A group of online-media journalist came to my Batu Service Centre Office sometime last week and did an extensive interview with me on the problems faced by the voters of Batu and other related issues, including a possible By-Election in Batu. I gave them a very open and honest answer and also included some of my thoughts on the development of the Youth Movement within Gerakan and other plans for the future.
I was told this will be the first installment of their recording and that the other clips will be uploaded soon when they are available. If you find this first part of the interview interesting, hope you will check in soon for the rest of the instalment.
Hope you dont find my ‘hair’ (in the interview) disturbing (my apologies) as in the midst of trying to give my full attention to the interview, I forgot to comb my hair … not that there’s much to comb actually!
The very Anti-Thesis of 1Malaysia … if there’s such a thing, we are beginning to wonder!
It takes years to build up goodwill, trust and a harmonious relationship. And all it takes is another ‘Special Officer’ to break all of that … in a couple of seconds!
Nasir Safar must be one of the ’least’ educated special officers from the PM’s Office. Never one to make any sense and now that he had opened his ‘golden’ mouth, the gems just came spilling out. And its not very nice to hear though! Continue
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A man came home from work and his children ran to him and called out ‘Ayah! Ayah!’.
As a result of that, his neighbour got very upset and sternly ticked him off, “Can you please tell your children not to call you ‘Ayah’ anymore?”
The man asked, “Why?” The neighbor retorted, “Because my children call me ’Ayah’ too, and they might get confused and mistaken you to be their father.”
Burial rites, religious ceremonies, name callings are meant for humans. Our Creator (All Praise to Him) couldn’t care less if you mispelt his name or couldn’t remember his name after a beer or two. Even if you were to keep repeating His name and walk out of a 32 storey building, you would still meet your fate, ala Teoh Beng Hock style.
So in the end, who has the last laugh, the Creator. He must be thinking, I gave all these two-legged creatures a brain and a heart and all they could use it for was to compete on who has the right to call my name … hello, anybody home!
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Malaysians are obsessed with slogans and bombastic concept-titles. In the area of National Unity, we had the oft mentioned Malaysian Malaysia (Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s creation of 1965), then Bangsa Malaysia (Tun Mahathir’s 2020 brain child), then 1Malaysia (Najib’s concoction of what it means to be a Malaysian) and the latest, Middle Malaysia (Lim Guan Eng’s version of his father’s version of Malaysian Malaysia).
And the reality is that, whomever coins such names and concepts, we still see a spiraling and worrying national divide of racial polarisation. The situation is not any better than when we achieved Independence but worst off. This fact is most prominent whenever I visit national universities and government sponsored colleges.
It’s easy to watch and criticise on the side, but do you dare to be in the field doing the work?
In this new era of internet-media-savvy Youths, it has become a trend that many young citizens whom are interested in politics or ‘think’ they are interested in politics resort to only talking and criticising by the way-side (via blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Malaysiakini, MalaysianInsider, Lakshou etc) without spending much time or resources attending to genuine gatherings, dialogues, discussion groups and/or action taskforce like Rukun Tetangga gatherings and gotong royong, etc.
This scenario is made worst, as internet technology improves and broadband becomes more and more accessible that many young-at-heart will join the fray (across the political divide) by criticising and complaining about each other and how hopeless the other side is. But are any of these Youths doing anything constructive to help the worsening situation?
limsipin.com is an open forum where the young and the old, and the people of all races who make up this beautiful country known as Malaysia, can have an open-heart discussion on topics that is dear to them. It is also a meeting of minds and a platform where information, ideas and learnings are shared, in order to push ourselves into the forefront, becoming an excellent nation in deed and in creed. The ultimate aim of which is that, in the end, we can truly see the emergence of a harmonious and united Bangsa Malaysia.
The very Anti-Thesis of 1Malaysia … if there’s such a thing, we are beginning to wonder!
I love my country, does my country love me?
It’s easy to watch and criticise on the side, but do you dare to be in the field doing the work?
