Not long I registered for London Elects. I am qualified as I have already lived here for more than a year.
On 1st May, I casted my vote for Boris Johnson of the Conservatives, for his promises to reduce the rising crimes and more importantly to get better value for the taxpayers' money. He has got character and great sense of humour.
Boris in Top Gear.
Boris' great tackle on a Germany player in a charity match, in the rugby way.
I haven't even voted in Malaysia before. The mayor in Kuala Lumpur is not elected but appointed by the government despite of the uncountable complaints of its poor performance and corruption scandals.
An article received in a forwarded e-mail written in Chinese recently, which I think worth sharing.
Despite losing 2/3 majority and 5 states to the opposition in the election, leaders from BN - Badawi of UMNO, Ong Ka Ting of MCA and Semi Value of MIC decided to stay in a thick face manner despite calls for them to resign from the top post. Their reputation to the people has dropped to the lowest point and it doesn't do any good to their party so they have to go.
The only BN leader who admitted defeat and resigned from the top post is Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon. He even attended the swearing ceremony of the newly elected Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng from DAP. He deserved some respects.
There are rumours saying Koh purposely lost Penang in order to let DAP take charge of the state, to avoid being controlled by UMNO Youth - which link directly to Khairy the son-in-law.
Equine owned by businessman Patrick Lim, aka Patrick Badawi who won the project because of his close ties to the son-in-law and the first family.
Such mega projects of course had to be approved by the Chief Minister which Koh wasn't quite agreed as there are too many issues involved. Badawi stepped on Koh to launch the project even before Koh approved it. Koh still didn't approve the project and UMNO decided to play their usual trick - the racial card by accusing Penang is marginalising the Malays who live there. The motive is to pull Koh down the CM chair and to put its own people who will be willing to 'cooperate'.
The issue was finally resolved, Koh kept the CM chair but was badly hurted and had to approve PGCC.
8/3/08 - BN lost Penang to BA
10/3/08 - KLSE was suspended because KLCI dropped more than 10%, many stocks were suspended twice including Equine.
11/3/08 New CM Lim Guan Eng announced to review project PGCC.
Many will doubt how Koh influenced the voters. He made some surprises relocating PGRM candidates in the states which created some mess in the party before the election.
I heard Equine was the first to send bouquet to congratulate Lim Guan Eng, I hope Lim will do something to justify Koh's sacrifice, if it's true.
Good news to the people, bad news to the Badawi's family.
Had enough from Badawi and his son-in-law? If so sign the petition to support Mukhriz Mahathir's urge for Badawi to step down as Prime Minister, my signature is No. 391.
It's a big day for all the Malaysians, BN although won the GE2008 but lost the 2/3 majority and 5 states to the opposition. A victory and a new hope for the people who have risen and spoken of their will.
Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the Barisan Rakyat has played a major role in the victory. Although I am still not very sure whether he can be trusted or not (he could be one of 'them' if he wasn't framed in 1998) but no doubt he is a more respectable figure comparing to Badawi. Dr Mahathir can't be trusted as well but at least he managed to keep things under control during his leadership of the country.
Lim Kit Siang and the DAP members are the people whom I really respected. They have fight for the Malaysian people for decades without any datukship, tunship or personal benefits. I believe under the DAP government, Penang will develop better, the state fund will be spent more carefully and of course less or zero corruption.
Lim's son Guan Eng is taking over the role of Chief Minister for Penang. In the press conference. Asking how's his feeling, he didn't forget to tease the Malaysian press sarcastically: "I think the only difference is I find more press attending our conference than before the election". Shame on the major media who are all pro BN.
This is something we won't be able to listen from local media, covered by Al-Jazeera. In Jalan Pandan Indah, KL, 500+ voters have registered on the street, 20-30 registered on one address. If not because of these phantom voters, BN could even had lost more than that. Check out the explanation by the EC Kamarazuman, what a joke in front of the international media.
Dr Mahathir has launched his new attack on Badawi and his son-in-law in an interview with Malaysiakini, urging Badawi to resign as Prime Minister. I think Dr. M is a smart old fox, praising Najib to succeed Badawi as new PM, to create some wave in UMNO since virtually he can't do much anymore without power.
On the son-in-law: "I think his son-in-law played a big role (in the defeat). This young man who has no achievements before but apparently the PM listens to him"
On Zam, mis-information minister: "He won or lost? Oh, he lost. Well, the way he was campaigning was really funny, telling people to look at his face and how it doesn't change. But I think that a face that doesn't change can be very boring. Sometimes you must laugh, sometimes you must cry.
He was telling everybody "Ini muka tak bertukar, tak bertukar". Who is interested in his ‘wajar’? If he was Britney Spears, then…"
On Samy Vellu: "I think that Samy Vellu played a big part in the defeat. When he was in BN, he doesn't allow any of the MIC people to come up to his level. If they come up (to be) deputy or vice-president, he will knock them down and even expel them from the party"
It's a pity Rafidah Aziz won her seat if not I can expect Dr Mahathir to make more interesting comments.
"Goodbye Sam", another masterpiece by comedycourt: "and this result has been welcomed by mixed feelings, some are shocked and some are very shiok" hahaha...
There will be a protest on Monday morning at Istana Negara when Badawi meets the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong to form the new government. The thick face said he won't resign despite of the biggest defeat in the history, the son-in-law and the cronies certainly won't want him to go. Let's see what happen in the next few weeks.
8th of March is approaching, the Malaysia general election day. Enough is enough and it's time to change. Although it's quite unlikely that the opposition will win the majority but I believe it's possible to deny a 2/3 majority win by the BN, provided it's clean and fair.
Wake up fellow Malaysians. I love the country but hate the government, wish I will return to a real democratic Malaysia one day.
Parliament has been dissolved and the election is coming in March. Watch CNN's interview with Malaysia Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi:
Everytime I watch Malaysian leaders interviewed by the international media I feel embarrassed as a Malaysian. Pak Lah's answers were leading no way and confusing as always.
Obviously the whole world knows that why is the reason the election date is fixed earlier than it supposed to be - to keep former deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim out of the race, just a month before he's eligible for the election after a ban expires. Pak Lah said it's not his concern and I think that's an ultimate bullshit!
It has been a while I didn't follow politics in Malaysia, coz the more I read the more I get pissed off and disappointed.
I think all the Malaysians should watch this idiot Minister's behaviours in the parliaments. What a shame and what a disgrace for him, for the person who selected him and for the people who voted for the government.
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MU supporter; love sports, traveling, coffee and photography. I will be a full time photographer and coffee shop taukeh, have a few dogs, when I strike lottery jackpot.
On 1st May, I casted my vote for Boris Johnson of the Conservatives, for his promises to reduce the rising crimes and more importantly to get better value for the taxpayers' money. He has got character and great sense of humour.
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