Tuesday, September 21, 2010

TUESDAY'S PICK - 05

YESTERDAY I had decided to include Syed Akbar Ali’s posting “The one and only problem” in my TUESDAY’S PICK . It is not now possible as “Visiting this site may harm your computer.” However, let me volunteer the gist of Syed’s post. He bemoans the sad fact that despite all the help, the ATTITUDE of recipients have resulted as wasted effort. A teacher of mine Tan Teik Hooi of St Xavier’s gave us this advice. I have during my teaching years, and later as a trainer, drummed this into my students and seminar participants this same adage:

It will be your ATTITUDE and not just your APTITUDE

that will decide on the ALTITUDE you want to achieve.

As such I can relate to Syed Akbar Ali’s apprehensions. I have shared mee-rebus at Maria’s table with Syed. I was honored when he autographed for me his “Club of Doom”.

I take this occasion to post his good friend Raja Petra’s take on his posting:

Yes, Syed, I agree with you that the Malays need help. But it is not the kind of help that you are thinking about. The help the Malays need is to help them free their minds from outdated religious superstition and from the belief in folklore and myths, which they have accepted as the indisputable word of God.

MUST CONTINUE HERE.


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While MACC has framed the note as Beng Hock’s suicide note, I find it too far to be so, at least semantically in Chinese. .... They must be badly advised by someone lousy translator to mean “Good bye”. And MACC jumped on it and turned the simple status update note as a suicide note. What a fatal mistake.

If it were indeed a suicide note and Beng Hock indeed wanted to bid his final farewell, he would use the term (“farewell forever”) or even 来生再 (“see you in the next world/life”), as any typical Malaysian Chinese would.

THE REST HERE

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sensible analysis by airkosong but doubtful it will be of any help. Given up hope on the Malaysia judiciary to do the right thing ... too tired ... see you later.

new fart said...

Bro, don't anyone believe a word these MACC guys are trying to spin. Don't you agree that it's all a bloody show with them dancing around the fire weeks in & weeks out in cahoots with the AG and the Judiciary? Shameful lah! Even my three-year old nephew can guess who did this atrocious and despicable act. It's an insult to our intelligence!!!

Anonymous said...

those chinese-ed understand this is NOT a suicide note which has back-fired the macc !

Read said...

Don't people ever read (carefully). The note has not yet been verified as Beng Hock's and here all of you are talking like it is already an established fact.

Anonymous said...

Sad to say by looking at the local malay movies you will see those kapcai mentality and attitude is perpetuating the malay dilemma...

Yet Finas is still funding them to syiok sendiri. David Teo got no complain when he laugh to the bank.

自己爽 said...

The 1.4 trillion ringgit Economy Transformation Plan (ETP) unveiled by the Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak is as good as the pie in the sky. With the National debt nearly hit RM400 billions and a consecutive 15 years of National Budget deficit, to rely on BN Government to implement the plan is most unreliable and unrealistic.

The people must aware that 60% of the ETP rely heavily on Foreign Direct Investment(FDI), which means that Malaysia must attract RM840 billion FDI in the next 10 years, an annual target of RM84 billion for 10 consecutive year. Bare in mind that FDI flowed into Malaysia in 2009 is only RM4.4 billions. Does anyone with the right mindset could expect the FDI to be increased 20 folds every year compare to 2009? Plucking the figure from the air, perhaps this is what the “1 Malaysia” Government is doing now.

自己爽 said...

The 1.4 trillion ringgit Economy Transformation Plan (ETP) unveiled by the Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak is as good as the pie in the sky. With the National debt nearly hit RM400 billions and a consecutive 15 years of National Budget deficit, to rely on BN Government to implement the plan is most unreliable and unrealistic.

The people must aware that 60% of the ETP rely heavily on Foreign Direct Investment(FDI), which means that Malaysia must attract RM840 billion FDI in the next 10 years, an annual target of RM84 billion for 10 consecutive year. Bare in mind that FDI flowed into Malaysia in 2009 is only RM4.4 billions. Does anyone with the right mindset could expect the FDI to be increased 20 folds every year compare to 2009? Plucking the figure from the air, perhaps this is what the “1 Malaysia” Government is doing now.

Anonymous said...

Not only has Jibby's administration failed to take action against two school principals for hurling racial slurs at their non-Malay pupils, one of them has returned to work at her Kedah school.

Anonymous said...

Pemandu unveiled ambitious plans to boost its economy by mobilising hundreds of billions of dollars of private investment, although questions remained over whether the money would materialise.

Will the money fall from heaven???

The plan does not provide a clear sense of where the money is coming from. A lot of these numbers are pie in the sky.

Anonymous said...

MACC should get someone in the Chinese Language Department of a local university to translate the alleged Beng Hock's note in a meaningful way to avoid confusion.

Anonymous said...

Zorro,

I have just read on M2Day that RPK's son Raja Azman has been acquitted.

In that article, I also read this:
"He was held at the Sungai Buloh prison until blogger Bernard Khoo, who is a friend of Raja Petra's, posted on March 2 this year a RM10,500 bail."


Thank you Zorro...I am impressed by your magnanimous heart. Very admirable.

Siebel

Fresh Fart said...

My main concern with Najib's ETP is the shift from FDI to DDI. Under the ETP, dependence on DDI would increase to 75%. According to the PM's Department, the DDI would be funded from the 12 percent surplus between savings and investment as a share of GDP.

In other words, we are using our domestic savings (the likes of EPF, Socso, etc) to increase investment and hence domestic aggregate demand and private consumption. How sustainable is this over the long run to raise the income of the population?

We can only do this over a specific period of time and after that we may no longer be able to rely on this. We need to build capacity through innovation and export the products and services through out the world. You may do that through better quality products (eg, Japan) or through cost advantage (eg, China). I don't think over reliance on DDI is the answer here. It will take a lot longer time.

bumi-non-malay said...

Malaysian Fail to realise that this UMNO run MACC job is to make this Inquiry a Farce....so that the result would not hold credibility and Everyone is Forgiven. Problem is we are distracted by side shows and someone son was thrown out the balcony and murdered.....

Those few people who interrogated Teoh are being revealed....their lives would be a Hell in Malaysia unless they come clean and admit to murder. So far the UTK who blew Altantuya are also known but their destiny on the rope is being prolonged.....these are people who thinks money can buy everything even to Heaven......Lets hope all you murderers walk safely home and enjoy life.......

As for MACC - the sooner the build disappear the better it is for Malaysia. They are just bureaucrats to protect the powers to be of UMNO Racist and those BN little Dogs.....Next time there will be no compromise on who gets sent to Jail. The time of Goodwill and Charity have gone...that day was when the Perak Fiasco happened.....

new fart said...

Com'n fellows, you seriously think that they are going to hang those 2 fall guys? Why would you think they hid their faces so tightly during court proceedings so that no one can get a good glimpse of them? There are too many faceless people on death row and how easy would it be to hang 2 inmates and proclaim that they were those 2 fellows?! For crying out loud, they probably have been paid millions already and have now dived into the sea of many faces of their own lots in Indonesia!

flyer168 said...

Bernard,

What else is new in Bolehland under Jibby, his Arty Farty Cronies (including Brother Nazir/CIMB?) & their "Con-Sultans"?

Just to share this...

PM Najib’s Cronies and their Related Companies - http://www.financetwitter.com/...lated.html

"Apr 03 2009 Everyone knows whenever there’s a change to the premiership not only political landscape changes but also the stock-market landscape. When Mahathir called it a day in 2003 almost immediately his cronies listed companies were affected. The same goes to Badawi although his departure doesn’t have the same impact due to his short-term in office. And now with Najib Razak as the new Prime Minister naturally his cronies or rather those who are closely linked to him are instantly on investors or punters’ radar.

Malaysia politics and business model is rather unique because you will see both scratching each other for survival and prosperity. This is something that foreign investors found rather hard though amuse to accept or understand, not to mention frustration due to escalating in business operating costs..." Unquote.

ETP – Wishful Thinking Against Reality Hidden from You - http://www.financetwitter.com/...m-you.html

"Sep 23 2010 Malaysia’s economy is set to skyrocket to a super-impressive level in just another 10-year, thanks to an economic road map involving investments of about US$444 billion (RM1.3 trillion) to power the country towards becoming a high income economy by 2020, provided you believe this is not another Mother of all Slogans gimmick to create feel-good factors before the next snap election.

Minister in PM Department and Pemandu CEO Idris Jala claimed the so-called ETP (Economic Transformation Programme) would triple the country’s GNI from RM660 billion to RM1.7 trillion.

It was definitely a blockbuster presentation by Idris with all the buzzwords such as ETP, GTP, NKEA, NKRA, SRI, NEM and whatnot thrown in..." Unquote.

What Is It - The Economic Transformation of Malaysia - A Roadmap, A Plan, A Programme, A Blueprint? (22/9/10) - http://futurefastforward.com/feature-articles/4229

Another "Jaguh Kampung Syok Sendiri Pre Election Exercise"

While Bolehland & its citizens "Burns"!

Next to share this...

Gerald Celente: US Economy = Depression - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...r_embedded

RTAmerica | September 17, 2010 "Famous investor and billionaire George Soros referred to the US economy as "blah," saying he expects a further slowdown. US President Barack Obama has insisted however that the US economy is heading in the right direction. Gerald Celente, the director of the Trends Research Institute said the economy is not just blah, it's in a depression. It's the summer of the greatest recession," he said." Unquote.

Gerald Celente explains Why Gold continues to Rise - http://www.pakalertpress.com/2...s-to-rise/

Gold continues to Rise
Video: Gerald Celente explains Why Gold continues to Rise

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time - http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Is Bolehland "Padded" with any Contingency Plan for the inevitable 2nd Financial Tsunami?

Eat your heart out "Sheeple!"

You be the judge.

Cheers.

Anonymous said...

What's your Hantu has to say about the casino in Sabah?

Anonymous said...

Everybody knows what MACC is set up for.