tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50847242024-03-07T15:32:26.125+08:00Welcome to Wonderblog| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.comBlogger530125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-81250445774657358792009-03-10T13:11:00.003+08:002009-03-10T13:15:00.625+08:00Malaysian Indians AbusedJust thought of sharing this site.<br /><a href="http://malaysiaindianabused.blogspot.com/"><br />http://malaysiaindianabused.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />With many Indians dying in police custody and some not even making it to the station, concerns have been raised and rightly so. Do keep your eyes and ears open as such incidents are always swept beneath the carpet. Report them to the above site<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-50723924130706233022009-03-06T13:50:00.000+08:002009-03-06T14:00:04.871+08:002 First in 24 hoursGood day everybody.<br /><br />this post was done using my asus750. i'm excited. too bad digi still doesn't have 3g line 4 cheaper n faster connection + i don't have a data account with them.<br /><br />my next first was yesterday at 1u searching 4 the fugutive. end of thee day, i found out that the fugi was in jb. bugger...so potong steam. anyway had my 1st cinnamon from cinnabon. bloody 11bucks with a drink. that's more than how much i spend 4 futsal. this has nothing to do with my genes.<br /><br />got to go !<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-47504429173151160412009-01-21T20:34:00.002+08:002009-01-21T20:43:06.159+08:00Sabah - 7th January 09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IR0VhHsu5bHRAK3vBlNmbmQrP7KjXvmbi7ZlV4So2XA4CM-CzubKrq7McugdkZn7ccgOqmzM_riPZLQUazBYJaPdZICOGTaBuwnLlXDgn9sLumFnMIj3D9Zf5CVyTUqI-1YoWA/s1600-h/IMG_2706.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IR0VhHsu5bHRAK3vBlNmbmQrP7KjXvmbi7ZlV4So2XA4CM-CzubKrq7McugdkZn7ccgOqmzM_riPZLQUazBYJaPdZICOGTaBuwnLlXDgn9sLumFnMIj3D9Zf5CVyTUqI-1YoWA/s320/IMG_2706.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293725235639551746" border="0" /></a><br />It's been a while since I blogged. Anyway, speaking of Sabah ( been there twice in 2 months), it's really laid back and beautiful. The drive is relaxing as always ( compared to KL).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IR0VhHsu5bHRAK3vBlNmbmQrP7KjXvmbi7ZlV4So2XA4CM-CzubKrq7McugdkZn7ccgOqmzM_riPZLQUazBYJaPdZICOGTaBuwnLlXDgn9sLumFnMIj3D9Zf5CVyTUqI-1YoWA/s1600-h/IMG_2706.JPG"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoRkdMyFZ86QvVV8A00vY5are_-KwwZiM7uuotza4HhOEkbHEDoeJGPBHO58FSe8tLTc4KrtDTKoX4P0fp1WfBzeI-MaPD_Eya_2QaBE-ljkgjzP2HIi8-pWVGleNKOcpMP4G7rg/s1600-h/IMG_2705.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoRkdMyFZ86QvVV8A00vY5are_-KwwZiM7uuotza4HhOEkbHEDoeJGPBHO58FSe8tLTc4KrtDTKoX4P0fp1WfBzeI-MaPD_Eya_2QaBE-ljkgjzP2HIi8-pWVGleNKOcpMP4G7rg/s320/IMG_2705.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293725229852527266" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4OoY_J8q1xT5IBlZScsmGzPzm1w8SS6omRKq0ISRPi7oylixQ7XV97ugfSwThyphenhyphen1_h5yTgKAwXAE8AAqx_1cj9ppepvi4Cd1jvcmw7MoEhbBux0kJotkD9WZpGFpzPrjzK9b3sA/s1600-h/IMG_2704.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4OoY_J8q1xT5IBlZScsmGzPzm1w8SS6omRKq0ISRPi7oylixQ7XV97ugfSwThyphenhyphen1_h5yTgKAwXAE8AAqx_1cj9ppepvi4Cd1jvcmw7MoEhbBux0kJotkD9WZpGFpzPrjzK9b3sA/s320/IMG_2704.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293725223430960706" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFUS8CH52SRhziAvGMZZRQM06TTm6qkO9_Ikti8ZTm8pknkCfFJhpQMbWSvKniy-0RcyVRt1M8W1hyphenhyphenn7sYlvN2uRvgEQcgXNTeM7d2aX_qE3jyZ7RUsGtnhsMsa-sDCbTtRTx0Q/s1600-h/IMG_2703.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFUS8CH52SRhziAvGMZZRQM06TTm6qkO9_Ikti8ZTm8pknkCfFJhpQMbWSvKniy-0RcyVRt1M8W1hyphenhyphenn7sYlvN2uRvgEQcgXNTeM7d2aX_qE3jyZ7RUsGtnhsMsa-sDCbTtRTx0Q/s320/IMG_2703.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293725210378246562" border="0" /></a>One place you should try is Kedai Kopi Wan Wan located around Penampang. Their main dish fish sup with noodles / rice / porridge. Worth the try !<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnT2cFGsfKQ-PgBPT1EBDzDewGqpyltSQE6eEkMNbC_7va8louOZiq6RrgDR4BDt0Dt25pD_rF2GTT-PuCM0iWidyb6Ak1U8dnOEBXM3dMQWnkxmz0CU3_8JNz_d4q2XQuRPHoNA/s1600-h/IMG_2702.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnT2cFGsfKQ-PgBPT1EBDzDewGqpyltSQE6eEkMNbC_7va8louOZiq6RrgDR4BDt0Dt25pD_rF2GTT-PuCM0iWidyb6Ak1U8dnOEBXM3dMQWnkxmz0CU3_8JNz_d4q2XQuRPHoNA/s320/IMG_2702.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293725201459556514" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-87437888961443473022008-09-06T10:10:00.002+08:002008-09-06T10:15:17.625+08:00Satyam - Chellamae Chellamae<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/81b1fYeXifA&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/81b1fYeXifA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /><br />No reason to sensor this in the theaters !<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-70797855312492113492008-07-26T15:45:00.003+08:002008-07-26T15:57:23.413+08:00I broke my spectaclesOne step at a time. I broke my specs and bought a new frame-less one. Since I can't wear contacts, due to this <a href="http://darshkewl.blogspot.com/2008/05/contact-lenses.html">reason</a>, I bought my self a google for futsal purposes. Just 2 pictures before uploading more sooner or later.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6R8uq-S3UaeNjVLkYawwiL6pMFT9MwbiMr3KxHwdjLRindT6ihDJ7nNi-LGcHP7sYLZSdHUwLoyyZJ2k0c-peQth-ZjJjK8j6WGgDgTE91i8Vkk2QHcp9ZwOl8M7eWWaoEeBDiA/s1600-h/IMG_6727.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6R8uq-S3UaeNjVLkYawwiL6pMFT9MwbiMr3KxHwdjLRindT6ihDJ7nNi-LGcHP7sYLZSdHUwLoyyZJ2k0c-peQth-ZjJjK8j6WGgDgTE91i8Vkk2QHcp9ZwOl8M7eWWaoEeBDiA/s200/IMG_6727.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227226840275929938" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzxIlOLnTbQGu8ogOaV06TrOPGFfFI5qubTwxzMz9Lz6KdPxsjn2ArziP0rnhrFb78MCFBlucN9cSXrOmKjU-i2wd7ojcGlzBuJn9mNPgu6NUF0DrxnzV3mjaHNgTT9SLL9y0sw/s1600-h/IMG_6728.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzxIlOLnTbQGu8ogOaV06TrOPGFfFI5qubTwxzMz9Lz6KdPxsjn2ArziP0rnhrFb78MCFBlucN9cSXrOmKjU-i2wd7ojcGlzBuJn9mNPgu6NUF0DrxnzV3mjaHNgTT9SLL9y0sw/s200/IMG_6728.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227226852400887410" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-89295969650541958722008-02-23T15:15:00.001+08:002008-02-23T15:57:11.642+08:00Jumper Parodies<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I4kXjl8LAro&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I4kXjl8LAro&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3TswYNa3_yk&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3TswYNa3_yk&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ygUuNH2myVE&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ygUuNH2myVE&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KztJs18lAjs&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KztJs18lAjs&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aFy1u0FjL2g&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aFy1u0FjL2g&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-40518224099461644442008-02-16T17:15:00.001+08:002008-02-16T17:22:32.917+08:00Magic Galore<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kCb4bYog7RE&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kCb4bYog7RE&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KpAbijvqG1s&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KpAbijvqG1s&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XNG7haguxpU&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XNG7haguxpU&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Be8upy0UNf8&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Be8upy0UNf8&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-43830475841064631252008-02-13T13:26:00.001+08:002008-02-13T13:39:24.006+08:00Yogi B & Natchatra - Hip Hop Era Official Music Video<div style="text-align: center;">Apparently it's not officially out yet. We Malaysians are pretty fast.<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tGyk9JCv6Bk&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tGyk9JCv6Bk&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-15903279951205668232008-02-04T16:39:00.000+08:002008-02-04T16:42:26.938+08:00Videos about Malaysian Politics<div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/At5g-Ph7jGs&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/At5g-Ph7jGs&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IOAkfhOZeoM&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IOAkfhOZeoM&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /></div><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v1xrLtjxHhY&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v1xrLtjxHhY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-14890856108834856172008-02-04T16:33:00.000+08:002008-02-04T16:36:11.999+08:00The ship is sinking - a letterPosted by: "raj kumar maharajah" drmaharajahrk@yahoo.com drmaharajahrk<br />Sun Feb 3, 2008 9:55 pm (PST)<br />----- Forwarded Message ----<br />From: Pagalavan Letchumanan <pagal72@gmail. com=""><br />To: barakathbadusha@ yahoo.com; dr.leehanwei@ gmail.com; kgdiv@yahoo. com.my; mrbasheerahamed@ gmail.com; tkalai170422@ yahoo.com; amish patel <docamish@gmail. com="">; Dr G.C.George <drgcgeorge@gmail. com="">; Guna <gunasekaran74@ com="">; Lew Hong Chau <lewhongchau@ com="">; Nirven KUMAR <nirven@internationa com="">; noor azlina mohd salleh <anilza72@gmail. com="">; raj kumar maharajah <drmaharajahrk@ com="">; WK Chan <cw_kai@yahoo. com=""><br />Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 1:40:52 PM<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject: The ship is sinking - a letter</span><br /><br />The ship is sinking<br />Posted by labisman<br />Monday, 04 February 2008<br /><br />I am leaving. I am taking my family to a better place. Mixed reactions I have received from everyone around me have compelled me to write this.<br />This is not for those who understand my predicament. This is not for those who want to do what I am about to do but just cannot bring themselves to do it for various reasons.<br />This is, however, meant to enlighten those who are around me that has thrown words such as "coward", "easy way out", "unpatriotic" , "thrown in the towel" and most hurtful - "selfish".<br />I am in my mid 30s, and recently, I have become a father of 1. She is about a year and a half now. And to me, she is the most beautiful gift that anyone could have ever given me. I married a Malay-Muslim. I am a convert to Islam. Yes, at first it was for marriage, and later on, I have grown close to Islam, and I practice it with utmost sincerity.<br /><br />I am leaving for my daughter. It is not a selfish thing to do. Canada will be a struggle for my wife and I. It will be a struggle for 2 people in their 30s to adapt, to leave so much behind, to start fresh. It is for my daughter. To me, that is unselfish.<br />You see, I have been a voter since I was eligible to vote. I have voted in every single election since I was eligible to vote. My vote always went to the opposition. And every single time I get beaten down and thumped by the results. I am no sore loser, but I wouldn't mind if I lost fairly and on a level playing field.<br /><br />I have always encouraged my family, relatives, and friends to register as a voter if they have not already done it. And I do all I can to talk to family, relatives, and friends, since 15 years ago as to why we need a stronger opposition and recently, my tone changed to 'why we need a change of government'. From this, I am convinced that I have managed to swing many votes in the opposition's favor by people around me. I go to rallies, seminars, talks. I walked with the people, subjected myself to acid laced water, sounds to batons knocking on shields, risk arrest, and high handed police tactics. Yet every single time, I come out the loser. A loser who lost an unfair battle. A loser who cannot do much to change things even by doing everything he could, and everything within his power to change things. A loser who will keep losing unfairly.<br />I am leaving because I have run out of moves. I have run out of maneuvers. I have run out of steam. I have been thumped to the ground too many times over the years. People like me have been called names, insulted and ridiculed by people who run this country. The people I damn. The people that have sucked this country dry. The people who have clipped my wings for over 30 years. The people who convinced me that my daughter will not have a good quality of life in this potentially beautiful country.<br /><br />My 1 and a half year old daughter goes to daycare. The teachers there gave me a hard time as to why my daughter has a Muslim name and also an Indian middle name. They say it should not be so. My neighbor sends his son to the same nursery. A son with a Malay-non Islamic name. But that is OK. Malays seem to equate malays to equal muslims. I took her away from that nursery, and searched for a new one. I went from one place to another. One nursery forced 3 – 4 year olds to wear a tudung, to purposes of "menutup aurat".<br /><br />My wife is an educator. She has seen an unhealthy kind of Islamisation is schools. Not an Islamisation guided by the Quran. But a Malay, BN government version of Islam. Where to be a good muslim is to support the government. And to be a good muslim is to be a good malay who protect malay rights. Who protects this country from falling into the hands of the other races.<br />I have tried to talk to people, tell them about how a Muaalaf feels when they behave as though Islam belongs to the malays. People get angry, it is their God given right. They appear as though they are the Guardians of Islam in Malaysia. I reason with people, try to open hearts and minds. They get angry. Our government has set this mentality after 50 years. Our government has set this mentality for personal interests. Our government has ruled and shaped peoples mind to be one tracked, and benefiting to those in power. They have clipped their wings, crippled our minds, and created brain drains. There is no room for question, no room for analysis, no room for creativity, no room for change.<br /><br />They have taken away what would potentially be a good quality of life for my daughter.<br />I walked with the people, subjected myself to acid laced water, sounds to batons knocking on shields, risk arrest, and high handed police tactics.<br /><br />I do all I can to change things and people around me. Yet every single time, I come out the loser. A loser who lost an unfair battle. A loser who cannot do much to change things even by doing every he could, and everything within his power to change things. A loser who will keep losing unfairly.<br /><br />Friends, I am not leaving because I am a "coward", or I am finding an "easy way out", or because I am "unpatriotic" , or have "thrown in the towel" and definitely not "selfish".<br />I am leaving because I have run out of moves. I have run out of maneuvers. I have run out of steam.<br />I am doing this for my daughter, for her future. She will adapt to her new home, My wife and I will suffer.<br /><br />Staying here will be selfish. It will be selfish for me to not allow my daughter to have the best in life. It will be selfish for me to not provide for her the best that I can. It will be selfish for me to not provide her the best from everything within my power.<br /><br />Yes, I am leaving. I have tried to plug the holes, but the holes are too many. All I see are people just looking on as the holes become more and more. I see holes being created by our government. I try to plug them, I try to get people around me to help plug them. The holes are too many.<br />The holes are making the ship sink.<br />The ship is sinking, and I'm taking my family to jump ship.<br /><br />By Firdaus Siva</cw_kai@yahoo.></drmaharajahrk@></anilza72@gmail.></nirven@internationa></lewhongchau@></gunasekaran74@></drgcgeorge@gmail.></docamish@gmail.></pagal72@gmail.><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-15854967988440264892008-01-26T11:41:00.000+08:002008-01-26T11:54:12.107+08:00More on Russell Peters<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HBIMUo0z6XM&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HBIMUo0z6XM&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KX4NGyT6bok&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KX4NGyT6bok&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SqlIC3fKDas&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SqlIC3fKDas&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7qB8LjPTxc&feature=related">Mexicans and Latinos by Russel Peter</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-44739109930758218672008-01-24T09:02:00.000+08:002008-01-24T09:09:27.481+08:00The answer to my own question - Why am I single ?<div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 15px 10px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /> <div style="padding: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /> <a href="http://web.tickle.com/rd/50652/tests/single/index.jsp?testname=singleogt&resultid=-" target="_blank">Why Are You Still Single?</a><br /> <div style="padding: 10px 0pt; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> My Result: <a href="http://web.tickle.com/rd/50652/tests/single/index.jsp?testname=singleogt&resultid=-" target="_blank" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;">Don't Want To Commit</a><br /> </div> <br /> </div><br /> <div style="padding: 0pt;"><br /> <br /> <div style="padding: 5px 0pt 0pt 5px; float: right;"><br /> <a href="http://web.tickle.com/rd/50651/tests/single/index.jsp?testname=singleogt&resultid=E" target="_blank"><img src="http://web.tickle.com/cv/50651/http://i.emode.com/tests/single/images/commit_s.gif" alt="Take this test!" border="0" height="115" width="120" /></a><br /> </div><br /> <br /> Once the blush of first love wears off with your partners, do you get a little antsy? You probably crave excitement in all realms of your life, and you need a relationship to keep you filled with possibilities. Let us guess: Someone has probably told you that you haven't quite grown up yet, that you're still holding out for the perfect "whatevers" (job, car, home, date) in your life to come a knockin'. Or perhaps you're just having a difficult time accepting that your comfortable little place in this world is always growing, always evolving — and that means you have to be willing to accept big life changes, too. Not that there's anything wrong with that. After all, you're probably a lot of fun to be around and may be the life of the party.<br /><br /><br />But when it comes to settling down, you leave without looking back twice. Now's the time to ask yourself: Why? What's holding you back? Maybe you don't want someone to get to know you fully? Perhaps by saying "yes" to someone, you're afraid you'll lose yourself, or the possibility of something better coming along. Just remember that the best relationships are those that never stop growing. That's something you can identify with, right? So keep that in mind next time you find someone you're really comfortable with. You never know, it may prove even more exciting once you really get to know each other, teensy flaws and all.<br /> </div> <br /> <div style="padding: 10px 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /> <div style="padding: 0pt 0pt 5px;"><br /> <a href="http://web.tickle.com/rd/50651/tests/single/index.jsp?testname=singleogt&resultid=E" target="_blank">Take this test ></a><br /> </div><br /> <a href="http://web.tickle.com/rd/50631/" target="_blank"><img src="http://web.tickle.com/images/logo/tickle_42x14.gif" border="0" /></a><br /> </div><br /> </div><br /><img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/CIMP/Jmx*PTEyMDExMzY*NTEzMTImcHQ9MTIwMTEzNzI1NjE5NyZwPTU5MSZkPSZuPQ==.jpg" border="0" height="0" width="0" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-46324712615286665412007-12-30T17:12:00.000+08:002007-12-30T17:14:07.876+08:0012 Days of Christmas<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/owK5tHjL0aE&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/owK5tHjL0aE&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-4448355708186704862007-12-28T12:13:00.000+08:002007-12-28T12:14:45.884+08:00No windows !<h2> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ceylonese/message/2035;_ylc=X3oDMTJyNXEyZHFlBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEzOTQ4MDc0BGdycHNwSWQDMTcxMTY0MzYyNwRtc2dJZAMyMDM1BHNlYwNkbXNnBHNsawN2bXNnBHN0aW1lAzExOTg2NTc0MDk-" name="1"> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198814103_5">No windows !</span> </a> </h2> <h3>Posted by: "raj kumar maharajah" <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:drmaharajahrk@yahoo.com?Subject= Re%3ANo%20windows%20%21" target="_blank" href="mailto:drmaharajahrk@yahoo.com?Subject=%20Re%3ANo%20windows%20%21"> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198814103_6">drmaharajahrk@yahoo.com</span> </a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://profiles.yahoo.com/drmaharajahrk"> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198814103_7">drmaharajahrk</span> </a> </h3> <h4> Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:49 pm (PST) </h4> just felt like sharing this which i got from a website<br /><br />THE CHINESE, THEIR HOUSES HAVE NO WINDOWS<br /><br />I looked out the window.<br />And I saw<br /><br />Thousands and thousands of Malays in the Bersih Rally. They were fighting their own kind for a cause they believed in. And they risk being ostracized by their Muslim brothers. And they risk much.<br /><br />I looked out the window.<br />And I saw<br /><br />Thousands and thousands of Indians holding the picture of Gandhi in the streets. All were teargassed and many beaten with batons. At <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198814103_8">Batu Caves</span>, they were locked in, pumped with tear gas and sprayed with chemical water. 80 are awaiting trial. 31 are charged for attempted murder of a policeman that attacked them. All their leaders are under ISA. The one that got away fled the country.<br /><br />I looked out the window.<br />And I saw<br /><br />Thousands and thousands of Chinese closing their doors. Minding their own business. Watching the soap operas. Playing mahjong. Going to the gym. Planning for holidays. Eating bah kuet teh. Enrolling their children in private schools. Going for line dancing. Changing to a bigger car. Perming their hair brown. Going to the movies. Shopping.<br /><br />The Chinese. They don't look out the window.<br /><br />Their houses.<br />Have no windows.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-49691948316481133072007-12-28T12:09:00.000+08:002007-12-28T12:11:12.703+08:00MMU WARS e p i s o de - J vs J<div style="text-align: center;">Congrats Jana. Very nice clip.<br /></div><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nzARyooA0MU&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nzARyooA0MU&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-68815667363953566562007-12-28T12:07:00.000+08:002007-12-28T12:09:35.539+08:00Theme Song for Semi-Value (Samy Velu)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lsM29143v1k&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lsM29143v1k&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-53138951823098150112007-12-20T20:17:00.000+08:002007-12-20T20:19:51.236+08:00Another open letter...not from me.Received from an email<br /><br /><br />Vanakkam,<br /><br /><br />The real problems facing Malaysia are actually about the Malaysian Govt's INEPTNESS and RAMPANT CORRUPTION across institutions (in the Courts, Police, Election Commission, besides deaths in police custody; high crime rate; Mongolian beauty murder scandal involving a promintent poltician; etc..) as well as DISCRIMINATION against the MINORITIES, which have gone unanswerd for too long; and the growing UNDERCLASS across all races. Hence the protest marches by BERSEH, HINDRAF and others in November and December, comprising Malaysians from all racial and religious backgrounds against their government. This is the very government that obtained the people's overwheming mandate just a few years ago, with Mr. Abdullah Badawi as its head. What went wrong and how did their government in such a short period betray its people ?<br /><br /><br />Therefore, it is obvious that the problem is NOT between the races, as Malaysians of all races and creed do live peacefully side by side.<br /><br /><br />To be specific, it is the UMNO extremists who are trying their best to paint it as RACIAL for their OWN (not for their NATION's) survival in the face of growing discontent with the present self-serving coalition govt (Barisan National); and increasing support of the people for the opposition, and the expected loss of Malay votes to PAS and Anwar Ibrahim's Keadilan Party at the forthcoming General Election in 2008. UMNO has been trying to project the Malays as one united constituency for their picking. Alas, it is not so, in reality, as the Malays too, have their own problems including the rich-poor divide and other deep-seated grouses.<br /><br />On the recent peace march by about 30, 000 to 50, 000 people (some govt reports stated that it was about 10,000) from the Indian Community and other supporters in KL last week, in order to understand the situation better, I had spoken or met some of my Malaysian friends - Indians, many Chinese friends, and Malays (incl a taxi driver, teh tarik shop owner, petrol kiosk attendant, some executives - esp the older ones) over the phone and in my recent trip to Malaysia.<br />I had also read some of the media reports, too.<br /><br />Let me try to summarise these inputs for the benefit of and further discussion by the rest of us in this Forum:<br />(at least to provide a clearer perspective) .<br /><br />Actual Background:<br /><br />The problem has been simmering for the past 40-50 years, with some politicians (the usual culprits in many countries) in their brinkmanship and upmanship - what we called 'playing to the gallery ' - garnering votes from the majority - their Malay and Muslim constituents.<br /><br />It is ironic that this year (2007) is the 50th Anniversary of Malaysia's Independence; and the people of Malaysia should proudly take stock of their achievements and progress as a nation.<br /><br />The fact is that many of the Malaysian political parties are racist in origin. Some are religious - in origin or by their actions (eg PAS and UMNO).<br /><br />Just reading the speeches by UMNO delegates at their Annual General Meetings will be sufficient for us to get an idea.<br /><br />So the accusation of HINDRAF ( which is actually a coalition of about 30 NGOs) being racist, is misplaced and mischievous as the Malaysian govt is trying to discredit the peace march, using the media with disinformation.<br /><br />This is being claimed as if none of the other organisations' actions (especially UMNO who is behind the steady introduction of the Shariah Law) are racist or religious in nature. The Shariah Court takes precedence over the Civil Court, even in cases involving people from the other religious backgrounds.<br /><br />And PM Badawi, as reported in the press, appears to drag his feet to resolve this, losing his credibility as a just leader in the process.<br /><br />The term, 'Mr Nice Guy' given to him by the press is actually misleading, as he had actually allowed many 'not so nice' policies to be implemented.<br /><br />The Malaysian people would have preferred if he is called 'Mr. Fair Guy', instead and if he lives up to this slogan.<br /><br />Incidentally, PM Badawi was a Muslim Scholar. Unlike Mahathir, PM Badawi is perceived by many Malaysians (incl Malaysian Malays) to be 'slower' or even 'laid back', in implementing changes and ' more tolerant' of UMNO ultras. Their simple observation is that the public did not hear about or see the brandishing of the keris at UMNO General Meetings during PM Mahathir's tenure. It is not that the Govt under Mahathir is free from blame for today's situation. This will be another subject.<br /><br />One of the last straws was the wrongful conversion of Hindus and others to Muslims, in spite of their affected families' strong options and the disrespectful treatment of these affected bereaved families by outsiders. This included the late Malaysian Indian Commando, the frst Malaysian with another climber, who scaled Mt Everest and brought honour to Malaysia. He died later of other unrelated medical complications.<br /><br />There are so many other cases of religious insensitivities. These include Ms. Joy who wanted to convert to Christianity from Islam; child custody cases, where the children were compelled to convert to Muslims, regardless whether one of their parents had objected; separation of children from their natural mothers who are non-Muslims; cases where Shariah Court decisions overruled Civil Court decisions, thus adding confusion to the Malaysian people. An UMNO member had recently asked that crosses/statues in missionary schools be removed. Fortunately, in the light of the Nov 25 protests, the govt retracted and allowed these missionary schools to display the cross and statues of Virgin Mary (New Straits Times (NST) dated 10 Dec, Page 4). In 2006, the Mufti of Sabah had the audacity to issue a decree to stop construction of Buddhist statues, and the Goddess of the Sea statue in Sabah, as they are considered 'haram' (forbidden) and this decree was allegedly issued to 'protect the sensitivities of Muslims in Sabah specifically, and Malaysia, in general'.<br />On a separate occasion, the Mentri Besar, Khir Thor ordered the recent destruction of the Hindu temple that triggered the HINDRAF rally on 25 Nov, which the govt now realised was insensitive and high-handed.<br /><br />None of these perpetrators (esp the Mufti, the Metri Besar and certain UMNO activists) were arrested for inflaming racial and religious hatred, the very accusation the govt levelled at HINDRAF and other NGOs, now. PM Badawi's remarks on 11 Dec that 'if somebody breaks the law, he has to face the consequences' , in this context appeared hollow, when the original instigators to disrupt peace and public order were left untouched.<br /><br />The other last 'straw' is the continual destruction of Hindu temples till today with impunity - many of which are not even reported in the govt controlled press. And these were not taken up effectively by most political parties, as probably being opportunistic, they thought it was not their problem. The past weeks' large scale protests has now come to haunt every one of these parties, as they are also guilty of dereliction of duty to protect the public from over-zealous officials and their abuses of power.<br /><br />By the way, the destruction of some temples were recorded in DVDs by concerned Malaysian citizens. These DVDs should be submitted as evidence at an Independent Board of Inquiry.<br /><br />Even MIC Supremo Samy Velu could not stop the destruction, when he went to a temple site in person to appeal against its demolishment.<br /><br />The poor gets poorer and neglected. Most of their schools in the estates are run-down, and without govt funding. On the other hand, we do not see any of the Chinese and Malay vernacular schools being in such a state. The Indian underclass is growing and is worse than the Chinese and Malay Underclass.<br /><br />Poverty and Lack of Job opportunities lead to Unemployment that leads to Crime (eg Klang Valley).<br />This is a classic case study found everywhere in the world.<br /><br />(MIC Mr. Samy Velu, in a feeble and belated attempt to deflect criticisms, outlined the achievements of the Indian Community - ref: New Straits Times (NST) papers dated 10 Dec. and repeated in the Singapore Straits Times dated 11 Dec. However, Samy Velu conceded that 'the bottom 30 % of low-income families lacked institutional public sector support. We have requested the federal and state govts for an effective delivery mechanism to assist the Indian Community'. This important part of his speech was not even carried in our local Singapore papers.<br /><br />It is left to the reader to conclude whether his statement will eventually lead to actual results OR continue to be like those hollow promises made over the past decade. Reading his statement closely, one can conclude that the MIC leader admits that there has not been sufficient effective measures to alleviate the large proportion of the Community out of the poverty trap.<br /><br />DESPERATION leads to ACTION (in the form of HINDRAF and BERSEH, etc..) which we had witnessed the last few weeks.<br /><br />On the other hand, we read of OTHER organisations now commenting in the press ('pontificating' is the more appropriate word, here) ' from their pedestals' and giving their 'unsolicited and obviously belated' advice. Isn't it a bit too late ? None of them had suggested any good solutions to these problems.<br />These include several political parties; and certain NGOs eg Social Strategic Foundation, etc..and even the Press.<br /><br />Some of these 'pundits' claimed that there is no room for extremists. Rightly so.<br /><br />On the other hand, there are so many 'extremist' elements within the BN coalition and the establishment, pandering to various religious and racial objectives.<br /><br />Where were these NGOs and commentators and the press - when these extremist elements within the establishment got their ways ?<br /><br />In this context, the peace march by HINDRAF is a cry for help - as a last resort.<br /><br />Many of these parties have not done much to resolve long standing issues. We do not get to hear much of them.<br /><br />(Of course, there will be exceptions, but it is a case of FAR TOO FEW of them and TOO FAR in between; and TOO LATE and sadly with not much significant progress). One exception I can recall is the MCA Public Services and Complaints Bureau that regularly helps and publicises the people's plight (incl those of the other races) under veteran Datuk Michael Chong. The MIC is NOT even able to do this.<br /><br /><br />DISINFORMATION and Untruths:<br /><br />The problem is also between the Malaysian Government and the Indian Community of which the majority are Hindus.<br /><br />Malaysia is now trying to use UMNO-controlled NST, etc.. and the media to sow disinformation that the problem is between the Races; when it is NOT in the first place. Apparently, Malaysians generally, are aware of their govt's ploy.<br /><br />It brings to my mind what the former Permanent Secretary, Mr. Ngiam Tong Dow said in his speech at Sunday's (9 Dec) NUS Economics Alumni annual dinner about 'reality checks' and TODAY Newspaper banner headline (10 Dec): "Facts on the ground more eloquent than statistics".<br />Though Mr. Ngiam was referring to another matter about economics, his comments hit the nail on those 'pundits' and 'scribes' who continue to mislead the public , wittingly or unwittingly, about the actual situation by projecting their 'own statistics' or 'myopic views'. This is where the newly accepted 'mainstream media' -(and which is no longer considered as an 'alternative media') - the Internet, plays an important role in disseminating the truth or alternatives to the traditional media (eg printed newspapers and TV/Radio). Youtube is just one example of this powerful and more eloquent form of media.<br /><br />WHY the attempts by the authorities for Disinformation?<br /><br />The Hindraf issue though it focuses on the problems faced by the Indian underclass - - will ALSO lead to the AWARENESS that the Malays and Chinese UNDERCLASSES have also been taken for granted by the establishment of the country. This will further blow the myth that all Malays are behind UMNO. It is no longer anymore as UMNO had also let down the Malays.<br /><br />(in actual fact, the poor Malays are angry about so many aspects of the skewed Bumi policy, too -- eg I was reminded about the AP permits where privileged people were given licences to import foreign cars - causing the country to lose millions in import taxes for the benefit of the privileged few; etc..)<br /><br />Past reports incl research by academics have predicted that in Malaysia, there will eventually be big problems between the RICH Malays and the POOR Malays and with their Govt.<br /><br />The Malaysian Govt cannot afford to 'wake up' the Malay Underclass that may go against against the Govt.<br />(even former PM Mahathir had lamented that the Bumiputera policy had only benefited a small section of the Malays, esp the Rich Malays).<br /><br />Hence, the Malaysian Govt is trying its best to rally the Malays behind them by claiming that the HINDRAF issue is between races, when in ACTUAL FACT it is between the Govt and the Indian Community. It is a case of divide and rule.<br /><br />Furthermore, the US Congress had mentioned of the plight of Malaysian Indians, accurately, too.<br /><br />[SAME PLOY during former DPM (and later PM) Tun Razak's tenure in 1969. Today the late Tun Razak's son - Najib - is the DPM. How uncanny can it be ? And how leopards and offsprings do not change their spots].<br /><br />Also, it is FALLACY to think that Malaysian Malays have never gone to the streets in big demos, as wrongly reported in the Straits Times (dated 7 Dec) by Janadas Devan, when he quoted an UMNO Supreme Council member. Such report does a disservice to Singaporean readers and others alike. In the same month, there was a much bigger ("Berseh') demo led by Anwar Ibrahim - most of whom are Malays.<br /><br />In a PAS protest earlier this year, some Malays (rumoured to be planted by a political party within BN to cause embarrassment to PAS) had even burnt the Malaysian flag. No arrests have been made till now, even though it was committed in broad daylight.<br /><br />The point is that a more balanced report and understanding on the ground is needed. There have been some other street protests by the Malays (PAS, etc..incl demos against foreign embassies eg Danish Embassy in 2006 over cartoons in their local Danish papers; US Embassy over Iraq; etc...).<br />Papers (including some of our own local papers) continue to give the impression that public protests are 'rare' in Malaysia. It does not convey a very accurate picture.<br /><br />On the contrary, this is the FIRST time in Malaysia's history, the Indian Community (some reported to be as large as 50, 000) has come out in this protest march. It was also reported that there were several thousands more waiting to join, but they were not able to come due to road blocks leading to KL on Nov 25.<br /><br />Based on observation and press reports, the Malaysian Indians, in general, are more accommodating and had tried their best to bring their problems to the Malaysian leaders over at least 10 years. It is usually the Malays and the Chinese that we get to hear most as they are the most vocal.<br /><br />Culturally, the Malays and Indians are closer. Malays do love Indian movies and songs. A number of Malay words have their origins in Sanskrit and/or Tamil. Wayang Kulit, Batik, certain food and games share a common heritage with Indians.<br />Furthermore, a substantial number of Malays today have Indian ancestry through mixed marriages over the years.<br />Indian cultural influence was widespread in SE Asia during the Sri Vijaya and Mahapahit (and Chola) Empires.<br /><br />Some have now asked the contrarian question, 'WHY it took so long for the Indian Community to come out, when all channels (through their MPs, MIC, Barisan National MPs, Courts, Press, etc.) have failed them a long time ago ?'<br /><br />Janadas' article by quoting a UMNO member as saying 'do not force us to do so as we will draw our parangs to defend our country's sovereignty' , I feel, may unwittingly play to the agenda of UMNO, who is trying their best to garner the Malay and Islam votes, with an eye on the next General Election, rumoured to be held by mid, 2008. The Barisan National (BN) - comprising UMNO, MCA, MIC, etc.. have a bigger fear of Anwar and PAS, and like in many countries, minorities are taken as scape goats. UMNO is afraid to alienate the Malay votes, if the issue is the widening income gap for their Community, too (besides discrimination faced by the Indian Community).<br /><br />Janadas correctly mentioned, however, that the UMNO-led ruling coalition govt, in desperation of "losing substantial support from Malaysia's minorities will find itself having to depend even more on Malays to preserve its two-thirds majority in Parliament, may be 'tempted to ratchet up their 'parang' talk. That is a dangerous game".<br /><br />REALITY ON THE GROUND:<br /><br />Many Malaysians also believed that the authorities had planted 'trouble makers' amongst the crowd who had assembled to proceed to the British High Comm.<br /><br />The Batu Caves Temple, where the people had assembled to rest is the site where the Malaysian police had lobbed tear gas, etc...The people consider this as sacrilegious. There was nothing to provoke the police to enter the temple grounds.<br /><br />Again, an independent inquiry into this incident (as well as the ' Berseh' protest march led by Anwar) will be<br />important to get to the truth of the matter.<br /><br />HYPOCRISY:<br /><br />It is 'funny' or 'hypocritical' to many Malaysians that Minister Nazri (of the PM Office) dare not tell the US to 'lay off' after the US Congress rebuke.<br /><br />His rude remarks to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister smacks of arrogance, ignorance and hypocrisy.<br />Janadas Devan's article, incidentally, mentioned 'that any other ASEAN govt would have done the same'.<br />On the contrary, with the recently concluded ASEAN Conference in Singapore, the proposed ASEAN Charter (though watered down) will allow ASEAN govts to 'interfere' in another member's affairs (re: Myanmar). ASEAN members were under pressure from the US, EU, etc...to do so, rather than conveniently depending on the UN, only to do their biddings.<br /><br />PM Lee Hsien Loong had also mentioned of the difficulty to get all the ASEAN members to agree to this 'interference in each other's internal affairs' clause in the ASEAN Charter which will be inevitable in the long term, if ASEAN is to be taken seriously by other nations.<br /><br />On the issue of non-interference, Malaysia should first set an example by not interfering in other countries' affairs be it in the Middle East; Thailand, Singapore; Denmark (re the issue on cartoons).<br /><br />Incidentally, China had also showed concerns when Indonesians of Chinese descent were killed or raped in Indonesia... in the 90s, and even in the 1965 during the large anti-Communist purge when Gen. Suharto came into power. And even for Malaysian Chinese in the past.<br /><br />This is nothing new.<br /><br />Even MM Lee Kuan Yew had mentioned about these 'premodial instincts' - where Singaporean Chinese and Singaporean Indians and Singaporeans Malays have understandable cultural attachments to their respective countries of origin. Singapore's links to China are on the same basis.<br /><br />WISHING MALAYSIA WELL:<br /><br />In conclusion, readers are advised to obtain their own feedback and make their own independent assessments of the situation in Malaysia.<br />As is said, the 'facts on the ground are more eloquent than the statistics'.<br /><br />Furthermore, we also have to be wary of newspapers and keep track of certain journalists who penned their reports from KL or elsewhere, with a certain spin.<br /><br />It pays to be kept accurately informed, rather than being subject to news reports by scribes and organisations with incomplete information or worse, with an hidden agenda.<br /><br />It is also important for all Malaysians to take cognisance of opportunistic politicians who do not seriously work towards finding lasting and just political solutions.<br /><br />The Government needs to sit down with the Community and arrive at genuine long-term solutions. Tough action and standoff against a section of the community, without justice, will back-fire, as the government attempts to divert the attention of their citizens from other seemingly intractable and deep seated problems mentioned at the beginning of this article.<br /><br />While, as non-Malaysians, we may not wish to interfere in their affairs, reality on the ground, however, will prompt any concerned ASEAN citizen to feel sad and wary of the situation next door. As neighbours, we, too, wish the government and people of Malaysia well and peace and harmony.<br /><br />Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-79045750363275434812007-12-12T09:38:00.000+08:002007-12-12T09:51:17.315+08:00RAJA PETRA : THE CORRIDORS OF POWER5/12: The tried and tested route of history<br />Category: Articles<br />Posted by: raja petra<br />THE CORRIDORS OF POWER<br /><br />Raja Petra Kamarudin<br /><br />Why has Malaysia Today not written anything about<br />the HINDRAF rally of 25 November 2007? Why is<br />Raja Petra keeping so quiet? Why no comment? The<br />silence is deafening! Does Raja Petra and<br />Malaysia Today support or oppose the Hindu<br />demands?<br /><br />Yes, I have been inundated by questions,<br />questions and yet more questions. The fact that<br />80% to 90% of Malaysia Today’s news, letters,<br />articles and blog items are about the HINDRAF<br />rally and the plight of the Indians do not seem<br />to matter. That is what others say. We want to<br />know what Raja Petra and Malaysia Today have to<br />say, came back the reply.<br /><br />Well, I thought I would allow all and sundry to<br />get in their two cents worth before I deliver my<br />K.O. punch. If I make my move too early, then<br />this would enable the ‘other side’ to modify<br />their stance. Why reveal what I have up my sleeve<br />too early? Let them ‘habis modal’ (can translate<br />to ‘spent force’) first before I show the cards<br />in my hand. Once they have thrown everything onto<br />the table and have nothing left to offer, that<br />will be when I will wham-bam my cards and take<br />them for all they are worth. I will strip them<br />down to their underpants and send them home in<br />their seluar dalam.<br /><br />And that time is now. But before that, read this<br />e-mail which has been making its rounds in an<br />attempt to stir up Malay nationalism and Islamic<br />sentiments:<br />#####<br />ANWAR IBRAHIM - HINDRAF No. 1 FAN<br /><br />The Muslim community is now closely observing the<br />actions of the movers and shakers of Hindraf, a<br />small group of Hindus who are about on creating<br />chaos in the country whilst maintaining the<br />parade of championing racial and religious<br />sentiments. In fighting for and defending the<br />construction of Hindu temples, they have forsaken<br />all sense of decency towards the others races in<br />this country. What is the measure of their<br />decency when they falsely allege that the<br />government massacred 100 Indians during Kampung<br />Medan incident in the year 2000?<br /><br />Whilst keeping an eye on the antics of this<br />group, the country was shocked when Anwar Ibrahim<br />approached them from behind and delivered a<br />speech motivating the 1500 odd Hindraf supporters<br />who were congregating in front of the Kelang<br />court house on 26 November 2007. Anwar urged them<br />to continue with their struggle in defending<br />their religion and the temple issue. That is<br />Anwar, always striking while the iron is hot.<br /><br />Likewise, during the Bersih street demonstration<br />of 10 November 2007, Anwar made hay while the sun<br />shone by making an appearance at the rally, when<br />the coast was already clear and took over the<br />lead in the handover of the memorandum to palace<br />officials. That made the other opposition leaders<br />look idiotic. They slugged hard, braved the rain<br />and skirmished with the authorities. In the end,<br />Anwar enjoyed the fruits of their labour, while<br />they must be content with only the skin of those<br />fruits.<br /><br />That is Anwar! A politically- bankrupt ex-leader<br />who favours “rear entry” to whatever circumstance<br />he finds himself in. Weekly, in the “back”<br />ground, he meets with the Jews and reviles the<br />government, accusing them of being responsible<br />for the economic downturn of the country, among<br />other things.<br /><br />He has conveniently forgotten that when he was<br />the finance minister, he agreed to sell out the<br />country when he proposed to accept the IMF<br />package. That is Anwar, the Machiavellian prince<br />with the motto, “the ends justify the means”. He<br />will do whatever it takes for him to crowned, in<br />this case, as the Prime Minister of Malaysia.<br /><br />The silent majority of Malaysia make your stand<br />now! Do you want this Liberation Tigers of Tamil<br />Elam sponsored Hindraf to destroy the very fabric<br />of Malaysian society? Do you want this failed<br />finance minister who will stop at nothing and<br />won’t hesitate to employ whatever means necessary<br />to achieve his political ambitions to become our<br />leader? Malaysia you need to decide now!<br /><br />Anwar - the future Hindraf Prime Minister<br />#####<br /><br />Yes, that is the e-mail making its rounds, and<br />the ‘message’ dovetails with the statement by<br />Nazri Aziz that Anwar is the hidden hand behind<br />HINDAF. The Umno Youth Leader in turn says that<br />there are certain forces behind all the marches<br />recently organised -- from the Bar Council march<br />on 26 September, to the BERSIH march on 10<br />November, the HINDAF rally on 25 November, and of<br />course the Batu Burok rally earlier where two<br />people were shot. The talk amongst the Umno<br />circles in the coffee houses and Mamak shops is<br />that Singapore is behind all these rallies,<br />engineered to destabilise the government and to<br />bring about Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s downfall.<br /><br />The so-called Singapore connection certainly<br />sounds far-fetched considering that Abdullah is<br />said to be working hand-in-glove with Singapore<br />and that the Singapore ‘plant’ in Abdullah’s<br />government is none other than his ‘economic<br />advisor’, Kalimullah. We can only assume that<br />this Singapore spin is designed to deflect<br />allegations that Singapore has infiltrated<br />Putrajaya and that ‘Tingkat 4’ drafts policies<br />favouring that tiny Island Republic. Whatever it<br />may be, the spin-doctoring machinery is working<br />overtime and the stories coming out of Umno are<br />meant to confuse rather than to inform.<br /><br />Undoubtedly, much of what has been happening has<br />not been by perchance. If you think that Malaysia<br />has become a victim of circumstances and<br />coincidences, think again. There are engineers<br />and architects at play here. And the endgame is<br />simple; restore Malay unity.<br /><br />As they say; why reinvent the wheel? Another<br />cliché: if it is not broken, why fix it? That’s<br />right; the best route is the tried and tested<br />route of history. And this tried and tested route<br />was proven on 13 May 1969, two days after the<br />ruling party lost its two-thirds majority in<br />Parliament and a few states fell to the<br />opposition. Today’s scenario is a duplicate of 11<br />May 1969. They do not need to wait for the<br />results of the 12th General Election to know what<br />the score is. If the 12th General Election is<br />held today, Kelantan, Terengganu, Penang and<br />Sabah will fall to the opposition while the<br />ruling party will loss its two-thirds majority in<br />Kedah, Perak, Selangor and Pahang.<br /><br />And that is why the tenure of the Chairman of the<br />Elections Commission needs to be extended another<br />year when he retires at the end of this year.<br />Only he can ensure that the ruling party retains<br />control of Parliament and the State Assemblies<br />with a clear two-thirds majority. The postal<br />votes system can’t be abolished, the Chairman<br />replied indignantly, because that would be the<br />only way to ensure that none of the cabinet<br />ministers get kicked out of office. And when<br />asked is not the role of the Elections Commission<br />to conduct free and fair elections, he replied,<br />with maximum arrogance, that the role of the<br />Elections Commission is to ensure that the Malays<br />will not lose political domination. And as to why<br />the campaign period is so short instead of a<br />minimum of 21 days, he told the BERSIH delegation<br />that he does not have the authority to extend the<br />campaign period and if they are not happy with<br />that then go see the Agong and ask the Agong to<br />make the changes.<br /><br />And so, true to the advice of the Chairman of the<br />Elections Commission, BERSIH took its case to the<br />Agong on 10 November 2007.<br /><br />The government is worried. Umno has accused<br />BERSIH of ‘dragging’ the Agong into politics. But<br />the Agong is aware that it was the Chairman of<br />the Elections Commission who was the one who<br />brushed off BERSIH and told them to go see His<br />Majesty. And now the Chairman’s tenure of office<br />is about to expire in three weeks time. Will the<br />Agong consent to extending his tenure another<br />year so that he can rig the 12th General<br />Elections and make sure that the ruling party<br />wins, yet again, hands down? This is an unknown<br />factor. The Agong has already rejected the<br />extension of the tenure of the Chief Justice,<br />another crook. Chances are the Agong will also<br />reject the extension of the crooked Elections<br />Commission Chairman as well.<br /><br />So they need to bypass the Agong. They need to<br />amend the law so that the tenure of the Elections<br />Commission Chairman can be extended without the<br />need to seek the consent of the Agong. And they<br />will do this on Tuesday, 11 December 2007. On<br />Tuesday, Parliament will pass a law allowing the<br />government to extend the tenure of the Elections<br />Commission Chairman another year beyond<br />retirement age. This will therefore make the<br />Agong irrelevant. The Agong’s consent will not be<br />required. The Agong can now be bypassed.<br /><br />But this is still not enough. The Chinese appear<br />to have abandoned the government. The Sarawak<br />State Elections proved this. But the Malays are<br />split four ways. We have the PAS Malays. We have<br />the PKR Malays. We have the pro-Abdullah Ahmad<br />Badawi Umno Malays. Then we have the<br />anti-Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Umno Malays. At the<br />last count, the pro-Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Umno<br />Malays are down to 20%. 80% of the Malays are<br />with PAS, PKR, and sitting in the anti-Abdullah<br />Ahmad Badwi camp.<br /><br />There are no two ways about it. The Abdullah camp<br />has to pull out another 13 May 1969 rabbit from<br />the hat. But they can’t wait for the results of<br />the general election before they do this like on<br />13 May 1969. That would be too obvious and too<br />risky. After all, they can already forecast the<br />result, so why wait? They can do that now. A<br />slight twist from 1969 -- instead of waiting for<br />the results, they can pre-empt the results. But<br />the strategy must be the same, unite the Malays.<br />Get the Malays to rally around one issue. Then<br />there will no longer be PAS Malays, PKR Malays,<br />Anti-Abdullah Umno Malays, and pro-Abdullah Umno<br />Malays. There will be only one group of Malays; a<br />group united under the threats and insolence of<br />the non-Malays.<br /><br />In 1969, they thought they could contain the<br />fire. Today, they still think they can contain<br />the fire. In 1969, race riots actually broke out.<br />This time around it does not need to break out.<br />They can just suggest that it may break out and<br />then nip the whole thing in the bud by rounding<br />up all those ‘threats to national security’ under<br />the Internal Security Act. This worked 20 years<br />ago when they launched Operasi Lalang. Then, too,<br />the Malays were divided. And, 20 years ago, they<br />brought Malaysia to the brink of race riots and<br />then rounded up everyone under the Internal<br />Security Act and stopped the race riots before it<br />could happen. But at least the Malays reunited<br />under the ‘threat’ of the non-Malays -- a tried<br />and tested formula which works every time.<br /><br />Ali Rustam was asked to clamp down on the pig<br />farmers in his state. When the Chinese fought<br />back, as they knew the Chinese would, that<br />triggered Malay anger. “They shoot Malays in<br />Terengganu but the Chinese are let off the hook,”<br />were the murmurings amongst the Malays. Then Ali<br />Rustam delivered a speech at the PPP state<br />convention and said that Umno does not need<br />Indian and Chinese support to stay in power. Umno<br />has ruled Malaysia for 50 years and can rule 50<br />years more without Indian and Chinese support, he<br />arrogantly declared to the assembly of Indians.<br /><br />Then Khir Toyo demolished a Hindu temple in his<br />state and that triggered Indian anger. The<br />HINDRAF petition to the Queen was mooted. Someone<br />slipped in that most controversial petition that<br />talked about ethnic cleansing and which called<br />for an end to policies favouring the Malays. The<br />HINDRAF committee never got to read the petition.<br />Those 30,000 who came out that Sunday, 25<br />November 2007, did not know what the petition was<br />all about. Many were not even aware of the<br />existence of a petition. They were told that they<br />are rallying in support of the trillions being<br />claimed from the British government. Every<br />Malaysian Indian is going to become a<br />millionaire. They came out on the promise of the<br />money. They were not aware that in the background<br />was this most controversially- worded petition<br />which would trigger the anger of the Malays and<br />unite them all under Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.<br /><br />Now the HINDRAF committee thinks that the<br />petition was a mistake. They agree that the<br />petition could have been better-worded. Granted,<br />the Indians’ plight needs to be addressed. But<br />words such as ‘ethnic cleansing’ and whacking the<br />Malays across-the-board will not achieve what<br />they are looking for. How did all that get<br />slipped in? Who slipped it in? Why did no one<br />notice? In all that euphoria why did one man<br />handle the petition instead of the HINDRAF<br />committee, which should have been the one that<br />makes the last call on what the petition should<br />have said?<br /><br />Nevertheless, the focus was on crowd<br />mobilisation, not on what the petition said. And<br />that was what everyone concentrated on, not<br />realising that the petition would set HINDRAF<br />back in its efforts to highlight the plight of<br />the Indians. At 2.00am on Sunday, the crowd<br />started moving into Batu Caves. At 4.00am, when<br />the Indians tried to start their march, they were<br />pushed back into the temple grounds and the gates<br />locked. At 4.20am, MIC gave the order and the<br />water cannons started shooting into the temple<br />grounds with volley after volley of tear gas<br />until they ran out of stock. New supplies were<br />brought in and the shooting continued under the<br />watchful eyes of the MIC Youth Movement which was<br />‘directing’ the police operation.<br /><br />Batu Burok is not the icing on the cake. The 10<br />November episode at Masjid India is also not the<br />icing on the cake. The 25 November battle is not<br />the icing on the cake either. The big bang is yet<br />to come. This ‘tension’ is yet to peak. And it<br />will peak when word that the government is going<br />to clamp down on un-Islamic religious symbols and<br />statues reaches the ears of Muslims and<br />non-Muslims alike.<br /><br />On 25 May 2006, the Kudat Town Board sent Chong<br />Kah Kiat a letter ordering him to stop work on<br />the construction of the Goddess of the Sea statue<br />in Kudat, Sabah.<br /><br />On 6 June 2006, Sabah’s Ministry of Local<br />Government and Housing sent the Kudat Town Board<br />a letter informing them that the Sabah Chief<br />Minister had ordered all work on the statue to<br />stop.<br /><br />Then, a letter from the Chief Minister’s office<br />was issued on 23 June 2006 reiterating the stop<br />work order on the statue.<br /><br />On 27 June 2006, the Kudat Town Board again sent<br />Chong Kah Kiat a letter informing him that the<br />government wants him to stop all work on the<br />statue.<br /><br />On 7 July 2006, the Mufti of the State of Sabah<br />issued a religious decree (fatwah) that said the<br />construction of any statue or replica of a living<br />thing, either human or animistic, is forbidden<br />(haram) according to the Shariah to prevent any<br />heretic act of worshiping statues. The Mufti then<br />asked that construction of Buddhist statues be<br />stopped to protect the sensitivities of Muslims<br />in Sabah in particular and Muslims in Malaysia in<br />general.<br /><br />And with that religious decree by the Mufti of<br />the State of Sabah, this brings into focus that<br />giant statue in the Batu Caves which comes under<br />the jurisdiction of Khir Toyo, the same Menteri<br />Besar who ordered the demolition of that Hindu<br />temple in Shah Alam and which triggered the<br />HINDRAF rally of 25 November.<br /><br />In another incident last week, an Umno Member of<br />Parliament asked that all Christian crosses and<br />statues at missionary schools be removed. Going<br />by what the Mufti of Sabah has decreed, the Umno<br />Member of Parliament was not out of line. But why<br />are they suddenly making this move against Hindu<br />temples, Buddhist statues and Christian religious<br />symbols? Surely Umno is not on self-destruct mode<br />because they must know that the non-Muslims would<br />rise up in anger. Or are they supposed to rise up<br />in anger like in 1969 so that the Malays would<br />become united again, like in 1969?<br /><br />Yes, that is why I reserved judgement and refused<br />to comment on the HINDRAF rally. It appears like<br />there is more than meets the eye here. If the<br />HINDRAF committee members were not aware of the<br />most controversially- worded petition to the<br />Queen, then who was? And was HINDRAF an isolated<br />and unrelated incident or is it tied to the<br />Chinese pig-farming issue plus is it connected to<br />the Sabah Mufti’s fatwah declaring Buddhist<br />temples haram and the call by the Umno Member of<br />Parliament that all Christian religious symbols<br />be removed?<br /><br />Anyway, whatever it may be, those behind these<br />religious controversies may have met their<br />objective. The Malays may finally unite under<br />Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as planned. And once that<br />happens, Abdullah can safely call for the<br />dissolution of Parliament to make way for the<br />12th General Elections. Okay, so they lose the<br />Chinese and Indian votes. Okay, so they only<br />garner 60% of the votes. But that does not matter<br />as long as the 60% comes from Malay votes because<br />these 60% votes from united Malays command 80% of<br />the seats. And all Abdullah needs is two-thirds<br />and 80% is more than two-thirds. And, in the<br />meantime, all non-Muslim religious symbols and<br />statues are declared haram and will no longer be<br />allowed in Malaysia, by religious decree.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-73042820800056339462007-12-10T14:51:00.000+08:002007-12-10T15:40:59.024+08:00HINDRAF : My satu kupang.Much has been said about the recent demonstration and the devastation it has caused. I don't care. HINDRAF is a movement fighting for equality and I respect that.<br /><br />Two things I would like to share in this very short entry of mine. Nope, I did not have the brain capacity to think about all these, I just read it somewhere. Here it goes ...<br /><br />IF the government is right and they are not practicing ethnic cleansing, why is it, the BUMIPUTERA's get a 5% discount when buying homes ? If the Government was intent on eradicating poverty shouldn't the 5% apply to all those citizens earning less than, let's say RM 2,000 a month. Why base it solely on RACE ?<br /><br />The second issue I would like to highlight is the quota system practiced when allocating university seats. It doesn't matter if 6% of Indians made it to the university despite only having a population of 8%. It makes no sense comparing it that way. Samy Vellu, get your head checked! What matters it why can't we have a level playing field ? A field that sees no race, allows equal opportunity and not taking into account if you're a STPM or matriculation student ?<br />Does the Government actually think we are still stupid enough to read NST and believe all those recent surveys ? Still think the Malays can't play the game right ? The Malays have improved and I believe they are on par with the rest. Do away with the quota system and see a different Malaysia in the near future.<br /><br />By not allowing the NON-BUMI's to get a place in local universities, the Government is forcing families to spend all their savings sending their kids overseas thus making them poor in the long run. It's a vicious cycle - not allowing the community to grow because the emphasis on education is much much more important.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-54962335840827469282007-12-08T11:55:00.000+08:002007-12-10T15:45:27.127+08:00End of the year - noteGreetings fellow Earthlings and Martians,<br /><br />It is true, I've neglected this blog for a long time and my conscience is taking it's toll. Do I have interesting things to say ? Obviously. I lead a very cool and adventurous life. Done many things and I wish to share them but alas time does not permit to do so.<br /><br />Stumbled upon a blog. A very interesting <a href="http://sharanyamanivannan.blogspot.com/">blog</a> written by my native <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Sri</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Lankan</span> born lady,stayed in Malaysia and decided to run away to escape ethnic cleansing. In the meantime, she managed to screw us (read:government) and in the mean time generated some publicity from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">MITI</span> Queen branding her an atrocious LIAR. Well, we Malaysians are good at it.,especially the Government. Oops, you did not read anything malicious. It's just crazy me rambling.<br /><br />Will be back with more postings and pictures. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Yeash</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">yeash</span>, I say that ALL the time. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">LOL</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-19240401747162062122007-12-08T11:53:00.000+08:002007-12-08T11:55:11.741+08:00Dell Users , please check...https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/ <--- Dell notebook user, pls check if your battery is affected..<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-53590797455094151392007-12-05T17:19:00.000+08:002007-12-05T17:20:48.568+08:00A collection of jokes !<span style="font-weight: bold;">Johnny and the missing ears</span><br /><br />Little Johnny's neighbors had a baby. Unfortunately, the baby was<br />born without ears.<br /><br />When the mother and new baby came home from the hospital, Johnny's family<br />was invited over to see the baby.<br /><br />Before they left their house, Little Johnny's dad had a talk with him and<br />explained that the baby had no ears. <br /><br />His dad also told him that if he so much as mentioned anything about the<br />baby's missing ears or even said the word "ears" he would get<br />the spanking of his life when they came back home.<br /><br />Little Johnny told his dad he understood completely. When Johnny looked<br />in the crib he said, "What a beautiful baby."<br /><br />The mother said, "Why, thank you, Little Johnny."<br /><br />Johnny said, "He has beautiful little feet and beautiful little hands, a<br />cute little nose and really beautiful eyes. Can he see?"<br /><br />"Yes", the mother replied, "we are so thankful; the Doctor<br />said he will have 20/20 vision."<br /><br />"That's great," said Little Johnny, "'cuz he'd be<br />shit-outta-luck if he needed glasses.<br /><br />******<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> LITTLE JOHNNY DIGS A HOLE</span><br /><br />One day little Johnny was digging a hole in his back yard.<br /><br />The next-door neighbor spotted him and decided to investigate.<br /><br />"Hello Johnny, what are you up to?" he asked.<br /><br />"My goldfish died and I'm gonna bury him," Johnny replied.<br /><br />"That's a really big hole for a goldfish, isn't it?" asked the<br />neighbor.<br /><br />"That's because he's inside your cat!"<br /><br />*******<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> ANGER MANAGEMENT</span><br /><br />Husband to wife: When I get<br />mad at you, you never fight back. How do you control your anger?<br /><br />Wife: I clean the<br />toilet bowl.<br /><br />Husband: How does<br />that help?<br /><br />Wife: I use your<br />toothbrush.<br /><br />********<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Christmas shopping</span><br /><br />It was nearly Christmas and Judge Judy was in a happy mood. She asked the<br />defendant, "What are you being prosecuted for?"<br /><br />"Doing my Christmas shopping too early," replied the defendant.<br /><br />"That's not a crime," replied Judge Judy.<br /><br />"How early were you doing you Christmas shopping?"<br /><br />"Before the store opened," replied the defendant!<br /><br />********<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">From the church</span><br /><br />A husband comes home from church; he greets his wife and lifts her up and<br />carries her around the house.<br /><br />The wife is so surprised and asks "Did the pastor preach about being<br />romantic?"<br /><br />The husband said, "No! He said we must carry our burdens and<br />sorrows!”<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-43984672255963638762007-12-05T17:14:00.000+08:002007-12-05T17:18:08.328+08:00Astro.... Know more.... Public Private and Love<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Anyone out there a Cancer ?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Give me a call, or leave me a message or mail me or leave a comment.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I'm desperate. Really. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">LOL</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Note: forwarded message attached.<br /> Be a better pen pal.<br />Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how.--Forwarded Message Attachment--<br />From: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dsrajakumar%40hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:dsrajakumar%40hotmail.com">dsrajakumar@ hotmail.com</a><br />Subject: Astro.... Know more.... Public Private and Love<br />Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 00:00:15 +0530<br /><br />Aries<br />: <br /> Compitability :<br />Libra<br /> People see you in the public as<br />innovative, independent, and a stranger in career<br />associates. You need a partner to make your life easier, and to<br />help you take care of business so you wouldn't have to be so<br />alone.<br />Love : Those born under<br />Aries demand love and often take it for granted. Love is expected and accepted.<br />But in many cases, sadly, an Aries does not understand how to return it. The<br />thought of being abondaned in love can bring on panic and terror, and continuous<br />reassureance is the only thing that can calm these states of fear.<br /><br />Taurus :<br />Compitability : Scorpio<br /> People always think that you want money,<br />or need money, or you are possessive, or you are lazy. You are<br /> dedicated, deep feeling, easily hurt, and fiercely<br />loyal.<br />Love: For a taurean,<br />love is synonymous with physical affection, which in a childlike way, is<br />unquestioningly given and received. Love is uncomplicated and appreciated<br />although many Taureans have not yet learned its full value.<br /><br />Gemini : <br />Compitability :<br />Sagittarius<br />People think that<br />you are restless, you flit from here to there, you move around from house to<br />house, and change your job frequently. People also think that you are very<br />talkative and always trying to teach them something. You keep a lot<br />of your wisdom to yourself. You enjoy learning new things, and you are<br />privately religious. You really would like to tell the world the truth,<br />but you will keep that to yourself.<br />Love: In a desperate<br />desire to discover true love, Sagittarians are constantly blinded by the<br />idealism of love and therefore also constantly wounded by love's realities. They<br />need to look within themselves, to their own hearts for love, because they will<br />not find it an idealistic insubstantiality<br /><br />Cancer : <br />Compitability<br />:Capricorn<br />People think that<br />you are nurturing and you want to take care of those around you. You love<br />to mother the world. And, you enjoy public acceptance. You<br />privately are really a solitary person, not easily expressing your feelings to<br />others about yourself. You are in charge and can take care of<br />yourself. You demand respect from others, and you do not want people to<br />analyze you.<br />Love : To the uncertain and sentimental Cancer, love is extremely<br />important. However, in this case, love represents emotional security, a<br />'home'.<br />'Cancerians' need for love is huge, although sometimes they try to<br />disguise this behind tears and laughter.<br /><br />Leo<br />:<br />Compitability :<br />Aquarius<br /> When people<br />meet you for the first time, they think that you are entertaining, creative,<br />self-confident, dramatic, and extroverted. You feel very<br />different. You feel unusual, not like other people. You are<br />reclusive and detached, too. You do not like to get involved with<br />the world in a personal way. You consider yourself a<br />"loner."<br />Love<br />:Love is a massive<br />attraction for the Leos, representing ultimate fulfillment. However, this can<br />lead to being 'inlove with love' , whereupon they give love because they enjoy<br />the gratitude and respect of the loved one. Leos donot like having to humble<br />themselves for love, neither do they understand its true meaning or how to make<br />sacrificies themselves.<br /><br />Virgo :<br />Compitability : Pieces<br />People get the<br />impression that you love to work. They may even think that you are a<br />workaholic because you are detail-minded and very organized, logical, and even<br />scientific. You privately are a dreamer. You are a person who<br />are creative, idealistic, artistic, and even self-sacrificing. You are<br />also quite emotional, and sensitive. You hide your vulnerability and<br />sensitivity from the outsiders. Nobody knows about the real<br />you.<br />Love : Virgos are most at ease with a gentle devotion, and are<br />often unwilling or unable to feel true passion. Passion seems to consists of<br />surrendering themselves, and that they refuse to do, so they channel any energy<br />that love gives them into their work, always searching for<br />excellence.<br /><br />Libra : <br />Compitability : Aries<br />It seems that you<br />are everybody's friend and you cooperate with the public. It also seems<br />that you are artistic, you are concerned with the fairness, and<br />you do not like to get into confrontations with others. You<br />privately always put yourself first. You always do your own things when<br />you are at home or by yourself. You are very independent really. You<br />initiate many of the things that you want to accomplish in life, and you do not<br />need anyone's help or interference.<br />Love: Love is best along<br />'the middle of the road for Librans; both the heart and the head are involved<br />but it is neither detached nor passionate. However, Librans are so concerned<br />with the surface beauty of love that they fail to understand it fully. Librans<br />do not question why they are in love, they merely recognize that they are in<br />love.<br /><br />Scorpio : <br />Compitability :<br />Taurus<br />You seem intense or<br />mysterious to others. You do not trust strangers, and you do not want<br />people to mess with you. If they do, they will be liable to be sorry, or<br />even get hurt somehow. You are a person who is very interested in<br />beautiful things like art, music, and beautiful people. You love to relax<br />with family and friends, and especially eating meals with them. Your<br />pleasures are conventional and earthy.<br />Love:<br />Love is a continuous<br />struggle for scorpions. They are sexually uninhibited, yet at the same time,<br />they are often mentally suspicious and rather fearful. This means that they are<br />constantly trying to unite the physical and spiritual sides of love with a<br />mixture of eroticism and purity. Sadly, this means they are rarely<br />satisfied.<br /><br />Sagittarius : <br />Compitability :<br />Gemini<br />People see you as<br />adventurous, big-hearted, and religious and very spiritual. They also<br />see you like taking chances, being independent and<br />fun-loving. You are really a teacher (may be of spiritual matters), a<br />communicator, and a collector of ideas and information. You are always<br />learning new things and teaching others what you have learned. And, you<br />may change residence often.<br />Love: In a desperate desire to<br />discover true love, Sagittarians are constantly blinded by the idealism of love<br />and therefore also constantly wounded by love's realities. They need to look<br />within themselves, to their own hearts for love, because they will not find it<br />an idealistic insubstantiality.<br /><br />Capricorn<br />Compitability : Cancer<br />You look like a<br />career person. You appear to be the boss or at least the bossy type. <br />You may seem serious, conventional and demanding of others' respect. <br />People can not easily approach you in public, even at social gatherings and<br />parties. Your private nature is sensitive, protective and motherly,<br />or at least parental. You like family and kids, and they don't have<br />to be your own. And, you can take care of yourself. But, no one<br />knows this unless they have the opportunity or the self-confidence to get close<br />to you.<br />Love:<br />Capricorns have learned<br />that love cannot be measured in excessive emotion. Love is quiet, and<br />undermining, a mutual gratification. However, it may be that they have not<br />experienced true longing, due to the quiet nature of their<br />feelings.<br /><br />Aquarius:<br />Compitability : Leo<br /> <br />You look so friendly and you<br />appear to most people to be a great humanitarian. You seem to be very<br />broad-minded about social issues. And, you are easily approachable and<br />always interested in getting to know people around you and their<br />ideas. You inwardly are a proud person who needs a lot of<br />recognition and approval. You feel special and blessed with so many<br />talents. You are loaded with self-worth, and need attention and<br />admiration frequently. Your ego can not stand to be ignored or<br />neglected.<br />Love :Love is an unselfish<br />and rather detached emotion for this star sign, and is to be explored and<br />enjoyed. Love's scope and dimentions are understood, but it is scattered<br />carelessly and the feeling is often confused with friendship. The sense of<br />fulfillment and 'oneness' is just out of reach<br /><br />Pisces : <br />Compitability : Virgo<br />People see you as a<br />person who cares very much for what happens to humanity. You look sweet or<br />shy, and very quiet. You seem like a private person with much sensitivity<br />and intuition about others' feelings, and you may even appear to be<br />self-sacrificing. You never push yourself ahead of the crowd, and are<br />always humble, and usually play down your abilities and talents. You<br />are health conscious, hate germs and dirt, and if you don't feel well, you get<br />in a very bad mood. But, you still keep on working, and serving others in<br />some capacity. You are proud of yourself on what a good worker you are,<br />and how detailed and organized you can be. You know that others need you,<br />and that makes you feel great.<br />Love :<br />Unselfish submission defines love for the Piscean, who gains more pleasure from<br />giving than from receiving. They often succumb to temption, and float from one<br />partner to another. In this way, or by refusing any partners, they avoid become<br />hooked by deep emotional commitment. Those who refuse both these directions and<br />take a middle way are richly awarded.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-68072025566324873692007-12-04T17:35:00.000+08:002007-12-04T17:36:08.452+08:00If you vote for the government, I will certainly cut your balls !!!!From: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:andrewlpt%40chinfoh.com.myTo" target="_blank" href="mailto:andrewlpt%40chinfoh.com.myTo">andrewlpt@chinfoh. com.myTo</a>: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:selva_mookiah%40hotmail.comSubject" target="_blank" href="mailto:selva_mookiah%40hotmail.comSubject">selva_mookiah@ hotmail.comSubje ct</a>: Fw: Very well written by a very disgruntled citizenDate: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:10:00 +0800<br /><br />Guys, you will love this be'coz it's all so true!<br />So heed the advice on the last line!<br /><br />Enjoy this!<br /><br />In America, people are afraid of terrorists,In Malaysia we are afraid of bloggers .In Japan people make quality cars,In Malaysia, Proton's a blast. In Sweden, customers' car parks are on the ground floor, nearest to the shops.In Malaysia, customers' car parks are on the 4th floor and gettingthere requires gymnastics skills.In most countries, parking in public places are often free. In Malaysia, the government has proposed to extend parking chargestill 10 am to reduce road congestion.In most countries, travelling outstation, there's little or no toll.In Malaysia, If you go to Seremban, the toll is more than your petrol. In almost most countries, there's no ID card.In Malaysia, if you have no ID card you can go to jail for 6 months.In all countries corruption is almost looked upon with disdain.In Malaysia, after two White Papers on the police, they are dancing to our disdain.In all developed countries, nobody is above the law.You have only to be the Deputy PM to have everything "expunged" on Page 3.In most developed countries, your house is about quarter mile from the highway. In Malaysia, you house is inbetween the highway.In many developed countries, toilets and parking bays are reserved forthe disabled.In Malaysia we have locked toilets and barred parking bays and youhave to find the guard to get the keys if you are disabled.In Indonesia, all toll and parking charges are reasonably fixed by thegovernment. In Malaysia, you can get a heart attack just looking at your parking charges. In Australia, beer flows like water.In Malaysia, money flows like water when drinking beer.In Indonesia, you can squat on the toilets; in Germany you can even lie down.In Malaysia, you have to use one hand to hold your nose and the other your willy.In Singapore and Hong Kong, one ticket takes you around all subways.In Malaysia, Subway is the name of a sandwitch joint and it takes agenius to understand the route through 4 subways providers. In most countries, their PM is honest or dishonest but they do notpretend to be otherwise.In Malaysia, our PM pretends to be honest when he is really rotten dishonest.When people remarry, they go for a honey moon. When our PM remarries he is back from his honeymoon and he goes to hisfirst wife grave and ask for forgiveness. When Clinton was elected President, he went for 4 organized parties inWashington DC the same night. When our PM was made PM, he drove home and knelt beside his mother andcried for the papers to publish.People usually have their son and daughters succeed in their business.Our PM is better as he uses his son-in-law for his business and his son for other businesses.This country is so full of shit I am ashamed to call myself aMalaysian. Our 50th anniversary is but a side show to show ourdisgrace to the rest of world.You only need one bullet to kill democracy and that's our self-anointed Malay first policy. Remember Rome and its indulgencesand wastages and you will remember how this country will fall in thenext 50 years. Fortunately, I will not live till 100 to see it but at75, I will be paying RM40 to travel home to Seremban for toll just soto visit my parent's grave. I wondered who is buried there - myparents or my passivity.If I run for politics, will anyone support me? If you vote for the government, I will certainly cut your balls !!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084724.post-46955396050475148542007-12-04T11:54:00.000+08:002007-12-04T12:11:57.927+08:00Articles : Temple issues<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;">It's been a very very long time since I blogged. I've been saving the articles in the PC and since it's the first in 4 months, I'm literally FREE (the boss is out), I'm able to update and clear my desktop.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;">More to come but hopefully, less political.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;">I do support HINDRAF - forget about the money, it's about the honor and the right for equality.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;">I just added <a href="http://profiles.friendster.com/55779889">them</a> on Friendster, just for fun.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;">As long as the government doesn't torture me or block me from getting house and car loans. LOL</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />what he means by not urgent. the public is very angry. The malays and</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">indians are upset that such cruel hearted person destroy their home in</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">between raya and deepavali, plus kids still going for exam.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">look at the video here. very terrrible and heart-wrenching.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">http://videos. thestar.com. my/default. aspx?vid= 584</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">if can convert to youtube, pls do so.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">if this appears in TV3, I'm sure Khir Toyo will be out office the next day.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Motion to discuss demolition of temple rejected BERNAMA</span><br /><br /><http: style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);" my="" current_="" news="" nst="" thursday="" newsbreak="" 20071101155314="" article="" semailpu="" ll_html="">source<http: my="" current_="" news="" nst="" thursday="" newsbreak="" 20071101155314="" article="" index_="" html=""><br /><http: my="" current_="" news="" nst="" thursday="" newsbreak="" 20071101155314="" article="" pppull_="" index_html="">KUALA LUMPUR, THURS:<br /><br />THE Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Datuk Lim Si Cheng today rejected an<br />emergency motion tabled by an opposition member to discuss the demolition of<br />a Hindu temple in Padang Jawa, Shah Alam, on Tuesday.<br />He said that even though the motion was specific and of public interest, it<br />was not urgent.<br />M. Kula Segaran (DAP-Ipoh Barat) who tabled the motion, said that besides<br />the temple, a surau and 250 houses were also demolished.<br />"Indian gangsters were also paid by the contractor to intimidate the Hindus<br />who were at the temple," he said.<br />In the incident also, 26 people were injured, he added.<br />[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Hi All,</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Every morning I use to buy Gardenia bread in red box on picture cost RM0.50.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">But today onwards 1st Nov the latest price is RM0.60 and not only this,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">there are so many things price has been increased.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">*WHY ALL THIS PRICES HAS TO BE INCREASED AT DEEPAVALI TIME?*</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">* *</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">PLEASE THINK AND DECIDE WHO TO VOTE…</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Another part: - *Hindu temple Demolish in Klang*</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Pictures of latest Hindu temple Demolish in Klang</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">http://www.malaysia nindians. net/v1/latest/ pictures- of-latest- hindu-temple- demolish- in-klang- 2.html</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Samy: Stop temple demolitions or risk Indian votes</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">http://www.malaysia nindians. net/v1/latest/ samy-stop- temple-demolitio ns-or-risk- indian-votes. html</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Temple row: Suhakam slams authorities</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">http://www.malaysia nindians. net/v1/latest/ temple-row- suhakam-slams- authorities. html</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Samy: Give new sites for temples</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">http://www.malaysia nindians. net/v1/latest/ samy-give- new-sites- for-temples. html</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">*PLEASE THINK AND DECIDE WHO TO VOTE…*</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Thanks & Regards,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">*TJ*</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Malaysia Hindu Sangam</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, November 3, 2007:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Malaysia Hindu Sangam is shocked to understand that the developer of the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">land in Taman Karuppiah had never taken court action to evacuate the homes and</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">buildings in the area. We understand that it was the former Mayor of Shah Alam</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">who had taken the court order to clear the land. Having obtained the order, the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Mayor, both former and present, had not followed procedures of having given</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">reasonable time before the demolition of the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Taman</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Karuppiah, Shah Alam on October 29, 2007. The temple which was demolished is no</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">ordinary roadside shrine but it is a reasonably large temple with facilities for</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">pujas, weddings, religious courses and kindergarten classes.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">When the present Mayor went to the temple at about 9.00 AM the same day and said</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">that the temple will be demolished within two hours it is most unbelievable that</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">such a senior responsible official could have no knowledge of the existing</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">facilities of the temple. It is our view that he has not advised the Menteri</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Besar with the full details. It is also hard to believe that he was ignorant of</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">the understanding by the officials of the MBSA, State Government, and MIC</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Officials with the temple officials the previous night on October 28, 2007</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">assuring that temple can remain a few more days until the Deepavali</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">celebrations.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">It is our view that any court order which was obtained more than two years ago</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">should have been treated with compassion to the devotees of the places of the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">worship of both the temple and the surau. We agree that the indiscriminate order</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">to remove the Hindu temple and the surau was an unjust act of not considering</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">the feelings of the respective religious followers in that area.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">It is also our opinion that Mayor had no control over his enforcement officers</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">who retaliated with heavy throwing of stones into the temple while a special pua</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">was being conducted. It must be stated that the police force on duty at that</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">time was restrained. The confrontational retaliatory action by the MBSA</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">enforcement officers was in our opinion the cause for the violence in the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">temple.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Many officials of the temples, Malaysia Hindu Sangam and others were injured due</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">to this aggressive attitude of the MBSA officers. Mr. T. Ganesan, the Chairman</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">of Malaysia Hindu Sangam, Selangor Branch, is one of those injured. Among the 14</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">people arrested and remanded at least half of them were innocent devotees of the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">temple who were merely playing a role of protecting the Deities. Attempting to</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">destroy these Deities is very sensitive and is considered as an insult to the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Hindu community. What else can the innocent devotees do when given only two</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">hours notice? Such an act of detention by the police is condemned.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">It is reliably learnt that the developer has allocated a land to the temple.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">However, we appeal to the developer to see that the land is suitable and</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">appropriate in such a way that the structure of the temple will be facing the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">correct direction under the agamas.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">In the mean time Malaysia Hindu Sangam appeals to the MIC leaders to have a</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">dialogue with the leaders of the HINDRAF to find ways of solving the problems of</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">temples in a peaceful manner. The Malaysia Hindu Sangam is willing to cooperate</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">in this matter.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Residents, lawyers held after demolition fracas</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Bede Hong</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Oct 31, 07 2:30pmAdjust font size:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">The Kampung Rimba Jaya in Padang Jawa, near Shah Alam was a chaotic scene last night when residents tried to prevent the Shah Alam City Hall from demolishing their houses. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">The residents’ attempt to save their homes turned physical and bloody when scores were hurt in the ensuing melee. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Fifteen residents were also arrested and are now being detained at the Shah Alam Section 11 police station. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">In the end, over 200 houses, a 100-year-old temple and a surau have been levelled to the ground by the authorities. Even the presence of MIC president S Samy Vellu could not save the houses and the temple. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">And later in the day, four lawyers - human rights lawyers P Uthayakumar and P Waythamoorthy as well as DAP lawyers M Manoharan and S Ganabathi Rao - were also arrested by the police when they attempted to enter Section 11 police station to help the release of the residents. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">The police have today obtained a four-day remand order against the residents, said DAP legal bureau chief A Sivanesan. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">The lawyers are still being held under custody although no remand order has been obtained against them as yet. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">When contacted Sivanesan also said that at least two residents suffered serious injuries. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">"A woman, in her fifties and a 16-year-old boy suffered great injury. Their clothes are soaked with their own blood and they are still wearing them," he said. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Tamil dailies today also carried images of another man with head injury. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Lawyers manhandled </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">The police have also taken Uthayakumar' s statement and are in the process of taking statements from the remaining three lawyers. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">The lawyers were arrested for creating a scuffle in front of the Section 11 police station after they were refused entry by the police. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">"Their purpose there was to assist residents lodge reports against the state government and relevant authorities. They were also to inquire on the status of those arrested and detained," said Hindraf lawyer R Gengadharan when contacted today. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">"The conduct of arresting and detaining by the police is unjustified, " he said. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Last night, Waythamoorthy lodged a police report against the conduct of the police in arresting him and the other three lawyers. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">In the report lodged at the same police station, Waythamoorthy said that he was manhandled and had a machine-gun pointed at him when he inquired as to why the lawyers were being refused entry.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">"I was pushed down and stepped on my leg, preventing me from getting up," his report stated.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">“I injured my head, my back and elbow...the same constable threatened to shoot me if I didn’t go out and his machine-gun was pointed at me while I was still on the ground,” he said. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">He added in his report that he and the other lawyers faced racial abuses from the other police personnel at the station, with one policeman allegedly stating that he would “make sure I’m kept in lock up tonight”. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Baton-charged </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Meanwhile, human rights activist S Kumaravel, 44, said a surau was also demolished by council authorities in the eviction exercise yesterday. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">The surau is located in Rimba Jaya, about one kilometre away from the temple. The Sri Maha Mariaman temple is located in Rimba Jaya. Residents from nearby Kampung Karuppiah carry out their prayers at the temple. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Kumaravel, who is Jaringan Rakyat Tertindas (Jerit) exco member, said over 200 houses in Rimba Jaya were demolished in the exercise that saw at least 300 police personnel, including the Federal Reserve Unit, participating. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Rimba Jaya is mostly populated by Malays while Kampung Karuppiah is mostly populated by Indians. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">The MPSA enforcement officers were beating people with batons, said Kumaravel. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">"I saw an enforcement officer pulling out a knife and waving it around threateningly, " said Kumaravel. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">It took almost three hours to demolish the Sri Maha Mariaman temple. The temple's nursery was the first to be demolished when the exercise began yesterday morning. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">After a pause at noon, the demolition continued at 2pm and continued for another three hours amidst resistance from at least 400 residents. Several hundred council enforcement officers were also present. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">News reports said stones were thrown between both sides. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Shots fired </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">In addition to that, today's Sin Chew Jit Poh reported that police fired several shots at a lorry, puncturing at least one tyre. Nanyang Siang Pau reported that five shots were fired. The report said several residents had tried to escape the police in the lorry. They were later arrested. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">There were also accounts of a stabbing, but which could not be verified as yet. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">"They should have waited until Deepavali is over before they begin demolishing the temple. At least the residents have somewhere to pray," said Kumaravel. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Early this morning, he had lodged a police report at Section 11 police station against the state government for ordering the eviction exercise. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">"The police told us that the order was from the Menteri Besar (Mohd Khir Toyo). There was no court order to demolish the surau or the temple," he added. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Tamil dailies also reported that the resident had shown their anger towards Samy Vellu for not doing anything to help them. Samy Vellu is quoted as saying that he would raise the matter with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Temple demolition led to all-out fracas</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Bede Hong</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Oct 30, 07 8:41pmAdjust font size:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">A rowdy fracas broke out between residents and the authorities over the demolition of a temple near Shah Alam today resulting in at least four injured and eight arrested. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Several hundred police personnel and local council authorities clashed with the residents who sought to stop the demolition of the 100-year temple in Padang Jawa. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Workers from the Shah Alam City Hall had demolished the village’s Sri Maha Mariaman temple without a valid court order, said Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) in a statement today. It added that the area looked like a “war zone”. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">According to Hindraf, at least 300 police personnel and council workers had cordoned off the temple this morning. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It said council workers began hurling stones and beating devotees with sticks and batons when they tried to halt the demolition. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">According to T Ganaraw, a lawyer who was at the scene, the demolition work began early in the morning but stopped temporarily to allegedly allow residents to remove the temple’s deities. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Demolition works continued at about 2pm. The fracas was in full swing by 4pm, involving over 400 residents. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">“The police were armed with automatic rifles. The temple is completely smashed up, including the temple nursery,” said Ganaraw. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Samy went to negotiate </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">According to Ganaraw, present during the fracas were representatives from DAP and MIC, including Klang councillor Alex Thiagarajan, who tried to negotiate with the police. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">MIC president S Samy Vellu also visited the village at about 5pm when it was clear that racial tension was raising. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Contacted today, DAP lawyer A Sivanesan said at least eight residents have been arrested and detained at Section 11 police station in Shah Alam. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">He said the MIC president had tried to calm residents by telling them that he had spoken to both Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Selangor Mentri Besar Khir Toyo on the matter. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">“Samy Vellu however told me Khir was not cooperative at all,” said Sivanesan. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The temple chairperson was K Sivalingam, the late assemblyperson for Ijok. His position has since been replaced by Selangor executive councillor Kamala Ganatathy. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">“When we checked with the authorities, the notice to demolish was dated November 2005. But the demolition was only meant for the houses there,” said Sivanesan. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hindraf also said that at 4am today, another 160-year-old Jai Muniswarar Hindu temple in Taman Puchong Hartamas was demolished. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Over the past few years, a number of temples, some of which were more than a century old, had been demolished by the local authorities as they were built illegally.</span><br /></span><br /></http:></http:></http:><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WelcomeToWonderblog" title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" style="border:0"/></a></div>| wonderboy |http://www.blogger.com/profile/06772822446632776843noreply@blogger.com0