Half-past-6 is an over-rating for some!

When former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad ascribed the attribute of "half-past-six" to the current adminsitration under Pak Lah, I would tend to agree with the goode olde doctor of medicine with a qualifier -- there are some who are excellent, some good, and the rset, yes, half-past-6.

Undefortunately, there are among them to whom a half-past-6 rating is actually a compliment.

I believe here's one example, sighted buried somewhere (luckily) in the Star today ~~~ (the 'lucky' refers to the 'burial', not the subject, although I don't balme you IF you should deem that way!)~~~

Medicine
men sought

PADANG BESAR: Perlis is inviting
bomohs, or medicine men, from the world over
to become counsellers for halway homes the state
government plans to build for drug addicts.

Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim said
"medicine men" from any part of the world, be it
Togo, India or elsewhere, were free to come to
Perlis to help out as counsellors.

He said they could use their skills to gyuide
the drug addicts back to the right path.

"They may have a different approach to help
drug addicts turn a new leaf," he said yesterday.


DESIDERATA: No wonder when the said subject offered to "mediate" between Dr Mahathir
and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Tun just dismissed him, adding on another barb that "that guy" was complaining back in the old days (words to this effect-lah).

I like a quote by Mark Twain -- mahpahs it's relevant here -- that says words to this effect~~~ It's better that one should keep his mouth shut that others think he's a fool, than to open the mouth to leave no doubt about the fact he's one!

Okay, let's see what Shahidan has said and implied.

That "bomohs" n some parts of the www had special skills Malaysia could adopt to rehabilitate our own addicts. Hey, if there were such experts-bomohs around, the whole wide world would have heard about it, the www would have recorded it, and that coiuntry would have a properous bomoh-ing industry, okay. Semuanya tak okay, MB?

And is the Perlis MB re-defining Human Resource and Immigration Department policies and priorites? Since when has a State been blessed with such authority -- or really has Pak Lah acknowledged his Federal administrators were half-past-6 and hence surrendered some jurisdiction and authority to the Perlis State Government?

I haven't read IT in the mainstream newspapers, who are all so obedient, and pliant, to the incumbent Gomen. My dear ER, have you?


PS: I reiterate that Pak Lah should do drastic surgery to remove those cancerous cells now affecting and infecting the main body politic of his Administration. The tradition that "old medicine" should now give rise to newer, more scientific minds just because of seniority and incumbenncy inherited from the olde regime should not remain an albatross around the people's government's neck.

Hey, each of us has only one neck, and we want to live to see Vision 20020 attained in our own lifetime. Hopefooly, with some bomohs help, we also can get to have a glimpse of V3030 on the horizon.

Hope spings eternal in the heart of an OPTIMIST.
And a half-past-7 poet is an enduring -- isIT spelt endearing? -- one...

PPS (No,, it's not Project Petaling Street, though I believe its anniversary is nigh, or isit over o'lady? No nu'es ... maybe someone is still dressing UP, or isIT down?)~~~

From The Star, page N4~~~

Wednesday June 21, 2006


Pak Lah: We don’t change policies indiscriminately

JAKARTA: The Malaysian Government does not change policies indiscriminately, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

“Whatever action we take, it is always rooted in facts and proper information,” he told a press conference yesterday. He said the issue of the Government “simply changing policies does not, and will not, arise”.

Abdullah was asked about Rengit assemblyman Ayub Jamil’s recent call to the Government to set up a commission on policy planning, implementation and strategy to prevent the country’s policies from being changed mid-stream.

The assemblyman cited agriculture as an example, where Majuternak was closed down at one time but now the emphasis was back on agriculture and rearing goats and cattle.

Abdullah was also asked if Petronas would increase the price of gas, but he declined to comment, saying he did not wish to speculate on the matter.

“What is important now is to ensure economic growth and that the economy runs smoothly,” he said.


DESIDERATA: I believ the Prime Minister means what he says, and says what he means, especially at an international forum. But when it comes to implementation, I don't know it's safe for the PM to assume those down the line observe the centre's policies -- in word and spirit!

Watch the State Warlords with their antics -- timber felled wantonly (Or isIT wandanly?), making nudist earlth colonies a doomsday delight for brother Landslides and Clifffalls burying lesser folks underneath tonnes of rubble, well extinguished, other than MB, CM and officals with mighty prefixes?

I don't know, me with my half-past-6 observations...

Pak Lah needs all our prayers, fellow citizens of NegaraKu, whetgher half-past 6, 7 or 8. And I'll stop at Eight because 8 is a lucky number. Also we'll leave 9 and 10 for the sext 14 yaers to aspire towards, yes?

Yours truly,
ever Optimistic Desi sinning off,
offering thee Teh-C minus the Su-gar, Sugar...
You're my Money gal...


Soly it's a short Post today because some of my ER
complained to some author-ities Desi is long-winded.
I'm rushing off for an AP to lower my BP
-- I hate Miss Ternomin! --
I'm CONsulting my SIN-seh:)


Bonus PPPS, can?

After a tip-off from mGf sssssspirits from Down Under, I offer thee a Rut Bir to go with this teAser, from one of my sweetest (no Sugar please, we art Oz!:) stars, who acted as my Interpreter at the United Nasiones~~~

Kidman, Urban
soothe paparazzi
with cold beer

SYDNET: Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman
and fiance Keith Urban used a very Australian
gift to soothe the paparazzi camped outside her
Sydney home yesterday ahaed of their expected
weekend wedding -- a case of cold beer.
:
:
:
DESIDERATA:
Selfish is keeping the rest of the story for
himself, especially from the eyes of Howsy, mGf
based in lundun always on the lookout for SYTT.
(~~Saya Yang Tak Tahu~~):(