Hantu Laut
Fine reduced from RM3000 to RM2000 for Tian Chua.Is that the minimum the judge can impose on the criminal act of Tian Chua?
The law says fine of no less than RM2000 or not less than a year's jail will disqualify an elected representative from his post.
I agree with Karpal Singh that Tian Chua is doomed as an MP unless of course the Election Commission construe it differently to avoid another by-election.
Looks like Tian Chua jumped the gun by agreeing to transfer the bail money as payment of the fine.Whether he still can appeal after paying the fine I am not sure as Article 48 is silent.
The law is very clear RM2000 or not less than a year's jail.If you are fined RM500 and given a year's jail you are still a goner.Either way you are a goner.
I'll be most surprise if the Election Commission does not call for a by-election.
PR may not be worried of not winning in the area.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Sungei Orchard
Hantu Laut
Ask any Singaporean would they imagine flooding at Orchard Road before the mighty rainfall submerged Singapore's most famous street yesterday.
I lived in Singapore for 10 years at Cairnhill Road, a stone throw away from Orchard Road and I would have sworn to anyone who asked me that Orchard Road would never flood.The only place that I can remember get flooded after torrential rain coupled by high tide was along Bukit Timah Road.Otherwise, most parts of Singapore are high and dry.
Adjacent areas, Scotts Road, Cairn Hill Road, Cairnhill Circus and Mt Elizabeth must have been spared being on higher ground.
Most efficient and capable Singapore got caught out by "act of God"
As they say "God's mill grind slow but sure" and "man proposes, God disposes"
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Will heads at PUB roll for this most unexpected natural disaster.
Ask any Singaporean would they imagine flooding at Orchard Road before the mighty rainfall submerged Singapore's most famous street yesterday.
I lived in Singapore for 10 years at Cairnhill Road, a stone throw away from Orchard Road and I would have sworn to anyone who asked me that Orchard Road would never flood.The only place that I can remember get flooded after torrential rain coupled by high tide was along Bukit Timah Road.Otherwise, most parts of Singapore are high and dry.
Adjacent areas, Scotts Road, Cairn Hill Road, Cairnhill Circus and Mt Elizabeth must have been spared being on higher ground.
Most efficient and capable Singapore got caught out by "act of God"
As they say "God's mill grind slow but sure" and "man proposes, God disposes"
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
DAP Gone Mad
Hantu Laut
So, it looks like not a cabinet's decision yet or is Najib making a 360-degree round turn on the issue of overseas scholarship for Malaysian students.At least, he is listening to the rumble on the ground.He says student's aid to continue here.
Meanwhile, DAP has gone really berserk here.
This is the first time in the history of this country's politics or for that matter anywhere else in the world I have ever heard of such ridiculous practice.Maybe, DAP should learn to spell D E M O C R A C Y and learn the actual meaning of the word and take a closer look at our Constitution and our political system.
Who is the elected representative, the individual or the party? There is no doubt he was elected on DAP ticket but our Constitution only recognise the individual not the party as the elected entity.
I am against party hopping but if such person refused to resign there is nothing the party can do except wait till the next elections to let the people decide.
So, it looks like not a cabinet's decision yet or is Najib making a 360-degree round turn on the issue of overseas scholarship for Malaysian students.At least, he is listening to the rumble on the ground.He says student's aid to continue here.
Meanwhile, DAP has gone really berserk here.
This is the first time in the history of this country's politics or for that matter anywhere else in the world I have ever heard of such ridiculous practice.Maybe, DAP should learn to spell D E M O C R A C Y and learn the actual meaning of the word and take a closer look at our Constitution and our political system.
Who is the elected representative, the individual or the party? There is no doubt he was elected on DAP ticket but our Constitution only recognise the individual not the party as the elected entity.
I am against party hopping but if such person refused to resign there is nothing the party can do except wait till the next elections to let the people decide.
Resigned and pay RM5 million for any elected representative leaving the party. Can such contract stand in a court of law?
Hee Yit Foong left over a year ago why was there no disclosure that she has signed such an agreement then?
Hee Yit Foong left over a year ago why was there no disclosure that she has signed such an agreement then?
Maybe, former judge NH Chan can help with some legal advice.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Education:Keeping The Brain-Dead Inside, The Brains Outside
Hantu Laut
Sorry Babe! Ain't got no money for the kids education but we can buy the BMW that we have always wanted.
Got money to build RM800 million palace, got money to build RM800 million new parliament building, got money to bail out the corrupt-laden PKFZ, got money to make every UMNO's ministers and divisional heads rich but have no money for our brainy students.
If there is anything more horrendous that the Najib's government has churned out so far this could be the worst.
I am sure the Chinese are amused because with this policy it would be the majority Malays and bumiputras kept inside the country.The proverbial "katak dibawah tempurong"
Looks like Mahathir's Vision 2020 is going down the drain.
As Jema Khan pointed out in his article here Najib is a good goalkeeper but backed by under performing team.That could be an understatement.
I have in many instances spelled in my previous posts the need for Najib to have a major cabinet reshuffle or face the perils of losing the government not because of him but because of dismal performance of most of his ministers.His own popularity rating may be on the rise but his ministers are dragging him down.It is either intentional or out of sheer foolishness.
Najib should introduce a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) for each and every minister to measure their performance on quarterly basis.Those falling below the tolerance level for three consecutive quarters should be removed.
Do we really need RM800 million palace and RM800 million parliament house and all the trappings of the delusions of grandeur and neglect our responsibility to educate our children?
Lest, Nazri forgets those are taxpayers' money the government spending on megalomanic projects.
What is wrong with the present parliament house which has been renovated and refurbished a few years ago to the tune of RM85 million yet the roof leaks.Is this building about to collapse to justify the building of another?
This is a government in contradiction.After warning the people of economic gloom and doom and possibility of going bankrupt it embarked on a ridiculously grandiose and wasteful plan of building a new parliament house at a whopping RM800 million for the benefits of 222 members of parliament.
We all know how important education is and how success is deeply tied to having a good educational background.
There are many highly intelligent children from poor families who are just unfortunate to not be able to pursue tertiary education because their parents can't afford to finance further education for them.These tangible assets go to waste because the government failed in its duty.
Human success depend on the ability to adapt, to invent and education is the indispensable factor that can bring progress to humanity.
"Necessity is the mother of invention" and only with education we can gear the brain to logical progression and inventiveness.
Look at the Malaysian oil palm industry.We are the biggest producer of palm oil yet we labour in backwardness in our oil palm plantations depending on imported labour to harvest the fruits and misplaced notion that labour will always be cheap.
No one, including government agencies funded by the government to do research on the oil palm industry has come up with an idea how to mechanise the industry.Greed overrides our better judgement.We put as many trees as possible in an acre of land to get bigger yield in the short term rather than invest in the long term by inventing machines that can mechanise planting and harvesting that eventually will bring down the cost of operation.If that crop is grown in the West they would have found a way to mechanise the whole industry.
We have a trapped mind because we are so easily comforted, complacence and forever depending on the West for new technology.Worst, we don't take criticism as construction for new ideas but rather as a source of annoyance.
Invention need research and development which need big money and only government and big companies can afford to fund such venture.The recipe for any invention is the trained human mind.Education trains the human mind.That's why the West put greatest value in education.
Here, our government tells us there is no more money for further education let alone spend money on research and development.Sorry Nazri! You may be a lawyer but you are way out of your league.
Isolated tribes in the jungle have no form of education to bring modernity to their culture.They continue to stay in the age of ignorance.Islamic civilization, where the sciences used to exist and evolve have been dead for hundreds of years caught in a time warp.Many Muslim nations have put high quality education in the backseat.
Education purveys knowledge, skills and values that are passed from one generation to another.Without education we are doomed.Let me produce Nazri's penultimate statement here.
“This year, we reduced the number to 1,500. Next year, we will continue [to reduce this further],” he said.
Sorry Babe! Ain't got no money for the kids education but we can buy the BMW that we have always wanted.
Got money to build RM800 million palace, got money to build RM800 million new parliament building, got money to bail out the corrupt-laden PKFZ, got money to make every UMNO's ministers and divisional heads rich but have no money for our brainy students.
If there is anything more horrendous that the Najib's government has churned out so far this could be the worst.
I am sure the Chinese are amused because with this policy it would be the majority Malays and bumiputras kept inside the country.The proverbial "katak dibawah tempurong"
Looks like Mahathir's Vision 2020 is going down the drain.
As Jema Khan pointed out in his article here Najib is a good goalkeeper but backed by under performing team.That could be an understatement.
I have in many instances spelled in my previous posts the need for Najib to have a major cabinet reshuffle or face the perils of losing the government not because of him but because of dismal performance of most of his ministers.His own popularity rating may be on the rise but his ministers are dragging him down.It is either intentional or out of sheer foolishness.
Najib should introduce a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) for each and every minister to measure their performance on quarterly basis.Those falling below the tolerance level for three consecutive quarters should be removed.
Do we really need RM800 million palace and RM800 million parliament house and all the trappings of the delusions of grandeur and neglect our responsibility to educate our children?
Lest, Nazri forgets those are taxpayers' money the government spending on megalomanic projects.
What is wrong with the present parliament house which has been renovated and refurbished a few years ago to the tune of RM85 million yet the roof leaks.Is this building about to collapse to justify the building of another?
This is a government in contradiction.After warning the people of economic gloom and doom and possibility of going bankrupt it embarked on a ridiculously grandiose and wasteful plan of building a new parliament house at a whopping RM800 million for the benefits of 222 members of parliament.
We all know how important education is and how success is deeply tied to having a good educational background.
There are many highly intelligent children from poor families who are just unfortunate to not be able to pursue tertiary education because their parents can't afford to finance further education for them.These tangible assets go to waste because the government failed in its duty.
Human success depend on the ability to adapt, to invent and education is the indispensable factor that can bring progress to humanity.
"Necessity is the mother of invention" and only with education we can gear the brain to logical progression and inventiveness.
Look at the Malaysian oil palm industry.We are the biggest producer of palm oil yet we labour in backwardness in our oil palm plantations depending on imported labour to harvest the fruits and misplaced notion that labour will always be cheap.
No one, including government agencies funded by the government to do research on the oil palm industry has come up with an idea how to mechanise the industry.Greed overrides our better judgement.We put as many trees as possible in an acre of land to get bigger yield in the short term rather than invest in the long term by inventing machines that can mechanise planting and harvesting that eventually will bring down the cost of operation.If that crop is grown in the West they would have found a way to mechanise the whole industry.
We have a trapped mind because we are so easily comforted, complacence and forever depending on the West for new technology.Worst, we don't take criticism as construction for new ideas but rather as a source of annoyance.
Invention need research and development which need big money and only government and big companies can afford to fund such venture.The recipe for any invention is the trained human mind.Education trains the human mind.That's why the West put greatest value in education.
Here, our government tells us there is no more money for further education let alone spend money on research and development.Sorry Nazri! You may be a lawyer but you are way out of your league.
Isolated tribes in the jungle have no form of education to bring modernity to their culture.They continue to stay in the age of ignorance.Islamic civilization, where the sciences used to exist and evolve have been dead for hundreds of years caught in a time warp.Many Muslim nations have put high quality education in the backseat.
Education purveys knowledge, skills and values that are passed from one generation to another.Without education we are doomed.Let me produce Nazri's penultimate statement here.
“This year, we reduced the number to 1,500. Next year, we will continue [to reduce this further],” he said.
Nevertheless, Nazri said that the extra funds would be given out as scholarships to students pursuing courses in the local universities.
“Ultimately, the purpose is also to retain our good students here in our local universities. We want our good students to study locally and this is our long-term goal.
“We want our universities to be first-class. We want to retain the money here, so we finance those in local universities — we want the talent here,” he said.
Nazri noted that one of the reasons behind the brain drain problem in the country was that many students pursued their studies in foreign universities.
“And when they are there and they have the connection, they no longer want to return,” he said.
The full story here.
It sounded like the government is stopping to send students overseas because of the brain drain which is absolutely ridiculous and untrue.
Those who never came back were mostly self-sponsored or paid by parents or family.Those who left the country left for a reason.
Our employment market sucks.It is one big sweat shop and the biggest problem is the government wanting to keep wages low.Entry level for fresh graduate is miserable all for wanting to reflect low cost centre to attract FDI (Foreign Direct Investment).
There is no minimum wage in this country.Employers squeezed labour to the bone and pay minimal wages.
Yes, it is good to keep as many as we could in the country.Maybe, the government should first give a health check on the education system in the country before making that conclusion.Even our local private sector shy away from employing some of our local graduates so can they survive the world's competitive marketplace?Is that the right way to stop the brain drain? Are we going to produce brain-dead graduates?
Nazri and the government should first take a serious look at the top universities of the world and see whether they can find one from Malaysia in the top 100 before making the fatal decision to kill the goose that lay the golden eggs and produce mediocre gooses.
World's top 100 here.
Even more baffling why is Nazri making statement on education issue.Has the Ministry of Education become redundant?
Also read this heart-rending story.
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