Signages of pride...

No, not those billboards.
Though on this related topic, the first of the emperors "caught with their pants" down by The Sun Exco had been derobed -- from The Star, page n4:

PJ mayor Termizi bids farewell

and don't forget also Star METRO frontpage:

Only
two
months

Datuk Ahmad Termizi Puteh's tenure
as Petaling Jaya's first mayor has ended.

DESIDERATA: Now we'll await PAtiently to see if the chief protagonist (Emperor, Hans CA?) the CEO of the only Developed State in Malaysia, can survive beyond the next General Elections, COMING SOON, at the cinetheque nearest you, featuring, I mean, The Man from the Water -- there are many Toyols flying around willing to take over, eh?


Proud S1

also from The Star, page N3:

Wednesday August 16, 2006


Scientist claims to have
cracked water-fuel secret

JOHOR BARU: A car that runs on water and petrol? That would be a breakthrough technology in these times of escalating fuel prices. And one man says it can be done.

Dr Halim Mohd Ali, 40, claims he can reduce fuel consumption by half with the Hydrogen Fuel Technology (HFT) or hydroxene.

Dr Halim, director of Hydrogen Fuel Technology (M) Sdn Bhd, said hydroxene uses water as a complementary fuel.


POWERING AHEAD: (Visualise the pic!:)LM Star Autoworld president Abdul Uza Sheikh Mohamad (right) and Dr Halim speaking to reporters on the hydroxene technology in Johor Baru yesterday.

Water molecules are split into hydrogen and oxygen through high compression nano-technology before being pumped into the fuel line, he said.

“The new fuel mixture of petrol or diesel, hydrogen and oxygen is then injected into the engine where combustion takes place,” he said at the launch of hybrid cars by LM Star Autoworld Sdn Bhd here.

Dr Halim, who has a research centre in Putrajaya, said that he first patented hydroxene four years ago and would be re-filing the patent in the next two months.

He said that although he has received offers to sell the technology, some offers amounting to US$26mil (RM95.7mil), he had no intention of letting foreign parties get hold of it.

As simple as it sounds, Dr Halim is quick to add that the technology is difficult to copy, as it has a “secret recipe” which very few people know about.

“There are only 12 people in the world who know how hydroxene works and even then they only know 70% of the technology,” he said, adding that the core aspects of the technology remained with him.

Dr Halim, who has a doctorate in Physics from Birmingham University, said over RM12mil had been spent on hydroxene research and development in the last four years.

About 40% of the funding came from overseas, including Europe and the United States.

Dr Halim said the technology had been tested on some 200 Proton cars, as well as on a vehicle used by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

DESIDERATA: If what is reported and claimed by Dr Halim is proven to be true, we have a Malaysian patent with all its potential energy that might just earn NegaraKu approaching its 49th birthday soon an equivalent of a Dr YANG Chen Ning (the Nobel laureatte who visited us a second time just recently, remember?)
We wait with PAtience, but hold your breath for a few more years.
Such breakthroughs neeed time, tenacity and true grit -- and yes, our prayers.


Proud S2

Now go to page N10:

Bar wants
sacking
of judges
reviewed

And for those ER who ask what's there to be proud of,
I will replicate the headline in CAPS,
and it's NOT french.
And if you need to ask for more, be prepared
to be french FRIED!

BAR WANTS
SACKING
OF JUDGES
REVIEWED

Hint:

I wrote somewhere, something about

What goes around comes around.

Dear ER, ponder if there's any thread with the heading above.
If like Oliver/Olivetti, you ask for more,
please Email Desi-lah and see you catcheth him in the mood.
Proud to be Malaysian,
Dear (some) ER, have you started on that Essay nyet?


PS:@1.13PM~~ As someone offered to buy Desi lunch soon, I'm in a good mood -- so I'd pamper thee on



Proud S2

but from theSun, which has been ontaining KUDOS @anakmerdeka.blogspot.com -- nominating Nadesawran for some Award or somethin' -- like making Desi smell s rat that she has a big 'steak' there!:)



Re-examine 1988 judicial crisis: Council


The Bar Council wants the government to conduct a thorough and impartial re-examination of the events of the 1988 judiciary crisis.

"History requires the truth, and society demand what is just," said council president Yeo Yang Poh.

He said the reexamination is necessary "to uncovering truth, leaving no stone unturned, correcting the errors and injustices perpetrated, and restoring the honour of the judges who for no more than asserting their independence were so cruelly sacrificed at the altar of political power play".

"It's time to return to them the good name they never deserved to lose, and to make amends for what they had lost for no fault of their own," he said in a statement today (Aug 15, 2006).

Yeo said if an independent judiciary can be savagely destroyed and those who engineered or allowed the destruction can get away with it forever, the rest of society has little hope for justice.

"This is absolutely crucial, not just for those judges and others who have suffered at the unseen hands of the perversion of justice. This is equally important for the institution of the judiciary, and indeed for the nation as a whole," he added.

In 1998, a bombshell was dropped on the country's judiciary system when then Lord President Tun Salleh Abas, senior supreme court judges Tan Sri Wan Sulaiman and Datuk George Seah were sacked.

Critics said the dismissal was the inference of the executive into the judiciary and had destroyed the concept of separation of power.

"The wounds have neither healed nor closed. Society has suffered, and will continue to suffer, from the gross injustice some 18 years ago, that has given birth to other injustices," said Yeoh.

DESI: HEAR! HEAR! here.