How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Government fed by the people

Government fed by the people

Career options

Career options
I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?

When there's too much dirt...

When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.

Prevent bullying now!

Prevent bullying now!
If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)

Thursday, November 29, 2007

How to become popular or otherwise

Khairy is now so well known with his stated ambition to become the PM by the age of 40 that there are actually ‘Anti-Khairy’ websites, which I just discovered when I did a search!


With such an ambition made public, it is only natural that there are many senior contenders who have to behave nice to him while his father-in-law is the incumbent with the power to decide who can be candidates in the coming elections. He had already admitted that he has to ‘make hay while the sun shines’, well, not exactly in those words.

There is a saying used in the Hong Kong serials: ‘ngo thai tou hei ke cheen, ngo charng tou hei ke hau peen’ which literally means ‘I look at his front and I hate him right to his back’. The reason why I am saying this is that I overheard someone at the coffeeshop saying that he would not like to see his picture all over the public places of business as Prime Minister. In other words, already there are some people who do not look forward to seeing him as such.

In the meantime, just imagine this picture in the shops a few years from now:



For us who are non-Malays and especially non-Umno citizens, we have to get used to whoever will become the future Umno President and Prime Minister and hope that he will truly be PM for all.

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