed to be smart and intelligent. Though it is hard to say who are the 100% pure Malays and who are not, most great and successful people are not of the pure Malay root. Many are Chinese look.

The melting is not working in Malaysia. Each race believe it's culture is the most superior and look down upon the indigenous culture. The failure of assimilation is also a political factor. The new leaders would throw away what had been planned by the predecessors. May it be on IMP or on National Language or on Educational Policy. They say they want innovations. 

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NOSTALGIA

When I was a small kid, I like to read a cartoon series called Dol Keropok. I could recognize some of the characters then. I remember looking at Mr Lee Kuan Yew at that time wearing a simple dress being pushed by his fellow men. Lee was not the Prime Minister yet. If I am not mistaken he was with the socialist group. Later when he came into power he caught all of his former comrades.

Utusan Melayu was in Jawi then. That was the most popular paper around. Even during those old days the Malays already produced sex magazine. I remember one adult lady introduced Aneka Warna to me secretly and kept on supplying the monthly issue after stealing it from her uncle. That was in the 1950s. Independent was yet to come. One other lady supplied us with the Nudist magazine. We started to see naked people at our tender age.

1950s and 60s was he time of Chat Gila. Chat Gila was a strong supporter of Tunku Abdul Rahman. He would carry an umbrella, begging for money, collected the money and would give the collections to small kids. Chat would shout 'Merdeka...Merdeka ,,,' with his umbrella. People in the northern states would know who Chat Gila was.

In the later life I learned much about Lee Kuan Yew and the politics. I noticed the past and the present UMNO. So are the rest of political party. More so I learned the behavior of the the political people. I knew Lim Kit Siang only after Singapore broke from Malaysia. I also learned the Chat Gila is so much better than most present politicians.

Girls married at young age. By the age of 40 some were grand mother. By the old standard the fifth former of today was considered as old maid. Old and today's girl are the similar in their chickiness. But there was no way to go out for dating. Most marriage were arranged by the parents. But their marriage last for very long time. Till death they part.

Alor Setar was a small town with 2 cinemas, Royal and Empire. Later Cathay, Rex and Delux were added. Behind the Royal theater was a place called White Palace where we could find the best 'cucur udang' in town. The Cucur Udang survives till today run by the great grandson. In front of Royal was called Padang Pasir where the town hooligans used to gather but the place was very popular becauseof the delicious food. Not far away was Dr Mahathir's clinic at Pekan Melayu.

Dr Mahathir was very famous. He was one doctor that would go for the house call and served the people very well. He was the talk of Alor Setar people. I would give an A++ to Dr Mahathir as a doctor. But as a politician an A at the beginning and towards the end of his carrier I would failed him with a F. Someone must have dozed him with a form of drug to make decisions favorable to them.

I remember one name being mentioned by the youth in my Koran class. It was 'Bakar Karan'. Probably his name was Abu Bakar and his hair was curly. He was one of the greatest samseng in Seberang Perak that nobody dared to challenge and touch. I just saw him once and the others were just looking at him. When we talked about the later life of samseng we were burst with laughter. When the samseng became old they became toothless tigers and people began to play with their heads. May he be Bakar Karan or Mad Samseng.

Among all the Prime Minister who was the best ? I don't know. But if people asks which one I like most, I would say Pak Lah Badawi. You will be surprised when all others criticized him. I see Pak Lah as Gorbachev. I detest the UMNO members whom I suspect had put pillows in front of his house claiming he was a sleeping Prime Minster. But Pak Lah never inflicted any pain on honest people. UMNO wants Pak Lah to deploy the police and the army to strengthen the party so that it would rule forever.

What about Najib ? Najib, by nature is a good man, but he is influenced by his big Taiko and those who seek wealth before retirement and the greed people. I believe Rosmah was part of the bad star to the citizen though a bright star for herself. Opposition leader has been accusing the most arrest was during the short term of Najib's tenure and politically Najib is not clean.

Giving attention to politics can shorten your life. If Chat Gila or Harun Gila is still around, giving attention to them would lengthen our life. May God place them ( Cat and Harun ) in best place of the Heaven.

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THE GOOD OF A GOVERNMENT

I have fired UMNO right and left and I can't say any nice thing about UMNO but today I am going to say something nice about the government, It is about the pensioners.

When I was a Head of Department before, among the lower paid group were the gardeners. I don't exactly remember their income but roughly they get about between RM250 - RM350 monthly pensions. The work of the school gardeners were numerous and very hectic. They got to make sure the grass was short, the compound clean, the flowers bloom, the toilet clean and in addition they had to do many other manual work. I wanted to test the hardship of cutting the grass with a machine. I pushed the machine about 100 yards and it almost took my life because I was breathless and very tired. The ground contain the earth which is termed 'Tanah Cacing'. And these people never grumbled working under the hot sun. 

I was not a good man but their difficulty and hardship was always in my mind. I would ask them what they did with their salaries. "We pay our loan, the groceries we took from the shops, all on loan." One man was left with less than a hundred dollars. He explained that his wife wanted that and this. So he bought them and cut from the salary. We discussed the extra work how they could earn extra income.

During that time one after another retired. I was wondering how they were going to live. Their kids were still small.

When the government announced the minimum pension of RM700.00 I felt very relief. Who on earth was so kind hearted and cared about those poor pensioners. It has to be somebody influential and caring. I pray for his well being. That RM700 is much bigger than their salary. They must not forget the kindness of the government. Their sufferings and torment had been long and finally answered. 

We can't take things for granted and said it was the responsibility of the government. For the last 50+ years nobody made it work.

Another good thing is the Medicare. Think of the price of medication in government hospital. To extract your tooth in a private clinic. I was charged almost RM100 by an Indonesian Doctor opening a clinic here. The government servants are free. Private citizens had to pay just RM2.00. 

I would not go to private hospitals. My wife had had her spinal operation in government hospital. So are many others. Today hospitals even provide MRI and other scanning machines. You go and scan MRI at the private hospital, it may cost you about RM700.00 . You go to hospital it is free. Some people are even willing to pay a little sum of money.

BN says it is BN Government which should get the credit. The opposition says it is the government responsibility because the citizens pay for it. Whatever it is up to the people to think about it. As far as I am concerned I pray for the person responsible for the good deeds. The gardeners should should always pray and thank God for what they get.

My Tukang Kebun were superb. The school got award after ward for the beautiful landscaping, a very  clean toilet and flawless compound. At the city level I sent them to get the prize to represent me. I was there too. At National level I went for the award but they enjoyed the celebration later. Now God has given them a much more better award thru the government.

As far as UMNO is concerned I am yet to see the mental changes. Otherwise the shot will not stop. 

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THE CURRENT REMUNERATION SYSTEM

Government stuffs look at the current remuneration system in different colors. Those who passed the PTK as well perform well in the job are not the majority. There are non-performers who simply can do well in PTK. But many Jonah get their promotion happily. These Jonahs are burden to society and departments. In areas of financial management they cause blunders after blunders yet they are called chief clerks. While some teachers are happy with the money and the posts, their students are sufferings from the lack of teaching.

Some NGO and Trade Unions are to be blamed for the country's problems. It ranges from the illegal immigrants to the government services. 

Promotions and increase in salaries must be based on performance. A worker may accuse his boss as bias but the principle goes simple; no boss will want to make enemy out of good workers. In cases of genuine complaint investigation can be made. In case it is found to be false then severe action must be taken on the complainants.

Staffs are talking of their salaries rather than their work, on how to do effective work. No wonder one student said "My success was on myself. I work hard........" in her speech to the other students in one of  the schools. 

Somebody in the JPA must wake up and do not take things for granted. salaries are paid with public funds. We don't want the billions to be wasted. We don't want to hide things under the carpet.

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WILL I BE CHEATED AGAIN

As far as computing is concerned I have been cheated several time. 

I write software for fun and for my mental exercise, I don't go to patent my product but Most of the time I just distribute them free of charge for usage. Some people pay me for a high performance software like the biometric but the price just able to cover the cost of the scanner and a bit of my petrol. At one time I sent my articles on BASIC Programming to Berita Harian. It was published weekly and I got paid about 100-200 ringgit per publication. Later on some rang me up sayinghe wanted to make my publication into a book combine with his stuffs. The contacts were made several time. He asked for my bio data and my picture. I sent him all. Then I heard nothing. Everything was quiet. 

One day I went to supermarket. I opened up a book and found all the content was mine. The writer was someone else. I rang up Berita Harian. I was told that whatever I sent to Berita Harian belong to them. After all they had paid me for the publication. I felt cheated. Why should he put is name on other people's effort. Because there was no patent, they thought it was their right to steal.

Another case was the Koperasi Kerajaan Kedah asked me to write a software. It took me almost 2 months to complete it. When I went to a presentation, one group bombarded me with questions. I was told later that the group who asked me to develop the software was different people. They already developed the software. Because there was no agreement made therefore I could not say anthing.

Of course I knew then many people are irresponsible. They went to pray, perform Haj, called themselves Islam, showed they are nationalistic but in fact filthy persons. Of course they could blame me. But I asked myself where are their conscience and their Islam ?

I know of Federal Ministries doing such a filthy work. One department has made a contract to purchase soft wares from a company. Agencies under the department were asked to submit all the soft wares used in their institutions. In fact they are for the perusal of the company to get the idea and incorporate them in theirs. When I gave a presentation somewhere officers were sent to observe whatI have in my soft wares that they don't have yet.

Yesterday 02/06/2009 a group of auditors from Federal Government arrived to my former schools where I put several soft ware including on financial management. They are to judge the school financial competition. Two were appalled at the financial management programs used. One said he would bring back to Kuala Lumpur and discuss in the meeting.

If in the meeting the government decided to develop it's own with different style and idea, it is their right. If they were to call me for presentation and later choose their own company to develop it akin to mine then certainly it is a foul play. They can't blame for for not patenting it.

As I said before many time I gave soft ware for free. It is just my hobby. I used a simple philosophy that if God wants to give me then I will be given. If it is not my 'rezeki' then it is not mine. To show appreciation  to my work is good enough for me. I don't need any money but have a consideration. Have some conscience.

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TO TAIPING WITH OLD KANCIL

I gave away my Saga to my kid who has the slip disk problem leaving me with a 14 year old Kancil. On the 4th Jun 2009 I asked my wife to come with me to Taiping to feed wild monkeys. We bought nuts and Keropok on the way. My Kancil had a leakage problem before. I changed the water pipe, an imitation and cleaned the rust. The radiator need to be changed. And the throttle was not  functioning well for idling. But I knew a slow drive would take me anywhere I want to go.

After more than two hours I arrive Kamunting. By Saga would be shorter by an hour or more. I told my wife thatI wanted to make a visit to Taiping Technical School which won the award of being the all-round achievements school in the country. Saturday was a holiday and I did not expect crowd in the school compound. After meeting the security guard and introduced myself as a retired person, I drove around the school. To my judgment the school deserve to be a champion. I would say the landscaping is well planned. I saw many teachers went to school to do heir work on the holiday.

I moved out the school compound and proceeded to areas just outside the lake garden. I saw several monkeys. I parked my car and called on the monkeys showing the nuts I brought. None came. Then I dropped the nuts on the ground. One monkey crossed the road and picked it up. Slowly more monkeys gathered. One female with a child clipped to her body just stayed far away. I guessed she feared one dominant male in front. All food thrown by my wife were grabbed by the male.  

I love to see monkeys eating keropok. Finally the mother with the child came. I was able to throw the keropok for her. The baby clapped to her body just feed on her milk. Before eating the keropok the mother cleaned the keropok by brushing on the dirty part. I told my wife that that particular monkey knew the different between dirt and cleanliness. What thrown out and fell to the ground was wiped before consumed.

I like to watch animals to assess their intelligence. Even in cats I can see their smartness. Cats know how to demand and send you messages. Monkeys have their own way of doing things. They are not stupid animals. They know what is love. The longer and the more you observe animals the more you will realize that some human do not deserve to live.

After for about an our of feeding we went to a cool place and rest. At about 4 pm I started the journey home. half way I found the temperature went up a little, higher than when we came. I suspected there was a leakage problem again because the bottom of my car bumped hard at one of the places in the garden. To let the water cool a little, I went to pray, had a short rest and later open up my radiator cover. I put some water in. I looked beneath the car and saw water dropping. I told my wife that there was a leakage problem and we would arrive home a little late.

One passerby stopped and asked what was wrong. I said it could have a leakage somewhere. He looked around and said that was not a leak, it was the water from the air condition pipe. He showed me the pipe. It gave me a relief. After thanking him I drove home and arrive home at almost 7.30 pm.

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SMOKING AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN

Smoking among school children are rampant. It started from the primary to the secondary schools. Students smoke in school's toilets. They flush the buts and the boxes until it cause blockage. Some schools remove the wall of the toilet and shorten each of the door to ensure the students could not smoke.

The question is if you are running a school how do you go about to combat with the smoking problem ?

Almost all teachers blaming the parents and the Ministry about the punishment. Many a time Education Minister sided the student. In fact teachers of different political beliefs would have to face the music. At all time parents are siding the children and maintain that their kids are always good. Most teachers just do not want to find trouble and prefer to stay aloof and indifferent.

I was a bit disturbed to see schools knocking off the toilet walls when it could have first tried some other measures. I saw some schools never even made spot checks. The HEM stays in the room almost the whole day, not aware what goes on outside his/her room. No movie on the hazard of smoking was shown. In short there was no effort to prevent smoking. The short cut way is knocking the wall of the toilet.

Spot checks are vital. Drugs, phonographic materials and other illegal things could be minimized from entering the school compound. It has to be weekly. Daily check by the school guards at the gate must be done to instill fear among the potential law breakers. 

Beside checking students belongings, bags and their pockets schools could also check the compound at any possible places where things could be hidden like the dry drain at the corner of the school. Make things tough for the students to smuggle undesirable materials especially drugs.

I am not surprise one day when drugs like marijuana and morphin be legalized by the government like what is in European countries because it is out of control. Remember smoking was once a major offence in schools. Today it is a normal  affair even in primary schools. 

The reader of his short essay could have done something at least by showing some concern about it and pressure the government for some stringent action and punishment. Otherwise give all the problems kids to the psychologists and NGO to take care of them. Whoever believe in human right just take care of these kids.

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Kementerian  Pelajaran

The change of name from Kementerian Pendidikan to Kementerian Pelajaran was not without purpose. The role of educational institution is narrowed down with the change. The school is no more responsible in shaping the moral of the students or producing  students to become good citizens. With the new rules teachers would only concentrate on teaching and try to produce  students with good academic achievements. If students refuse to learn there will be no pressure or force on them by the teachers.

The word Pendidikan means schools are not only to depart knowledge but also to instill the desirable moral values. Morality has been said is the work of the parents. That was what Dr Rais Yatim announced. Any interference by any teacher on departing other than the lessons would invite troubles. many teachers having the same view concerning the moral values and student's discipline.

I believe there is a decay in moral values and student's discipline. You may not agree with me. Society has come to accept smoking and student's sex activities as normal phenomena. And teachers just don't care at all. They translate the word Pelajaran as merely imparting the syllabus contents, nothing else. That is the reason why we find PK HEM just stay in his room for the whole day instead of going around to observe the student's activities during the break time or exercising spot checks.

I saw parents attacking a teacher for assaulting the son when the boy reported to the parent. Thorough investigations from many teachers all agreed that the student was a problem kid. There were parents who seek politician's help to defend the kids. Even students caught distributing drugs were defended by the parents.

Schools which do not at all do any spot check may have plenty of drugs going around. Nobody cares. The parents are responsible ,not the teachers. Teachers are not to educate but to teach.

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A GAME OF CHESS

The last time I played chess was in year 1968. This is year 2009. Two years ago I challenge a teacher to play the game with me. It was not materialize because everybody was busy. Lat week the teacher mentioned about the promise game.

I went to a super market looking for a chess set and finally bought a ten dollar plastic chess. But I don't remember the placements of the King and Queen. I need to learn back how to play. Thanks to the modern world. I found one in the website and started to solve simple problems with a game to play with the machine. I could not win even one game although it set to win.

Angry with the lost I told myself I must try to challenge a human. I took the set to school looking for anybody to play. The first day I could not find any. The next day I asked one teacher where I could find the teacher I challenged and I was amaze when the teacher said, "Cikgu you must play with me first before you challenge him."  We set to play. But we had only 20 minutes to do so so.

Because I could not think well, my strategy was to wait for him to make mistakes. He did. I won. Being upset at the lost he challenged me to come to the school early as he was free at the time. That was yesterday when I went to school a bit early. He was waiting for me. "The bet will be free breakfast. The loser pays," he said. So we played. Again he made grave errors. I won. We went for breakfast and he kept on telling the teachers in the canteen that He lost chess game to me.

After breakfast we continued. For the first few moves he was like a professional. I told him hat this time he could beat me. To my luck, he made errors again. I won. He went out from the staff room. After reading a newspaper's headline I set to go home. My head was spinning. On the way out he stopped me saying that he went to call another teacher to play with me. I had to turn his request because my head was spinning.

In the evening I got a phone call. Another teacher challenged me with a bet. "If you lose you must convert to UMNO. If I lose I will convert to PAS". The bet is interesting. I think the UMNO and PAS should do he same thing. Afterwards I will be going to face that big challenge. But I am a little worried for the lack of sleep. I slept late and awoke early. I may be lsing except if they make mistakes again,

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Looking At Election Result

How do you look at an election or by-election's result ? I don't look at the result just by the headcount and the vote majority. I try to look deep into the whole thing like the input and effort put into it. How much money were used to win the voters' heart and all other resources deployed. Effort and resources maximization and the output compared will tell us the true story. Putting it scientifically resources in money value/majority =per vote price.

There is no need for the development if the citizens are swept to the forests and their land are robbed, and the Muslims cannot practice their religion peacefully. Issues of Azan, pigs and kenduri come together with development. People vote for PAS not because they want development but for peace and tranquility. On the other hand BN is corrupting the Muslims to move from eternal peace to materialism and competitiveness. 

UMNO did not protect the simple people but exploited them and continued with the cheating spree to win the Malay vote. PAS-DAP coalition was exploited as PAS favor to the Chinese. Anwar Ibrahim was displayed as pro-Chinese. In Mani Urai Mustapha and Mahiyuddin were brought down to show that UMNO is as good as both of them. It is true that Mustapha and Mahiyuddin maybe very good and clean guys but they are not ruling the country. TDM still does. TDM seems to be with Najib wherever Najib run for the road show.

After so much input of resources in Manik Urai, PAS still won. What went wrong ? Now BN blamed the young voters. It has to make sure that GE13 UMNO will get the Malay support. Will it ? Many Malays yet to know UMNO is selling them without their knowledge,  robbing their land, patronizing the immigrants and making draconian rules to deal with speeches it does not like.

With the great university professors, strategists, psychologists, planners, think tanks, TDM and money UMNO is still beaten. Mustapha and Mahyuddin were accepted as good guys. These two men mean something to Manik Urai. The elderly Malays do respect them, not UMNO per se.

Do you want to give away your land for supermarket and shop houses ? You may get rich like the 19th century Sultan of Johor who gave away Singapore to the British, but your generations may not have a place for burials and mosques. They will become like the Red Indians and the Bushmen of Australia. UMNO's trend is towards making the Malays like those natives.

Story goes round saying the first count shows a majority of 2000+. Then there were repeated counts until it reaches the number of 65. There are many big question marks for the changes in number. At whatever number UMNO has to find self consolation. Underneath the fear and phobia is growing up. Anything could have happened in GE13. UMNO has to gear up and work hard to prove that it is not selling the Malays and never robbed their properties, and it does not have that intention whatsoever. On the other hand the anti-UMNO group will have to disseminate proofs that the Malays are losing their land and the country and will be the Australian Bushmen.

Najib is now looking for TDM as a savior of UMNO. TDM failed to prove that UMNO was weakened by Pak Lah. With Pak Lah out BA won one by one. Bringing back TDM as a mouse clicker could be a very costly affair in GE13. Time will tell. In the meantime those who can plunder the country's wealth and resources are working hard to do so. Remember PKZ is not RM3 but 300 billion ringgit. Toyol's mansion is not a RM24 affair, it is a 24 million stuff. If you are running a bank would you approve loan for a 24 million ringgit mansion ? If your business gives you RM50 monthly profit, do you want to stay in politics ? That is UMNO, not valued at rm24 or rm3 but much much more. You want to be wealthy ? Join UMNO. You want to serve yourself with religious security join PAS. You can be sure of a graveyard and a mosque for your generation to come.

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