Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Pakatan Rakyat's Deafening Silence
This is one of Malaysia's biggest shame and a waste of taxpayer's money paying for a bloated and inefficient civil service. An admission that Malays and bumiputras are unproductive lots.We need 10 to do 5 men's jobs.
The same thing happened in Sabah under the PBS regime filling up the civil service with KDM as fast as they could which has bloated the Sabah civil service till today.No succeeding government dares to take action to remedy the problem.
Surprisingly, Pakatan Rakyat has shown no interest on this subject which incurs the nation huge and wasteful recurring expenditure.
They have made a litany of other promises but stayed clear of this one that could save the nation billion of ringgits in wastage of public funds if the civil service were to be trimmed by half.This nation could have more money for development if half of the dead weight are removed from the civil service.
A complete "deafening silence" on the opposition front.Your guess as good as mine why they stayed clear of this controversial issue.
Monday, June 6, 2011
First World City Suffering From Third World Woes
When I lived in Singapore in the eighties and early nineties there was never a case of flooding in the commercial districts other then the occasional flash floods at Bukit Timah Road.
I suppose the massive reclamation works to increase the size of the city state are contributing to the new phenomenon.
Woe betide those who upset mother nature.
The heavy downpour early on Sunday also triggered flash floods across several parts of the island.
Senett Estate, Potong Pasir, MacPherson, Toa Payoh and Bukit Timah were also partially submerged by floods.
Two lanes along Bukit Timah Road near Cuscaden and Hillcrest Road were completely impassable to traffic at one stage. So too was the Kranji Expressway (KJE) at the slip road towards Woodlands.
With the advent of global warming Singapore would soon be the Venice of the East and eventually join the legendary Atlantis.Sunday, June 5, 2011
How Sex Can Keep Your Husband Happy - The Obedient Wives Club
Now we know why men strayed. Disobedient wives depriving their husbands of their sexual needs? Ibrahim Ali wasn't wrong when he said men seek extra marital sex because their wives neglect their responsibilities particularly on the subject of sex, which offended and outraged women's groups in the country.
Ironically, the "Obedient Wives Club" no less a women's group agree with his misplaced notion.
Must men get sex on demand irrespective of the time of day? The "Obedient Wives Club" appears to think so. Even if you are doing your household chores just drop your panties if your husband came home and has a sudden urge to copulate. Is that what marriage is all about.....SEX ? Men do enjoy sex but that has never been the reason for choosing your life partner.Sexual chemistry is but a small part of the equation.
Do you drive your man away just because of unfulfilled sex at home or there are other unpalatable reasons he sways and strays or is it because man are man, more physical and instinctive in nature? As in the saying "familiarity breeds contempt" it takes a long time to get to know a person well and people can change in behaviour and temperament. Your spouse may not be the same person ten years later as when you first met her or him.
Not all man enter or depart from a marriage because of sex.Most men do not think of sex as of their three daily meals.It is absolute fallacy. Sex is just part and parcel of our biological needs.Unlike food,water and air some people can live without it.There are men who stayed single and calibate their entire life.
Plenty of sex at home would not keep your husbands from straying.About 40 to 50% of men seek sexual gratification outside their relationship.The Kinsy sex study in 1950 found that 50% of men cheat at some point in their marriages. So, do what you like ladies if your man falls in that 50% category you may be the most beautiful,caring and obedient wife no matter how hard you try your man will stray.Some may have one indiscretion, some may have multiple indiscretions and some may just be incorrigible.
History has shown that men crave sexual variety. It's a primordial instinct that dates back to their stone age days.The hunters gatherers days and now instead of hunting and gathering food some men hunt and gather women.
In West Malaysia it seems a common practice amongst Muslim men to have more than one wives.I know of a driver who kept three wives plus the occasional girlfriends on a driver's salary. How he did it is a wonderment.
Being married to high-profile men ups the odds he'll stray because women are attracted to men who have power and status. John F.Kennedy have had regular shenanigans when Jackie Kennedy was not in the White House. Donald Trump is proud of his name tag as the ultimate Lothario, unscrupulous seducer of women. The downfall of IMF Chief Dominique Strauss Kahn over an alleged rape of a chamber maid defies logic of a man of his status who can have as many consenting women as he wishes, is, if it is true, personification of the man inability to control lust.
OWC vice-president Dr Rohaya Mohamad said that women often forget their duties as a “good wife” which include providing pleasure to their husbands in the bedroom.
“A good wife is a good sex worker to her husband. What is wrong with being a whore in bed to your husband?” she asked.
The irony is Rohaya is a third wife out of four wives in one big happy family.
I wish good luck to members the "Obedient Wives Club" and hope their frequent bonking at home would keep the husbands happy and house-bound.
Also read:
Obedient Wives’ anger rights groups
Friday, June 3, 2011
Malaysia's Rotten Enforcement
Rubbish pork and rotten enforcement
Stanley Koh | June 3, 2011The recent revelation about “rubbish pork” being sold on the market was a grim reminder of how often unscrupulous business practices go unnoticed by Malaysian authorities.
Through the years, there have been several shocking disclosures raising concern about the efficiency and effectiveness of enforcement agencies as protectors of food safety and public health.
Apparently, the practice of using low quality pork – or even pig carrion – in sausages, dim sum and other pork-based foods has been going on for 10 years. Why did it go undetected for so long by any of the various levels of the authority responsible for food safety? Is the government adequately taking care of public health?
Food safety in the country is administered by a network of federal, state, district and municipal authorities. The top authority is the Food Quality Control Unit of the Health Ministry. It was established in 1974 and is responsible for overall technical supervision. It determines food safety policies, formulates legislation, guidelines and codes of practice and coordinates activities at state and district levels.
One wonders whether the unit, as well as the state, district and local authorities, have adequate financial and manpower resources to function effectively, considering that food production has grown rapidly over the years.
Is there anything besides rubbish pork that we should be worried about? Are there other dark secrets yet to be exposed?
Perhaps we should review the Malaysian track record.
Quite some time ago, Chinese guilds and associations raised concerns about the unscrupulous use of prohibited drugs and hazardous chemicals in animal feeds, vegetables and fruits.
Big profits
More recently, we heard complaints that some animal feed suppliers and livestock farmers had resorted to using various types of stimulants to accelerate the growth of livestock or plants so that they could reap in big profits, never mind the risk to public health.
In 1996, the public was shocked by reports that some poultry farmers were administering the cancer-causing antibiotic Nitrofuran to their chickens. According to one of these reports, a government laboratory tested 142 chickens and found that more than half showed contamination of up to 4,000%.
In August 1996, poultry farmers nationwide pledged not to administer Nitrofuran to chickens younger than 28 days. But a few days later, the government decided to ban the antibiotic altogether. Read more.