Celebrate in Parliament & State Assembly, not in the streets, OK!

The tremendous Opposition results in Penang and Perak are not official yet. But if and when the unofficial becomes official, then it becomes imperative that the Opposition parties and supporters DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT have victory parades and undertake any activity whatsoever that might be construed (ie. SPINNED) as a provocation!

Remember! The better the Opposition does, the more UMNO will be looking to pick a fight! DO NOT give them an excuse to do you in.

Stay away from the Mat Rempits (Putera UMNO) and avoid any fanfare at all costs. You can celebrate in Parliament and in the State Assembly!

Opposition supporters told to keep calm - 9.20pm

DAP MP for Bukit Mertajam Chong Eng has advised all opposition supporters to remain calm and not provoke others. She also said they should refrain from having victory parades.

“The Barisan Rakyat must learn how to handle victory or loss with maturity,” said her statement which comes as early polls result indicate a major swing towards the opposition.

Opposition takes Penang!

From Malaysiakini...

Confirmed: Opposition takes Penang - 8.52pm

Unofficial result: The opposition will form the next state government in Penang for second time in history. Gerakan, then an opposition party, won Penang almost 40 years ago. The DAP-PKR-PAS combination has collectively won at least 24 seats out of the 40 seats.

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I hope you did the right thing

With less than 1.5 hours left to vote, I guess most of you have voted. I hope you did the right thing.

MCA and Gerakan's last minute plea for clemency on the basis that not voting in their candidates will result in less Chinese representation in the cabinet and govt took me by surprise. At the same time, it also tells us that the Opposition is in a better position than initially thought.

If you have not voted yet, do so. And don't be swayed by MCA and Gerakan's threat of reduced Chinese in the cabinet and govt. Remember! More Chinese ministers and govt officials from those 2 parties simply means that there are more eunuchs to serve their emperor, UMNO.

The fact that UMNO will be emperor for another 4 years is almost beyond doubt. But we have the power to make sure that this emperor has fewer MCA eunuchs and Gerakan concubines (ministers & political secretaries) to sodomise at every whim. At the same time, we make sure that the mandarins (MPs) in this emperor's court (parliament) are independent and not beholden to agree with his every decree.

We are better off having a strong Opposition presence in parliament to block UMNO from changing the constitution and pushing through their agenda, than to have many MCA and Gerakan office boys in the cabinet to obediently carry out the instructions of UMNO.

Evo X whups the WRX STi

Road and Track does a one on one shootout between the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X and it's competitive doppelganger, the 2007 Subaru WRX STi.

This time it seems, the Evo wins hands down, despite being bigger, fatter and less powerful. I reckon that speaks volumes just how good the all new Evo is, and speaks even more, just how much the all new STi isn't.

Other blogposts on the Mitsubishi Lancer: search?q=lancer

MCA, I not free fuck you

Here's a bedtime fairytale for you:

How the Chinese pay when DAP wins more than MCA - NST

KUALA LUMPUR: Chinese voters have a simple choice: a bigger say in parliament and government or a louder voice in parliament and outside the corridors of power.
This was the challenge posed by MCA strategist Datuk Wong Mook Leong at Wisma MCA here yesterday.

The party veteran, who has been working behind the scenes for more than 31 years, said the reality was that whenever the DAP did better than MCA, it was a major setback for the community.

"In 1986, DAP won 24 seats while MCA got 18. In 1990, DAP continued to lead MCA by two parliamentary seats.

"DAP claims that in those two terms, it was a major step for democracy. But the truth is, it was two terms of major setbacks for the Chinese community."

He said that in 1986, for every 10 Umno parliamentary representatives, MCA had two. As a result, Chinese access to education and economy suffered a major blow as there were not enough Chinese politicians to protect those interests.

Really? Was the lack of MCA politicians in power the real reason?

Tell me then. There's been a record number of MCA politicians elected in the 2004 election. How many of these MCA politicians have voted against UMNO proposed parliamentary bills and constitutional changes that have victimised the Chinese and eroded their rights or interests? Zero!

"Back then, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was education minister and because there was insufficient Chinese resistance in the government, we all know what a mess he made out of Chinese education."

Is Chinese education much better now? How come Chinese schools still do not get consistent funding from the govt? And all this while the parents of the very schoolchildren in Chinese schools are taxed to pay for bumi-only residential schools, muslim-only religious schools and increasingly Islamised national schools?

He said DAP claims to want to weaken Umno's hold in the government was illogical as 38 of its 47 parliamentary seat candidates were lined up against either the MCA, Gerakan or SUPP (Sarawak United People's Party).

Wong said if DAP wanted to fight Umno, then it should contest against Umno.

Again. Tell me exactly how many UMNO parliamentary bills did the MCA politicians vote against? Zero!

Tell me how many blatantly racist, discriminatory and intolerant religious laws and policies did MCA vote against? Zero!

Don't even start with that rubbish about holding negotiations behind closed doors. It's painfully obvious that MCA has no choice but to go along with UMNO. MCA is UMNO's bitch, so to speak. Therefore, isn't a vote against MCA as effective as a vote against UMNO?

"They claim to want to bring change, but what DAP is doing is splitting the community and negating the progress MCA has been fighting for since making its comeback in the 1999 election."

If MCA wants so much to unify the Chinese community in Malaysia, why hasn't it merged with Gerakan? Wouldn't a single, unified MCA-Gerakan party be much more effective to balance against UMNO?

If DAP won big in the polls, Wong said, the biggest loser would be the Chinese community, as cabinet posts would be lost as well.

"MCA used to hold the Finance Ministry and International Trade and Industry Ministry posts. But it was all lost in the 1969 election and it's now gone forever."

Forever?! And what is MCA doing to ensure that a Chinaman becomes Finance minister again? Nothing? Just give up? No energy? Why then would the Chinese want a spineless, unspirited, lethargic, pessimist party like MCA?

Therefore, as my trusty Chinese educated mechanic in Kepong would say...

MCA, I not free fuck you! (literal Cantonese: 'Ngor ng tak han tiew lei').

Footnote: perhaps Wong Mook Leong might want to read this Malaysiakini article instead:

Why Chinese voters may abandon MCA

...they wonder if the MCA will take a beating by Chinese voters who make up a substantial number of urban voters at both parliamentary and state levels. There is a strong undercurrent of disgruntlement and disillusionment directed against the MCA led by Ong Ka Ting...

...for maintaining an ‘elegant silence’ over numerous controversies and challenging issues that are deemed to be detrimental to the interests and future of the community.

MCA is increasingly being criticised as a ‘marginalised party’ within BN, and seen as suffering from political impotence because of the hegemony of the Umno leadership and Malay supremacy.

As a blogger wrote: “What is most disappointing is that some non-Umno politicians have become apologists for Umno. The MCA is merely a tool used by Umno to garner Chinese Malaysian votes.”

Hell yeah... tell me why MCA's main role these days is mainly to 'turun padang' and explain to the Chinese why being threatened by UMNO leaders with keris is OK; how Malaysia never having been a secular state doesn't threaten their freedom of religion - even as the corpses of their dead fathers are abducted by the religious department; how the NEP actually benefits the Chinese by helping them avoid being driven into the sea by the UMNOputras... etc.

Hell freezes over! Malaysiakini is FREE.

Well, well, well. Hell finally does freeze over.

Malaysiakini is just the way sean-the-man likes it. FREE!

Even if it is for one week only, starting today (March 4) - in conjunction with the General Election.

So, make use of it while you can. It's one of the few alternative fully fledged news sites (ie. they have their own reporters and journalists, rather than simply reproducing newswires or just churning out editorials & commentaries) available to us. Actually it's the only one. Anyway, you got 7 days, before Steve Gan and his money pinching sons of bitches start charging again.

Teo Nie Ching for Serdang

UPDATE 9 March 2008: YB Teo Nie Ching wins Serdang.

“I will not sell you out. I will speak up for your rights in Parliament. That’s what an MP must do. Not inspecting drains, garbage bins and dumps. That is the job of the municipal council. If they don’t do their job, sack them and stop wasting taxpayers’ money.”

“The serious business in Parliament affects not only us immediately but our future generations. We cannot afford to have MPs who remain silent just because it may incur the wrath of big brother – Umno.”

So says 27 year old lawyer Teo Nie Ching, DAP candidate for the parliamentary seat of Serdang, Selangor - as quoted by The Sun.

And I agree. That's what MPs are for. They represent you, the people, when it comes to matters of national significance... ie. the constitution, the laws of the land and govt policy. And some of you want MPs chained to your little towns and villages, and make sure the street lights switch on each night.

It's one thing to 'turun padang' in order to gauge the mood and see the situation of the common folk first hand. But it's quite another thing for MPs to spend all their time in the 'padang' picking up litter and cutting grass, while the whole country 'masuk longkang'. The parliament (legislature) are there to keep the govt (executive) in check, while the judiciary forms the 3rd leg in the tripod, that is the separation of powers. When our judiciary is saturated with stooges planted by the executive (govt), it becomes even more crucial that the legislature takes on an active role to oversee both the executive and judiciary. And the only way that can happen is to ensure that the proxies of govt executive (ie. BN) do not have a 2/3 majority in parliament.

I'm impressed by Teo's candour in her 'ceramah' to her constituents. Unlike many other candidates (both BN and Opposition), she says exactly what the duties of a MP are in no uncertain terms. She tells it like it is even if it might alienate some short sighted constituents. Brains, beauty and what looks like integrity too. Good on ya!

Visit Teo Nie Ching's blog at "Nie Ching for Serdang." Hope you read Chinese ;p

Pls donate generously to the 'be kind to bloggers & dumb animals' fund

DAP's Jeff Ooi received over RM113,000 from his blog readers after his appeal to them for funds.

Well, sean-the-man isn't asking for quite that much in his appeal for funds.

S$624 or RM1,435 will do nicely because that's the price of the upcoming Playstation 3 (PS3) + Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (GT5P) bundle. It'll be in Singapore shops a few days after it's April 17 debut in the US.

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Plus it's got lap wings so that you don't have to clamp it to a table or something. That means you can use it on the sofa watching the TV in your living room.

Other posts on PS3 and GT5P:

Comparing the Wii, XBox and PS3

Playstation PS3: Launch and Gran Turismo HD sneak peek

The oldest person & voter in the world: NORAINI B ABU SAMAD (IC: 800311086231)

And some of you thought this was just a joke from the PAS folks who got high from sniffing a bit too much camel dung. But it's true. The oldest living person in the world is INDEED in Malaysia. It's 128 year old Noraini Abu Samad. And the old girl is going to be voting too. How much do you want to bet that she'll vote for BN?


Read more on BN's army of 100+ year old voters in my previous blogpost: Lazy police and too many old farts, Malaysia Today forums (very good, lots of actual examples) and Malaysiakini.

And while we're picking on the Election Commission and their adulterated electoral roll, here's an example of a someone doing a Jesus Christ, reverse-Michael Jackson (ie. 'dead to alive' and 'white to black') AND sex change... simultaneously. OK, half a sex change. Jantina is still "L" but his new name is ... A/P ... ("anak perempuan"). And you know what, I bet he/she votes for BN too. Pictures from Malaysia Today forums.

Lazy police and too many old farts

Hmmm... is it just me or is this election campaign period just a little bit boring and uneventful? I've got hardly anything new to blog about... well, almost hardly...

Here is junior spin doctor The Star making a big deal out of the police investigating DAP's Karpal Singh and Lim Guan Eng for Sedition because they called the police "lazy" and "good for nothing".

Two Opposition leaders found themselves in hot water for allegedly condemning the police during their talk in Air Itam here on Wednesday. A report was lodged against DAP chairman Karpal Singh and secretary-general Lim Guan Eng by a police officer after they allegedly called the police "lazy" and "good for nothing" among other things.

George Town OCPD Asst Comm Azam Abd Hamid said both of them would soon be called to give a statement over the matter. "We have classified the case under the Sedition Act 1948 as what was said during the talk had tainted the police force's good name," he said.

On top of that, the police had were free enough to catch someone tearing down BN posters.

In another incident, a man, in his 40s, was nabbed for pulling down the posters of Barisan Nasional candidates in various parts of Air Itam on Thursday.

ACP Azam said the man was caught in the act by a police team on patrol at 11pm, adding that he was released on police bail after his statement was taken.

On the other hand, the police seem to be doing fuck all about people tearing down Opposition posters.

Hundreds of posters of DAP sec-gen Lim Guan Eng were found torn down in the Air Putih state constituency in the past three days. - Malaysiakini

The opposition party members are alleging that BN is employing ‘hooligan tactics’ to gain an upper hand in the electoral race. Posters torn, supporters stopped. Two police reports lodged - Malaysiakini

At the end of the day, don't the police have better things to do than to waste precious time and police resources on petty name calling and vandalism? What about preventing crimes, catching crooks, finding lost little girls and apprehending murderers of Mongolian models?

Meanwhile PAS has alleged that the electoral roll includes 8,600 voters who are aged 100 and above, the oldest being 128!

According to the Election Commission, there are more than 8,600 registered voters that are aged 100 and above, and opposition PAS leaders fear that most of these voters would have died by now and others may vote in place of these dead voters.

Roslan Shahir, Secretary to PAS president, said, "To us, the existence of these registered voters is very questionable, the oldest we have is 128 years old." - ChannelNewsAsia

Just to illustrate how that statistic makes the Malaysian electoral roll look absolutely absurd (or the election commission absolutely incompetent and/or corrupt), read this:

The Guinness Book of Records currently lists 114-year-old Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana, as holding the title [world's oldest person].

[On top of that, Isreali] Mariam Amash [claims] she was born 120 years ago - a claim, if confirmed, that would make her the oldest person in the world. - BBC

Chehhh... 114 and 120 only. They've got nothing on our 128 year old Malaysian. Also read this interesting bit of statistical trivia about the average population of centenarians overseas:

As of February 2005, there were 21 centenarians in Dominica with the oldest at the age of 107. The US has the highest number of centenarians about 55 000, followed by Japan with 25 000. Based on the population of all three countries, Dominica has 3 centenarians for every 10 000 of the population compared to about 2 centenarians for every 10 000 for the US and Japan. - TheDominican.net

If the electoral roll is correct (ie. uncorrupted)... 8,600 persons over 100 years old in Malaysia translates into 3.5 centenarians for every 10,000 Malaysians. That makes our ratio nearly double that of the US or Japan. And this is only counting the old farts who are registered voters. The ratio will be even higher if we include the unregistered old farts. Believe it, or not. NOT!