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I wonder how much RM1 billion is.                              23Sep12

It is said/rumoured Taib Mahmud and his family have amassed RM64.2billion （RM642亿in Chinese）. 

I often try to figure if the money is expressed in RM100 dollar notes to be put in A4 sized paper boxes.  I wonder how many boxes are needed to hold RM1 billion.

If we stack up 5 boxes in height and 10 boxes across how many kilometres they will run up to.  Well, well, well, and then  RM64.2 billions,  I wonder how many kilometres these boxes will occupy the road. 

I wonder how many billions they can call their own and how many billions in ringgit are ill-gotten through different means of corruption and collusion. 

I wonder whether this is the main reason why he has become so wealthy at the expense of us Sarawakians.  Sarawakians are deprived of so many opportunities and basic facilities as a whole because of him.  He controls almost everything in Sarawak to his advantage.  He and his family enjoy all kinds of luxury at our expense.  We are at the mercy of him. 

          I wonder how much he is responsible for the poor road system and conditions  in Sarawak.  We all feel ashamed of the poor quality of the Pan-Borneo “Highway” which is narrow and winding, more like a kampong road but is forcefully crowned “Highway”.  Whenever I see muddy road people travel, I curse Taib Mahmud and his cronies for the plight.  He and his cronies have plundered us for so long and neglected our needs and interests.  Look at the quality of the houses we see around.  We have to pay more and more for the houses which does not prove of their worth in terms of size and space.  We people are exploited all to the full advantage of Taib Mahmud and his cronies and developers.

I wonder if this is the reason why the 30% equity to Bumiputra still has not reached the targeted point because it has been all taken by the political thugs like Taib Mahmud and his family, his cronies and those related to them.  In other words, it has all been taken by those who are in a circle within the reach to these advantages.  For those who are outside this circle can only watch them become mega-wealthy at their expense.  It is just like every time when we see them banqueted with all the good foods.  Only they have the access to the real food.  We people can only feast through pictures.   For the resources in Sarawak, we people outside the circle can only watch and feel frustrated when only this circle of people enjoy all the fruit of development at our expense. 

     I wonder what ground he stood on when he spoke on “Integrity” to those in civil service.  I saw this activity in the newspaper.  (The Borneo Post).  People like me, of course, laughed our hearts out to see such a scene.  An arch corrupt person and liar who lacked the every quality of integrity to speech on the value of  “Integrity”.  I wonder how many would listen to him / take him seriously.  Pei………….. (we spat or I spat)

          I wonder who does not think he is a laughing stock and a fool who enjoys fooling around and indulges in lying and ‘stealing /swindling /embezzling’.  I wonder how many Sarawakians still take him as a person seriously.  He was so, treacherous,  artful and crafty that so many Sarawakians were fooled by him to believe what the BN government could do for them.  Nowadays, I believe more and more Sarawakians have seen him through and discovered the truth and realised the lies he has said.  It is as clear as the make-up / pretence that a granddaughter aged lady would fall in love with an old man in grandfather rank, 46 years her senior.  

          I wonder what our respected MACC would do if it is proved to be true.  We know it is a heavy task to MACC but it is also a good opportunity for Malaysian Anti-corruption Commission to prove himself/ itself worthy of what he/ it stands.  We people are watching.   We people are more or less ready to flush out those who serve no purpose at all but block the progress of democracy.  This is the trend and be prepared.  Believe it or not, just wait and see.

Houses in comparison and in grievances

Houses in comparison and in grievances                                                 17Sep2012

          Sarawak in federation for 40 + 9 years, we see or I see the development go in extremes.  I will present the pictures in Sarawak.   You can present the pictures of the conditions in your states to show how the BN government has led the country as a whole.  It is time for us people to set the wheel of democracy going for the good and future of all of us.

          Quite a proper terraced house to live in has become a very heavy task to at least 50% of the people .  These people struggle hard all throughout their life to sustain a house.  To another 20%, they can only afford to live in kennel-like houses throughout their life.  For the 10%, they can hardly have a house call their own. 

For about 15%, well, well, well, they may live in semi-detached houses.  With the size and limitation,  it is hard not to feel the squeeze of the building to live in.   There are top 5% living in palace-like houses.  Taib Mahmud and his cronies are in this bracket.  In Sibu, everybody knows Wong Soon Koh live in a palace-like mansion.  Tiong Tai King , our SMC chairman live in style, too.   I bet he has the heart to suppress any extension also at all cost.  People say it is near impossible to get the permission to extend your houses. 

Hence it is hard for not to conclude that this is the government By, For and Of  Taib Mahmud and his cronies as well as those related to them in different business connections.  I often see that there is a lot of corruption and collusion business between these leaders and the consortiums.  We people are always at the mercy or expense of these shark-like leaders. 

  You may often hear Taib Mahmud and his cronies  bark saying that every resident should have a house call his/er own.  But the houses we have around are getting smaller and smaller but more and more expensive.  Is this not the practice called collusion?  Find out if it is true that  Taib Mahmud and his cronies only care about the interests of their own and the developers.   They are blind to see people’s needs.

          With such a size and limitation, 80% of us want the renovation to improve the houses.  BUT they will not be granted the permission for the activity easily.  They are apathy.  They force people to take law in their hand.  We have no choice as we need the space to accommodate.  I live in a mini-semi-detached house and I would like to extend the kitchen but…………I know I can’t for many reasons. 

We have some stupid friends who always tell me to compare myself with those living in kennel-like houses to get the sense of satisfaction with the house conditions.  I can see that these stupid friends do not know what standard mean to them.

Hence I curse the government and the developer for building such a small kitchen.  Thus I can understand very well why my friends and relatives would try hard to save enough to renovate the houses.  I can also understand why more and more people like me curse and curse Taib Mahmud and his cronies especially the minister responsible to signature the agreement for the size of the houses.  Houses are one the basic needs of the people.  It should be built properly to the best interest of the people.  If our housing ministers have been sincere and good to us people and always have the house-buyers on their minds and empathetic, I am convinced to say that these quality of houses won’t exist easily. 

          We really feel ashamed and sorry to see kennel-like low cost housing built to coop up the poor, poor people.  When some of  these people have tried to extend the houses, the authority are ever ready to come to suppress them.  Lately in Sibu Jaya, Sibu, Sarawak, some people there want to improve their kennel-like houses but the leader 丁永豪 (district councillor ) say they will have to dismantle at all cost!  Alamat!  What a curse! What a shame! What a pity!   What  a cold blooded person to say so!  I wonder what size of house he lives in.  Here I would like to advise him to live in the kennel-like house for a year before he takes any action against these poor people.  Remember we people are looking and feeling for them.  We people will band up to flush all these shit leaders out in the course of time.  Believe it or not, just wait and see.

What rights do people have?  Najib and other leaders bark a lot saying “People first!”   The houses that we bear witness are well evidenced of who is first in reality.  I hope Taib Mahmud and the leaders of his cronies would not shit and blind talk anymore.  The more they talk on how they care for us, the more abhorrent we feel towards them when we see the great discrepancies between words and actions.

          Lately again Taib Mahmud and other BN leaders in Sarawak shit and bark saying, that earning RM150,000 a month is possible for Sarawakians under SCORE (See Hua Daily News 31^st August 2010).  I wonder how many and how to attain this goal.  Shit-shit talk is no doubt so easylah.  Is shit a kind of food to them, too and food for your thought?