My house and Your houses

My house and your houses are one of 4 basic needs in life.  In these late n years after independence and after federation, we people are at the mercy of the BN government and their cronies.  To be more specific, in Sarawak, we people are at the mercy of Taib Mahmud and his cronies.  The houses in Sarawak are the best evidence of the quality of the BN government headed by Taib Mahmud whom we see the curse of us, Sarawakians for the difficulties, miseries and hardship we experience or witness.

He has amassed RM64.2 billion (RM642亿in the Chinese language) at the expense of us, Sarawakians.  We shall wait to see him diarrhoea (pour out and pass out) out all the shares that belong to us people that he has swallowed.   Now he enjoys all the fun and glories in life.  We shall see him some day live in shame, misery and humiliation like Hosni Mubarak, the toppled Egypt president for abusing his power.  He has clung to this pedestal seat as the chief minister of Sarawak for so long and only shit talk and shit talk about the progress of Sarawak.   

Now let’s go around Sarawak to assess and evaluate the houses be there semi-detached, terraced houses, flats and low-cost housing built through the developers for the past 30 past years.  Let’s tell the housing conditions in our areas to share.  I started observing the houses in Sibu now.  Hence I started to size up my house.  I measure them in terms of feet and inches.

I see that I live in mini-sized semi-detached house.  My sitting room is 26’ 8” in length and 21’4” in width.  The kitchen is only 12’ X 9’4” which is just too small and congested  for comfort.  I feel the squeeze of the place.  Those who saw my kitchen commented that I had too many things.  Yes, yes, I may have many kitchen wares that I can leave so many in the sink and containers unwashed for 3 meals.  I may have a bit more things than many middle class families.  But I still insist that the kitchen with the size 12’ X  9’4” is too small. 

A normal kitchen should be 20’ in length and 15’ in width.  With such a size of kitchen I have to make good use of the room beside the kitchen to put the refrigerators, an oven, a piano……..

I really feel the squeeze of the kitchen when I am not allowed to put the 3’ X 5’ dining table outside the kitchen to be put in a corner of the sitting room.

I wonder if the self-interested minister of local government and community development can imagine the congestion and squeeze we feel about the kitchens and understand why we need the extension of the place.  Hence the Sibu Municipal Council should hand off on the extension or face the curses of us people. 

It is time our minister of local government and community to speak up for the house buyers and set a standard size of 15’ X 20’ for the kitchen to prevent the business of extension to take place or they will be flushed out like shit.   Let  house owners have some freedom for extension if they need to.   We understand that Taib Mahmud and his cronies all live in palace-like mansion.  I wonder what the size of their kitchens in feet and inches. 

I hope there will be a house buyer association to protect house buyers’ rights.  Otherwise, we will be at the mercy of these political thugs who always approve at the developers’ advantages.  Hence I witness houses have become more and more expensive but there is no improvement in quality.  Can you imagine that a terraced house in the middle is priced at RM340,000 now?  It is like kompong fish sold at RM30 a kilo.    

I wonder

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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? 

Phobia

Phobia                                                                                      25^th June, 2010

          These are the words of phobia to say that “Salt and mineral water bottles can be weapons to topple government – Mohamed Nazri ”.  (The Borneo Post.  Home. P.18 . 14^th June, Thursday).  Yes, corrupt and rotten form of government can be toppled by anything and everything.  The words ‘Bersih / Kodor / Dirt/ Corruption/ Collusion / Greediness, Rottenness ……………..’ ;  the things ‘pens, pencils, ink, sand, rice, tears, saliva………..’ all have the power to topple the government whom we people are prepared to flush out for good.

          Never a time is the election in Malaysia, be it a state or national  clean and fair.  90%  of the Rakyat will give proofs that it is full of the foul plays of the fools.  This coming one I have heard of the vote-buying that Vincent Lau Lee Ming (the late Robert Lau’s nephew).  The news has been spread, RM500 – RM1000 will be paid for the support of the votes.  Hi………………  we people are now wiser, even the Iban communities know how to deal with this bad practice but a good game of vote-buying by these corrupt political thugs fully-backed by the BN government.  Yes, take the money and say, “Thanks.”   To vote for or not, Aku (I) have to think it through and look for evidences to prove if the BN government is truthful in the practice to improve the lots of the people here and there holistically and systematically. 

          How sincere the BN government is manifested in good:

         è medical services

          è education system like Finland

          è road system well-connected and of quality and people-friendly

          èaccess to basic infrastructures

          èjob opportunities

         è conducive environment for personal development

          èsocial security  ààfeel safe / no fear of being robbed / kidnapped

                                   ààsafety net for the unemployed to fall to

                                  àà help the poor to help themselves       

        èpeople-centred and people-friendly in development and facilities

          But what we see is the monopoly in favour of those in authority.  It is the special rights of the few to enjoy the national resources at will.   It is blatant corruption and collusion and we people are at the mercy of these corrupt and greedy political thugs.

          Don’t feel shocked to hear that nowadays people like me like to ink your face in the newspapers with a cross  to tell you how we despise and abhor you.

          Najib and Muhyddin bark a lot nowadays to boast and bluff how good and well-supported the BN government is by the Rakyat and a lot of people now “about face” turn to the BN government.  They are so confident of the majority win of the BN coalition.  Goodlah!  But if the election results show otherwise, I hope Najib and his team would admit the defeat and just pack and go.  I hope they are well- prepared themselves and be humble and learn to be good and know the standard that people expect and know the law of competition through fair and clean practice..   Never let the sinful thoughts of 5131969 to creep in create scenes to get back the power that people entrusted to the PR coalition or behave like late Muammar Gaddaffi or Assad of Syria.  You will be condemned and cursed forever and ever.  It is shame of you to tell the Chinese that their wealth will be reduced by ?% if there is a change of government.  But We people have reached the same consensus that we  will lose even more as a whole if we continue to support the government practising monopoly.   We people will celebrate more with the two-party system that we all see and believe.  Be prepared to let go and admit your weaknesses and learn to win honestly and humbly again in the run for.. .

Power-crazy Vs Demo-crazy

Power-crazy            Vs      Demo-crazy                                         31^st May,2012

          Najib barked saying, “……people should not be demo-crazy……”.   (See Hua Daily News) I believe many people like me would advise Najib and his team not to be power-crazy first and be prepared to relinquish the power if he loses in the 13^th election.  Don’t ever be obsessive with power and act aggressively if the BN party loses in the general election.  Make sure there is no foul play.  Majority of the people like me believe that no chaos will take place if Najib and his team admit the defeat and let go.  Never act like Assad in Syria, ex-Gaddafi in Libya………

          Always think before you open your big mouth to condemn and belittle or you will get the same impact:  power-crazy when you condemn the people to be demo-crazy.  When the BN leaders (XXXX4 ) condemn and belittle the PR leaders, we scrutinise the words and deeds of the BN leaders many times more.  Every word you utter to condemn them, you also face up to the examination.  The PR leaders are the watchdog now. They can bark as a watchdog but the ruling party should never bark back many times more because we people expect you to prove yourselves in concrete evidences by building good road system, providing good medical services, giving good education, facilitating the basic infrastructures like water and electricity supply………….

          Seeing XXXX4 barking so much and doing so little only discredits you more and more because the old saying, “Seeing is believing”.   When we see only lousy road system like Pan-Borneo Highway which we feel humiliated, offended and ashamed to have such a narrow and winding road to be called “Highway”.  We feel ashamed to see that at least 60% of the road in Sarawak is still not tar-sealed and very poor.  I believe people just curse and curse the BN government when the road turn muddy during the wet season.  Nowadays we people know who is to be blamed for their plights in the macro-environment.  Majority of people in Sarawak just hate Taib Mahmud and his cronies.  We all see Taib Mahmud as corrupt as the late Gaddafi in Libya, Hosni Mubarak, the toppled president of Egypt,  toppled Ben Ali in Tunisia, toppled Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, and Assad in Syria.  Assad in Syria is like a demon as he causes so much misery and chaos in Syria as he refuses democracy to people there.

          When we see “RM4 million wind turbines functioned for only four days”, we only whom to curse for the failure.   When we see poor medical services, we only what has gone wrong.  When we see how much people have to bear for the cost of higher education, we know what corruption and collusion mean.  We all believe a lump sum has been paid to the BN leaders for the licences, hence the poor students have to bear the cost.  Yes, they have PTPTN loan to access but it is a debt that it takes years to pay back.  Besides, they often have to pay exorbitant fee RM500- RM1000 for each paper of the examinations.  If a student takes 3 subjects, that means he has to pay (RM500-RM1000) X 3 =? .  Alamat!  Guess how many % of our learners can afford this payment!

          It is a curse to see “M’sian timber exports revenue amounts to RM20.03 bln in 2011”  when the local sawmills and furniture industry constantly face the shortage in Sarawak.  This is the hard fact that I witness and experience personally when I go to the sawmills for some good quality of wood for my chicken coops and other purposes.  I built racks for hanging clothes, benches for my garden tools and so on.  I like wood products.  When I asked around why there are only iron clothes rack available.  The shop operators told me wood racks would be more expensive to come by.  Alamat!  How come this thing happens in a timber-rich state like Sarawak.  People say Monopoly that Taib Mahmud and his cronies created is the curse of their plights  and the causes for our disaster.

          Monopolising just penetrates every sector including the fishes in Sarawak waters.  Fishes like black pomfret (RM19-RM20 a kilo no matter what sizes), silver pomfret (RM 37 for weight 500g -600g); BM47 for 800g -1000g); mackerel (RM18-20 a kilo for whatever weight)……… everything seems to go out of bound.  I often wonder how high income we should reach to counteract with the monopoly.  We people are always at the mercy of the monopoly.   As long as a few control the lots of the mass, there is no end of the misery of people.  It is monopoly that Najib and his team should work hard on to undo though there is only little time left for them to amend for the wrongs, sins and crimes they have committed.

          Stop bluffing and stop condemning but put in all your effort in to de-monopoly for some good deeds to deposit in for your own good.