tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53697823399699983162024-03-05T18:54:15.089-08:00PA'LONG ONLINEKetika Tempua Masih Bersarang RendahUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-40882500617061888702012-06-11T05:44:00.000-07:002012-06-11T05:44:51.417-07:00AKAD NIKAH SHUKRI-WAN DI TANJUNG SEDILI DULU TANJUNG LEMBU!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvze1SCGU7LL0ZoNWnpo-6DZ1LEgd69g5DdPYCBasFBPbQHQWIs9HK2DzzZ3t0Ckav_-FHzCQxfE05Qw1BoE5tWst8PqkN3KmoOKJPHz-XbBTN55McHCAAKFYhjy8swaEYebUJav32BbkH/s1600/Shukri+melafaskan+akad+nikah+di+depan+Imam+disaksikan+Wan,.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvze1SCGU7LL0ZoNWnpo-6DZ1LEgd69g5DdPYCBasFBPbQHQWIs9HK2DzzZ3t0Ckav_-FHzCQxfE05Qw1BoE5tWst8PqkN3KmoOKJPHz-XbBTN55McHCAAKFYhjy8swaEYebUJav32BbkH/s320/Shukri+melafaskan+akad+nikah+di+depan+Imam+disaksikan+Wan,.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Anak bongsu Keluarga Selamat dan Sabariah Yasin di Plentong, Johor Bahru, Shukri Selamat diijabkabulkan dengan gadis pilihannya dari Tg. Sedili, Wan, anakanda Wan Harun pada 9 Jun 2012 jam 11.00 pagi Sabtu lalu. Di pihak lelaki kira-kira 30 anggota hadir mengiringi Shukri ke rumah pengantin perempuan di kampungnya di Tanjung Sedili. Majlis persandingan kedua-dua pengantin berlangsung Ahad 10 Jun 2012. <br />
Selamat Pengantin Baru semoga kekal hingga ke anak cucu!<br />
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<strong><em>Upacara pertunangan Iwan Fazlee dengan Rohana Iran yang berlangsung di Kota Kinabalu, Sabah TAHUN 2006</em></strong>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia5.976474 116.1157775.8501354999999995 115.9578485 6.1028125 116.27370549999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-31580335768093902152012-04-05T21:31:00.000-07:002012-04-05T21:31:07.175-07:00BLOGGER AKU PEDULI APA COMMENTS ON HANG TUAH THE MYTH!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYAEu4K3r2m3Vzsl7GEOOWSEmjowY3TPPZG1aBcXkiilqIvkhjUpAsQcwQ5stfLYQUQjKepfQ-uWRKr24Oo_wxEqOYzECYxiEhp-xuH6OvppBSY1y0ExtpxzP8pOGy3m9599FpWbtIuQ/s1600/R13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYAEu4K3r2m3Vzsl7GEOOWSEmjowY3TPPZG1aBcXkiilqIvkhjUpAsQcwQ5stfLYQUQjKepfQ-uWRKr24Oo_wxEqOYzECYxiEhp-xuH6OvppBSY1y0ExtpxzP8pOGy3m9599FpWbtIuQ/s320/R13.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div align="center"><strong><em>TS Abdul Aziz Tapa, an historian cum politician who is well-versed in Malay history. His mind on the the existence of the Malay warrior "Hang Tuah" is deep-rooted. </em></strong></div><br />
Even though Blogger "Aku Peduli Apa" made the comment below about three months ago, I think the issue is still relevent. who was this figure Hang Tuah and his four warrior brothers. Were they Malays from the Nusantara region or were they of Chinese origins as suggested by some. Or as TS Prof. Khoo Kay Kim suggested they were just myth or stroies from the Malay traditional narratives (folklores). If that was the case then the book entitles " The Malay Annals" or "Sejarah Melayu must be a fiction. <br />
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It is not my intention to further make unnecessary comment on this issue, but merely want to reiterate the comment made by "Aku Peduli Apa", which I think still lingers in the people's mind, especially the Malays and Chinese. The issue is so dear to their hearts and souls that by reading the article times and again I beleive it may strike into everybody's mind that history is not just 100% myth but surely there must be some truth in terms of facts and figures. With regards to this, I beg to differ, TS Prof. Khoo Kay Kim and Minister DS Dr. Rais Yatim! <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hang Tuah Hang Myth and Hang Khalsa by aku peduli apa 23 jan 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is a good write up about Hang Tuah in today's Star here, titled "Is Hang Tuah fact or fiction?" I have taken certain points from the article and added my comments. Here goes :<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. "Even Indonesians acknowledge his existence. (Is this an) effort to discredit Malay history?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My comments : Hang Tuah is not just a figure from Malacca but in Riau the legends of Hang Tuah are well known. There is a Jalan Hang Tuah in Pekan Baru in Riau. The Riau people call their country 'Riau - Tanah Melayu Lancang Kuning'. Here is a picture of the Masjid An Nur in Pekanbaru, Riau which is located at one Jalan Hang Tuah area (this is from Google but I have also been to Pekanbaru, Riau).<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Malay Civilisation has strong roots in Riau. (Err that is why this part of the world is called the Malay Archipelago. From the northern tip of Sumatera to the eastern tip of Borneo is over 2000 miles. "Sumatera" is a corruption of the Malay "Samudera" and "Borneo" is a corruption of the Malay 'Brunei'.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also plus the fact that "history" places Hang Tuah in the 15th century (about 600 years ago) which is fairly recent. The Dutch and British who appeared here in the 18th-19th centuries already heard these Hang Tuah stories as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of course the stories about Hang Tuah are often too fantastic, certainly plenty of myth has been added to the story. We have to differentiate between his existence and the fantastic deeds he was supposed to have done. The two are not the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. 'questions about his ethnicity and origin..'<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My comment : The questions over Hang Tuah's ethnicity are more recent - post 1970, post NEP in Semenanjung Malaysia only. The five Malay warriors were Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekiu, Hang Kasturi and Hang Lekir. And there is also mention of a Chinese woman Hang Li Po.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The presence of the very Chinese Hang Li Po does seem to neutralise the comment which says that Hang Tuah and gang were Chinese. The advocates of the "Hang Tuah was Chinese" theory say that the name Hang Tuah was actually a Malacca Malay corruption of "Hung Too Ah" or something similar. And they say Hang Lekiu was Hung Lee Kiu. Well lets hang on to the 'hung' for a while ok.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then how do we explain "Li Po" from the "Hang Li Po" which is a perfectly Chinese name? How come Hang Li Po was not corrupted by the same Malacca Malays to "Hang Lipat" or something like that?<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And there is no way that Hang Kasthuri was a Chinese. Kasthuri was a 100% mamak name - saya punya gang. Dont believe me? Here is proof. There is a well known Kasthuri Palaykat Company in Jalan Masjid India. They have also been selling Kain Pelikat Cap Sauh in Jalan Masjid India since the 15th century I think.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So no way Hang Kasthuri was a Chinese. Kasthuri was mamak. Hang Tuah was likley Malay or a mamak campur as well. Dont forget that Malay - Mamak mixing has been going on for a very long time on the Peninsula and Sumatera. Folks in places as remote as Sri Menanti should have their DNAs profiled as well :)<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There may not be records of Hang Li Po in China perhaps because she may have been not significant at all. The Chinese married off their girls to all sorts of people to establish friendship. Its no big deal. The Austrians did the same thing too. Remember Marie Antoinette? When the French lost their cool, she lost her head.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to Gavin Menzies who wrote the book "1421 - The Year China Discovered The World" Chinese records show the arrival of a ship from Malacca way before the 14th century with over 500 people on board !! It is not just the early date that seems surprising but a ship that could take 500 people aboard must have been one massive vessel. There were few tourists then. People who travelled were either traders or conquerors. This means there were already long established trade routes between the Malay Archipelago and China which even predates Hang Tuah.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Chinese also arrived in Sabah a long time ago. The Kinabatangan River takes its name from 'Chinese River' or 'Kina - batangan'. Chinese used to sail up the Kinabatangan to trade in birds nests. In short Hang Li Po was not the "discoverer" of Malacca for the Chinese.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. •several versions of the Sejarah Melayu (it is known that there are more than 20 versions)<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>•too many inconsistencies among the different versions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>•There were those who felt “betrayed” and asked if everything else they had learnt in History was false and mythical as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>•If you deny Hang Tuah’s existence, it means you also deny the whole historical text of the ‘Sejarah Melayu’.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My comments : These are the most important as well as most logical points about this Hang Tuah debate. No one knows what really happened in history. Hang Tuah goes back 600 years and we dont know myth from reality. Just go back to 1962 - who really killed John F Kennedy? Was it a lone assassin or was there a grand conspiracy? We cannot even answer questions about 1962.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A few weeks ago I wrote a Blog titled Sadaqallaah Al Azeem which questioned the Battle of Siffin - a catastrophic event in Islamic history which also caused the great divide between the Sunnis and the Shiahs. (Do read it again if you have time). Just like Hang Tuah or Jack Kennedy's assasination, we really dont know who did what to whom at the Battle of Siffin. We do not know the myth from the reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some people really believe that their hero flew down from the sky and defeated another bad villain who had also flown down from the skies to torment people. Other people believe that their hero was the product of a union between their god and a virgin woman. Yet others really believe that their hero also flew through the sky on a hybrid animal (never seen hence) to get from Point A to Point B.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Folks I have just described at least three major religions here. If you say Hang Tuah was a myth, then what about your own beliefs? Are you saying that all your own beliefs are based on solid historical facts ? Langsung takde myth ke? Wahh ! Banyak cantik.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think they are all myths. The whole world is confused because it runs on too many myths. So please dont get too carried away by all these grandfather tales. Dont start hating your neighbour today just because of what was done by or done to your own mythical hero about a thousand years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t dislike your neighbour today because his great grandfather magically flew through the sky and cut off your great grandpas nose or your great grandpa jumped over a short horse in one big leap and cut off his grandpas ears. You know lah - stuff like that. Lets live in the real world ok. Do grow up.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4. “He is not a Malay supremacist, if anything, but a wandering diplomat who had no sense of superiority or arrogance towards others,” he says<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My comments : Well if you are in Italy, there is no such thing as an Italian restaurant. All restaurants are Italian. In the same way, during Hang Tuah's time, there were only Malays living here - with transient Indians, Arabs and Chinese traders passing through.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even if Hang Tuah felt supremacist, to whom would he have shown his supremacy? To the Javanese folks at Kampong Jawa by the Malacca River? Or the Kalinga folks folks at Tanjong Keling? Or the Mamak folks at Klebang (Keling Bang) in Malacca ? Or the Chinese folks at Lubok China? Why would Malay supremacists allow their land to be named Kampong Jawa, Tanjong Keling, Klebang (Keling Bang) and Lubok China? Can anyone explain this mystery. And no one has changed these names yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now we come to the Raj Karega Khalsa part. You can see the stickers in the rear windscreens of cars driven by many Sikh people in Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Raj Karega Khalsa means 'The Sikh Shall Always Rule'. In India, the Sikhs have an ongoing thing with the majority Hindus. They want to create a separate Sikh only nation called Khalistan. "Raj Karega Khalsa" is their Sikh nationalist slogan. (It has perhaps gone past them that a Sikh has now become the Prime Minister of Hindu majority India).<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The fact that many Sikhs in Malaysia still identify very closely with Sikh nationalism in India does indicate an identity crisis. The stickers on the rear windscreen just say the words Raj Karega Khalsa - they seem innocent enough, especially in Malaysia where only the Sikhs (and me of course) understand what they are saying. But here are more militant versions of the "Raj Karega Khalsa" slogan from the Net.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The character holding the sword and the AK47s do not exactly represent your friendly neighborhood milk supplier or trial lawyer. And those three handsome heavily armed guys are not security guards at the Gillette factory either.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But imagine if Hang Tuah or Perkasa did the same thing. They will certainly be accused of being racial supremacists. I am quite certain of this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think this 'Malay supremacy' thing has been stretched too far by the more racist folks among us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">यदि</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">मलायी</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> supremacist </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">थे</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">वे</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तुम्हें</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">फेंक</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">दिया</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">होगा</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">एक</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लंबे</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">समय</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सेपहले</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बस</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">म्यांमार</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">केन्या</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">और</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">युगांडा</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जैसे</span><o:p></o:p></div><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-68018974708727134902011-08-07T08:42:00.000-07:002011-08-07T08:42:40.300-07:00Anwar Can Travel The World to Present His Case, Whatever that is!Many bloggers follow closely what the opposition leader, DS Anwar Ibrahim has been doing. This has been so since he was out of the Mahathir's Cabinet. More than two decades past. And he is still searching for solution to his own problems, be it personally, politically etc. In actual fact, he is still a free man, travelling the world to meet his friends, and presenting his case. after all what are friends for, especilly in this time of need. Since his student days he has established a vast networking globally and has trusted friends in USA, Europe and in Southeast Asia. So what's wrong with that?<br />
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We should be giving him the benefit of a doubt. Truly we should. Let him go wherever he wants to go. Let him meet who he wants to meet. Let him decide what he needs from them. I m not sure whether his action supports claim by his most so-called enemies as an act of survival. One blogger reported that in one of the recent weeks, Anwar was seen in Indonesia and later in the Phillipines, meeting his friends. Again what's wrong with that. Some bloggers said that Anwar was alleged to have bad-mouthing, meaning saying bad things about Malaysia.<br />
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Even so, let those who listen to what he says make the final judgement. His friends are not just ordinary people. They re from all walks of life, from president-materials to veteran academicians. Thinkers and financiers. I am sure they will certainly listen and decide fot themselves whether Anwar is telling the truth or otherwise. These highly profiled people would have access to all kinds of information and will make the decision, unless of course they have interests and motives mutually.. Anywar, in life people do have interests, ambitions and sometimes even motives. Anwar is no exception.<br />
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The attitude of the current government for not interfering or seen as not interfering in whatever Anwar does is quite examplary. No big deal yeah, and let time decide its natural course. Let's hope the government, notably the Prime Minister . who has been patient all along, will remain so until Anwar finds a solution to his problem, whatever that is.<br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysian authorities accused 30 detained opposition members Monday of conspiring to overthrow the government and to revive communist ideologies after the activists were arrested ahead of a banned political rally. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Opposition parties and human rights groups insisted it was a ludicrous accusation aimed at demonizing activists planning a massive street demonstration on July 9 to demand greater electoral transparency. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The detention of the 30 and the allegations against them mark a dramatic escalation in tensions between the government - dominated for decades by the ruling National Front coalition - and its political rivals before the rally, which could become Malaysia's biggest in nearly four years. It comes ahead of national polls widely expected by mid-2012. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim urged police Monday to release them, calling the communist claim "a flimsy pretext." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Since Friday, police have detained about 80 people who were distributing political pamphlets, wearing T-shirts that promoted the planned rally or traveling to publicity events in various towns. Some were later released, but police obtained a court order to hold 30 activists for up to a week in northern Penang state. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">State police official Abdul Rahim Jaafar said late Sunday that the 30 - who include an opposition member of Parliament - were advocates of communist beliefs. He said they found in a bus with T-shirts bearing the names and images of key figures who waged a communist insurgency that ended in Malaysia decades ago. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The activists are being investigated under a rarely used law that makes it an offense to try to "wage war" against Malaysia's constitutional monarch. They face up to life imprisonment if charged and convicted. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Information Minister Rais Yatim said Monday that authorities needed to take stern action against those involved in the alleged plot, stressing that "communism is outlawed and not recognized in Malaysia," according to the national news agency, Bernama. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A group of independent political activists who are organizing next month's opposition-backed rally issued a statement Monday insisting its intention was not to oust the government but to "make the electoral system truly free and fair." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The arrest of activists was tantamount to a "stark and alarming lack of logic and common sense (that) will further tarnish our nation's image," the group added. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prime Minister Najib Razak has told Malaysians to avoid what officials would consider an illegal assembly next month, saying it was an opposition scheme to create chaos and undermine the government. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Other Cabinet figures made more ominous warnings. Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Sunday he could not rule out arresting rally organizers under a law that allows detention without trial if they threaten public security. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The activists' demands include overhauling voter lists and introducing transparent procedures for ballots to be cast and counted. The opposition has long accused Najib's ruling coalition of manipulating election results to preserve its nearly 54-year rule, but the government says current election laws are fair.<i><b>(Excerpt from the International Headline of Jakarta Post, 27 June 2011)</b></i>.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%;">Follow our twitter </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/jakpost" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%;">@jakpost</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br />
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_272810199"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span class="msoIns">The role of the MoU should be to smoothen processes and reduce areas that could create friction. Indonesia must regulate maid agencies on its end and ensure that there is no misrepresentation between what was promised and what is delivered. And Malaysia must ensure that all employers understand that a licence to have a maid is not a licence to treat her as a slave. But as one of the biggest importers of labour in Asia, it is also important that Malaysia assure all contributing nations that, in this country, rule of law reigns, and that justice will not be denied to anyone. We must go beyond mere MoUs and institute in law that domestic workers, foreign or local, are workers, too; and that laws and protections apply to them, too. (Excerpt from "Editorial", New Straits Times, 16 June 2011.)</span></span></span></a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_272810199"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></span></a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_272810199"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span class="msoIns"><i>Indeed! Indonesians, irrespective of their origins are human beings and they are coming to Malaysia in flock in search for work. This means that they are workers and therefore, breadwinners of their families. Whether they come legally or illigellay is beside the point. How I wonder that there are still this kind of people who look upon them as slaves and will treat them as part of their belongings. It just does not make sense. Or are we Malaysians think that we still live in the age of Roman gladiators. I just do not understand. I just don't! Sorry to say-lah!</i></span></span></span></a></b></div><div style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_272810199"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_272810199"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></span></a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_272810199"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></span></a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://www.afyassin.wordpress.com/"> Indomaids are workers too!</a></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-33794329608857551002011-05-26T05:36:00.000-07:002011-05-26T05:36:05.449-07:00INDONESIAN PRESIDENT BROKE HIS DECREE WHEN HE SPOKE IN ENGLISH OFFICIALLY !<div id="news-main"><br />
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President Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono's fondness for using English instead of Indonesian in his speeches at various national and international events has been highlighted by the media.<br />
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In several occasions such as the Asian Summit and the Non Aligned Movement conference, Yudhoyono entertained audiences with his fluency in English.<br />
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Law No 24/2009 stipulates that Indonesian was compulsory for the president, vice president and state officials in official speeches.<br />
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has broken his own rule by delivering official speeches in English, Constitutional Court chief Mahfud MD said on Thursday. <br />
Mahfud pointed out that it was not only the Constitution that the President violated, but also his own decree.<br />
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"A 2008 presidential decree says that Indonesian should be spoken at international meetings," Mahfud said.<br />
(Jakarta Post 26 May 2011).<br />
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<b>Surprised? Not at all. But in Malaysia, PM or other dignitaries have the freedom to speak their minds in English. Nobody seems to bother anymore, even though repeatedly they have been advised to speak Malay at official domestic functions. Never mind if their English is suspect. They must and will show that they are and must be seen eloquent. Forget the Malay language because it is only meant for the akar umbi in the kampungs and the "ceruk rantau." of the country. Or probably SBY of Indonesia wants to see Indonesian dignitaries speak English more often at any function. Come then, let's follow the Malaysian flavour. </b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On issues concerning the Malay-Muslim community, Mr Zainul said that (<i>although</i>) Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had felt that his remarks on Malays, Muslims and integration in his recent book, “Hard Truths”, did not affect the Malay support for the PAP negatively.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">However, Mr Zainul said Singaporeans need only ask the Malays and Muslims in the country. He said many were hurt by those remarks and remain so.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mr Zainul said this goes to show how easily the knots of racial harmony in the community can unravel.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mr Zainul added that while it is unlikely he will stand in the next election due to his age, he will leave it to the party to decide.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He will continue his involvement as Adviser to the Aljunied Grassroots Organisations. Mr Zainul also put to rest the issue of being offered the post of Speaker of Parliament.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He said he will not accept the offer even if the Prime Minister offered it to him.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There are provisions in the Singapore constitution to appoint a non-elected Speaker of Parliament.</span></span></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Comments:</span></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There were 40 Responses to “Zainul Abidin Rasheed: Malays and Muslims still hurt by MM Lee’s remarks”. Among others: </span></b></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CHANGE:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/05/13/zainul-abidin-rasheed-mm-lees-remarks-have-hurt-malays-and-muslims/comment-page-1/#comment-393789"><span style="color: blue;">May 13, 2011 at 4:42 pm</span></a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5369782339969998316&postID=2530852244865874950" title="Click here or select text to quote comment"><span style="color: blue;">(Quote)</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If the remarks in the “Hard Truth” hurts our Malay community, why no one highlight this to MM Lee?? Is it the FEAR FACTOR that exist within the ruling party beside to the people?? one wonder……</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Like or Dislike: <img alt="Thumb up" border="0" height="23" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image007.gif" width="19" /><span style="color: #009933;">36</span> <img alt="Thumb down" border="0" height="23" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image009.gif" width="19" /> <span style="color: #990033;">30</span></span></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When We Are United, We'll Never Be Defeated!!!:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/05/13/zainul-abidin-rasheed-mm-lees-remarks-have-hurt-malays-and-muslims/comment-page-1/#comment-393802"><span style="color: blue;">May 13, 2011 at 4:52 pm</span></a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5369782339969998316&postID=2530852244865874950" title="Click here or select text to quote comment"><span style="color: blue;">(Quote)</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Malays Muslims are still hurt of course in regards to Old Fart’s remarks towards them..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You dont have to be a genius to realise this..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Malays Muslims too have contributed and sacrificed alot for this country together with Sporeans of other races..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And to belittle them and cast doubts about them is a very very irresponsible act by Old Fart..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Malays have long memories.. and in the GE, its only right that they go against Old Fart for his stupid comments about them</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But sadly there are still quite a number of our Malay Muslims continuing to support Old Fart and the PAP..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zainul, Georgie Boy, Ah Hua, they are all paying the price now… thanks to their Big Boss Old Fart…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The more Old Fart opens his mouth, the more support Sporeans will give to the Opposition..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Like or Dislike: <img alt="Thumb up" border="0" height="23" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image007.gif" width="19" /><span style="color: #009933;">46</span> <img alt="Thumb down" border="0" height="23" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image009.gif" width="19" /> <span style="color: #990033;">31</span></span></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHY HE NEED GET 'SACKED' BY VOTERS, THEN 'OPEN' MOUTH TO SPEAK ABOUT THE 'UN-HAPPINERS':</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/05/13/zainul-abidin-rasheed-mm-lees-remarks-have-hurt-malays-and-muslims/comment-page-1/#comment-393805"><span style="color: blue;">May 13, 2011 at 4:56 pm</span></a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5369782339969998316&postID=2530852244865874950" title="Click here or select text to quote comment"><span style="color: blue;">(Quote)</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I guessed he’s afraid to tell the truth, as might get dumped from his 3.3million bucks pay by his ‘party’.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">BUT HE NEVER THOUGHT HE DID BE VOTED OUT BY HIS VOTERS.<br />
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A LESSON TO BE LEARNED BY ALL GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT HOLDER MPs.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Like or Dislike: <img alt="Thumb up" border="0" height="23" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image007.gif" width="19" /><span style="color: #009933;">38</span> <img alt="Thumb down" border="0" height="23" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image009.gif" width="19" /> <span style="color: #990033;">21</span></span></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">too late to open your mouth Zainul...:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/05/13/zainul-abidin-rasheed-mm-lees-remarks-have-hurt-malays-and-muslims/comment-page-1/#comment-393822"><span style="color: blue;">May 13, 2011 at 5:07 pm</span></a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5369782339969998316&postID=2530852244865874950" title="Click here or select text to quote comment"><span style="color: blue;">(Quote)</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Why only come out to say it now? You will not open your mouth if you won in Aljunied won’t you?. The Malay community would be happy if you continue to shut your mouth. Don’t be a munafik/hypocrite can or not? We are sick of you and the rest of the malay MP. And it comes from the bottom of our heart. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">You want to know what the community think of you? you are all not worth the pay you are getting. And let me ask you one thing the tv clip in 2006 election and the nomination day 2011 clip both showed you flashing that devil sign. are you a masonic follower? or you suka2 ikut orang buat. It is unbecoming of you as a malay muslim leader to behave that way and you are not exactly a spring chicken by any standard! REPENT!!</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-74643453298485047492011-05-05T08:17:00.000-07:002011-05-05T08:50:57.574-07:00SINGAPORE IS NOT A PRIVATE LIMITED GOVERNMENT SAYS THE ONLINECITIZEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6lL2eRAdqDU9HVUKiwyWZMIHE_fkC__5aduAv7X0-6mqbspAW_y6DgD76ShTTdMcWn5xVKoDZMBGbBR4W2Zoc1FH3B_DN27eXU0qmpwQ2-6BRDKYY3BQJNUFttYcKcZhHL0cHPnjXwd0/s1600/PM+Lee+Hsien+Loong+on+campaign+trail+last+night+45+mei+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6lL2eRAdqDU9HVUKiwyWZMIHE_fkC__5aduAv7X0-6mqbspAW_y6DgD76ShTTdMcWn5xVKoDZMBGbBR4W2Zoc1FH3B_DN27eXU0qmpwQ2-6BRDKYY3BQJNUFttYcKcZhHL0cHPnjXwd0/s320/PM+Lee+Hsien+Loong+on+campaign+trail+last+night+45+mei+2011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="background-color: white;">Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong during his campaign trail last night.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">nteresting! Yesterday I received two letters through e-mail, thought to be from Singapore prior to the Singapore General Election this weekend. The two letters were sent at 11.42 a.m Singapore time with a subject: </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Singapore Pte Ltd – a letter Posted by theonlinecitizen on April 25, 2011 </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i><br />
Samuel Lai</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;"> <br />
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Dearest PAP,<br />
You have been running Singapore like a business, like a corporation, where you are the top management, where the people of Singapore are your employees and where all other institutions like education, health and transport, are your subsidiaries. No sir, this is not Singapore Pte Ltd, and we are not working for you.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Every policy that you have come up with has been made with economic growth in mind, i.e., to increase profitability for Singapore Pte Ltd, with retained earnings going into the national reserves.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Our education model has been structured to produce a quality workforce so that we can contribute efficiently and effectively to the nation’s economic growth. You dispense with the arts and concentrate on the commerce and sciences. You bring in plenty of foreigners into our schools so that we have to learn to work and study harder in the face of more competition. And you have succeeded. We now work one of the longest hours in the world with low wages.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>This has been done at the expense of social costs. As human beings, we have needs to get married, to start a family, to have kids. As human beings, we have needs for work-life balance, needs for social activities, and needs for communal living. The culture and environment you have so delicately created have come at the expense of those needs. We don’t have time to play football and therefore we suck at it. Ok, in fact we suck at everything that does not make money. And we definitely suck at making children.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>When you look at our low fertility rate, which you have so created because of the environment you have made, you try to improve it by offering stop-gap solutions in baby bonuses and tax reliefs. And in fact, the reasons you want the fertility rate to rise is to continue providing quality workers to work for Singapore Pte Ltd, put more money into the reserves through taxes, HDB profits, consumption, investment, i.e. increase Singapore’s GDP.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>And of course, the other viable solution is to attract talented foreigners to fill up this institutional void. This causes another set of problems, like whether locals find it harder to get jobs, and whether these diasporic communities will take up citizenship, or leave without further contributing to birth rates. Well, what the hell, talented foreigners are always good for Singapore Pte Ltd.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>You privatize our transportation system. You couldn’t run such a basic necessity of a first-world country with the same efficient and effective fervor. So, running it as a private entity was the only viable way? You talk about health tourism. Is that what the health sector is about, making money from foreigners?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Once in a while you declare dividends (grow and share) to appease us, so that we don’t remove you from your managerial posts.<br />
Perhaps the most telling of Singapore Pte Ltd are the KPIs of top management. Our CEO, earning $3 million per annum, has his wages pegged to GDP growth, and so are the wages of the COOs, the CFOs, and the various department heads. Y our main motivation is Singapore Pte Ltd’s profitability. And given that at least 60% of Singapore’s GDP is contributed by Temasek Holdings and GIC, it certainly makes sense to increase the coffers of the national reserves.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>It’s all about economic growth, economic growth, and economic growth.<br />
However, countries are not just rated by economic growth. There are many other indicators that one may use to determine a country’s standing in the world, such as the purchasing power of the average citizen, the culture and ease of living, the efficiency of transportation, the range of quality education, the cleanliness of the streets, personal safety risks, and so on and so forth. You have undoubtedly excelled in some areas, but certainly not in others.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>You forget that Singapore is not a corporation, but a community of individual human beings who have feelings, who can discern between what is good for us and what is not, what is fair and unfair. We, who have basic needs to have a roof put over our heads, and food to eat, have willingly contributed to your goal of building up the nation’s economy not because we are your employees but because we want Singapore to prosper, to achieve the vision of a first-world nation in which its citizens do not have negative emotions of fear, fear to vote, fear to speak freely, fear of the struggles of putting food on our table.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>So, let me remind you, dearest PAP, that we have voted to put you where you are today. This makes us the shareholders. We are social beings, not economic assets. Together, we the citizens of Singapore own Singapore. It is us, the citizens, with our problems of rising costs of living, and not the profitability of the country that you have to care more about. And if you, dearest PAP, continue to run Singapore not as a nation of citizens but as a business, there will come a time when us, the shareholders, the real board of directors, vote you out and replace you with another managemen t team.</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i><br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
A shareholder of Singapore Pte Ltd</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">A cyber-leaflet campaign through social media meant for Singapore voters, perhaps! A reminder to Malaysian voters in the wake of the country's next general election, expected this year! Will Malaysians become shareholders of Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. if a political party having similar aspirations taking over the reign in Putrajaya? </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-63681670246982488212011-04-18T10:33:00.000-07:002011-04-18T10:33:20.704-07:00LEE KUAN TEW, 88, ANNOUNCED TANJUNG PAGAR CANDIDACY IN SINGAPORE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcBzOpPovafevQ7iN5O5RbTF_GO2aWhheHf5NhlSro7UUO791Y-WqRgeA4ykmPZMoWhMgIt6lfn71EsYQaHTJxe93ZRco2iA9b39_AdmFBBSiK4-ZezkreJ1ewha3QgwXMs8scRh6aTPh/s1600/lee+kuan+yew+temasek+review+2+mac+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcBzOpPovafevQ7iN5O5RbTF_GO2aWhheHf5NhlSro7UUO791Y-WqRgeA4ykmPZMoWhMgIt6lfn71EsYQaHTJxe93ZRco2iA9b39_AdmFBBSiK4-ZezkreJ1ewha3QgwXMs8scRh6aTPh/s400/lee+kuan+yew+temasek+review+2+mac+2011.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><b>Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at 88 still going strong to join his son's Cabinet should he win Singapore's coming General Election?</b><br />
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PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew has announced his candidacy in the coming general election despite rising public pressure on him to retire from politics for good. In a video posted on the PAP’s website, Lee said: “I am happy to be still representing Tanjong Pagar.”<br />
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At 88 years of age this year, Lee Kuan Yew now holds the record for the world’s oldest living minister and MP. Though he admitted that he is not doing much lately except ‘forecasting’, Lee still commands an annual salary of more than $3 million dollars, or five times that of U.S. President Barack Obama.<br />
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It is strange that the PAP has retired quite a number of its MPs in their forties and fifties while retaining the ’services’ of its oldest MP who was said to require the help of younger MPs such as Koo Tsai Kee to ‘help’ him out at his ward’s weekly Meet-the-People sessions.<br />
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Ironically, the 55 year old Koo Tsai Kee is retiring from politics after being an unelected MP in Tanjong Pagar GRC for twenty years.<br />
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In an online poll conducted on the Temasek Review Facebook, 289 respondents feel that Lee should not contest in the coming GE while 49 support his candidacy. (The Temasek Review, 18 April 2011.<br />
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<b>Comments: <br />
Well, As one reader calling hiself Brotherhood of the snake said,"PAP regime is Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Kuan Yew is PAP regime. The moment he has his last breath, PAP regime will follow him to the grave."<br />
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In Malaysia, long-serving politicins like Tok Guru Dato' Nik Aziz Nik Mat of PAS and Lim Kit Siang of DAP are following closely. These two politicians are still "young" compared to Lee's 88 years old. Tun Mahathir Mohamad has lons since retired, even though, people would love to say he still has great influence shaping the nation's political landscape while his "Che Det" blog continues to be followed. This is his voice. If age does matter, then the newly elected Sarawak CM, Pehin Seri Abdul Taib Mahmud is yet to reach his peak in Sarawak politics. He has a long way to go. another decade perhps, to lead his people and yet the oppposition leaders, DAP's Lim Kit Siang in particular wanted him out. <br />
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Wonder how these leaders, like Lim Kit Siang or Nik Aziz think of LKY's candidacy and his wish for another five more years. If LKY survives this coming General Election, which is most likely, he will certainly continue to serve his son's Cabinet, probably to be named as Senior Mentor Minister Lee Kuan Yew . <br />
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Another TM reader "Xmen" reacted to this story: "His (LKY) recent forecasts have failed quite miserably. Is he forecasting that he can serve another 5-year term? Most people would agree that’s unlikely to happen.Please RETIRE!"<br />
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</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-50073487484582351602011-04-01T09:10:00.000-07:002011-04-01T09:10:53.764-07:00THE ISSUE OF INTERLOK HAS BECOME MULTIRACIAL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF509SZ3UTWnF2ReKliY_-_u_PKBQT6pUaEcYCPWpBRn1uG_CNrcAxn0EHUXtTZ-IbMI0NI9mQ1NsUQn0GqFvXo1WbAK5Cw5_Vn7LgZkNAUJLUhZ7i5_9XdoPTyqP_yznXckr2fCsnUyof/s1600/najib+kiri+dan+muhyiddin+24+feb+2011+um.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="230" width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF509SZ3UTWnF2ReKliY_-_u_PKBQT6pUaEcYCPWpBRn1uG_CNrcAxn0EHUXtTZ-IbMI0NI9mQ1NsUQn0GqFvXo1WbAK5Cw5_Vn7LgZkNAUJLUhZ7i5_9XdoPTyqP_yznXckr2fCsnUyof/s400/najib+kiri+dan+muhyiddin+24+feb+2011+um.jpg" /></a></div><b>Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (right) orders Interlok editing. At right is Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak, the prime minister.</b><br />
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Civil society groups and other concerned individuals should not be taken in by Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s statement that the Interlok issue has been resolved. In fact, not only is it not resolved but compliance will mean that Interlok could well be extended from its present Zone 2 (Klang Valley) coverage thereafter to Zone 1, Zone 3 and Zone 4 in the rest of the country.<br />
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Interlok is a beach head for the Little Napoleons and other Ketuanan bureaucrats to impose their agenda of educational and cultural seppuku on a young captive audience.<br />
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Success in imposing Interlok will only encourage these ideologues to move further upstream and inject their indoctrination into the syllabus for the younger forms, and eventually in the primary school curriculum. The History and Moral subjects have already been tampered with. Currently the focus is on language and literature. What will be next?<br />
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Muhyiddin’s statement that nobody should politicize or exploit the issue by using NGOs is made in wilful ignorance. The fact is these organizations have been in the forefront of the campaign from the outset. It is not difficult for the Minister to determine the chronology of events with regard to the emergence and growth of public (but hardly any political) consciousness, concern and agitation on the book.<br />
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A quick glance at news and reports from the websites will show that civil society organizations such as NIAT, Hartal MSM, and the Centre for Policy Initiatives have provided analysis and public feedback for several months now on the unsuitability of Interlok.<br />
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The NGO concern is in sharp contrast to the lack of criticism on the book by public figures. Political parties from both Barisan Nasional and the opposition have been slow or reluctant to discuss the appropriateness of the book as a school text. While the Education Minister and his MCA deputy – the career politicians – have been adamant on its retention, why have the educationists and other Education Ministry officials been largely silent?<br />
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In NGOs voicing our concerns on key issues affecting our nation, we do not have any political affiliation or political axe to grind. Neither are we racially motivated because Malay and non-Malay, Muslim and non-Muslim groups are equally concerned as to whyInterlok is being retained when it is clearly in contravention of the Education Ministry and the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka’s own guidelines on textbook and literary work. The Minister should welcome our feedback and seek to engage with us rather than try to intimidate us.<br />
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Giving up on the campaign to have the novel discontinued as a compulsory SPM reading is the wrong message to send. Capitulating to the Ministry’s insistence will signal that we do not care for our education system to play a positive role in building social cohesion as is implicit in the 1Malaysia slogan.<br />
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NGOs and most particularly the parents should continue with even greater urgency and commitment to have Interlok removed from the classroom. The government has might on its side but might does not make it right. (From "Interlock Issue Is Not Resolved" by Dr. Lim Teck Ghee. 1 April 2011 http://www.blog.limkitsiang.com )<br />
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<b>Comment:<br />
Minister of Education, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will have a lot to say. And so will his deputy, Dr. Fuad Zakashi. Please explain to the public the details of what was discussed by the panel, whoever they were. And the outcome as clear as possible. <br />
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The Malays are confused. The Indians are confused and now the Chinese are confused. Interlok, which at first was a problem of one community (the Indians) now becomes multiracial. So, say something, honourable minister and settle it once and for all. Enough is enough. At the same time the government and the opposition alike should give due respect to Dato' Abdullah Huseein, the author. </b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-78473024759163250022011-03-30T18:30:00.000-07:002011-03-30T18:35:38.351-07:00NORA NAMA BESAR PERSURATAN YANG HAMPIR DILUPAKAN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfPiis8UQIzCYNmfmdawiHlz82QqPdU5WL6w9jTO6TXY7jw_P1iB1bXc_hwuq59yXQpPy666o0LmNc17MJcewn88kGrWkCNj9E_HLV5L7eWKxEJ3MyF1nbrDJKiaeOMvHKz81LSga59tV/s1600/nora+kann+dan+rajii+hadie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="226" width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfPiis8UQIzCYNmfmdawiHlz82QqPdU5WL6w9jTO6TXY7jw_P1iB1bXc_hwuq59yXQpPy666o0LmNc17MJcewn88kGrWkCNj9E_HLV5L7eWKxEJ3MyF1nbrDJKiaeOMvHKz81LSga59tV/s400/nora+kann+dan+rajii+hadie.jpg" /></a></div><b>PENULIS (kiri) ketika bertemu Pak Nora di rumahnya di Rawang, Selangor baru-baru ini.(foto: Utusan Malaysia.) <br />
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Perjalanan hidupnya panjang dan berliku. Beliau tersisih dari kehidupan dan rakan-rakan. Selepas zaman kemuncaknya dalam dunia sastera beliau kini menjalani kehidupan hari tua yang sepi. Kudrat untuk berkarya semakin susut ditambah pula ingatannya semakin berkurangan.<br />
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Demikianlah kenyataan hidup seorang sasterawan Haji Ali Haji Ahmad atau Nora yang pernah mencatatkan nama di persada dunia sastera negara ini.Pertemuan saya dengan Pak Nora kali ini amat berbeza dengan pertemuan dulu terutama ketika beliau masih bertugas di Utusan Melayu. Kini Pak Nora menderita akibat angin ahmar menetap di Taman Bandar Tasik Puteri, Rawang, Selangor. Pak Nora kini berusia 81 tahun, uzur dan menghidapi alzheimer, perlahan-lahan hilang daya ingatannya. Namun kudrat kemahuannya masih ceria dan bersemangat bercerita tentang sastera , dunia penulisan dan kewartawanan.<br />
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Pak Nora lahir di Kampung Sungai Mati, Muar, Johor pada 25 Jun 1927. Mendapat pendidikan Melayu dan Inggeris. Beliau pernah berkhidmat dalam pasukan polis (1951-1959) tetapi kerana minat mendalam dalam bidang penulisan, beliau diberhentikan.Kemudian berpindah ke Kuala Lumpur menceburkan diri dalam bidang kewartawanan di Utusan Melayu pada 1969 hingga 1982. Di samping menulis cerpen, beliau aktif menghasilkan drama (pentas, radio dan tv), novel dan esei. Antara novelnya ialah Puntung Hanyut (1965), Gelodak (1968), Gelandangan (1975) dan Kemarau di Hujung Daun (1977), lktikaf (1994) dan banyak lagi.<br />
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Pada tahun 1976, beliau memenangi hadiah ketiga mengarang novel anjuran GAPENA dengan judul Seribu Musim Kering. Cerpen-cerpennya terkumpul dalam kumpulan cerpen perseorangan, Di Kelopak Senja (1973) dan lain-lain lagi. Beliau pernah memenangi beberapa anugerah antaranya Hadiah Sastera Perdana Malaysia, Hadiah Sastera Kumpulan Utusan ExxonMobil dan Hadiah Karyawan Sastera Johor.<br />
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Hari ini Pak Nora meneruskan kehidupan yang yang di penghujung. Sejak enam tahun lalu isterinya, Maznah juga terlantar akibat angin ahmar. Dahulu isterinyalah yang membuat kuih-muih tradisional untuk Pak Nora menghantarnya ke gerai-gerai sekitar Ampang Jaya, Selangor. Kini keadaan sudah banyak merubah hidupnya. Kedua-dua mereka terlantar tidak berdaya dan mengharapkan bantuan orang untuk menguruskan hidup.<br />
Apakah dalam mengejar kebendaan masyarakat kita kini, tiada pihak yang menyanjungi insan yang menghasilkan banyak khazanah bangsanya? Saya berharap kita tidak hanya mengenangkan seniman kreatif setelah ketiadaannya. Semoga karya-karya beliau dapat dihayati oleh generasi muda dengan beberapa inisiatif yang boleh difikirkan bersama untuk dihadirkan kembali kepada khalayak.<br />
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Saya sebenarnya telah lama berhajat berkunjung ziarah ke rumah Pak Nora. Saya pernah ke rumah beliau di Ampang Jaya dan bermalam di situ pada tahun 1976 dahulu sewaktu melanjutkan pelajaran di Kuala Lumpur.Malah saya pernah berkunjung ke meja penyunting ruangan Sastera Utusan Malaysia/Mingguan Malaysia/Utusan Zaman ketika Pak Nora bertugas di sana. Pak Nora pada ketika itu berkhidmat sebagai wartawan dan penyunting akhbar Utusan Malaysia/Utusan Melayu di Jalan Chan Sow Lin , Kuala Lumpur.<br />
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Semarak obor semangat dalam bidang penulisan ketika itu dibajai hasil kunjungan ke pejabat Utusan Melayu sekaligus mendekati Pak Nora yang menjadi kebanggaan kampung halaman kelahiran saya di Johor. Kesan kunjungan itu karya-karya saya yang menggunakan pelbagai nama pena yang memaparkan pelbagai kisah kasih sayang dan masyarakat mendapat tempat di akhbar Utusan Malaysia dalam kolum Secebis Kisah yang dikelolakan Pak Nora. <br />
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Walaupun seribu musim datang dan pergi namun kenangan saya kepada Pak Nora tetap segar dalam ingatan. Kami saling berhubung sehinggalah beliau bersara daripada Utusan Melayu pada tahun 1982. Kemudian Pak Nora bergerak cergas dalam pertubuhan Al-Arqam dan mengasuh beberapa penerbitan Al-Arqam dan beberapa penerbitan lain yang bercorak keagamaan dan dakwah.<br />
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Kali terakhir saya menemui Pak Nora pada tahun 1987 di majlis baca puisi di UPM Serdang, Selangor. Selepas itu kami berpisah dan tidak kesempatan bertemu. Tetapi baru-baru ini saya berkesempatan berkunjung ke sebuah kedai buku dan menemui sebuah autobiografi kisah hidup Pak Nora yang disusun oleh Zakaria Sungip daripada Penerbitan Galeri llmu.<br />
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Pak Nora selepas bersara daripada Utusan Melayu lebih dikenali sebagai "Sasterawan Agama" yang terus menerus mengalirkan tintanya untuk dakwah dan tarbiah. Khalayak bukan hanya membaca fakta, cerita dan kenangannya tetapi turut juga merasakan detak dan nilai rasa, limpahan sungai pengalaman kehidupannya dan sama-sama merasai bahang keyakinan menerusi himpunan tulisan Pak Nora yang sarat dengan nilai dakwah dan tarbiah di media-media dakwah tanah air.<br />
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Saya berjaya menghubungi Zakaria Sungip di Galeri llmu dan daripada beliau akhirnya penulis dapat berhubung dengan anak Pak Nora dan menjelaskan keadaan beliau.(Petikan Utusan Malaysia, <b>Pak Nora tabah meredah sengsara</b> Rajiee Hadi, 27 mac 2011).<br />
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<b>Komen:<br />
Orang kata semakin lama kita meniti usia semakin banyak pengalaman mengajar kita. Asam garam hidup sudah semakin hilang masam dan masinnya. Hanya yang tinggal catatan kreatif suka-duka ketika meluahkan rasa dan perasaan. Demikian itu pula tokoh ternama Nora seperti yang diceritakan Rajiee Hadi di atas. <br />
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Apakah simpati hanyalah setakt membaca catatan Rajiee atau kita masih berupaya lebih daripada itu.Tidakkah terlintas dalam hati untuk sekadar menjengah bertanya khabar? Nora dalam keadaan uzur memerlukan dukungan moral, paling-paling. Tokoh ternama dalam bidng persuratan tanah air ini tinggal dekat, sekitar di Ibukota, iaitu di Taman Bandar Tasik Puteri,Rawang. Cuma alamatnya tidak dinyatakan kerana Bandar Tasik Puteri Rawang itu daerah yang luas. Malah Bandar Tasik Puteri itu sendiri kira-kira 12 km jauhnya dari pekan Rawang menuju ke Kuala Selangor. <br />
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Mungkin Rajiee Hadi boleh membantu memberitahu alamat Nora agar kawan-kawan penulis dapat menziarahi beliau. Dalam saat-saat beginilah Nora memerlukan kita. Minimum, kehadiran kawan-kawan dan peminat sastera akan membantu menghilangkan kesepiannya mengatasi "the deafening silence" yang membingarkannya saban ketika. <br />
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<b>PM Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak, kiri, bersama TS Muhyiddin Yassin, Menteri Pelajaran: Boleh elakkan konflik perkauman melalui cerita-cerita iktibar.<br />
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<i>Sebenarnya Melayu bangsa berani. Mereka berani berjuang hingga ke titisan darah terakhir apabila terdesak. Namun persekitaran Semenanjung Tanah Meayu yang aman, dan secara umum orang Melayu bukan bangsa yang 'warlike', bakat keberanian Melayu itu terpendam.<br />
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Zaman dulu-dulu orang Melayu berani membuat kapal dan belayar hingga ke Madagaskar. Ketika Jepun menyerang Tanah Melayu, Laftenan Adnan dengan hanya beberapa orang sahaja Rejimen Askar Melayu berjaya menyekat kemaraan tentera Jepun. Laftenan Adnan enggan menyerah dan mempertahankan Bukit Candu hingga mengorbankan nyawanya. Jepun sendiri kagum dengan keberanian beliau. Malah tentera British sudah lama cabut lari.<br />
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Hanya dengan 42 orang anggota, Laftenan Adnan yang kekurangan peluru berjaya membunuh 800 tentera Jepun dan menyekat kemaraan Jepun. Mereka lebih rela mati dari menyerah - satu sikap yang mana mencerminkan sifat Jepun sendiri.(Dipetik daripada Blog Sri Tri Buana, 27 Mac 2011).<br />
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Memang orang Melayu berani sejak dahulu kala. Ketika pemerintahan Kesultanan Melayu Melaka, ciri-ciri keberanian Melayu dirakamkan melalui penerbitan dan cerita-cerita lisan. Dua buku sejarah bangsa Melayu menampilkan ciri-ciri keberanian itu. Lihat <b>Sejarah Melayu</b> atau <b>Hikyat Hang Tuah</b>. Walaupun ada yang menganggap buku-buku sejarah ini lebih banyak mengandungi cerita mitos, terutama dalam <b>Hikayat Hang Tuah</b>, yang penting adalah moral ceritanya: Keberanian orang Melayu. Watak-watak wira dalam <b>Hikyat Hang Tuah</b>, misalnya menyamai watak-watak wira negara dalam sejarah Eropah, terutama dari Inggeris. <br />
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Untuk mengelakkan anggapan bahawa orang Melayu tidak mempunyai watak keberanian, ada baiknya cerita-cerita epik yang penuh keperwiraan dan keperkasaan di negara ini diketengahkan, dimasukkan sebagai buku bacaan wajib atau rujukan wajib dalam silibus di sekolah-sekolah rendah dan menengah. Paling-paling pihak Kementerian Pelajaran memilih judul-judul wira ini sebagai judul-judul wajib dalam mata pelajaran Sejarah atau Bahasa Melayu. <br />
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Semangat kewiran itu penting ditanamkan kepada anak-anak muda generasi hari ini. Hanya dengan cara ini pemikiran yang berbau politik dan berpihak dapat dipinggirkan. Rakyat Malaysia tidak rela disebut: Apabila orang Melayu bercakap tentang kaumnya, ia dianggap perkauman, tetapi apabila orang bukan Melayu bercakap tentang kaumnya, ia adalah "human rights". <br />
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Sudah sampai waktunya untuk semua rakyat di negara ini bercakap dalam satu bahasa, sebgai rakyat yang cintakan keamanan dan kedamaian. Dan tidak terikut-ikut dengan rentak sosio-politik negara luar.Kementerian Dalam Negeri, terutamanya perlu lebih tegas mempastikan setiap hak individu di negara ini terjamin keselamatannya, bebas daripada sebarang sengketa atau konflik perkauman. </b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5369782339969998316.post-3925263529846756022011-01-07T17:17:00.000-08:002011-01-07T17:17:52.918-08:00TOK BAH ONLINE: THE JAKARTA POST: AFF CHAMPIONSHIP - TO MALAYSIA WITH LOVE<a href="http://alongabe.blogspot.com/2011/01/jakarta-post-aff-championship-to.html">TOK BAH ONLINE: THE JAKARTA POST: AFF CHAMPIONSHIP - TO MALAYSIA WITH LOVE</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0