Railway men picket ...

Ooiii....malu la....Railway pun sekarang sudah mau picket... Aiyooo......betul betul malu ..

Malaysian punye Gomen seakarang huru hara...ini abikat semua duit hilang...rezab pun hilang..Cis  malu malu

As a son of an Ex-Railway men, I know what the Malayan Railway is all about...

So, as RUM had suggested with the idea of stopping all Rail Services for the coming Rari Raya Holidays..

See I gotta see....

hahahaha

For the sake of humanity...RELEASE them ...

No man nor women should be treated indifferently or inhumanely. Dr Micheal Jeyakumar is enduring the wrath of both and is on hunger strike.

This isn't good. As an elected representative, we can't afford to lose a good doctor, a good Samaritan to rot in jail without knowing the cause. This is what I call the rule of barbarians.

All humans have rights no matter how grievous the crime is but for Dr. Jeyakumar and the six others jailed together with him, who have yet to commit any crime, are jailed anyway without knowing the cause or crime. 

Even if the doctor and the six others have indeed committed any crime, why ren't they charged in court? How can humans be held captive without a trial? Is this what democracy is all about - the incarceration of humans without trial.

Anway, this is how democracy is spelt in Bolehland. 

Someone said in the media the other day, "either you charge them in court or let them go free." Even this had fallen on the deaf ears. This only goes to say one thing and one thing only - you hold an illegal rally; now I hold your people in custody without trial." 

The BN government has gone after almost every one representing the opposition party, who according to them, have broken the law, have participated in an illegal rally or have uttered 'seditious' remarks.

So much have been heard and seen, the rudeness and the blatant deplorable of low-bred armed personnel breaking the very spirit of the people who want a total change of governance.

What's baffling now is that, many from the ruling party/government have uttered nasty and racist remarks, some even seditious but have never been arrested let alone reprimanded.  Why? And they call this democracy.

Many too have been taken into questioning and held against their will.

By the time GE13 comes by, I guess the entire nation will hold in grips to the outcome and await anxioulsy to see if a new government could be formed or to continue with the same old one. 

Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi, on hunger strike fighting for freedom and independence for India said, "I know a way out of life."

God willing, we hope Dr. Jeyakumar's and the 6 PSM member's drama does not come to that stage.

Syariah United Kingdom ...

Islamic fundamentalists in UK recently have launched their version of the Syariah Law by way of pole stickers.

It won't be long before Malaysians see the same here as well.

First Family ..in candid

Indian digits....

Meet Akshat Saxena -  a one-year-old boy in India with 34 fingers and toes. 

How's this for size?

Loch Ness monster ...

A picture can paint a thousand more pictures ....

This gruesome carcass of a "monster" was found washed ashore by the lady and her dog....

But, the truth is, the above "monster" is actually the carcass of a Pilot Whale (see below).  Poor thing..how deceiving.

African scam 3 ..

Enough has been said about Africans, their scams, their deceits and their heinous brutality.

In Malaysia lately, eleven Africans were held over a series of Internet scams; a joint effort by the Malaysian and Taiwanese police.

It was reported the police acted over a report lodged by an elderly Taiwanese divorcee in her 40s.

Some time ago she got to know Mark, an African who claimed to be a British engineer via a dating website. Mark expressed his interest in wanting to invest in Taiwan and invited Li to be his partner. This is the latest trend amongst African now.

But later, he claimed his bank account was hacked and had asked money to be transferred to his account. It was traced to a Maybank account over 37 transactions.

After the transactions, Mark could never be traced ever.

Another, sometime in January this year, a lady was cheated by another African claiming to be British national using the same modus operandi - chat site.

The Brit had claimed he needed money to bribe some officials in his country to help his lady friend. A sum of RM300,000 = USD 100,000.00 was transferred to his account and later only to find him missing. 

Mark was among 11 Nigerians arrested last week in Malaysia.

In spite of all this, many foolish women wanting love and affection still fall prey to such Africans or should say BASTARDS.

..a sad case of immurement ...

Dr. Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj - doctor, civil-right activists, father and MP for Sungei Siput, the man who defeated Samy Velu in the 2008 General Election and 5 others are now held incarcerated under Emergency Ordinance (EO) which is similar to the ISA.

Dr. Micheal is a member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia.

His crime : Plotting to wage war against the King of Malaysia (Yang Di Pertuan Agong) so say the police.

Question :

• Why would someone like Dr. Jeyakumar wana wage war with anyone so to speak?
• Don't you think he has better things to fry?
• What has the King got to do with Dr. Jeyakumar anyway?
• Someone out there wanted to bring on a crusade openly against the Christians. Why isn't that person arrested under the EO or even the ISA?
• In this dawn of era, we're still mired and governed by stone-age laws. Are the authorities dwelling in caves?
• On a serious note, how can any 6 peace loving people gather or unite to topple a government?

On the other end, we need to understand Malaysia has never lifted its Emergency rule till now, so (if I may construe), Malaysia is still living in a state of Emergency.

We must be the perfect joke for the world.

Beckham, Harper and boot ...

with daughter ..

boot ...

bowing down to yellow ...

Crazy but true ...

This lady earns a near GBP90,000 a year making net surfers watch her eat on line. And she has  her daughter to help her gain in size and money as well.

NGOs ...

BERSIH is still an illegal civil-rights movement. Under the BERSIH umbrella they're 62 Non-Governmental Organisations registered and all are LEGAL.

So, branding BERSIH 2.0 illegal...does it make sense??

Below some of the NGOs under the BERSIH umbrella :-

Non Government Organizations:
- Aliran Kesedaran Rakyat (The Peoples Flow of Awareness)
- All-Women’s Action Society (AWAM)
- Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM) (Malaysian Islamic Youth Movement)
- Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ)
- Citizens’ Health Initiative
- Civil Rights Committee (KLSCAH)
- Community Action Network
- ERA Consumer Malaysia (ERACON)
- Gabungan Mahasiswa Islam SeMalaysia (Coalition of Muslim Students Malaysia)
- Group of Concerned Citizens (GCC)
- Jaringan Rakyat Tertindas (JERIT) (Oppressed Citizens Network)
- Labour Resource Centre (LRC)
- Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC)
- Malaysia Youth and Students Democratic Movement (DEMA)
- Malaysian Voters Union (MALVU)
- National Human Rights Society (HAKAM)
- Pusat Janadaya (Janadaya Center)
- Pusat Komunikasi Masyarakat (The Center for Social Communication)
- Research for Social Advancement (REFSA)
- Save Ourselves (SOS Penang)
- Bersih Kuala Lumpur (BSKL)
- Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (Students Solidarity Malaysia)
- Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Voice of the People, Malaysia)
- Tamil Foundation
- Unit Pemikiran Politik, (Political Thinktank Unit)
- Kuala Lumpur Drum Corps (KLDC)
- Women’s Development Collective (WDC)
- Writers Alliance for Media Independence (WAMI)

minus Harper 7 Beckham.

Question : Do any of his boys look like him?

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah ...

An excellent speech by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah in UK,  in excerpts  and taken in parts.

You say you “no longer want to be ignored and leave the future of our Malaysia at the hands of the current generation.”

You “want to grab the bull by the horns… and have a say in where we go as a society and as a nation.”I feel the same, actually. A lot of Malaysians feel the same.

They are tired of being ignored and talked down to by swaggering mediocrities.

You are right. The present generation in power has let Malaysia down. But also you cite two things as testimony of the importance of youth and of student activism to this country, the election results of 2008 and “the Prime Minister’s acknowledgement of the role of youth in the development of the country.”

Tengku Abdul Rahman called a press conference and had a beer with his stewards when his horse won at the Melbourne Cup. He had nothing to hide because his great integrity in service was clear to all. Now we have religious and moral hypocrites who cheat, lie and steal in office but never have a drink, who propagate an ideologically shackled education system for all Malaysians while they send their own kids to elite academies in the West.

I don’t think it’s mere nostalgia that that makes us think there was a time when the sun shone more brightly upon Malaysia.

When we were at ease with who we were and didn’t need slogans to do our best together, we did well. When race and money entered our game, we declined. The same applies to our political and economic life. Soon after independence we were already a highly successful developing country.

We had begun the infrastructure building and diversification of our economy that would be the foundation for further growth. We carried out an import-substitution programme that stimulated local productive capacity. From there we started an infrastructure buildup which enabled a diversification of the economy leading to rapid industrialisation.

Without a doubt, Malaysia is slipping. Billions have been looted from this country, and billions more are being siphoned out as our entire political structure crumbles. Yet we are gathered here in comfort, in a country that still seems to ‘work.’ Most of the time. This is due less to good management than to the extraordinary wealth of this country. You were born into a country of immense resources both natural and cultural and social.

We have been wearing down this advantage with mismanagement and corruption. With lies, tall tales and theft. We have a political class unwilling or unable to address the central issue of the day because they have grown fat and comfortable with a system built on lies and theft. It is easy to fall into the lull caused by the combination of whatever wealth has not been plundered and removed and political class that lives in a bubble of sycophancy.

I urge you not to fall into that complacency. It is time to wake up. That waking up can begin here, right here, at this conference. Not tomorrow or the day after but today. So let me, as I have the honour of opening this conference, suggest the following: Overcome the urge to have our hopes for the future endorsed by the Prime Minister. He will have retired, and I’ll be long gone when your future arrives.

The shape of your future is being determined now. Resist the temptation to say “in line with” when we do something. Your projects, believe it or not, don’t have to be in line with any government campaign for them to be meaningful. You don’t need to polish anyone’s apple. Just get on with what you plan to do. Do not put a lid on certain issues as “sensitive” because someone said they are.

Or it is against the Social Contract. Or it is “politicisation”. You don’t need to have your conversation delimited by the hyper-sensitive among us. Sensitivity is often a club people use to hit each other with. Reasoned discussion of contentious issues builds understanding and trust. Test this idea. It’s not “uber-liberal” to ask for an end to having politics, economic policy, education policy and everything and the kitchen sink determined by race. It’s called growing up. Go look up “liberal” in a dictionary.

Please resist the temptation to say Salam 1 Malaysia, or Salam Vision 2020 or Salam Malaysia Boleh, or anything like that. Not even when you are reading the news. It’s embarrassing. I think it’s OK to say plain old salam the way the Holy Prophet did, wishing peace unto all humanity. You say you want to “promote intellectual discourse.”

I take that to mean you want to have reasonable, thought-through and critical discussions, and slogans are the enemy of thought. Banish them. Don’t let the politicians you have invited here talk down to you. Don’t let them tell you how bright and “exuberant” you are, that you are the future of the nation, etc. If you close your eyes and flow with their flattery you have safely joined the caravan, a caravan taking the nation down a sink hole.

If they tell you the future is in your hands kindly request that they hand that future over first.Ask them how come the youngest member of our cabinet is 45 and is full of discredited hacks? Our Merdeka cabinet had an average age below thirty. You’re not the first generation to be bright. Mine wasn’t too stupid. But you could be the first generation of students and young graduates in fifty years to push this nation through a major transformation. And it is a transformation we need desperately.

You will be told that much is expected of you, much has been given to you, and so forth. This is all true. Actually much has also been stolen from you. Over the last twenty five years, much of the immense wealth generated by our productive people and our vast resources has been looted. This was supposed to have been your patrimony. The uncomplicated sense of belonging fully, wholeheartedly, unreservedly, to this country, in all it diversity, that has been taken from you.

Our sense of ourselves as Malaysians, a free and united people, has been replaced by a tale of racial strife and resentment that continues to haunt us. The thing is, this tale is false. The most precious thing you have been deprived of has been your history. Someone of my generation finds it hard to describe what must seem like a completely different country to you now. Malaysia was not born in strife but in unity.

Our independence was achieved through a demonstration of unity by the people in supporting a multiracial government led by Tengku Abdul Rahman. That show of unity, demonstrated first through the municipal elections of 1952 and then through the Alliance ’s landslide victory in the elections of 1955, showed that the people of Malaya were united in wanting their freedom. We surprised the British, who thought we could not do this. Today we are no longer as united as we were then.

We are also less free. I don’t think this is a coincidence. It takes free people to have the psychological strength to overcome the confines of a racialised worldview. It takes free people to overcome those politicians bent on hanging on to power gained by racialising every feature of our life including our football teams. Hence while you are at this conference, let me argue, that as an absolute minimum, we should call for the repeal of unjust and much abused Acts which are reversals of freedoms that we won at Merdeka.

I ask you in joining me in calling for the repeal of the ISA and the OSA. These draconian laws have been used, more often than not, as political tools rather than instruments of national security. They create a climate of fear. These days there is a trend among right wing nationalist groups to identify the ISA with the defence of Malay rights. This is a self-inflicted insult on Malay rights. As if our Constitutional protections needed draconian laws to enforce them. I wish they were as zealous in defending our right not to be robbed by a corrupt ruling elite.

We don’t seem to be applying the law of the land there, let alone the ISA.I ask you to join me in calling for the repeal of the Printing and Publications Act, and above all, the Universities and Colleges Act. I don’t see how you can pursue your student activism with such freedom and support in the UK and Eire while forgetting that your brethren at home are deprived of their basic rights of association and expression by the UCA. The UCA has done immense harm in dumbing down our universities.

We must have freedom as guaranteed under our Constitution. Freedom to assemble, associate, speak, write and move. This is basic. Even on matters of race and even on religious matters we should be able to speak freely, and we shall educate each other. It is time to realise the dream of Dato’ Onn and the spirit of the Alliance , of Tunku Abdul Rahman. That dream was one of unity and a single Malaysian people. They went as far as they could with it in their time.

Instead of taking on the torch we have reversed course. The next step for us as a country is to move beyond the infancy of race-based parties to a non-racial party system. Our race-based party system is the key political reason why we are a sick country, declining before our own eyes, with money fleeing and people telling their children not to come home after their studies. So let us try to take 1 Malaysia seriously. Millions have been spent putting up billboards and adding the term to every conceivable thing. We even have cuti-cuti 1 Malaysia .

Can’t take a normal holiday anymore. This is all fine. Now let us see if it means anything. Let us see the Government of the day lead by example. 1 Malaysia is empty because it is propagated by a Government that promotes the racially-based party system that is the chief cause of our inability to grow up in our race relations. Our inability to grow up in our race relations is the chief reason why investors, and we ourselves, no longer have confidence in our economy.

The reasons why we are behind Maldives in football, and behind the Philippines in FDI, are linked. So let us take 1 Malaysia seriously, and convert Barisan Nasional into a party open to all citizens. Let it be a multiracial party open to direct membership. PR will be forced to do the same or be left behind the times. Then we shall have the vehicles for a two party, non-race-based system.

If Umno, MIC or MCA are afraid of losing supporters, let them get their members to join this new multiracial party. PR should do the same. Nobody need feel left out. Umno members can join en masse. The Hainanese Kopitiam Association can join whichever party they want, or both parties en masse if they like. We can maintain our cherished civil associations, however we choose to associate. But we drop all communalism when we compete for the ballot. When our candidates stand for Elections, let them ever after stand only as Malaysians, better or worse.

Anne Ooi ...

This little demure gallant of a lady, a retired teacher stood steadfast against the might of the PDRM for BERSIH 2.0

In her hand she had flowers to give away  as well.  Pictures don't lie. But I believe she was a sad and broken lady on July 9.


Photo courtesy of Hugo Teng.



what!! a plaque?

He even had the audacity to claim a

token for his folly...what ignominy is this!!

The truth - BERSIH 2.0

From KTM to Pasar Seni - BERSIH 2.0

oops..what's her name?

What do these two have in common?



One dated and the other is dating the same girl...



My BERSIH 2.0

There I was, after managing to tow along with the moving crowd, appeared sandwiched in the middle of another mega-crowd. With a vibrating heart, toes chilling and looking somewhat a hooded nihilist, I stood staring at this ugly big red truck staring back at me. Only thing, this one had a bell and water cannons from hell.  

Behind me I swore I could hear the same vibrating chills of hearts of other fellow dear Malaysians, equally fearful but trying hard to be bravehearts. In front of me stood two quaint ladies, small with tudong and scarf, panting and huffing away unfearfully, "BERSIH ..BERSIH." Their screams were ringing away like the clarion call for war.

Then, whhhoossshhhhh, out came the liquid 'evil' water from that red truck aimed at us hell. I turned and ran but the two girls stood their grounds to face 'evil' in their eyes. A nearby BERSIHaite shouted, 'lari...lari'.  My eyes had started to burn. The two moslem braveheart ladies, ducked and faced the water cannons - maybe in that midst I can only gather they started to recite verses from the holy Quran.

The next few minutes it rained pedih pedih. Goosh...how the laws can be this cruel, to douse the BERSIH 2.0 rally martyrs with pepper or whatever upon us. 

What malefic symphony is this?

How big is our crime - all gathered in the middle of the street, with the Constitution as our rights but still told to disperse. 

At this very salient and chaos moment, I saw an elderly Hindu man, grap hold of a Chinese girl and shoved her into a safer place. "Lari ahmoi, lari ..lari" The girl was no where to be seen.

A foul mouthed pakcik cursed the heavens and hell above him for the water had made him partial blind. Nearby, a cheeky Chinese boy took his mineral water and doused the pakcik's synching face, "jangan buka mata..jangan muka mata..pelan pelan pakcik." 

What I felt all this time the very care and comradeship amongst Malaysians over racial enmity, I saw it rekindled and stood witness to the finer fabric of the 1Malaysia put to work right before my eyes. 

Ohh dear, we Malaysians have come a long way to show our love for our fellow countrymen in the face of BERSIH. And how depressing the powers that rule and wield see it iillegal. 

Ambiga did it.  Najib was in Terengganu dancing away.

BERSIH 2.0 @ Jalan Pudu - Part 1

Bersih 2.0 - Washington D.C

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Bersih 2.0 Rally - the unsung Heroes

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Bersih 2.0 Rally - Petaling Street

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Bersih 2.0: - clampdown - Kampong Baru

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BERSIH 2.0 2011 - Masjid Jamek

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BERSIH 2.0 2011 - Menara Maybank

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BERSIH 2.0 - beyond a million decibels ...

Drenched, tear-eyed, tired, exhausted, leg cramps and boisterous, it was all worth the effort. July 9 will go down in Malaysian history as the day the people (rakyat) stood united to be heard in a colossal manner. Never have I seen such an ocean of Malaysians from various groups and believes unite together to be heard. And I'm darn glad I was one of the thousands. 

BERSIH 2.0 was a success beyond it's simple reason. Many were thunderstruck to see a simple cause to bring justice to free and fair elections, grow into an event mired by tear-gas, police brutality, unwarranted arrest of unarmed civilians and the high handedness of the Malaysian Police force.

Many leaders were arrested including Ambiga, the chairperson of BERSIH 2.0.  Anwar Ibrahim (PR) got hurt from a canister aimed at him and was rushed to hospital.

The partisan crowd grouped in thousands and marched to the Stadium from various meet-points in Kuala Lumpur.

Khairi was tear-gassed and arrested as well. So much so for the Umno led Patriot group.

In a twist of event, PDRM (POLIS) allowed the growing congregating groups to march towards the iconic Stadium Merdeka after S. Sivarasa (PR) negotiated with the Polis and got them to grant the thousands to march on.

BERSIH 2.0 lived up to its motto by marching peacefully and handed the memorandum to the King.

Pictures courtesy of those from the rally, MT and FMT and many other sources.

 BERSIH 2.0 rally in Perth, Australia