Fresh Polls In Perak? It's About Time!

"The consensus that is emerging today among Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders is that even if the court of appeal rules in its favour this Thursday, it will still ask the Sultan of Perak to dissolve the state assembly to pave the way for fresh polls.

The Malaysian Insider understands that the Perak constitutional crisis was a major item on the agenda at today’s supreme council meeting of the ruling coalition.

The rationale for such a move is that the ruling coalition stands to lose more credibility and that perception that it is the villain in the Perak power grab would only grow.

A number of BN leaders told The Malaysian Insider that the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) had been effective in painting BN as the usurpers of power." from The Malaysian Insider

It appears that BN is finally coming to realise the damage the Perak Crisis has caused them. In order for them to salvage whatever dignity and pride left for BN, they must adhere to the pressure of the Rakyat. I think most Malaysians feel that fresh polls is the only way to solve the Perak crisis. Win or loose both BN and PKR must move on and do what they were elected for in the first place and that is to Serve The Rakyat. Publish Post

That's my two cents worth on this issue! Happy blogging.

Best Malaysian Success Story

Below is an interesting life story of a young man from Sarawak. I think he deserves credit for what he has achieved and for the way he treated the HR Lady. 

Posted by the guy name is Sii Hoi Chan, he live in Kenyalang on April 23, 2009 at 12:18:06: 

I was 18 in 1997, I came home half complete my high school in England because my father was bankrupted.

He was a contractor, bankrupted because the licensee, taib's uncle defaulted on paying royalty to the Government. Pocketed all the money my father gave.

Together with 6 of my friends we went to Komat in Sama Jaya to look for jobs as they only required MCE. To help out the family.

The HR lady was an Iban, on our turn she refused to give us application forms, demanded our qualifications. Without even understanding us, we were turned away. On further enquiry from us, she said, the 250 posts were all filled. It was 10.25am and the application counter just opened at 9.30am. Asked the guard to show us out. Komat repeated publication for the posts for another week. We went back again and again were rejected. This time she asked us to look for jobs in China.

My uncle promptly help the six of us to look for jobs from his contacts. Ironically, we all ended up in Shenzhen China, working in a micro circuit board plant. We were trained by the American to be testers as we know English. We did well, did so well that within 4 years, we developed a special test using Argon emission from induced current. Testing the board even more thoroughly and 40+ times the efficiency we were doing.

After a few months of trial, the company decided to subcontract all their circuitboard testing to us using the new testing system and they got the test done at a fraction of their cost doing it manually.

Within 3 years, we are testing all the ciruit board of all the companies in Shenzhen then.

BELIEVE ME, WE ARE EACH NETTING 2 TO 3 MILLIONS USD A YEAR.

We spread to include contract in a lot of companies of China, US, Germany and Finland.

We now employed 7600 people and 1600 from Sarawak. Bumiputra or non-bumiputra who made the grade we after.

Why I am writting this?

Today my company had been operating in Penang for 6 months. We are employing 200 staffs.

I was interviewing the senior staffs for the job.

One of the person that came in for the interview was this Iban lady from Komat 10+ years ago. The lady who turned me away, the lady who told me I am not eligible for the job, the lady who told me the posts were filled when yet to select the first applicant of 250 and the lady who asked me to go to China to look for a job.

I had the satisfaction to tell her all these if I wanted to. Instead I listerned to all her talked about how great she had done in her former employment and now she was out on a huge VSS. How well she will do for me with her experience and how much she like to work for Chinese boss. she said she is the daugther of an influential Bumiputra man and her husband doing well in business. I let her raved on with her diatribe.

Finally, when she realised she the one doing all the talking and I was not even asking questions, she stopped.

I finally said, I know her. She was shocked, for now I was properly suited up and not in T-shirt and jean the first time we met.

I simply said, I like to thank her for asking me to go back to China to look for work. I did, I made it and what she is seeing today and the brochure I placed infront of her is in fact the SUCCESS from disgust and disappointment of being a Malaysian Chinese.

She was murmuring to herself. I told her, she will get a job from me but not as the senior HR, not as the assisstant HR but as an assistant to the assistant HR. She was shocked, happy and almost cry. Then she confessed that her husband was bankrupted and her 3 children had to be in the care of her sister.

I told her, she meant nothing to me, her race meant nothing to me, what she had done also meant nothing to me; the insult, the frustration the anguish of a young man trying to help his father. She like anyone, she get her job done or out like anybody. I told her, I do not care for YBs, Bumi policies or business opportunities in Malaysia. I do not need Malaysia.

I CAME BECAUSE I AM BEGGED TO COME, BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAYSIA. 

The morale of this story is what comes around goes around in life. No matter what we do, someone is always taking notes and one day.... maybe just one day, these notes will be used as a reference on each and every one of us.

Ok that's my note for today!

CONFIRMED! BN AVOIDING PKR IN PENANTI

It has finally been confirmed by our PM that BN will not be contesting in the Penanti by election. Many are not surprised by this decision and in fact BN made the right choice since they know for sure that they will loose to PKR. However, that does not mean that PKR will win hands down because I am sure there will be some "independants" who will be putting up a fight for the Dun\ seat. Now I am just wondering what Dr. M is going to say tomorrow morning about this news! 

It is becoming more and more obvious to UMNO that BN is loosing its grip on the people. As time goes by and with all the "UMNO Businesses" going on, it is only a matter of time before every peace loving Malaysians will stand up and make their vote count. By then no amount of vote buying will change the outcome of any election. People are beginning to realise that they have been given the short end of the stick all these while.

So people... it's time for us to think really hard and actually exercise our rights for the sake of our future. If we still sit around and do nothing, then we have only ourselves to blame. We need to remind the Government of the old saying, "By The People & For The People." 

Ambiga Sreenevasan with Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and First Lady, Michelle Obama, give away the Scretary of State Award for International Women of Courage to Malaysia's Ambiga Sreenevasan (Malaysian Bar Council) at the State Department in Washington.

Now this is what I really call a Malaysian getting an award that she truly deserves. However, it is sad to note that this event was not really highlighted by our local media. So alot of peolpe send emails telling all their friends on this wonderful and proud moment.

Anyway, less and less people read the local newspapers these days. More and more people are turning to the alternative media to get unbiased news about what is really happening in this country. I am sure in time to come, people will fully switch over to the alternative media. I am only putting on this picture as a show of support for those deserving Malaysians who are trying to do something for the betterment of this country. We have to think about the future of our younger generations. So Bravo Ambiga and please keep up the good work!