Mahathir Shows His Power

The UMNO election started to heat up. Mahathir has never been known to like Khairy, and it is not surprising that a candidate was selected to oppose Khairy. Mahathir had tried earlier with his son Mukhriz, but he was of no match for Khairy. I had not heard Mukhriz making and public speech.. probably he is not capable, and his asset is his old dad. Unfortunatley it may be true to his richer brother...

the start 21 sept 2013

A POLICEMAN KILLED IN CRIME OPERATION

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star 24 sept 2013

A 31 year old policeman was killed in line of duty. It is believed that he was hit by a brick when he was pursuing to recapture a 17 year old suspect. This is in Melaka, when a team of 5 policemen arrived at the scene after receiving a tip. Three suspects aged 17 to 23 were trying to steal scrap metal from a factory.

The dead policeman is Kaptan Zal Azri from Penang.

Mid Autumn Festival - Shanghai Comes Alive

You must be really up-to-date if you can guess where the photo is taken...

The Old Golden Shanghai Musical Performance was supported by funky- styled dancers of 1950s and 1960s, danced to the nostalgic tune of the good-old-days.

At the sunset hundreds of oil power lanterns illuminated the purposely darken street to add to the reality of bygone days..

start on 16 sept 2013

  

LINKING INITIATIVES TO OBJECTIVES

I was reading the Star on the topic "The Road to Welfare Unity".

http://www.1malaysia.com.my/my-record/1-malaysia/
"Klik pada inisiatif 1Malaysia dibawah untuk maklumat lanjut"

According to the webpage, .. [... Kunci utama bagi falsafah konsep 1Malaysia adalah kesederhanaan: suatu keyakinan pada kepentingan perpaduan tanpa mengira bangsa atau kepercayaan agama. Kepelbagaian yang wujud di Malaysia ini menjadikan kita unik, namun untuk mendapatkan manfaat sepenuhnya daripada keunikan ini, kita perlulah bersatu serta menggunakan persamaan antara kita untuk maju kehadapan. Inilah matlamat utama 1Malaysia, namun ianya lebih daripada hanya satu ideologi abstrak .... ]

The  key concept of  1Malaysia is moderation, and it is focusing on
-  integration of all ethics and races.
-  equality
- benefits to be shared by all

The translation and the concept was revealed in the GTP Roadmap chapter 3 and 4 using the following keywords:
- unity of Malaysian,
- Better quality of life.
- High standard of living.
- improve basic rural intrstructure.

In another GTP chapter, it stated that the aim of 1Malaysia are...
- to make malaysia more to be more vibrant, more productive and more competitive and ultimately, to be a great nation.
- malaysian will think themselves as Malaysian first rather than their ethnic origins.

  VIEWING THE INITIATIVES
The people will be having hard time to link the initiatives above to the objectives of 1Malaysia. Look at "Kedai Ikan Rakyat 1Malaysia", "Kedai Rakyat", "Program Susu".

I cannot help but to share the joke about BR1M at one of the "kedai kopi" in a village.  This was the talk by the rubber tappers and rice planters... " what else do Malaysians want, at least I get a few 1000 rm from BR1M, I get nothing from the other parties, I now who to vote in the coming election".

We may be misguided in equating nation development and winning an election..