Trust

We were told since we were born that the Government, and the Police, is trusted for our peace and order of our society.

In school, we were told to be obedience and be useful to the society when we grown up.

When we came out from school, we were told that whatever the Government does is good for all of us and we must appreciate.

But we see one after another, mishandling of trust of the people who voted the ruling regime. We witnessed one after another abuse of power from those who are suppose to uphold the law of this land.

We see one after another justice not being served in the manner we were told since we were young.

What we wanted is humbly dream of living on the mother land of ours in harmony and peace.

We ask for nothing more than justice being served. Nothing more than a caring Government whom we will work hand in hand to face any challenges should there be any.

We want not to differenciate with our own brothers and sisters on this land by colours.

And we respect others on this land whom we have been living together to forge for a better tomorrow.

Hand in hand we shall build this land a paradise where there's no fight among ourselves.

Some passively complained that we are just too small to make visible changes. Some said they could not care less about what's going on and just live with it.

But if we aren't doing anything to tell those whom we have elected, or trusted to manage on behalf, we failed.

So stand up, brothers and sisters, speaks up. Your voices and comments will not irritate the others if you speaks up truthfully.

Let's work together to put someone whom we can trust to work than to passively complain or quitely accepted whatever has thrown to us.

There will always be tomorrow where the sun will rise again after a full night.

There will always be laughther after pain.

Remember, the future is shaped on how we act today. Do it, wait no more!

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Don't regard criminal as Hero

I am trying to avoid commenting on such incident involving the Malaysia Royal Police Force but I cannot help wanting to ink my thought.

Kugan, a car thief suspect, died in the police custody on the eve of Chinese New Year. He has been detained earlier for 5 days before he passed away. His family was not notified until hours after his dead.

Both the Inspector General of Police, and the Selangor State Police Chief claimed Kugan collapsed after he drank water and the first post-mortem report certified that he died due to water in his lunge.

How would a normal young man drink water until water got into his lunge? I wonder if both IGP and CPO of Selangor really understand what transpired during the investigation until such a person died with water on his lunge. Should the Police make it a point in the future where no drinking of water for any suspect during investigation to avoid the same incident from happening again?

Then our beloved Home Affair Minister Syed Hamid commented as titled: Don't make criminal a Hero.

Well, the Kapar MP is correct that it is police themselves making the suspect as a hero. If there's no such incident, no one could have bother who is Kugan, really!

Then some assholes from 'NGO' warned the public not to blow the issue as it is sensitive to others.

Asshole! A life was taken away, don't tell me that Kugan perished with a glass of water (probably some assholes can demonstrate how a glass of water can take away a young man's life).

Some other assholes warned "Don't make this a racial issue"

Well, quite right, this is not a racial issue, this is a national issue. On record as revealed in the Parliament, hundreds of detainees died under the police custody. Yes, they may be suspect of criminal offences, but who took their lives away? Are they all drink the magic water and collapsed? Or are they, like Hudini the great, able to bring out string or rope that is strong enough to hang themselves in the lockup often left with underwear or sometime naked?

Did they deserve what they had?

This country is sick, very sick!!!!

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KLIA East - my opinion

I was attracted to a news entry at the Malaysia Insider that one of the most popular blogger, Kenny Sia, voiced his support to Air Asia on the newly proposed Budget air terminal located in Labu, aka KLIA East.

A little background on this:

Air Asia, teaming up with Sime Darby Berhad, is pushing for a PFI (Private Funding Initiative) project to build a new budget air terminal at Labu, approximately 10Km away from KLIA.

Of course, Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, the manager of the KLIA, is opposing the move, claiming that KLIA does have a similar plan and objective, aka KLIA North.

Thus, the two sides exchanges, and it seems Air Asia won the first round when the Government announced the project, however, was subsequently depressed by the same Cabinet to call for a review of the project.

From the surface, it is easy to understand why Khazanah, the Government Investment arm, which owns both Sime Darby and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB), prefers not to have an airport outside MAHB's control. Furthermore, Khazanah is also the major shareholder of the National Carrier, Malaysia Airline Systems (MAS).


Should Air Asia successfully built the airport, MAHB and MAS will stand to loose the most.

It looks like Air Asia is the victim of the alleged unfair practice by MAHB to deter Air Asia from advancing into otherwise territory of MAS.

This many favoured Air Asia to run it's own airport instead. The supporters of KLIA East argued that with airport within Air Asia's control, the budget carrier will be able to manage the airport more efficiently hence able to maintain low fare.

I do have doubts, perhaps my doubts may have been brought up by others, or it may have already been answered by either sides, but I am still wanted to raise here.

First
Why should Khazanah openly oppose the KLIA East project whereas it can choose to reason to the Cabinet before the announcement is made.

Second
Khazanah, having representatives sitting both in MAHB and Sime Darby. For such a deal with Air Asia, Sime Darby Board would have been brief, or endorsed the project. Why Khazanah did not block the project at the Board level and instead chose to object openly in public?

Third

According to Air Asia, MAHB seems unfair to Air Asia. MAHB is trusted to manage the airports, not to practice differentiation among its clients, i.e. MAS and Air Asia.

Both MAS and Air Asia are home grown carriers, and both contribute significantly to the nation's tourism revenue, why should both carriers be treated differently?

Fourth

Should MAHB fees to carriers be revised to encourage more carriers, and to ensure that the fees are affordable to budget carriers. Is there anyone conducting a study on why KLIA is only handling 10% of its passenger capacity and still seeing local budget carrier wanted to part from KLIA?

Fifth

Is Government intervention required to ensure that MAHB is competitive compare to other regional airports such as Singapore and Bangkok? What is the reason behind carriers pulling out from landing in KLIA? Besides reduced number of passengers, what MAHB has done to attract new carriers, or even effort to retain existing carriers to use KLIA?

Sixth

Given Sime Darby as a Khazanah company, the project should not be labeled as Private Funding Initiative (PFI) instead. Ultimately, it is the nation who owns part of the business, i.e. the land owned by Sime Darby. Thus, the Government should make it clear that public fund, including funds and assets owned by the state-owned companies, is handle in good care.

I see two problems here:

1. MAHB did not manage KLIA well. If MAHB follow the style of other airports where both budget and full service carriers are serving at the same place, at an attractive fee, KLIA will probably maximise its available capacity. Thus, MAHB should review and relook into how to accomodate budget carriers in the main airport instead of separating them to LCCT or KLIA North, or losing the business.

2. Sime Darby should answer the reasoning behind teaming up with Air Asia. Is this move pure profit driven where the investment is expected to be fruitful? What if the project failed? Who is bearing the consequences? Sime Darby board? Khazanah? the Government? or the tax payers?

I see no reason for another airport, if MAHB failed to accommodate Air Asia's requests (or demand if you like), the Government should then replace the whole management team of MAHB, or take back the control of KLIA, or sell to a independent party with conditions that KLIA should and forever will accommodate all types of carriers with the intention to reduce wastage benefiting the Nation.

In short, until KLIA capacity is reaching its peak, there should be no additional airport.

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Chinese New Year!

I was trying to rush off from my work and was really late when done for the day.

There's virtually no food, except for fast food chain which is still open.

I then decided to travel to my wife's home town for our very late dinner, it was almost 10:30pm when we started travel, and reach around 40 minutes later.

Of course, everyone else have eaten.

After having our dinner, there started the highlight of the new year: praying to the God when the hours' up.








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Happy Chinese New Year

Wishing all happy Chinese New Year!




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Life without the Internet

My God! I do not know what's going on for Celcom!

Celcom 3G has been very unstable this week, and become worse today when the data network is totally out!

This will of course screwed up their potential revenue since MMS is affected too.

A call to Celcom careline learned that the celco is experiencing nationwide breakdown in the midst of holiday season, and there's no further information on why it went down and when will the service be resumed.

I depend a lot on 3G for my work and information gathering. When the network is down, I am practically handicapped.

Although I can always stay at home or go get a place where wifi is available, but this will limit my mobility, the primary reason to have a 3G plan.

What Celcom should do is to blast out a message on service outrage to inform it's customer instead of being blasted over the care line?


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Khalid, Khir, and Cattles

Khir Toyo, the former Menteri Besar of Selangor, today revealed documents to prove that Khalid Ibrahim, the present Menteri Besar, that the later's office "instructed" a state-own business entity to purchase 46 cattle to be distributed to later's parliamentary constituency, Bandar Tun Razak, which is under Wilayah Persekutuan.

Good job for Khir to be able to fight back after many accusations made by Khalid against Khir during his administration.

But Khir has probably forgotten, it was under his administration that Selangor became a BOTAK land, a land with virtually no forest reserve that is now causing flash flood to Klang Valley when heavy rain.

Khir has also forgotten that it was him that a State-owned agency bought a watch worth RM160,000 as a his present.

But if Khir's allegation is correct, then he probably does ONE good for the state of Selangor, after 8 years administrating the state.