Police Surveillance on wifi

Someone showed me this screenshot from a laptop while online in Oldtown, Kepong.

It shows that at 6:49pm, Sunday, 16th Dec, 2012, near Oldtown in Jaya Jusco Kepong branch, there is a ICPO-INTERPOL Surveillance van using wifi connection, or scanning the wifi connection in the area.

When a laptop with wifi card searches for available wifi signals, all the wifi connections in the area will show up, with their names.

But just like bluetooth, each device can be given any name the user likes, so is wifi device. So is this really a surveillance van from INTERPOL? Or is the 1 Najib scanning for what his loyal subjects are doing on a Sunday in Kepong. One just have to wonder.

有人在Oldtown把手提電腦螢幕截圖給我看。截圖顯示在2012年12月16日傍晚6時49分，在甲洞佳士客的Oldtown，有輛國際刑警的監控用的車在附近用無綫上網。

和藍牙一樣，用戶可以爲自己的無綫上網的工具取任何代號的。所以這真的是國際刑警車？還是１納吉在看人民在星期日在甲洞做些甚麽？不得不猜疑。

Do not go watch 12 Chinese Zodiac

Jackie Chan is at it again!

He just scolded the Hong Kong people for voicing their dissatisfaction over that fact that the governor lies, and they do not want the brain-wash education. He publicly said that Hong Kong people should just listen and obey the governor and the government of People's Republic of China blindly. So Hong Kong people are calling for a boycott of his just released new movie, 12 Chinese Zodiac. And Jackie Chan actually answered that he has the global box-office.

Sick. What is he going to say about anti-Lynas campaign? About protecting the cultural heritage of Jalan Sultan here? Yes, you got the idea. Do not watch 12 Chinese Zodiac. We have done away with kindergarten movies for years; and his movies are always like kindergarten movies; remember that he once criticized that Hong Kong movie was kindergarten grade.

那自以爲很紅的房生又來了。他在香港駡香港人反特首說謊，反對香港人上街遊行反洗腦教育；房生要香港人當乖乖牌聴特首和中共中央政府的話。香港人生氣，要杯葛他的剛推出的新戲１２生肖。他回應說他有世界票房。

馬來西亞人記得，千萬別去看１２生肖。我們要保謢蘇丹街，要反萊納斯，他會說我們這些行動是甚麽？預見得到的了。而且他的電影永遠幼稚園，我們早已不在幼稚園了。當年他駡香港電影幼稚園的，大家要記得。

Dec 23 2012:
O this is good! Hong Kong people are no longer in kindergarten anymore. Just read the Hong Kong box-office figure, Jackie Chan's new movie just got like 450k in box-office, way below Wreck-it Ralph. Yeah! Remember, do not watch his movie.

Dec 31 2012:
What is wrong with the newspaper in Malaysia? I see this in China Press on Dec 30, 2012, and it dated Dec 29, 2012. The piece is Wang Dan (王丹) told the news media, calling people not to watch 12 Chinese Zodiac, to let that he-forever-thought-he-is-really-popular Jackie Chan know people do not like him. Dec 29, 2012? The movie had been released for days. Did he Wang Dan (王丹) really just mention this on Dec 29, 2012?
2012年12月30日在報紙上看到，在2012年12月29日王丹公開叫人們別去看12生肖，要讓那自以爲很紅的房生知道，人們不該故息壞人。29日？真的是用香港話：”有冇搞錯？
”那電影已經開畫好些天了！
不管怎樣，別去看１２生肖。

Jan 8 2013:
A few days ago, Jackie Chan was ranked 14 on THE TOP 100 HUMAN PULP IN CHINA OF THE YEAR 2012, for his effort in supporting the move of Hong Kong government and PROC to curb Hong Kong people's freedom of expression. I was a little disappointed when I first read this news, I thought he should be in the top 10, but after going through the list, I agreed with those voters, he is not that bad yet, a lot of of those on the list had done much worse than him.

Still, my congratulations to JACKIE CHAN for getting his well deserved number 14 spot on THE TOP 100 HUMAN PULP IN CHINA OF THE YEAR 2012.

恭喜成龍當選2012年道届中華人民共和國100大人渣榜第十四名。本以因爲成龍十大不入而爲他報不平的；但看了人渣榜的全文之後，不得不承認真的還有不少人比他更人渣，所以第十四名是應該的，狂賀成龍！！！

Officially, we do not have 4G infrastructure in Malaysia yet.

Officially, next year, that is AD2013, Malaysia will have 4G services coverage in the country. I just read this news online:
http://www.orientaldaily.com.my/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=34489:4g&Itemid=113

Huh? But but... BUT I SEE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR 4G SERVICES IN MALAYSIA SINCE AD2011.

So what? This is Malaysia.

What do you mean? There is no 4G service in Malaysia yet, how could those telecommunication carriers sell the service?

Again, this is Malaysia.

Huh?

This is Malaysia! They can make false advertisement and will not be punished in anyway, either by the consumers, or by the laws, or by regulation authorities. This is actually a non issue in Malaysia. You can sign up for what is nothing more than 2G or 2.5G at best, and limited coverage area, slow speed, narrow bandwidth, and limited data volume, and it is called 4G in Malaysia.

Huh?

Yes. When the advertisement says like RM100+ for like less than 1GB per month, it really is far less than 1GB per month, if you were not carefully and say, watched youtube, and then you will used up 1GB in like a week, and then you will have to pay some more money for your internet traffic for the rest of the month.

But there is no 4G service in Malaysia yet.

We are going to have 4G in Malaysia next year.

Then what are we, I and the other subscribers paying for? 2G?

Frankly, I have no idea. According to my data volume counter and the speed test I ran on my account, what I get is far below the standard of 2G. I am not in the IN-circle, just a consumer, using the data volume counter and speed test softwares. So I have absolutely no idea how we got into this 4G package with no 4G service situation in Malaysia.

Now, dear readers, you got my message? This is the internet connection in Malaysia.

A little info from Australia again, it turned out that one of my relations in Australia was kind of duped. Now it is 3AUD/hr for mobile internet access in Australia, the 2AUD/day package is gone.

The 1 Najib Addresses The GM's Of Other BN Parties

Yesterday, 2nd Dec, 2012, Sunday, with UMNO annual general meeting 2012 just over on 1st Dec, 2012, Saturday, the 1 Najib attended the general meeting of one of the component parties of BN, a really small political party.

And as it is the norm of this year, the gm is like the election campaign. With the flags of BN everywhere, overshadowing the color of the party, all attendants wear the blue uniform bearing the sign of BN, instead of the dress code of the party. The name of the party? It is such a small party, I could not bother with it.

And as it is the norm of all the gm's of all the component parties of BN, the prime minister of Malaysia, and also the chairman of UMNO, made the opening speech at the gm. This year, the 1 Najib addressed the party gm with calls to win the coming general election, GE13.

See anything weird yet?  That all attendants wearing the uniform of BN? That instead of the chairman of the party, someone who is not a member of the party addresses the party gm?

That's right, at the gm of UMNO, all the attendants are UMNO members. They all wear according to the dress code of the party. None from the component parties of BN attended the UMNO gm, and most certainly no one from the component parties of BN can ever get on the stage and address the UMNO gm.

This is the norm of BN culture: that the chairman of UMNO must addresses the gm of every party in BN, but only the chairman of UMNO may addresses UMNO. It is clear that UMNO views and treats all other parties in BN as low class groups, servants or slaves like. The most nauseating part is, those who are being treated this way actually put on a show for the media, that they are so happy to be treated this way by UMNO, that they are loyal to the 1 Najib, and will win the coming GE13 for him. The scene on tv news, that had to be the grossest thing of the year.

Live Coverage of UMNO General Meeting On TV

29 Nov, 2012, Thursday.

In Malaysia, the current government is formed by a coalition of parties called Barisan Nasional, BN for short. In BN, the single biggest party is UMNO. The current prime minister of Malaysia is a member of UMNO, and more than half of his cabinet is made up of UMNO members.

Today is the 4th day of the annual general meeting of UMNO. The prime minister of Malaysia, who also is the party chairman, the one and only Najib, is addresing the party today. So RTM1, TV3, NTV7, 8TV, TV9, all 5 free to air tv channels are broadcasting the live coverage of the one and only Najib making his speech in the UMNO general meeting.

Malaysian parliament sessions are not broadcasted live, except for the budget report, and this only happened since the past few years. Many people from many sectors have been calling for live coverage of parliament sessions for years, but no television channel ever showed any interest in broadcasting parliament sessions, and the government is not giving green light.

In fact, other than sponsored major sport events, like Olympic games, or Datuk Lee Chung Wei is fighting for a gold medal, or his wedding, or national day parade and the likes, Malaysians see very little live coverage of any activities of any kind at all, so why the live coverage of a general meeting of a party? Yes, the chairman is making his speech today. But it is still a general meeting of a political party, how is that more important than parliament sessions?

This is the underlying message of the live broadcast:

the One Najib is the most important person in Malaysia, UMNO is the one party that controls the nation, so the speech by the One Najib in general meeting of his party is the most important event of the year, all Malaysians should tune in to understand and remember this. And remember to stay loyal to him, vote for him in the coming general election, GE13. Stray away from him, and suffer the consequences.

The One Najib is still delivering his speech as I am typing this. Looking at the screen, a book and 2 movies came to my mind:

1984(a book),

“V for Vendetta”, “Wag The Dog” (2 movies).

If you do not understand why they came to my mind, google for the summaries of them. Or actually go read the book “1984”.

General meeting of the ruling political party is more important than parliament sessions, scary. Only in Malaysia.

Both happened on 25th Nov, 2012

According to tv news, at the 1125 rally, the organizer, that is Dong Zong claimed 20,000 people had turned out, and media estimated it at 6,000. A huge gap in the 2 figures. Of course both sides have reasons to inflate, down-play the figures.

Dong Zong needs to exaggerate the turn-out figure to show they have the support of the people, and  the media needs to down-play the figure so as not to offend the One Najib.

But looking at the news footage of 1125, I believe the number of people who turned out is far higher than 6000.

I did not see any report about 1125 rally or Anti-Lynas March on the TV3 00:00 26th Nov, 2012 English news, it was just full of the elections talks from One Najib, and the vice-prime-minister/education-minister trashing Dong Zong.

What figure will the Chinese dailies report on Monday?

Green March reached Merdeka Square on 25th Nov, 2012, and the police say the marchers had broken the law. What is that? The only thing marchers did is walk, they walked from Kuantan to Merdeka Square, they did not commit any act of violence, did not damage any property, either public or private, did not vandalize anything, did not shout any kind of insults to any one, be it personal, racial, religious, or nationality. And the police say they had broken the law? Is it because the One Najib is afraid of them? But the Malaysian court had cleared the way for Lynas to start operation, and the raw rare-earth ore had arrived a few days ago in the wee hours. So Malaysia is going to have Lynas after all.

從電視新聞上看到的，在星期日的1125大集會，董總說有20,000人到場，媒體則估計現場有6,000人。兩邊的數字差很大。媒體的數字當然是要照政府的意思報小；董總則要報大以壯聲勢。照電視播出的畫面看，現場人數肯定遠超過6,000人。

在11月26日00:00時的TV3英語中，不見任何1125大集會或步行反萊納斯的報導，只有首相的競選發言和副首相攻擊董總的言論。

星期一華文報章會刋出甚麽數字？

步行反萊納斯在同一天到了獨立廣場，警方說他們犯法。真的這麽怕步行反萊納斯？前幾天淩晨稀土礦已經運到了。看來馬來西亞政府是一定要讓萊納斯在馬來西亞運作了。

A Buddhism celebrity visits Malaysia

A Buddhism celebrity from Taiwan just visited Malaysia, and made a public preaching appearance on 25th Nov, 2012. Before the event, he met the One Najib, as a courtesy call and gave him a scroll of Chinese calligraphy, which is by the celebrity himself.

This celebrity had decided not to travel far a number of years ago, because of his failing health. Now that the GE13 is inevitably around the corner, he came here and met the One Najib? However the story is spinned, it just reads like a show, for the political gain.

在決定不出門好幾年之後，星雲法師今年來馬來西亞。在11月24日的大會上，真是盛事，不只是許多無名氏的善男信女去聴他弘法，還有華人圈中的政治人物名流到場，特別要記者拍下他們和星雲法師會面的相片在報章新聞中刋登。當然拍照之後，他們之中有誰是由大會的工作人員向人說他們另有急事走了，有誰留下來聴法師弘法就不得而知了。

在24日之前，星雲法師先去拜會馬來西亞首相納吉，送了親自寫的吉星高照給首相當紀念品。新聞報導特別強調說吉是指納吉，星是指星雲。

在馬來西亞本届國會就快要届滿，不得不改選的敏感時期，星雲法師這次［破例出訪馬來西亞］（照本地報導抄自台灣報章的文稿用詞），還獲得首相納吉接見，怎麽看這行程都充滿了政治算計。真令人懷疑是不是馬來西亞政府暗中去說動法師來的？好讓納吉演一場政治秀？

Nov 25, 1125, who will answer the call of Dong Zong?

In a press conference on 20 Nov, 2012, Dong Zong claimed that 540 Chinese organizations will attend the 1125 (25 Nov, 2012) rally, to tell the government they are not happy with the new Education Blueprint.

At the other side, Jiao Zong had made it clear that this organization, along with Hua Zong, and lots of other Chinese organizations will not attend the rally. Actually they call for Malaysian Chinese community not to attend the rally or show any support for Dong Zong, because Jiao Zong and Hua Zong are working real hard with MCA and government to have a new Education Blueprint that is acceptable to everyone.

Hua Zong? Do you believe that organization any more? After the case of Letter Of Approval for Chinese Independent Middle School in Kuantan, how can anyone in his/her right mind still believe in that organization? It is crystal clear that Hua Zong is only sucking up to the government, because they are afraid of being labelled as anti-government. That school in Kuantan is just a shame, and Hua Zong is still standing by MCA to say it is not. Just how thick skinned can they be? And now they are calling people to follow their footsteps? To boycott 1125 rally? Is Hua Zong getting any real financial gain from the government in this? I wonder. Bizarrely, there are actually Chinese organizations had made public statements that they are not supporting the 1125 rally.

So, on the surface, Jiao Zong and Dong Zong are moving apart, the 2 once Siamese-twins like bodies are almost enemies now, or maybe already are behind the scene.

In the Chinese newspapers, Sin Chew Daily and her sisters are campaigning against 1125 rally. So despite the near desperate efforts of Dong Zong, there is very little voice in the media supporting this rally. So come this 25 Nov, who will answer the call of Dong Zong and show up in the rally? What kind of people? And worst of all, will it ever be reported if the rally got a huge turn out?

WARNING! CRUEL AND SCARY VIDEO. Below is a link to an experiment on how to boil a frog alive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8QOB0mCarI
Just type "frog boil alive" in search bar in youtube, and you will get more videos like this. Scary.

2012年11月20日的記者招待會上，董總宣稱已有五百四十個華團會參加11月25日的集會，表達對育發展大藍圖的不滿。

同日另一邊廂，教總也召開記者招待會，公開聲明教總和華總不支持也不會參加1125大集會。教總說他們（教總和華總和其他在同一陳綫的華團，那是包括馬華？）正在和政府合作協商對教育發展大藍圖的修改。

華總？關丹那由華社出錢的國民中學，只可以教政府中學課程的批文內容浮出來之後，還有誰敢相信華總？現在華總和教總叫別人和他們一樣，不支持1125大集會，竟然已有華團表態跟隨教總和華總不支持1125大集會。

不管怎樣，董總和教總這曾經像連體嬰的兩個團體，現在已經是差不多公然對駡了，那在暗地裏是不是已經成了敵人在生死博斗了？

在11月25日當天，甚麽人會去支持？抱著甚麽心態？會有多少人？星洲日報和同一集團的姊妹報一直在反1125大集會，那在當天如果有大批公衆參加， 星洲和姊妹報會怎樣報導？

Added on 2013-04-01:
I just checked my statisitics, and was surprised that it was viewed again a few days back. On 2012-Nov-25, it was a huge turned-up, lots of people showed up with entire family, like grand-parents, parents, children, even babies.

This shows we Malaysians know what we want, what we need, and we are not afraid to do what is perfectly our right to do, that is to express what we feel, what we want.

2012年11月25日當天，很多人全家出動去出席這大集會。馬來西亞人已經明白甚麽是自己的權益。

爲何星洲日報抄襲的大都是台灣的報章？

星洲日報抄襲的文章，除了鄭丁賢的翻譯英文短篇而不說明是翻譯的小文章之外，差不外全都是抄自台灣的報導的。這是否有特別的原因？

在網民揭露星洲日報有多篇社論是抄襲自台灣的之後，羅正文已經辭職以示負責。可是網民都看到在今年７月３０日之後，星洲日報還繼續刋登多篇抄襲文章。而且在已經被認出來的抄襲文章中，有不少是以其他編輯的名義發表的。那爲何至今只有羅正文一人辭職？要羅正文一人承擔所有責任？

其實在馬來西亞的中文報章的編輯，就和獨中的師資一樣，在公元２０００年前，大部份都是留台回來的大學生，那些當編輯的更有不少是在台灣的所謂文化圈中工作過的。當然，有誰真的曾經做到司馬中原的那種御用文人的地位就不得而知了。

當然現在有人去中華人民共和國留學回來，所以這些中文圈子的成份多了大陸留學生。但因爲大陸的消息封鎖功力高深，外面看得到的言論又都是中共式八股的難看難唸，所以還是香港台灣這兩地，再加上在歐美的華人名嘴的言論才會在本地報章出現；但通常會標明是那一名嘴的文章，有的還會加上本報特約的標示。像羅正文辭職，連台灣也報導了，標題直指是因爲抄襲台灣的中國時報社論：

大馬報社主筆抄襲中時社論辭職

所以星洲日報被揭發抄襲的文章源自台灣一點都不出奇。現在是網絡時代，台灣的報章社論會被網民看到也不奇怪。的奇怪的是是誰這麽注意台灣的社論，進而看出這些社論被修改成馬來西亞版的，再成了星洲的社論？會不會是留台人？不然誰花這麽多時間上網去讀台灣的報章？原來馬來西亞華人還是沒有社會正義的？羅正文辭職是因爲留台人在內斗，而不是因爲真的有人要星洲日報真的不抄襲？星洲日報也只是順手把羅正文給甩了而已，正好用來挽回星洲日報的面子？羅正文還真的有點無辜。

Chloramphenicol in chicken, English dailies do not name the company.

Read it in newspapers today. On 1st of November, Sarawak state veterinary department banned the import of Ayamas products into Sarawak, including whole chickens, nuggets, chicken sausages,chicken meatball, and burger patties, because Ayamas products were found to contain Chloramphenicol. As of the news on 4th November, 2012, the Ayamas products are still available in supermakets in Kuching. And Health Minister Liow Chong Lai said his department is still awaiting the laboratory test report; but the allegedly contaminated batch of products had been taken off the shelves, as an act of precaution.

According to the newspapers, chloramphenicol is a kind of antibiotic, could cause vomitting, diarrhoea and headache.

Ayamas is a local food product company, a member of QSR Brands Bhd, alongside KFC Malaysia and Pizza Hut Malaysia. Ayamas mainly marketing chilled/frozen whole chicken and chicken parts, chicken based pre-processed foods.

The Chinese dailies reported the name of the company, Ayamas, but the English dailies chose to omit the name of the company in this case. This is the opposite of the usual practice of newspapers. Usually when it comes to something like a scandal or robbery kind of news, the Chinese dailies always omit the names of the company in their reports, and the English dailies always report the names of those companies in the papers.

But in the case of Ayamas products were found to contain chloramphenicol, English dailies chose to omit the name of the company, just mentioned chicken marketed by a certain company is alleged to contain chloramphenicol, reporting in a really ambigious, anyone could be or not be it kind of way. One has to wonder why? I have some speculations, but I have no way to find out more or verify anything, so all I can do is ask WHY?

在今天的報紙上看到金鳳凰的產品在砂朥越被查出有氯霉素，砂朥越獸醫局已經禁止金鳳凰的產品進入砂朥越。衛生部長彥中萊則說衛生部正在等化驗報告出來。

金鳯凰 是QSR Bradns Bhd 旗下的一家子公司，業務主要是冷藏或冷凍全雞，冷藏或冷凍雞塊，和加工過的雞肉食品。

根據報紙的報導，氯霉素是一種抗生素，會引起嘔吐，腹瀉和頭痛。

奇怪的是在這件事上，中文報章直接的登出金鳳凰的產品在砂朥越被查出有問題，而英文報章則只含糊的報導說有家公司販售的雞被指含有氯霉素。

通常在類似的新聞中，中文報章都不會把公司的名稱登出來的，而英名報章則通常會把公司名稱登出來。可是在金鳯凰的產品被查出含有氯霉素的新聞，作法相反了，英文報章不登出公司名稱，而中文報章則登出來。有人知道這是甚麽原因嗎？

He was the only one that took the fall for Sin Chew, why?

Just read online, in July this year, the senior writer of Sin Chew Daily, Mr Loh Cheng Boon, had resigned from Sin Chew, to take the responsible for the plagiarism scandal the newpaper is in.

Right after his resignation, more acts of plagiarism in Sin Chew Daily were exposed by the public online, and they happened after he had left. So what is going on here? If he was the only one who committed plagiarism, then the acts of plagiarism should have stopped with his resignation.  So Sin Chew Daily just put all the blame on Mr Loh, and hope the fact that Sin Chew is full of works of plagiarism will just go noticed? What a shame.

And strangely, how come none of his peers who graduated from Taiwan showed him any kind of support? And his former students? He was a teacher in a Chinese Independent Middle School in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. So much for Chinese kind of social etiquette.

The truth of Malaysian Chinese, the social etiquettes, social protocol of friendships, old acquaintances, are simply based on practicality, i.e. benefits. Mr. Loh is not the only one who committed plagiarism in Sin Chew, but only he resigned. Sin Chew is still publishing works of plagiarism.

And here are the links to critics about Sin Chew plagiarism

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=40979

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=40381

A shameless major newspaper. Only in Malaysia. It is time we let them know, all newspapers have to take their social responsibility seriously.

剛在網上看到，原來星洲日報的主筆羅正文在今年７月辭職了。他辭職是表示爲星洲日報的抄襲社論負責。

在他正式離職的第二天，網友又在星洲日報上看到抄襲的社論。之後還是陸續有抄襲的社論類的文章被揭露。難道星洲日報以爲只要說羅正文已經辭職了，就不會有人注意星洲日報是不是有抄襲的文章了？未免太小看馬來西亞的讀者了。


以下是評論星洲日報抄襲的連結：

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=40979

http://www.freemalaysiakini2.com/?p=40381

羅正文是留台人，在加入星洲日報之前，曾在馬來西亞砂朥越州美里市的一家獨中教過書。怎麽沒看到留台人或他以前的學生出言支持或者安慰的？這是馬來西亞華人社會的真面目：甚麽人情，禮儀，全是在計算利害關係。


羅正文不是星洲日報中惟一抄襲的人，但只有他辭職。他走了之後，星洲日報還是陸續被揭露有抄襲的文章。大報一直在抄襲，還想含糊過去，只在馬來西亞。

Of Course Orang Asli Do Not Know Orang Penan

In her column in Oriental Daily(東方日報), Young Ai Ling(楊艾琳) wrote about her belated realisation that the Malaysians from Peninsula have next to zero knowledge about people in Sarawak. She was accompany a group of Sarawak natives, in a tour around Peninsular Malaysia, telling that facts that the Sarawak natives are suffering, while news reports had demonised them as hindrances to progress.

In her imagination, she actually thought that all the natives, all from Sarawak, Sabah, and Peninsula, actually know each others, and are old acquaintances, so the locals were supposed to meet the touring party with great enthusiasm, and chat like so.

As it turned out, in one of the stop of the tour that she is part of the team, the host of the stop actually got the names of the tribes from Sarawak mixed up, the host actually had no idea that the group is made up of Orang Penan. And that is when the reality hit her:

People who live in Peninsula actually have next to zero knowledge about people who live in Borneo Island. So Orang Asli in Peninsula actually have no idea who are the visitors from Sarawak, it was like Just-because they-are-Sarawak-natives-so-we-should-know-them? kind of situation.

This is not news to me, because Sarawak and Sabah are hardly mentioned in the national news. And the newspapers in Peninsula only report news in Peninsula, so to know anything about Sarawak and Sabah, one have to actually go to Sarawak and Sabah to read the local newspapers and talk to the locals. So it is only natural for the Peninsular Malaysians to actually have next to zero knowledge about East Malaysia, but always think they know everything. Now I know she really is a bona fide Peninsular Malaysian, as she is just like the Peninsular Malaysians I have met in Malaysia.

At least she really was trying to help the natives.

當然半島的原住民不知道本南人是從哪來的。砂朥越人看就知道了。半島人去到砂朥越，以爲是這樣那樣的，結果砂朥越人要有如教小孩似的，從頭教起。砂朥越人早就當這是笑話了。楊艾琳是真的半島人。但她該是真心的想幫本南人。

Only Oriental Daily mentioned it 東方日報才有提到

I came across a column in Oriental Daily(東方日報) by Young Ai Ling(楊艾琳 I use onamotopeia here, as I had no idea who she is, and her picture on her column shows the writer is a woman), in Oriental Daily. She wrote about one evening, sitting in the balcony of a long-house in Sarawak, and someone in the long house turned on a radio, the sound of sape came out, like a hornbill flying pass.

The radio is a you-do-not-see-them-in-electrical-appliance-anymore kind of shortwave radio, and a small one, but it is the hope of the natives: the hope of getting out of poverty, the hope of getting education, the hope of not being evicted from their land. Each evening from 6pm to 8pm, the natives received the news from outside through shortwave radio. In the neglected region of Malaysia where there is no electricity supply, telecommunication, and internet, all long-houses turn on their shortwave radio, tune in to the same shortwave frequency during this 2 hours.

She is referring to Radio Free Sarawak station. I do not know for sure if the station actually got a license to broadcast, or otherwise. But I am pretty sure Malaysian government does not like this station.

This station is in Bahasa Malaysia(Malaysian standardized version of Malay) and dialects of Sarawakian natives, broadcast only news, and talk-show, call-ins. And all of them mostly centred around the Murum dams, how the natives are dislocated from the very land they rely on for their livelihood, and the court-cases about the native land, all the kind of issues we do not see and hear on the news aired by Astro, RTM, TV3, NTV7, 8TV, TV9. Google "Radio Free Sarawak" and you will get the website for the online edition, podcasts available for download.

It is sad that theSarawakian natives have to fight so hard for their plights to be heard, even in the age of information super-highway. Only in Malaysia. Please show your support for them, anyway you can.

A hind-sight: It is while writing this post, that I realised that the columnist did not specifily mention she was in Sarawak, but only mentioned hornbill, sape, East Malaysia, Murum. So only Sarawakians can recognise what she was writing. From my experience of living in Malay Peninsula, I am certain almost all the Peninsular Malaysians do not get her points, as they actually have a hard time understanding which part of Malaysia she was referring to. Why did she write in such an obscure manner?

A side note:
Among all the Chinese dailies I can find in Klang Valley, only Oriental Daily has a column concerning natives of Sarawak. I suspect this is due to the following 3 reasons:
1. The daily is backed by a conglomorate from Sarawak, so somehow the daily gives Sarawak just that little bit more attention.

2. The backer of daily is at odds with the man controlling Sin Chew daily and her sister dailies.
(Don't just take my word for it, just dig a little into the past: back in 2003A.D., when Oriental Daily first launched in Klang Valley, Sin Chew daily and her sister dailies fought a dirty war with Oriental Daily. Read carefully here, not dirty campaign, but dirty war, as both camps used really low and dirty tactics in the war. The camp of Sin Chew actually banned newspaper-stand and newspaper peddlars from selling Oriental Daily, among other things, the most hilarious part was both camps accused each other of burning the opponent's newspaper. Yes, Sin Chew camp won, but not without injuring herself. I could never look at those editors the same way again.)

3. The daily has a very low market penetrate rate, it is free to pick up in Jaya Jusco(Oo, sorry, now the offical name is Aeon), and other places from Monday to Friday, though some newspaper-stands and 7-11 do carry this daily, 365 days a years, available for RM1.00 per copy; so it had to be different from Sin Chew and her sister dailies.

我在東方日報看到楊艾琳的專欄:<<楊城藍井>>。（谷歌一下就看到了）
楊小姐在專欄中說到，在長屋中聴到原住民收聴電台。這電台指的是 Radio Free Sarawak（谷歌一下就看到了，可以下載），這是原住民自己辦的，有沒牌照我可不知道，原天傍晚6pm到8pm播出兩小時，內容是新聞，清談和叩應，語言用馬來西亞國語和砂朥越原住民的語言。

長屋中收聴電台用的是現今在電器店已經找不到的短波收音機。在砂朥越的內陸，還是有許多地方沒有電力廠的供電，沒電訊網絡，小小的一台短波收音機，帶給原住民的是希望：保障他們本身權益的希望。Free Sarawak的內容都是原住民設路障阻止興建沐若水壩，原住民習俗地的訴訟這些事件的最新消息，尤其是受到影響的原住民的悲情心聲，這些我們在Astro, RTM, TV3, NTV7, 8TV, TV9 的新聞中是看聴不到的。悲哀的是在網絡時代，砂朥越的原住民要這麽辛苦才能把本身的辛酸傳出去。

只在馬來西亞。

Big Corporations Are Always Arrogant In Malaysia, Because They Can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWxslz7-LQ&feature=related
Found the above video on youtube recently, Singaporean television news reported that KFC had issued a public statement in respond to the 2 videos below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgHSZQhP630
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4V2NmteNTM&feature=endscreen&NR=1

According to the video footage from Singaporean television news, the 2 videos showing the gross side inside the KFC kitchen in Malaysia are old videos, but resurfaced, and KFC had made it public that the personnels invovled are sacked when the videos were known the first time, and KFC had installed cameras in all the kitchens since then.

Was there ever a public statement from KFC, or just on youtube, as video response to the 2 gross-side-inside-the-KFC-kitchen videos? Because I simply cannot recall ever read about the supposed public statement, much less seen it on television news, or paid advertisement. After googling, I got a zero result about the public statement in any news from Malaysia, only the videos from youtube. So even Singaporean television news had sort of beautified this episode in KFC Malaysia, while it did report that the power of  youtube is not to be ignored.

And looking at the video response from KFC, it just shows that KFC is being arrogant, nothing else. It is such a big corporation, it can afford to be arrogant, in Malaysia.

I am just happy that I had decided to give up deep-fried foods; except the oven-fried foods I made myself; but they cannot be called deep-fried, they are oven-fried.

A side note:
丹斯里郭鹤尧 Tan Sri Kuek Ho Yao passed away on 13 Oct, 2012, aged 96.
He was an important figure in Chinese independent secondary school circle in Johor, Malaysia, just google his name and you will get a lot of newspaper posting obituaries for him online, so I am not going to write an obituary here, just wanted to say his passing away is the end of an era.

How will Malaysians reponse to Balpreet Kaur?

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/109cnf/im_not_sure_what_to_conclude_from_this/c6bqtpd

The link above is about a young Sikh woman , Balpreet Kaur, in USA and how she responded to a photo of her, taken without her knowledge and posted online and people made fun of her appearance.  I came across news about this on Yahoo!, and it led me to this thread in Reddit.com.

This is not something that happened in Malaysia, but because the story all started with a photo of a young Sikh woman, and we have Sikhs in Malaysia too, so it made me wonder how it will turn out if we ever got a similar situation.

It the link above, Balpreet Kaur replied calmly to those who made fun of her. This is not shocking, as it shows she had a lot of inner strength to response to those people calmly, she replied wihtout fear. She actually stared down those cyberbullies without being angry.

After her reply, those who made fun of her actually read-up about Sikh, tried to understand what she had stated in her reply. Then they actually apologize, and said they all had learned something from her.

How will it turn out in Malaysia? We see people attack people on the ground of races, religions daily (the true motivation is political gain, so they can stay in power forever); those big guns from UMNO calling Malaysian Chinese, especially MCA to go back to Tang Shang (the old local name for China). In Penang, ever since 2008, when Lim took the office of Chief Minister of Penang, those people from UMNO have been throwing racial insults at him daily. Do we see anyone being charged under Sedition Act because of these? No.

And about Sikh in Malaysia, while I know there is such a group in Malaysia, I actually know very little about them, in the media, or daily life. Actually the only memory I have about them is the guards in front of banks or hotels, and that's way back in like 1970's. It is clearly they are ignored in the mainstream politics in Malaysia. So if someone from Chinese/Malay or other races, publicly made fun of a Sikh woman like this, would anyone actually care to read what she had to say? Actually, would we see any newspaper actually run a story that praise her for her eloquent, calm reply? I do not think so; it will more likely be met with more cyberbullies, and real world bullies, both in physcial from (if her location is known), and the public media. Any politician will come out to speak for her? No! Sikh votes are not sufficient to sway anything.

From the post in Reddit, to Balpreet Kaur's reply to it, and the responses followed, whatever we may think or say about those people in USA, they still have a lot of people with genuine empathy, ready to learn something new with open mind, exercise real social tolerance, and actually believe all human are created equal. From all the noises in newspaper, TV, radio, and internet, I do not see we have anything close in Malaysia. Cases in point:
1. http://www.20minutes.fr/web/1011113-femme-barbe-moquee-repond-reddit#xtor=RSS-145
(a French newspaper website posted her reply)
2. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8539610/reddit-users-rebuked-by-sikh-woman
(Australia television news website posted her reply)
3. http://shine.yahoo.com/women-who-shine/sikh-woman-balpreet-kaur-turns-cyber-bullying-incident-203500244.html
(Yahoo!, the story that led me to the thread in Reddit.com)
I do not see her story in newspaper or TV or hear about it on Radio in Malaysia.

Her story makes me ashame to be a Malaysian.

Dong Zong and MCA and Nazri

Dong Zong and MCA and Nazri

On 26 Sept, 2012, the Minister in Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz actually received the memorandum on behalf of Najib from five representatives of Dong Zong, led by its chairman Yap Sin Tian and vice-chairman Chow Siew Hon, at Parliament, in front of the press.

What is going on here? In front of the media, while receiving the memorandum, Nazri actually said something that sounds like supporting the cause of the of Dong Zong. According to theSun Daily (Malaysia, thesundaliy.my), Nazri actually said, “It is not wrong … We should not have any narrow views about them.”

Shudders, the moment I read this, and more shudders after I gave it a lot of thoughts.

For years Dong Zong, along with the Chinese community in Peninsular Malaysia have been campaigning to have an Independent Chinese Secondary School in Kuantan. And this years, out of the blue, the government gave a letter of approval for an Independent Chinese Secondary School in Kuantan. Rejoice! This is a generous gift from BN government, all Chinese in Malaysia are eternally in debt to BN for it and should be grateful for the rest of the eternity. And remember to vote for MCA in the coming General Election, for this is the fruit of the hard labour of the brave, selfless, relentless MCA , especially the Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Kai Siong, through his position in the cabinet; and THIS can only be achieved if the BN is in power.

Really? Show us the letter of approval, we want to see the details and fine prints, as we have learned from years of broken promises and deceits, especially from MCA. Bizarrely this time around, only Yap Sin Tian and Chow Siew Hon showed the mistrust by keep asking for the publicize of the letter of approval, while the columnists and reporters in Chinese news media, and the other factions in Dong Zong and Chinese communities are singing the same tune as MCA, that the letter of approval really granted a new Independent Chinese Secondary School to Kuantan. The people from Kuantan even said it publicly that they had personally read the letter of approval, there is absolute no problem.

After a few weeks of quibbling on the media, and internet, suddenly all Chinese newspaper published this news:

The letter of approval was posted on a blog, and according to the scanned copy of the letter of approval on that blog, the school to be set up in Kuantan must be conducted in Bahasa Malaysia(the official language of Malaysia, the Malay standardized by Malaysian government).

MCA came out to say that the details of the letter of approval is irrelevant, it is an Independent Chinese Secondary School, as long as MCA say so.

Naturally more quibbling followed, and then some group tries to topple Yap and Chow from Dong Zong (which is still not settled yet on 29 Sept, 2012), and naturally even more quibbling followed, leading to the point of Dong Zong placing advertisement in Chinese newspapers, calling for a gathering on Sept 26, to force Datuk Dr Wee to resign and to save the Chinese schools, and it ended with the “event” mentioned at the beginning of this post.

According to theSun, in the memorandum, Dong Zong made 8 demands to the Prime Minister. And according to the Chinese newspapers, Dong Zong made 8 pleas to the Prime Minister. Anyway, they are just the same 8 issues the Chinese Malaysian have been campaigning for years to be resolved, and they are actually just touching on the same old issues Chinese have been campaigning, lots of other issues either written or unwritten in the advertisement in the Chinese newspaper are missing, especially the call to force Datuk Dr Wee to resign. Typically Chinese behaviour.

Nazri actually showed some kind of support for Dong Zong. This is scary. Over the years, especially during the reign of Dr M, whenever Chinese communities said anything about setting up more Chinese school, sufficient number of teachers for Chinese schools, and all the other long standing issues, UMNO will come out to scold them, intimidating them, with MCA tagging behind, intimidating the people they are supposed to be representing/protecting.

Now Nazri, an important figure in UMNO, actually showed support for Dong Zong? I know Malaysia is bound by law to held General Election before mid 2013, and the suspense of when the parliament is going to be resolved is killing the politicians, those in the government offices and the opposition alike. But Nazri? What are they going to do to Chinese Malaysian after the General Election? Kill all of them? In 2007/2008, just a few months befoe the election, during the General Meeting of UMNO, they actually lifted up keris, as a war-cry statement. Officially that was not a war-cry, but everyone who saw it on the news knew the true meaning of it. So Malaysian Chinese, especially those in Dong Zong, remember the keris, and have nightmares after Nazri received your memorandum, they are not going to forgive you for making Nazri making this kind of statement. As for MCA? They can just jump into South China Sea and swim their way back to China, as their master UMNO had been telling them to do all these years.

Nazri showed support for Dong Zong? Shudders.

由一片傷心在玉壺說起

２０１２年９月２日的<<光明日報>>的<<笑傲醬糊>>專欄中，作者李系德猜測玉壺軒的店名可能是來自王昌齡的七絶"芙蓉樓送辛漸"：

寒雨連江夜入吴，平明送客楚山孤。洛陽親友如相問，一片冰心在玉壺。

玉壼軒這８４年的茨廠街老店已被逼在２０１２年８月３１日，也就是馬來半島成爲馬來亞聯邦的５５週年，也是馬來西亞國慶日結業。當然後來馬來亞聯邦在１９６３年９月１６日併吞了東馬，１９６４年國陣把李光耀連新加坡趕出去，才成了今天的馬來西亞。

（註：在半島的華人都把半島當作馬來西亞，全馬和大馬就是馬來西亞的簡稱，東馬（砂朥越和沙巴）只是馬來西亞在婆羅洲的殖民地而已，不在全馬或大馬的涵義之中。在砂朥越流傳這兩則笑話：

1. 砂朥越人和半島人同在台灣一家大學唸書；在宿舍內，半島人當砂朥越人的面對台灣人說："砂朥越沒有戲院，沒有機場，人都是住在樹上的。"
   砂朥越人就回說：“對！所以我們回家鄉的時候，家人都划舢舨到海上等，我們就從飛機上跳降落傘到舢舨上，絶不會掉到海中，我們砂朥越人跳降落傘很厲害的，連美國特種部隊的都沒我們準。＂
   （住樹上是有其真實性，在砂朥越偏北的部份，因爲政府沒關注當地的基本建設，還是有原住民住在樹上，連學校都沒建。不是沒錢建，是不要建給他們。）
2. 砂朥越人在吉隆坡下機，談生意的對方派來接機的人說：“歡迎來到馬來西亞。”原來砂朥越不是馬來西亞的一部份喎。

)

說回玉壼軒被逼結業，原因是店址要被拆，據說是要讓路給捷運，但很有可能拆掉之後，在該地建起來的是摩天樓了。不管怎麽說，要把吉隆坡的起源地的茨廠街和蘇丹街拆掉，連自己的首都的歷史遺蹟都不要的國家，還有甚麽人文可言？

這李系德是馬來半島的土生老華人男性，他在自己的專欄中說在玉壼軒結業前兩天，他特地在交通停車都麻煩的情況下去懷舊同時當作訣別，有「一片傷心在玉壼」之慨，他就以這句作當天的專欄篇名。在上午１１時１５分去到，被告知當天只提供五六種炒麵和炒飯，而且要等很久。等了１５分鐘才有人來寫單，吃完兩碟粉麵後，已是下午１時了。

他點了：

1. 滑蛋生麵：芡汁不夠熱，炸過的生麵吃到最後仍然是浸不軟，硬硬的。配料中蝦不見了，只剩下魚餅和豬肉。
2. 招牌米粉：盡只是鹹。

都沒有他記憶中的以前的水準了，他說吃了是「一片痛心在玉壼」了；不忍記住那一天，只願永記當年味道令人回味的玉壼軒。

這是我自己對玉壼軒的觀感：我來了吉隆坡以後，就只在四年前去玉壼軒吃過一次早茶。那時我還不知道這店在吉隆坡人華心中的地位，只是某星期天早上剛好經過，大約早上７～８點，見有早荼，以爲像香港的飲茶就進去了。在那看從廚房出來的，都是魚丸，或是釀了魚肉的釀豆腐之類的，問有沒有蝦餃，回說賣完了。那麽早？會不會是上一批賣完了，新一批在蒸著？等了１小時多，吃來吃去都是魚丸釀豆腐之類的，全都很鹹，沒有好吃的，走了。後來聴當地人說是老店，想得出的解釋就是吉隆坡華人從來就是這種口味的，我這種廣東佛山融合馬六甲娘惹口味的家庭中長大的人自然吃不下了。真的要問：蝦餃都沒有，算甚麽點心店？

蘇施黃這樣敢怒敢言的香港公衆人物在去年１０月（２０１１年１０月１８日）在ＫＬＣＣ糖百府的開幕會上說大馬的食物很難吃，可是到了今年７～８月的時候，風采雜誌刋出去年１０月的訪談，同時期有人把去年１０月的影頻貼上有酷，馬來西亞華人隨之一片駡聲，鬧到糖百府要在華文報章上刋登廣告說蘇施黃自今年７月３１日起，和糖百府的代言人合約已經到期，不再續約了。

這裏有三點奇怪的：

1. 今年８月的風采才提到去年１０月的糖百府開張這種在時事雜誌圈中已經是太古時代的事，這雜誌是怎麽了？
2. 而且今年８月的風采面市時，才有人把去年的有線電視的影頻貼上網；這是不是風采自己弄的？博宣傳？
3. 去年１０月蘇施黃來馬宣傳糖百府的時候有線電視已經播出了，有不少人看到，怎麽當時沒人駡？是不是反向操作？糖百府到了今年８月還是沒甚麽生意，所以趁蘇施黃的合約已經過期了，再來一次反向宣傳？所以那麽重視馬來西亞人的感受，登報公開道歉？同時和蘇施黃切斷關係？別忘記去年肯德基店員在店內打人的事，被打的顧客去報警後，警方竟然以當時打人的人手中沒有武器，所以不能起訴，就此結案。馬來西亞華人是有人駡，但肯德基從來沒有道歉或作任何公關動作，還不是生意滔滔？華人還有駡肯德基嗎？肯德基當華人是甚麽？大家心中有數。

在雜誌圈中已經是太古時代說過的話也會被人翻出來刋出，在電視界時事中算是洪荒時代的視頻在今年才有人貼上網駡，馬來西亞華人對潮流的感應好遲鈍。

說回來，化石級的話也會有人駡，那如果蘇施黃指名道姓的說她吃了那一家的不好吃，馬來西亞人是不是要滙錢到香港買兇殺人？

幸好有李系德這半島的老男人先說玉壼軒不好吃，不然我說玉壼軒不像點心店之後在吉隆坡很可能會被馬來西亞華人當街打死了。我真的看到有人在網上留言說要打死蘇施黃吔！你找不到的話大概是已經刪掉了。對了，怎麽沒看到有人說要讓肯德基倒閉的？

She was handcuffed because it was a standard procedure

A teenage girl, who the government alleged was caught on tape while displaying indecent behavior to the picture of One Najib, on the eve of Merdeka Day.

She turned herself in to the police, and was handcuffed, and the news-photographers were informed to take the picture of her in handcuffs.

Now the question is, handcuffed? A lot of criminals are not handcuffed publicly. Yes, I mean criminals, like robbers, rapists, they are actually not handcuffed by police in the public, and the photos were all over newspapers.

And now a minister actually said the girl was handcuffed because that is the standard police procedure. Huh? Then why those criminals were shown publicly not handcuffed?

It's like the Chinese, the character GUAN(官) has two mouths in it. The government can always say whatever they want to say, have multiple standards over the same kind of matter, and the same law.

Just look at the recent events, so many people, who openly proclaimed themselves to the members or supporters of UMNO and BN, insulting the pictures of Lim Guan Eng, and others who are not part of BN, are they even rebuffed in the public? No, police never say or do anything to them. Now, that's double standard.

Handcuffed a teenage girl and showcased it to the public over what is nothing more than a trivia issue, only in Malaysia.

Hong Kong students protest

The students and parents launched a series of protest against the brainwashing in school education system.

Okay, this is what is happening in Hong Kong. So why am I saying this here? This blog is about Malaysia only.

A. I actually see this being reported on tv news, maybe just a little bit about the hunger strike, but it was aired nevertheless.

B. The One Najib actually is not afraid of being compared to what is happening in Hong Kong? And not afraid it will inspire the locals? With all the tv campaign brainwashing Malaysia citizens that Bersih 3.0 is a crime? The protests in Hong Kong is like a mirror to us.

And there is something to learn here, a really good lesson about hand-shaking with the G-men, especially in the public, before the cameras:
The reigning governor visiting the students in hunger-strike, surrounded by cameras and news-people, naturally. He tried to shake-hand with one of the students, the students refused, and instead the student bowed and stepped backward.

An actor/director commented him for doing so, as this sends a clear message, that there was never any agreement between the two of them. This actor/director speaks from personal experience. He was rallying to protect Diaoyu Islands in Hong Kong in 1971, and a then high ranking police officer visited the protesters, out of politeness, the actor/director sheepishly shook-hand with that police officer, and later the photo was published with the caption "The two had reached an agreement". So hand-shaking can be a really scary thing.

在香港的反洗腦教育運動中，學民思潮召集人黃之鋒日前兩度拒絕與前來探望的特首梁振英握手，反而退後鞠躬。
此舉有人褒：岑建勳稱讚黃之鋒有禮，不重蹈他當年和警官握手被曲解的陷阱。
有人貶：高志森則批評黃之鋒「無家教」，香港人狂轟。我也想轟。

岑建動於1971年爲保釣在維園示威，他說：「我當年做錯一件事，就是當有官員來探望我的時候，我跟他握手，結果第二天所有報紙頭版都是官員跟我握手的樣子」。他憶述，當年示威者被警方打至頭頭破血流，雙方關係緊張，但其後港島區總警司到維園探及上前與他握手，他出於本能遞出手，報紙刋登後便被解讀爲「雙方達到一致共識」。他認爲黃之鋒選擇鞠躬的做法恰當，「誰敢說這孩子沒有禮貌？」

馬來西亞人真的要記住。千萬別亂握手。

９月２日在關丹勞勿的反山埃集會，幸好當時沒有人和澳洲人或金礦公司的或政府的代表握手，不然政府，特別是馬華的人，一定會跳出來說那些人已經答應了甚麽甚麽的，一轉身又反口政治化，被反對黨利用，國陣和馬華好委屈云云。

千萬別和他們握手。

附筆：剛在 MalaysianInsider.com 看到，勞勿的人反山埃的官司，勞勿人輸了。要看到孩子健康的活下去，勞勿人還要走很長的路才看得到。
It's always the darkest before the dawn.

His bet paid off

葉新田這次算是押對寶了。

葉新田堅持要把所謂關丹獨中的批文公開，終放有林放把批文貼上網，果然內容是只批準建私營國中。

８月２２日那天，世華媒體旗下的四家中文報都引用林放的部落格上貼的批文內容，都說內容是從林放的部落格來的，不過讀者要自己上網去林放的部落格才看得到批文內容。
這是林放貼上批文內容的那頁部落格：
http://www.limfang.com/2012/08/blog-post_21.html
（有不少人在林放的部落格留言駡他是馬華的第一把交椅謀士，我對這馬來半島的生態比較陌生，但看林放平時在華文報上的專欄，我也很懷疑林放是馬華的五毛。）

在８月２２日之前，葉新田和鄒壽漢已經說批文內容根本是要華人去辦私營國中，而方天興和華文報都在駡葉新田，說他在搞沙文主義，批文根本無需公開。

可是林放這一貼上網，全國的人民都看到了，華文報馬上在８月２２日轉口風，把焦點轉到批文是要關丹人去辦私營國中這一點上；之前駡葉新田要公開批文是在攪亂的話都忘了。

我其實並不喜歡葉新田。之前新紀元換校長的風波，大家肯定記憶猶新。而且一路來他很多時候都是一副在巴結權貴，不敢大聲爲華教發言的樣子。但這陣子他大概是看到大選快到了，膽子也大了，一直很硬很大聲。他要求關丹批文披露的行爲，在批文曝光之後都成了英雄行徑。在關丹獨中批文這一回事上，他算是押對寶了。

現在方天興和馬華都在死命的轉口風，死命的扭曲事實，馬華竟然還有臉說批文是批準關丹華社建獨中。 葉新田和鄒壽漢已經是英雄了，你們馬華越是嘴硬，越是笑話，還是認了乾脆。

What was that all about?

I read a column in the Sun(Malaysia) this week. And that columnist, while supposing to be writing a satirical column, took the matter to a bizarre level this week.

In his column this week, he wrote about how the Japanese are obsessed with the politeness that bowing is a reflex in their daily life. OK, I got that. But then he went on to say that so escalator rides are dangerous because of that, because accidents happened due to people bowing on moving escalators. Huh? Did we ever read/hear about any news like that? Get real.It is one thing to make fun of journalists from US who think that US is the center of everything and people just live their lives around every little thing that happens in US (he wrote about that in the last US president election year), but to exaggerate the local decorum of a foreign nation into something that is the main cause of accidents, is he a real journalist? Like people actually fell down escalator because of bowing? Did he even did any research? I googled and found no old news story like that, ever. He is working for a real newspaper (by Malaysian standard), certainly he can do a better research on the matter than me. So did he offer any case in point? No. The whole piece reads like he was just making fun of the decorum of a foreign nation that he most likely never visited, or even watched any nation tourism/image promotional tv programmes from that country. What is wrong with that man?

Smokey white day again!

It is white again. Looking out from where I live, the air is white. Yes, the air is white, smokey white. It had been like these for days. Actually since late June this year, we should consider ourselves lucky, at least this is not an all year round thing this year.

What am I going on about? The 'HAZE' in the air over Peninsular Malaysia. I have no idea what it is like in East Malaysia, as I do not get anything about that from the news. And we all know what we got from the news is really limited.

What is 'HAZE'? It is the smoke from the burning forest in Indonesia. Now even the Singaporean bureau of weather had limited public access to their website, to keep their satellite photos from being viewed by unwelcomed parties.

In the news, the thick, white smoke in the air is called 'HAZE', it is wrong to call it smoke, because according to who or what? it is not smoke.

And what a caring government and news media we have in Malaysia, on tv they are calling people to drink lots of water, reduce the outdoor activities, etc., etc..

We know, we have years of experience. We are not even allowed to call smoke for what it is 'SMOKE'. Only in Malaysia.

Hallelujah! It happens to others too!

Remember what happened earlier this month? 2 robbery cases, victims from both cases were robbed and incapacitated, and people just passed by without attempting to help? Well, this is like a global phenomenon. I just read this from Yahoo! Taiwan that a woman was robbery before ATM, and lots of people just watched, no one tried to stop the robbery.

http://www.ttv.com.tw/101/07/1010719/10107194922104L.htm
By the way, this happened on 19 July, 2012. Old news.

I know I know, this is old news from Taiwan, why am I even mentioning it?

My point is, this is human nature, it is universal, what a great news! Now the PR of our police can come out and speak loudly on TVs, radios, newspapers, and tell people, our crime rate is really low, just look at Taiwan, people are robbed under broad daylight in public downtown and no one helped. In Malaysia, we can exepct a lot of bystanders, gathering around to watch the whole incident. We are so much better than Taiwan.

Now, we can feel real safe in Malaysia. We should, because the police told us so.

Guess what? I watch over my back all the time. Only in Malaysia.

記得這月上半端的事嗎？兩起不同的搶刼案，受害人都在被搶刼後沒法行動，而路人經過都視而不見？這是自然現象。我剛在台灣版雅虎看到，在台灣有婦人在提款納機前被搶刼，路人都只是在看，沒人去阻止搶刼案。

http://www.ttv.com.tw/101/07/1010719/10107194922104L.htm
發生在2012年7月19日。

對對對！這是台灣舊聞，提來幹啥？

這證明了這是人的天性，全世界的人都是這樣的，不止是馬來西亞。馬來西亞的警方的公關可以出來上電視，電台，報紙大聲的說了，看，馬來西亞很安全。比台灣安全多了。

警察可以叫我們在馬來西亞的人放心，馬來西亞很安全的。

我知道我在馬來西亞的時候，到處都要提防的。

Robbed twice in 7 hours

Yes, you are reading it right. A family in Kepong were robbed twice in 7 hours. I just saw this on the tv news. My search on youtube has nothing about this yet. Just like last week, Kepong residents came out to say that a lot of robberies had happened lately, and now this case in Kepong, again. What is the police going to say? Tell the public this is a false perception only? That the media is exaggerating? or even fabricating? I actually have a feeling that police is going to place a gag order on the media soon.

The government can keep on telling all the tourists, Malaysian citizens and residents that this is only a false perception, created by the media. But the victims of crimes know better.

Only in Malaysia.

剛在電視新聞看到，在甲洞有一家人在７小時內被搶刼兩次。又是甲洞。上星期甲洞的居民冒險上電視說出親身被打刼的驚心經歷，現在又有人被打刼。警方又要說只是假像？只是親聞媒體在誇大？我覺得警方快要命令新聞媒體不再報導搶刼案了。

20 ROBBERIES IN ONE MONTH

甲洞區向來是罪案黑區，現在當地居民忍無可忍，昨晚上電視新聞說在過去的一個月內，在同一區發生了２０宗入門搶刼案。勇敢的上電視說親身經歷的受害人，一名家庭主婦說：上星期她和女兒在家，屋內開著燈，搶匪也企圖破門入內，她女兒以手機打電話報警，她本身在屋內大喊，鄰居也大喊，才總算把搶匪嚇走。


這主婦真的很勇敢。警方三星期前公開說馬來西亞很安全，罪案率一直在下降；全是因爲媒體注重報導負面新聞，大肆報導任何罪案，才會令人有馬來西亞的罪案率很高的負面印象。


一個月內有20 起搶刼案，警方會不會說那只是那主婦的個人印象？


Kepong area of Kuala Lumpur City is always known as the "BLACK ZONE" when it comes to crime rate. Last night, the residents of Kepong said it on 8pm TV news, that 20 robberies had happened in Kepong over the past one month period.


A local resident, a home-maker, said it on the news, that last week, while she and her daughter was at home, robbers tried to force their way into her house. She screamed, and neighbours screamed, her daughtered tried to call police on her mobile phone, at last the robbers ran off. She is really brave to come out to say this.


Three weeks ago, police just said that Malaysia is really safe, crime rate is dropping, it is all the false perception created by the media by focusing on reporting negatives matters, like crimes.


20 robberies in one month in the same area, what will the police say to that? Will the police say that it is all the home-maker's personal false perception?


NOTE TO SELF: After a spell of sickness, finally I am back.

What will you do when you are the bystander?

2 days ago, in Air Itam, Penang, a Malaysian Chinese woman in her 60's, was robbed by a snatch-thief. Yesterday she passed away in the hospital, from the injuries she sustained from the robbery.

Last week, also in George Town, Penang, an artist/gallery-owner, was robbed in her gallery, the robbers cut her throat, but she was not killed.

What the 2 cases have in common? No people helped them.

In the case in Air Itam, newspapers ran the photos taken by the surveillance camera of the nearby motorcycle parking lot, which belongs to a flat. In the photos, the deceased was dragged by two snatch-thieves  on a motorcycle, and her head hit the ground. And according to the footage, she laid there for hours, and at least 6 people passed by without anyone trying to help.

It was an elder man who needed a cane to walk that saw her and called for help.

And in the case last week, the artist/gallery-owner was robbed, cut, bleeding, and with her gallery door wide open, the lights well-lit in the gallery, she was on the floor, leaning on the wall, near the door, which was clearly visible to anyone passing by, and there were also a few people passed by. They did not help. Finally a man passing by called for help.

This is the scary fact of Malaysian society. No, we have never heard of people are sued after they helped victims of road accidents like what happened in China. We just do not help.

It is easy for those who are reading this kind of news to say anything, make any comments they want. But what are you going to do when it is right in front of you? I mean when you are the by-standers or the people passing the crime scene; what are you going to do? Will you call an ambulance? call the police?

And about calling an ambulance, I got a personal little story here:
I was living at Kepong at the time, my septuagenarian mother fainted one night, I tried to call ambulance, no one picked up the phone at the Selayang Government Hospital, out of desperation, I tried to call UM hospital, and a woman picked up the phone, but told me since I live in Kepong, call Selayang hospital. I had no car, at the end I called a friend with a 4-wheel-drive to help send my mother to hospital.

This is something really happenning in Malaysia, not something that happened in China, like the toddler who got hit by a car and people just let her died.

Remember, talk is cheap.

馬來西亞救傷電車話（固線）：９９１（救傷車），９９９（火災，救傷車通用）

你會打電話叫救傷車嗎？
上星期在檳城的喬治市，傍晚時分，有位女畫家在自己的畫廊內被打刼，刼匪把女畫家的頸割傷。女畫家在燈光明亮的畫廊內，癱在畫廊入口處的地上，倚著牆，頸部的傷口流著血，門外有好幾人走過，但沒人施以援手。最後是有個男人去叫救傷車。

兩天前，也是在檳城，有位６０歲的老婦，在晚上回家的路上，被搶機車的兩個刼匪打刼，人被拖在地上，頭部受傷，倒在地上。我看到的中文報在封面刋出了案發的連環照。這些連環照是從在近旁的組屋的機車場的監視器録下的的影帶中截取的。根據報導，在老婦被打刼受傷倒地後，起碼有６人經過，但他們都沒施援。最後是有位要靠拐杖走路的老生先經過，見到了去求救。

你是馬來西亞人又在場的話，你會怎麽做？不在現場的人，不是受害人，在看到新聞後，說甚麽都可以。但當你自己就是在場目睹的人呢？當你自己就是受害人呢？你會怎麽做？

在馬來西亞打電話叫救傷車是很折騰的事。我本身有這樣的經驗：我母親深夜在家中暈倒了，自己沒有汽車，就打電話去士拉央的政府醫院叫救傷車，電話是打通了，但一直沒人接。當時是住在甲洞，急了，就打去馬大醫院，有人接，但回說我竟然是住在甲洞，那該打去士拉央的政付醫院。結果，是打電話叫朋友開車來送我母親去醫院。

當時就算有人經過看到，馬上打電話叫救傷車，叫得到嗎？要等多久打會有人接電話？之後要等多久才有救傷車來？這是現實的馬來西亞。政府可以說馬來西亞如何好，各政府部門如何有效率，但人民知道本身的經驗才是真的。

Police told the crime victims to report the crime as accidents

Yesterday, a little piece in the newspaper caught my eye:
An elder man who live in Bentong, was beaten and robbbed right in his house. He went to file a police report, and the police there told him to report the case as an accident, stating that he was out, while riding motorcycle, fell off and lost his wallet. This is making false police report, which is a crime in itself under Malaysian laws.

As this victim of crime is a sane and sensible person, he did not do as he was told by the police. Instead he went to the village headman* for help.

*For those who are using British English, in Malaysia the title Mayor is only appropriate for the Mayor of a big city, like Kuala Lumpur, the idea of a village mayor is only right in UK, and maybe Canada, US, Australasia, but definitely not Malaysia; in the senses of the scale of the power invested in them, and the official functionalities, and the moral and knowledge standard those people have.

And the village headman actually told the victim to do as the police said. So instead the victim and his daughter went to a local MP for help. And they told the newspaper, and that's how this little piece of news was published in the newspaper.

And you think the police department is under a lot of pressure from newspaper? politicians? the public outcry? Zero. In fact, today, a similar news is published again. In this case, a group of residents of Port Klang came out, claiming that they have the same kind of experience, a lot of them who were beaten, robbed, when trying to file police reports, the police told them to report their cases as accidents, and they lost their money, wallets, belongings in the accidents. So the result is that they can tell the public that the crime rate is dropping in Port Klang.

Only in Malaysia, police can actually told the victims of crimes to make false police reports, and no one to question them, no member of the cabinet is held responsible.

Added on 13 Jul, 2012:
Actually, on 1st Feb, 2010, I posted my own experience of filing police report. The police man taking my statement actually asked me why I wanted to file police report.
My post on 1st Feb, 2010: Why do you want to make a police report?

警察叫受害人報假案

怎麽說都令人難以相信，在自己家中被搶刼毆打後，去警局報案，警員竟然叫受害人如此說：是受害人自己在路上騎摩多意外跌車受傷，掉了錢包。

這在馬來西亞叫報假案，是犯法的。

受害人很理智也很清醒，他不照警察的話去做；他轉向村長求助，村長竟然叫他照警察的話去做。在這情況下，他和女兒去找國會議員投訴，所以報紙就在不顯眼的版位登了這麽一小則新聞。

上面這一則是前天的報紙看到的。今天的報紙又有一則類似的新聞：
巴生有一班人出來指責說，當地警方叫罪案的受害人報假案，把搶刼報成意外，如此他們就可以向公眾交待說巴生的罪案率極低。

有了這兩則新聞，有人出來駡嗎？沒有。不見有任何執政黨的政治人物出來駡警察，也不見有任何民間輿論在報紙、電視上譴責警方和政府，更不見有政府說那位內閣成員該爲此事負責。這就是馬來西亞。只在馬來西亞。

AUD2 for all day phone call and internet access in Australia

A relation of mine just sent me this sms, that in Australia, now it costs only AUD2 per day for whole day, unlimited phone calls to the entire Australia (which is a really wide coverage, like international call kind of long distance), and unlimited internet access. He watches movies on phone.

Can we even watch movies on phone? No, not movies, but just watch youtube? Dream on. Yes, I know there is 4G in the market now, but how many subscribers can actually watch movies on phone? If you do, please tell me. Today is 16 June, 2012. We are living in 21st century.

I have to admit, I am jealous. To live in such a backwater nation, that 4G is not enough to watch movies on phone, how can we expect to be the developed nation by 2020? Remeber, South Korea has just been listed as developed nation by the UN earlier this year.

Cannot watch movies on a 4G phone, only in Malaysia.

 親朋戚友中的某人從澳洲傳簡訊來說，現在在澳洲，一天只要兩塊錢澳幣，就可以全日無限次數時間打電話到澳洲全國各地，同時還有無限的互聯網上網時間。所以他現在在手機上看電影了。

在馬來西亞能嗎？別說電影了，看優酷？發夢了。在馬來西亞是有４Ｇ 在賣了，可是能看電影嗎？有人真的用手機上網看電影的，請告訴我。今天是２０１２年０６月１６日，我們活在廿一世紀了。

我是覺得很丟臉的，馬來西亞市場上有４Ｇ的廣告，可是有誰真的感受到４Ｇ的速度？今年年頭南韓已經被聯合國定位爲先進國了。馬來西亞？

用４Ｇ的手機，４Ｇ的網絡，但沒法用手機看電影，只在馬來西亞。

They are from Fantasy-Land, right?

I got a copy of that advertisements funded, freely distributed Chinese weekly tabloid, the name of it is a kind of fruit that is eaten as vegetable, you guessed it.

There is this piece about security in shopping mall, as last week, 2 separate cases of single women being attacked in the carpark of shopping mall happened, so a few Chinese dailies are running stories on the safety of women in the public. This tabloid just just follow the trend.

Just where is the author of this piece from? Fantasy-Land? In this piece, he (the non de plume suggests it is a he) advises women not to dress provocatively, as this attract the attention of the would be attackers. Huh? Women are attacked because of what they wear? Get a reality check! Since when do you see those women who were mobbed, robbed, raped dressed in sexy, provocative attires? And their ages? Even grandmas got raped! Where do you see a grandma dress sexily in Malaysia?

And this man actually list this as number 1 in his advice. It is like saying those victims deserve it because they dressed provocatively. Those women did not dress provocatively when crimes happened to them.

And there is no editor in the tabloid? The editor lets this piece run. Just what is wrong with those people? Every time when the victims of crimes are women, there are always men telling women not to dress provocatively.  Criminals pick their targets based on whatever factors, one of it is the weaklings, and women are always supposed to be weak, so they are more likely to be the targets.

We should compile a list of what victims were wearing when crimes happened to them. But even after we have proof that it had nothing to do with what women were wearing, will those men who live in Fantasy-Land come up with a new excuse to put the blame on women?

This is Malaysia.

看著這份免費，靠廣告維持的１／４開中文週報，報的名稱是一種被當作蔬菜食用的水果。

上星期發生了兩起女性在購物中心的停車場成爲罪犯的受害人的事件，所以這廣告週報也和其他中文日報一樣，談論女性在購物中的的停車場的安全問題。

這週報有一篇專題，執筆的是男人吧（照筆名來看該是男人）？在這專題中，作者以專家的口肳，列出多項女性本身該注意的事項，第一項是：
女性別穿的太感，這樣會使自己在公衆場所太引人注目，很容易被歹徒盯上。

你沒看錯，我也沒看錯、打錯，那以專家口肳寫的人的確是如此寫的。

女人是因爲穿得太性感才成爲受害人的？這話有甚麽根據？那作者是根據甚麽資料來如此寫的？他是從那兒來的？他有沒有看新聞的？老婆婆也被搶刧強姦，老婆婆也會穿得太性感，引來罪犯？馬來西亞有多少婆婆級的人會如此穿的？那些打刧，强姦的受害人，有那個是穿得像性感女神似的？

這作者竟然第一忠告就是說別穿得太性感，簡直就是在說受害人都是自找的。

罪犯在犯罪時，都是在有機會的情況下，向弱者下手。根本和受害人穿的是甚麽無關。

那小報沒有編輯的？這樣的文章也能刋出？編輯和作者都是住在幻想世界的？

該有人把受害人在案發時的穿著編成統計數字公佈出來。但公佈之後呢？就算我們有證據證明女性的穿著的性感指數和罪案的發生沒有關聯，那些住在幻想世界的男人又會幻想出新的說法，說這全是受害人自己的錯吧？真的是只在馬來西亞。

A political contract limiting the number of schools

A few days ago, Muhyuddin, the vice prime minister of Malaysia, said that due to the law and the contract the Malaysian Chinese had entered with the government of Malaysia, his hands are tied to give permission for a new Chinese Independent secondary school to be set up in Kuantan.

The law? Which law? and the contract? Who, when, where, why, how did the contract was bargained, and signed? He offerred no answer.

And the chairman of MCA first said this, and then that, but never actually say anything about the existence of such a contract, is it true? And well, according to the Unions of The School Board of Chinese Independent School, they have proof that MCA actually entered this contract with government.

Only in Malaysia, the politicians actually gave consent to the government to limit the freedom and right of the people.

Yesterday was June 4 寫在6/4廿三週年之後

Yesterday is 4th of June, 2012, the 23rd anniversay of 6/4 Tiananmen Square. It was strangely quiet on the news and the web. I had to search for the news about the memorial activities. And equally natural and normal, there is very little activities in Taiwan, The Republic of China. Just the usual annual speech on 6/4 from the president, and even that got very little news coverage in Taiwan. I actually had to dig on the web to see a little piece mentioning the speech, and no full text available. Looks like the memory of it is fading away, it is only still fresh in the memory of the parents of those who were killed on 4th June, 1989, at Tiananmen Square.

And of course, there is no news report about any memorial activities in Malaysia. Especially since Bersih 3.0 428, think the government is going remind itself of what people could do? And not to mention Malaysia is not going to ruin her diplomatic relationship with China.

The 23rd anniversay of Tiananmen Square reminds me of the other massacres, that happened in Malaysia during the WWII, and the massacres committed by Colonial British after WWII. The descendants, and survivors of the massacres committed finally take the UK crown to court in UK this year. But very little news coverage. And no follow-up coverage, naturally.

This is Malaysia, our journalism is still far behind what the journalists in countries like US, UK, Germany considered to be the norm, that is the newspapers, TV will actually send journalists to do follow-up reports on major issues, or investigate the organized criminal activites, case in point: BBC website posted a series by a journalist from Eastern Europe, who went undercover to investigate the organized criminal activites in human-trafficiking and arrangement of illegal workers from Eastern Europe to UK. While the government admitted human-trafficking is happeneing in Malaysia, we do not see any indepth report about that, much less undercover investigation.

昨天是２０１２年６月４日，六四的廿三週年，在網絡上，報紙，電視的新聞上都是靜悄悄的。在台灣的只看到中華民國台灣省的總統馬英九先生的年度演講詞，那也只是一則短短的新聞報導，全文也不見刋出。

在馬來西亞自然是甚麽活動也沒有。就算有也不會有任何新聞報導了，你以爲馬來西亞政府會讓人民聯想到４２８啊？當然也不要得罪控制大陸的中華人民共和國了。

天安門２３週年令我想到在馬來西亞在二次世界大戰時發生的多場大屠殺，還有戰後英殖民政府所幹下的。英殖民政府的屠殺的倖存者，受害人的後代今年終於到英國去告英國政府了；只有零星的新聞報導。自然也沒有追踪報導進展了。

這就是馬來西亞，新聞報導是不會有深入追踪跟進的。在英美，甚至德國等國家已經視爲平常的追踪，調查式的報導，在馬來西亞是看不到的。

我是失望的。這就是馬來西亞。

Still people detained under ISA in Kamunting 內安法令還是能用的

Think ISA is officially repelled in Malaysia? Think again! Last night's evening news, a group of people showing their support for the people detained in Camp Kamunting, who are protesting in the form of hunger strike.

The ISA had just been replaced by the new set of laws earlier this year, right? Well, that did not stop the power to be to continue detaining people under that law. Now detaining people with the law that had been officially repelled, only in Malaysia.

內安法令今年年頭已經正式被廢除了，對不對？現在在馬來西亞，還是有人在內安法令下被扣留在甘文丁扣留營。昨晚的新聞報導，在扣留營內的人在絶食抗議，一群公衆出來表示支持。

已經被廢除的法令還能用來扣留人？只在馬來西亞。

律師公會對４２８的說法The Bar Council's POV ON 4/28

昨晚的新聞，律師公會召開特大，要求政府針對４２８當天有律師和記者，以及公衆被警方毆打的指責作出回應，同時要求政府把涉及的人控上法庭*。

* 本來是想用繩之以法的，要打字時才想到好久沒用，也好久沒見到這成語了；就不用了。

律師公會這回真的好硬。根據律師公會在閉門特大後的公開發言：
４２８當天下午３時多，公衆本來已經開始散去，當時警方却在回週包圍住公衆，不讓公衆離開，再發現催淚彈，之後再加上水砲。根本是警方自己以暴力對待和平集會，使得本來可以和平解散的集會以混亂收場。完全是在製造４２８不是和平集會，而是暴動的假像，企圖以此來污名化４２８。

當天有公衆被毆打，也有記者和去提供法律援助的律師被毆傷。警方企圖說這些人全是被出席集會的人毆傷的，但許多人把現場拍下的相片貼上網，使得警方的說詞全被揭穿，盡是謊言。當天在現場的電話和互聯網的網絡訊號連繫中斷，雖然當時沒有人出面指責訊號中斷，也沒有任何官方發表的說明，解釋當時爲何訊號中斷，所以訊號中斷的事要在律師公會的特大新聞報導才有記者提及。這種事能如此完全不被報導，要令人不懷疑和政府有關是很難的。

多家報館派去現場的記者被穿制服的警員毆打，不止報館本身有把記者被警方毆打的相片刋登出來，在網上有更多公衆把本身把到的記者被警方毆打的相片貼上網。在這種情況下，政府還能公開的說指責出席４２８的公衆，更企圖說警方當天完全是以符合專業的手法處理，將來臨的大選，馬來西亞人民只能自求多福了；政府是不可能讓人民贏的。

Last night, the 8 o;clock news, the Bar Council held an Emergency General Meeting, to discuss the issues about 4/28, Bersih 3.0. The meeting was a closed door meeting.

I was surprised by the tough stance the Bar Council hold this time. According to Bar Council, at the press conference after the meeting, on 4/28, the public was already dispersing sometime after 3pm, but they were actually surrounded by the police and had difficulty disperse away from their gathering points. And it was police, when totally unprovoked, started to fire tear gas, and then using the water cannons.

And on the newspaper, while reading about the Bar Council meeting, I first came across that on 4/28, the wi-fi and phone signals were interrupted. To say this has nothing to do with the government, hard to believe.

For the coming election, we the people of Malaysia, can only pray for our own safety. The One Najib is going to do whatever it takes to stay in power.

I want to say this is only in Malaysia, but looking at the news from other country, Malaysia must be listed as one of those countries ruled by dictators or/and living under draconian.

Please say a prayer for Bersih, for clean and fair election, we need it to stay sane, and to stay alive. Forget about speech freedom, being alive and sane definitely take priority.

一昨日は木曜日です。
昨日は金曜日です。
今日は土曜日です。
明日は日曜日です。
明後日は月曜日です。

Must be lots of sensors.

A Malaysian Indian, male, was charged by poilce for posting on his facebook wall a statement to kill all the police in Malaysia. Did not see his facebook. According to the news, he made it on 28th or 29th of April. And on 5th May, he was officially charged. Police knew his facebook posting almost immediately after he posted it. It is facebook, billions of users, and Malaysia police is so efficient in picking the right one out of them. The only answer is despite what the government is saying, that Malaysia does not censor internet, in fact a lot of manpower and computer power are being used to monitor the internet. There is no other explaination. And the quick action to book the man is to act as a warning to the entire population.

電視新聞報導，有名印度裔的馬來西亞男子在其本身的 facebook 上貼文說要殺死所有的馬來西亞警察。沒上網去看，反正在新聞報出的時候，那帳號已經被封閉了。我這種看新聞才知道的人當然是找不到的了。

新聞報導說：他是在４月２８～２９日之間貼文的。４月３０日就有報導了，說警方要找他協助調查，也就是通緝他了。奇怪的是，這人很出名嗎？怎麽才貼文上去，政府就知道了？可是我在網上找他的名字，根本就沒沒無聞。

合理的解釋是：馬來西亞政府有很多人在監視網絡活動，所以這種貼文很快就有人看到。那政府說的甚麽不會監管網絡，根本是在騙人的。

５月５日這男子已被帶去警局落案，就快被控上序。如此快的動作，肯定是要起殺雞儆猴之效。

還有人敢相信第十三届大選會公平廉淨嗎？能平安的去投票？政府肯嗎？會不會重演菲律賓的戲碼？當年馬可斯倒台前的計票過程，計票中心的員工流淚出走，在外面說政府在作幣。這一幕會在馬來西亞上演嗎？

Aftermath of 28th April

It is almost a week since Bersih 3.0, on 28th April, and we still see and hear news about it on the media. And it is clear they the government is working real hard to scare those who support Bersih 3.0. Case in point:
Just reading The Sun Daily, 4th May 2012 edition, and the headline is Higher Education Ministry to help police in hunt.

Hunt what? The university students who attended the rally.

Huh? Malaysian government really is taking this seriously, those students will be hunted down like ... like they committed what? murder? high treason? 2 government departments are joining forces in the hunt, such a big effort, and where are they when people complain they have to barricade their neighbourhood, with their own money because the crime rate is high, real high?

Now back to the hunt for those students, according to the official stance, they had committed offences against Malaysian laws. We have UUCA Universities and University Colleges Act, and good students should be law abiding citizens too. But why just voicing their opinion is against the law? Because they are universitiy students, and they are governed by UUCA, because this is Malaysia, this is the Malaysian way.

Only in Malaysia.

Visit his website about those REFER SPAM, he got a long list.

Really a lot of bloggers got the same problem, I found this blogger listed out the rouge sites he knows:
http://ashishpaliwalunstoppable.blogspot.com/2012/04/wwwsavegco-antivircom.html?showComment=1335696729898#c1167323887968566283

Really thank you, Ashish Paliwal.

3rd May, 2012, Thursday, I just learned another thing today:
Place the cursor on the URL in the blogspot.com blog editor, then a dialog will show up for users to change the settings, and click on change, and then add nofollow, will make sure the link is disactivated.

Updated on Wed, 09th May, 2012 真的有不少部落客有同樣的問題，就是有ＲＥＦＥＲ　ＳＰＡＭ。我沒有辦法應付，只好把這些有問題的來源網址列下來。

Looks like listing out the dubious referral websites works. I am not getting hits from what obviously are the sources of referral spam websites this week.(12 June, 2012)

25 June, 2012, strangely, I still got referral spam from kallery.net. Those Koreans really think they are so famous and so popular internationally, they can just keep on bombarding others with anything Korean. Count me out. But this one is not going away, it just keep on hitting my blog.

23 July, 2012, checked traffic sources again two days ago, and found this new entry:

www.cultek.com

no idea what it is all about.

31 July, 2012:
Got 2 unknown traffic sources,
myhealthscore.com
www.devscripts.net
must be some new refer spam sources. Don't be fooled by the devscripts.net, the name looks like some kind of open source site, but it is not. And think about it, who uses open source site as search engine? No! Open source sites are like forums, for people to discuss what they are developing.

27 Aug, 2012:
A new, and weird source of refer spam:
www.filmhill.com

10 Sept, 2012:
Another new, weird source of refer spam, from India?
www.hotindianproperty.com

11 Nov, 2012:
Why didn't I see this site before?
http://www.businesshut.com/spam/google-analytics-referrer-spam/

According to this site, the bloggers can set-up filters for their blogs. I haven't tried those steps yet, so I have no idea if those steps still works.

16 Nov, 2012:
I was hit by kallery.net again! The Koreans just never give up! I mean no matter how I write/spin it, this is just ridiculous. I got over 190 views just for this one post, certainly those Koreans can see that I had the source of refer spam on the list, and they just do not stop hitting my blog. Irk!
那些韓國人又來了。真的是～我真的想不出有甚麽不駡噁心話的說法。我這一頁文章已有超過１９０次瀏覽了，韓國人怎麽說也都該知道 kallery.net 已經被列出來了。還來？噁！

27 Nov, 2012:
I just checked my stats again, the spam source from Russia had stopped, I no longer getting any hit from Russians, so at least this post is telling them to stay away. But the Koreans?

3 Dec, 2012:
I just checked the traffic source of the hits my blog got. This past 7 days I got a hit from Kenya. Huh?
Anyway, here is a thought:
Everyone who is not happy that his/her blog is getting refer spam, copy my action on this post, or copy my post. After all, I first got this idea from what I had put at the beginning of this post, and copied this Indian's action.

5 Feb, 2013:
O my ... whatever, those Koreans just love SPAM. Kallery.net hit here 3 times in the past week, they actually think this is going to attract viewers to Kallery.net? Koreans, get a grip of reality, I do not want you. And what is that Lepak.my? That does SPAM too? Now I know, Malaysia has referral spammers too.

6 April, 2013:
Just checked the stats again. Koreans are really pesky, kallery.net just will not stop refer spam.
I got two new refer spam sites:
http://music.dances.it/
http://lahatdatu.blogspot.com/
Why lahatdau.blogspot.com? My blog did not mention anything about Sabah being invaded.

15 May, 2013:
OK, this is definitely a new source of REFER SPAM. current.com, it disguise itself as somekind of forum for current affairs discussions, but actually is somekind of paid promotion site.

21 May, 2013:
This NSFW site, that disguises itself with this innocent sounding url:
www.topblogstories.com
is a referral spam site, and worse, it installs pesky tracking cookies, and capture your IP address the moment you are linked to the site. So it displays ADULT ONLY KIND OF ADS near and around your location.
FYI: NSFW is acronym for Not Suitable For Work, another way of saying this is a porn site.

I keep a list of weird behaviour websites that hit my blog:
babyboutiquestores.info
bit.ly/Hcz4XS(This is a furniture ads)
bit.ly/HJIdm6(This is a printer ads)
bit.ly/HRLYH6(This is a movies site)
cooking-ideas.hot-trend-now.com
cultek.com
current.com
fishing-stores-blog.info(fishing gears ads?)
ideathathits.com(another ads)
kallery.net(an ads from Korea, somekind of art retailer, gallery)
lahatdatu.blogspot.com
music.dances.it
myhealthscore.com
nizma.com/scarface-video-games
www.devscripts.net
www.filmhill.com
www.hotindianproperty.com
www.topblogstories.com
www3.personal-scanera.com
www3.bestbxcleaner.com
www4.best-aruchecker.com
www4.savegco-antivir.com
www4.safe-vocher.com
www4.strongdxgsoft.com

Will The One Najib try to stop Bersih again?

Okay, if anyone is reading this, I am ready for the brickbats.

3.13pm Saturday, 28th April, 2012.
I did not go to Bersih. Instead I just read about it on internet, in fact right now I am watching the videos posted on youtube, and the postings on Malaysiakini, and Malaysiainsider.

At the time I am typing this, no video posted on vimeo yet.

As everyone who pays attention to Bersih 3.0 already knew, starting around 6pm last night, people who wanted to participate in Bersih already converged around the 6 converging points, as we all anticipated the roads leading into Kuala Lumpur city centre will be blocked. And sure it was, starting from 6am today, 58 roads are blocked. As of the time I am typing this, I have no idea if the road blocks were cleared.

As I am not on the spot, so I am repeating what is already reported on Malaysiakini.
At 2.34pm, at Masjid Jamek, Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan says the rally has been a success and urged the crowd to disperse, but the crowd keep on chanting "Dataran! Dataran!"

And the photos posted by the citizens, this is definitely a new chapter in journalism in Malaysia, as fellow Malaysian citizens posting their photos of news events online, we get to see the photos from all sort of angles, not those filtered by the editors and news agencies, it certainly makes it hard for the power to be to tell lies.

Kudos Bersih 3.0. Maybe we cannot stop the election fraud in the impending election, but we certainly will not be deceited and remain quiet.

Bersih 3.0 is not in Malaysia only, a lot of Malaysian citizens who works abroad are also attending the Bersih 3.0 rallies in other countries, in support of Bersih 3.0 at home. The road ahead is long, but we will keep going.

Update, added on 3.50pm Saturday, 28th April, 2012:
Just scrolled through the photos on Malaysiakini website.
And in this photo, who are those men in red long-sleeved t-shirts?
https://picasaweb.google.com/114255707155530008408/Bersih3RallyEvent#slideshow/5736304900046652018https://picasaweb.google.com/114255707155530008408/Bersih3RallyEvent#slideshow/5736304900046652018

Just read this on bbc.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17878603
28 April 2012 Last updated at 07:59 GMT
It says tear gas had been fired at Merdeka Square. So The One Najib is really afraid of Bersih.


Update, added on 4.15pm Sat, 28th Apr, 2012
According Malaysiakini, tear gas was first fired at Jalan Tar - Jalan Tun Perak Junction, at 3.01pm.
3.29pm, water Cannon was first used at the crowd outside The Bar Council building at Lebuh Pasar Besar.
3.50pm, pockets of demonstrators are being chased by police near Sogo Shopping Mall.
4:10pm - Jalan TAR - A group of protesters sit along the closed Jalan TAR road. An ice-cream seller is doing a roaring business as protesters seek to quench their thirst.  FRU fire chemical-laced water at them in front of Kamdar department store along Jalan TAR.
So far 35 individuals had been arrested.

This is fun, it is clearly The One Najib is truly afraid. And this is the first time I am following a live report of a rally online.

Update, at 4.37pm.
From Malaysiakini,
at 4.27pm, near Maybank building, protesters are hauling empty water bottles at the trucks of police.

Scrolling through the photos of the event online, I saw the photo of KLCC, one of the 6 converging points, and I do not see any mention of what is happening at the place right now, as in nothing? Because a lot of luxurious goods outlets are there?

Merdeka Square To be Closed for 48 hours

We are really living in a bygone era here in Malaysia. DBKL just announced yesterday, that starting from 6pm today, Merdeka Square will be closed for 48 hours, until 6pm Sunday.

I know this is old news already, but I just read the news just now, so I live in really snail paced kind of life style.

But back to the 48 hours close off. What was DBKL thinking? A lot of those people in the government actually have children who graduated from universities in USA. Certainly they had heard about the Civil Rights Movement in USA? Back then they parks were closed. And see the USA today? You cannot segregate people any more. If is a proven failed tactic. I actually DBKL would serve up something more creative. So disappointed.

Anyway, to those of you who are going to gather at 1 of the 6 points in Kuala Lumpur, remember to pack a lot of water, raincoat, motorcycle helmet, and of course, mobile phones with camera, video camera, and wi-fi capabilities. Wait, will the wi-fi be cut-off on 28 April? And phone services? Perpare to run, wear cross-trainers.

馬來西亞真的是活在過去。吉隆坡市局昨天宣佈，從今天下午６時起，至星期日下午６時止，將關閉獨立廣場４８小時。

知道了，舊聞了。我是真的很蝸速了。

回到把廣立獨場關閉４８小時。政府那麽人真的是不知道？那些大人物有不少孩子從美國的大學畢業的。他們自己也有聴到美國黑人在反歧視的運動時，白人把公園關閉的歷史。今天美國已沒有隔離政策了。根本已証明不會有用的。還以爲會有甚麽新招。失望。

明天要去的人，記得帶水，雨衣，安全帽，手機，要能上網拍照録影的。還有穿運動鞋。明天的電話和網絡會被切斷嗎？

還是 Bersih。 We Need Bersih.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOmcoH5ksKY
Bersih 3.0 theme song, Tears of Malaysia

I actually wanted to take a break from internet for a few weeks, to concentrate on reading manga. But after reading today's newspaper, just have to post this.

In Johor, a high ranking officer working at the Ministry of Education has been demoted to a high school. And all the Chinese in Malaysia just believe this is a warning to the people who speak against the shortage of qualified teachers in Chinese primary school. And of course this notion is officially rebuked.

We really need Bersih.

淚光是 Bersih 3.0 的主題曲。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOmcoH5ksKY


在柔佛，助理教育局長李翊獅被降級到國中去。今天看到這新聞後，忍不住要貼文。華人都相信這是秋後算帳，要打壓敢說出華小師資短缺這一多年老問題的真相的人。官方當然否認是這麽一回事了。不過柔佛的華人這次少有的有勇敢，這麽多團體出來爲他說話。是因爲大選真的快到了？當心，當年馬哈蒂要華人提出訴求，結果相信他而提出訴必的人，現在還敢再提嗎？

這回政府到底在打甚麽主意？因爲已經通過了新法令？所以現在一副我把你這樣那樣，你又能怎樣的神氣樣子了？馬來西亞人的日子只會更難過了。

現在我真的全心支持 Bersih 了。連 Bersih 也被壓下去的話，還有救嗎？

The heat for Bersih 3.0 is on

Even an amateur hermit like me can feel that the heat for Bersih 3.0 April 28 is getting hotter by the day. Not just the Kuala Lumpur mayor calls for the movement to move the venue to Bukit Jalil or Merdeka Stadium, but also a lot of talks on the web. Even my drown in the sea kind of blog got some hits to entries about ISA and Bersih.

Now, should we prepare for the water canon on this coming Saturday? I strongly suggest to those who are going to attend, wear motorcycle helmet, have a raincoat ready, and bring a few bottles of water, should be like 4~5 litres, and of course your phones that have cameras, with mobile upload capability. I mean, I actually expect water canon on the day. Anyone else has the money on water canon?

Yeah! Government is saying there is a Peaceful Assembly Act, and it should be respected. We should see on the day.

４月２８日 Bersih 3.0 快到了。我這阿宅也感到氣氛開始熱起來了。吉隆坡市長叫 Bersih 去體育館，網上的討論也多了。連我這淹沒在網絡中的部落格中有提到內安法令的和 Bersih 的貼文也受關注了。

這星期 六會不會有水炮？星期天要去獨立廣場的人，當天該戴安全帽，帶雨衣，再加上好幾瓶水，起碼要４～５公升，當然也要有拍照，上網功能的手機。我是預定了當天會有水炮的。有誰也這麽說的？

沒錯 ，政府說要遵敬和平集會法令的。到時方知。

Royal Concert on 21st April, 2012; what will be on 28th?

On Saturday, 21st Apr, 2012, the Royal Concert was held at Dataran Merdeka, in honour of the inauguration of the new King. And those campers at the square moved out, to make way for the concert.

What I see is that Kuala Lumpur City Hall and Selangor Club are getting more creative in their effort of keeping the undesired activities off the grass of the square. So, what new scheme will the 2 serve up to stop the Bersih on Saturday, 28th Apr, 2012? Nothing on the news yet. Googled and found nothing too. What will it be? The suspense is really killing me.

And strangely enough, just talks of seeking approval from the Kuala Lumpur City Hall for the use of the square; like those campers said they already got the approval from it. But what about Selangor Club? The square is no longer the property of Selangor Club? Since when?

KEPONG IS FLOODED AGAIN, AND THUGS IN BLACK T-SHIRT ATTACKED CAMPERS

On Thursday 19th April, 2012, a rainy day for Kepong. And guess what? Kepong is flooded. Yes, one fine rainy day and Kepong is flooded. It's not even a record setting kind of rain.

Saw it on the evening news, then checked online, and what I gathered is that at 2.30am Thursday 19th April, 2012, the campers (who claimed to be university students), at Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square), were attacked by a group dressed in black t-shirts. And strangely enough, the police at the scene did not do anything to stop the what-kind-of-people-in-black while the attack happened. Certainly a public punch-up in Malaysia is illegal, right? Like can be prosecuted in court. And all the parties say they have no idea who those people in black are. Lightning fast response to make sure they are not linked to the attack.
The size of the thugs various, depending which source you believe in, some say, 40, some say 60, some even put it to 60~70, so it is a range of 40~70. Anyway, check out the videos at vimeo.com, and you can understand why it is hard to get an exact figure.

I found a video of the aftermath on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwH2eiaXoSM&feature=related

And 2 videos on vimeo.com:
http://vimeo.com/40649879
http://vimeo.com/40661029

And something is fishy about those campers. They have been there for days, and how come we did not see anything like the riot police come to water canon them, or Selangor Club block the Dataran Merdeka? After all, the square is the property of Selangor Club.

Only in Malaysia.


2012年04月19日星期四，在甲洞下雨。所以今天甲洞淹水了。ㄏ？對啊，今天在甲洞下了好幾小時的大雨，所以淹水了。可是那不是豪雨。反正是淹水，你還想怎樣？馬來西亞就是一下雨就淹水的。

晚間新聞看到，再上網查，綜合之後是今天淩晨2.30am，在獨立廣場扎營的自稱是大專生的一批人，被一群黑衣人毆打。在場的警察完全沒阻止。各方面馬上出來說他們不知道那些黑衣人是誰，反應夠快。
黑衣人的人數難以確定，有的報導是40人，也有說60，70的。人數就從40至70人。反正難以確定就是了。看在 vimeo.com 的視頻就會相信的了。

在 youtube  有之後的視頻：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwH2eiaXoSM&feature=related
在 vimeo.com:
http://vimeo.com/40649879
http://vimeo.com/40661029

那些扎營的人也不尋常，他們扎營好幾天了，怎麽沒見到水炮伺候？還有雪蘭莪俱樂部，怎麽不封起獨立廣場？那可是雪蘭莪俱樂部的產業哦。

只會在馬來西亞發生。