A CONCERT TO REHABILITATE RELA?

On July 6, 2007 Rocky put up this posting:

For Muslim women only. For exposing her arms while singing for a living, Siti Nor Idayu has been ordered to appear before the Syariah Court. She will be charged with"exposing her body" during a performance and "encouraging immoral activities". [Singer held over dressing, thestar online, 6 July] Did Siti Nor Idayu (pic) expose her body and encourage immoral activities? I wasn't there so I won't know. But I am tired of this Apartheid. Some Muslims in this country derive pleasure from shaming other Muslims and you'd note that these happen only to the lower caste Muslims. They are never going to order the Muslim directors in Malaysia Airlines to appear before the Syariah court for allowing liquor to be flown and consumed on board, for example. Or are they? There are a thousand other better ways if religious department still want to help promote a good image for Islam. Without shaming the Muslims, including those who are just having a good time and not hurting anyone.

Of course good sense prevailed and she was absolved but of course with some 342 warnings on the do's and dont's. (That bit I got from Hantu) Well, this is about the Religious Moral Police.

But now we have another called RELA, the Secular Moral Police, trademark cloak and dagger antics include hiding in dark corners and bushes to apprehend anyone digressing from the moral code in dressing and touching. Shanghai Fish, always and easily angered by any dickheads who cross the line by infringing into our private lives fumed over this here

PEOPLE, REMEMBER I AM SAYING THIS TODAY:

In the not too distant future, the hundred thousands of RELA will soar the POSTAL VOTES.

But I always believe in giving people a second chance. In the case of RELA would rehabilitation help. If I were to get sponsors to bring this singer from an Arab land it may help change their perspective and to re-engineer their image. If you people think it is worthwhile, let me know. We have a few sponsors lined up.

People I present Nancy Ajram, singing Entah Eih
(this YouTube was dedicated to me by a friend now residing with hubby and kids in Qatar on Facebook.Thanks Nanie)

SITTING ON A PILE OF DURIANS?

Zorro breaks his promise about blogging on things positive this week....but national interest prompts this post:

Yes it is 3.53am 17 January but the only way to get Hantu off my back is to blog about the story he threw into my face. I told him I was not going to write about the RCI because I was not there. He shot back at me: "I was there". I could not argue with that because Hantu has been hovering invisible (remember he is a hantu) and incognito throughout the sessions. "His body language was awful but telling." "Whose body language?" I asked. "That Tan Sri Haidar, who else." "And what has body language of the Head of the RCI got to do with the procedings?" I asked sleepily. That's when Hantu unraveled the day's episode. It started when ex-Bukit Bintang MP and lawyer Wee Choo Keong asked ACA Chuah if she questioned Lingam's brother Karasu in her investigation. That was when an agitated Haidar displayed his poor body language and asked Wee what was so important about his question. He was fidgety and was intensely tense, his body language revealed. Body Language experts say that when you fidget, your non-verbal language is declaring silently: I want to find something better to do; or I don't like what is happening; or We are sinking into deeper waters; or "Shit.....trouble is brewing." Experts interpret that when a person shows signs of being tense, the message loudly says: I am not comfortable with this....."

Wee pointed that as early as 5 March, 1998 his client Karasu was questioned by the ACA and again on 12 March, after which he was detained for 5 days and released on 17 March 1998. Evidently ACA Chuah was not aware of this. Wee then pointed out that late last year his client had made another police report detailing intimate knowledge of his brother's dealings with former Chief Justice Eusof Chin. As such Wee was offering his client as a witness to the Royal Commission. This is when the head of the RCIgave the impression to the packed room that he was sitting on a pile of durian! I remember reading this in the Sun: RCI chairman Tan Sri Haidar Mohamed Nor told theSun today it is good that people are willing to come forward and offer their help in the case.

But this did not seem to be the case yesterday during the hearing. He appeared to prevent Karasu from being a witness. After some whispering from Shanker, Haidar granted Wee leave to represent Karasu during the proceedings but Karasu's appearance as a witness is still in question.

It is terribly perplexing that here is somebody offering himself as a witness and yet a subpoena is not forthcoming. To me this is a shifty shift. The intent of this Royal Commission, commissioned by the King, is to clean up once and for all the mess the judiciary is embroiled in and it looks like roadblocks are put up to prevent the march to justice(pun intended, definitely). Isnt the RCI out to get the truth? As such Karasu should be subpoened as a witness. As a layman I ask why is the commission so reluctant to subpoena Lingam's brother as a witness? What is the head of the RCI afraid of? Are there things still closeted?

I am not being mischievous, but I too want this whole judiciary mess overhauled and running unhindered again....for the future generation that is. I produce here what happened during the Tun Salleh Abas affair over a hidden seal:

The Supreme Court Judges [Wan Suleiman, George Edward Seah, Azmi Kamaruddin, Eusoffe Abdoolcader and Wan Hamzah] who held the sitting were suspended on 6 July 1988. In their press statement made on the same day of their suspension, they said the following: -

“We would add that when we sought to sit in court, we were informed by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Haidar bin Mohd Noor, that instructions have been given by Tan Sri Abdul Hamid bin Haji Omar, the Acting Lord President, that none of the court staff should be present in court and the court doors should not be opened and we should not have the use of the facilities of the court including the Seal of the Supreme Court. In those circumstances, it even became necessary for Tan Sri Wan Suleiman himself as the presiding judge to sign the order which we made which in fact should have been the duty of the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court.”

You tell me, isn't this exasperating? This RCI job is of national interest and transparency should be the order of the day! Intriguing? "looks like it, sounds like it"....CORRECT, CORRECT, CORRECT? The common man rest their case, your Honor.

dang! too early for a single malt....coffee at 5.31am will do....thick and black...no sugar please.

ME, QUITE SAFE REALLY!

I will stick to my promise to dispense only positive postings even though I got a whacking from a commentator called JOHARI. It was about my blog on HUGS. He took huge umbrage but he got equally whacked by some of this blogs readers.

I dont think I will get whacked with this posting:

To all friends with love

R U O VER 50?

Subject: PERKS OF BEING OVER 50 (italics mine)

1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.(they know that i am unemployed)

2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.(never heard of charm?.....ask MarinaM.)

3. No one expects you to run--anywhere.(try, point me to the nearest watering hole.)

4. People call at 9pm and ask, " Did I wake you ???? "(applicable after 4am when Tony McGyver Yew drops me home.)

5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.(stop being verbose, my uncle was a monomaniacal nimrod with piscatorial propensities and his wife is a tonsorial artistes....whose father in law is a .....shucks forget it)

6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way. (when there is nothing more to learn it means you cannot attain the hard situation)

7. Things you buy now won't wear out.(certain things you buy, you just throw away, unless you are a recycle freak.)

8. You can eat dinner at 4pm...(more like 3.00am when Ah Loy's Casino brings down the shutters...duh)

9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.....(of the amber colored juice...got it?)

10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans .(I dont belong to this caste)

11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.(driving you mean?..I thought it had to do with the amber tonic)

12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.(me I hold UP my huge chest that keeps slipping down.)

13. You sing along with elevator music.(never met this animal before)

14. Your eyes won't get much worse.(it can light up depends on stimulation of an alluring genre.)

15. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.(no worry here I piggyback on Mrs. Zorro's pension)

16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.(havent come to this yet....but it will if I abstain too long from the amber lubrication)

17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either .(Where got secrets? My life is so open I dont know where to hide the privates)

18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.(maybe in 20 years time.....frequent gushing at appointed venues activate the cells....u bet)

19. You can't remember who sent you this list. (sure I can....he is bald but cant take his eyes off anything with long hair....girls included)

And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience. (I wear them testicles....oops specticles for cosmetic effect....u dont know meh?)

HAVE A NICE DAY ALL YOU PEOPLE BELOW THE AGE OF REASON (below 50 that is!!!!)

HINDRAF DID IT! SYABAS,SYABAS,SYABAS!

HANTU RESTING BUT EVER ALERT

People....remember Hantu, my trusted courier of good news, bad news and in-between news. Since Parliament is in recess he has been assigned to Camp Kamunting, suburbia of Taiping and hometown of Shanghai Fish and truthfully yours.

Lets begin with the IN-BETWEEN NEWS: It is not known when Pak Lah our PM will make this announcement about......

The BAD NEWS is that Sam de Velu, the avowed Champion of the Indians (but not necessarily of Hindraf) will not make the announcement about.......

The GOOD NEWS.....Hindraf has subtly hinted to Hantu that THAIPUSAM WILL BE DECLARED A NATIONAL HOLIDAY before 23rd January.

SYABAS, SYABAS, SYABAS.....NEVER WAS SO MUCH DONE BY SO FEW FOR SO MANY!

Zorro and Hantu rejoice with my Hindu brothers and sisters and this popular Kavadi song is fondly dedicated to the Kamunting Boys.

WE ARE MALAYSIANS (Thank you Steven)

I told myself that this coming week is gonna be a good week.....nothing negative will happen in our country. Everybody will do their bit to make this country more livable, more lovable and that those 2 guys will come back to Malaysia from Spain with the Lingam tapes intact. International potographer Steven Lee, who took and featured my profile foto in his recently published book "Malaysians", now currently based in London sent me this YouTube and I thought it most appropriate to start off this week.....but one warning to the moral police in case they are lurking: keep off and fuck off our turf.....WE ARE MALAYSIANS HUGGING MALAYSIANS.

OLE, OLE

OLE, OLE. That's Spanish I'll have you know. Nothing to do with old England as in 'ole days.....more like our BOLEH. So what is the sudden special interest in Spain? Simply because Malaysia is now looking towards Spain for an answer to the mother of all questions: Is the Lingam tapes authentic? I thought the three men panel gave the stamp of authenticity ? Now we have the Royal Commission commissioning Spain to help us. Even the daily UMNO newsletter grudgingly asked why of all place Spain. The RC has sent two guys to make sure that the tapes are not lost in translation.....ooopppps ....lost in transition! I know that Spain is famous for their gourmet bull's scrotum that comes in only two sizes....depending on who wins in the bull fights.

Did the threesome who did the initial investigation ask Lingam if he was the one on the video. If he answered affirmative, why are we sending the tapes to Spain?

Remember my friend Bob who said that it is safer to be a Buddhist monk in Burma than to be a whistle-blower in Malaysia! He was mad as mad can be when we discussed this over 'that" last night. In exasperation he said it was better to send the tapes to Disneyland....show it to Mickey Mouse, Pluto and Snow White.....at least if it is not authentic, the two guys can sell the tapes to Disney and make the trip worthwhile.

PEOPLE, DO YOU ALL SMELL A RAT....FROM WHERE YOU ARE?

PEOPLE OF MALAYSIA
GET READY
TO
BE
GORED
WHILST
THE
WHOLE
WORLD
WATCH.

THIS SURE GONNA BE A FIELD DAY FOR DRAMA SCRIPT WRITERS....GO GUYS....GO AT IT.

MUSA, MOBILISE YOUR FORCE....OR GET THE FCUK OUT OF OUR FACE.

Yesterday's connectivity was the pits....from home to PJClub and finally to a StarBucks outlet and there was not time to surf blogosphere. And this morning we have 50,000 posters announcing the abduction of another little girl, NINI.
The bitter taste have not left us because Nurin's killer is still at large, lurking, leering and jeering at our Royal Police Force (has it occurred to anyone that it is about time the word "Royal" should be expunged. Downright insult to all our ex-Kings and our current King, if you ask me!).
Of course we Malaysian will do our best to help bring Nini back to her family. Is putting up posters sufficient? I say M O B I L I S E your whole force MUSA. Tell your guys for the next few days stop lurking in hidden areas to catch traffic offenders, or spend hours at mamak joints for free lunch, etc......get all your squad cars on the road, your four-wheelers into the off-road tracks....yes even your black-maria trucks.....get everyone of your elite Special Branch on the job.....even your helicopters......yes tell Othman Talib of Web Power to let you use the30 helicopters as goodwill otherwise no dice re the conflict-of-interest sale. Get your officers off their butt.....those spending hours questioning those who donated to Hindraf Enterprise.
And don't forget, the water canon and tear-gas troops, the Blues that is.....this is the test of their mettle. It is child's play banging on their plastic shields and shooting from a distance. Get them to do a man's job for a change or they will turn sybaritic. What was it that Churchill said....never has so many done so little......blehhhhhh.***

*** one exception though....do not include the Police Band...we need them for the celebration when Nini is returned to us.

Tell us thru the MSM what you will be doing.....never mind if they exaggerate a bit.....if it is just to get Nini home safe. Tell us your action-plans and be quick about this.....the clock ticks and we want to make sure that Nini's heart continues to tick.

Maybe these are not under your command....but use your powerful influence....get those RELA dickheads to do some work instead of bullying migrant workers. Most of the time these RELAx. Anyone believe me when I volunteer that the quality of your people reflects the quality of your organisation? Well that is another story for another day.

Mus, I know it is tougher to go after an unseen abductor than sitting-duck -marchers, but you got to try, buddy. May the Force be with you....

meanwhile

we

wait

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POLICE FORCE,

this....

shucks, bit too early for a single.....but lets see how things develop....maybe we have a celebration if there are some breaking news.....Musa.....I love to celebrate, I'd like you to know.....but with performers.

HOGWASH IT IS AND NOTHING MORE, NOTHING NEW!

"GET RID OF THE SHIT....BEFORE IT HITS THE FAN BEFORE MARCH" ordered an infuriated Prime Minister.

Did the PM really said that? He would have, but the spin-masters, fully aware of the frail sensibilities of Malaysians and hoping to sustain the feel-good ambience they have concoted printed this: "The frank and forthright manner in which Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi raised the issue of the rising crime rate has won the praise of Malaysians. The Prime Minister also struck the right note in proposing measures to improve crime prevention" reported the NST (Lee Shi-ian and Regina Lee....I know you did not write that, although you compiled the story.....no I am not asking for apologies for not mentioning your by-line).

The PM got a report from Bukit Aman and he became agitated and volunteered measures.....like a more visible police presence.....CCTVs in high-density areas......district police chiefs to hold regular meetings with residents.....etc...etc....etc....(some other miracle proposals that we are quite tired of hearing). And what has Lee Lam Tai vice-president, Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) and former member of the Royal Commission on the Police Force has to say:

'Quite a number of these measures have been proposed before, but it’s better late than never. We hope that these measures are implemented as soon as possible.'

And what has Bakri Musa to add:

'To me the greatest threat to national security is not those sexual scandals that were exposed rather those that are still secret. They would then be a much more formidable weapon.'

But nobody admonishes as well as Citizen Nades:

Wastage of public funds and breaking the law are as bad as being caught in bed with a woman other than your wife.

What about the Selangor Economic Development Corporation (PKNS) which admitted in open court that it cut hills and destroyed greenery with impunity? It paid a fine of RM330,000 but what about the directors and the general manager?

They are all sitting on their high horses pretending that nothing had ever happened. Its chairman, despite all the complaints and the rebuke by the Prime Minister, had the audacity to tell Malaysians: “Semuanya Ok!”

What about Datuk Zakaria Md Deros? Let’s not fault the Datin for applying for the land to build the palace in Port Klang. Anyone can apply for state land, but what about the members of the State Executive Council who approved the alienation of the land way below market prices?

What about the president of the Klang Municipal Council who did nothing as the structure came up without approval? Did anyone have any honour or morals or for that matter, decency, to stand up and say: Yes, I erred. I apologise and I resign?

No. They all played the game of passing the buck, which has become the national pastime of our politicians. To them, it is not their fault but someone else’s fault.

What about Zakaria himself? His answer: The people still support me. How did he come to that conclusion? Did he enlist the services of Gallup or AC Nielsen? No. He happens to be the uncrowned king of Klang and he’s untouchable as far as Mr Semuanya Ok is concerned. No shame. No morals, no ethics. Period.

Going by Chua’s standards, the General Manager of the Port Klang Authority would have been an ex-civil servant six months ago.

From Day One, the plan to build a free trade zone a’la Jebel Ali in Dubai was a disaster. Even the purchase of the land was nothing less than scandalous. Today, Malaysian taxpayers have to pay for the cost of the inefficiency, lack of foresight and the manner in which contracts were entered into. It’s not small change or rojak money as one former finance minister described his foray into the stock market. We are talking big bucks – RM4.6 billion and yet, no one has come forward to explain, let alone take responsibility for this colossal loss and do the most honourable thing. Instead, they are all running helter-skelter looking for spin doctors to do damage control.

Similarly, those responsible for the diversion of Telekom Malaysia shares meant for Maika Holdings to private companies are still around, pretending nothing has happened. One is happily domiciled in Australia, popping into Malaysia on and off. At least two others are sitting in Parliament and another is a municipal councillor. But where’s their conscience and can they sleep soundly? No one talked about resignation, no one talked about accountability. They will continue to rule the roost while the rakyat – some clueless and apathetic – continue to suffer.

Now just listen to what these apple-polishers have to say over the PM's remarks:

Datuk Amir Sulaiman, Former Police Management Director: The Prime Minister was right to release the crime index as it shows that the government is indeed being transparent. The figures merely indicate that we all have to work together to tackle the problem.

Abdul Latif Mohd Som, Chairman, Penang Taman Tun Dr Ismail Residents Association: The Prime Minister was right in giving the bare facts. It is time for the public to discard the 'tidak apa' attitude and join the police in fighting crime.

Deputy IGP, Datuk Ismail Omar: If the relationship between the public and the police is strained or estranged, then a vital source of information to solve crimes is lost...."

HEY PEOPLE, THEY ARE NOW BLAMING US FOR NOT CO-OPERATING AND THAT IS WHY CRIME IS ON THE UPTREND.....SOUNDS FAMILIAR....THE BUCK DOES NOT STOP THERE.....IT IS THROWN BACK AT YOU PEOPLE. YOU UNGRATEFUL MALAYSIANS.

OK IF YOU A-SMOOCHES WANT TO KNOW THE REASON WHY WE THINK 40 TIMES BEFORE WE COOPERATE WITH YOU.....IT IS BECAUSE WE DO NOT TRUST THE POLICE. IMPLEMENT THE IPCMC. AND FOR GOOD MEASURE GO AFTER THE ABOVE CASES HIGHLIGHTED BY NADES, THEN MAYBE WE MAY TRUST YOU........AND HOW ABOUT INVESTIGATING THE MOLEST CASE BROUGHT AGAINST THE 70 YEAR OLD UNCLE OF MB OF SELANGOR BY A 45 YEAR OLD LADY IN TG KARANG. LOST THE REPORT? I CAN MAKE A COPY FOR YOU. AND WHAT IS THE LATEST ABOUT NURIN'S MURDER? DONT WASTE YOUR TIME GOING AFTER US WITH YOUR WATER CANONS WHEN WE WALK IN PEACE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE. USE YOUR WATER CANNONS AND TEAR GAS TO FLUSH OUT THE IKAN (scavenger fish) BEDUKANG SWIMMING SO FREELY IN OUR "POLLUTED" WATERS. ABOVE ALL PROVE TO US THAT YOU DESERVE OUR COOPERATION.

Dang it....why am I getting stressed over this ......time for a MALT....Loy, make it a double and no water please.