Race Relation Act

This is the latest bill form the home affair ministry, as far I know it is yet to discuss in the parliament. Though the Sarawak government thinks that they don’t need them (the bill), as they claimed that sarawakians are living harmoniously between races. How far the need of such act is still remains doubtful. I know the British has established their ‘race relation act’ to prevent discrimination of ground race. Malaysia now is in the middle of political swing and few of the political figurines had made comments that burst racial tension. How bad is it? With all the detentions & released of people under ISA , racial comments, I believed the federal government is trying to stabilized situations. They have to put a stop to it, asking people (these politicians) to stop ‘politicking’ and carry on with policies to the needs of people. Somehow I do feel bit frustrated with politician, at some point they have to stop talking about election (esp. the recent march 08). Moving on regardless of the terrible outcome of the ruling party would be better that to start quarreling (against each other lagi tu, but I think it’s the up coming UMNO election ba ni).

Our trouble is yet to come. The economy is gloomy, we’ve seen the likes of Europe and U.S. are struggling to keep its economy from falling too deep and the effects to us are just around the corner. Currently we are living by the skin of our teeth, coping with inflation and raised cost of living, yet these politicians have time to talk about racial stuff, power transition, ISA etc. It is either they don’t know how to deal with the economic situation and trying to divert our attention to lesser important issue yet sensation or they just didn’t see the storm is coming. Maybe it is all there in the budget 2009, fiscal policies should be enough to absorb much of the economic depression and monetary policy of overnight policy rates at 3.5%, BLR at 6.75% and etc. I do know that any form of savings would end up in a paradox of thrift which brings down the aggregate demand, believe me you are not going to enjoy the amount of money you have last year compared to the latest inflation (today). We are getting poorer by the day and putting your money in a form of high liquid would be just liquefying as its value depreciates (sad but true) yet what can we do with little amount of cash? I know I can’t even afford a ‘sulap’ maybe I should buy lots of steel with all my cash and hope the commodity would raise in few years time, just enough to get through the economic down fall. Stock markets are pretty crazy it is so mad that clowns are filling up job application to become traders.

Anyway the home ministry is doing his job (the minister was recently condemned by his comments) and if I’m not mistaken the drafts will be send to the unity, culture, art and heritage ministry. The two ministries are working together in this matter and the unity, culture, arts and heritage ministry would be playing an important role in the area of race relations as provided for under the act.

"The Home Ministry will provide the input in enforcement efforts to ensure safety and national security,"

"We need to get feedback from the public as ultimately, they will be the practitioners. This piece of law is for the people."

"Under this act, action can be taken against those who disrupt harmony by causing racial tension and conflicts that can also destabilise the country,"

These are all syed hamid speech cuts I pasted, he sounded like a police in my opinion hehehe but I must say he impressed me (courtesy of Daily Express)

For god and our country we raise our heads pt.2

The Sabah Progressive Party two lawmakers in Parliament decided to exit BN and will slightly reduce the National Front coalition's majority at a time when opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is trying to seize power.
(I was wondering the rest of the MP whom Anwar claimed will shift to PR will play hide & seek for awhile?)

Kota Marudu: Democratic Action Party (DAP) Kota Marudu will be forming People's Service Headquarters (MPR) in each voting district in Matunggong to enable smooth registration of the poor and disabled who need assistance.
(Good start but matunggong is only small part of kota marudu, will they continue on tandek, bandau etc. or is it just because matunggong is the poorest among all mukim listed in kota marudu? then again matunggong parlimentry expand to kudat district, since pitas is among poorest listed in the state of sabah shouldn't they have a look at it.)

Kota Kinabalu: Umno Malaysia Secretary Datuk Rahman Dahlan said the detention of the journalist, Tan Hoon Cheng, under the Internal Security Act (ISA) was not right and can affect the image of the Government. He said the excuse by Home Minister Datuk Syed Hamid Albar that the detention was for the safety of Tan only invited confusion.
(Home minister famous clause "everybody is subjected to the law")

This is a few cuts from our local newspaper. Interesting as I found myself intriguing over few headlines and yet politics is something to keep me laughing. BN vs. PR they will never stop. Though it’s a good thing for both since BN lost 2/3 majority. The government has no other choice than to implement policies (esp. the latest budget) accordingly and safeguard its promise. For the opposition, they have the advantage of voicing out fiercely for every governmental flaw. I hope we’ll get the most benefits out of this, if the people aren’t satisfied then the situation will be chaotic again and it will never stop. It is just like the cobweb model in the demand and supply equilibrium theory, in time the fluctuation of price against quantity will meet at a point where it will be stable (a plateau) providing the elasticity of both demand & supply meets certain requirements or otherwise the fluctuation will be massive and leads to its own destruction. So we’re going to a process of oscillation in political arena that affected the government, but putting it in a bright side, our voice will be the best remedy for both worlds if they refuse to hear it then the collective bargaining fails whereas it leads to government failure. So come on lads and voice out what’s no your head.

Then again in collective bargaining it must be on the best interest of the society (collectively la gaman, amu obuli maki onu yg gila-gila)

Malaysia Day

Happy Malaysia Day everyone today in 1963 North Borneo join the federation of malaysia, so enjoy the freedom but remember we are subjected to the law. hahaha

I'm still waiting for the new government to form, is it true or not? history in the making maybe who knows. Anyhow there's still less flag flying around (nobody seem to care anymore as different view in celebrating the independence day) almost non.

I almost forgot that, tonight (on the 15th to be precise) I was on my way back to my house when I was stopped by 2 teenagers. As it was raining heavily they asked me if I could sent them to their house. So being a friendly neighbour I offered my assistance. Few blocks away, 2nd junction and there we go home sweet home. They thank me as i smiled and drove back to my sweet home. Good neighbour is hard to find or come in handy nowadays but setting good example to future generation is something you called priceless. Just trying to make a better living for us all yet good things just don't happen over night but tonight it happened. Hahahaha

p/s - the girl looks cute though...might get the chance to meet her again?

For God and our country we raised our heads

Living in Borneo is something to be proud off, the lives here are great but do we feel secure with overall political scenario especially in west side of Malaysia. I don’t envy them, even if they have the best shopping malls or the best architecture. I wanted to share the thoughts and minds of the Borneon people, instability would be the next big thing here in Malaysia. I have friends in Malaya, some of them live and married here (in borneo) both Chinese and Malays and they are as wonderful as Sabahans. Politics will divide all races and we will eventually leads to its’ destruction. Human gather people into group have motive of survival and it will be defensive when threaten. We are as animals are, we live to survive and Darwin suggested living things that survive up till now is because they cease to be destroy. Survival of the fittest! Now we're dividing ourselves we put ourselves in groups’ base on race, locality, or religion and the worst is dividing us into political beliefs.

Politics are just as sick as there is now. This so called leader gathers you around convincing you about some political ideology that actually didn’t have any difference between their rival. Since we have race base political parties, we’re automatically divided into race. Now if we’re to divided into races wouldn’t we go into each other with hatred? I saw lots of racial issue nowadays but believe me they are just as equal as one another (one good example is they hate each other). Malaysia comprised of three major ethnic; the Malays, Chinese and Indians. Ironically in North Borneo we have it all (hahaha! The truth), yet of course consist of the Dusuns, Muruts, Bajaus and Chinese as main locals or bumis. If its’ to be assumed that one race must belong to once race party then it would be easier for the Chinese in North Borneo but not for the other locals (Bajaus, Dusuns and Muruts). Let’s assumed religion is the base of all parties. We are not trying to make another crusade so let’s not go into that since history has proven that. Now assuming party base on locality, we won’t be against racial and religious discrimination but we’ll be against the states of others.

No matter how you tried to fix it the flaw is there but the core of all is how the people wanted to live their lives. They interact with each other every day despite what race or religion or which ever part of the planet they came from and they should have known how to live their lives. So don’t give in to any political ideas but what you think is right for you and your surrounding. Remeber it's "for God and our country we raise our heads and for heroes that died the glorious death"

Strange Merdeka Month?

Here I am listening to ‘megadeth’ and the creepy thing is our city is running out of flags. Aren’t this are supposed to be merdeka month? But it’s probably merrier in the west side of Malaysia, so the people of borneo suddenly realized its better to celebrate on the 16th of September since it’s Malaysia day.

It’s strange here others would suggest celebrating on august and some would do on September. Like symphony of destruction tune goes “you put a mortal man and put him in control, watch him become a god”. Life is governed by something that I don’t have any clue, but I believed that the governors or the architects of ‘Life’ are responsible for some of our lives. We are born in a system, we have code, we have syntax, yet some of us are going against the system. Virus!

I have got to get out of this political avenue, it suited me bad, I’m no leader. I think people are ‘politicalized’ too much. Turn on tv what so we see? First headline? POLITICS! There’s more to life than this. Budu kan…. Nga amu obuli juga lari, we are governed. So enjoy your stay here at the system and let us enjoy searching for the perfect program to be with or to bite. It won't crash if we just a small part of it.

August..... merdeka day?

I’m singing ‘sabah’ state anthem in my head and came across with the end of it, what was it? ‘sabah negeri Malaysia or sabah negeri merdeka?’. Ironic, things like this we shouldn’t forget especially when you spent 11 straight years singing it in school (ok you could minus 2 years for being an ignorant).

I’m not a patriotic person, I’m not even myself at times but forgetting the state anthem, that’s serious. Imagine what could happened if I were to sing that song in front of a policeman, I could be charge of making a fool of the song or making a fool out of myself, worst off I could be exiled and the next thing I know I could be writing in the Philippine or Indonesia (but a lot of people said that I have this ‘tausug’ feature).

Anyhow its merdeka month and lots of people are busy with flags & stuffs, placing them on buildings & cars. Some might place it in front of the windscreen which blocks 25% of their view, yet they are trying to be patriotic (nothing wrong with it). Just don’t forget your state anthem and even worst your national anthem.