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?