29 August 2008

Between a rock and the hard place.


Anwar won the election. This time with a bigger margin then his wife did last time. So Dr. Mahathir has been right all this time in his assessment that Barisan Nasional had lost its popularity and in delusional state now, some things had to be done immediately.


One of them is to remove Mr. Abdullah from his office. I am not expecting him to resign soon, but I do think that he will faces some tough time ahead with new opposition leader. He is a weak Prime minister. He never stands by what he said. He said there will be no General Election in the near future, but the next day he dissolved the Parliament. He said that there will be no review on fuel price until end of the month and soon after he revised the price. If a man cannot be measured by what he said, what is left of him then?


I’m shock that Umno blamed the tactics used by Pakatan Rakyat. They claim it scared away their supporters from casting the vote. Ridiculous! If they had the strong back up by the peoples in the first place, they’ll win because the vote is secret. Nobody knows who you vote for.


Now, I admit that I do not fancy Anwar to become Prime Minister, I think he is dangerous. I just could not help but noticing that he'll do what ever it take to accomplished the ambition of becoming next Prime Minister. But then again who is not, I’m convinced that all politicians are corrupted. The longer they are in politic, the more corrupted they will become. It reminded me of a quote from a superhero movie “Heroes will eventually get corrupted unless they die first.” It is true judging by what happened around us now.


Look like I’ve to wait a little longer for the chances to experience the voting process, because now there is nobody that is worth my vote.

23 August 2008

B.P.R


Our Anti Corruption Agency is doing very good job recently. If there is a good thing that happen during this current government, it is the freedom enjoyed by A.C.A. Suddenly we are flooded with news of captured head of government department, police officers, politicians, businessman, etc. Surely it gave impression that Malaysia is corrupted nation, but it also shown that A.C.A are doing their job, minus fear or favor.

In facts, this is the only good news we can read in newspaper nowadays, to know that the corrupted people will be put in jail.

Keep up the good works guys.

17 August 2008

Mission accomplish!


Its done. Michael Phelps came to Beijing to took part in 8 Olympic events and gone home with 8 Olympic gold medals, 7 new World Records and 1 Olympic Record.

He is now officially the grandest of all Olympians, 14 Olympic gold all together. There is no word to describe this phenomenon. Last time his home town, Baltimore had a street named after him for bringing 6 golds back home, what would they named after him now that he got 8?

It is simply amazing!

16 August 2008

Mohd Saiful and Anwar Ibrahim

So now he finally come out from hiding.

Yesterday Mohd Saiful decided to swear with Quran like what Perlis Mufti recommended and like what he promised to do. Even though the timing seem perfect for political maneuver, but he insisted that it was not political matter. How is this relevant is up to individual. For Muslim, it is not a small matter. If he is consciously lying with Quran on his hand, may Allah curses him and he shall received severe punishment in his life time and at Judgment Day. But in the eye of civil justice system, it bore no effects at all.

Anwar in other hand, also refer the case to shariah judiciary with advantage on his side because Saiful have to provide 4 witness to prove his accusation. Very strange requirements but the original purpose is to avoid false accusations because in shariah laws the punishment is indeed severe. Sodomy acts is punished with stoned to death, so of course we wouldn't want to kill anybody without enough evident and witnesses. But, even if Saiful fail to provide 4 witnesses to prove his case in shariah court, it mean nothing to civil court.

But why both of them bring this case to shariah when it is already being investigated by police under common laws? Only both of them have the answer.

Who's accusation carry more weight?

Only God know.

14 August 2008

Olympic

Micheal Phelps won 6 gold in 6 evens he took part, in the same time make 6 new world records. What an amazing achievement! With 12 gold medals so far, making him the most successful Olympian ever and set his name in history book. We should go and see how he manage this. There is somethings for us to learn here.

Now, Malaysian has been promised of RM 1 million for gold winner and so far it has not bring us any yet. There has been serious flaw in our mindset. Not everything can be bought with money. Our government can promise 10 millions if they want to because in reality the odd is just not in ours side. I'm patriotic, I want to see Malaysia in medal tally. But our sports has coming from bad to worse lately and had only ourselves to blamed.

May be we're mixing to much of politics with sports. All the organization have Dato' or Tan Sri as chairmen, reason is they need someone to influences the decisions maker! I've no idea what that mean, may be no influences mean no funds from the government.

Sports should promote fighting spirits, never give-up mentality. Monetary gift or rewards is welcomes but should not be main concern. Nevertheless athletes should not be deprived of they privileges. Special diet, high tech training equipments are expensive, money is needed most in this area. We should be spending in developing the athletes, not just at the finish line.

I don't have a solution for our problems, but hope 1 day we'll produces our own Micheal Phelps, but today, Lee Chong Wei is the only hope we had on gold. Lets hope he'll maintain his performance and his cool so at least Malaysia get to be in the list of medal winner.

12 August 2008

By Election

Here we go again. Once more its that time again, the time when some of us who is not lucky enough have to go out and vote again. This time though, it is not because their elected representative died before the end of term, but because their MP think her husband can do better then her.

It is a noble things to do if her main thought was for her peoples, to give them her best even if it mean to sacrifice her office. But here the things, why did she contested in the first place if she knew she is not the best candidate? Here one more thing, it cost peoples money to run election. To do it again less then 6 months after general election is totally waste of money.

Slowly Malaysian democracy has becomes family legacy, the stages are luring. To be portrait as victim of unjust system while at the same time creating a new political dynasty with millions of Dollars pouring in as backup not a bad idea at all.

10 August 2008

Bar Council

I understand why Muslims disagree to the forum on Conversation to Islam by Bar Council being held openly for public. However I do not agree with the use of force to put it to stop. Islam, nowadays has been constantly attack from many front. Lies and deceptions are not new weapon, it has been fought for centuries. If once we loose our self to the temptation of using force against words of lies, we'll surely lost the battle. The words of lies become the truth. Islam will be seen as aggressive religion with no regards toward other opinions.

Islam is the way of life, not just religion we practice in certain places or occasions. If you're born Muslim and had a fair of education in Islamic teaching, you'll never regret of who you are. In fact, like me, proud to be Muslim. There are things you must do, can do and there are things that you can't do. Like, you cannot leave or converted to other religion for example.

A person who want to embrace Islam should be told that this is one way ticket, there is no way back should things go wrong or not like what they expects. They should accept it as God wills like Muslims does.

When you die as Muslim, the community or authority has a duty to see that you'll received proper burial. Why would we want to snatch non-muslim body? When the family members of the decease fail to accept that you're Muslim our duty just wont cease.

Because our Founding Fathers know that Islam is the way of our life, that it is not possible to separate our religion from what we perceived in our life, they put in the constitution that no civil court has right over Islamic matter. For 50 years we are happy with it, now it is raised in a manner of our opinion being invasive and disrespect by civil lawyers who is in the first place has no say in Islamic affair.

May be Bar council is testing the water, how deep it goes depending on how much resistance it received. To champions the peoples cause does not necessary be open fare unless it is trying to gain popularity. And what is Bar Council want to do with popularity? It is not supposed to be political, it is supposed to monitor the integrity of lawyers. Lawyer are professionals in making their boss or people who paid them, absolutely right in the eye of laws. Because justice is blind, it all about how good your lawyer is. Lawyers can also become lobbyist, but to let the Bar Council to taken that role is degrading.



09 August 2008