A Personal Interlude: Raub, Temau and Kg. Budu.

1. Many people thought I was born in Raub. I was the MP during the 13th parliament

2. Respectfully I wasn't. I was born in kampung Parit, Pekan. Pahang.

3. But Raub is my ancestral home. My great great-great-grandfather Tok Shahrum and his children- Hjh Maimunah, Ranting Emas, khatib Rasu aka Tok Gajah, khatib Amin my great-great-grandfather and khatib Arif first settled in Kampung Temau Raub.

5. Probably after the death of my great-great aunt, Ranting Emas, after a family fued, they moved to Kampong Budu Kuala Lipis and settled permanently there.

5. That's why I have relatives in kg. Budu and K. Lipis, regrettably many of whom I don't know.

6. When I was MP for Raub, I made it a point to visit Budu both because of filial piety and nostalgic reasons.

7. To me, Budu is an ancient Malay village where time stood still. It consists of many traditional Malay houses. It is now famous for gula kabung.
In the 19th century Hugh Clifford was said to bring a gunboat to this village. The Malays engaged Clifford on a clearing in the village.

8. Of course, I went to Temau frequently. To search for my relatives. In particular, I found one- an uncle belonging to the line of khatib Amin who I believed settled in Tanjung Besar in Lipis.

9. I visited the graves of my great great aunt Ranting Emas and her husband, Hj Hassan, who were buried in Temau.

10. Because of this lineage, I have relatives in Dong, in Felda Tersang, in Felda Klau and in Raub town itself.

11. When I arrived in Raub in 2013, I didn't know anyone. I left aware that I have relatives all over in West Pahang. Raub is my ancestral home. It occupies a special place in my heart. Budu is also a special place. I think my granfather Hj Mohd modern was born there in 1900.

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Prepare For Political Instability.

1. I don't like to be bearer of bad news, but I have to tell things as they are. The following photos do not bode well for the PM.

2. These photos are an early indication of what's to come. They tell of a PM who doesn't care or has no inkling of how to build a strong country. Instead, he can't wait to partake in the trappings of power.

3. In the absence of unequivocal statements and policies from the PM, we may only infer what maybe true from these pictures.

4. The photos show the PM unconcerned about the welfare of the people. He's more concerned to manage inanimate objects.

5. People are just digits. 20 thousand cases a day, 1500 dead and over 1.5 million affected by COVID are of no significance. It will come to pass by natural effluxion.

6. The SOP and whatever safety protocols seem to apply only to common people. Those near the PM are immune because of their social status? Is that it?

7. Hence, the PMs first official visit to Yan Kedah, saw his entourage consisting the whole of Malaysia without any regard for safety protocols.

8. Does he look as someone who cares about the COVID pandemic? It's just an inconvenience preventing him from more machination politics.

9. Hence, calling the opposition maybe just a ruse and just following the motion, as decreed by the King. Nothing more.

10. So that the PM can dupe the people, many of whom are made dumb or are already too fatigued:-hey look people, I have called in the opposition to talk in my sincere effort to form a stable government.

11. "If my plan to form a stable government fails, you can blame the bull headed opposition. "

12. It may be just a ploy to soften up the opposition by seemingly acknowledging them, to get easy passage in parliament.

13. In a way, the PM accepts the fact that he may not survive a vote of confidence. But he must get cooperation from the opposition.

14. He is in a situation where to swallow, the mother dies, spitting out, the father dies.

15. He fails the very first condition-to be serious in managing the COVID pandemic. As evidenced by his cincai attitude.

16. To me the PM is not serious in courting the opposition nor is their support forthcoming.

17. The PM is just calling the opposition to show the Agong that he has satisfied part of the King's command. Calling the opposition and actually incorporating them in the cabinet are 2 different things, my friend.

18. The photos show a PM who knows how to spend but doesn't know how to earn income.

19. Because of that, I think our deficits will get ever larger and the statutory limit habitually breached.

20. I am in favour of fixing the deficit as a fixed percentage of the GDP. The breach of that becomes an objective assessment of the government. It's also a sign of frugality.

21. To the PM, frugality is a dirty word. Why, for instance, are we retaining the private planes owned by the government?

22. Couldn't domestic travel be done with helicopters owned and maintained by the military? And international travel in 1st class by commercial flights?

23. The decadent and bourgeois lifestyle, which are the legacy of the embezzler in chief, ought to be expurgated.

24. As it is, the PM is perpetuating a decadent lifestyle which is the hallmark of despotic 3rd world leaders.

25. Sell off the private planes, yatchs and f**k houses. If The PM wants to meet his friends, couldn't he do so in army safehouses in Bellamy road?

26. Sorry, but I don't think a PM who doesn't understand the meaning of frugality and economics knows how to revive our drowning economy.

27. Instead, he can't wait to enjoy the trappings of power. His mantra seems to be spend, baby spend. Bila lagi?

28. Failing the 2 conditions put up by the opposition, will the opposition now keep quiet and let Ismail Sabri get away scott free?

29. If the opposition keeps quiet, I think they are blatantly ignoring the wishes of the rakyat

30. Combining the 2 factors, I don't think the Ismail Sabri government can last long.

31. Woe betide us. We casted our votes once, we got many PMs. They don't last.

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Vote Of Confidence. Part 2.

1. Obviously, she's a babe in the woods when it comes to politics. You can't see the issue of the confidence vote from a purely legal view. The specs may be blinkered.

2. Because her thinking on the issue can be changed with ease, it means the concept is open-ended. You can go either way.

3. But the majority of legal thinkers say, it ought to be done. That puts her thinking not only in the minority, but also unpersuasive.

4. As between the majority view and the minority, we opt for the former. Even in Islam, we have jumhur ulama view. A dissenting view, albeit from a professor, is insignificant.

5. The business of politics cannot be reduceable in terms of legal arguments.

6. If that is so, then might as well specify that all MPs be lawyers.

7. So despite her ultimate 'not necessary' a vote of confidence in parliament is necessary and ought to be done at the earliest.

8 It's to validate the PMs claim that he has a majority. Test it then.

9. Is it illegal to do it? If it is not, there shouldn't be any objection.

10. The good professor may think she is helping Ismail and if the PM chooses to hide behind the professor's new-found insight, then it suggests he has something to hide.

11. That's what you get when you evaluate the business of politics from purely legal perspectives.

12. In a sense, that is hubris thinking. You think that everything is solvable by law.

13. If as the professor admitted it's a decree from the King, to openly contradict it means what?

14. That's highly disrespectful and even borders on treason.

15. My other objection is reading the constitution in a technical and mechanical way.

16. Whereas in my opinion, the constitution is a living organism. It's just a skeleton without muscles, flesh and sinew. It must be tempered and edified with lots of common sense logic.

17. When Hussein Onn and Abdullah Badawi were appointed PMs, they went before parliament to test their majority. They were confident because they had 2/3rds majority.

18. Now, as the present PM claims he has a majority, he ought to do the same. If the majority is contentious, there is the more reason to test it to allay fears of suspiciousness.

19. In the end, getting a verification in parliament is necessary because the King wants it, as do the people.

20. Of course, the penultimate test is a GE. That's not permissible at the moment because of the f****d up COVID management.

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Vote Of Confidence. Part 1.

1. The 4th estate generally refers to the press. It plays the role of advocating a certain opinion or moderating it.

2. The 5th estate is what I consider groupings with outlier viewpoints. These include networked individuals enabled by the internet, bloggers, public intellectuals, writers and the like who try to influence opinions and policies. It also includes non-mainstream social media groups and journalists.

3. Whatever estates you belonged to, you advocate a certain opinion or policy. You either agree or disagree.

4. I put it simply, whether you are a rightist or leftist. It's up to you to so classify it, and probably you are not wrong. You are entitled to your own opinion.

5. As for me, I am contented with my opinion or opinions. They are enough for me unless out argued rationally and intelligently. Or proven wrong by the facts.

6. The most important question to me is on which side do you stand? On the side of the oppressors or on the side of the oppressed? Black or white? No shades of gray for me. For some, it's 50 Shades Of Gray after the provocative sexual book.

7. Now that the issue of where one stands is out of the way, I now turn to a burning issue of the times.

8. The issue is whether a vote of confidence against the PM is to be taken or not.

9. The controversy arose because a celebrated professor did a volte-face.

10. Initially, she said it must be taken. But 3 days later she said it need not be taken. But my analysis on her about face shall be in the next part, plus other issues.

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Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Crown. Part 1.

1. Congratulations to Ismail Sabri for being appointed our 9th PM.

2. Although I have been rooting in for Ku Li, I accept the choice. So be it.

3. Now that he has the post, can he hold it? I hope he can. It depends on what he does.

4. At the top of his priority is the management of the COVID pandemic. We have reached 22000 cases a day and an accumulated number of 1.5 million cases. There have been a total of 15000 deaths. Many have committed suicides.

5. Wasn't Ismail the architect of our Gulag? Citizens have been subjected to repeated MCOs and FMCOs.
I hope the FMCO does not mean Free Malaysia's Corrupted Officials.

6. It maybe true that the pandemic is a Godsend, but the solutions to overcome it are definitely man made.

7. So far, the government management of the COVID pandemic has been lousy.

8. The previous PM said that herd immunity would be achieved by October 2021. That is bull. Already we heard of vaccination centres running out of stock.

9. More allocations were given for the COVID management. But it's also true that we were and will continue to be donated with millions of dollars worth of vaccines. Also, why is Pharmaniaga allowed to buy vaccines in bulk and allowed to retail them?

10. It seems to me the management of the pandemic is subjected to excessive regulations. It's as though someone is out to make money out of people's misery.

11. Hence, there were cases of fellers selling vaccines, frontliners injecting empty vials and selling appointments. Why are these happening?

12. The implementation of the rmco has been topsy-turvy and seems to be done whimsically and made up as the authority goes along.

13. And the person responsible for the confused Gulag is Ismail Sabri.

14. To illustrate our management of the pandemic :-

BLOOMBERG - 2021 COVID-19 RESILIENCE RANKING

M'sia PLUNGES from 16th to 51ST out of 53 RANKING in Bloomberg's Covid resilience rankings.

Singapore is ranked 13th while Thailand and Vietnam are 39th and 40th respectively.

"Now we are even worse than Brazil (41), Peru (45th), Bangladesh (46th), Pakistan (47th), Colombia (48th), Indonesia (49th) and India (50th) and only better than Philippines and Argentina," Lim Kit Siang said.

Published June 29, 2021 🔗 https://www.facebook.com/47298465905/posts/10158220950725906/

⚠️ BLOOMBERG: The COVID RESILIENCE RANKING - The Best And Worst Places to Be as The World Finally Reopens

Published June 28, 2021 🔗 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/

15. Pray for Malaysia, not its leaders

Got this msg from my doctor today.

Starting next month, Khairy is selling Sinovac to private hospitals and clinics. Meaning that hospitals have to buy them from middleman Pharmaniaga (which is owned by Khazanah, chaired by the PM and his cronies). Cannot buy directly from the manufacturer, because then how else to makannn?

According to Harian Metro, the market price of Sinovac is US$5 (RM20) per dose. Now look at the price my doc quoted. Selling at RM180 per dose, and that is still below cost price! (Not sure which one is the cost price, but it sure ain't RM20.)

Factories also have to pay to jab their employees. No jab, no open. Oho.... do you see where this is going? How the govt twists our arms? Factories have to pay RM90 for 2 jabs.

I was talking to this pakcik today. He was very angry. He said, "You see, so many countries gave us free vaccines, and what do they do? They sell them. They get them for free, but they sell them to us. They make factories pay for it. You see how much money they are making???"

Wowww....... Factories have thousands of employees. 80% must be jabbed if they want to open. They are forced to buy these grossly overpriced products whether they like it or not, and they must buy it from the only one govt-appointed crony supplier. The money is not going to the govt and back to the rakyat, it is going to Pharmaniaga and into the pockets of Moo and his cronies. So Japan, UK, Saudi giving us free vaccines is not actually giving the people free vaccines, it is taxing the people and putting more of our money into our ministers' pocketses!!!

And this, boys and girls, is how you make money off a pandemic. This is why they will never approve ivermectin. This is why they are letting people die sitting up in chairs and on hospital floors. If everyone recovered quickly, to whom would they sell vaccines? If you can treat a patient for less than the cost of a pillow at a quarantine centre, what else is there left to makannn???

This is why they made the darurat. The chairman of the board of Khazanah is always the PM. Makan for as long as he can. Jab as fast as they can before they get kicked out, even if means packing 20,000 people into one stadium per day and creating huge clusters of infected people. And then blame us tak jaga SOP. Khairy, Hisham, Adham, Moo and the lot of them are going to a very, very dark place where the sun won't shine for a billion years. All the people who slept sitting up in chairs, suffocating from lack of oxygen, dying on hospital floors, died because of them.

NEVER. FORGET.

How many more need to die for their greed?

Add:
Pharmaniaga is selling 14 million doses of Sinovac. It is being retailed at RM388 per dose. 14 million x RM388 = RM5.4 billion. This is all going into Pharmaniaga's pockets, not the govt.

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A Plea To Our HRH The King. Long Live The King!

1. If the King summonses those umno people supporting Ismail Sabri to the Istana, it can only mean the King does not trust their choice.

2. How could that be? That bugger is too associated with the previous failed government and has caused bitter internal enmity in umno to be even considered.

3. Has umno gone off its rockers? Thus, despite its loud claims of loyalty and fealty to the King, It's possible for them to turn traitorous.

4. Thus, despite Ahmad Maslan's external claim that umno is following its hierarchy, the decision is seen as faulty.

5. The umno decision flies in the face of logic. The umno general assembly had rejected working with Din sembab's Bersatu, PKR and DAP(wrongly), umno has embraced Bersatu. Umno even regarded Ismail as traitor.

6. Umno now sleeps with the enemy. But more damaging that, the double-dealing means the umno people cannot trust their leadership and its forked tongue culture foisted onto the Malays.

7. Umno is untrustworthy to the bone. How do you reconcile its present stance with the many diatribes by umno leaders towards Bersatu and Ismail ?

Aw, don't hide behind the farcical 'let bygones be bygones' saying. The cut may heal, but the scar remains. Let's make up and forget the past, is it?

8. It would mean that Ismail was really a trojan horse? All along, umno was planning to grab power by the backdoor?

9. Your Majesty has said no backdoor leaders.

10. I am sorry but Ismail who is my friend, is playing the role of an insidious Trojan horse.

11. Just so Your Majesty won't think that this lowly being is opposing for the sake of opposing, listen to the following:-

I believe whoever becomes PM ( Ismail Sabri or Anwar) will not last. Assuming, on Friday, Sabri is appointed. He may be voted out by the confidence vote in Parliament next week. Then Anwar becomes PM. He too won't last long as a few groups will also hold Anwar ransom if Anwar don't give in to their ridiculous demand (like Zahid's demand on TSMY). I believe a political government cannot work now in Malaysia. Too many frogs jumping, ugut, ransom holding....I believe, Agung will prolog the Parliament when all the chaos, stabbing, cheating, betrayal are done for a short period. Then, Agung will appoint Ku Li as the PM of a Caretaker government until GE15. Ku Li got a free hand to appoint anyone to be in his cabinet. Not threat or ransom holding. Ku Li need not get MPs to be his ministers. Then there will be peace. I can bring in FDI to help Malaysia recover. Free, I talk to you on my economic plans that Malaysia can excel in view of US/ China trade wars. Let the clowns show to be over first. Stay at home and be safe. TS Lau

12. Ampun Tuanku beribu ribu ampun!

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Decide, Free From Political Cartels.

1. As I understand it, the King and his brother rulers will meet this Friday to decide on our next PM.

2. Today, all our MPs have sent in their SDs. They are just like stock market ticker tape ribbons which can later be thrown like confetti.

3. Now more than ever, our PM cannot be determined by pieces of paper. Sending in the SDs just mean all our MPs participated in the process of determining our PM by Your Majesty. That is all.

4. The acid test, as Your Majesty has pointed out, is to get the vote of confidence in the Dewan. See if that person can command majority support.

5. Also, now more than ever, all Malaysians are banking on Tuanku to decide. Decide wisely on our behalf. We beseech Your Majesty. We have no one else. Your Majesty with the concurrence of the other Hrhs the Malay Rulers.

6. In my lowly opinion, Your Majesty's decision ought not to be made on the basis of someone being able to commandeer support from his bloc.

7. Hence, Ismail Sabri is supported by kleptocratic umno and Anwar by 'hope for the wrong thing' Pakatan.

8. In essence, support from political parties as such is just like cartel induced support. Not much different from organized crime induced support. With their proxies.

9. Our PM and the future of Malaysia cannot be determined in such a manner. By cartels, but in the more refined forms of political parties. Or to put it more bluntly, by political gangsters.

10. Choosing our PM on the basis of the 'cartelisation' of the race horses, will only produce the business as usual things.

11. It will inevitably produce corruption, theft, power grabs, incessant interparty squabbles and so on.

12. Deciding and choosing in such a manner is the same wine in a new bottle. Do something different, please Your Majesty.

13. Please choose a good person free from the tentacles of respective political cartels. A good person means a person who will not use his office to pursue his personal interests, perpetuate his rule etc.

14. Your subject, a lowly being, beseeches Your Majesty to do the right thing. Your Majesty is our only hope.

15. The good person, if this lowly being is allowed to say his piece, is Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. A thousand pardons, your Majesty.

16. He can save our country and set things right.

17. Ampun Tuanku beribu ribu ampun.

18. This writing was inspired by my friend, Dato Zaid Ibrahim. Bless him.

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