I have always wanted to be active in blogging, raising my concerns and delivering my point of view about our Nation’s Politics but I just don’t have the time. Of course my blog does not get hit with even hundreds of readers but I feel satisfied just talking about politics even if it meant that I get 5 hits (my family members). Although sometimes I do get some ‘Anonymous’ comments bitching about my article and myself but I really don’t give 2 cents to it. Today, I am going to freestyle my writing and ‘NO’ I am not under the influence of alcohol. I am going to talk about GAME ON between 2 big guns in our Malaysian Politics, our current Prime Minister and our current Opposition Leader.
Let’s face the facts. Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak (DSN), is actually trying to do some sort of reform. Whether he is doing it out of sheer honesty or just to be in power is another thing. The cancellation of Skim Baru Penjawat Awam (SPBA) is one of the ways moving forward to garner votes or some might say DSN is concerned about the peoples’ voice that were against this skim from the start. For those who are in the dark about what the F*%$ is SPBA, you can Google it. As a summary, this skim (if implemented), would raise the salary of government staffs. The catch is of course the salary increment for staffs that are in the upper grade is higher than the ones in the lower grade. I would bet my balls that the reason for the cancellation of SPBA was purely because of many unhappy government staffs that are in the lower grades. It’s simple math. There are many lower grade government staffs compared to the higher ones which automatically mean if you implement SPBA and the General Election is about 2-3 months ahead, most likely you are not going to get the votes from the lower grade government staffs and that could be a few millions. I say most likely but is it worth the risk? If I were DSN, I would have created fabricated evidence and throw the guy who proposed SPBA to jail for sodomy. Hey, it’s the Malaysian style remember. DSN 1 – 0 DSAI
The Malaysian Amnesia. This term is an open secret. It is a fact based on history that whatever scandal (not only sex) that has been exposed in media, would be forgotten by the rakyat within 14 days. If after the 14th day everyone forgets about it and moves on, it is done and dusted. If however even after the 14th day the rakyat and the politicians talk about it and make an outcry about it that is something worth looking into because it could very well burst into negative perception among the rakyat and it could backfire whoever is involved in that scandal whether government or opposition if the rakyat chose to teach you a lesson in the ballot box. If my memory has not deceived me, I reckon there are 2 pending scandals/issues that have surpassed the 14th day timeline. National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) and Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s (DSAI) comment on Israel. DSN 0 - negative 1 DSAI
The implementation of Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency (SELCAT) in the state government of Selangor under the Pakatan Rakyat is a start for transparency when tendering state government projects and so forth. The revenue of the Jewel State in Malaysia has grown tremendously with this implementation. You can read more about SELCAT in the Selangor Times. Some might argue that even SELCAT is not as transparent as it seems due to the recent exposure of sand scam by the EMIMEN of Malaysia, RPK. Well, I say it’s a start. Rome wasn’t built in one day. For this, the equation comes back to DSN 0 – 0 DSAI
Let’s now move to the north state of Penang. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his administration have now taught the previous Chief Minister and his administration on how to run a state. I was told that Lim Guan Eng is going to write to a book titled “How to run a state for DUMMIES” soon. I have got some hardcore Penangites friends and the word is that, “I can’t see Penang falling back to BN in the near future”. Well, this is a straight win for Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng but because we are not talking about him we will give his point to Pakatan Rakyat. DSN 0 – 1 DSAI
I can keep writing about this competition but I am getting a little anxious to close this up. Lastly I want to talk about the speech made by DSN is the last UMNO general assembly. He said a lot of things, but what I want to highlight here is that DSN stressed to his counterparts that they have to start to turun padang. This means to do ground work and that is exactly what DSN is doing. He has been on a nationwide visit to cross check with his lower ranking people on what needs to be done and how. I have to give credit to DSN on this because I cannot remember any previous PM doing this, but then again I am a young boy and most of my childhood, teenage life and youth was with our 22 years of PM administration. You know who. DSN 1 – 1 DSAI
As I was saying, the list can keep going and Microsoft Word might crash. There is the recent barring of RPK to the Wikileaks forum by DSAI. The shun away of DSAI to the talk in the India Today Conclave Forum because of the attendance of controversial writer Salman something. DSN avoiding public debate with DSAI. Setting up a probe for Attorney General Ghani Patail and ex Inspector General of Police, Musa Hassan. MAS scandal. PKFZ Scandal. Tun Mahathir’s involvement in the FOREX exchange loss back in the 90’s. The US$ 10 Million kickback requested by Pakatan Rakyat for the coming General Election. The LYNAS issue. Probe on why need youngsters in the football squad when you have Ryan Giggs and Paul Schools and so forth.
The 2 big guys (DSN and DSAI) are playing psychology among each other and with the rakyat. From my observation, its pure politics and both are not doing what they are supposed to do honestly. It is all about politics and who becomes the ultimate force. We have to agree that DSAI can talk. He has got this power to bring a large crowd of people to listen to his talks. I can only think of 2 others who can do this and most of you might not like one of them. They are YB Gobin Singh (Puchong) and YB Khairy (Rembau). DSN needs to refer to a paper when giving out speeches. It is also a fact that having to bring over large crowds to hear your talks does not mean its all votes. The Rakyat are no more in 1950’s. We are in 2012 for heaven sake. Even the kampongs have got at least Streamyx or some sort of wireless broadband.
DSAI wants to be Prime Minister. He has told this many times. He was like an inch close to being one till Tun Mahathir F*^% ed him up. DSN on the other hand clearly wants to pursue his seat as Prime Minister. DSN has realized that the only way to get this done is to spend money on people which is what a government must do in the first place. It is after all the rakyat’s tax money. DSN could have made ways to garner more votes by giving out petty RM500. This move could also back fire as the rakyat might think that DSN is giving out pity cash. DSN has realized that giving out cash is not enough and that is the reason why he is coming up with more reforms but he also realizes that reforms does not give you instant fruits. It takes time which he does not have. This is the reason why DSN is going all over Malaysia to apologize and literally begging to give him and his administration a chance.
DSAI on the other hand as got very few options to push for more votes. This is because he does not have the money power as DSN has. DSAI has got the 4 states under Pakatan’s control, the Buku Jingga and his fascinating speech. Will this alone give victory to DSAI to form the federal government? Of course NOT. Let me tell you this. DSAI a season politician. He was an UMNO guy and from the government before. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. He was the Finance Minister for 8 years. He has got UMNO mentality in him. He might have changed after being in jail, but he surely has got UMNO in him. DSAI is going to play the ultimate political game and when playing this game in Malaysian Politics, there are only 2 people who are the best in this trade. Tun Mahathir and DSAI. You can sense this by DSAI’s speeches when he says he is willing to forgive Tun Mahathir. I mean come on, you put me in jail and I want to forgive you? No way. The main reason is DSAI knows for a fact that he cannot win the battle with The Maverick so just interpret to he rakyat that you are a true Muslim and a good human being by forgiving. DSAI is more focused on winning the war. Tell me, after all these years in the inner elite circle of UMNO and you think DSAI does not have contacts inside? If Pakatan Rakyat wins the coming General Election, it is not because of free and fair election BERSIH’s Dato Ambiga Sreenivasan is preaching about. It will not be because the rakyat has risen to the occasion like in the Middle East. It will be because of the cables and the strategy that DSAI will implement. It will be because Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim is way more a season politician compared to Dato Seri Najib. So, stop whining about winning the General Elections freely and fairly because that is going to take a very long time. Our ultimate priority is to get a new government in and we have to play our part in it. Vote!
Sunday
Monday
54 years vs. 4 years
Before I start on the 54 years vs. 4 years, lets’ begin with a short Malaysian History. Just to give you an insight of what happened before. Not that I’m a Historian Scholar for Malaysian History, but this is after reading, listening and observing gestures of those who have lived pre and post 1957. I am once again only giving out my opinion after observation and analyzing the theory behind history. The reason why I state this is because each person who reads this has got a different mindset and it’s extremely difficult and almost impossible to satisfy everyone.
Coming back to Malaysian History, it was written in our Malaysian History books that The Federation of Malaya (now known as Malaysia) got her formal independence from the British in 1957. How we got it is a different story. Malaya at that moment had all the states we have currently (although Sabah and Sarawak was snatched from Indonesia) plus Singapore. Malaysia was only born on 16th September 1963 and on 1965, Singapore made a brilliant move to be self governed, thus Singapore became a country by its own. I have not read the 20 point agreement which refers to Sabah and Sarawak so I will not go round preaching about it. In a nutshell, apparently Sabah and Sarawak are not states inside Malaysia but they just teamed up with Malaya at that point of time to be granted independence. It was also said that these 2 Sabah and Sarawak can withdraw from Malaysia at any point of time but through a proper manner like a vote system or referendum.
*note: the texts in italic are not quoted from academic scholars but through blogs and e-media
Now, let’s go back to 1955. Why 1955? Because 1955 was the year Malaya had its first General Election. It was because the tremendous victory in 1955 that pushed for our independence in 1957. Now in 1955, we had this political coalition called ‘Parti Perikatan’. Its members are from UMNO, MIC and MCA. Very well done, out of 52 seats at that point of time, the coalition won 51. Clap! Clap! So from 1957, till 1973, it was Parti Perikatan all the way. 1973, saw the born of our now Barisan Nasional. Why scratch Parti Perikatan and substitute with Barison Nasional? That is another story. Anyhow, Parti Perikatan was substituted by Barisan Nasional and from 1973 till present, it has been Barisan Nasional. Well done once again. Clap! Clap!
2008 general election saw 5 states won by the opposition collation Pakatan Rakyat. Errm, now of course it’s 4 and probably 3 very soon. Nevertheless, on paper in 2008 GE, 5 states were won by Pakatan Rakyat and ever since then, they have been governed by Pakatan Rakyat (minus my state: The Perak fiasco). So theoretically, from 1957 till 2011 we have been under one Federal Government the Barisan Nasional. You don’t need your calculator here, but this means 53 ++ years. Now we hear a number of politicians demand what has been done by the states that is being governed by the opposition (opposition here means the federal opposition) for the past 4 years or so and this is where the title comes into the picture, 54 years vs. 4 years.
What I am going to say next is merely my point of view. You can debate, discuss or even say nasty things about me but I will remain calm and let my patience deal with it.
How can you compare a 50 odd year’s governance with 4 year governance? It’s like asking for advice from learned experienced 50 year old man and asking advice from a 4 year old kid. It’s never going to be easy to trust a 4 year old kid’s advice. I would anytime go for the 50 year old man’s advice. Experience is surely the measuring meter here. So why do some politicians and people want the 50 year old governance changed and give it to 4 year old governance? One wonders why anyone would actually want this to happen. Well although experience is a vital part of managing and governing a country, one must not push aside an upcoming talent. I mean, you could only see what one can do if you give them a chance. Just like fresh graduates, give them a chance into the working industry and they might most probably outshine current managers. Young or upcoming talents are never too dangerous for anything. The only thing lacking here is the word ‘chance’. How are we to measure 4 years of governance with 50 years of governance? The only way is to give a chance to that 4 year old kid to manage it which means they get more experience when they are given a chance. Which is exactly what I want to say, give the PR a chance to govern and you know what, you might actually like the way they do things. If you don’t like it, kick them out and vote back the latter.
Come on guys, our current government is old. 53++ years is very old indeed. Their tricks, mindset political game are orthodox. It’s an old grandmaster against a new wizard. Just like what happened to Man Utd against Liverpool. Sir Alex Ferguson is the grand old master of English Premier League and yet, when battled his technical skills on a fair battle ground, he lost against the like of a kid, Kenny Danglish (Liverpool Manager). So it’s actually not about the fear of May 16 or the racial tension that could occur if PR wins come next GE, it’s because there has not been a fair battle ground ever since. There has only been fear of losing power and this greed has overcome the very people who are supposed to be the peoples’ representative. The peoples’ outcry has become just tears that wet our land. When will the peoples’ tears become the beacon of the rise of power so strong, that even GOD will be amazed? What am I talking? First God doesn’t even exists, and Malaysians voting PR in the ballot box? Nah... !! We are just scared. And scared we are because of the political games and racial tension posed by the powers up there.
Now if you seriously think that Malaysia might end up like Egypt and Libya like how some of our opposition politicians try to create chaos, it will never happen and I will tell you why. Firstly, there are more average, middle class, rich people then compared to the poor. The ones who are going to take it to the streets are the ones, who don’t have a job, don’t have a family. This very small percentage of people is the ones going to take it to the streets because they have nothing to lose already. Maybe, just maybe, we will have another small percentage who really wants a change in government so bad that he/she might leave his job and family and join a protest because they don’t mind losing what they have. With this amount of people, I’m pretty sure our Cops can handle it. Just like what they do best, shoot some tear gas, blast some water and that’s it. They just love doing it. Human revolution is pretty difficult to happen so let’s forget about that fear.
You want a 53 year old government or a 4 year old government? That is the question. Remember, everyone needs a chance to shine. It was we who gave the mandate 53 years back because we felt that Parti Perikatan cum Barisan Nasional needed a chance to shine and yes they did. But that does not mean we cannot give the same mandate to someone else. When BN needed mandate, we gave. Now if PR needs the mandate to prove that even they can govern the country, my question is… why don’t you give a chance to the people who want to shine? Bear in mind that you and I are here today reading this because someone gave us a chance to shine. It could be our school teacher, our university lecturer or even our work boss; these are the people who gave us a chance to shine and that is the reason why we are here today doing what we do best. Ok probably we are not shining la, but at least we are doing something and getting paid right. So yeah, that was what I wanted to say, give them a chance you might be surprised of the wonders they can do. If you need an example of how they govern their states, take Penang as one. Lim Guan Eng, well done!!
And how long can you play with one toy anyway? You and I need a change. I play futsal regularly before. I bought an A brand shoe and it really lasted and I really loved how it protected my feet. I wore it for about 2 years and I decided to change. But the A brand was still usable. In fact it could be worn for another 1 year if taken care off. But yet I went for a change. I went for N brand and although the style is there for the N brand, it did not last a year. I decided to go back to A brand. So that’s how it is. You can’t be playing with your same phone gadget for ages. There are no more Nokia 3310, its all smart phones now. When technology can evolve every 8 months, government??
This is where I believe the youth of the country has to play their part. I know it’s not easy to put some sense to the elderly on the cronyism and corruption that we see on a day to day basis. But we can always try. It’s no harm trying to reason out what is good and what is bad to our elderly citizen. You can try this out with your parents first. Of course it’s against the law to brainwash, bully and threaten our elderly to vote elsewhere, but I’m pretty sure we are matured and smart enough to move the chess Knights accordingly to win over the game. After all, it would be a good start to step into politics.
Come next GE will be the most interesting GE in our country. Why I say this is because, this is going to be last chance for the opposition to win over our hearts and get our trust to vote for them. If they fail to do so this coming GE, they are never going to get into power for a long time. It is going to be the filthiest and dirtiest politics we are ever going to see, but it is also going to be the dawn of a new era for Malaysia even if we don’t see change in the federal power. I adore my country and I love the politics. I would vote for a change, but how about you?
Coming back to Malaysian History, it was written in our Malaysian History books that The Federation of Malaya (now known as Malaysia) got her formal independence from the British in 1957. How we got it is a different story. Malaya at that moment had all the states we have currently (although Sabah and Sarawak was snatched from Indonesia) plus Singapore. Malaysia was only born on 16th September 1963 and on 1965, Singapore made a brilliant move to be self governed, thus Singapore became a country by its own. I have not read the 20 point agreement which refers to Sabah and Sarawak so I will not go round preaching about it. In a nutshell, apparently Sabah and Sarawak are not states inside Malaysia but they just teamed up with Malaya at that point of time to be granted independence. It was also said that these 2 Sabah and Sarawak can withdraw from Malaysia at any point of time but through a proper manner like a vote system or referendum.
*note: the texts in italic are not quoted from academic scholars but through blogs and e-media
Now, let’s go back to 1955. Why 1955? Because 1955 was the year Malaya had its first General Election. It was because the tremendous victory in 1955 that pushed for our independence in 1957. Now in 1955, we had this political coalition called ‘Parti Perikatan’. Its members are from UMNO, MIC and MCA. Very well done, out of 52 seats at that point of time, the coalition won 51. Clap! Clap! So from 1957, till 1973, it was Parti Perikatan all the way. 1973, saw the born of our now Barisan Nasional. Why scratch Parti Perikatan and substitute with Barison Nasional? That is another story. Anyhow, Parti Perikatan was substituted by Barisan Nasional and from 1973 till present, it has been Barisan Nasional. Well done once again. Clap! Clap!
2008 general election saw 5 states won by the opposition collation Pakatan Rakyat. Errm, now of course it’s 4 and probably 3 very soon. Nevertheless, on paper in 2008 GE, 5 states were won by Pakatan Rakyat and ever since then, they have been governed by Pakatan Rakyat (minus my state: The Perak fiasco). So theoretically, from 1957 till 2011 we have been under one Federal Government the Barisan Nasional. You don’t need your calculator here, but this means 53 ++ years. Now we hear a number of politicians demand what has been done by the states that is being governed by the opposition (opposition here means the federal opposition) for the past 4 years or so and this is where the title comes into the picture, 54 years vs. 4 years.
What I am going to say next is merely my point of view. You can debate, discuss or even say nasty things about me but I will remain calm and let my patience deal with it.
How can you compare a 50 odd year’s governance with 4 year governance? It’s like asking for advice from learned experienced 50 year old man and asking advice from a 4 year old kid. It’s never going to be easy to trust a 4 year old kid’s advice. I would anytime go for the 50 year old man’s advice. Experience is surely the measuring meter here. So why do some politicians and people want the 50 year old governance changed and give it to 4 year old governance? One wonders why anyone would actually want this to happen. Well although experience is a vital part of managing and governing a country, one must not push aside an upcoming talent. I mean, you could only see what one can do if you give them a chance. Just like fresh graduates, give them a chance into the working industry and they might most probably outshine current managers. Young or upcoming talents are never too dangerous for anything. The only thing lacking here is the word ‘chance’. How are we to measure 4 years of governance with 50 years of governance? The only way is to give a chance to that 4 year old kid to manage it which means they get more experience when they are given a chance. Which is exactly what I want to say, give the PR a chance to govern and you know what, you might actually like the way they do things. If you don’t like it, kick them out and vote back the latter.
Come on guys, our current government is old. 53++ years is very old indeed. Their tricks, mindset political game are orthodox. It’s an old grandmaster against a new wizard. Just like what happened to Man Utd against Liverpool. Sir Alex Ferguson is the grand old master of English Premier League and yet, when battled his technical skills on a fair battle ground, he lost against the like of a kid, Kenny Danglish (Liverpool Manager). So it’s actually not about the fear of May 16 or the racial tension that could occur if PR wins come next GE, it’s because there has not been a fair battle ground ever since. There has only been fear of losing power and this greed has overcome the very people who are supposed to be the peoples’ representative. The peoples’ outcry has become just tears that wet our land. When will the peoples’ tears become the beacon of the rise of power so strong, that even GOD will be amazed? What am I talking? First God doesn’t even exists, and Malaysians voting PR in the ballot box? Nah... !! We are just scared. And scared we are because of the political games and racial tension posed by the powers up there.
Now if you seriously think that Malaysia might end up like Egypt and Libya like how some of our opposition politicians try to create chaos, it will never happen and I will tell you why. Firstly, there are more average, middle class, rich people then compared to the poor. The ones who are going to take it to the streets are the ones, who don’t have a job, don’t have a family. This very small percentage of people is the ones going to take it to the streets because they have nothing to lose already. Maybe, just maybe, we will have another small percentage who really wants a change in government so bad that he/she might leave his job and family and join a protest because they don’t mind losing what they have. With this amount of people, I’m pretty sure our Cops can handle it. Just like what they do best, shoot some tear gas, blast some water and that’s it. They just love doing it. Human revolution is pretty difficult to happen so let’s forget about that fear.
You want a 53 year old government or a 4 year old government? That is the question. Remember, everyone needs a chance to shine. It was we who gave the mandate 53 years back because we felt that Parti Perikatan cum Barisan Nasional needed a chance to shine and yes they did. But that does not mean we cannot give the same mandate to someone else. When BN needed mandate, we gave. Now if PR needs the mandate to prove that even they can govern the country, my question is… why don’t you give a chance to the people who want to shine? Bear in mind that you and I are here today reading this because someone gave us a chance to shine. It could be our school teacher, our university lecturer or even our work boss; these are the people who gave us a chance to shine and that is the reason why we are here today doing what we do best. Ok probably we are not shining la, but at least we are doing something and getting paid right. So yeah, that was what I wanted to say, give them a chance you might be surprised of the wonders they can do. If you need an example of how they govern their states, take Penang as one. Lim Guan Eng, well done!!
And how long can you play with one toy anyway? You and I need a change. I play futsal regularly before. I bought an A brand shoe and it really lasted and I really loved how it protected my feet. I wore it for about 2 years and I decided to change. But the A brand was still usable. In fact it could be worn for another 1 year if taken care off. But yet I went for a change. I went for N brand and although the style is there for the N brand, it did not last a year. I decided to go back to A brand. So that’s how it is. You can’t be playing with your same phone gadget for ages. There are no more Nokia 3310, its all smart phones now. When technology can evolve every 8 months, government??
This is where I believe the youth of the country has to play their part. I know it’s not easy to put some sense to the elderly on the cronyism and corruption that we see on a day to day basis. But we can always try. It’s no harm trying to reason out what is good and what is bad to our elderly citizen. You can try this out with your parents first. Of course it’s against the law to brainwash, bully and threaten our elderly to vote elsewhere, but I’m pretty sure we are matured and smart enough to move the chess Knights accordingly to win over the game. After all, it would be a good start to step into politics.
Come next GE will be the most interesting GE in our country. Why I say this is because, this is going to be last chance for the opposition to win over our hearts and get our trust to vote for them. If they fail to do so this coming GE, they are never going to get into power for a long time. It is going to be the filthiest and dirtiest politics we are ever going to see, but it is also going to be the dawn of a new era for Malaysia even if we don’t see change in the federal power. I adore my country and I love the politics. I would vote for a change, but how about you?
Saturday
Another hike in Petrol
Haizz!! The moment I started to think that our dear prime minister Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak is actually trying to genuinely bring up our country’s economy, dismiss the corruption and so forth I get another blow of news stating the petrol price is hiked up again. I’m no economists; nether am I a politician but surely you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that this is burdening the RAKYAT.
At the beginning, I really thought that our current prime minister is no better that the corrupted UNMO politician, but as time passed I began to think that he is not bad after all. I was in the impression that he is actually the leader we have all been waiting for only that he is not getting any positive response from his own circle of power house, The Putrajaya. The plans he introduced and his dreams of 1Malaysia were not bad after all. All good and well except for his spouse and his deputy. Well, that is another episode you just have to wait, because there is a whole of shit awaiting her and him in the future. I actually had a dream giving our deputy prime minister a choke slam in a WWE wrestling field. That how much I dislike him. Nevertheless, I had this impression that our prime minister was a person of vision only that he is not getting enough support within because of the corruption among the politician in the major political party in BN.
Now I drive a performance a car which surely needs RON 97. RON 97 is now 2 ringgit 30 cents per liter. Initially when I pour full tank for my car it was about 84 ringgit. That could last me about a week. So a simple calculation should be around 340 ringgit. Now it is almost 100 ringgit which means I have to keep aside 400 ringgit monthly just for my petrol expenses. This excludes the time where I go out for a drink with my friends. Basically I need to keep aside 400 ringgit just for petrol and the route from my house to my work place. I am now planning to get myself a motorbike. Seriously!! This is no joke. I think I can save a lot if ride a bike to work. It is kind of a pain but I think I have no choice. Our government is giving us no choice. This is ridiculous!! 400 ringgit just for petrol is bizarre.
Yeah we hear the crap that the government is scratching the subsidy they have been providing us form day 1 for petrol. But you see it is the responsibility of the government to not burden the RAKYAT. We are the ones who gave the mandate to these leeches to lead the country. Actually not me, but the other blind believing RAKYAT. The government came up with the statement that other country’s petrol price is way up higher compare to Malaysia. The government is basically saying ‘shut the fuck up because I am in power’. Well guess what, the other part of the story they denied to explain is one, Malaysia is petrol producing country and two, although the petrol price is lower compared to other countries, our living standards are still low. Our monthly income per capita is still way lower. How are you going to afford the petrol price hike when your employer is not giving you additional pocket money or increase in salary? You cannot blame your employer because they are also running a business. So who do you blame? You know who.
The hike in petrol price means all the other daily goods are going to go high as well. The reason is because of logistics. You need to bring these goods from place to another and to do this you need transportation. To use transportation you need a vehicle. For a vehicle to move you need to petrol. Walaa!! We go back to petrol and the price is high. You know what; I am sick and tired of writing so I am going to cut this short.
VOTE OPPOSITION and hope for a change or just MIGRATE!!
At the beginning, I really thought that our current prime minister is no better that the corrupted UNMO politician, but as time passed I began to think that he is not bad after all. I was in the impression that he is actually the leader we have all been waiting for only that he is not getting any positive response from his own circle of power house, The Putrajaya. The plans he introduced and his dreams of 1Malaysia were not bad after all. All good and well except for his spouse and his deputy. Well, that is another episode you just have to wait, because there is a whole of shit awaiting her and him in the future. I actually had a dream giving our deputy prime minister a choke slam in a WWE wrestling field. That how much I dislike him. Nevertheless, I had this impression that our prime minister was a person of vision only that he is not getting enough support within because of the corruption among the politician in the major political party in BN.
Now I drive a performance a car which surely needs RON 97. RON 97 is now 2 ringgit 30 cents per liter. Initially when I pour full tank for my car it was about 84 ringgit. That could last me about a week. So a simple calculation should be around 340 ringgit. Now it is almost 100 ringgit which means I have to keep aside 400 ringgit monthly just for my petrol expenses. This excludes the time where I go out for a drink with my friends. Basically I need to keep aside 400 ringgit just for petrol and the route from my house to my work place. I am now planning to get myself a motorbike. Seriously!! This is no joke. I think I can save a lot if ride a bike to work. It is kind of a pain but I think I have no choice. Our government is giving us no choice. This is ridiculous!! 400 ringgit just for petrol is bizarre.
Yeah we hear the crap that the government is scratching the subsidy they have been providing us form day 1 for petrol. But you see it is the responsibility of the government to not burden the RAKYAT. We are the ones who gave the mandate to these leeches to lead the country. Actually not me, but the other blind believing RAKYAT. The government came up with the statement that other country’s petrol price is way up higher compare to Malaysia. The government is basically saying ‘shut the fuck up because I am in power’. Well guess what, the other part of the story they denied to explain is one, Malaysia is petrol producing country and two, although the petrol price is lower compared to other countries, our living standards are still low. Our monthly income per capita is still way lower. How are you going to afford the petrol price hike when your employer is not giving you additional pocket money or increase in salary? You cannot blame your employer because they are also running a business. So who do you blame? You know who.
The hike in petrol price means all the other daily goods are going to go high as well. The reason is because of logistics. You need to bring these goods from place to another and to do this you need transportation. To use transportation you need a vehicle. For a vehicle to move you need to petrol. Walaa!! We go back to petrol and the price is high. You know what; I am sick and tired of writing so I am going to cut this short.
VOTE OPPOSITION and hope for a change or just MIGRATE!!
Where’s the “whoo whaa” for Malaysian Independence Day?
31st August, 1957. I was not born that year so I would not know what actually took place. I only know what took place by the stories narrated to me by my dad and by the history books in school. History books my friends, are written and published by the people who were in power of the government. Whatever the government before wants the Rakyat to believe, they will make sure it reaches the Rakyat and that’s how our school history books influence our understanding of Malaysian History today. Of course these history books could be replaced by another version which could very well be contradicting to the initial history books. However you need to substitute that very government of yesteryears that wrote and published the book in the first place. Now you know where I’m getting. Well, for 52 years (2 more days for 53 years from this date), Malaysia previously known as Malaya has been ruled by the Barisan Nasional political party previously known as Parti Perikatan. For 52 years we have been reading the bullshit they have fed us with in schools. For 52 years we have been told to compromise with not other races but compromise with the government policies if you look at it the right the way. For 52 years we were petrified to even speak about the government policies what not their attitudes. For 52 years my dear readers, we were so proud of Malaysia that we celebrated with cheers and joy the Independence of Malaysia on 31st August. 2 more days for 31st August 2010, where is the joy now?
The fact is, the only joy we get on the 31st August is a Public Holiday. For those who work on this day, the joy is getting double or in some organization triples pay and that’s about it. The joy for the younglings/teenagers are probably to get involved in the Independence Parade held in each state or just to site see the parade. When I was younger in my early teens, my friends and I would site see the parade back in Ipoh not because we are patriotic but because we want to check out the girls in their respective school uniforms or club uniforms. Hey, don’t give me that look. You and I both know we all did the same thing. It’s the hormone kicking. Anyway, that my friends are just about the most we feel about Malaysian Independence Day.
Well, I’ve got my own theory on how Malaysia or Malaya of yesteryears gained its Independence Day. This of course is not solely my view, but also some other small percentage of people who took the effort to learn more about the history of Malaya just by a click of a mouse. I will make is as simple as one sentence. The British who were in control of our country back then, got so tired of us being so lazy of not wanting to take responsibilities of governing the country that they decided to leave Malaya. That’s right. The Brits left Malaya because they could not stand our attitude. The popular Malaysian attitude of ‘apa apa lah’. However, since the Brits are more responsible people then we are, they left us with a constitution so that we don’t end up in a mess. Well, a country needs to have standard to be in the Commonwealth Organization. That’s how I see Malaya gained its Independence. True or false, I would not know but that’s how I see it.
Coming back, since most of us were not present pre-Malaya Independence and the day the declaration took place, we only experience the post-independence day which is Malaysian Independence Day. From what we see or better still from what I see, its compromise, compromise, compromise all the way. I really don’t mind compromising but to the extent of having quotas for GLCs and public universities is a little too much. Actually coming to think of it, I even don’t mind compromising on GLCs rate of hiring, but public universities, is a no! no!. When the current government is replaced in the next GE, which I believe it will, I really hope that they scrap the quota in public universities. First the petrol price of course, and then the public university quota. Hey, I’m not going to enroll in any university no more, so let it come second. I am being selfish just like you. Thus; we have not been fed by patriotism for us to feel proud to be Malaysian. Don’t blame the Rakyat for feeling this, blame the government. What on earth is a patriotic drama aired in TV going to teach us. Even in those sick dramas, its compromise, compromise and compromise. We also have lame patriotic songs. The lyrics are so well written that you will switch the TV channel to MTV. It does not bring even a bit of patriotism. With all the money spent on first class infrastructure, I’m pretty sure we can spend more for quality composers and directors in our soil. From what I can recall, Yasmin Ahmad was a fantastic director and scripter. It’s a pity she has left us. Rest in peace dear Yasmin. I’m sure there are others, but with the rate of corruption we are going through, the talented will never prevail.
Below is a piece of advice from me.
Dear Malaysian Citizens,
Let’s vote for a change. May 13, 1969 is not going to happen if you do. We are much better informed now compared to back then. You can spend so much time for entertainment, why can’t you spend a little time to register as a valid voter. And what are you going to lose, if it’s voting day, you get to take time off or even a holiday from your employers. Remember you get paid for this day. This, your employer have to give. It’s their duty to give you a day off and your responsibility to vote. If you are really terrified that things are going to go out of hand if you vote for a change come next GE, think of it this way. Minus the university/college students, almost all of us have got a job to do to put food on the table. Our employers will not pay us if we don’t go to work. It’s either you leave your job and let the people under your care suffer with no food and money by getting involved in petty rallies or take the day off given by your employers, vote for a change and get back to work the next day. Everything will be fine. If you don’t like the way things are being administered after the next GE, then vote for a change again the following GE.
I just love politics!
Wednesday
You and I are God
I have been perceived by many among my circle of friends, colleagues and family as a Freethinker, which I don’t deny as I am very well a freethinker of my own kind. With all due respect to the religion believers, let me get one fact right. There might be several reputable sites over in the internet that states Freethinker as a religion by its own, but this is not true. Freethinkers do not indulge themselves to be the children of God; in fact Freethinkers question the existence of the path towards God. Actually we take a very liberal approach when it comes to God. We are nice people; we don’t want to engage in a heated argument about religion and the path to meet God. We respect and adhere the believe and faith of others. However, let me warn you. Do not take the opportunity to question our liberal thinking because you are in for a fatal blow. Remember, Freethinkers take an easier approach because we do not have faith or believe in religion. You as the religion believer take the more difficult approach as you need to answer questions posed by us on the practicality of one’s believe.
I for one person do not believe in religion. I might have belief in God, but who is God first of all. Has anyone seen God? And why do we always regard God as a male? Why not a female? Nevertheless, you cannot negate the fact that there are scenarios and situations that cannot be explained by science. These mysteries can be found and read all over the internet. Most are dramas for entertainment purpose, but some are really true. For instance the Hindu idol Ganapthy drinking milk from a spoon. How on earth do you explain that? The climax of this mystery is that these Hindu idol Ganapathys around the world refused to take a drop more of milk pass noon on the 21st September 1995. Guys, I saw this phenomenon myself. Ecstatic!! Sathya Sai Baba takes out a Linggam (Idol of Lord Shiva in Hindu Mythology) from his mouth. Ok that one of course is untrue. In fact, there was a documentary by the British Broadcasting Center (BBC) about the whole fallacious act.
Nevertheless, there are circumstances that go beyond the theory of science. God is very objective for me. If you ask me do I believe in God, I would answer your question with a question, for instance do you believe in weather? When you discuss about weather, they say its Mother Nature so just let her do her wonders or disaster. Again in here, we are being sexist by generalizing Weather as a female. We never learn do we? So for me, God is just a word that human kind created so that we can all depend on God when none are to lend a helping hand. Most might raise an eyebrow reading the last sentence just now. Most might argue that I don’t pray to God only when I am in trouble or when I need something to happen, I pray to God all the time. Crap! You might be praying to God all the time, but when you want something to happen your way, you just pray harder and promise to give God something if he helps you through your troubles. This is bribing my friend. You are no better than our PDRM. You create the word God and then proceed to bribe him as well. Why don’t you just promise to yourself that you will get yourself some cool gift if things happen the way you wanted? It’s a false world you are living in.
Already God is beyond reality, and then we create religion. Religion my friends, I am totally against. Reason being of the wars and hypocrisy we see today. Israel is one religious affair which has been going on for ages. Jews claim Jerusalem is theirs, Christians claim it’s their holy city and Muslims claim Prophet Muhammad was there and 3 largest religions in the world come together to fight each other in the name of their religion and their God. Funny that when we have judicial system that takes into consideration the logic, practicality and motif behind a scene, we flush those aspects down the toilet when it comes to religion. We are living in one world with 2 different systems. The religious and the legal system. Just like in our Boleh Land, the syariah court and the civil court. Things are going to get out of hand if this is applied. In fact, this is already out of hand and almost way beyond repair.
Hypocrisy of the religionist is another aspect that makes me puke and hate the sight off. Now being a person who have read several Holy Scriptures / book which in some cases translated in English, I can assure you that from the different religious point of view, none teaches human kind immoral stuffs. They all teach us to be good, kind, caring, loving and all the 16 moral values we memorize for our Moral subject in SPM. However, to my surprise we do see religious fanatics that say aloud about the don’ts of ones’ religion to a field of believers but at the backyard of their homes’, they do the total opposite. You promise in the holy matrimonial culture to be one for one and yet you wag your tail when you see another opposite sex. You preach about not receiving or giving bribes, but you do the opposite behind the scenes. Who am I referring to? It’s for me to know and for you to find out.
I just cannot lay my faith on God or religion for that matter because of one thing only. I am unable to speak or see God. I would rather have faith on humans of which I can feel and speak. I would rather trust you who are reading this now. I would surely trust and lay faith in my parents who brought me into this world in the first place. You and I are living species in this world that can provide advice or feedback if we go through difficult times or even offer materialistic help when needed. These are tangible characteristic that I can see and feel good about when offered. Help doesn’t always come your way, you need to seek for help and who do you seek help? Not God, you seek help with the ones close to you. In your terms, they are your God. Flip back a few pages in your life history right now and remember who helped you when you really needed it, was it God? No, it was the person next to you when you were in a classroom, when you were in a lecture room, when you were in the living hall watching television, the person next to you at your office. These are the people you thank and remember for the rest of your life.
Allow me to share an experience my mom conveyed to me recently. Now my mom is an extremist when it comes to religious faith. Luckily she takes an approach of, it’s okay if you don’t have faith, just don’t ruin other people’s faith. I for one follow this carefully. Well, my mom and sis went to a devotional center recently to be involved in a religious talk of some sort. Everything went fine and they both left the center after the talk and headed home. Upon reaching home, my mom realized that her gold chain was missing. Knowing my mom or any women for that matter, she started to feel bad and was down questioning God why do you do this to me and all that drama. However, my sis taking the more practical approach, persuaded my mom to get in the car and start looking for the chain at the center, and so they did. Upon reaching the center and trying to look for the gold chain, my sis somehow found it on the grass field where the car was parked. With a happy and joyful look I presume, my sis gave the chain to my mom. The climax of the story is when my mom received the chain from my sis. Guess what, my mom thanked God. After the hard work my sis went through persuading my mom, and trust me it’s not a simple task to do so, my mom actually thanked God. I guess she did thank my sis, but she thanked God more.
The essence of the story above is thanking the people who helped you. Remember, the term God in this story would be my sister. Why? Do you need to be an old man with long white beard and an orange or white cloth covering his body to be God or claiming to be God like Swami Nityanandan? No such rule. If someone helped you when you really needed help, that someone is God to you. Be it a man, women, transgender or animal. A phrase in a recent Tamil Movie comes to my mind here. This was from the movie Dasavatharam by Kamal Hassan. Towards the end of the movie, the lead female actress and the lead male actor have this short conversation below:-
Note: The movie was taken in Tamil Language, but the below conversation is a translation in English
Lead Actress : …… But please, just don’t say that there is no God.
Lead Actor : I never did say that there is no God …. [5 seconds silence….].I just said it would be nice if there is one.
At the end of one’s life in this world, he, she or it doesn’t bring back what they possess materialistically back to the grave. They leave everything to the ones still living in this world and the one thing that matters most is the good old memories they fed you with. The memories when they came to you to lend a helping hand or even a shoulder to cry when times were difficult for you. Memories my friends last forever. God on the other hand, we would never know.
Drop me an e-mail at kuhan_83@hotmail.com if you are pissed with my article.
I for one person do not believe in religion. I might have belief in God, but who is God first of all. Has anyone seen God? And why do we always regard God as a male? Why not a female? Nevertheless, you cannot negate the fact that there are scenarios and situations that cannot be explained by science. These mysteries can be found and read all over the internet. Most are dramas for entertainment purpose, but some are really true. For instance the Hindu idol Ganapthy drinking milk from a spoon. How on earth do you explain that? The climax of this mystery is that these Hindu idol Ganapathys around the world refused to take a drop more of milk pass noon on the 21st September 1995. Guys, I saw this phenomenon myself. Ecstatic!! Sathya Sai Baba takes out a Linggam (Idol of Lord Shiva in Hindu Mythology) from his mouth. Ok that one of course is untrue. In fact, there was a documentary by the British Broadcasting Center (BBC) about the whole fallacious act.
Nevertheless, there are circumstances that go beyond the theory of science. God is very objective for me. If you ask me do I believe in God, I would answer your question with a question, for instance do you believe in weather? When you discuss about weather, they say its Mother Nature so just let her do her wonders or disaster. Again in here, we are being sexist by generalizing Weather as a female. We never learn do we? So for me, God is just a word that human kind created so that we can all depend on God when none are to lend a helping hand. Most might raise an eyebrow reading the last sentence just now. Most might argue that I don’t pray to God only when I am in trouble or when I need something to happen, I pray to God all the time. Crap! You might be praying to God all the time, but when you want something to happen your way, you just pray harder and promise to give God something if he helps you through your troubles. This is bribing my friend. You are no better than our PDRM. You create the word God and then proceed to bribe him as well. Why don’t you just promise to yourself that you will get yourself some cool gift if things happen the way you wanted? It’s a false world you are living in.
Already God is beyond reality, and then we create religion. Religion my friends, I am totally against. Reason being of the wars and hypocrisy we see today. Israel is one religious affair which has been going on for ages. Jews claim Jerusalem is theirs, Christians claim it’s their holy city and Muslims claim Prophet Muhammad was there and 3 largest religions in the world come together to fight each other in the name of their religion and their God. Funny that when we have judicial system that takes into consideration the logic, practicality and motif behind a scene, we flush those aspects down the toilet when it comes to religion. We are living in one world with 2 different systems. The religious and the legal system. Just like in our Boleh Land, the syariah court and the civil court. Things are going to get out of hand if this is applied. In fact, this is already out of hand and almost way beyond repair.
Hypocrisy of the religionist is another aspect that makes me puke and hate the sight off. Now being a person who have read several Holy Scriptures / book which in some cases translated in English, I can assure you that from the different religious point of view, none teaches human kind immoral stuffs. They all teach us to be good, kind, caring, loving and all the 16 moral values we memorize for our Moral subject in SPM. However, to my surprise we do see religious fanatics that say aloud about the don’ts of ones’ religion to a field of believers but at the backyard of their homes’, they do the total opposite. You promise in the holy matrimonial culture to be one for one and yet you wag your tail when you see another opposite sex. You preach about not receiving or giving bribes, but you do the opposite behind the scenes. Who am I referring to? It’s for me to know and for you to find out.
I just cannot lay my faith on God or religion for that matter because of one thing only. I am unable to speak or see God. I would rather have faith on humans of which I can feel and speak. I would rather trust you who are reading this now. I would surely trust and lay faith in my parents who brought me into this world in the first place. You and I are living species in this world that can provide advice or feedback if we go through difficult times or even offer materialistic help when needed. These are tangible characteristic that I can see and feel good about when offered. Help doesn’t always come your way, you need to seek for help and who do you seek help? Not God, you seek help with the ones close to you. In your terms, they are your God. Flip back a few pages in your life history right now and remember who helped you when you really needed it, was it God? No, it was the person next to you when you were in a classroom, when you were in a lecture room, when you were in the living hall watching television, the person next to you at your office. These are the people you thank and remember for the rest of your life.
Allow me to share an experience my mom conveyed to me recently. Now my mom is an extremist when it comes to religious faith. Luckily she takes an approach of, it’s okay if you don’t have faith, just don’t ruin other people’s faith. I for one follow this carefully. Well, my mom and sis went to a devotional center recently to be involved in a religious talk of some sort. Everything went fine and they both left the center after the talk and headed home. Upon reaching home, my mom realized that her gold chain was missing. Knowing my mom or any women for that matter, she started to feel bad and was down questioning God why do you do this to me and all that drama. However, my sis taking the more practical approach, persuaded my mom to get in the car and start looking for the chain at the center, and so they did. Upon reaching the center and trying to look for the gold chain, my sis somehow found it on the grass field where the car was parked. With a happy and joyful look I presume, my sis gave the chain to my mom. The climax of the story is when my mom received the chain from my sis. Guess what, my mom thanked God. After the hard work my sis went through persuading my mom, and trust me it’s not a simple task to do so, my mom actually thanked God. I guess she did thank my sis, but she thanked God more.
The essence of the story above is thanking the people who helped you. Remember, the term God in this story would be my sister. Why? Do you need to be an old man with long white beard and an orange or white cloth covering his body to be God or claiming to be God like Swami Nityanandan? No such rule. If someone helped you when you really needed help, that someone is God to you. Be it a man, women, transgender or animal. A phrase in a recent Tamil Movie comes to my mind here. This was from the movie Dasavatharam by Kamal Hassan. Towards the end of the movie, the lead female actress and the lead male actor have this short conversation below:-
Note: The movie was taken in Tamil Language, but the below conversation is a translation in English
Lead Actress : …… But please, just don’t say that there is no God.
Lead Actor : I never did say that there is no God …. [5 seconds silence….].I just said it would be nice if there is one.
At the end of one’s life in this world, he, she or it doesn’t bring back what they possess materialistically back to the grave. They leave everything to the ones still living in this world and the one thing that matters most is the good old memories they fed you with. The memories when they came to you to lend a helping hand or even a shoulder to cry when times were difficult for you. Memories my friends last forever. God on the other hand, we would never know.
Drop me an e-mail at kuhan_83@hotmail.com if you are pissed with my article.
Sunday
Reasonable Doubts on Palm Leaf Reading
I had the pleasure of visiting the mystical land of India recently with my family. When the plan to visit India was first initiated, the first thing that struck my mind was to experience the Palm Leave Reading or better known in Tamil as ‘Naadi Josiyam’. The mystery behind this Palm Leaf reading is that the past, present and future of each and every being in this world has long been written by holy people of the past years. Now when I say holy people, there might be debates and arguments on how holy can one be and what supernatural powers they possess? However, putting all these debates and arguments aside, let’s just accept the fact or myth that these holy people do possess supernatural powers that can predict exactly what future lies for an individual. Now I know I have been against religion and so forth to the people who know me, but this is not religion. This is actually combination of science, astrology, numerology and a little rational uncertainty that messes the whole Palm Leaf reading process.
Apparently, you can actually determine the past life of an individual. Karma plays an important role here. Now if you have been a naughty person in your past life, you are going to pay for the shit you did in this life and vice versa. Just like the manmade myth of Santa Clause. The only difference is that with Santa around, you don’t get any gifts for Christmas in this life itself if you have been really naughty ;)
I went to Vaitheswarakovil (this is a place in Tamil Nadu, India) to check out my palm leaf. As I said earlier, everyone who has been born in this world has got his/her own palm leaf written. Do not get confused with the fact that this means there are about 7 billion palm leafs as there are about 7 billion people today as of 2009. That does not make sense at all as people die and babies are born every day in this world. So how does it work? I was given the explanation below.
A baby is only born based on the location of planets in our milky way which means there are only 9 planets. When a baby is born, the name, date, time and planet plays and essential part to determine the baby’s characteristics and how he/she is going to live life. Also include the horoscope (in Hindu mythology) as that plays a part as well. By determining all these factors, you can probably reduce the number of palm leafs written for each person in this world. The leaf will also reveal the exact date an individual will come to see his/her Palm Leaf. So that makes the Mathematical Probability do its part. This indirectly means one palm leaf can be shared by more than one person. Still confused? Let me give you an example.
*note that this article is not proven. It is just based on my opinion, knowledge and understanding.
A and B can share the same palm leaf if they were born at the same date and month but different year based on the exact location of planets. Obviously planets do move around the sun just like earth. So perhaps A was born when planets were in situation A and B was born also when the planets were in situation A but after all the 9 planets have completed one whole cycle going around the sun. If you are still confused, I guess you just need to experience palm leaf reading for yourself.
Now when I went to get my reading of Palm Leaf, it took about 10mins to find a leaf that suits me almost perfectly. In this process, the man reading the Leaf asked me to stop when my name is mentioned. So he read out about 20-30 leafs containing names that revolves my date of birth. (I gave only my date of birth and my left and right thumb print to them). The moment he mentioned my name, I stopped him after which he asked me to answer yes if the leaf has got correct information of my present life. That took another 5-6 leafs and eventually he found the one which was written for me so they say.
The particular leaf had my name, my parents’ name, my siblings’ name, the general job of my parents and how many sisters and brother I have. All this were absolutely spot-on. Amazed? So was I. Once we agreed that this is my leaf, he then started to tell about my past life and how it has affected my current life. Of course he also told me that the leaf will tell what you will be in the years to come and when you will die but I skipped that part thus; he only gave me a quick glimpse of it. However, the 1st doubt came when I asked him if the leaf has got my next life’s information. Astonishingly he answered ‘no’. I did not pursue that doubt as I didn’t want to engage in a debate with him.
Doubt: If a leaf can reveal my past life, how my past life influenced my present life, how I will live my present live till I die, why can’t it determine my future life? Is that how far the karma goes? 2 lifes. Even cats have got 9 lives so they say.
Apparently I did some nonsense in my previous life which is why I am paying for it now according to the leave. To avoid bad things to happen in this life, I can actually do some rituals for a period of time and this will change my future. This part of the story might have been made up by the person who read the leaf, but if it is true, then Palm Leave reading is original bull shit you see at the streets in India.
Doubt: If you can change the future, doesn’t that mean the leaf is lying? By
changing the future, I cannot get another leaf to be read because this particular leaf is mine. Written for people who were born on my birth date and month with the particular location of the planets remember.
After this part of the story, I started to lose concentrating and believe. He told me a few things about my future which I can’t go against as I have not passed the age yet in which I will post an article if it happens or not. One thing I can say is that according to the leaf, I will live a rather long time in this world. Good news, the world is not going to end on 21st December 2012 after all as predicted by the Mayans. Actually they did not predict this date; it’s just that their self-made calendars did not have any dates after the mentioned date above. Perhaps the associated person in-charge of the responsibility to create the calendar died or his hands got bite by a crocodile. I don’t know.
At the end of the session, he left the palm leaf on the table and went to grab an envelope to put in the cassette he was recording the whole process of him reading out to me the palm leaf information. When he left, I had a glimpse of the Palm Leaf. Now I have not seen a palm leaf in my life so I would not know if the palm leaf I saw is actually an original one. From what I read on the internet it probably was a palm leaf after all. When I touched the leaf, the material was more like a measuring tape used by contractors to measure lengths. When I saw the writings on the leaf, it was in Tamil. My vision may have deceived me, but I am pretty sure I could read a few a words written in that leaf
Doubt: Wasn’t it supposed to be Vatta Ezhuthu? If I could have read it, then it should be Tamil. Unless I suddenly had this light beam shun on me and mysteriously I could read Vatta Ezhuthu. Vatta Ezhuthu is an ancient Tamil language which does not appear as the Tamil alphabets we see today. Vatta Ezhuthu is the language used to write these predictions on a Palm Leaf.
Nevertheless it all ended and I was satisfied that I finally had experienced this mythical and mysterious palm leaf reading. As a whole, I was pleased on what has said about me on my past and my future life. If everything that was said to me as predicted happens, I would be very happy and would for sure propose this palm leaf reading to everyone. If only there was a palm leaf reading for every country. That would be awesome. Guess we just have to wait for the next General Election. Adious amigo!
Apparently, you can actually determine the past life of an individual. Karma plays an important role here. Now if you have been a naughty person in your past life, you are going to pay for the shit you did in this life and vice versa. Just like the manmade myth of Santa Clause. The only difference is that with Santa around, you don’t get any gifts for Christmas in this life itself if you have been really naughty ;)
I went to Vaitheswarakovil (this is a place in Tamil Nadu, India) to check out my palm leaf. As I said earlier, everyone who has been born in this world has got his/her own palm leaf written. Do not get confused with the fact that this means there are about 7 billion palm leafs as there are about 7 billion people today as of 2009. That does not make sense at all as people die and babies are born every day in this world. So how does it work? I was given the explanation below.
A baby is only born based on the location of planets in our milky way which means there are only 9 planets. When a baby is born, the name, date, time and planet plays and essential part to determine the baby’s characteristics and how he/she is going to live life. Also include the horoscope (in Hindu mythology) as that plays a part as well. By determining all these factors, you can probably reduce the number of palm leafs written for each person in this world. The leaf will also reveal the exact date an individual will come to see his/her Palm Leaf. So that makes the Mathematical Probability do its part. This indirectly means one palm leaf can be shared by more than one person. Still confused? Let me give you an example.
*note that this article is not proven. It is just based on my opinion, knowledge and understanding.
A and B can share the same palm leaf if they were born at the same date and month but different year based on the exact location of planets. Obviously planets do move around the sun just like earth. So perhaps A was born when planets were in situation A and B was born also when the planets were in situation A but after all the 9 planets have completed one whole cycle going around the sun. If you are still confused, I guess you just need to experience palm leaf reading for yourself.
Now when I went to get my reading of Palm Leaf, it took about 10mins to find a leaf that suits me almost perfectly. In this process, the man reading the Leaf asked me to stop when my name is mentioned. So he read out about 20-30 leafs containing names that revolves my date of birth. (I gave only my date of birth and my left and right thumb print to them). The moment he mentioned my name, I stopped him after which he asked me to answer yes if the leaf has got correct information of my present life. That took another 5-6 leafs and eventually he found the one which was written for me so they say.
The particular leaf had my name, my parents’ name, my siblings’ name, the general job of my parents and how many sisters and brother I have. All this were absolutely spot-on. Amazed? So was I. Once we agreed that this is my leaf, he then started to tell about my past life and how it has affected my current life. Of course he also told me that the leaf will tell what you will be in the years to come and when you will die but I skipped that part thus; he only gave me a quick glimpse of it. However, the 1st doubt came when I asked him if the leaf has got my next life’s information. Astonishingly he answered ‘no’. I did not pursue that doubt as I didn’t want to engage in a debate with him.
Doubt: If a leaf can reveal my past life, how my past life influenced my present life, how I will live my present live till I die, why can’t it determine my future life? Is that how far the karma goes? 2 lifes. Even cats have got 9 lives so they say.
Apparently I did some nonsense in my previous life which is why I am paying for it now according to the leave. To avoid bad things to happen in this life, I can actually do some rituals for a period of time and this will change my future. This part of the story might have been made up by the person who read the leaf, but if it is true, then Palm Leave reading is original bull shit you see at the streets in India.
Doubt: If you can change the future, doesn’t that mean the leaf is lying? By
changing the future, I cannot get another leaf to be read because this particular leaf is mine. Written for people who were born on my birth date and month with the particular location of the planets remember.
After this part of the story, I started to lose concentrating and believe. He told me a few things about my future which I can’t go against as I have not passed the age yet in which I will post an article if it happens or not. One thing I can say is that according to the leaf, I will live a rather long time in this world. Good news, the world is not going to end on 21st December 2012 after all as predicted by the Mayans. Actually they did not predict this date; it’s just that their self-made calendars did not have any dates after the mentioned date above. Perhaps the associated person in-charge of the responsibility to create the calendar died or his hands got bite by a crocodile. I don’t know.
At the end of the session, he left the palm leaf on the table and went to grab an envelope to put in the cassette he was recording the whole process of him reading out to me the palm leaf information. When he left, I had a glimpse of the Palm Leaf. Now I have not seen a palm leaf in my life so I would not know if the palm leaf I saw is actually an original one. From what I read on the internet it probably was a palm leaf after all. When I touched the leaf, the material was more like a measuring tape used by contractors to measure lengths. When I saw the writings on the leaf, it was in Tamil. My vision may have deceived me, but I am pretty sure I could read a few a words written in that leaf
Doubt: Wasn’t it supposed to be Vatta Ezhuthu? If I could have read it, then it should be Tamil. Unless I suddenly had this light beam shun on me and mysteriously I could read Vatta Ezhuthu. Vatta Ezhuthu is an ancient Tamil language which does not appear as the Tamil alphabets we see today. Vatta Ezhuthu is the language used to write these predictions on a Palm Leaf.
Nevertheless it all ended and I was satisfied that I finally had experienced this mythical and mysterious palm leaf reading. As a whole, I was pleased on what has said about me on my past and my future life. If everything that was said to me as predicted happens, I would be very happy and would for sure propose this palm leaf reading to everyone. If only there was a palm leaf reading for every country. That would be awesome. Guess we just have to wait for the next General Election. Adious amigo!
One Indian (1 Indian)
From time to time I try my best to educate my fellow readers and friends about the true meaning of ‘Indian’ or at least what I believe. I am not going to write a long thesis kind of article today regarding this as I believe I have mentioned the meaning of it previously. However, just to refresh our Malaysian Minds, I will re-hash and add a little bit more masala to this.
Before that, wondering what Malaysian Minds are? Well the terminology Malaysian Minds refers to the Malaysians who are prone to forget the important things that happen in our country. Some sort of amnesia. Don’t believe me? Well go through the list below and you will be amazed what your mind fails to remember.
1) MIED : Samy Vellu, Chitrakala
2) Sujatha Krishnan Murder : Vellpaari, Indrani Samy Vellu, Shaila Nair
3) Maika Holding : The thugs, the fights etc
4) MIC Power Tussle : Samy Vellu and Subramaniam
5) Death of A.Kugan, R.Gunasegaran, A.Gnapragasam,
6) 6 Indians gun-downed by Malaysian Police, suspected arm robbery : Kedah
7) V.K Linggam : Correct, correct, correct
8) Police in Perak Parliament : V.Sivakumar dragged out
9) Murder of Mongolian : Who to be blamed
And the list goes on and on…..
Let’s just put a side Malaysian Minds and high drama crap. Today is about Malaysian Indians. Most Malaysians are stereotype when it comes to defining Malaysian Indians. In fact, they are stereotype in identifying even the Malaysian Chinese. Let me give you a short historical class. Actually a geographical class as well. “Indians” in a general jargon mean people that are from the country India. You know the 2nd most homo-sapiens populated country in the world. Yes, yes!! India. Now people from India can vary from skin color to different physique. It is known that the country India owns about 300 ++ languages. So don’t you generalize us, who were born and bred in Malaysia. Our ancestors might have an Indian passport, but not us. Just because my great grandparents were born in India, that does not make me Indian. I was born in Malaysia, thus I’m a Malaysian. In the event you want a little in depth origin of mine, I am a Malaysian Indian and that’s it. However, this does not make me a person who came from India. I don’t even know how to sing the Indian National Anthem. The only national anthem I know is ‘Negaraku’.
Then why does the government call us ‘India’. You sick moron, India is a country, not a race! If you deny us of becoming a Malaysian, where else do we go? What am I talking? You can’t deny us of becoming a Malaysian. We are already Malaysians. In India, there are different ethnic people as well. There are, Tamilians, Malayalees, Telugus, Gujeratis, Punjabis etc. Each ethnic speak different languages and exercise different cultures. Some are even from different religion faith. They could be a Malayalee Chirstian, a Telugu Buddhist, or a Punjabi Muslim. Nevertheless, regardless of what race, ethnic or religious faith they are from, they are united under the one nation called India and the people are called Indians.
The country Pakistan is another example. Pakistan is a Muslim country just like Malaysia. Islam is both Pakistan’s and Malaysia’s official religion. Now if I go to Pakistan and was asked by a Pakistani what am I (referring to what countryman), I will answer Malaysian which is the correct answer. I cannot answer Indian because I am not from India. In fact if I answer Indian, I might be shot because there is rift between the Pakistanis and Indians. So you see, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know this, it’s as simple as knowing your own name. No disrespect for those who don’t know their name or perhaps were never given one.
However, sometimes when you think about it, we can actually forgive the government for generalizing us because they are not that smart. But what do you tell to the people inside the community who practices isolation of Malaysian Indians. I hate to admit this, but even I sometimes have to go in depth on identifying my origins when asked by some senior Malaysian Indian citizens. I have been asked many times this question by these people, “What are you actually?” Of course the answer goes from Malaysian to what cast I am. Sick people! It amazes me that even highly educated people ask these questions. We want to unite under one theme of Malaysia yet we are thrown questions about origins and the moment we are asked this question, we are divided already. For this, I strongly propose for all application forms by the government to scratch the Religion/Agama and Race/Kaum column. We don’t need these 2 columns; we only need one which is ‘Nationality’. Haizz! They never change.
One last example I would want to publish is Ceylonese. Now Ceylonese are the people from Sri Lanka. They are either called Ceylonese or Sri Lankan. I would quote them as Ceylonese in here. However, Ceylonese can be from different religious faith as well. They could be a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Tao, a Christian or any religion in the world and once again, they are called Ceylonese because they were born in Sri Lanka. You cannot call a Malaysian born person whose parents or grandparents are from Sri Lanka a Ceylonese. These people are to be called Malaysians as well. I know a lot of friends who were born in Malaysia and yet would not give up the self-proclaimed status of being a Ceylonese and yet, there are even more friends I know in this pool who would not even utter the word Ceylonese. Perhaps they don’t want to be divided or perhaps they are just being patriotic. I don’t know, only time and situations will tell.
Below are some examples of countries and their citizens:-
1) Malaysia - Malaysian
2) Indonesia - Indonesian
3) Australia - Australian
4) Holland - Dutch
5) Iceland - Icelandic
6) Ivory Coast - Ivorians
I know it’s difficult and almost impossible to be patriotic in this country now. But there are people who are from the beginning. My dad is one such person. To your amazement and even mine, my dad actually ties our Malaysian flag high up a pole and waves it in my house every Independence Day (31st August) without fail. I speak to him about the corrupt government we have and he replies to me saying that the very corrupt government I speak about has given me the chance to get a degree in a university, has given me the professional job I have today, has put food on my table ever since I was born, has given my dad a job till now (my dad is 63 years old) and so forth. My reply to my dad is, “.. and has made me who I am today, going all out to ousted them by all means possible.” You see, from my analysis and you don’t need to be Einstein to know this, the only pool of people who can change this is the youth.
Anyway, we as Malaysians are to be united by the country. Scrap the Indian, Chinese, Malay terminology. Scrap the race-based politics. When the most Islamic based political party can accept other religious faith people into their party (I’m talking about PAS), we as Malaysian Indians and Malaysian Chinese will have to accept that we are more Malaysians than Indians or Chinese. It’s because we, the individual claim for ourselves that we are Indians and Chinese that the government takes us for granted. Let us start now. From now on, we say that we are Malaysians. Where you from? Malaysia. What are you? Malaysian. I mean really, what are you? You numbskull, I just answered you, Malaysian!!
“Patriotism is like charity, it begins at home.” – Henry James.
Before that, wondering what Malaysian Minds are? Well the terminology Malaysian Minds refers to the Malaysians who are prone to forget the important things that happen in our country. Some sort of amnesia. Don’t believe me? Well go through the list below and you will be amazed what your mind fails to remember.
1) MIED : Samy Vellu, Chitrakala
2) Sujatha Krishnan Murder : Vellpaari, Indrani Samy Vellu, Shaila Nair
3) Maika Holding : The thugs, the fights etc
4) MIC Power Tussle : Samy Vellu and Subramaniam
5) Death of A.Kugan, R.Gunasegaran, A.Gnapragasam,
6) 6 Indians gun-downed by Malaysian Police, suspected arm robbery : Kedah
7) V.K Linggam : Correct, correct, correct
8) Police in Perak Parliament : V.Sivakumar dragged out
9) Murder of Mongolian : Who to be blamed
And the list goes on and on…..
Let’s just put a side Malaysian Minds and high drama crap. Today is about Malaysian Indians. Most Malaysians are stereotype when it comes to defining Malaysian Indians. In fact, they are stereotype in identifying even the Malaysian Chinese. Let me give you a short historical class. Actually a geographical class as well. “Indians” in a general jargon mean people that are from the country India. You know the 2nd most homo-sapiens populated country in the world. Yes, yes!! India. Now people from India can vary from skin color to different physique. It is known that the country India owns about 300 ++ languages. So don’t you generalize us, who were born and bred in Malaysia. Our ancestors might have an Indian passport, but not us. Just because my great grandparents were born in India, that does not make me Indian. I was born in Malaysia, thus I’m a Malaysian. In the event you want a little in depth origin of mine, I am a Malaysian Indian and that’s it. However, this does not make me a person who came from India. I don’t even know how to sing the Indian National Anthem. The only national anthem I know is ‘Negaraku’.
Then why does the government call us ‘India’. You sick moron, India is a country, not a race! If you deny us of becoming a Malaysian, where else do we go? What am I talking? You can’t deny us of becoming a Malaysian. We are already Malaysians. In India, there are different ethnic people as well. There are, Tamilians, Malayalees, Telugus, Gujeratis, Punjabis etc. Each ethnic speak different languages and exercise different cultures. Some are even from different religion faith. They could be a Malayalee Chirstian, a Telugu Buddhist, or a Punjabi Muslim. Nevertheless, regardless of what race, ethnic or religious faith they are from, they are united under the one nation called India and the people are called Indians.
The country Pakistan is another example. Pakistan is a Muslim country just like Malaysia. Islam is both Pakistan’s and Malaysia’s official religion. Now if I go to Pakistan and was asked by a Pakistani what am I (referring to what countryman), I will answer Malaysian which is the correct answer. I cannot answer Indian because I am not from India. In fact if I answer Indian, I might be shot because there is rift between the Pakistanis and Indians. So you see, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know this, it’s as simple as knowing your own name. No disrespect for those who don’t know their name or perhaps were never given one.
However, sometimes when you think about it, we can actually forgive the government for generalizing us because they are not that smart. But what do you tell to the people inside the community who practices isolation of Malaysian Indians. I hate to admit this, but even I sometimes have to go in depth on identifying my origins when asked by some senior Malaysian Indian citizens. I have been asked many times this question by these people, “What are you actually?” Of course the answer goes from Malaysian to what cast I am. Sick people! It amazes me that even highly educated people ask these questions. We want to unite under one theme of Malaysia yet we are thrown questions about origins and the moment we are asked this question, we are divided already. For this, I strongly propose for all application forms by the government to scratch the Religion/Agama and Race/Kaum column. We don’t need these 2 columns; we only need one which is ‘Nationality’. Haizz! They never change.
One last example I would want to publish is Ceylonese. Now Ceylonese are the people from Sri Lanka. They are either called Ceylonese or Sri Lankan. I would quote them as Ceylonese in here. However, Ceylonese can be from different religious faith as well. They could be a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Tao, a Christian or any religion in the world and once again, they are called Ceylonese because they were born in Sri Lanka. You cannot call a Malaysian born person whose parents or grandparents are from Sri Lanka a Ceylonese. These people are to be called Malaysians as well. I know a lot of friends who were born in Malaysia and yet would not give up the self-proclaimed status of being a Ceylonese and yet, there are even more friends I know in this pool who would not even utter the word Ceylonese. Perhaps they don’t want to be divided or perhaps they are just being patriotic. I don’t know, only time and situations will tell.
Below are some examples of countries and their citizens:-
1) Malaysia - Malaysian
2) Indonesia - Indonesian
3) Australia - Australian
4) Holland - Dutch
5) Iceland - Icelandic
6) Ivory Coast - Ivorians
I know it’s difficult and almost impossible to be patriotic in this country now. But there are people who are from the beginning. My dad is one such person. To your amazement and even mine, my dad actually ties our Malaysian flag high up a pole and waves it in my house every Independence Day (31st August) without fail. I speak to him about the corrupt government we have and he replies to me saying that the very corrupt government I speak about has given me the chance to get a degree in a university, has given me the professional job I have today, has put food on my table ever since I was born, has given my dad a job till now (my dad is 63 years old) and so forth. My reply to my dad is, “.. and has made me who I am today, going all out to ousted them by all means possible.” You see, from my analysis and you don’t need to be Einstein to know this, the only pool of people who can change this is the youth.
Anyway, we as Malaysians are to be united by the country. Scrap the Indian, Chinese, Malay terminology. Scrap the race-based politics. When the most Islamic based political party can accept other religious faith people into their party (I’m talking about PAS), we as Malaysian Indians and Malaysian Chinese will have to accept that we are more Malaysians than Indians or Chinese. It’s because we, the individual claim for ourselves that we are Indians and Chinese that the government takes us for granted. Let us start now. From now on, we say that we are Malaysians. Where you from? Malaysia. What are you? Malaysian. I mean really, what are you? You numbskull, I just answered you, Malaysian!!
“Patriotism is like charity, it begins at home.” – Henry James.
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