I think most movie-goers of THE TITANIC won't remember much of the plot involving the two young lovers, but the strains of "My heart will go on ..." by CELINE DION , not correcting ori when Desi said byWhitney Houston, dumbass!... continue to haunt many love-struck fans.
Now with love-struck fans of the Crooked Bride, they just wouldn't allow the Bridge to Nowhere sink into the Straits of Johor. NO. NO. NO.
First former PM versus current inherited FM.
In the FACE-OFF like a Gunfight at the non-OK Corral to which Mr Mathhias Chang took offence that the NST demeaned the status of the former PM vs a FM!
Then like playing hot pursuit the following day,
Special aide to former PM versus inherited FM,
asking the latter to resign.
Then FM replaced by TAN SRI ABDUL FUZI RAZAK, who served as Secretray-General in the Foreign Ministry and was involved in key negotiations with Singapore delegation, now Amassador-at-large who was roped in to face the concerted blaring of horns from the former PM and former aide.
WHY CAN'T THE PAST LEADERS LEAVE THE PRESENT PRIME MINISTER
TO GET STARTED IN STEERING THER NATION'S SHIP
THE WAY AND DIRECTION HE DEEMS FIT?
Especially when one had been given a generous 22 long years to prove his mettle (metal?) and his cronies and kakis to croon their songs and walk the path laden with gold, oil and platinum?
But being more a journalist than politician, I have got only one key point to make regarding all this Sandiwara, Opera or Singalong...
MR MATTHIAS CHANG, a lawyer, and a former special aide to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said that the Official secrets Act was "no morer an issue" pertaining to the detailed documents on the bilateral negotiations on the BRIDGE because Singapore had already publicised it.
I'm no lawyer, but can I direct one question at Mr Chang? Just because a Malaysian Classified Document was released by someone in a foreign land, and therefore now in the opublic domain, a Malaysian can automatically pick up this document and freely circulate it in the country and not be liable to prosecution under the OSA/ISA?
One readerat JeffOoi's Screenshots had also similarly asked :: : "Does Mr. Chang mean that a foreign government has a right to declassify our classified documents? By simply exposing it..."
and a bee-sybody journalist followed up with, now slightly edited-lah for Clarity as I just got back here from CLARITYofNIGHT!:::
"Remember Ezam Mohd Nor, Keadilan Youth chief -- he was charged under OSA for (making public)information which was already circulated on the Internet then. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I call on the Gomemn to charge Dr Mahathir and Mr Chang under OSA by the same token of Ezam's fate if truly the information publicised by the Singapore Gomen is still classified "Rahsia" by the Malaysian Gomen.
This is not taking any side -- it's giving the same medicine -- whether ex-PM, Keadilan Youth head or lawyer, or loyar buluk, or JoePublic!"
DESIDERATA has seen so much of DOUBLE STANDARDS by the politicians and mainstream media practitioners (No wonder they ranked right down there in the dumps in "Trustworthiness" survey findings released recently, seen that?), I'm geting a bit fed-up with pages and pages of shouting on the Bridge Issue by past regime voices and by present voices which were part&parcel of that past regime ...
HEY, DOES OUT GOVERNMENTT GOVERN WITH POLICIES BASED ON PRINCIPLES ANYMORE?
And what is Gerbang Perdana and the people behind IT?
Paying them RM100million for a folly made by Past and Present Politicians and it's TAX-PAYERS' MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN INTO THE JOHOR STRAITS.
The slugfest doesn't seem to be abating ~~~
face-of again ~~~ in the NST today:
'Fuzi's just RAMBLING' (page 6)
The Scenic Bridge: ‘Fuzi’s just rambling...’
28 Apr 2006
KUALA LUMPUR: No one is being spared Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s venom these days — not even Tan Sri Fuzi Abdul Razak, the seasoned, mild-mannered and respected diplomat.
In the latest instalment of his attack on the Government for scrapping the plan to build the bridge to replace the Causeway, the former prime minister took issue with Fuzi’s comprehensive defence of that decision on April 25.
He called the explanation rambling and unconvincing. convincing at all.
“Tan Sri Fuzi’s rambling explanation about the bridge serves only to convince that the Government’s priority and intention is to sell sand to Singapore. If it is not allowed to do so, then Malaysia will not get its bridge,” said Dr Mahathir in a 16-point statement.
::(The ambassador-at-large --- see separate sidebar***)
Tun Dr Mahathir said that his reading of the Wayleave Agreement signed between both countries showed that there was no specific provision for Singapore’s approval before relocating the Public Utilities Board water pipelines.
He noted that there had been many alterations to the Causeway and pipelines in the past without any objection from Singapore or Malaysia.
Tun He also Dr Mahathir called attention to a letter he received from former Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong stating that he had no objections if Malaysia intended to replace its side of the Causeway with a bridge.
“Thus a unilateral decision became bilateral when Singapore acceded and accepted. Any change must similarly be agreed to by both sides,” he said.
DESIDERATA: I'm truncating the long report -- otherwise, it will go on forever...I don't want my ER tobe haunted by IT!
"Tan Sri Fuzi's rambling
expalanation about the
bridge serves only to
convince that the Government's
priority and intention is to sell
sand to Singapore. If it
is not allowed to do so,
then Malaysia will not
get its bridge." -- Dr Mahathir
and
Detailed account of
options available to us(Page 7)
SIDEBAR: ~~~~~~~~On April 25, ***the ambassador-at-large had said that scrapping the bridge was the best option given the strong opposition to Malaysia selling sand to the republic and allowing the use of Malaysian airspace by Singapore’s air force.
The first option was to proceed with negotiations to reach a deal with mutual benefits.
Based on Singapore’s immediate needs, Fuzi said, Malaysia would have had to lift the ban on the export of sand and reinstate the use of Malaysian airspace.
But public opinion in Malaysia indicated these concessions were seen as giving away too much in exchange for a new bridge.
The second option was to proceed with a scenic half-bridge within Malaysia, that would join the Singapore’s half part of the 80-year-old Causeway. But this required getting consulting Singapore’s to get its approval to relocate water pipelines, which could lead to a request for a balance of benefits.
Option three was to unilaterally build a half-bridge that could eventually be linked to become a full scenic bridge with Singapore. But this would have resulted in endless political bickering and legal wrangle.
The fourth option — not to proceed with a new bridge — was the Government’s best choice after much deliberation. ~~~~~~~ reported the NST.
The
Govt's
reply
"We are surprised at
the views expressed by Dr
Mahathir. The Government
halted negiotiations
on the bridge because
selling sand to Singapore
is not acceptable to the
Malaysian policy," a
Government source told
Bernama, referring to
Dr Mahathir's claim that
the Governmnet's priority
was to sell sand to Singapore.
And we will continue to hear the haunting strains of
"And my heart will go on and on ..."
BLEEDING, ANYONE?
DESI's ERRATA, wont to committing nowadays, Ah NostalgiA!
So I checked and Yes, To Err Is Human...so some background to showthat you also don't know some, what!
"Googled:~~~~~~~"
Single by Céline Dion
"My Heart Will Go On" is the theme song of the highly popular 1997 film Titanic. Originally released in 1997 on Céline Dion's album Let's Talk About Love, it went to number one in several countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It stayed at this position for two weeks in each of the aforementioned countries.
The song was written by Will Jennings and James Horner. Although James Cameron, the director of Titanic, did not want a song played over the end credits of the film, Jennings and Horner went ahead and recorded the song with Céline Dion regardless. It is said that Cameron was so taken with Dion's voice that he changed his mind about the song and indeed, the song does play over the end credits.
Dion has admitted that when she first heard the song, she didn't want to record it. It was her manager and husband, René Angélil, who convinced her to record it. Also notable is that the song heard on the radio and in Dion's albums was sung only one time. Even more incredible was that Dion recorded the entire song without the music. Horner, Dion and Sony Music decided to keep the first recording as the official song because "Dion's voice was perfect".
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