When our leaders fail us.....what can we do

Sadly and very sadly our leaders had failed us....their sandiwara had been exposed....they were not interested in Malaysia...they are traitors to this land...

But as individuals, we, who are of Chinese descent should more than ever show love and kindness to our fellow citizens who are Malays and Indians and others......in a way that demonstrates our goodwill and our shared history and more importantly our shared futures....

Let us rise above our leaders, let us ordinary folks show our leaders that we are united in common decency towards one and another....

Disappointed in our leaders

One of the most noble political statement I heard is from John Macain, the republican nominee.....he said "I rather lose an election then let America lose the war"...he said it sinceriely....when faced with a very popular choice of calling the troops back from Iraq and then win the support of millions...he did the opposite...he supported the surge...even though he knew it was very unpopular and would cause him votes and even the nomination, nevertheless he voted and supported what he believed was right even though it was hugely unpopular and proved to be a costly decision.....

He put his nation first and his own interests, second.

Compare him with our PM......our man is but a puny weak person...fiddling while the whole nation spins off the tangent...

Many times when facing with a choice of doing the right but unpopular thing or the wrong but popular thing...he chose the popular one.....leaving the country to suffer the consequences of the bad choices he made....

Always putting himself first and the country second....thats' the perception he gave us...

Rain --what a blessing

Although it has been raining and the sun had been covered with clouds the last five days, it has been good.....the cool weather for a change is refreshing not only to the body but to the soul....hope it will cool down the inflamed passions stirred up by silly comments made by equally silly people...

Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never do...that's my policy. Move on we must be bigger than the person hurling insults at us.....we go out to the world and achieve great things in world....

Not bad for "penumpangs' of Pg.....there is "Jimmy Choo", Prof Quah of LSE, Prof Woo etc etc..... and let the Leaders of Malaysia salivate and think what might have been.....

Sum of all our fears...malaysian fears

For years ... politicians of all ilk had been playing the race and religion card.... can they restrain themselves now? ...before the country spins out of control into a downward spiral .... like lebanon or sri lanka....

Better to cool it now....MCA...you ought to do it long ago..but you did not...now you want "show" you can defend your 'race"... forget it...we know you are doing it with an eye to the coming party elections...

Malaysians are flocking to the PKR_PAS_DAP pakatan....PAS for all....It is time to give PAS a chance...

Heavy rains do have its benefits

Heavy rains in Penang is not always a bad thing. Of course in the low lying areas, it cause floods and disruption in people' s daily lives.....for that we must always have the rescue boats ready....we must also ensure that clogged drains and rivers be unclogged everytime.....

Yet a heavy downpour like what occured yesterday do bring benefits to this place....first it clears the smog and the haze that hangs in Penang like a bad smell...the heavy rain sure flushes this awya and in the morning the air is fresh and crisp.....

Second the filth gets cleared away, it is almost like getting a clean bath...washing all the dirt away from the city...it refreshes the city and brings a sense of sweeping the old rubbish and bringing forth new life...

Penang - and its flash floods

Five hours rain and the whole city drowns in the floods that ensued.....problems ...clogged drains....indiscriminate throwing of rubbish down......

The dirt and filth comes back to haunt you...

Saving Gurney Drive?

Read in the Star, that the pollies visited the mud flats that appear when the tide is low. Like politicians that they are (no matter what shape or size) there is a pathological need to open their mouths and make pronouncements of what they want to do...i.e. to solve the "problem"...

They pronounce that they want to save Gurney Drive...(may I ask save Gurney drive from what?) That's when I think...it becomes dangerous...good intentions and muddled thinking or no thinking at all...just knee jerk reactions...

First of all, mr. exco, find out what cause the building up of the mud-flats in the first place...is it (as most people suspect) due to the massive reclaimed land in Tanjung Tokong.....years ago when most the excos and the CM was still residents in other states....there was a Mangrove swamp in Tanjong Tokong....probably the water currents were bringing the mud all the way from parts of South Kedah and north Seberang Perai or even parts of the Batu Ferringgi shore and depositing it in Tanjong Tokong.....but now there is a huge abutment...maybe that may have upset the current flow...and caused all this new land to be created at the Bagan Jermal end of Gurney Drive... who knows...

So do not create another problem by your trying to save Gurney Drive....u may end up creating more problems...find out first ...and for heavens sake...don't start 'reclaiming it" because you may cause the problem to shift to the Northam road end of GDrive.

Please, in all things environment err on the side of caution......

Permatang Pauh, Revisited...

Anwar won ....so ? but did Malaysia win? Did the community come together as one or was the election campaign so divisive that the schism so great that it cannot mend? In the heat of the elections the Chinese community again became an easy target..."pendatang asing" ... "orang tumpangan" ...epithets so easily tossed at the Chinese and the gall of it to the Chinese of Penang.... where their houses are sometimes older than some of the sultanates.......

Well, AAB says that person who said it did not mean it...wow...he can even read the mind of people now....great...but let the person who said it speak for himself.....

Penang.....the home of reformasi....where we are all anak malaysia......