The Brave New World of Fat4

As newspapers around Malaysia champions the relatively lowly popular BN government visit to China, Singapore could not say the same for its PM visit to China. Najib had a rousing welcome by non other than premier Wen Jia Bao. Sime Darby scored a big project in China, apparently the biggest ever by a foreign company, eclipsing any western countries investments.

Every country has an underground economy. It is a matter of how big it is. It is interesting to see Malaysia’s GDP or GNP or whatever economic measuring tools you use is only 10% of its neighbour Singapore but yet the people living in Malaysia can be seen driving nice big cars, live in big houses and fly around the region. Unbelievable? No wonder even newspapers around Malaysia recently claimed how Hillary Clinton has said that US are willing to learn from Malaysia and another proudly claimed that Obama salutes our PM. Come to think of it, besides being near to his childhood home of Indonesia, I doubt he will remember anything about Malaysia.

It is interesting that Malaysia will soon the second Thailand of South East Asia as they too seek the court for answers rather than the people. Personally, that is the furthest away from the principles of Democracy. The last time something disastrous that has happened when the courts area allow to decide is to allow a war criminal by the name George Bush to run a country.

Recently I have told a few friends that if I were to choose a political party that I would be interested in serving, it would definitely be MCA. Frankly, it is not as bad a party as some chinese would disasterously describe. For example, look at all the work that has been accomplished by Datuk Michael Chong. There could be more than one Michael Chong in Malaysia and so far no person from the Pakatan Rakyat has proven their worth.

Nizar has been confirmed as the legitimate MB for Perak. It is time for Nizar to do the right thing. Dissolve the state assembly and call for a fresh election. Yes, it might sound like it is not cost effective but it is the ONLY solution as it will return the effective power back to the people. Yes, the people of Perak.

In the continuation of the Mas Selamat being recaptured, medias from all different sides point to different department as instrumental to the capture.

The state of Perak saw some really interesting dramas that would put Taiwanese parliament as kindergarten standards. When the law doesn’t work, taunting and shouting matches were the norm of the day.

In a true democracy, the crux of a society is that all leaders are selected by the people. Unfortunately, this current state is not the result of BN but rather both camps.

It is rather interesting to note that one of the biggest winners in the recent mini-budget as announced by our current Finance Minister is Air Asia.

Like I have said in my past posts, Air Asia may had been calling bluff in their previous KLIA @ East proposal whereby they would eventually be “forced” to accept a “good for all parties” solution at a specifically designed terminal with tax payers money. I was quite right when Najib announced a RM2billion funding for the building of a new LCCT terminal which could easily last Air Asia for the next decade.

I note with interests that there are some blogs who championed the issue of Kugan to the extent that from an unknown car thief to become a pillar, a hero where ordinary folks take interests in death in custody.

For once, people have came out and said that regardless of who Kugan is, we should have given him equal rights like you and me should we be ever incarcerated. Many may have easily forgotten about the crimes that Kugan had committed. I am not certain if carjacking is one of them. Nor am I sure if he had ever do other more terrifying crimes for that matter. So now a villian’s family can sue the government for damages. And what better timing after HINDRAF issue has die down to use another character to politically assassinate the ruling government. Occassionally it is underhand methods like these being used by some quarters of the oppositions which would make me think twice about voting for them in the coming election.

It seems that the ultimate conclusion to this whole saga would once again fall on the Sultan’s hand. As former Mentri Besar, Mohd Nizar has seek a royal audience to inform the Sultan of the motions passed at a supposedly emergency assembly which was held under a tree 200 metres away from State Secretariat building.

Now, I am not well verse in constituitional law and henceforth I should not comment if the above is done rightly so or it is just playing on assumption of intepretation of laws.

But in any regard, the previous PR state government calling for a state dissolution is a good call as it will eventually shift the entire focus back to the rakyat and let the rakyat once again speak on this issue. Afterall, Perak has not only been a media circus for the past few months, in that it may eventually be used in many other places, not just Malaysia as a reference on how things will be resolved if such political impasse were to happen once again.