Samy Vellu says he's a winnable candidate -- Yeah, all psychiatric patients say there's nothing wrong wit' 'em!

I had a good laugh -- and a larger guffaw of pity for MIC Prez G. Palanivel, a former colleague at Bernama! -- when I read the following:

Friday, 05 April 2013 09:53

Here comes BN's winnable candidate - MR MIC Samy Vellu

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Former long-serving MIC president S. Samy Vellu has given a strong signal that he will make a comeback in the coming polls, prompting Perak PAS to question whether Perak Menteri Besar Zambry Abdul Kadir already approved the former Works minister as candidate.

Samy was defeated in his long-held parliamentary seat of Sungai Siput in 2008 by the Socialist Party's Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj, garnering 16,458 votes against Samy's 14,637, effectively ending the latter's political career.

Perak PAS’s issues and strategic bureau Salman Saleh also asked whether the MIC president G. Palanivel has endorsed Samy.

“Has G. Palanivel, the present MIC president and also the chairman of Perak MIC, agreed to give his former president a seat to contest?” asked Salman.

Samy recently boasted that he was "winnable candidate" for BN.

“There is no doubt (that I’m a winnable candidate),” he said.

Salman said it was possible that Samy had not consulted Perak BN before declaring his intention to contest in the polls.

“If Samy is not contesting, that shows BN does not need him and does not acknowledge his role in developing the Indian community. It would now seem that Perak BN is in turmoil and will continue to do so as nomination day nears,” he added.

-Harakahdaily

DESIDERATA: Desi has considered the past one-and-half-years an unofficial season of madness. Now the loonies are coming/ kambing? out of the woodwork. I watch a lot of LAW&ORDER and CSI episodes, and some featured psychiatric patients caught in a web of violence or crime not compleatly of their doing or control. The next two months we will also witness many politicians past their prime who think they are not loony enough to be cloistered up for their own bad, or for the Malaysian society's gOod. Hey, I am not trained in psychology -- all of those previous GE candidates who contested as Independents had lost their deposits. On nomination day, they would have told their family doctor: I am not loony, it's just a Voice in my head told me to go out there/dare and fight. I'm a winnable candidate, even if MIC, MCA or UMNO don't want me. "See, my father gave me RM100,000 for my outings -- why pay the idiot loctor for me lying on a sofa tokkingkok unilaterally for an hour and paying him RM10K? I might as well spend it on eating Rambutans from Tanjung!"

Caretaker Government Anywan? -- Viewpoint from loyarburok.com

Since this is maddening, I am C&P-ing for an educational sharing if thoiu, like Desi, have an OPEN MIND still capable of thinking though we suffer overdoses of madness in the Malaysian air.:) OR :(

[Updated] Why A ‘Caretaker’ Government By Convention Is Unconstitutional

  

28 March 2013 | Bolehland | Posted by Edmund Bon Tai Soon

[29 March 2013 Update: Please also see His Poyoness Syahredzan Johan's response to this article No, A Caretaker Government By Convention IS Constitutional. You can see that some rather boring stuff makes these LoyarBurok-kers excited!]

Much discussion (and rage) about a ‘caretaker’ government has taken place in the country, some found here and here. But how does a Government assume the character of the ‘caretaker’ of Malaysia? The prevailing view is that once Parliament is dissolved, and by convention, the Government automatically continues to govern in a ‘caretaker’ capacity. This view is not consistent with the Federal Constitution. Here’s why.

Let us assume that Parliament was dissolved on 27 March 2013 pursuant to Article 55(3) of the Federal Constitution (FC) to pave the way for the 13th General Election. Nomination day is fixed for 8 April 2013, and election day on 20 April 2013.

Pre-dissolution, the Cabinet:

• derived its executive authority from Article 39 FC;
• was presided over by the Prime Minister who was appointed by the Yang di­ Pertuan Agong (YDPA) and was a member of the Dewan Rakyat (Article 43(2) FC);
• consisted of other Ministers who were appointed from among the members of either the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara (Article 43(2) FC); and,
• was collectively responsible to Parliament (Article 43(3) FC).

Ministers in the Cabinet were assisted by Deputy Ministers appointed pursuant to Article 43A FC.

The Cabinet, Ministers and Deputy Ministers derived their powers, authority and legitimacy from Parliament. When Parliament stood dissolved on 27 March 2013, the Cabinet (and by extension, the government of the day) ‘ceased’ to exist. Ministers and Deputy Ministers ceased to hold office or had any power or authority to govern until the results of the General Election are known and a new Government sworn in.

It is submitted that if a ‘caretaker’ Government is to be in place between 27 March to 20 April 2013, there must have be a formal and express appointment of the Cabinet, Ministers and Deputy Ministers (i.e. re-appointment of the members of the last Cabinet as the case may be) by the YDPA, evidenced by a notification in the Gazette. If there is no such appointment by the YDPA, there would be no Government – ‘caretaker’ or otherwise. This proposition is impliedly found in the proviso to Article 43(2) FC which reads as follows:

The Cabinet shall be appointed as follows, that is to say:

…

… but if an appointment is made while Parliament is dissolved a person who was a member of the last House of Representatives may be appointed but shall not continue to hold office after the beginning of the next session of Parliament unless, if he has been appointed Prime Minister, he is a member of the new House of Representatives, and in any other case he is a member either of that House or of the Senate.

A similar proviso is found in Article 43A(1) FC in respect of Deputy Ministers.

This requirement of the YDPA’s appointment (or re-appointment) is strikingly obvious when one compares the current provisions with the proposed draft of the FC by the Reid Commission in its Article 36(4):

Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Article shall be construed as disqualifying the Prime Minister or any other Minister from remaining in office during any period when Parliament stands dissolved, or as preventing the appointment of any person as Prime Minister or other Minister during any such period.

(emphasis in italics mine)

The proposed Article 36(4) does not appear in the FC.

In summary:

1. The law does nothing in vain – lex nil frusta facit.

2. Effect should be given to every part and every word of the FC in a harmonious way.

3. Words appearing in the FC are to be interpreted in their plain and natural meaning.

4. The courts are not at liberty to disregard the plain and natural meaning of the words in the FC to search for some other conjectured intent.

5. The expression of one thing in the FC excludes other things not expressed – expressio unius est exclusio alterius.

6. Reference to contemporaneous documents or circumstances when the FC was drafted is permissible to gather the drafters’ intention (e.g. Reid Commission Report).

7. Constitutional convention plays no role where there are express requirements in the FC that cannot be ignored. The Indian position is therefore distinguishable as its Constitution does not have provisions similar to our Articles 43(2) and 43A(1) FC cited above.

The Federal Government is well-advised to seek the YDPA’s appointment (or re-appointment) of its Cabinet (including the Prime Minister) should it desire to continue to govern – constitutionally – in a ‘caretaker’ fashion after Parliament is dissolved.

Endnote: The above is an edited version of the oral and written submission, among other points, made before the Federal Court in Criminal Appeal No. 05-23-2009, Mohd Norkhairi Bin Mat Darus v Ketua Polis Negara & 3 Others in 2009. In that case, Dato’ Johari Bin Baharum purportedly in the name of the Deputy Minister of Internal Security issued a detention order under the Emergency Ordinance on 7 March 2008 after Parliament was dissolved on 13 February 2008. Counsel (with Richard Wee, Zulqarnian Bin Lukman and Syamsuriatina Binti Ishak) submitted that because no appointment was made by the YDPA for a ‘caretaker’ Government pursuant to Article 43A(1) FC, the issuance of the order was illegal. The Federal Court dismissed the appeal. Despite a request made for written grounds of judgment, the Court has yet to deliver one.

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The Madness Season Officially Starts TODAY!

A fellow Malaysian SDR LEE MK sms-ed me at 11:44:25  "Parliament dissolved. Get ready to destroy BN!"

Well, you know where my mateys and my political affiliations lie, and we don't apologise for this "leaning".
There are certain parties/individuals who urge that we should be NEUTRAL. Let me state from the start that IN POLITICS, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR FENCE-SITTERS. If for grownups in the twilight of their years, assuming they wer born before our nation's birth on August 31, 1957, THEY HAVE TASTED 12 General Elections. If after 56 years of acquainting with first the Alliance, then the Barisan Nasional, they still remain neutral/fencesitters, then I only can pity them DON'T YOU MAKE USE OF THY GOD-GIFTED UNIQUE MIND?


For first-timers like those 21-24 years bracket, being Voters for the First time, I won't blame them for still weighing their options -- these YOUNG ONES might not have made up their mind to vote BN or the alternative coalition, that is, PAKATAN RAKYAT. It's OK, you learn from EXPERIENCE. When I wrote my post Yesterday -- when all our troubles seem'd so far away! -- I was convinced that incumbent PM Najib Tun Razak wouldtake the 12th Parilament to its full term. Now the announcement had been made -- I heard it on radion some 15minutes ago on driivng home to rush this FIST MADNURSE SEASON popst! NURSE 4ness is because all of us infected by the madness bug need some tender care and share to sustain the season UNTIL HOPEFULLY WE REPLACE THE BN government with the obvious only alternative Malaysians have after 55/56 years! We had seen almost 1-1/2years of UNOFFICIAL CAMPAIGNING FOR GE13, and this long foretaste fortells this is going to be the DIRTIEST CAMPAIGN EVER. Because so much is at stake for the TWO TOWERING PROTAGONISTS -- Caretaker PM Najib and his arch nemesis PM-in-waiting ANWAR IBRAHIM.Some sceptics hear -- fans of of Desi -- claim that TUN DR MAHATHIR MOHAMAD is Anwar's chief nemesis, and who am I to argue?

I will stop here as it just started to rain, and you know-lah, I have a lunch appointment with some PENYOKONG who gift me free meals ON CONDITION I UPDATE THE< ON POLITICS. So there is sometimes some free lunches during the durian -- oops, Madness/GENERAL ELECTIONS -- season. And churchmousey writHers like Desi won't complain eh! De Miang CONner anywan kambing?

It's almost two weeks' AWOL for Desi from Blogging --

AND A FORTNIGHT IS LIKE A CENTURY IN POLITICAL PASSAGE OF TIME. Especially in Malaysian politics when the 13th General Elections are just around the corner, and sense and sensibility fly out of the window/s. In cometh MADNESS...

So let me start off wit' a "Minta maaf, ia" -- this is a a Belated Posting, but as the wise man says: Better late than never! Another wise wan also says: Fools rush in where angels fear to roam. Today I try to go with both! My write today is catching up with happenings on both sides of the political divide plus the socalled middle ground that includes the trodden path of socalled Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), so today's write is the first of a series that may last a week, InsyaAllah!. I may be a card-carrying member of PKR for the last 7-plus years, not yet 100-plus! but I consider myself more a scribe than true-blue-blooded politikus, K! I believe most writers have an idealistic streak in them hard to shake off -- which makes them damned poor politicians who must deal and double deal to get ahead, including doing a Brutus of their "best fRiends" occasionally -- Yes, I have composed a poem observing "drop that "R'"!

Two Sunday Times ago and the NST on the following Monday ran a two-part exclusive interview with former Finance Minister DAIM ZAINUDDIN -- with attention-grabbing headline which partly read that Anwar is not fit to be PM.


My immediate reaction was: Sdr Anwar Ibrahim served as Deputy to then PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad for 7-years-plus, and deemed  as anointed successor to the highest office as CEO of Malaysia till the 1997-08 Asian Financial crisis. As DPM, the holder is JUST A HEARTBEAT away from becoming the PM in the event the incumbernt PM dies of a heart attack -- anyone above age 60 is vulnerable to this fatal meeting with his/her Creator, no? Even the great doctor had been around the house for too long, IMHO -- 22 years heading Malaysia would have been 12 years overstaying his welcome. So who is Daim Zainuddin to conclude that Sdr Anwar Ibrahim is NOT FIT to be Prime Minister?  Mayhaps Daim thinks he's better suited?


Should Pakatan Rakyat win Putrajaya cometh GE13, they should amend the federal Constitution to limit the Head of Government to a maximum of ten years. Even the President of the only superpower at present -- the United States of America--  has the President's office limited to eight years (two terms of four years each), so why should Malaysia bear with such long-sitting duckor/ and sucking crocodile CEOs? I believe CORRUPTION tends to take roots with passing time, so the roots grow longer from five to 10 years -- I believe because Dr Mahathir overstayed by 12 years, his greatest legacy to the nation is ENTRENCHED AND ENDEMIC CORRUPTION.

Britain at one time our colonial masters had great minds among its sons -- in the area of power had one fine judge proclaim with much wisdom:

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- Lord Acton


If my esteeemd readers do not see any connection between Power and Corruption and this elemnt called TIME -- sorry matey, I think I have wasted my time with you, and you with me.


So with that diversion, let me get back to the low-profile high-income -- rumours abound his assetseasily run into a number, followed by 9 zeroes, along the ilks of Chief Minister of Sarawak Taib Mahmud, who broke Mahathir's record by 10years, and methinks the good doctor around the house should advise that East Malaysian fellow MORE THAN he's counselling current PM Najib Tun Razak, unless he deems him to have lower IQ than the other! I have my own ratings -- IF YOU WANT ME TO GO PUBLIC, buy me bestA kambing from Lingam's and we mweet up at De Miang CONner tonight 7.30 cun? There is NO FREE LUNCH OR DINNER OR SUPPER in this www K!

TUN DAIM'S CLAIM OF ECONOMICS MASTERY OVER ANWAR (and Mahathir?)

In that NST INTERVIEW -- which I won't C&P for your convenience for Desi would be guilty of spreading the MSM's propaganda-ganda-wang-anda! -- Daim said Anwar's economic knowledge was below par expected of a Finance Minister and Anwar would visit him often to seek his help. Daim particularly referred to the Asian financial crisis in 1997/98 during which Thailand and Indonesia adopted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) prescribed remedies. Dr Mahathir would have us believe he fell out with Anwar over the latter's wanting to go the IMF way too, but Mahathir and gang (including Daim behind the scenes obviously) said adopting IMF's medicine would have killed the patient! So Anwar was sacked as Deputy PM as well as Deputy President of UMNO.


My reading -- YES, Desi's and Desi's alone! -- was that Dr Mahathir had to bar IMF from prescribing comprehensive solutions to Malaysia's weak financial system. The rest is history -- Mahathir inposed capital controls that he claimed -- well echoed by cronies like Daim who come cheap like dime-a-dozen-lah! -- "saved" Malaysia from certain financial ruin! My retort is: DID THAILAND AND INDONESIA GO THE PATH TO RUINATION? Desi's answer in a general way (I'm no academic OK!) is that our two Asean neighbours did not fare too badly, and recoveed in better shape than Malaysia.


Just digress a little: The recent IMF-bailout of Cyprus' banks had protected the less prosperous depositors by imposing a condition that DEPOSITS OF USD100,000 or less in the Cyprus banks are protected. It is just an example of the IMF's entry with certain conditions that took into account to help the recipeint nation's of its bailout funds are serving the interest of that country's nationals, but IF THE RICHER SEGMENT HJAVE TO PAY A PRICE, SO BE IT! So my premise is that HAD THE IMF COME IN, AS ADVISED BY THEN FINANCE MINISTER ANWAR, THE COULD COULD HAVE AVOIDED ABUSE POSED BY MY Qs BELOW!:(


Several Qs follow which I would hope my dear EsteemedReaders would spend time to ponder over:

* Could the falling-out between that PM and DPM during a most-challenged confrontation be due to more personal reasons other than the avowed "IMF medicine" would kill the patient called Malaysia?


"JANGAN MUDAH LUPA", I remember among Dr Mahathir's wise counsel, so I tell my ER:

Who bailed out the sinking shippinmg company majority-owned by the good doctor's son facing billion-dollar debts? Petronas, No? Could this be the main reason WHY Anwar fell out with his chief, that the DPM  refuse to go along with Mahathir's request to approve Petronas' funds for the bailout of the PM's son troubled company?


Ah, concurrently the Government had to step in to bail out several banks, No? Do you remember one Minister's son at the olde age-of-27 who borrowed RM1.2BILLION to control at least FOUR PUBLIC LISTED COMPANIES? You can't remember? Don't you think these blardy bankers escaped scot-free for NOT DOING THEIR DUTIES by allowing their funds to be LENT OUT TO PEOPLE WITH CABLES but no/useless collateral? Hey,jangan lupa mudah, OK!

Hey, Jangan Mudah Lupa-lah -- Does the name of Ling Hee Leong ring a belle? EAT, DRINK & BE MERRY! No? At age 27, he already became Malaysia's YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE, why-lah you people so stupid one -- work as a graduate until age 30 only can but a terrace house and dribve a Proton saga?


I'll close for now -- a fRiend just rang and invited me for Hi -tea -- JOM DI ALWAZIR or ALJAZIRA? Bawa lah itu bestA mutton from Lingam's! Kambing? -- YL, Desi, knottyaSsusual

YESTERDAY

I watched nine finalists of American Idol # singing from the BEATLES' repertoire to get the viewers to vote them into the next round. It was a two-hour special over Ch 8, and I sms-ed my buds NOT TO MISS THE SHOW. My op is that the lady who sang Yesterday beat them all/awe! wit' the guy whispering THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD followig very close and personal behind; maybe side by side because we all need companions in this long journey called Life!  One of my favourites, this number also often recalls our humans' predilection towards remembering the past through velvet-or izzit rose--tinted eyes, I-I for one! and aye-aye for ye2?

I believe the sixties -- when flower children reigned supreme -- created remains one of the most prolific and creative periods of Rock led by the Fab four from Liverpool, and our radio airwaves would never pass a day withougt at least a couple of their songs warming our hearts, cool, hot or cold, young, mid-age or olde -- BECAUSE who could not be knocked over by anthems like Let It Be, Hey Jude and for the younger love birds on their first dates, I wanna hold your hand! I must fess that my English did improve singing-along and writing short stories just based on one CoRE idea sharpened one's creative juices too, speaking for meself OK:).

So Sdr Din Americano, Rockybru-ed, Voiz knot Midnight (cos Desi's is that Wan occupying midnight: slot K:), Koboi Ng and Koboi2 Huat -- let's K Ra La OK tonight to celebrate whoever wins -- and don't let Yesterday pass away though our tender and light fingers OK when we feel 46 although aged 64!

YESTERDAY, all our troubles seem'd so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
O' I believe in Yesterday....


SUDDENLY....

Daylight Robbers in BN Get Protection!

The Chief Minister of Sarawak and family have been robbing the state's forests and other resources so efficiently that now only some five (5) percent of the original forests remain unraped and their stockholdings' values could even pay one-fifth of the national debt of som RM600billion, Desi's estimates OK! The state of Sarawak's CEO holding power a decade longer than Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the nation's CEO for 22 years and family have been helping to denude the land for the past 30 years -- AND THE AMAZING THING IS THEY ARE STILL BRAZENLY DOING IT! Robbing in daylinght and yumsing the 'hole day, and sucking nubile maidens at night as dessert?!

Meanwhile, commoners get sent to jail even for shoplifting a few tins of milk powder and some clothes for the mother and baby. And little children trudge some five to 10km daily from the interiors of Sarawak to attend school in the urban centres. Can you imagine NegaraKu is aiming to become A HIGH-INCOME NATION in 10 years' time. Barbarians at the gate like what';s akin happening in neighbouring Sabah can be fought off with armed forces' might and determination, BUT INTERNAL THEFT AND LOOTING WITH NO AGENCY BRAVE ENOGH TO CHECK IT?

Who's going to weep for Malaysia?

Luckily a foreign entity named Global Witness is helping a little to educate us.

THANKS to GLOBAL WITNESS via Malaysian Insider today -- even AlJazeera has telecast it! -- the latest "crime" against Malaysians, Sarawakians in particular, is merely the latest in a series of blatat crimes against the state -- yet no action has been taken by the central government and the federal and state graft-fighting agencies. Have you any guts and gumption Mr PM Najib Tun Razak take immediate action with the lastest EXPOSE!?

Go to this LINK: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/video-expose-implicates-sarawak-cm-kin-in-alleged-land-graft.... to see the video:

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Where else does a Chief MInister of a state get to treat the State as his family owned property
In a land Called Sarawak where once headhunters roamed
Now the Chieftain continues to rob not with blowpipes and darts
But using the CEO's status to steal State land, timber and other resources
And they get immunity from prosecution
Because he shares 10percent of the loot with the right powers-that-be at the Federal level

SEMUA OK if you just toe the line
Give a cut of your stolen riches to UMNO BIG guns
The latest news break -- by undercover probers from Global Witness
Also exposes crony-lawyers reaping fantatstic profits too
Doing the "First Family"'s bidding -- also enjoying nubile beauties as a bonus at night?

Even dragged in is the image of collaboration Singapore banks
Being used to channel and "hide" dirty money ala Swiss unnumbered accounts?
This is NOTHING new to us Malaysians
We know they have been plundering for decades

BUT WILL THE VOTERS IN SARWAK WAKE UP COMETH GE13?
Hey, do your bit-lah before these plunderrers drive you into the South China Sea
You think they are not so callous?

Hey, these are no humans
They have skins thicker than the hippo
They are beyond humane emotions
Otherwise, why do they own land more than twice the size of Singapore?
And they continue to hang on to office
In the name of doing national service
ALL THEY DO IS PLUNDER, MORE PLUNDER & aMORE PLUNDER.


May God save us from the enemy within who enjoys IMMUNITY BECAUSE HE ALSO FINANCES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S GENERAL ELECTION BUDGETS EVRY 4-5Years,and shares 10percent of the loot every year with the "RIGHT" GREASY HANDS -- the enemy from outside is highly detectable and so can be brought down. ~~ Amen

I attended the DAP LUKUT fundraising dinner last Saturday

I enjoyed TWO speakers immensely. I did NOT get the name of the first speaker -- he appeared to be a seaoned entertainer, speaking mostly in Kantonis, with a smattering of Hokkien, BM and Mandarin, and from the laughter from the 3,000-strong crowd, they kept cheering him on even after some 45minutes.

More pertinently, one side note is that every attendee paid RM50 for a ticket and it was 280tables "sold out" with late-comers standing to watch the "show" relayed via several giant TV screens set up to ensure everyone had a good view, not just those near the main stage.

Let me PUT ON RECORD that even as a non-supporter of MCA, I must report that it along with its cahoot Chinese aRsEsociatons in Seremban on the same night organised another dinner -- NO, it's not fund-raising, it's more like FUND-GIFTING to all the attendees, supposedly targeted to number 30,000! FREE TICKETS to the dinner were freely given out -- thrown in as a bonus in a Lucky Draw to keep the crowd waiting till the last item-lah! -- with generous prizes INCLUDING A PROTON CAR! I heard from Pasar Besar politikuses that only half the tables were filled, which means about 15,000 people came -- for free food and lucky draw-lah! Some of my cheApskate ER who went dare, please gift Desi the right figures for attendees. K!:) Another snippet I heard is that Dr Chua Soi Lek had to urge the crowd to clap on cue in appreciation of his performance on stage -- izzit true?!


Okay, over with the side journey including my half-hour drive from Furong to Lukut, back to the Main Menu. DAP SG Lim Guan Eng, also CM of Penang state, was scheduled as the last speaker, and since he is ranked among the top echelon within Pakatan Rakyat, he could be deemed to be sharing with policy-statements when quoting from pledges contained in the tripartite GE13 ELECTION MANIFESTO they released recently!


Lim related a few initiatives Pulau Pinang and Selangor under PR had done during the past five years -- eg like giving every state schoilar RM1,000 on entering the university. I shall elaborate a byte on the national issues --please correct me if I am wrong! -- from Lim's sharings:~~~~~

#1. If/When PR captures Putrajaya in the coming GE13, every senior citizen above age 60 will get an annual bonus of RM1,000 (hey, my secret sharing -- as said by PM-in-waiting, DSAI last year at a Seremban cereamah whispered he was 64 but FELT 46. Being two weeks younger than DSAI, Desi is feeling 56 now thoughsoon  touching 65!)

#2. The to-do list on assuming office at Putrajaya, PR will lower the petrol pump prices. YES< as frequently advocated at Desi's place, Malaysia is a nett beneficiary of world oil prices rising AS WE ARE A NETT PRODUCER AND EXPORTER OF PETROLEM, and MALAYSIA'S PETROL CRUDES ARE SWEETER AND ENJOY A PREMIUM over the oil imports!

#3. All the PTPTN loans -- given out to students who applied for studies at universities -- would be WAIVED from any need to pay back and from henceforth, tertiary students under such a scheme will be GIVEN FREE LOANS under the Pakatan government.

#4. The TOLLS for the North-South Highway WILL BE ABOLISHED. Lim stated that the concessionaire had alraedy garnered back more thn RM200billion, THREE TIMES MORE THA THE RM^)BILLION IT INVESTED!. Yes, Desi has been paying quite a byte over the years travelling Seremban-KL, even a few times up north to Ipoh and Penang. I guess I will travel more often -- down south to meet mGf KimQ and see Iskandar eh? -- once PR rules!

As for benefits #5 onwards, please-lah, do some homework; don't be a hazy lazy mazy cow like you sleeping at NFC condo OK -- Google  PR Election Manifesto for GE13, report-back to Desi, K. I may buy ye endless rounds of tehtari' at De Miang CONner, you bring the bestA mutton from Lingam's, jest don't bring the Cheap Justice OK -- he might add arSENic in our tehtarik -- you don wanna Desi to go off into the sunset so early from a heart attack, NO/Yes/Maybe/Mayhaps!!?? -- YL, Desi, knottyaSsusual

Latest news surrounding Prime Minister versus PM-in-waiting

A group of pro-UMNO bloggers, including one who YB Tian Chua, PKR MP for Batu, would be suing for defamation soon, have floated Sodomy3 -- isn't it so predictable? A man resembling the PM-in-waiting was depicted in several photos -- taken off a B&W video -- smooching and groping another male. If Sodomy1 and Sodomy2 haven't succeeded in bringing down Sdr Anwar Ibrahim, the present Opposition Leader and hence the PM-in-waiting, WHY WOULD THESE UMNO DIEHARDS REPRISE THE SAME/SIMILAR FICTION?

It is to be noted that Anwar yesterday had denied he was the man depicted in the photos and that he had referred to matter to his layers.

Let me re-quote two of my fave Einstein quotes for these low life forms who have plunged Malaysian politics to below gutter-level:~~~~

1. "Two things are infiinte: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

2. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."

I believe with the maturing of Malaysians well educated to discerning truth from falsehood, especially with Internet news sources as an alternative to BN-controlled MSM, most of us have gotten fed-up with UMNO and their sycophants churning out old tales. It shows the DESPERATION of UMNO politicians and their lapdogs in the blogosphere when the 13th General Elections are impending. Let those who are on a Quest for Continued Change following 308 EVENT FIVE YEARS AGO will stay the course and bring the present BN government to its knees.


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The other current newsbreak surrounding incumbent PM Najib Tun Razak was yesterday's revelation by the recently-deceased PI P Balasubramaniam's lawyer Americk Sidhu that he was recently informed by a senior lawyer Tan Sri CECIL ABRAHAM that he (Cecil)  was responsible for drafting the SECOND STATUTORY DECLARATION (SD2) later signed by Bala which completely refuted -- the infamopus Gostan-lah by so many of the infamous bloggers, remember RPK? -- the contents of the FIRST STATUTORY DECLARATION (SD1) made just 24 hours earlier making damnig allegations about Najib being linked to the murder of Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaaribuu.

Americk made the starltling revelation at the recent Bar Council annual general meeting (held on March 16) which also elected a team of new office-bearers. Americk further claimed that Cecil told him the SD2 was drafted AT THE INSTRUCTION OF NAJIB TUN RAZAK.  It now  behooves a senior lawyer if he is worth his salt/status ie Cecil to come out openly to confirm or deny Americk's claims. No two ways about this. Mayhaps even Najib could win some brownie points for GE13 scoring by proactively coming out to confirm or deny that he had indeed instructed Cecil to draft such an SD2? This adds on SIGNIFICANCE following the untimely death -- purportedly from a heart attack -- of private investigator Bala.At the time of writing, Desi has NOT sighted any comment from Cecil, OR IS HE WAITING FOR AMERICK TO NOW MAKE A STATUTORY DECLARATION ATTESTING THE TRUTH OF WHAT HE TOLD FELLOW LAWYERS AT THEIR AGM?

I now leave my dear ER (esteemedreaders or esteAmedreaders, Desi's democratic offering) to make their own inference as to how the above two incidents will impact on GE13 -- assuming it's to be held by end-June 2013 -- and if we see DS Anwar Ibrahim  taking over the reins of power at Putrajaya. Or will Najib be able to defaet the "ghost" of the murdered Mongolian beauty resting not restfully somewhere in the Malaysian jungle without the decency of a proper burial, and without the family's knowledge of how she died.


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May I have your permit to quote another of Einstein's? Hey, I realise I don't need your AP -- you only need one when buying an imported car,ain't it so? That RM20k to 40k AP is not within Desi's grasp-lah! The UMNO minister in charge -- departed or current -- is no friend of mine!

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limted. Imagination encircles the world.": ~~ Albert Einstein

Karmic Visitations on Malaysia and Malaysians

When I penned my coment piece on the Lahat Datu intrusion/incursion/invasion (OBJECTIVE test, your choice, my dear ER, for Desi is pretty&democratic somedimes!:), I was guarded. In fact, with the ongoing Royal Commission of Inquiry on Sabah Illegals then having revealed lots of shenanigans -- Project IC/Project M, yes, democrazy2 test! -- going back some 2-3 decades, at the back of my knotty mind is this thought perhaps WE ARE WITNESSING A SEISMIC VISITATION OF KARMA.

There is a similar saying in English close to the concept of Karma, i.e. "What goes around comes around." I only became a half-convert to the Buddhist teachings which contains "Karma" as one of its core precepts. I fess that I was brought up from age of 9 or 10 in a Christian environment, was a regular church goer UNTIL 8-10 YEARS AGO.. That was when I BUMped into this long lost friend from my secondary 1-6 schooldays and while I quoted Shakespeare and the English poets, he sold me his understanding of the teachings of Buddha.

To me, as I indicated, the BIG visitation of the Karmic kind was/is the Sulu sultanate invasion of Lahat Datu, Sabah by some 200-300 of the sultan's men starting Feb 9, 2013 while officials first stated the intruders arrived on Malaysian shores Feb 12 while Desi and friends were happily Lou-Sang and Ka Ra La OK, K! NOw the ministers are variously finding scapegoats,  jumping at the slightest connections to pin the "invasion" on the Opposition. I have written how the MSM jumped at ONE PHRASE,extracted from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, ...".(an opposition leader)...ALLIED WITH ANWAR,..." and by their rich imagination -- I called it quantum leap of logic -- they all chorused that Opposition Leader DS Anwar Ibrahim is behind the whole intrusion, and they embellished it with an old photo showing Anwar with MNLF leader Misuari. Of course we now know Anwar gave 24-hour ultimatum to Utusan Malaysia and TV3 to retract their allegations with an apology which they failed to respond; now they each face RM100 million defamation suts. Sdr Anwar should now extend the same favour to Bernama and several bloggers. (Hey, I won't name the cyber-mates hear/hear -- buy me endless rounds of tehtarik at De Miang CONner, can? Asa bonus, bring along the bestA kambing in Furong, Lingam's dried curry mutton -- you kambing?!


Okay, the second Karmic visitation saw the demise of PI P Balasubramaniam yesterday, when all our troubles seem'd so far away. Poor guy, he was used by BIGGER fat cats and received pittance for his role as a bagman or connecter, entailing him to refute a first Statutary Declaration implicating top guns in the murder of Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaaribu. When a person associates with the dark forces, how long do you think his attire would remain white and untainted? Less than a month on returning to NegaraKu from exile/hiding in India for a few years, this private detective under once employ of that rich Abdul Razak Baginda, socalled defence consultant,suffered a heart attack, and the news was spread on Internet news like wildfire yesterday he had drawn his last breath. Today it was headlined news in the local print media. Less informed Furong Pasar Besar politikuses with richer imagination than some UMNO bloggers this moUrning had their theory -- Bala was put to pasture by evil forces. Which I rebutted, but who am I to say with finality it's not so? Desi is just ONE writer among many in cyberspace, furthermore or aMore, this is Malaysia Bulleh! Malaysians have reached such a level of suspicion that even a routine death due to ill health now could be rumoured to have suspicious causes! -- NOW WHO DO YOU BLAME 4SUSPICIOUS MINDS? Elvis Presley? Desi the knotty wan?

Now I am waiting to see who and where the NEXT Karmic Visitation will befall. I have one educated guess -- remember one I wrote about nciked CARPETBAGGER? This wan dealth in;tens of millions, poor Bala dealth in tens of thousand. One is a fool, the other is a wiser fool, BUT WHEN MISS KARMA VISITS, "she" maketh no distinction whether thy art a bigeer or smaller fool. I am inclined to use "she" because the culprits visted upon are mosyly masculine, so logically....I am sure you got the drift?!When an M16 or MK47 is used to shoot at a flock, all the birds who flock together will get shot. I wonder now, when you are dead, WHO WILL WEEP FOR THEE? Like Altantuya caught in the web of operatives charged with murder, who shalt weep for her?

The certainty is that the Karma surrounding the ghost of this Mongolian beauty is still spinning its wheel, and we wait with lusty breath to see who the next victim will fall. The Players may have a decade to see the ending...I hope Desi liveth that long to see The End! My dear ER, U2!

Today, the Ides of March 2013, marks the 8th birthday of Desiderata!

I have begun to feel the stirrings of a teenager. EIGHT is a lucky number in chinoSIRie culture, so maybe Midnight Voices this year will see me making THAT 20MILLION! If you knoweth knot what I'm talking about, seek out all of helen an Ipohlang who gifted Desi's funny writes in riddles and wordplay its nick DA DESI CODE -- 'twas that time when another great Thinker Da Vinci had his nama honoured with DVCode, by one Brown fellow izzit?

But today I want to talk about the IDES OF MARCH in 44BC. In Rome was where Desi saw a potential emperor taken down by his band of fellow comrades Yes, Julius Caesar as narrated by my Form V compulsory Shakespeare's reading for Literature was knifed down at the Capitol by a group led by one conniving "lean and hungry-looking" Cassius.


But the "most unkindest cut" of all came from Julius Caesar's best bud named Brutus. So when the name blade was pushed into his chest, the now seriously wounded Julius -- the Emperor-to-be -- looked at his fRiend, whispered loud enough for the line worldwide to reverberate through the ages: "Et tu, Brute?" (translated as "You too, Brutus?")

The past FIVE years since the 12th General Electons on March 8, 2008 has also seen the reprise of "Brutus" on the Malaysian stage, especially from among the entrenched UMNO crowd (enjoying the largesse of leader of ruling government!)and the emerging Parti Keadialn Rakyat band (waiting in the wings to rewrite the country's history in finally breaking the 56-year-hold on government reins of power by Barsian Nasional led by UMNO. Is it any wonder that the most number of daggers have been aimed at PKR chief DS Anwar Ibrahim who has seen, again and again, the knife stabbed from behind by ex-UMNO and departed PKR renegades.


We will see more of such BRUTES/Brutuses before the curtain cometh down on GE13, which must be held before end-June 2013. Let's watch THE PLAY at PWTC, and PUTRAJAYA and several minor stages as we see the next four months reel by.


Wisdom from Desi: Watch thy back, thy fRiend minus that R  who hugs and kisses you may just turn out to be your dear Brutus. Ditto advice to Self, Cos you never no!:) OR :(


"ENJOY" w'ile you can b4 that lust breath is taken away! But you, dear ER, nebber doeth bring along that kambing I aRsEk of thee while I gift endless rounds of tehtari' at De Miang CONner, WHY!?

The rainy season and durian seasons are ended, BUT...

THE SEASON OF MADNESS IS UPON US! Ringing up the curtain is the detention and charging of PKR MP for Batu, Tian Chua, yesterday for "sedition" in conjunction with statements he made on the Lahat Datu intrusion by some 200-300 Sulu sultanate disciples. The durian and rainy seasons come annually and Malaysans fatten on the king of fruits and bathe in the rain to calm their nerves and temps raised by politikuses and bloggers on both sides of the divide.

This latest type of season comes about once in four to five years -- lasts for about a few months preceding the Malaysian General Elections, and the 13th GE is impending, must be held by end-June 2013 if this incumbent Government abides by the The Law and rules.

On the Lahat Datu incurion by Filipinos -- the Government had forst traeted them with kids' gloves deeming them to be mere irritant of some neighbours staking an invalid claim to Sabah. Only more than ONE WEEK AFTER THE INVASION STARTED on Feb 12, 2013, did the Government, claiming to also speak for the UMNO took it upon themselves to take offence on the street-fighter spirited PK VP Tian's statemenst, and their macais throughout the country on cue lodged police reports against the defiant Tian, who said the charge against was politically motivated and he would defend himself and clear the purported allegations by UMNO MSM and bloggers to paint the MP as a y=traitorous Malaysian. The UMNO goons even displayed banners asking that the honourqable elected Wakil Rakyat to have his "citizenship revokled". Ranfdg a bell how these goons on cue responded to BERSIH chair Ambiga Sreenavasan who led the 50,00-plus styrong people's protest for "fair and clean eklections". Perkasa-type cl;ones have often shouted to Malaysians to balik Tong San and balik India -- and that IS NOT SEDITIOUS.

Police sedately/or izzit sedated? stood by when hooligans from UMNO demonstarted in front of the PKR Hq at Merchant Square, Tropicana,a few days ago -- shouting clarion calls to "burn down the building!" Echoes of similar goons a decade ago also demonstarted by a few hundred strong at the KLSCAH building threatening to burn down the SUQUI office housed inside KLSCAH. Yes, these pro-UMNO demos are also deemed friendly to the PDRM, so they pay no heed to death threats and outright incitement to destroying property.


So the UMNO Home Minister in accordance with his BUNGLING SOP had to make a scapegoat our of Tian Chua. I think this latest episode of charging Tian officiaaly starts the SEASON OF MADENESS. Officially you expect all the political news from now out would serve the political masters' voices. UMNO-controlled pres like Utusan and NST would tell Najib Tun Razak -- Mr PM, what you say is What you get! MCA's The Star and most of the Chinese papers would similarly tell Dr Chua SL -- What the MCA head instructs, you will get (provided you up our bonuses this year-lah! WHILE SOME EDITORS can look forward to a DATUKSHIP at the next investiture at State and Federal levels!)

So the journalists at the MSM, which include TV stations like RTM 1, 2 et al, and TV3 will only report objectively in the SPORTS and ENTERTAINING sections, even the VIZ Section is skewed to GOOD NEWS4Gomen -- and the most objective reportage are in the Magnum, Toto and PanMalaysianPools (DaMaCai-lah!) results! For political news, please go ONLINE OK! Of course, you must also bear with some spinning by both factions and Third Force madcaps -- YOU THEN MAKE INFORMED INFERENCES AFTER DIGESTING ALL THE MADE INGREDIENTS THAT MAKE UP THE MALAYSIAN ROJAK on the GE13 menu.

Meanwhle, please maintain some sanity by surfing to Starry, Starry Nights with VINCENT as painted by

DON MCLEAN ~~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk.


CHOW,
which can mean

Seeya later

OR
Come, makan wit' me at De Miang Corner! ~~ YL, Desi

The depths UMNO politikuses&bloggers have descended to - I'd say along...

with the latest sinking the Malay community's pride (maruah) has truly sunk into the bottom of the South China sea.


On the same day I read about Saiful Bukhari's father recanting to the press that his son's allegation of SODOMY2 against the former DPM and now Opposition Leader DS Anwar Ibrahim was concocted by officer/s from the PM's Department, another Sodomy3 story was being spun by several UMNO cyber-troopers. I don't know if any Malay leader worth his salt after SODOMY1 a decade ago could hold his head high with a new low in UMNO politics -- the courts being used as a sandiwara stage -- semen-stained mattress, THE DATE OF THE ALLEGED SODOMY OFFENCES CHANGED NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE, and yet the judge merrily went on with THE PLAY. Not ony that, the judge took specail efforts to EXPUNGE pages of testimony to suit the verdict he already HAD PRECONCEIVED.Any magistrate trying a lesser mortal on a lesser charge of a sexual offence WOULD HAVE THROWN THE CASE OUT ON THE PROSECUTION's APPLICATION FIRST TIMER AROUND TO AMEND THE DATE OF THE ALLEGED OFFENCES!


Thank God we had some semblance of the British-inherited high standards of Justice finally displayed when the case was returned with an overturned verdict pronouncing Anwar "not guilty" on appeal to the Federal Court in a landmark 2-1 decision.

Thank God we also saw an "unexpected" NOT GUILTY decision by the High Court judge trying the SODOMY2 case. ONLY IN MALAYSIA BOLEH LAND would the political masters from UMNO-oh-no! would do a REPRISE of THE PLSAY to hame the former DPM into submission! But God is Great, someone a God-fearing man who sat as a proud Malaysian judge did what he did according to the overwhelming facts of the case.


Back to the present --- in the past three days I sighted at a few Pro-UMNO blogs mounting a concerted effort to prepare The Play for a THIRD OUTING OF SODOMY. How low can Malaysian politics -- I say the bloggers are indeed playing UMNO-financed politics -- descend? Just thinking aloud, IF DESI WERE A MALSAY GENTLEMAN, I WOULD GO OUT DARE TO GROUP TOGETHER A CLASS-ACTION SUIT AGAINST THESE DESPERADOES planning to enact a TWICE-FAILED MISSION again -- yes, hatching a Sodomy3!

No, Desi ain't gonna point ye -- my esteemedreaders -- to the sites who are acting in concert to bring the "maruah" of the Malay community to a new depth. I don't wish to become an accomplice even remotely to this cowardlt act! As I log-off, I just shake my head in WONDERMENT -- "O' God, don't we Malaysians have a sense of shame on the world stage?" ~~ YL, Desi


PS:  If my undersatnding of basic Islam is correct, the sin/dosa of slandering /memfitnah another fellowman's character IS WORSE than commiting murder against the victim, is Desi right? I humbly stand/sit to be corrected.


May the Almighty save Malaysia from the enemy within, Amen!

Hey, fellow Malaysians, WE CAN MAKE THE COUNTRY BETTER!

One of my fave Beatles hits is Hey Jude, and I would sing along wit' my Ka Ra La OK friends the refrain pronouncing "better" as "BADDER, badder, bader...." Nah, Nah, Nah nah nah nah nah... We now just add to the refrain WE CAN MAKE NEGARAKU badder, badder, badder -- remove all that's trul;y BAD under the UMNO-oh no! no  no no instead of nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, end wit' Hey Dude!

So if you happen by Furong nigh De Miang Corner, just hidden behind KFC/Gerakan dying state Hq!, give Desi a howler, and I'll come running. You bye Desi endless rounds of tehtarik and I'll take ye to the Butterfry Varrey and sing our version of Hey Dude to make our country badder, badder, badder yeah nah nah nah nah, Hey Dude!.

Now be a GOoD boy, hit the RH side YouTube video headed "My Anthem For Now" and sing loud enough for the UMNO-oh no! guys and their Sulu friends at PWTC can hear ye!

Desi lauds Editorial by the Malaysian Insider on Sulu intrusion into Sabah...

It's TIME FOR MALAYSIANS TO STAND UNITED AGAINST THE COMMON ENEMY, NOT BICKER, via LINK:

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/time-to-unite-to-fight-a-common-enemy-not-bicker

PS: I also read from Online latest updates that Opposition Leader DS Anwear Ibrahim's lawyer N Surendran had told the press today that letters have been sent to TV3 and Utusan Malaysia seeking their apologies and retraction of a report alleging that Anwar was linked to the Sulu intruders now still involved in a lingering standff at Lahat Datu (which had to date accounted for eight lives of Malaysian police personnel, with the additional six lives lost at Semporna some 110km from Tanduo, Lahat Datuk where the 250 Filipino intruders landed almost three weeks ago). Anwar's counsel also  stated that if the two media refused to apologise, then he would sue for damages amounting to RM100million from each of the MSM. (Desi just adds that a few more media have carried similar reports alleging Anwar's involvement, and if their Editors are smart, they should just retract their eports and tender an apology. But if they have deep pockets aided by their political MASTERS, I guess they can play dumb and sit tight until another Royal Commission of Inquiry into that Filipino Inquirer!:(


In the spirit advocated by the MI editorial, Desi will not add unnecessary comments beyond WHAT I WROTE IN YESTERDAY'S POST lamenting the irresponsible MSM involved in "linking" the Opposition Leader -- using the LEAP OF LOGIC implicating Anwar just because he was "allied" to the unnamed Opposition leader (in Sabah) -- to the Lahat Datu incident just based on one-liner carried by the Philippine Daily Inquirer which stated that an Opposition leader "allied with Anwar" had played a role in the Sulu intruders' arrival at Lahat Datu.

YES, case for legal action against MSM plus online news linking Anwar to Sulu intruders at Lahat Datu

It is right that PKR de fcato chief DS Anwar Ibrahim is considering legal action against Utusan Malaysia and TV3 for reports linking the Opposition Leader. I have also sighted other reports by Bernama and New Sunday Times plus The Mole.cpm which played up the "link" base on just a ONE-LINER from the Philippine Daily Inquirer which said an Opposition leader aligned with Anwar was involved in the the two-week-plus standoff in Lahat Datu which had seen two Malaysian police commandos dead along with 12 Sulu intruders.

I just read in The Malaysian Insider that an Anwar's special officer Najwan Halimi informed that the Opposition Leader had indeed referred the matter to his lawyers  to prepare for a probable suit against the media involved.

 To me as a newshound of some 30-plus years experience, there is NO BASIS OR JUSTIFICATION for these news organisation and/or blogs to extrapulate the involvement of Anwar even assuming it was true that a certain Opposition leaders had at any stage been involved. By ALIGNMENT or association with a purported offender does make the one aligned/associated with the offender culpable. Obviously these media are practising TOADYISM JOURNALISM. Aiming for another Datukship, Mr Editor-in-Cheap?.

Politicians and media in Malaysia are descending to NEW LOWS of civil behaviour and should we wonder why our country is facing a SECURITY THREAT? Yes, the people who should know better are looking at the wrong places for such threats. Even as I write, I have read just 10minutes ago another FIVE lives have been sacrificed at Semporna. Instead of identifying the real sources and causes of the nation's security breaches, the top players are fighting imaginary foes and creating "diversions" at a crucial period of Malaysia's history as we face the 13th General Elections in a few months' time.

May God save us from our leaders and self-serving media! Amen.

MSM treading on dangerous waters on Lahat Datu happenings!

Two Malaysian Commandos dead along with 12 Filipino intruders from YESTERDAY'S face-off, and all two MSM -- Utusan Malaysia and the national news agency -- can come up with WAS TO QUOTE A PHILIPPINE NEWS SOURCE to spin the dangerous line the Malaysian Opposition, and therefore by extension PR de facto Leader DS ANWAR IBRAHIM, had  played a role in getting the Sulu Sultanate intruders onto the Malaysian soil to start a potential "civil war"!

Hey, as a national news agency, Bernama chief/s should get your stories and official reports from the  Malaysian ministers (IR)responsible for the event still in progress -- like the bungling Home Minister, the Foreign Minister (with vested or conflicting interests as his brother is Chief Minister of Sabah) and the Defence Minister, FOR STARTERS? I started my journalism career some three decades ago working at BERNAMA, and on-and-off I had felt "demeaned" by my past association with their unfounded reports quite often biased towards the Opposition, especially former DPM Anwar now waiting in the wings as a potential PM. But this latest spin IS THE ICING ON THE CAKE for "manufacturing news" to serve their political masters. As for Utusan, knowing their news slants over the past three decades, I have expected their "spinning" on many fronts and frankly, some of their reports and commentaries have been so inflammatory the past few years that any journalist worth his/her salt would have departed long ago  from the socalled newspaper. (SALUTE to a former President of NUJ Utusan chapter for doing just that!).

I base this post on a Malaysiakini report today, but I am no subscriber, so I can only paraphrase. Now I just reproduce the first para of the report headlined: "Mainstream media drags Anwar into Lahat Datu fiasc", quoting from the update timed 3.07PM:
UMNO-controllled Utusan Malaysia and gov't agency Bernama play up media reports linking the opposition to the Sabah fray. (quote ends)

My dear EsteemedReaders, Patience OK, will come back to serve you later!:) OR :( Hey, you can't expect me to be at thy peck and call OK to give up a full report on the events going on there because the Chief Minister had urged "don't listen to rumours..." yet he and his cohorts DON"T GIVE ANY UPDATES and expect we Malaysians enjoy being kept in the dark! No, the more inquisitive Malaysians luckily can and we have been surfing the Net to read from sources such as  the Philippines Daily Inquirer. Meanwhile I can only urge fellow Malaysians to BOYCOTT the UM group to not be insulted by their propa-GANDA-GANDA-wang-anda and constantly riled by their Awang Selamat and Ridhuan Tee Abdullah's garbage!

The Law of Karma Is Being Played Out in Malaysia...

on many fronts. The closest English saying equivalent to this universal law as preached in Buddhim is "What Goes Around Comes Around", and also the proverb, in my rendition -- You reap what you sow.

What fronts is Desi talking about. Okay, the most current, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL, is the two-weeks-plus standoff involving 250 intruders onto Sabah soil -- these invaders calim they were of Sulu Sultanate descent, and history has arrogated them as owners of Sabah. This has been a bone of contention between the newly fromed Malaysia comprising Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah in 1963. I believe if these intruders said they were not prepared to surrender -- as stated by the Sultan and daghter back in theSulu sultanate a few days ago -- the invaders headed by one of the sultan's brothers would then be waiting out the time till the Malaysian police, army, navy and airforce forces are forced to "act militarily" -- I believe TIME IS RUNNING OUT and the coming wickedend might see a play out of High Noon in the modern context. Necessarily there will be DEAD BODIES if it came to a shootout.

So why is the Law of Karma relevant here?

Well, it is a well-known factr that the Malaysia state of Sabah had seen many Filipino immigrants coming over into Sabah illegally, BUT THE BIG GUNS AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TURNED EITHER ONE EYE OR A CLOSED EYE on the intrusion for the past few decades (you do read the revelations of the current RCI on Sabah Illegals, I hope...). Also, these illegals finally were gifted identity cards (then VOTING RIGHTS) by the powers-that-be, and many of these arrivals became conduits to channelling arms and other "supplies" to Islamic insurgents in the Philippines I am just paraphrasing news reports sighted in the Internet -- you just Google "Lahat Datu and Sulu and intruders and standoff..." and you would get a generous helping of current and historical updates updates. standoff.


The Malaysian powers-that-be are now getting a taste dealing with the very same type of "intruders" whom they had pampered with special velvet glove treatment when it served their short-term blinkered interests -- political mainly -- and now the backlash happens, and Wow, Desi is waiting with bated breath and whispering to my Pasar politikuses: What do you expect to get when you rear snakes in thy compound? The chickens and ducks will disappear of course for starters. Then you get snake bites. I just pray it';s the bast....ly leaders who get the lethal dosages. "May God protect the innocent ones. Amen", YL whispers at midnight, YL, the newshound by bloodline, a poet-dreamer by knight.


PS: You wanna Desi to cite other Karmic goings-on here? Hey, one instance is enough for now!

Chow, meet5 me at De Miang Coner in Furong, bye me endless rounds of tehtari', I may yakk summAmore!

Look -- Who's selling out the nation's sovereignty? FINAL INSTALMENT

I took a fortnight break for CNY, and ONE EVENT AMIDST MY K RA LA LA OK and YAM SING TOOK MY BREATH AWAY! Lucky I had enough cookies and shandy to keep me alive -- the INVASION by allegedly some 100 to several hundred foreigners of our east Malaysian state of Sabah armed with guns and ammunition ARE BEING TREATED WITH A VELVET GLOVE by our well prepared ARMED FORCES.

I had written a series of posts (I to VII) headed similarly above about who's selling out NegaraKu's sovereignty, as revealed by the RCI on Sabah Illegals still in progress -- but today I think the event that started on Feb 12 must NOT be allowed to continue in an impasse! Otherwise, MALAYSIA CONTINUES TO BE A LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD -- in fact, that status was already acquired in stages under the stupid UMNO reginme, becmong stupider and stupidest over the past two decades, and now has become THE MOST STUPIDEST of them/damned all, analogously using PL ala-Shakespeare in Julius Caesar's quote of the "most unkindest cut" of Brutus' stab. You don't know what this is about, remain an Ignoramus, Desi's aint no mood to educate ye, my dear ER! You don't like it, get the here out of Hell!

Even as of yesterday, reading theSUN's report this moUrning, the various wings of the armed forces' chiefs -- Police, Army, Navy and Airforce -- are STILL JUST ON STANDBY MODE TO GIVE THE ARMED INTRUDERS A LAST CHANCE TO EITHER SURRENDER ON ENGAGE IN A PEACEFUL RETREAT via a ship sent by the Philippines waiting offshore Sabah.

Hey, Mr Prime Minister, the Sulu Sultanate does not exist as far as Malaysia is concrerned. So when an army from this purported claimants to a part of Sabah landed at Lahat Datu two weeks plus ago, you still believe in treating them as neighbours open to peaceful negotiations?

This newdog still remembers vividly that a certain past PM, when commenting to the press, both local and international, about hundreds of VIETNAMESE REFUGEES arriving off the shores of Terengganu and Kelantan by the boatfuls, said: "SHOOT THEM!"

Can I humbly request of our current prime Minister Najib Tun Razak: Shoot these bas****s invaders of our land, "Since they don't respect our nation's sovereignty, SHOOT THEM!"

To my Chinese fRiends here, dare, everywhere:)

Wishing ye a Happy and Progressive New Year of the fRiendly Snake. May you and family and buddies Eat, Drink&Be Merry for the sext 15 days -- just leave Desi some rut bir and man-dare-in oranges, wilya!

To my non-CinoSIRie buds, please join in the festivities OK! In the international spirit of celebrations across physical, ethnic and political boundaries, and wishing everyone GOoD Health and Prosperity! Yes, " GONG XI FA CAI " in man-darling:).

I hope you did catch Celine Dion singing at last night's CCTV Spring Fesival Gala Show -- Yes, the diva sang a famous Chinese folk song "Moh Li Hua" (Jasmine Flower) wj=hich an uncle taught me and siblings during our schooldays although we attended English-medium school. Of course, she also won the hearts of the Chines people in the most-watched show of the world with that number from The Titanic.

Surprise acts were pianists Li Yundi accompanying a Magician (sorry, can't recall his name) in an entertaining music-scored fool-of-tricks demo, and the vivacious (? can I use this to descriv=be a male?) Lang Lang playing like a God-gifted maestro to the dance movements of a real-life ballet dance. "Real-life" because at one stage, a viewer could have been mistaken she's a life-size doll rendred thus by sharp camera-angling and professionally-keyed-in&danced duet with fingers and feet.

OK, Ciao, will be taking two-week AWOL -- do I have thy permit?

Cheers, ENJOY the meats&cake&puer cha,  but don't drink heavy if you are driving.

CHOW, which can mean

Carry on eating;)

OR

I will seeya later, insyaAllah.

EC chief says GE-13 will "be the best" ever -- Desi's immediate reaction is:

REALLY?

How many of my dear ER would have similarly reacted? Share-lah, I won't tell the BN-UMNO people, no money mah!

The EC chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof was speaking yesterday after officially appointing some 16 NGOs as observers to the impendig General Elections, which has to be called latest by June 2013. I now need to check: was he speaking at a seminar for East Malaysia zone?
 (The 12th Parliament's term ends end-Apriol 2013, and its dissolution assuming Najib takes it to its full term, will be 27th April; after that the Election Commission has got 60 days to conduct the elections for the 13th Parliament.

The Opposition has many a time claimed the forthcoming GE will be the "dirtiest ever' ... based on their suspicions that the shenanigans as revealed by the Ropyal Commission of Inquicy (RCI) now in progress in Sabah had included OPEN ADMISSIONS by senior National Registration Department officials that they had indeed issued Identity cards to illegal immigrants in Sabah -- BY THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND! -- and past PM Dr Mahathior Mohamad even confessed, "Yes, I did it..." to that effect OK! -- and then compared it with what Tunku Abdul Rahman also did way back when  -- granting foreigners citizenship just before Malaya obtained Independence from the British in August 1957

My "mouse" is still disobedient and so renders Desi impotent in Cut&Pastry the NST news report quoting the EC chairman (THE LINK HEAR LATER OK! --      ) -- I will just paraphrase some points and give my comments, can?

The EC chairman said the 13th GE will be the most transparent ever to be conducted, under the watchful eyes of the independent observers. I don't doubt that on the surface, the "transparency" will be there.But as BERSIH3.0 has been campaigning for among other issues for a clean and fair elections -- HAVE THE ELECTORAL ROLLS BEEN PADDED UP WITH "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS", especially in States the UMNO are targetting to win back from Pakatan Rakyat like Selangor and Penang?

BUT THE MAIN Q REMAINS, and Desi's MAIN CONCERN TOO, hence my reaction above, sceptic newsdod that's YL Chong -- REALLY?

All the past five years HOW MANY FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS HAVE SIMILARLY BEEN GRANTED CITIZENSHP? HOW MANY ARE NOW PADDED ONTO THE ELECTORAL ROLLS as targeted by UMNO -- for we all know that the Sabah situation "Project M" took place with the EC's collussion with the UMHNO topguns or parties-friendly to UMNO.

In remember the Statistics Department a few years ago reported that the NUMBER OF ILLEGAL WORKERS FROM INDONESIA ALONE ACCPOUNTED FOR TWO MILLION! Now two years later, how many of these two million illegals have made it to the EC rolls as VOTERS?


Then you add in the numbers of illegals from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar -- HOW MANY MORE ILLEGALS HAVE ILLEGALLY BEEN GRANTED VPOTING RIGHTS? Read-lah my series, now numbering six, on "Look -- who is selling out the nation's sovereignty?"


May I just/jest end with a quote I have used several times recently, from the greatest scientist ever lived, ALBERT EINSTEIN:

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

Tributes from peers to ex-theSUN journalist Claudia Theophilus -- they are PRICELESS!

When news of a former journalist of theSun Claudia Theophilus (ah, from my hometown Furong, doubly proud of you:) was reported killed by gunfire in L:ebanon ;ast Saturday, Desi knows she's another victim when visiting or reporting in war-torn fronts. I personally don't know Claudia, but from the tributes paid her by her peers, from theSun and other news organisations, you know the acknowledgement is sincere and heartfelt.

I of course have read her wqritings at theSun and at malaysiakini.com

I was moved this morning reading the Sun's page 3 report headed:
""In memory of
Claudia Theophilus,

it's tragic that a Malaysian newshound who went on to serve at AL JAZEERA as a producer had her life terminated so early at an age I would term as the PRIME of her life. I wanted to Coipy&Pastry the said report from sun2surf.com, but the mouse remains stubbornly disobedient, so please make do, my dear ER, with just two paras copied long-hand; for aMore, here's the online LINK: http://www.thesundaily.my/news/605503


PETALING JAYA: Friends from the media fraternity and
former colleagues of ex-theSun journalists Claudia
Theophilus. who was killed by a stray bullet in Lebanon
on Saturday, have set up a Facebook page in her memory.
   The page -- "Keeping the Flame Alive" -- attracted
tributes from her former colleagues at theSun and online
portal Malaysiakini as well as others within the industry.


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DESIDERATA: One of the media hounds who paid tribute
quoted (G.) Umakanthan, someone I hold in high esteem and I have the privilege to befriend from some three decades ago.

Veteran journalist Humayun Kabeer. in theSun's report today, had described Claudia as a "true fighting spirited lioness" who spoke her mind without fear or favour.
"So much so she was nicknamed the 'policewoman' by our former theSun editor Umakanthan!"

Hilary Swank in TALK ASIA interview -- WOW!

Here's the LINK: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/01/ta.01.html
BECAUSE I couldn't COPY&PASTRY as the idiotic "mouse" is not obedient since yesterday, when all my troubles seem'd so far abay!

I caught a "repeat" of the above on CNN from 2.40 to 3.00PM on a lazy hazy mazey Sundae when I am into RUMINATION ie away from socio-political writHes UNLESS it's earth-shattering on the Malaysian landscape. So with a repeat of Law&Order on ch 701 or izzit 702?, I surfed to 511, and was I glad, catching the last section of twice-academiy award-wining HILARY SWAK's interview by on CNN.

Two distinctive references remain embedded partially in my brain -- one referred to her acting alongside Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood how she would "soak it in" learning from the iconic greats; and how she would feel as "an outsider" in the celebrity-made it  world of Hollywood...

Another referred to her quoting Clint, my paraphrasing OK! --that in life one always aims for the bull'seye, but it's not always hitting it. This writHer feels connected to may of her opinions expressed in the interview, BUT I must admit I have lots to ketchUP with her films because I've recently "lost" a buddy who often went to the cineplex wit' Desi...he went off to ****Timbuktu.

And second confess: Only recently when ****Mali made the news when France ordered its troops to fly into African outpost nation that I realised Timbuktu IS IN MALI! I had so often teased friends after they went AWOL/MIA for long periods with Q: You went to hyde in Timbuktu izzit? yet not really knowing where to place TB2 on the world map. AND tell me frankly, your PM had just triumphanty visited GAZA, can you honestly tell Desi you can point where Gaza is on the world map? I can't, and really, you think I care?


Now when my mouse regains its knotty coposure and behaves normally, I will come back with the fu;ll version -- YOU DON'T EXPECT DESI TO WRITE OUT THE TRANSCRIPT IN "LONG-HAND", do you? although I know, "long" is part of my name in YL Chong!:( You don't like it here, HEY, GET THE HEAR OUT OF HELL! `` YL, Desi, knottyaSsusual