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.

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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.

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.

Singapore’s most wanted fugitive has finally been caught. Though there were numerous theories on where he was hiding and that he had died in custody, the most absurb theory about how he actually came to Johor was thrown off.

How did a world class detention facilities allow its prisoner to escape especially one who is known to be a terror? How did its world class immigration allow him to go through (if it was true that he went over to Malaysia via the legitimate way)? Or how did its world class water police patrol allow someone to slip pass after launching one of the largest manhunt in Singapore’s history?

Rather than actually capturing anyone, they have made a mess and caused many millions of people who had to use the border crossing each month. How many man hours had been lost due to the stupidity of some higher persons in charge? Why hasn’t that higher person in charge come out and acknowledge their problem and resign?

There are just too many whys.

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.

It is amazing how some people still think we are in the pre-march 8th era. They think they can get away with pulling fast ones. Occasionally I do question the logic. If any indications, the previous election, the rakyat had shouted loudly that they do want change. For those who feared change and saw the changes that 8th March has brought about, they too would fear less in the coming election. In some ways, Malaysia political landscape has changed substantially.

People are more informed. In many ways, the battleground has been the internet. If one were to ask me to name one contribution that our current PM, Abdullah Badawi has done, it is to give the rakyat a choice. Badawi has participated in only two elections as a PM. He has performed a feat where no other PM had done. One he has won the most resounding election BN has ever seen. Followed by one of the most devastating election BN has ever seen.

In the recent big hoo-haa on Labu airport also known as KLIA East, everyone seems agitated but yet at the end of the day, the whole thing was resolved amicably. So now that the dust has settled, can we ask what exactly has happened?

I personally believe that there was some sort of Art of War at play then. If one were to question the logics, it would ONLY be logical that the hub be developed at KLIA no matter how strong Tony’s argument was, which he went to the extent of publishing on Air Asia’s website. Even as the whole blogosphere was thoroughly negative about the whole deal, emerge the supposedly highest traffic blogger coming out to support Tony. Worse are Kenny Sia’s half witted arguments which were along the lines of those of Air Asia. Kenny has been used as a pawn in this scenario. What Kenny fails to show his readers was his close association with Tony as evident with his recent fund raising exercise in which Tony had personally contributed RM5,000.00.

Let us examine the hottest topic on Malaysia’s politic at the moment, hot on the heels of political comeback of BN in the state of Perak.

Elizabeth Wong, a single woman, confident and can be seen as a figure who does want to see changes in Selangor and possibly Malaysia. Now contrast that with Chua Soi Lek. A married man, confident and can be seen as a figure who had worked with the system. A system which the rakyat has collectively rejected in the previous March 8th election.

For some of you who may have read my blog in the past will realised how I have said that in the case of Dr Chua Soi Lek, it is important to separate what he did in his personal capacity and his political contribution. If a person can contributes and make changes to the system, then it is possible that in the rakyat’s best interest to maintain the man rather than picking another half witted man to do the job.