How capable is the BN government? (II)

How capable is our BN government?   (II)

3.    “Teachers shortage still a problem in S’wak----Union chief”  Ahmad  Malie  (2^nd Feb2012  The Borneo Post by Wilfred Pilo)

 

Kuching:   Teachers shortage is still a problem in the state especially those who

are required to fill certain (high) posts.   

          President of Sarawak Bumiputera Teachers Union, Ahmad Malie, thus urged the Ministry of Education to provide a solution to the problem as they had received many complaints from members of late.

          “They (members) complain that they have taken the extra work load and responsibilities from those who are supposed to fill the slot,” he said.

          “But how long can they sit in that position while waiting for the right person to come along?”  Ahmad asked.

          He said this happened after several teachers were promoted or moved to other posts which they were qualified for.

          Malie said the union understood the ministry’s policy of using ‘temporary’ teachers to overcome the problem but it  (problem) was still there although schools had been in session for over a month now.

          “We thus propose that the ministry empowers schools to appoint their own teachers to fill void like it was practised in the past.”

          Malie said that the shortage of these teachers in Sarawak must be put right for the betterment of the students.

          This is the whole article I typed for easy reference in details.  What has gone wrong with the BN government?   A simple thing like this has also failed to fulfil.  Is it so difficult to let go the power and empower the schools concerned to do the work to refill the shortage?  Let the affected schools to appoint or even employ the temporary teachers to resolve this nasty problem.

 This article was written in February and I wonder if the problem has been resolved or it still continues lah until we change for the new government to do it right.

I hope someone will let us know the true and real situation of the schools now.   That is why I say and am saying and will say / have been saying it is time to flush out the BN government for good.  Taib Mahmud and his cronies especially are the curses for all these problems.  Are they doing their work? 

How capable is the BN government? (I)

How capable is the BN government?    (I)                26Oct2012

Excuses

1.       After 49 years of federation, we still need to “strive on despite lack of facilities, teacher and students told” (The Borneo Post, October, 2012).  This problem is faced by Long Laput, Baram.  This is the mentality of the BN political thugs like Dennis Ngau, Telang Usang assemblyman.  They cannot do much to help the people and what for to select the ones who do us no good at all but take full advantage of us.  They are so well-paid for no concrete work done besides “honeyed words and words” to utter.

Teachers and pupils in Baran have been told not to be disheartened

by the lack of teaching and learning facilities in their schools.  Admitting that most schools in the district had inadequate facilities……..bla………….

2.  “Water crisis due to natural causes beyond human control “  Naroden.  (Saturday,

      Oct 13, 2012  Home.  The Borneo Post) 

Simunjan:  The water crisis in Simunjan will not cease if people continue to point  fingers and look for scapegoat. 

          “I advise all of you not to play the blame game.  This water crisis is due to natural causes beyond human control,”  said Assistant Minister of Resource Planning Datuk Naroden Jajais, who is also Simunjan assemblyman at a dialogue here last Thursday.

          ………….the shortage was the lack of rain for the five past months at the water catchment in Lepong and the amount of water was not enough to cater for the whole Simunjan……….

          It is a very good game to play to blame on the nature for the shortage to advise people “not to play the blame game”.  This is a game called Monopoly and Autocracy when only Aku in authority can play at will.  So the blame on the water catchment for the shortage and you had found the scapegoat in the nature. 

          What a shame of these political thugs to play the blame game on the nature for the shortage of water.   After 49 years in partnership with the federal government and after 34 years of the government led by Taib Mahmud and his cronies, the people still do not have the piped water to blame for the shortage.  The blame game is not doubt a game named Shame.  (The bleIm geIm is indeed neImd ʃeIm.)  I mind you it will create the flame that will burn you to death and though it may also create a notorious fame.

For people's own good

For people’s own good, is it?

 ‘ Sugar subsidy cut for people’s own good’

“The reduction of 20 sen per kilogramme in sugar subsidy is not to burden the people but done for their own good, ” says Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Deputy Minister Datuk Tan Lian Hoe. 

          “When the subsidy is reduced and the price goes up, people will consume less sugar and practise a healthy lifestyle including eating a healthy diet,” she told reporters at the parliament lobby, here yesterday.

          PM Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when tabling the 2013 Budget in the Dewan Rakyat on Sept 28 announced the sugar subsidy reduction which took into consideration that 2.6 million Malaysians are diabetic.

          Tan, however, said the sugar subsidy reduction should be no excuse for traders and operators of eateries to increase prices of goods.

          She said errant traders could face legal action under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2010 for indiscriminately raising prices.

          Under the Act, errant companies can be fined up to RM500,000 or ordered to pay a compound fine not exceeding RM250,000 which individuals can be fined up to RM100,000or face a jail term of up to 3 years or both, or face a compound fine of up to RM50,000.

          Tan said the public could act as the ‘eyes and ears’ of the government by monitoring prices of goods following reduced sugar subsidy and reporting to the ministry on irrelevant  price increase for appropriate action to be taken.

          According to the records, sugar as a controlled item had before this, undergone price increase four times since Jan 1, 2010, by 20 sen per kg, 25 sen since July 18, 2012, 20 sen (Dec 4, 2011), bringing the retail price to RM2.30 per kg until now.  (The Borneo Post, Wednesday October 3, 2012 Home)

          This is the whole article I type from the newspaper because I want to share with everybody the details.  It is exactly what is reported and I find this issue very interesting and challenging, too.  Sugar is an item that many people like my family do not use much.  Besides, my family only uses brown or cane sugar.  So and so, we are not affected as far as this item is concerned.  But it is considered an important item to those who use heavily in various foods or drinks in the busineses.  A price hike of 20 sen a kilo to make the retail price to reach RM2.30 per kilo no doubt will become a load to those who use a lot.  That is what is said, “Sikit, sikit jadi bukit.” 

It is what we believe that the price hike of 20 sen can bring a huge amount of money (a lot of profit) to the sugar manufacturers and increase the revenue of the government to a great extent.  The BN government led by Najib need this money to spare in BR1M in different ways to please people for their support.  Hence they need to hike the price of sugar to cover the expenses though they  are always self- deceivingly telling us, people that it is all for our own good.  This is our belief no matter how nice and sweet Tan Lian Hoe howls it is for people’s own good, not for their own gain.  We know it is their tactics and gimmick to win the hearts of the people when the 13^th general election is just imminent.  Almost every BN political thugs pow-bows and hows like a hound (paʊˈbaʊ and ˈhaʊ like a haʊnd) the help from the government is not to fish votes.  But who believes that it is not?

Do the BN government led by Najib really care for people?  Now let’s look at the prices of the houses of different types all around us.  Please be my eyes to investigate the houses and shop-houses around.  Are these buildings in right measurements and qualified for the prices they command?  Check the measurement of your houses and shop-houses.  Are the houses and shop-houses having the right measurements fitted for living and operating businesses respectively?  Who cares for our own good in this respect?  Houses one of the 4 basic needs in life are many times more important than sugar, right? 

Our BN Prime Ministers (from Tunku Abdul Rahman), Sultans, heads of the state, Chief Ministers, Ministers and those high ranking officers ………since time immemorial have never cared to find out whether the houses are built with right measurements and the municipal councils in different localities and districts always check and double-check the measurements of the houses and shop-houses in reality and in practice.  Are they just looking at the building plans   and signing the documents on the table blindly and getting the money under the table?  Swear on the holy book, be it Quran or Bible to say that there have never been such things!

Time is here now when people by troops and herds and flocks and swarms have awakened to the abuses of our political thugs.  For our micro and macro-environments, we know whom to curse and blame for our hardship and difficulties.  For the houses with restricted space / room, we should blame and curse our abusive political thugs for signing the approval and permits so lightly and blindly without due consideration for us, people.  They have failed to guard our interests like they guard sugar.  Our government have Price Control Act and Anti-Profiteering Act to protect such a small, small item.  Are these Acts applicable to big, big things like houses and shop-houses?  

They only care about their own interests in the process of giving permits.  It is our general belief the BN political thugs, like Najib, Taib Mahmud and the cronies are paid the money on the table and under for the permits of any kind.  I hope Sibu BN political thugs like Wong Soon Koh, Tiong Thai King,..……. will stand out to refute for himself and  his other accomplices Taib Mahmud, James Masing, Jabu…….. not gaining a lump sum of money in the process of giving permits’ businesses of any kind.

          I don’t know what the right measurements of my house on the plan when the developer got the approval to build the houses.  And I don’t know whether SMC (Sibu Municipal Council headed by late Robert Lau then) had the officers to check the measurements of  these houses before giving the permits of occupation.  Otherwise, I don’t think the odd measurements my sitting room 21’8”  X 25’ 4” and my kitchen 9’4” X 13’10” (not 12’ as stated earlier) would take place.  What are the standard measurements for the sitting room and kitchen as well as rooms for the houses be there semi-detached or terraced?  Who was the minister of local government and community development then?  I wonder they have the standard measurements for houses now?  We have elected these ministers to represent us to guard our interests but they are more concerned with their own gains and the developers’ interests. 

          Now I think we people should wake up and demand the right standard of measurements for our houses.  We have the rights to demand for the minimum measurements of 25’ wide X 30’ long X 11’ high for the sitting room and 15’ wide X 20’ long X 11’ high for the kitchen and 15’ wide X 20’ long X 11’ high for the master room.  The other rooms set the standard at 15’ wide X 15’ long  X 11 high.  With these measurements, I don’t think anyone in Sibu / elsewhere will think of using hard earned money for extension and face up the risk of being sued. 

          For the single-storey, low-cost housing, give them the right measurements of sitting room, kitchen and rooms, too.  Set the standard 20’ wide X 25’ long and 12’ high for the sitting  room; 15’ wide X 20’ for the kitchen; 15’ X 15’ for the rooms.

          It is time to calculate the cost of bricks, cement, and lists of other sanitary facilities that are required to be installed and labour cost in details for each house to count the cost and profit seriously.  I think our government should exercise Price Control Act and Anti-profiteering Act on the house developers who often earn more than 100 – 200 % like Sesco in Sarawak or elsewhere.  These companies always plunder and exploit people.  People are aware of these but we are looking forward for a new system of government to resolve all these menaces for our own good. 

We can’t expect the BN government to provide these benefits and good services though they pow-bow and howl so much like  hounds.  But we don’t believe anymore after 55years Federal supremacy and 49 years in Federation.   Taib Mahmud 34 years as chief minister of Sarawak and his cronies only exploit and plunder us, people all the time.  He and his cronies are going to turn Sarawak into a place full of dams to damn us.  Who can stop them now to go ahead with the projects to pollute our environment?  We people want change of government for good and for sure. 

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.