Photo courtesy of Malaysiakini
Look at the poor fellow's peeling skins. The authorities must really do something. Atrocities like that cannot be allowed in Malaysia. The authorities must charge those police who are responsible for this.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Police brutality boiling water victim B Prabakar
Police poured boiling water on police detainee B Prabakar at the Brickfields Police Station:
Look at the poor fellow's peeling skins. The authorities must really do something. Atrocities like that cannot be allowed in Malaysia. The authorities must charge those police who are responsible for this.
Look at the poor fellow's peeling skins. The authorities must really do something. Atrocities like that cannot be allowed in Malaysia. The authorities must charge those police who are responsible for this.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Plea to fair minded Muslim - please don't impose Hudud on us non-Muslim
This is a plea to all fair-minded Muslim. Please do not impose Hudud on us non-Muslim. You can live by your law if you want but please do not impose Hudud on us.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Islamic State: Can PAS speak for PR?
PAS is at it again. PAS spiritual leader, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat and state exco member Datuk Husam Musa has said PAS will implement HUDUD (Islamic laws) if PR (Pakatan Rakyat) gains federal power. PAS has shown its ugly face again on this issue. Before the March general elections, PAS has toned down and campaigned on the basis of a welfare state. Now that PAS is strong, it has again unilaterally brought up the Islamic State issue again. Does PAS deserve our support for the Kuala Trengganu election? I say no. Let us work for the downfall of PAS in this case. Let PAS fail. Show PAS that they cannot unilaterally make decisions on behalf of others without consultations.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Abdullah Badawi sleepy disease is contagious
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi had slept on his job as Prime Minister for over 4 years. He promised much but delivered little. Here are photos of current Malaysian Prime Minister sleeping on the job:
sleepy Abdullah Badawi Resting his sleepy head
Abdullah Badawi dreaded sleepy head syndrom is contagious. See, it has spread to his deputy Najib, UMNO Youth Chief and Education Minister Hishammudin, botak Home Minister Syed Albar and an unknown:
sleepy Abdullah Badawi Resting his sleepy head
Abdullah Badawi dreaded sleepy head syndrom is contagious. See, it has spread to his deputy Najib, UMNO Youth Chief and Education Minister Hishammudin, botak Home Minister Syed Albar and an unknown:
Lying CPO Khalid Abu Bakar
The Selangor CPO (Chief Police Officer, not crude palm oil) Khalid Abu Bakar is a habitual lier.
Khalid lied when he claimed that the police did not charge at the candlelight vigilers whilst they were peacefully singing the National Anthem Negara Ku. See proof Khalid Abu Bakar lied. Khalid lied when he claimed that the police "acted to save underaged cyclists" when the police arrested some JERIT cyclists.
Remember how Pinnochio's nose grew longer when he told lies. Well, that will be exactly the fate of lying CPO Khalid Abu Bakar:
Khalid lied when he claimed that the police did not charge at the candlelight vigilers whilst they were peacefully singing the National Anthem Negara Ku. See proof Khalid Abu Bakar lied. Khalid lied when he claimed that the police "acted to save underaged cyclists" when the police arrested some JERIT cyclists.
Remember how Pinnochio's nose grew longer when he told lies. Well, that will be exactly the fate of lying CPO Khalid Abu Bakar:
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Lim Guan Eng "black or white CAT"
Lim Guan Eng at the DAP PJ Utara fund raising dinner at the banquet hall of the Civic Center: "It doesn't matter if it is a black CAT or a white CAT as long as it can catch mice."
CAT stands for Competency, Accountability and Transparency which the Penang state government has adopt as it motto. "It doesn't matter if it is a black CAT or a white CAT" refers to it non-racial stance. The mice represent corruption, lack of competency and accountability. Hip hip hurray for Lim Guan Eng and the Penang state government. May the Malaysian federal government eventually follows Penang state government's example.
CAT stands for Competency, Accountability and Transparency which the Penang state government has adopt as it motto. "It doesn't matter if it is a black CAT or a white CAT" refers to it non-racial stance. The mice represent corruption, lack of competency and accountability. Hip hip hurray for Lim Guan Eng and the Penang state government. May the Malaysian federal government eventually follows Penang state government's example.
Poor report card for UMNO landslide Bukit Antarabangsa
From a message forwarded by email (note that the doctor concerned is a Malay):
Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan Abdul Rahman
Website
Details
Just a simple, ordinary kampong doctor - the 6th Generation Malaysian.
Today is D5 of the Bukit Antarabangsa tragedy. During the highland tower incident, I was part of the medical team assisting in the rescue and support effort but today I am a victim of a similar tragedy. Something that I never thought that would have an impact on me. Relatively in comparison, what happen to those families who loss their love ones is nothing compared to what me and probably 2000 other residents had to endure past 4 days. Many tragedies took place this time around. I am not going to be diplomatic about it. I will say it the way I see it.
Within 2 hour after being made aware of landslide, I and several resident of Taman Bukit Utama activated an Ops Centre (known as TBU Ops Centre). We look at importance issues that we need to tackle mainly water supply, waste disposal, security, food distribution and medical evacuation. What was supposed to be our Taman Ops centre became the Ops Centre to eight "Taman" surrounding ours who were cut off from the outside world. We had no electricity, water, fixed telephone line internet. Most people had limited food in their house as they had already plan to travel for Raya and did not stock up any food.
Within an hour after meeting, we setup and completed a temporary water supply by laying pipes to get mountain water for the resident. Ops centre was up in the next hour and we started communication channel with the outside channel via SMS and arranging food and drinking water supply. We took preventive measures to manage disease outbreak by managing waste. All this was done by a handful of people from Taman Bukit Utama Resident Association (PPTBU). We setup the helipad for the rescue team to come in.
With the help of a friend DSP Kumar, we manage to evacuate by air (Medivac) a total of 39 patients which consist of stroke patients, elderly people, kidney failure patients etc. The patients were evacuated by police air wing which was arranged by DSP Kumar from the UTK through his personal contacts. We did all this independently without the support of any help from the Base station at Ground zero.
Within the first 48 hours, while in darkness several homes was reported to be broken into by unknown people in residential areas adjacent to TBU where there was no or minimal residential coordination among the residents. Food was shortage and cooked food from PBSM (Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah) did not arrive in timely manner. The longest time was dinner that only reaches us in the morning which was not consumable.
While we are stuck, we had VVIP visitors that come to our area. I would say out of many people that came only a handful was actually helpful. YB Elizabeth Wong, a state Exco came with a working group and arrange generators, fuel, candles, garbage bags and others. She came by foot with very few people and carried the relevant information without empty promises. The IGP came and given me his personal commitment and blessing that, I continue to handle all air evacuation with the support of Police Udara. I was told that the Minister of Information visited only the UMNO relief center at a Condo nearby. He did not come to our place.
The NGO that is worth mentioning is Mercy who gave me some drugs, INSAF who open a small medical clinic for 2 days and MAVFCL (Kapt Bala and his crew) which open a temporary access between Athenaeum condo and a generator set to charge hand phones and Bukit Utama which allows people to leave by foot. It is a regret to note that NO government agency deserves any mention in the first 36 hours of tragedy except for Polis Udara and Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat. I think they forgot about us.
While 2000 people were surviving in the darkness and the absence of proper food, Concord Hotel, Ali Maju restaurant, Burger King and many others donated tons of food. Unfortunately, no one attempted to send the food to us. Residents that were not affected by the tragedy and the rescue workers were enjoying them. The kind of food they get down there was lavish. There was fresh roti chanai, tosai mee goreng etc. The best word to describe the situation down there is "food fiesta". Someone commented that there is so much "Teh Tarik" that you can wash your shoes with it.
The landslide is a major tragedy. The bigger tragedy is that the failure of the government to act fast enough. While multiple agencies went into action fast, most of them work independently. On the 3rd day, we had 10 soldiers from RAMD with two officers with the rank of Major that came to our centre. I ask them a basic question on their role and the officers could not give me a straight answer. He was very blur. To me his presence was a liability to the ops center as we had to feed an additional 10 mouth with our limited stocks.
This is not the first time a tragedy takes place. The disaster relief operation was not well coordinated. The command and control was lacking. Information dissemination to the media was scattered and causes panic among the people. Many friends and relatives outside calls us and we could not entertain them, as our battery power was limited.
In terms of political publicity, I would say UMNO was a clear winner. This is because they control the media. Unfortunately, I would say that in the hearts of the people UMNO loss big time. The high-level conduct of their people on the ground and their selective helps that was given out was too much to bear. In fact, the Putri Umno head that I had known past few months was behaving in such a highhanded manner that really shows her true colours. They were hoarding food and distributing them to "their people". Their action has only reinforced my idea that the Federal and the State Government must be from different parties. This is needed for check and balance.
Malaysian must realize that for the sake of our own lives and our own children lives, we have to have balance of power. It was because of lack of balance of power; the water catchment area that is a state land was given to MBF and is now known as "Bukit Antarabangsa". In my assessment, the government is liable. In this case, the government was led by BN in the state of Selangor and at National level past 50 odd years that is liable for the suffering of the people of Bukit Antarabangsa. They are liable because they alienated unsuitable land for development. They are liable for giving the people the false sense of security by approving development plans and projects. They are liable for hiding information from the people that shows that the area that we are buying is not safe for living.
I will only vote for balance of power in the future and UMNO will not be part of that balance.
Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan Abdul Rahman
Website
Details
Just a simple, ordinary kampong doctor - the 6th Generation Malaysian.
Today is D5 of the Bukit Antarabangsa tragedy. During the highland tower incident, I was part of the medical team assisting in the rescue and support effort but today I am a victim of a similar tragedy. Something that I never thought that would have an impact on me. Relatively in comparison, what happen to those families who loss their love ones is nothing compared to what me and probably 2000 other residents had to endure past 4 days. Many tragedies took place this time around. I am not going to be diplomatic about it. I will say it the way I see it.
Within 2 hour after being made aware of landslide, I and several resident of Taman Bukit Utama activated an Ops Centre (known as TBU Ops Centre). We look at importance issues that we need to tackle mainly water supply, waste disposal, security, food distribution and medical evacuation. What was supposed to be our Taman Ops centre became the Ops Centre to eight "Taman" surrounding ours who were cut off from the outside world. We had no electricity, water, fixed telephone line internet. Most people had limited food in their house as they had already plan to travel for Raya and did not stock up any food.
Within an hour after meeting, we setup and completed a temporary water supply by laying pipes to get mountain water for the resident. Ops centre was up in the next hour and we started communication channel with the outside channel via SMS and arranging food and drinking water supply. We took preventive measures to manage disease outbreak by managing waste. All this was done by a handful of people from Taman Bukit Utama Resident Association (PPTBU). We setup the helipad for the rescue team to come in.
With the help of a friend DSP Kumar, we manage to evacuate by air (Medivac) a total of 39 patients which consist of stroke patients, elderly people, kidney failure patients etc. The patients were evacuated by police air wing which was arranged by DSP Kumar from the UTK through his personal contacts. We did all this independently without the support of any help from the Base station at Ground zero.
Within the first 48 hours, while in darkness several homes was reported to be broken into by unknown people in residential areas adjacent to TBU where there was no or minimal residential coordination among the residents. Food was shortage and cooked food from PBSM (Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah) did not arrive in timely manner. The longest time was dinner that only reaches us in the morning which was not consumable.
While we are stuck, we had VVIP visitors that come to our area. I would say out of many people that came only a handful was actually helpful. YB Elizabeth Wong, a state Exco came with a working group and arrange generators, fuel, candles, garbage bags and others. She came by foot with very few people and carried the relevant information without empty promises. The IGP came and given me his personal commitment and blessing that, I continue to handle all air evacuation with the support of Police Udara. I was told that the Minister of Information visited only the UMNO relief center at a Condo nearby. He did not come to our place.
The NGO that is worth mentioning is Mercy who gave me some drugs, INSAF who open a small medical clinic for 2 days and MAVFCL (Kapt Bala and his crew) which open a temporary access between Athenaeum condo and a generator set to charge hand phones and Bukit Utama which allows people to leave by foot. It is a regret to note that NO government agency deserves any mention in the first 36 hours of tragedy except for Polis Udara and Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat. I think they forgot about us.
While 2000 people were surviving in the darkness and the absence of proper food, Concord Hotel, Ali Maju restaurant, Burger King and many others donated tons of food. Unfortunately, no one attempted to send the food to us. Residents that were not affected by the tragedy and the rescue workers were enjoying them. The kind of food they get down there was lavish. There was fresh roti chanai, tosai mee goreng etc. The best word to describe the situation down there is "food fiesta". Someone commented that there is so much "Teh Tarik" that you can wash your shoes with it.
The landslide is a major tragedy. The bigger tragedy is that the failure of the government to act fast enough. While multiple agencies went into action fast, most of them work independently. On the 3rd day, we had 10 soldiers from RAMD with two officers with the rank of Major that came to our centre. I ask them a basic question on their role and the officers could not give me a straight answer. He was very blur. To me his presence was a liability to the ops center as we had to feed an additional 10 mouth with our limited stocks.
This is not the first time a tragedy takes place. The disaster relief operation was not well coordinated. The command and control was lacking. Information dissemination to the media was scattered and causes panic among the people. Many friends and relatives outside calls us and we could not entertain them, as our battery power was limited.
In terms of political publicity, I would say UMNO was a clear winner. This is because they control the media. Unfortunately, I would say that in the hearts of the people UMNO loss big time. The high-level conduct of their people on the ground and their selective helps that was given out was too much to bear. In fact, the Putri Umno head that I had known past few months was behaving in such a highhanded manner that really shows her true colours. They were hoarding food and distributing them to "their people". Their action has only reinforced my idea that the Federal and the State Government must be from different parties. This is needed for check and balance.
Malaysian must realize that for the sake of our own lives and our own children lives, we have to have balance of power. It was because of lack of balance of power; the water catchment area that is a state land was given to MBF and is now known as "Bukit Antarabangsa". In my assessment, the government is liable. In this case, the government was led by BN in the state of Selangor and at National level past 50 odd years that is liable for the suffering of the people of Bukit Antarabangsa. They are liable because they alienated unsuitable land for development. They are liable for giving the people the false sense of security by approving development plans and projects. They are liable for hiding information from the people that shows that the area that we are buying is not safe for living.
I will only vote for balance of power in the future and UMNO will not be part of that balance.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Improved Malaysian Parliament?
I have previously blogged about the Barisan Nasional whip which is nonsensical in the sense that BN Members of Parliament have to vote for any bill or proposal coming from the BN and against any proposal originating from the Opposition. Now at least PKR and DAP have signaled conditional approval of the proposed MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) bill which originated from the BN. Will the BN follow the good examples of PKR and DAP and lift the whip for this bill?
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Selangor State Anthem at Candle Light Vigil MBPJ with lyrics
The Selangor State Anthem is sung every Sunday at the Civic Center (MBPJ). Got to admit it was the first time I have heard it sung. Below is a video of the Selangor State Anthem with the lyrics below the video:
Duli Yang Maha Mulia
Selamat di atas takhta
Allah lanjutkan usia Tuanku
Rakyat mohon restu
Bawah Duli Tuanku
Bahagia selama-lamanya
Aman dan sentosa
Duli Yang Maha Mulia
Duli Yang Maha Mulia
Selamat di atas takhta
Allah lanjutkan usia Tuanku
Rakyat mohon restu
Bawah Duli Tuanku
Bahagia selama-lamanya
Aman dan sentosa
Duli Yang Maha Mulia
Friday, December 12, 2008
Scam alert: fake Yahoo message
Below is an email I just received. Its a FAKE from YAHOO and they are trying to get your details. A friend of mind received it last week and just replied it and was then locked out of his account. Furthermore, emails went out to everyone in his address book saying he lost all his money whilst in London and asking ppl to send him 1,500 pounds as emergency assistance. Total scam. Best thing is I have no yahoo account!!!
Take note.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mailalertservice
Date: Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Subject: Yahoo Warning!!!(Verify Your Account Now To Aviod It Suspended)!.
To: mailalertservice4000@yahoo.com
Dear Valued Member,
Account Alert VERIFY YOUR FREE YAHOO ACCOUNT NOW
!!!
Dear Yahoo Member,
This message is from yahoo messaging center to
all yahoo free account owners and premium account
owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and
e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused
yahoo account to create more space for new accounts.
To prevent your account from closing you will have
to update it below so that we will know that it's a
present used account. CONFIRM YOUR IDENTITY BELOW
Yahoo! ID : ..............................
Password : .....................
Date of Birth : .........................
Country or Territory : ....................
Enter the letter from the Security Image :
........ a Warning!!! Account
owner that refuses to update his or her account within
Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or
her account permanently. Thank you for using Yahoo!
mail
Take note.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mailalertservice
Date: Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Subject: Yahoo Warning!!!(Verify Your Account Now To Aviod It Suspended)!.
To: mailalertservice4000@yahoo.com
Dear Valued Member,
Account Alert VERIFY YOUR FREE YAHOO ACCOUNT NOW
!!!
Dear Yahoo Member,
This message is from yahoo messaging center to
all yahoo free account owners and premium account
owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and
e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused
yahoo account to create more space for new accounts.
To prevent your account from closing you will have
to update it below so that we will know that it's a
present used account. CONFIRM YOUR IDENTITY BELOW
Yahoo! ID : ..............................
Password : .....................
Date of Birth : .........................
Country or Territory : ....................
Enter the letter from the Security Image :
........ a Warning!!! Account
owner that refuses to update his or her account within
Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or
her account permanently. Thank you for using Yahoo!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Reforms my foot - never shall be under BN
Lame duck Prime Minister Abdullah Bodohwi presented two Bills to the Parliament - proposed Malaysian Commission on Anti-Corruption (MCAC) and proposed Judicial Appointments Council (JAC). Both are useless.
The MCAC will not have any prosecution power which will remain with the public prosecutor, who is also the attorney-general which report to the Prime Minister’s Department. So where are the teeth? and where is this "independence"?
Malaysiakini also reported that the JAC will be fully under the thumb of the Prime Minister.
So folks, forget about reforms, not as long as federal power is with the BN (Barisan Nasional). They have no will power for any reform. One can only hope that eventually, Pakatan Rakyat will eventually gain federal power and introduce the greatly needed reforms.
The MCAC will not have any prosecution power which will remain with the public prosecutor, who is also the attorney-general which report to the Prime Minister’s Department. So where are the teeth? and where is this "independence"?
Malaysiakini also reported that the JAC will be fully under the thumb of the Prime Minister.
So folks, forget about reforms, not as long as federal power is with the BN (Barisan Nasional). They have no will power for any reform. One can only hope that eventually, Pakatan Rakyat will eventually gain federal power and introduce the greatly needed reforms.
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