Who will win?

Who can win?                                               29/3/2013

          Najib blared that BN could win two-thirds majority in the 13^th general election.  Goodlah, so he clings tightly to this hope to cope with ever increasingly  difficult situations.  Here I dare him to announce the election day without further delay and without any due care.  Why does he still think that the BN coalition can win when I think at least 70% feel like being plundered and exploited. 

          Wong Soon Koh in Sibu, Sarawak also thinks like that and has expressed his belief many times.  Hee……..……..a man so out of touch of reality.  Hence he can’t understand why so many Chinese just despise and condemn him. 

          Many, many and many BN leaders like James Masing,  Vincent Lau Lee Ming, Peter Chin………… all blare a lot about their belief without going around to find out what people in general think of the BN government.

          Who can win?  I think all the leaders should keep their mouths shut and think and check what development and benefits on both short and long term basis they have done for the good and well-being of the people in general in a democratic way.  It is not the benefits that only about 20% of the people can enjoy at the expense of the rest.  It is not good to bla, bla, bla…………….. like that anymore. 

          It is not good to bla, bla, bla on winning without thinking what good and benefits you have sincerely and honestly brought to us people in general.  Please think along these lines:

1.    A good road system.  Do we have?  People will tell you in the 13^th general election.

2.    A good and well-connected public transport to solve the woes of traffic jam.  Is there any?

3.    Medical services with right standard that our ministers will also patronise.  Yes / No?

4.    Such basic infrastructure facilities:  water and electricity.  What is the coverage?

5.    Social security:  low crime rate.  How is it?

6.    A good system of education to benefit all and free education from kindergarten up to the university:  can you provide?  Did you know that as far as higher education is concerned, more and more people have become aware that they are being exploited by their political thugs and the related party?

7.    How sustainable are our natural resources?  Timber, fish, …………

8.    How diversified is our agricultural sector?  Besides palm oil trees, what else do we have?  Can we live on palm oil if there is a shortage of food supplies?

9.    How well-managed are the taxpayers’ monies?  Our inland revenue has great ability to collect all the taxes but the authorities concerned lack every skill to look after the monies that are siphoned/ pocked by ……………… again and again.  They get out of the countries easily for laundering.  Who still can trust the BN leaders again for them to win two-thirds majority?

10.   Who can break the businesses of monopoly in Sarawak as well as elsewhere in

        Malaysia?

11.   Who can tell  Najib/ the next BN PM, if any, not to hold national finance post for    

        the good of the practice of democracy as a whole? 

12.   Is there any transformation to carry out decentralisation of the power of the  

        Federal Government for the good  and progress of the whole country?

13.   Who is happy with the car buying and selling policy to support the BN coalition 

        anymore?   

14.   Who will believe that it is possible for the country to be transformed from (M): the   practices of     
        autocracy/ despotism, nepotism and monopoly to the practices of democracy (W):  for the good,   
        benefit and well-being of all.

15.   Who will believe the leaders so “red sea in mentality”  to implement the “blue sea strategy” to go 
        win-win?

16.  Have you settled age-old frustrating and exasperating problems of the lorry associations everywhere in 
       Sarawak?   The restrictions imposed on the load a lorry is allowed to carry have caused so much 
       frustration, disappointment and anger.  The enforcement officers are always so effective in nabbing them 
       and they are often come to a settlement to the benefit of the ones who catch thme.  It is really 
       unreasonable to restrict based on the reasons that heavilly loaded lorries will damage the roads and 
       bridges.  Look, how irresponsible of our BN government / JKR who lack the capacity to deliver the 
       roads and bridges to sustain the weight of the lorries loaded with goods maybe 10- 20 kg or more that 
       the weight allowed / give the lorry companies the freedom to decide as long as they think fit.  It is really 
       not good to interfere and upset them too much.  Give advice/ warning just in case.  It is not good to fine 
       them for money whenever and wherever  you can.
17.  The 60? Chinese Independent Schools  have been waiting anxiously,impatiently, angrily and  
       contemptuously for the authority concerned for officially recognition of the eligibility of their 
       examinations.  Do you still have the chance to give recognition?
18.  The Land Code is not people-friendly and first in Sarawak.  How much more do you think we 
       collectively can endure?
19.  The Basic Lending Rate of the ousing loan  is another curse of the people.  It is set all for the benefits of our big sharks.  It is no much worse than Loan Shark.  Chech how much a house buyer has to pay for a house costing  RM150,000 in a span of 25 years.  First 5 years, he/she can only pay interest rates only, am I right?  I am investigating about it.  If it is true, it is like plundering with the permission of Bank Negara.  I shall tell you some day about a case how a poor man and his wife paid the housing loan and the woes of people in general I have observed.  What a curse!  What a pity! What a shame!
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            Najib let go when you lose and we people will respect you for all your good effort. 

The Global Witness, an open secret

                   The Global Witness, an open secret                 27/3/2013

          What is recorded in the video clip “The Global Witness” is an open secret that we have registered in our hearts and minds.   For ages, Taib Mahmud and his cronies have pillaged/plundered us, Sarawakians, especially the natives.  In the land of ignorants, he has ruled like the Czar / emperor.  At least 70% of the Sarawakians know how Taib Mahmud and his cronies plunder us at will.  He and his cronies always deny and deny the evil and sinful acts of devils / demons they have committed.  Who does not see them as a shame and curse of Sarawak?

          Every concerned Sarawakian knows how abusive, manipulative, despotic, nepotistic, evil, demonic and greedy Taib Mahmud is.  He and his cronies for ages have pillaged / plundered us, Sarawakians.  They have controlled almost every resource for their own good in the ratio 80%: 20% to others.  For years, I don’t know how many hectares of land they have signed off for different economic activities:  timber, oil palm………… and they have been paid handsomely in commission ?% in the processes.   The assets and wealth they possess are well-evidenced of their acts.  We are in consensus that we need a brand new government in the form of Pakatan Rakyat (PR) party to bring about Justice.  We should get back all the wealth they have swindled, embezzled, robbed and pillaged from us people.  

          With the money, we can improve the infrastructure facilities everywhere especially in  rural areas.  In one heart and mind, we Sarawakians are determined to force them to get out of the main stage of governance.  They can take the side stage of the opposition coalition and be the watchdogs to bark only.  They don’t need to do a thing but bark to alert just in case there is some mishap.  With the rich experiences of all kinds of evil acts of devils, they should be in the right positions  to do the work well.

          Sarawak was once rich in timber and we had different species of trees.  But now we lack of the supply of many kinds of timber to feed our sawmills.  I have been waiting for ‘malaka’ wood [1’’ X 2’’ X 3’] for months already from a particular timber trading outlet.  The operator told me the sawmill has not had the supply.  What has gone wrong?   Is it still not clear?  Though it is only one I go for the timber, is it not enough to tell the problem?  Is it not true that indiscriminate logging activities have been going on for the benefit of Taib Mahmud and his cronies and of course the timber companies.

          For fish, I like spotted mackerel most as I can use it to make fish balls and as an ingredient to make ‘shou mai’.  I have really liked this fish since small.  It is no longer easy to find this species of fish in Sibu and the price of the fish has hiked at least 100% - 120%  no matter what sizes compared with those 3-4 years ago.  The latest one I asked which was about a kilo plus was RM22.  I think the fish at least had been stocked up for few months already.   

          Some people told me that  Taib Mahmud and his cronies and those related to them in one way or another rent out the licences to the fishing boats for RM5000 a licence.  It is all due to corruption and collusion that we have about 300 foreign registered fishing boats / more plundering in the Sarawak waters day and night.  Hence the fish resources have depleted to such an extent that causes concern to any housewives who have the critical thinking to judge and conclude.  I hope that our political thugs will touch the Quran or Bible or any Holy book to declare that it is blatantly untrue.  Is there anyone still in doubt where  our fishes have gone?  Where are the variety and quality that I witnessed before 1998 before the fishing policy implemented to allow foreign fishing boats to come to pillage/ plunder us?

          For land, there is always in the name of development, the government take over the land that belongs to the people and through a way / another it turns out to be a money making development to benefit Taib Mahmud and his cronies and the related consortiums.  Have we not witnessed enough from the newspaper how the natives and non-natives whose land is taken over with little compensation / far below the market value / with the unfulfilled promise of compensation?   I wonder whether the landlords in Bako have been compensated for the land taken over by the state government. 

          In Sibu, my hometown, the old market along Market Road was knocked when late Robert Lau chaired SMC (Sibu Municipal Council).  It has been turned into a car parking lot.  For years, the parking lot was a night market for those to learn a living.  But now the night market / Pasar Malam has moved to the Butterfly Park a stone's throw away so much against the will of the operators.    It is rumoured that a shopping complex financed by KTS,  the company owned by late Robert Lau’s brother and his family would be built there.   This is how I see when a land or a place will be taken in the name of the development for the benefit of the people.  But often it turns to be for somebody who can afford to pay Taib Mahmud and his cronies a sum of money called “under table money”.  I believe many other people will tell you the same stories about how the land / place has been taken and turned for other purposes for the benefit of Taib Mahumd and his cronies and the related consortium.  Is Global Witness not telling us the practices and acts and doings of these devils / demons?  It is exactly what has been going on in Sarawak for 32 years to date..  This is exactly what we have registered in our hearts and minds.  

          Of course, he denied.  Who will admit  the sin one committed until he / she has been brought to the court to face the tribunal?  Have you not witnessed enough how Bill Clinton  denied and denied and denied how he sinned until he could not deny anymore when all the evidences and proofs were put before him?  So, when he declared openly that he had no astronomical amount of money deposited somewhere, who believed him?   It was self-deceiving to deceive others.  In Chinese we have the idiom saying [自欺欺人]。 We people just registered the fact of his sinful / evil acts in our hearts and minds.

          We know as long as the BN government is in power.  It is out of question they will take any action to trial him.  Besides, the BN government also do not have the chance anymore.  It is because I believe 70% of the people especially the youths despise and condemn the sinful / evil acts of Taib Mahmud and his cronies as well as all the BN political thugs everywhere.  People in general everywhere are obsessive with the thought to get rid of  / flush out all these abusive, corrupt, manipulative, despotic, nepotistic,  evil, demonic and greedy BN leaders. 

          The BN government after all is just an agent we people elected.  But they have failed in many ways to perform.   And why should we keep them to torture us?  Many BN political thugs are still in the illusion that they still can get many people to support to win.  Hence many like Wong Soon Kok, CHai Sek Loi (蔡细历)，Najib, Muhyiddin ………….are still so deliriuos and so outspoken to talk about “to support the BN government for more development” without any tinge of shame to say so.

          Hence when Najib made the Integrity Pledge,  majority of us see not even worth more than two cents.  As bribing is just too common and penetrating.  What  can we say which one is / not when Najib and his consortium all deny it is not?   The aids in the form BR1M  RM500 to the low income group and with the promise to give more if the BN will win the 13^th election; RM100 to primary and secondary students, book vouchers RM250 to all the college students;  RM250 to the singles;………………………………. 

          Therefore, we are all ready to tell them to behave themselves and step aside and leave the stage for good.  That’s it.

The Earth Hour

The Earth Hour                                    25/3/13

          Do you observe the Earth Hour falling in the last week of March every year?  Yes / No /…….n%.  Did you observe the Ear-th Hour this year?  Yes / No /…….n%.  Well, like many and many people, I hear it with my two ears and learn about it on the radio and through newspaper sources.  I have enough information what it is all about.  But I did not switch off all the power sockets and lights at home.  I only switched off the light in the sitting room and the other light outside the kitchen. 

          We switch on a few lights at home every day at dusk.  There are One switch to three eco-friendly bulbs in the sitting room; one bulb outside the sitting room;  one eco-friendly bulb in the kitchen and one outside the kitchen.  When my son is around, there will be an additional light on in his room.  Before we go to bed, we will switch on 3 more lights outside the house.  Hence my household electricity consumption is around RM150-160 a month.  The electricity bill ran up from RM 40 -50 in early years about 9 years ago and then RM70-80.  The increase is due to the fact that we have an additional fridge, 4 induction cookers to do all the cooking and boiling and two air-conditioners installed about a year ago.  My son uses the air-conditioner almost every day.  The other air-conditioner fixed in the master room is only used when the weather is unbearably hot.

          I never like to sleep in the air-conditioned room.  I prefer to sleep on the wooden bed in the well-ventilated room.  Luckily, I live in the suburb area where the air is fine almost all the time.  Hence I don’t even use a fan no matter how hot it is as I almost always take a bath before I go to bed.  I let myself sweat / not in a natural way.  Even during the  daytime, I don’t use an electricity fan no matter as I stay downstairs all the time.  I am really not used to the blowing of wind from the fan.  I thank the Lord of this Universe for all the blessings for being able to live in a place clean and cool enough.

          What a big deal to tell the whole world about your lifestyles.  What I want to bring out is about our forgotten past lifestyles that our forefather/ parents lived.  We modern people have the lifestyles  in contrary to those of them.  What a pity that I see.  I don’t know how many % of the people in the urban areas don’t n% live in air-conditioned environment.  I have a lady relative, alike to a superwoman to me as she is so successful.  Thus she stays in air-conditioned rooms up to at least 90% of her daily life.  Hence she needs a device (I have no idea what it is.) to make herself ‘sweat’.  Imagine what a life she leads. 

          Sweating is a way to de-toxify yourself based on my best knowledge.  I gained this information based on my listening to [aifm radio station] and newspaper sources.  And I am convinced.  I sweat a lot whenever I move about doing or not doing housework / gardening.   

          Industrialisation leads to modernisation.  And modernisation brings about urbanisation.  And urbanisation causes disorientation from nature.  Thus it is a torture to endure if you live in urban areas and cultures.  Nowadays I see that it is just so common for people to install air-conditioners , two – three or even more in every house.    

         I lived in a congested urban areas with all the terraced houses around for 9 and a half years.  I still insisted to live without an electricity fan and air-conditioner in the bedroom.  I made it.  I think it is your thought and your belief that count.  It is just as what a professional motivator said it is your thought/belief that create your attitude.  It is your attitude that lead you to form a habit.  It is the repeated habit that affects your life/ the consequence.  Therefore you are what  you think.  (Voltaire said:  I think therefore I am.)

          It is said in Chinese “If your heart remains calm, you feel cool. [心静自然凉]”。Well…….., I think it is true to a great extent.  But the global warming has an impact of the phrase/ saying.  I find it harder to drive around without an air-conditioner as I can’t open the car windows as the air has become more polluted in every passing day.  I remember my son and I always had an argument as far as to use / not air-conditioner when I was driving him around when he was small. 

          Actually, I should have switched off the power sockets of my 2 refrigerators and the switch to access the internet and the one to turn on the radio and my desktop.  I believe I will try my best to switch off whatever power sockets that hour from next year onwards as long as I am alive.  It is a good break for such electrical appliances  like the fridge and the sockets that power the computer and radio.   Of course I will still switch on the light/s which I need to at that hour to do washing up / housework unless…………

                   This Ear-th Hour, I think, is really significant as It reminds all with the ears / not

          to hear / not to observe It  as a clear reminder to all dear / not to conserve and

          preserve our Mother Earth at all cost. 

                   Individually my husband and I almost always switch off the power socket /

          switch after use.  My son is learning to form the habit but he has to be reminded to  

every now and then.  If every family tunes up to preserving and conserving our Mother Earth , what a big preservation and conservation work we collectively can achieve/ accomplish/ attain.  How nice it is.

                   Well………….all in all,  it is only a half that I see we have done if our government

          still go on wasting and plundering way of development  like ever before.  I hope and pray and pray and hope our local councils, our Energy Berhad, our government linked companies, our

          government agents…………. are more environmentally-friendly as far as electricity is

concerned.  They should avoid creating ‘winter’ in the offices / premises where they work.  They should switch off the street lamps punctually and check around if there are any lamps in the street still lighting on in the broad daylight.  It is also important to switch off the lights where they are not required.

          For the Sibu Central Market, I always feel so upset whenever I see so many fluorescent lights are on at the places where the sunlight is so bright and shiny.  So many fluorescent lamps are on along the driveways as well as at places at the edge in between the beams.  I just can’t understand why there are so many fluorescent lamps lining and lighting there during the daytime when the sunlight is many times brighter.  I have told the authority concerned but they took little heed to my words.  I always think whenever I go there every week what an amount of electricity bill is saved if SMC just switches off the lamps that are not required during the daytime.  But who cares? 

                   It is goodlah that the Earth Hour remind you and me and them to check if we

          waste in any way.  This Earth Hour hence reminds me to tell SMC again about energy

         saving to do other time, too though we people bill the expenses.