Monday, December 31, 2007

Reviewing of 2007

Here gone year 2007 and there are many ups and downs during the difficult 365 days. Do anyone would want to share what's been the ups and downs over the past 12 months, please post them here. What's the most noted things happened during the past year?

1. One of the big entertainment news is Paris Hilton being jailed and released, then back again into cell for 23 odd days.

2. World largest passenger plane Airbus A380 finally handed over its 1st plane to their customer, Singapore Airline and its debut flight to Sydney using that plane. Another milestone for aviation industries

3. The murder of Ex-Pakistani leader, Benazir during a suicide attack

4. Police being attacked by Mat Rempits one after another - these yobs are taking the laws into their own hands, action is required urgently to curb this down

5. Murder of Mongolian girl case, which speculated to be involving one of Malaysia's top leader

6. Corruption cases one after another, of which all are still under investigation. Probably all the outcomes of investigations will be known before 2020, our proud vision by ex-PM (Stil have plenty of time for investigation though)

7. Turnaround of MAS from losing RM 600 mil to earning of RM200 mil or so. How true is this??? I always have a doubt in this case, but just don't know how to express it!

8. Proton claimed they finally can survive without foreign partner by introducing a new BLM. To me this is biggest joke of the year. Just refer to Rover in UK how they are doing after similar situation.

9. The selling of MV Agusta to foreign investor for only EURO 1.00, which is meant to be making money rather than losing. It was purchased for millions of ringgits and by selling at EURO 1.00, it is making money. (How can this make sense?) Upon selling to foreign investor, they in turn sold the same to a 3rd party for a whopping EURO 4,000,000.00 plus. So I really doubt the person who made that statement

10. Street demonstration. This is a surprise, up to certain extend, but bound to happened if our Bumi government keeps doing things they are doing now, and may be more to come. Just like time bomb now

11. Malaysia won a record high 68 Gold medals in Korat Sea Games 2007. It's a good achievement, and hopefully athletes will keep on fighting and improving themselve to bring more glory to Malaysia, not stay where it ends.

12. New found hero in Badminton - Koo Kean Kiat and Tan Booh Heong who defy odds to win Asiad Games at Doha, and also most notably ended Malaysia's wait of men's double gold medal in All England Championship

13. Two coward ministers in the cabinet, Hishammudin and Nazri. Seen some video clips and comments from them. They acted more like gangster than a civilised minister. Hope they will be oust during next GE

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Many more... hope you guys can continue the list on and on to keep as memory and reminder

Happy 2008

Gone 2007 and here it comes 2008. Celebration everywhere last nite and with so many promises made during celebration too.

Just hope our country will clean up all its acts and restore the peaceful and harmony society we once enjoyed. Do not ruin it or else it will be another 50 yrs before we will get back those life again :)

Country Goes Bankrupt....

Yesterday's one of the minister said Malaysia will go burst if the government is to lowering the fuel prices by subsidering more into fuel.

This is true that our government has been paying billions of Ringgits to subsidise fuel prices towards consumers. We truely appreciate what the government has been doing in attempt of trying not to burder our already sky-high living and inflation costs.

But wouldn't the country go burst if all the government officers keeps corrupted and millions of billions of ringgits were gone into unknown as well? If lowering fuel price will make country go burst, then corruption is even worst than that. At least we would know why government bankrupt rather than spending money into unknowns like spending RM 20 mil just to carryout survey on Parliment house roof structure, RM 90 mil to just renovated parliment house, whose durability only last for 2 - 3 year without touching roof area, and then pray for not raining heavily regularly, millions of millions into repairing MRR2, buying most modern and hi-tech equipment, which is hardly used etc etc......

Isn't that worse than paying higher subsidy for fuel? Over the years surely there were billions of ringgits had gone dissapeared, and yet no one have ever asked because it's all done within themselve. So if they don't ask, others cannot ask. Otherwise you are against the government's policy and that ISA will be waiting for you!

Is it true? Give your comment

Friday, December 28, 2007

Police On The Bike!

Today as I was coming back from office on one of the packed and jammed road in KL city, I noticed a siren sound, which turn out to be a policeman on the bike urging motorists to give way to one of the Orang Besar.

The first thing went thru my mind is that: Who the hell is that needing a police escort to break free the traffic to allow his stupid car to pass by? At that time, the traffic was grid lock and there have hardly any space to move, let alone to give way to the policeman. So no one really care, and guess what happen next, the police went over each car started staring and scolding at them urging them to give way.

To me this is a very rude and "Kurang Ajar" act. When I was in UK, even the PM (Tony Blair then) need to go thru traffic just like other ordinary people when traffic is jam, unless there's an important function going on, which don't happen often in UK. Plans will be set out and 1-2 days prior to the event, the access road will normally be prepared for these VIPs to pass by.

So it is a very embarassing act that some "Important VIP" had misuse of their power to such extend they don't care for other motorists who'd been stuck in traffics for long, and for their own convenient sake, they sacrifices other motorists' safety and rights to use the road.

So hopefully government will change such law (in which they are best at) that no special VIP will be given previlage for road usage. And Government should allow those who capture traffic offencer.

PMR Result Published

Another year, another PMR exam result published, another record number of people obtained straight 'A's, another year of excellent etc...

This has become a trend that people just don't care about the quality, but only focus on number of 'A's obtained. Does it really matter how many 'A's you scored regardless of whether you really learnt something? Does it mean you will have a bright future by obtaining all 'A's in PMR exams? Does this guarantee all top students get what they prefer in the future in university and courses selection? Answer is not really.

Nowadays it has become a common trend that people ask "How many 'A's you have? In our year of studies, we will asked the other "What's your aggregate?" In short it may look another similar question, but the real meaning of measure by aggregate is that aggregate did reflex on how your overall performance are and as to how much you really know from your studies that you could apply into the exams. Now it's going the other way round just because result compare to previous year is getting worse and the only solution is by changing the system to a more simpler, easier and more straight forward exams so that more student would be able to pass the exams with flying colour.

If I were to interview a potential staff, I would not care if he get all 'A's in the PMR or SPM but will judge on the general matter, which it is almost impossible to learn from text book, and you need to be smart and alert enough to know all these. And most importantly is how a person handle different situations. In school there won't be anyone teaching such classes, and that it will not require to apply to school students. Life outside school is a lot more than just text book.

Another issue is that by teaching science and maths in English, what's the fuss is all about regarding this? Can they guarantee that teaching in BM will be better off by teaching in English? Maybe they'd hired too many incompetent teachers to teach such subject in a different language that is causing the drop in standard.

So if our government still insisting on the current system, I'm afraid one day our education system will be with those back-makers. We will not move forward, but only move backwards the education system, and our once proud educational system wil have to start all over again from scratch and develop into a highly recognise systems.

Murder of Benazir Vs Street Demos

It is shocking that former Pakistani leader, Benazir Bhutto was killed by a suitside attacker. Two months ago she narroly escape being killed upon her return from her 8 year exile., but now she was right in the thick of it, being shot and murdered

Comparing this to our very own demonstration, here people are just trying to voice their dissatisfaction and yet they were being treated worse than a murderer. Look at few of our neighbouring country like Thailand, Indonesia, Philipine, Myanmar etc,all these country are at political unrest at all time, and it has caused their country at an full alert situation all the time.

So by seeing what has happened around, hope our government can realise how lucky they are in managing this multi-racial country, and fortunately nothing happen up until now. Situation may not be the same should they continue doing what they are doing now, and we may possibly facing the similar situation when things get out of control

Hishamuddin The Dictator

The comments made by Hishamuddin on other party has shows that this bloke is a coward and dictatorship minded person. Can we trust his capability as an Educational Minister role? The way he made the comment sounds like he is ordering Dr Khor to sack the deputy who made disgrace but truthful comment.

No doubt what has been said by the deputy is incorrect, and I'm sure he will face the displinary action by the party, but act like Hishamuddin is just outrages, and he did it like a gangster style, coward style, and he looks more like an asshole, rather than educational minister.

If our education system is lead by such stupid minister i'm afraid our younger generations wil follow suit what the minister is doing, and this could lead to more society problem in future. No wonder crime rates is growing higher year by year because of such idiot minister plus our sports minister, Azalina who is another same kind of creature.

Hope they would disappear from the cabinet after the next election

Friday, December 21, 2007

Comment on I am Legend

After watching the movie "I am Legend", it is quite a dissapointment to me. From advert and preview, it has been made to impress and thinking that it is such an exciting movie to be watched. After watching it, it is kind of boring towards the ending, and that I have the impression that the director just want to conclude the movie soonest possible, and Will Smith just has to detonated the bomb and all infected devils will be death with him. Comparing to The National Treasure 2 I watch yesterday, it is a much nicer and exciting and attactive movie. There is no bore scene from the beginning till the end, and in between there include some comedy and hillarious scene together. After watching these 2, I would prefer the National Treasure 2 than I am Legend

China Manufactured Passenger Aircraft

China have produced their own passenger aircarft and it has successfully launched in Shanghai recently. In a way it is good that China has the ability to manufacture and produce their own aircraft, and it has given the world another options to think of when ordering passenger aircraft.

How fast China has growth over the last 10 years or so is there proven and seen by all of us. They have no doubt become an important leader of world economy and their wealthiness is affecting the world's as well.

By saying that, we have also heard a lot about the quality of china-made products. How good they really are and is there really any Quality Control of their product? Are they invented the parts themselve or they are copying from others? Have they pass the International Aviation Association's regulation for safety? Are they complying with their regulation in manufacturing the aircraft?

We may have heard too many of such story that design were copied, products being duplicated and cloned etc. Thus we tends to have a thinking that China products are mostly sub-standard. All these are questions we will all asked. It may be unfair to put such comment on their products, as there may be tons good and excellent products from China being sold either locally in China or export to worldwide. Unfortunately there tends to be a minority who always take advantages of such situation and trying to conned their way through.

Of the aircraft they produced, I would say it is a big step forward for China, and it may be good for the industry's competition, that has been monopolised by Boeng and Air Bus. But one thing still concern me most is the safety of the plane. As we know, aircraft safety is the most important issue to be address among all others, and hopefully it has comply to all the international regulation standard. In saying so, I would still prefer to take air craft from US or Europe for the time being until this Chinese made aircraft is fully tested and proven.

Causes of Flooding in East coast and Johor

What's been the causes of flooding in east coast Malaysia and Johor? Last year it was bad enough that few cities in Johor were flooded and thousands of people needed to be evacuated to a higher and safer place for weeks. Properties, personal belongings and many others were washed away and lost during and after the floods.

This has never happen before and only recent years that situation is getting worse. I guess from now on, those places experience flood during year end monsoon season will start to worry about their properties comes year end. They will probably have to look for places to start moving so they would not suffer this year after year.

Why would this happen now more often than before? Is this the effect of global warming and the rise in sea level? Where are those excess water coming from? Or is it our drainage system partly to be blame for causing the flood? Places affected by flood are mainly located at the mountain footing or near rivers, and this may explain the our drainage system may be one of the reason causing such flood.

I remember looking at news last year that river cutting across Segamat town was overflowed and the water flowing out of the river is insufficient, despite the river is so wide and deep. Also the whole town was flooded till the roof top of the shop houses.

In such situation, the rescuers reaction to this was very slow, and it looks like they don't know what to do in such situation, and they probably didn't expect such things to happen in their area. That sums it up why they reacted so slowly to it and comparing this year, they are much faster since they have a hands on experience about it. So do give credits to the rescuers on this account.

I hope this scenario of flooding would not happen so badly next year, and hope everyone could do something to minimise, if not stop the global warming.

Country moving backwards under Badawi

It's been more than 4 years since Abdullah Badawi became PM of Malaysia. During these 4 years, have Malaysia progressed forward under him? Have his promises being materialised? Do we still remember what his promises were? How much has the government done for the nations during these 4 difficult years?

From what I can see, our country's situation only get backwards, and still going further backwards today. I remembered the first promise of Pak Lah when he stepped up into the PM office, where he said of his priority in fighting against corruption, and also treating all nations equally and fairly, and developing the country further in continuation to what Dr. M had done thus far.

When we, all Malaysian heard that his first priority is to clean up the government image of badly corrupted, we were so happy and we were thinking that finally Dr. M regime will be faded away, and Malaysia will have a new image under a new leader, and with a new vision and aims. We all were so eagerly awaiting for all these to happened, and sadly to say, 4 years on and all these remains talk only.

What we've seen today is disasters one after another, corruptions cases after cases involving all the well known MPs, high profiles murder case, building collapses, mat rempits outragous behavious getting worse, robbery and rape cases almost every now and then, demonstrations and many many more which is endless in my mind.

So what has he done for our country so far? Has he contribute any goods to us till today? Has he really do what he meant by cleaning up the image? Or situation getting worse under his regime? All we can see is Abdullah Badawi is so powerless in controlling this government and all his ministers, including those "Small Potatoes" ministers. People can say and/or do what they like, and for one thing that is sure is they will not face any sanction even if found guilty, but actions will be taken against those who questioned.

So this is what he called fair treatment, and cleaning of government image. Probably we all were being too smart in presuming that Badawi is cleaning up the government image by getting rid of those corrupted. Maybe his way of cleaning image is to restricted citizens from questioning. Hence "No question, no issue. Question asked, go to jail"

Can horse bite?

News this morning shows that horse actually can bite. A boy in Penang was bitten by a horse during an exhibition when he was climbing down from the horse ridden.

Strangely enough this is my first time hearing such news. I remember went to Bkt Cahaya last month with friends and actually horse's teeth are not sharp, and moreover horses should be smooth type animals. We've heard a lot about dogs biting passer-by, pedastrians, tigers or lions biting people, but how on earth can a horse bite? This remind me of the movie "Black Sheep" where sheep can kill after being cloned.

Hope this is just a one off incident and no more such news appear, otherwise we, human beings shall start worrying since we do not know which animals going to attack human.

Company Policy During Working Hours

I wonder what's the actual company policy during working hours? Are employees forbidden to talk to personal friends or issues during working hours? Is it against general rules and regulation of company if talking to personal friends?

Those who know could you kindly advise if this is correct. When I went back to ex-company, the ex-director told that he seen me picking up phone from personal friends during working hours, and that I was seen doing some personal banking issues during working hours. What really gets to my nerve is that I was told I not suppose to talk anything personal during our way to site for meetings or inspections.

At first I was quite mad about such comment, but after few seconds, I think this is the most outragous and hilarious thing that could happen to me and worse I heard it from a company's director. So anyone outthere could help explain the rules. Thanks

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Will Arrest Calm Things Down?

ISA had begins their act to arrest those involved in the recent assemblies. But will the arrest really calm things down? Will the demonstrator be hold back after arrest?

Maybe they will, but to certain extend this arrest will surely infuriated the demonstrators, as the arrest is unjustify and it's like an act of coward, communisms. Arrest without evident, and could be jailed up to 5 years. This is rather like cowboy style of act by arresting whoever is suspicious of involving in the assemblies and marchings without clear evident against them, and in the hope that by doing so others will be restrain in doing so.

Other demonstrators sure will not want to end up in jail, but at the same time, they are just like another time bomb on the run, and who knows what they will do and act in near future, and what make it worse is that there may be turn into some kind of unneccessary violent or riot acts everywhere.

These people are just demanding for a clean and fair elections, wanted to voice their opinion, let the authority know what they felt of, but all these were taken away and being deem as an act of disloyalty, inpatriotic to country, betryal of country etc.

If ISA persist on doing so I'm afraid things might turn from bad to worse, and also it could be seen as planted time bomb all around. When things get out of control, I couldn't imagine what will happen. Just wait and see

Football Hooligans!

English football was well known for its hooliganisms before, and until now it is still there to be exploded., but English authoritis have done a significant job in clamping down on the coward act over the last 10 years or so, and that not much such scene happened. UEFA acted by banning English clubs from Europe elite competitions for years. It took the English authorities to clean up the acts before ban is lifted due to these hooliganisms act by the so call passionate football fans.

Now the same scenario has turned to Italy, where we can hear football hooliganisms act or football fans rioting everywhere on and off, in some cases even lifes were claimed due to these rioting. Matches banned, cancelled, resheduled, played behind closed door etc. All these shows that footbal fans violent has turned into Italy nowadays, and yet UEFA has done nothing against them. Teams from country involving football voilence should be banned like English clubs suffered.

Whenever there's a football fan violence involving English teams, it's always the English fans' fault for causing the rioting at first instance before investigation being carryout, simply because of their history. All these are unfair to an English clubs, and from the few recent incidents it is clear that English fans were provoked by others, and even being attacked by rival's fans, yet blames always lie with English, just because they are English. It is so unfair to English fans

Few years back few Leeds Utd fans were stabbed and one were death. Man Utd fans were batton charged by Rome police even they were provoked by home fans, Middlesbrough fans were being attacked by Rome fans, and subsequently Rome police, and many more cases where English football fans were attacked during their away games. Nobody wanted to be hurt during their away trip, and certainly they just wanted to watch and support their team all they way, yet they were provoked and insufficient protection is given to those who travelled.

Hopefully UEFA will seriously look into these problems, and act appropriately to those who is suppose to be responsible for their act, not judge by the history of the clubs. If Italian teams were found guilty of such, they should be sanctioned and banned from UEFA competitions as punishment, where English clubs suffered. This will also stamp the authority that UEFA did take this seriously, and also before football voilence hamper the entertainment of football and damage the beautiful game's reputation as the widest followers' game on planet

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Tian Chua's arrest!

Is the police right to arrest Tian Chua the way it showed on video clip? What has he done wrong to deserve the arrest like the way he did? I think police force is over stepping the line and started a war against peace and harmony.

From the video clip viewed, Tian Chua has done nothing, but sitting inside the car driven by his driver or friend, and he did nothing more than heading towards Parliment house. Is that deserve to be arrested? Is there any law prevented a politician entering parliment house?

Surely I think police is making use of the chance to try showing what they intent to do should the street demonstrators started marching towards parliment house. And worse is Tian Chua was pulled out from his car and being hand carried into a police car, when he did nothing more than speaking and answering to police's question. Also police do not obtain any sort of warrant to arrest Tian Chua, as well as anybody around the area.

Some policemen even try to prevent reporters from taking photograph, and pushing reporters away so no photo could be taken and no evidence will be published against them. I think these policemen not only thirsty at times, but they like acting cowardly in public so that thief and/or robbers will be afraid of them

Monday, December 10, 2007

Will Liverpool qualify?

Can Liverpool qualify to the knock-out stage of champions league? Has they got what it takes to qualify? Can they get the needed result in France to qualify? I would love them to qualify,but afraid The Cops need to wait for another year.

For once I believe Liverpool do have the credential to challenge for not only cups, but also EPL this year. On paper they probably have the most complete and significant teams around. They have the formidable back line, dependable midfielders in attacking as well as defending, and most impress is their attacking lines, where Fernando Torres and Peter Crouch, to me is the most dangerous partnership in EPL. Personally I am a Red Devils fan, but do like the combinations of the current Cops.

But after more than 3 months into the new season, I am still not convince that Liverpool will challenge for the EPL. They probably will be a very good cup team where matches are play one off. In league, they just have not got that piece of skill to sustain their form throughout the year.

Another factor is I don't think Rafael Benitez is the right man to lead Liverpool to EPL title. He's a good coach, but not good enough for EPL challenge. He likes thinkering with the team and from the past 3 years it shows that his tactic just do not work well.

In my personal view, in order for Liverpool to end the League title barrel run, there's only one thing they need to do, and almost guarantee the league title will go back to Anfield at least once, which is to sack Rafael Benitez and hire Fabio Capello. The Italian is a proven league championship quality. For all the team he leads, all won at least once the league title during his tenure there, and I would love to see him in EPL, should he not being approach by English FA or he turned down the offer, so we will see the best ever EPL challenge between Man Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool, probably Chelsea as well.

Driving in KL

I've been driving in KL city for years, and one thing I always found is that the road condition in the KL city is terrible. You could find all sort of uneven surfaces everywhere, and worst is there are holes all around, and you are risking damaging your vehicles driving inside KL city.

It is suppose all the road surfaces to be smooth and evenly laid, but everytime after a road surface is relaid, there are some drainage covers along the road which shall be raise up to the same level and casting of concrete. But to our surprise, DBKL doesn't even know how to make good of such things they just leave the cover as its original level. So everytime when driving pass these covers, we will experience a huge bump into the hole.

What if our vehicle is damaged because of this? Can we claim DBKL for damages and repair costs? Will they admit their fault? Whose responsibility is it to make sure road surface are done up to international standard?

Months ago DBKL chief is suggesting to incurred the congestion charge for vehicle drive into city centre, but yet they are not improving their services. For me if DBKL can guarantee the quality of public services, I don't mind to pay for the congestion charges, just like London. But before anything, DBKL would have to make sure all are in place and well organised, and that public services is well and truely improved before talking about congestion charge.

Otherwise it will only become another money printing machine to them and we, the civilians will still be suffering and there will never be any improvement if payment being made up front

Is Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Tough Enough?

Malaysia's PM said he will get tough when necessary. Is this true? Or has this happen when it really needed? From day one he step onto PM post, he gave the public the impression that he's a clean PM, and that he will get rid of those corrupted ministers, public servant, or anyone who caught involve in corruptions.

Now few years on and have we really see any action? Yes there were a few, but all ended with the same result - Insufficient evident and that suspects were cleared off the criminals. Most notably the Datuk Z and Eric Chia cases.

Now he is getting mad about the Hindraf act to stage street demonstrations. He warned those demonstrator they will face prosecution should they carryon the street assembly. Just wonder on what ground the government wanted to charge them with? Have they committed a more serious crime than those involved in corruptions? Have they killed or murdered anyone that they deserved such treatment? Is their act more damaging than trafficking drugs? Will they cause public unrest if they are staging a peaceful walk along the main road?

For one thing I know is that our government is doing everything they could to try to contain this being out of control, and that it is view as more serious crime than those mentioned above. Surely there are some hidden agenda which public will not know. But from the way Abdullah is handling this situation shows his incapability and also he is treating all Malaysian as stupid person. He has made too much empty promises which today his word is worthless and that people will not listening to him anymore.

All these while he's protecting those corrupted minister and murderer, and he's talking to act tough against such soft spoken, well educated lawyers and opposition parties' leaders. From this we will know they are now afraid to lose the few seats at certain area to opposition parties, and that they are making use of this chance to try to make certain creditable people/candidates ineligible for the next election.

It is not right to stage such public demostration as it will jeopadise our reputation and also causing unrest in our communities. But for everything that's happened, surely there're some reason behind it. Is these caused by our government's biasness? Or is this being fuelled by some hidden person, that's trying to unrest our country. What I am saying is it suppose to be a minor case, where certain community is trying to pass a message to our government. But probably for someone who is outside this country is taking chance to cause some unrest in this country, and that they are making it such a big issue, and start fuelling the rumous around, then they retreating themselve from the scene.

Maybe that's the root cause of all these. We hope our nations will be calm and smart enough to handle such situation. Let's not get affected by outsiders, as this will do a lot more harm than we can see, and we will put our country's reputation to shame should this situation not carefully look into.

CCTV for all houses

Last week I read a news that KL Chief police is suggesting that all house owners/tenants to install a CCTV for their house for security reason as well as to assist police to catch the robbers or thiefs. This sound so damn ridiculous and stupid, considering it had came out from the mouth of the chief police of KL.

If as he suggested, all houses should install CCTV to help police to break the robbery cases, then what's the purpose of hiring them in the first place? Aren't police suppose to make safe our society and carryout their duty as a police forces to ensure peaceful and harmony living. What on earth that makes him said such thing to reporters, and to me it looks like they are shredding off their responsibility as a police and shifted the responsibility to the owners themselve.

Another question is: Can the police forces be dependable even if CCTV is installed at all houses? Will the policemen really putting effort in to solve all these crime cases? I think this suggestion is just to partially shifting the blames of crimes into the public and to lighten and shredd off some responsibility from the police forces. It will also then enable them to have more time for coffee and tea break at wish. If any case without CCTV, they will just put in a file and come a reply "Sorry no CCTV, it will take time to trace"

So can we still depend on policemen to safeguard us in the future? what if our properties are broken in? Will the policemen just say it's beyond their ability because we do not install CCTV in our premises? We snatch and run, robbery or even street offences happened policemen can just tell the public there's nothing much they could do because there isn't CCTV around? All these only show one thing about our policemen - They are a bunch of incapable and incompetent forces that is waasting too much of our tax payers money, government resources, and also the nature resources. They should just find a deep hole and hide themselve in it forever.

Of all these, there sure to be one thing good about our policemen. It's just like the song written by our famous son, policemen are very thirsty all the time, and also they are very friendly towards the public. Whenever there's a minor offender in sight, that's when and where we will see our lovely policemen's true ability. They will greet you with huge smiles, telling all sort of safety rules as well as our law and regulations, and not forgetting to mentioned how heavy the compound will be etc. That's the only good thing and true capability of our policemen, that's when we will see them being most efficient because it's very tiring and thirsty for having such long conversation to publics, so we "should" buy them a coffee, preferrably with some sugar in it so it tasted sweeter.

By looking at the abovementioned, we can know roughly why our country's crime rate is getting higher, why are there so many unsolved cases inside police stations, why the same things could happen over and over again in the same area. All these sums up to our incapability of policemen.

I even heard once in Kepong area when there's an armed robbery at a coffee shop, police only arrive at crime scene about 45 minutes after call being made, when the police station is barely less than 1 km away. What made it worse is the first question asked was "Where's the robber?" Then when told he's gone, the reply with relieve is "Luckily" from the policeman. Is that protection we, the public deserve from policemen?

Probably we can't blame the policemen because they are only earning such small salary, with probably some a huge family to feed. What if something bad happened to them? Who will feed their families? All these will surely goes back to the government. For this I am not commenting anything beyond this point as I know how difficult it is to manage a big group of people, let alone a country.

The only thing I wanted to say is it's time for government and authorities to seriously look into such problem, and finding a solution to cure the root cause of it right to the bottom, otherwise it will be just a waste of time and money yet again

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Country's Image affected!

Street Demos has hampered Malaysia's image in the international stage. For whichever country a street demostration will surely bring bad image to the country, be it advance country or developing country.

There were few street demonstrations happened in Malaysia recently, and this has brought our country's name temporarily famous, but for the wrong reason. Such act will scare off foreign investors, as well as affecting our peaceful life in Malaysia as a multi-racial country and society.
With such demostrations going on and off the time, we would not feel safe going out on street, we afraid to meet someone trying to brainwash you to support their act etc.

So isn't there be any better way of voicing their dissatisfactions? Is it true only foreigners can voice out our dissatisfaction on our behalf? Why would we involve foreign parties to such act, when there can be a better solution within ourselve.

Initially I thought it was true that our government treated different races unfairly, but things has got out of control and from what I'd heard, our people has been supported by foreign parties to carryout such street demos so their problems are being look into.

As a smart Malaysian, we must be clear and smart enough to judge who's right and who's wrong. People supporting you and urging you to do certain things doesn't really mean what they said. We must be clear and rasional to know what's right and wrong.

Hopefully problems could und a solutions or answer sooner rather than later and that no such street demos will hapen again.

Comparison of Street Demonstrations!

Recently Malaysia has been hit with a few street demonstrations which are affecting our lifes. But did the police forces really need to use forces to push back the demonstrators like what they did?

Just look at what happened in France, their demonstration situation is far worse than ours, and their demonstrations not only assemble on the streets, but they did actually burning cars, destroying buildings, hurting other innocents, and worst is someone got killed during these demos.

So comparing it to ours here, police shall not use excessive forces to try backing off these people unlessthere are some minority who is taking advantages of the demos to carryout such erratic act and causing problems. From what we can see, there are some minority inside these groups that is infuriated the majority and try urging them and affecting their emotions to turn things ugly. Surely these people shall be treated with appropriate act, whereas the innocents shall be left alone peacefully.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Troublesome at registering for authorised forwarders/shipping company

It has been turned from bad to worse for our custom department in Port Klang. Previously we can appoint any forwarders (Max 3 per company) at anytime by the person in charge of office. Nowadays it has chaged and need the company's director, whose name appeaed in the company's registration form to write in.

This has cause so much problem, especially foreigner owned company, like mine. We have to go around the world to get the director just to sign the letter of appointment, and what make it worst is that they would require a local to be that director.

How on earth do they expect a local to own a 100% foreign company? Any person with brain would know it is not neccessary a local to be in board of directors for foreign company. Does it mean government or custom department is indirectly insisting foreign company o have some sort of Bumi shares in its company?

This is ridiculous and is moving away from their aim to become an important and complete internation port. This will only cause more problem for companies, and it will not only scare away foreigners, but also prolong the port handling time. That means they will never be able to compete with any other neighbouring countries' ports and that they are wasting the strategically located port its advantages because of all these senseless regulations.

As for me, it's not a big deal to acquire for our management signatory, but imagine if all these are minory affected each, it could added up to a huge loss and it will only do harm to its credibility and losing its potential 'customers'

Why people don't us Pedastral bridge?

Why people in KL dont like using pedestrian bridge for crossing roads? Why government spent so much on constructingsomething where people don't utilised?

Yesterday I was driving along a main road and it's a rainy day. At one point when I trying to overtake a lorry I saw a guy who is standing right in the middle of a two-lane road, which I nearly runs into him head-on. What make it worst is that the pedestrain bridge is just right in front about 30 meters away.

What happen if I run into this guy? Would I be charge for murdering unintentionally? Just don't understand why these people have such low road safety awareness. It would nice if they are more considerate forother road users, as well as their own safety.

Another issue relating the pedestrian crossing bridge, is a lot of crossing bridge isn't safe for pedestal. Why? It is because it is dark, covered by signboard, dirty, and this is the kind of place where robberies happened most. If "lucky", you might just get a stab or two. Worst is it might costs you life. So we can't sometimes blame the pedestrian for not using the crossing bridge.

What should we do to encounter this? Please comment

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Download at your own risk!

Domestic Trade and ConsumerAffairs Ministry has told the public they will face prosecution and a minimum fine of RM 250,000 for illegal downloading of songs, movies and the likes. Is this really worked to prevent pirated songs and movies beng downloaded?

A fine of RM250,000 is huge amount and I don't think many people can afford to pay such amount. If the person can't pay, what would be the consequences? Jail? Most of all, can this prevented people from downloading the mentioned from internet? Moreover internet is full of such website, where it allows people to download songs and movies. What about sharing the files? Isit consider illegal as well?

Probably our country is in need of money now that they are excercising this law to generate more money from us. This law has been there for 10 years or so, why wouldn't they enforcing it then? Why now? That's why I always said Malaysia law enforcer will only take action when they feel like it, and also when things really got out of hand. Had they excercising this law long ago, probably things wouldn't get this far uncontrolled. Another issue is the more law they enforced, the more LUBANG they can CARI MAKAN. As I said, their pockets are empty and they are hungry! So anything goes now.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Fair To All, Claimed Badawi

It is ridiculous that our PM claimed they have been fair to all the citizens. This is the biggest joke I've ever heard in years, and he still has the guts to say so after what's happening recently. If the nations has been treated fairly and equally, we would not have the street demos, and have that memorandums submitted to overseas body.

It is clearly there will always be some biasness towards Bumis, and we are not complaining it as long as we, non-bumis were well looked after. When Dr. Mahathir is still the PM, we have not heard anything like this before, and although he gave previlages to bumis, but non-bumis also have their fair shares. That's why we would not have this kind of street demos during his 20 odd year as PM.

Nowadays, it is very clear that bumis are enjoying all the previlages, and what make it worse is that these bumis are slowly conquer into non-bumis' or opositions' fair shares. So can we blame them for carrying out street demo? Badawi claimed he listened to us, he is taking action to counter this, but what has he done so far? NONE. He just let the things go by and hope it will slowly dying off by itself.

This is an act of ignorance, and also incompetent. At the same time he is covering all the shitty story up and make us looks stupid. Mind him that we are mostly knowledgable people now, and we are all more sensible people now. If our voices were heard, and being taken care off properly, I don't think we will even talk about it, let alone carryout street demos to attract the attention.

So I sincerely hope this useless, incompetent administration will all be gone after the next election, including Badawi and his womaniser deputy, Najib Razak as well as Hishamuddin and all those useless s***b**s!

Clamping Down On Scratch And Win Syndicates

Government have put their stamp down on clamping down on all scratch-and-win syndycates, which already cheated publics for millions of ringgit. This is a good sign that authority is taking this seriously, and by enforcing such law, surely the number of such syndicates will reduce.

But as to how effective the law would be? And how would public being restrain from being cheated by such syndicate? these syndicate succeeded in cheating publics off their money simply because of one simple word - greed.

As my blog posted before, we should be more aware and mustn't believe into tactics used by the syndicates, and must always keep in mind that "There's no free lunch in this world". In order to successfully demolishing the scratch-and-win syndicates, we must cooperate with the law enforcers, and at the same time, punishment handed to the syndicate must be strong, such as all involved in the scratch-and-win contest, whether employees, owners, or runners will be prosecuted, and sentences will be handed out accordingly.

Also we do hope the authority would not be corrupted and that they would carryout their job properly to completely demolish such act to save the public from being cheated.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Chong Wei the Crying Baby!

As I said so many times before, Lee Chong Wei is just an immatured crying baby. No doubt Chong Wei has improved a lot lately, especially the 2nd half of year. He had won so many titles, home or abroad. Congrate him on this as he deserve his fair share of credit.

Chong Wei became 1st runners up for the second times in as many weeks, and be frank, it's not easy to win qualify to finals for 2 consecutive weeks, let alone winning it. So we are proud of CW for that achievement.

As a top player for so long, I suppose Chong wei should handle situation during matches better than what he did over the last two weeks. You can't always complaint to a line call, and you should not be affected by it really. Line judges are all humans, and humans do made errors sometimes. Unless decisions were constantly against you, then you are right to protest to the extreme extend.

I remember just over about 2 years ago, Lin Dan also faced the similar situation during one of the tournament, and he reacted angrily to several line calls then, and his performance affected badly during that match. Somehow he could pick himself up and carryon with that match, which he won narrowly at the end. What I'm tying to say here is Chong Wei should growth more matured as time goes by, and he shouldn't be affected by a few bad line calls. That's life and you don't always get what you want. There should be a way to encounter these.

Secondly, as I said in my previous blog, Chong Wei will surely brought up his injured knee problem after tournament, whether win or lose. It is such childish and immatured act, and I already told, as stated in previous blog he is sure to mentioned his injured knee giving him problem after long back to back tournament, tiredness, etc. What I want to say is if you are tired, and/or injure, just withdraw from the tournament for your good sake, and don't forget that Malaysia still have high expectation of you and our first ever gold medal in an Olympic games still much depends on you and Men's Double Koo-Tan.

So buck up and carryon with what you do best.

Abdullah gets angry over Hindraf?

Abdullah Badawi gets angry with what happen over Hindraf incident. He is rightful to be angry with them. When a person is attacked, surely anger will takes over emotions.

Abdullah said he was anger with what Hindraf had accused the government of, and that it is not true of the accusations. To be honest, if the accusation is not true, do you really think Hindraf will simply submit something without supporting basic to an overseas society to put our own country into shamble? I don't think so

Abdullah gets angry simply because the accusations are mostly, if not all true. He is feeling the stress of how to answer such accusation when things really happened here. He can't lie, he can't get away with it without response to public. He finds is hard to explain to journalist etc. That's why he is angry. He is lost for answer for such accusation

If the accusation is incorrect, why wouldn't he take immediate action against the responsible parties? Why is he scratching head and tail to find an explaination? Overall, things has got out of control and he himself is losing control over the cabinets, parliment and administration. He is so powerless now he virtually can't do any changes to the existing cabinet at least until the next general election, by which he, Abdullah Badawi may not be the PM anymore.

That's why he angry!

Abdullah is listening!

Pak Lah has said he is listening to the publics on what is going on recently and is thinking of a way to encounter them. How true is it to his words, and is he really taking any actions against them?

From what I see he is really thinking of a way to encounter these matters. He is taking actions against these culprits. But matters he encountered is how to keep these shameful news away from public. Actions taken is to charge and catch the peoson who is complaining.

It is simple, Pak Lah simply afraid bad news against him being spread out and he's trying everything he could to stop the spreading of such. So whoever hold demonstration will be taken to police cells regardless of what it is for.

It is very pathetic that Pak Lah is doing such thing. As a PM he simply loses control over the admininstration and government. Look at his cabinets, people can just do whatever they want and surely Pak Lah won't take action against them. Recent video clip incident, if you ever listen to the conversation, you would notice that not only lawyers and ministers were involved, I could even heard our PM being mentioned for countless time. That means Abdullah Badawi knew what is going on around and yet he is leaving it happened and exploded into such stage.

Why wouldn't these shameful things happened during 22-year of Dr. M tenure? Why ministers or cabinet members were so afraid of Dr. M when he's in power? Why people will have to look over their shoulder before carryout some act? This is all because Dr. M has the control of situation and he has the power to contained such scenario. Dr. M is truely a capable and calibre leader of country. Although I not neccessary like everything he did, but I do have to say I respect the old man for what he did for our country.

Now all his effort is being wasted by this so call "Smiling Incompetent Stone-Faced" PM and if this persist, Malaysia will soon finished.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Possible Causes For Petrol Station Fire

What could be the possible causes for petrol station fire and sources of fire?

Recently we heard two incidents involving fire in petrol station and explosion in petrol station. For first case, it may be caused by the cellphone frequency wave that created sparks. It may be static spark that caused the fire.

Secondly, we do noticed after these two incidents that our nations actually have little knowledge about petrol station basic safety and precautions. Most people I suppose still not sure why cellphone is barred from being used around fuel pump. Why car engine must turn off when refuelling? Why we can't knock the nozzle against the fuel tank inlet after complete refuelling?

In saying so, we can summarised that Malaysian generally still have a very low safety concern and/or knowledge of petrol station regulations. At some petrol station you can easily see a group of people standing or squatting nearby petrol station smoking. They didn't realise that this may be dangerous to public as well as workers/people inside or around the petrol station.

Hope you guys will give some opinions on what you should and shouldn't do at petrol station and method of avoiding petrol station fire

Toll Fare Remains for 4 Highways!

Is it a good news that 4 of the several highways proposed to maintain its toll fares? Since toll fares are now remains, how much actually government has to pay in compensation to toll operators?

One wonder why this type of contract is being signed initially? Who on earth do not have the visual ambitious to see the growth in number of vehicles on the road after 20 years? It is ridiculous that such contract was signed to allow toll operator to revise their toll changes once every 3 years.

3 years is not short, yet it is still not very long. Just somewhat months ago I pay a total of RM2.50 one way to work, and now I need to pay RM3.80 one way to work. That's a raised of more than 50%, which can added up to some numbers over the years. And now due to increase of maintenance costs, energy costs etc, they are seeking the money from the public, which is hard earn with their blood and sweat.

I do not believe that these operators are running it at a lost. Vehicles on the road is increased day by day, and majority of them choose to pay toll fare than finding alternative route, because they know the alternative route may cost them more in petrol, me including.

So in listening that 4 of the highways fare will remain the same may be a good news to a lot of people, but in long term, it will not be good for us, as operators will seek a higher increase in toll fares to cover their lost from now and then. Perhaps this is just the same old pre-election tactic. Toll fare will remain same so long the election is not conducted yet.

Once election is over, there will be at least another 4 and a half year before we can query them again. Within this 4 yrs, many things can happened, and maybe the person in charge now will then become a toilet cleaner only. Who knows.

Also as per Samy Vallu said, government has to pay the operators somewhat RM 240 mil in order for them not to raise the toll fare. To be honest, I think this amount of money is peanuts comparing to what they are going to cost the consumers. Samy Vellu @ Semi Value can pay RM90 mil to carryout survey and repair of parliment house, without the roof maintenance and repair, that is a one off job, and by looking at this, to pay RM240 mil a year to toll operator is better than paying millions of ringgit to Russia to train our "Can-Or-Naut" This will last for a year, and others just that moment only

So conclusion is whether toll fare hike or remain, we, consumers will suffer most.

Should school lady student be cained if commited offences?

It is a norm that a male student will be punished when committed offences in school. Nowadays, students committed offences in school not only by male, but female students as well. Male students will be caned when committed faults, which is suppose to be. Question now is: Should female student be treated the same if committed fault?

I think it is fair that anyone breaking rules shall be punished and by mean of same punishment as well. If a male student is being caned, so do a female student. We shall have an equal standard regardless of male or female. Anyone if found guilty of wrong doing shall be punished equally regardless of its gender.

For a govt body to stood out and oppose to such punishment on female student is damaging and damning. Look at what happened recently in school, where majority of cases were involving female student. If this is not being taken seriously, things will soon be out of control, and by then it will be too late too little they could do to help or punish these minority. We do want the system being set correctly right from the beginning, not to change or alter subsequently and frequently to suit the condition then! (FYI this is exactly what happened in Malaysia right now in most of other aspect, where authority will only look into cases seriously after some damning things happened.)

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Anwar Ibrahim the Scapegoat

Nazri has been saying that former DPM shall be held responsible for the recent 2 street demontration. Why is he saying so?

Whether Anwar Ibrahim is the main culprit behind the recent demos is still to be seen, but the way Nazri say reflected that they (government) just can't accept criticisms, and they will act in a coward way just to keep te public from keeping quiet.

Malaysia is suppose a democratic country, and people do have the rights to speech. Worst still is that if government is criticised, they are deem to be traitor, betrayer, inpatriotic etc. If government take criticisms negatively, then they will not improve and our country's development will move backwards, which is exactly what is happening now.

For Nazri to made such comment just show how naive and immature they are, and if government continue this way, we are all in trouble. Also for ISA to issue warning that action will be taken against demonstrator, why don't they use the same on people like mat rempits, corrupted officers etc? Why just demonstrators? It is because mat rempit could one day be a PM, whereas demonstrators can be a threat to them, so espect mat rempits more than demonstrators.

Can method against street demostration be used on Mat Rempits?

After the last 2 street demos, it suddenly appear in my mind that we can actually use the way authority used to counter the street demos, like water canon and baton charging towards crowds.

It has been one too many cases involving mat rempits and it is now reached a worrying stage. Yet authority just sit back and do nothing about them, while they are all well prepared to countered those peaceful street demonstrators. Why? It is a very simple answer to that

Mat Rempits are dangerous and they could hurt whoever stands in their way, whereas peaceful demonstrator just won't do those coward acts. Mat Rempits are a bunch of brainless, stupid idiots who just take things into their own hand. Demonstrators were just trying to convey messages to government or aithority, yet they were treated in a bad manner.

If ISA seems street demos as illegal, is that mean Mat Rempits are legal? Can't they do anything about them? I believe if the authority starting to use the way they countered street demonstrators on Mat rempits, surely they will be put off by the tough action taken simply because nobody wants to die.

If no action is taken, mat rempits will growth even further. In saying so, I believe the one of the reason ISA do not act on mat rempits is because 99.99% of mat rempits are "Bumis"

Monday, November 26, 2007

Who is the most suitable candidate as next England Manager

Steve McLaren is now sacked. Question everyone would want to know is who's next? Must he be an Englishman? Will a foreign coach taking over at Soho Sq? Is there any good enough candidates from England for the vacant Manager post? These are all questions that has been asked over and over again.

If the next England Manager shall be an Englishman, I believe there isn't many choices left to be chosen. Probably Terry Venebles, Glenn Hoddle or Alan Curbishley and Sam Allardyce perhaps. Terry and Glenn have managed England before and both had a partial successful spells, and it is unlikely both will return. Alan and Sam is lacking the important international experience, which will make it difficult for English FA to pass the difficult and taxing job to either of them to prevent more shame happened to English National football team.

So that leaves the door open for foreign coaches, which I think is better than their local coaches. At least there is a quality and experience assurance. Among the possible candidates, I particularly like to see Fabio Capello being handed the tasks to bring the glory to England, just like what Marcello Lippi did with Italian National team during last World Cup.

Fabio Capello possessed the required skill in managing a super-pressurised job, and his past track record speaks for itself. He won numbers of champion medals with various teams, and he has been proven a true winner at club stage, and he too possessed a very good inter-personal skills and man-management skills. But he still haven't manage a national team just yet so he is eagerly wanted to take the difficult tasks ahead of him. So this will be his best opportunity to prove himself against the best national teams around. With his experience with various leagues' team, like AC Milan, AC Roma, Real Madrid and Juventus, he is by far the most suitable candidates around available. Marcello Lippi is another, but due to his success with Italian team last year, he is unlikely to do it with another nation just yet.

Other than Fabio Capello, Martin O'Niell and Filipe Scolari may be suitable to lead the Three Lions as well. Both men do possessed the required skills and experience to carryout such job, and it will be interesting to see either of the names mentioned above taking up the vacant England Manager job.

Can't wait for the Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010 Qualifiers to start.

Altantunya Murder Case

Can you believe that Mongolian lady, Altantunya Sharribuu murder case has gone into n-days of hearing, and there is a surprise 55th witness for the case.

It make the case looks like the murder of the lady is made well known to public, and that so many people were involved. Sorry to say this is the best tactic Malaysia Government has in order to make the case slowly and quietly disappeared.

By now I believe not many people actually know what has gone on with the case's trials, and also not many people actually interested in following the case anymore. That's just what the authority wants, and they succeeded in doing so.

Now you may read in newspaper the case's trials here and there in small column, and no one give a damn about it anymore simply because we already knew the final verdict of the trials. So better save the time for other big news.

Congrates Dato Seri Najib! Err.... Razak sorry!

Can Proton Turn Losses Into Profit Without Foreign Partnership

After a foreign partnership with Volkswagon broke off last week, Proton consistently assured the public that they have found a solution to turns thing around. They do not need a foreign partnership for this and that they are capable in doing so by themselve.

I do hope they could prove a lot of people outthere wrong by turning the table around with their own ability, but doubt it very, extremely much whether they have the ability and resources in doing so. I am not saying they must need a foreign partner to do it, but where their ability and capability lies is in everyone's sight.

Moreover car manufacturer now are more concern about the economical feasibility of fuel consumption for new models, safety of the car produced, joint venture in order to save costs etc, yet Proton had announced to public that they could save their business with their own ability, let alone the money needed for R&D of the new cars, safety improvementof the cars and many more.

In short term, it may seems likely Proton can make things happened. But for how long could they sustain their business in such manner? Can they really compete with other car manufacturers when others have move forward so much so that their product is at least 7 to 10 years ahead of Proton. Can Proton survive with an old technologies then?

I think most people would prefer to pay more for a foreign imported car, rather than saving tens of thousands just to buy Malaysian product, which they know will be of higher running costs over the years, and costs more in operating them.

Proton also referred to MAS in turning around their business from losing millions of ringgits into millions of profit. Do not forget that they obtained such profit thanks to the selling of MAS building and planes. Just how many more buildings and planes MAS has to be sold just to keep the book in black? Is Proton will follow suit MAS in selling their prized assets to keep their balance sheet black? Are they writing off unsold car into scrap to generate income? All these are unknown and before it is properly assess, do not make promises that may backfire at a later stage.

Why are there demonstration after demonstration?

What has happened to Malaysia now?: Why are there demonstration after demonstration, protest after protest? Is it really some culprits making use of the oportunity to create havoc to distabilise the nations? Or is it our incapable government that's causing all this problems?

Just a little over 2 weeks ago, a march from Dataran Merdeka to Istana by opposition parties. And 2 days ago there is another by mostly Indian community. Why were all these happened now? Why don't this happened few years back?

In it must be something which you and me don't know that some serious problems have occured or happened to caused such huge reactions from the publics. And it is not difficult to know why indeed.

Our current government is in a total shamble and mess, and I bet our leaders don't really know what to do with these situations and more importantly, they don't even know what are the root cause of these problems. They could only blame the opposition and oportunist that's creating these havoc, rather than self accessing their own acts.

This government is now full of incapable, corrupted, naive, ego, bias, aimless, brainless and senseless ministers, which have resulted in all the problems now. And to be frank, I feel that this government or administration is moving backwards faster in 4 years than the 22 years Tun Dr. Mahathir trying to bring the country forward.

Is England good enough?

Here's the question I believe hundreds of thousands of fans would like to ask. Is England good enough to qualify for Euro 2008?

My personal view on this is - England is good enough, but the coach/manager isn't. Why? First because Steve McLaren doesn't possess enough experience in international football. Secondly he choose players that get along with him and he likes. Third International football is a whole lot different from club football. Forth he plays who he thinks best for him, not the team ........ and a lot more.

No disrespect to Steve McLaren, he is a good football coach but he is not a good manager. A manager not only need to be good in coaching, but also in man-management and every aspects in football terms. He certainly has a good track record as a coach, but doesn't as a Manager. When he coach Man Utd under Sir Alex Ferguson, he can maximised and fully utilised his ability to the maximum, but when coaching Middlesbrough, he's unable to produce the same kind of results and team that made him famous for.

Like a lot of people said, 11 good players not neccessary make a good team, but a good team certainly have 11 good players. Team play is far more important than individuals. Like England team, they certainly have more than 2 sets of 11 good players, but these players just don't click in big matches. On paper they are good enough to beating any team in the world, including Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Holland etc. Yet they always failed at the moments mattered most. Why? Because they don't work for each other, but individuals.

Also English players nowadays are more like superstars than footballers. They earn big money at club levels, through commercial deals, TV appearances etc, and they may feel it's risky that they fought for their country in expense of the risk of losing personal interests. There aren't many players that's patriotic like Stevie G, Beckham, Owen Joe Cole and some lesser known players. It is felt that players like Frank Lampard, John Terry, Ashley Cole and others just follow the team for matches treating it as a short vacation. With such kind of attitude, England will just not progress no matter how many good or top class player they have, it just won't gel.

Conclusion, England can only progress further if they can find a proper and be counted coach/manager to properly, carefully choose and build the team. Good teams alwayshave contunuity and have heart for their nations.

In saying so, I just don't think England deserve to qualify for Euro 2008, and hopefully they are able to find a proper replacement for Steve McLaren and bringing the boys and men forward and achieve something for their nations.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Bravo Wong Mew Choo! Bravo Badminton Malaysia!

It's the most interesting and dramatic days for Malaysian Badminton today! Who on earth is expecting Malaysian to win a China Open Badminton tournament, let alone a women singles.

Wong Mew Choo has done one things that not many people in the world could do - defeating most of the chinese players at the own backyard, former and current world champions, world no 1s. Who would believe Wong Mew Choo will defeat Zhang Ning and Xie Xinfang on two consecutive days, at China's home tournament, and wins the title for our proud Malaysia Badminton history!

Now Wong Mew Choo certainly will walked into the Hall of Fame in Badminton world and I believe people from around the world will recognise Wong Mew Choo from now on! It also proof that Wong MC is no fluke when she defeated Xie Xinfang during the Badminton World Championship back in August '07. She is no fluke in defeating current world champion, Zu Lin in another tournament. Wong Mew Choo han now beaten not only all chinese top players in this single year but also other ex-chinese players and foreign players. We are now all hopeful that she will bring more joy to our national's women's games.

We hope Wong Mew Choo will eventually established herself as one of the force to be reckon in Badminton world. All these time we only bet on our men's to achieve our first ever gold medal in olympic tournament, but who knows the actual person that brings home this first ever olympic gold medals is a surprising Wong Mew Choo.

In contrast, Lee Chong Wei's performance today is just as dissapointing as expected. Lee CW is currently rank 2nd in the world and it is unbelievable that he could be affected easily by a few bad line calls. If he thinks line judges were unfair to him, he should have walked out from the game, rather than continue with such dismal plays. This has brought shame to our nations and image, as this shows how easily he could be affected, and how immature and naive his act was.

The opponents now know Lee will be easily been affected emotionally and this will become his weakness for his opponents to attack. Jung Joo-Young-Lee Yong-Dae walked out from the game after a few bad calls, and this act is to protest to the organiser of unfairness, unlike Lee CW's act. There's no point of continuing if you feel judges are against you and it will be better for CW to walk off than continuing. Best example is Taufik Hidayat. He will just walk out of the court if unfair calls is continuing for 3 to 4 times.

Probably Misbun Sidek, Lee CW's mentor is the one who instructed Lee CW to do so. Like people said "A good coach will produce a good student", and certainly Misbun has succeeded in this sense. Skill wise, I think Lee CW has been more excel than his mentor! (Sorry Misbun, no disrespect but like always the truth hurts)

Probably it's now the time to take some burden off our national men's contigents, so that they would perform more consistently without excessive pressure. I am a little disappointed with Koo-Tan in this China Open and hopefully they can make up during HK Open next week.

Another important issue, hopefully Malaysia media and press will not praise our player too much as this will do more harm than good. A norminal praise shall be enough and life moves on after whatever you won.

General Election and Petrol / Toll Prices Hike!

When is the General Election fall into? Will petrol price and toll fare go up next year? Is the rise of crude oil price affecting Tenaga Nasional Bhd operating costs and P&L and subsequently we have to bear the rising costs? These are all the question link together with each other where General Election date is concern.

After so many years of endurance, we all know when general election is coming up, surely there will be a lot of promises being made to public and most of them would not be fulfilled, just to comforting and convincing public to vote for them during the election. Once election over, these promises will be forgotten and things will changed. It is the same happening now. Question has been asked when will the next general election be? Will petrol and toll price rise after general election?

As crude oil price now soaring near to USD 100 per barrel mark, our government cannot sustain its subsidary towards petrol, and this has force the cabinet to rethink and trying to bring forward the election date. Secondly few highways operator has been submitting for approval in increasing the toll fares, but again government need to weight in how much votes they would lose should they approved the application for toll fare increase and also rise in petrol price.

So in order to calm things down, they have no choice, but to push the approval for both cases to after the election is carryout. Therefore they are thinking of bringing forward the election to somewhere before the end of 2007, which I believe is possible. Some expert had analysed that if election is not carryout by end 2007, it would be earliest by April 2008, which by then government would have to pay a lot of "compensation" on petrol and toll company.

So in order to save these millions of ringgit, they are now planning to hold the general election before the end of 2007, so upon succeeding his second term as PM, the government will announce that due to the high soaring of fuel price, we have no choice, but to increase the fuel price to save the government hundreds of millions and same goes to toll fares. If toll fare doesn't rise, government would need to pay the operators up to RM 300 millions per year in compensation.

In view of the above, can we blame the government to increase fuel price and toll fares? Government would have to pay hundreds of millions of ringgit to the respective sectors, which government would rather use for our country's developments. Yes development on what! You and I know most I guess! It's development and improvement of the pocket manufacturing!

Corruption in Land Office?

A Taiwanese businessman almost being cheated his RM 10 milion worth of land. It suprises him that his land had been sold to an outsider without his concern, and that Land Office record shows he is in the process in selling the piece of land again.

Question now is how this could happened when the actual owner has not sell the land? How could the "new" owner obtain the land title from? Within must be a person that is arranging all these, so "new" owner could sell the land to 3rd party to make profits.

The corrution situation is now happened everywhere, in every department. We are now worrying when will be our turn that our property were "sold" without our notice! If this happened, how can we prove our innocent? Will our case being looked into seriously? All these are just simple question that will be asked, and sure there will be no answer to it.

Even more surprising answer given when asked was the record of the land's transfer of name has been lost in their computer system, so there's no way to trace when, where and how this could happened. Why these things happened? It's all because these officers were paid to forget what's happening.

ACA agents are now already involve in so many investigation and surely enough they will not have time to investigate this issue. By the time ACA wanted to start the investigation, these involved person will be long gone into unknown, and our queries will never be solved. That's the scenario and it will continue to infinite.

Bravo Malaysia! Really "Malaysia Boleh"! Everything Boleh! God damn proud of your slogan!

Scratch-and-Win Syndicates

It has been so long since the scratch-and-win syndicates being exposed yet there are still so many people being trapped into such scams. Why? There's only one answer for it - GREED.

Human after all are still human, and majority, if not all will tend to have such greedy character within themselve. I've always read on newspaper that this or that person was conned in to scratch-and-win tricks, people using this tricks to conned me into such purchase etc. If the person is not greed and listen to such attractive prizes, do you think he or she would falls into such trap?

Therefore what I would like to say here is we must be alert at all time and be clear if there is really such easy money or prize to be won, like chinese always said " Is there such big frog jumping around the streets". Government or authority can only do a limited job with such syndicate and at the end, it still all depend on the person itself to prevent the syndicate to succeed in what they are expert in.

I don't mind sharing some of the tips to break their tricks. As a lot of people knows, these people, especially youngster are purposed trained to carryout such act. All you need to do is to break their sequences and ask them some unexpected question at different time. Also ask them the same question and various time again and again, sometimes with different wording. I personally faced these youngster before and they surrounded me, but somehow I could asked them some tricky questions, and they gave me different answers so I told them just to p***ed off because it's not a geniun contest.

So hope this will bring some "innocent" victims to their attention to avoid being tricked into the scam.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

VW-Proton Deal Off!

As expected, Proton's partnership deal with VW has finally called off, after months of negotiating. I don't really feel dissapointed as this has been expected since long time ago. For some reason I got a feeling that this deal would not happen at all. After few attempts trying to negotiate a deal, Proton is still unable to comes to term with VW that VW will gain full control upon its takeover bid.

I've heard some rumour that Proton is reluctant to let VW gain control of its operations and for their own egoistic, they just can't let VW gain the control of Proton. So for that reason, Proton is still unable to find a partner, or an investor to invest in their plant. Moreover the management of Proton from top management ill the bottom level is all a disease to its operationals.

Corruptions, incapability, mis-management, without long term view or prospect, fancy thinking, unrealistic thinking, poor control and many more issues had contributed to all its problem now, and yet they still don't realised it until today. Yet they still claiming that their business has started to turn good this year and they are capable to sustain its operation without foreign investor's help. It's all nonsense talk that trying to convince the nation and cover up their failure to lure a foreign partnership.

From an outside source, it is known that Malaysia should not have produce car in the first place simply because Malaysia's population is not high enough for it to produce its own car. It will take at least 20 years to recover back the costs of its products, which is the Proton Saga. Until today we still can see the similarity in this, which is the Proton Iswara. Now, 2007 is the 22nd years of its production, and they already recoup back its costs for this line, and they are now planning for its replacement car from next year onwards.

Country like Australia did planned to produce their own car, but due to this reason, they call it off. Australia does have a similar population as Malaysia, and if they think it is not feasible to produce car, why would Proton think it's feasible to produce? For 'Malaysia Boleh'? For their faces egoistic sake?

Secondly is Proton product has no quality control at all. Right from the very first model until now, the quality is so poor that it is known as a 'Milo tin' car. The quality from its engine to all the accessories is of poor standard product, or rather reject product, so they would be able to sold at lowest possible price. But to be honest, Proton car prices are not cheap now comparing to foreign car and its quality and safety features.

Another point is, for its Gen 2 car, I think it's a complete failure project, and all Gen 2 car came out from factory is without proper QC checked. They rushed the product in order to get them on road in the first instant. With this a lot ofGen 2 were recalled back to factory for replacement parts here and there. Some even get their car changed because it's irrepairable.

Proton has been putting up stickers on their car stating its car contained Lotus Engineering, Lotus Handling Engineering etc. All this is just a sticker and in actual fact, there is non of these thing exists in the car. They are able to put up such stickers simply because they cought over Lotus and making use of their name to boost its sales. In actual fact, all the Proton cars use sub-standard product in their cars.

As for the called off deals with VW, Proton thinks they have too much to lose if VW taking over the operational side of Proton. For them they would be losing control of the company and also their ego. This is a Malaysian car, and it can't be controlled by a foreign company. So they have no choice but to forced off foreign investor. Mitsubishi is another example. They pulled out long time ago after knowing such scenario would happened.

Just look at UK's Rover cars, they had been took over by BMW for few years, and guess what! BMW took over Rover purely because they would want the Range Rover 4x4 technology, which is famous for in 4x4 around the world, and in succeeding of getting the technology. Finally they came out with their own 4x4 product, X5 series and then sold off Rover because Rover has been losing money all the while since its taking over.

UK Government has no choice but taking over Rover back because it's a product of UK and the government can't see it collapse. Then what happen? Few years after taking over from BMW, UK government too was forced to call it quit, and let it go burst simply because they could not sustain the lost incurred by Rover year by year.

The same would happen in Malaysia Proton if it is not carefully dealed with. From what I could see, it will only be the same way as Rover of UK and UK government. Maybe, just maybe Malaysia government will not call it quit because it's one of the proudest Malaysian's 'Malaysia Boleh'!

Educational Standard and Pressure on Students

Recently we've heard of a student committed suitside after receiving her UPSR result because she didn't obtain what is expected.

Question now is: Are there too much pressure for students nowadays? Where are those excessive pressure come from? Is it really matter if you score straight A's in the public examinations? Are the sandard of these examination still maintain as where it belongs decades ago?

Since two or three years ago, I'd heard from various news channels that this student score 10 A's, that student scored 14 A's, the other score 16 A's in SPM, PMR or any public examinations etc, do these result really mean they are more capable than others? I don't think so. A person can be excel in study but when comes to society, they may be just a ordinary like others because exams is just an exams. Working or society life is more than just study. People have to always live and learnt. Learning is never ending. So why bother to score as many A's as like 14 or 16. During my time in SPM, the maximum subjects could be taken is 10, and during that time not many people can score 10 A1's. It would be excellent if you could score 7 to 8 A1's.

In saying so, I believe today's SPM or PMR exams standard have dropped significantly and educational dept has made it in such a way that it would be a lot easier to score A's so that result looks good every year, but they didn't realise in the drop in standard. Maybe, just maybe this has resulted in the drop of our university's ranking amongst the top university around the world. If educational dept can revert it back to the old systems, I think our general standard of education will improve and subsequently our university standard will revert back to its level same as old days.

Secondly parents nowadays are more emphasising in obtaining marvellous result from their kids, and that directly or indirectly contributed in inserting more pressure for their children. Comparing students now and during our time of studying, we only went for tuition on subjects which we think needed extra guidance or where we are poor at, so we could catch up with other subjects and make it more evenly matched.

In contrast, majority of students now go for tuition classes, whether it is needed or not. They just simply attended tuition class because other attended. Students already studying at school for around 6 hours, and yet they could spend almost the same duration of time on attending tuition classes. Unless school teachers don't do their job properly, or they are incapable to do such job, then we send the kids for tuition class.

By saying this, I would ike to emphasis on the standard of teachers in school nowadays. I believe alot of teachers would just go to school to do what they suppose to do, without putting any extra effort into their job, and then trying to convince student to take up tuition classes to enhance their knowledge. Why? It is because a teacher's salary is isn't enough to sustain today's high living standard anymore, and how to make more money with their capability? Tuition class because it's their expertise in teaching. So children will not learn a lot during school, but from tuition class.

If that's the case, why bother to setting up school here and there, and this problem is still exists. Probably our government need to look into govt servant's welfare and salary structure more carefully. I know this will costs government a lot of money, but if government can stop subsidising unneccessary expenses to unneccessary people, I believe government will have a lot to spare for this matter.

Ou government has spent too much unneccessary money on unneccessary people, and I think it is time for those people to buck up and be counted. You can't depend on government's help all the time, and it is unfair to others who work hard, contributed and subsidising you for your laziness, incapability and irresponsibility senses. Otherwise our government will go burst one day by doing so and our country will not move forward, but only move backwards into the same old pre-independent days.

Below Par Servants

Selangor govt declared that they will sack those below-par servants. Can they really do it?

From personal experience, I found that almost 75% to 80% of the state govt servants are below par. If they are to sack them, then who will replace them? How long will they take to familiarise and carryout their duties? Is there any other way to improve their efficiency rather than sacking them?

I think sacking below-par servant is not the solution, but self awareness and sense of responsibility play a big part in achieving effective and efficient team. State ovt shall think of a way to make these servants im their attitude, being responsible and rewards orientated. That way will be a better way than sacking below-par servants.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Climbing of Mount Kinabalu

I planned to go Mount Kinabalu climbing since last June and finally I manage o made reservation for next year, 9 months after plan and I am looking forward to the trip.

To my surprise, the booking is only open 6 months before the date of climbing, but booking was full only few days into its opening. Looks like there are many others mt. climbing lovers who always wanted to go experience it, like us.

This will be myfirst time climbing Kinabalu and I'm not sure what to expect from it. If anyone who has been there, probably you could share your experience with us and give us some tips as what to prepare, any special training needed etc.

Really appreciate your input! Thanks

FIA Justice Speaks For Itself!

McLaren Mercedes F1 team has been trying to win the driver's championship for Lewis Hamilton off the track and they are still seeking of any opportunity to snatch it from Kimi Raikonen.

It will be just a waste of time for Ron Dennis's team, simply because if the Brazilian GP result overturned in their favour, the silver arrows will still lose out at the end. Why?

First they claimed BMW and Sauber gain advantage of running a cooler fuel, which given their drivers better performance of their cars respectively. What about the data they themself obtained from Ferrari? They do not gain advantages themself from those data obtained?

So poor old Ron, just keep your thought to yourself and focusing on next year's challenge rather than biting BMW and Sauber's tails. If results is overturned, I am sure FIA would taken away all Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso's points as well, just to show fairness to all other teams. Whatever the final verdict, Kimi and Ferrari will still be the 2007 Champions.

Good luck to your clarification seeking Ron!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Comment of Thierry Rommel

Everyone entitle to their own view, and so do Thierry Rommel! He's seen what he seen here, and also the way authority handled such scenario. If he feels that it's improper, then he's entitle to say what he says. If government feels it's incorrect, all they need is to clarify the issue, not demanding for public apology, take back the words he said, told others to keep their mouth shut etc. This make it sounds like Malaysia government is a "gangster"!

Our government always emphasis on democracy, freedom of speech etc. If they had heard what they don't like, they could easily clarify with the responsibled person, not making such noise that Rommel interfered Malaysia Internal affairs, he's nobody to make such comment.

I found that eventhough Malaysia is declare as a democracy country, but I feel the way our government's way of doing things more like a communist country. For example, they can say what they like, and any objection will treat as betrayer, traitor. If government heard something against them, they will find a way to cover it up, and ake action against those responsible for it! That means we have no rights to voice our opinion, and we can only say things government like to hear!

That's absolutely wrong, and with this way, Malaysia development will only go backwards.

Videoclip Report

Cabinet will seek more views of other ministers if the 3-member panel report on the controversial videoclip missed some point!

Sure it is good to seek more views and opinions, but sometimes it can have the reverse effect as well! The more views and opinions you have, the more complicated the issue will be, simply because everyone will have different view and opinion of their own! In view of this, it may caused more uncertainty and arguement. Then all the hardwork and effort will be wasted.

So what will happen then? Case dropped because the result is inconclusive and that there are too many doubts on the videoclip presented. It's just simple as that! That's the way the authority carryout their job, and it's the easiest and simplest way of getting out of trouble! Just look at Altantunya case now!

It will surely be the other way round if the scenario is reverse, like Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim is the main suspect in the video! Conclusion will be made only after a simple, effective 3-man Panel investigation and report!

Same old Schummi!

When F1 teams tested their cars at Spain's Circuit De Catalunya few days ago, some was surprise that Michael Schumacher appeared to test for Ferrari's old and new cars. Even more surprise is that after a year out of the red machine he once loved, and still love now, he has lost none of his speed.

Over the 2-3 days testing, Schummi posted the quickest time for the 2 official tests there. Even McLaren Mercedes's test driver Pedro De La Rosa, who is as quick as any other top driver in the silver arrow, is about 4 tenth outside Schummi's time. Imagine if Schummi did not retire at the end of last year, who will win the F1 Driver's Championship? That leave open to debate, but one thing is certain, Schummi will always be there to fight for the championship!

Ferrari will surely be benefited from Schummi's input on the technical side as well as performance, and so do Kimi and Filipe. I hope both will continue where Schummi left off and carry on winning for Ferrari the driver's and constructor's title for years to come!

SMART Tunnel

When I listen to news this mornin, and was shocked to hear that SMART Tunnel is not meant for car/vehicle usage. This is the statement released from Drainage and Irrigation Dept. (DID)

If SMART tunnel is not meant for car use, they should design from the beginning that no public road to go through and only for flood water diversion. Moreover the tunnel conssts of 2 or level, which the top level is for car used, and the 2nd and 3rd level is for flood water diversion.

It will not cause confusion if they say temporarily lower level of tunnel still incomplete and hence top level is use for water diversion. If SMART tunnel is designated for flood water diversion, and not traffic diversion, why would they plan for the toll plaza at th entrance and exit of the tunnel in the first place? Why are they plan for the tunnel to go thru one of the busiest road around to diversify some of the traffic? I think plans are there to build a tunnel to diversify traffic as well as flood water when needed.

Congrates to AirAsia

AirAsia has won the Asia-Pacific Aviation's Airline of the Yr 2007. This shows that they can now being consider as one of the best airliners and for the last 2 to 3 yrs, they keep on improving their services. That's a good sign and we can expecting more improvement from AirAsia.

I remember not so long ago, impression on AirAsia is they are just a low-cost carrier, delay and cancellation of flights is just a normal cases. Recently I did use AirAsia's service and I found that their service has improved by a lot and flight delay/cancellation has reduced significantly as well. They are getting new planes delivery all the time and I believe sooner their plane will be much comfortable.

Price wise they no doubt is a lot cheaper than other airliners because they are operating at a low-cost concept, but comparing to Europe's low-cost airliners, my comment is AirAsia has a better service than their Europe conterpart! (This is purely my personal observation and thought)

Again congrates to AirAsia!

Jerai MP Open his mouth again!

I can't believe Datuk Badruddin Amiruldin get away yet again with his irresponsible comment! He is famous for his 'Bocor' comment (if I'm not mistaken) and also one comment directed at Kapal Singh as well as disable community. Worst still is that this is not the first time he made some silly comment without thinking thru his brain, and he sill has the gut to say it was a joke.

If this act is done during Dr. M time, I am quite sure he would be discarded from exco and post he held. It is a shameful act and comment made against a particular group of people and this only shows how naive and irresponsible this person can be and also how he could be in the post he is right now!

Hope someone up in the UMNO higher-rank people to seriously look into Badruddin's act & behaviour, and remove him from any sort of post within to prevent UMNO to be humiliated by such childish and brainless person

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Malaysia's Universities Ranking

I'm really amazed by the excuses given for our sliding in universities ranking. It has become a norm for government to find some excuses to try comforting our nations that the sliding in ranking is indeed due to the different way of measures. Do we feel better in listening so?

Not fo me at least. If your rankin is sliding downwards, you should look at yourself and ask are we really that incompetent and is there any room for improvements? Rather than doing so, our government came out first to blame the panel of different way of determining the ranking, and worse still is they brought up one of the well known Singapore University name to mentioned they too are sliding down the ranking.

This is the way of thinking of a loser and with this kind of mindset, we will never going to improve and there will be only one way to go for all our universities - DOWN. So I do not believe much into what our government said in this case and unless the university do some self assessment to improve.

For our government, it is either you said so to comforting our nation or you are treating the nation as a brainless creature. To the nation, do you feel better if it is really due to different determining way of ranking? If yes please do so and you will feel much better

Fuel Subsiding Issue

Not really sure if the government proposed new different subsidise scheme for petrol will work.

First of all, how can the government classify or differentiate the rich and poor? Ar they classify by the car makes they driven? Do all drivers need to produce payslip at petrol station to clarify their income before refuelling? Or there will be a taxman at every petrol station to carryout each individual refuelling driver? All this is just nonsense, and will only make the already diseased corruption to be aggrevated to a new height level

If government really wanted to cut down the subsiding on petrol, then all nations shall bare the same burden, not for the riches to bare for the poors. This will be very unfair to the riches (by no mean to disrespect the poors) because they worked hard for their money earned.

For sure by early next year we, the vehicle owners will have to pay for a much higher fuel price due to the significant increase in crude oil price, and subsequently prices for a lot of things will increase too, no doubt about that and finally a higher inflation rate. So anyone know any good idea to counter this problem? Sure no pay/salary inflation from you boss of course!

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Malaysia's "Can-or-Naut"

Finally Dr. Shek back to earth after few day's travelling to the space, funded by Malaysian tax payers' money! Surely he enjoy the trip of his life, where a lot of people can only envy. So now the nation is quiet on this and hopefully this will only be the one and only time. No more space traveller from Malaysia ever again!

It is funny enough that Malaysia's thinking of expanding their research, or funding for the space mission, yet they have not got a clue what they are doing (Sorry to say but that's my gut feeling telling me this).

It is extremely unlucky that the test sample carried out in space were damaged during the landing, and that we might need another trip to ISS before the test result can be concluded. (Huh... luckily for Dr. Shek, no report is needed from you for now at least)

At the same time, China has launch their own rocket up to space, and towards moon. All they used is their local engineers, local parts, local technology and their local people. They successfully send their man up to space twice by using their own creative rocket, and their astronaut returned earth safely.

I'm not saying how good the Chinese is, but only how lousy Malaysian could be. We (tax payers) are funding the government a wasteful project to send a "Can-Or-Naut" to space, just to show our national flag in the ISS, yet they are cheering during the take-off, activity in space, and the return of the Can-Or-Naut without noticing it's actually our hard earn money that's spent like burning waste papers. Those money could be better off spend on other aspects like public service improvement etc

So folks, please wake up and realise that a lot of this government's project are actually notes printing machine to them, and we are the machine that's printing notes to them!

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Jeanne Badawi!

It is quite funny that our PM's wife told reporters that she is meant to be together with Abdullah Badawi. What's the purpose of telling the nation of this? I can't figure it out other than make me think Badawi actually was having affairs with Jeanne long before Badawi's first wife's (Endon) death.

How long after Endon's death that Badawi re-married with Jeanne? If they don't have any affairs, how can it be so quick that Badawi married her? Why she's telling the nation they meant to be together? If they really meant to be together, while Endon still alive, what will happen? Badawi divorcing Endon and marry with Jeanne? Is that what is suppose to happened?

Being the wife of a country's PM, she suppose to be wise enough to watch what she said. Rather than talking about some current affairs, she's telling all about her private life. It looks like everyone in the country is interested in knowing how Badawi manage to get Jeanne's heart, how romantic Badawi can be, what kind of food he likes etc.

Come on! I think all nation is concern about what is happening in surrounding, what's the current affairs etc, not what's happening with our PM in his cozy home, what's he doing at home etc. So to hear someone of Jeanne's status saying such childish comments is shocking and it prove that Badawi and Jeanne doesn't really knowing what's happening around them up to this date!

I really feel sorry for both of them!

P/s: My apology if mis-spell Mrs. Badawi's name as Jeanne.