All these are only achievable by the support/planning and financial allocation from the respective state governments. We want a all-new village program right away without further delay in order to achieve a so-called developed country status by a near future and eradicate poverty through the provision and assistances to educate the mentality and upgrade the living standards for all kampong/village folks. What we need to do now is to implement and work on it, so long as persist we will achieve our vision.

If we will only find the courage to admit the truth that the NEP had no chance of succeeding; because the NEP was a programme of exclusion; and those who held the power of implementing the policy had a vested interest to keep the benefits of such a crazy scheme to themselves. The Chinese was never at any point to blame for the lack of progress of the Malay race. The blame should sit squarely on the shoulders of UMNO leaders. If those in UMNO who held the power of dispensing government largess had any care to improve the fortunes of the Malays, they should have manage the programme in a more responsible and honest manner, but instead they restricted the benefits to their own small clique; hence government largess were given to only connected families. This restricted the programme to too few candidates and the quality of recipients were very low. Malaysian scholarships went to recipients who chose the easy courses of study that had no practical value in the job market, resulting in a colossal waste of scarce resources and it produced a culture of indifference; and it also produced graduates who could not find jobs and had to be absorbed into government service of pen pushers, a total waste of money.

The election of 2008 is a defining moment. For the first time in 50 years history a crucial section of the Malays had come to realize that change had to come to save Malaysia from UMNO. This turn of events at this moment is a mere illusion because UMNO is still the Federal Government and in the next election UMNO will massively stuff the ballot boxes. If I may say so, the most important institution for a coup d’tat is well placed and entrenched by UMNO judges and my namesis is that fat woman judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali and from my own experience with Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali, either through ignorance of the law or sheer disrespect of the law will dare to decide my wife’s petition in breach of the penal code and hence had herself committed several crimes. This piece of comedy is unprecedented in all of legal history anywhere in the Commonwealth.

This morning I read an article in Malaysians Unplugged on Dato Seri Anwar, and the author raised issues whether Dato Seri is or is not the Anwar of before his incarceration on trumped up criminal charges. I believe this line of enquiry is both futile and irrelevant. We just cannot assess a man’s character under any circumstances. I had some one who I held as a dear friend for over 65 years and I just was unable to know that he was all along one of my worst enemy. However, the point that I want to put across is that in politics and the choice that we ordinary man in the street has to make to vote in a good government does not require that we know Dato Seri or not.; ALL THAT IS REQUIRED OF US IS TO ACCEPT OR DENY WHAT HE SAYS HE WANTS FOR MALAYSIA. If what Dato Seri wants for us is what we as voter wants, then it is Dato Seri who we will vote for as our government. Is Dato Seri a truly a good man ? That question is to me, not relevant. I have never ever met Dato Seri but what he wants for Malaysia is what to my mind what I want and to all Malaysians I can only say that UMNO’s policy of race, with emphasis for Malays as the superior race is WRONG AND WILL BE NON PRODUCTIVE FOR MALAYSIA.

I dare say that our Malaysian founding fathers like the Tengku even as he kicked out Singapore from the Federation realized that what Lee Kuan Yew said made sense and yet he felt that the Malays wanted a race based Malaysia and he acceded to their demands; and now after 50 years of independence both the Tengku and lee Kuan Yew are both right, and to say the least Malaysia took the wrong path. To this point in time (50 bloody years) Malaysia will have a “window of opportunity to get back on the ‘rail”. Contrary to UMNO’s and the Malays misled by UMNO Malaysia has not progressed at all and if I may say so myself, Malaysia had regressed because Malaysia has a 3rd world education system and Malaysia has descended into a spiral of LAWLESSNESS. You will disagree but ask yourself if you had any laudable achievements in these 50 years ? Singapore had nothing but dirt and of course a predominantly Chinese and Indian population; and they have gone into such tremendous race into the front ranks of developed nations BECAUSE SINGAPORE HAD A MODEL THAT IS INCLUSIVE, NOT EXCLUSIVE.

I had said earlier that after this 2008 election Malaysia merely has a WINDOW FOR CHANGE and we all are hanging our hopes on an Anwar led coalition to bring about change, This change is merely a hope because it can still de-rail. Affirmative action is an illusion that is difficult to wean off and may still return to de-rail our hopes. THE MAIN AND No ! priority is to restore a first world judiciary so that the laws will be respected and strictly enforced. What is the use for the government to legislate when the courts will not respect the laws ? To entrench an ethical, honest and corruption free judiciary, the PKR led government must totally dismantle the UMNO machinery that has been put in place to hold an iron grip on retention of power and government.

My the No. 1 issue in my list of priority is to remove the number of UMNO judges on the bench of the High Court and for that purpose, I recommend my wife’s petition and the abuse of power that was perpetrated by Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali will be the first act to restore independence of the judiciary on the saying, “kill a chicken to scare a monkey”.

I have 1 comment, ever since the victory on the 4 new states, my wife who is working as a govt servant (school) received a strict intruction from the Education Ministry that,all the govt schools that are in the PKR-DAP-PAS held states are not allowed to invite or received support from the Opposition Party namely, PKR-DAP-PAS to any govt schools functions.(This was reported in almost all Chinese newspaper on the 27th March 2008 regarding this issue at Penang). I can positively tell you,it does not only happened in Penang,it happened in all the 4 new states. My guess is they (BN) are afraid that the Opposition will gain popularity if they are invited to schools’ functions.

And yet the BN held Govt said they are democracy?!
I am really disappointed with this!!!

This is a further notice on how our BN govt had acted to be such a “lording”,cowardly manner on handling the loss!

Do you have any comment on this??

However, I do not agree with your comments about Pak Lah’s selection of the cabinet. It is his right to select those that he wants to work for him although I personally feel that his selection should be based on merit rather than his own personal emotions. Focus on fighting the good fight for the people in your constituency. They are the ones who voted for you and they are the ones who should matter most rather than petty discussions about the new cabinet which cannot now be change.

My message is focus on those things that you can change rather than complain about the things that you can’t. There’s a lot more to be done.

I grew up in Happy Garden, OKR, now staying in Puchong and working in PJ, Selangor DE which in a way are all connected with you. Perhaps just some issues that you could look at are:

i) Traffic problems - OKR, LDP (Why pay toll to get stuck in traffic jams? If it’s not effective, scrap it)
ii) Security issues - Too many new cases of snatch thefts and this problem has to be addressed.

Just my 2 cents worth of comments.

Did Mister Teng steal your homework year ago? Why the angry words? As far as I know, many folks have supported him for years and eeling gutted for him.

It was Mister Teng that revealed the Abu Hassan Omar & Zakaria sagas.

DAP is short of experience and capable human resource. Internal politicing also will harm their chances.

Let’s hope there is a win-win situation for all.

“… Internet TV station for the 5 states will be more effective n patical on top of that no need approval from Federal governmentand and no need sensorship….”

the problem is we have low penetration in Malaysia and the speed that is available to some of the facilities in rural areas deters downloading audio and visual files. (I aged about 3 year accessing yahoo mail box on Langkawi) Rural folks also may not have sufficient financial resources to acquire computers or knowledge to use them.

Long term, we have to educate them on using PCs but from NOW, I think in BR controlled states, state government newsletters can be distributed to rural areas. Techinically they are not newspaper but offical notices…perhaps the state government can erect notice boards and update the rural folks as an official alternative to the controlled main stream media.

U know, in the old Western movies, the sheriff pin the notice, “dead or alive, reward of $200 for the capture of BILLY THE KID”…..

On a separate note……

I WONDER WHY TELEKOM MALAYSIA REFUSE TO INSTALL INTERNET CONNECTION POINTS IN MY HOUSE, AN AREA IN KL! ;-p

I APPLIED 3 YEARS AGO AND THE SERVICE FRONT DESK OFFERED EXCUSES THAT WOULD MAKE ANY DODGY POLITICIANS IN THE WORLD ADMIRE!

Congratulation on your double win in the last GE!

yeahwho n lee wee tak,

I personal think that Internet TV station for the 5 states will be more effective n patical on top of that no need approval from Federal governmentand and no need sensorship.

Best Regards

I think all newspapers need approval from gomen. Ladio and tee v also the same.

Not quite sure about party newspaper like rocket and harakah coz I am a subcriber but not a member (yet)

The alternative solution is to give away free, can or not? Otherwise state gomen can put up notice board all over the 5 states and pin state gomen news carrying the real stories.

Congratulation on your double win in the last GE.I have some suggestions for Barisan Rakyat or some people still called it Barisan Alternative.

Since we have won 5 states in the West Malaysia and if you look at the Malaysian map,all the states north of Selangor are controlled by BR namely Perak,Penang,Kedah and Kelantan except Perlis.We have economic of scale and we should leverage on the above states and urban electorate who are mostly BR supporters.

First why not have a common daily newspaper for the 5 states which the mainstream papers will not report.Maybe just name it Berita Rakyat or People Paper.Then all our news can be properly channel to our supporters instead of the bias reporting from their papers.

Secondly,can we have our own state run radio or TV station to run our news.Can it be done without the Federal government approval?

Finally I hope that all the 3 parties DAP,PKR and PAS should prepare to contest under one common front and logo in the next GE like what BN have done and to avoid 3 corners fight like what happened in East Malaysia.

To Minnie100, I have learned (sadly painfully) that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. After having seen their past performance, hear their point of views, do you really, really, want your future to be placed on their hands?