Prisoner of Conscience

Sin Chew reporter was released after 18 hours of detention, what a relief. But RPK and Teresa Kok were still imprisoned under ISA. There are increasing voices to call for the release of RPK and Teresa Kok, civilians and those in the government alike. The de facto minister of law has since tendered his resignation as he was also in disagreement with the government misusing ISA for detention not related to terrorism. Can Prime Minister turn a deaf ear to the people?

ISA is against peace and democracy. We can see that it is so conveniently used to detain someone that in the view of government had threatened national security. Are those people really terrorists? Or are they prisoner of conscience. Why ISA? IS the government incapable of acting against the lawbreakers with the laws that we are having now? Or, simply, the ISA is being used as it is so convenient? Can't our law enforcers find enough evidence to charge the ISA detainees in open court?

Unjust arrest of Sin Chew reporter

The credibility of Home Ministry is again in doubt with the arrests of Raja Petra, Teresa Kok and Sin Chew reporter Tan Hoon Cheng under ISA. I wonder press freedom is alive in this country. Are these people really a threats to the country or ISA is conveniently used to solve the problems faced by the home ministry.

This is a trick so often played by the government. OK, you people are angry with Ahmad Ismail, actions have been taken against him. Now is the time to go for the rest who are also involving in spicing out the issue. So, don't you people complain, it is fair to everybody.

This is democracy in this country; the person who allegedly given racist remarks was suspended for 3 years from all his party posts and still acts like a big hero, the person who reported the issue was arrested and investigated under ISA.

2 Days 1 Night in Penang

My wife and I went to Penang for vacation over the past weekend. It has been many years since the last time we visited Penang. It was quite fortunate for us as we managed to cover a few interesting places even though the weather was not promising. It was pouring while we were driving from Sitiawan to Penang. We went to Bukit Bendera but the train service was suspended due to maintenance. We then went to Kek Lok Si Temple and it started to rain again upon reaching there. After the rains stopped, we went to Botanical Garden just quick enough to have some brief walks and it was drizzling again. The cannon ball trees planted along the path way at the main entrance were beautiful.

We put up a night at Tanjung Bungah Beach Hotel. It was the cheapest 3-star hotel I can find near Batu Ferringhi. I prefer the sea view but my wife wanted to save some money therefore we opted for hill view. It ended up street view as all you can see from the room was busy streets but for about RM128 per night, it is still value for money. That night we went to the famous night market at Batu Ferringhi. There were not many stalls opened probably due to rainy weather. So we went to Gurney Drive for shopping.

The next day we managed to visit Butterfly Farm before the heavy showers started at around noon causing massive jam on our way out to Penang bridge. I was swearing all the way until coming out from the Penang bridge when the traffic eased slightly. In Malaysia, every where you go is the same. When it rains heavily, some low lying places sure get flooded. What happen to the millions of ringgit spent on flood mitigation? When it comes to monsoon periods, the kampung folks in the northern states like Kedah and Perlis sure suffer. Padi fields damage, houses flooded, unfortunate life casualties again and again. Those big shots living comfortably in big bungalows in Putra Jaya sure can not understand the pains the people suffered due to floods. Malaysia is blessed as there are far lesser natural disasters as compared with our neighbouring countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines. Even then, some quarters can just blame the mother nature for causing the havoc but not themselves for not putting in sufficient efforts to mitigate floods.

Arrogant Racist

Deputy Prime Minister had apologized on behalf of UMNO on the seditious remark made by Ahmad Ismail on calling Chinese as immigrant. Prime minister had also felt sorry for the incident and warned all BN component parties to be more sensitive on race issues. But this guy Ahmad Ismail is too proud and arrogant to deny that he had conducted any wrong doings and thus, no need to apologize to anybody. He was basically implied that what he had said is a fact, Chinese and Indian in this country are all immigrants thus do not deserve equal rights as what entitle for bumiputera.

This is a typical low class politician, running out of ideas on how to improve the livelihood of the people thus sensationalising race issue to get support from his own race. Or try to become a hero, like someone many years ago repeatedly kissed the Kris as though he wants to slaughter enemies in a battlefield. Where are we heading to if we have this kind of people to become our leaders?

Racism - No 1 Enemy to National Unity

As Malaysia is celebrating the 51st Merdeka, there are still racist everywhere cooking up seditious remarks for their own political agenda. Bukit Bendera UMNO division chief Ahmad Ismail is one such example. He had allegedly called Chinese pendatang (immigrant) at a ceramah in front of his number 2 boss Najib Razak. Well, Chinese community surely can not take it. After 51 years achieving independent, there is this moron labelling them as immigrant and literally questioning the genuineness of their citizenship.

Chinese politicians naturally condemning such irresponsible act of their counterpart in Barisan National. Demanding apology and some even ask this guy to be sacked by UMNO. Of course the PM will always play his Tai-chi, explaining that that chap didn't mean what he had said. Never mind, we know there is always double standards. If someone else not from UMNO giving such controversial remarks, they will surely be arrested under ISA.

So MCA and Gerakan, let's see the so called politics of consultation work or not. We will find out very soon should any disciplinary actions be taken on this chap.