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via theStar:

MANY MPs must have found last week’s Parliament sitting to be a little duller than usual as all the excitement was centred in Machap. Some MPs, however, decided to brighten up the mood by cracking jokes and passing witty remarks. To some backbenchers, nothing could be better than picking on the opposition MPs, who also played along.

Nazri tried to tell Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang that there were no vicious intentions when Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein raised the Malay keris at the Umno general assembly last year. He said Kit Siang should not feel threatened by the keris if his conscience was clear.

“Just like when I went to Chinese events in my constituency, I was greeted with Chinese kung fu demonstrations and the kun tao.

Nazri, too, was laughing but little did he know that kun tao means “canned food” in the Cantonese dialect.

Almost always never fails to crack me up…sighz…these guys always manage to find some crap to talk about while wasting precious parliamentary time to discuss other more urgent issues.

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via NST:

ISMAIL’S immaculately dressed elder brother Suleiman met him on his arrival, and quickly briefed him on the controversy over the Malayan Union. What immediately struck Ismail after being six years in Australia was how “political feeling engulfed Malaya as a fire engulfs a forest on a hot dry day”.

Ismail’s family was deeply involved in the resistance against the Malayan Union that the British, after the fall of Imperial Japan, were trying to impose on the whole peninsula. After the Sultan of Johor signed the MacMichael Agreement, a treaty with the British accepting the Malayan Union idea, seven men, led by (Ismail’s father) Abdul Rahman Yassin and including his eldest son Suleiman as well as son-in-law Awang Hassan, issued a pamphlet criticising the move. These men, all government servants, were consequently suspended for six months.

Ismail’s reading of the times was that Malaya was undeniably bound for independence, with “the pace (being) dictated by the national leaders while the British would try their level best to thwart them”. He also thought that Onn feared for the Malays should the British simply withdraw and felt the “wealth and the intellectual power” of the Chinese “would submerge the Malays” if independence was achieved too soon.

Apologies to our loyal readers. Postings will be sparse for another 2 weeks at least due to the earthquake.

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via NST:

KUALA LUMPUR: More now than ever before. And they are selling their properties and their cars. “On an average, we used to receive between 15 and 20 enquiries (on migration) a day,” said Desmond, a migration agent in Kuala Lumpur.

“However, over the last two weeks, our phones have been ringing non-stop.”

This “ringing non-stop” translates into about 6,500 enquiries for migration to Australia between Nov 14 and Nov 19.

There were 5,500 enquiries for New Zealand, and 4,000 for Canada, about 3,500 enquiries for other countries, including Norway and Switzerland.

“The country of choice is Australia, followed by New Zealand. “If they do not meet the requirements for these two countries, their next option is Canada.”

The most number of enquiries, according to Desmond, comes from professionals (60 per cent) and the rest from tradespersons like cooks, mechanics, tool-makers, carpenters and hair dressers.

Is it a coincidence that Nov 14 was the 1st day of the 57th UMNO General Assembly?

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At present, if we look into the current development around Sabah and Kota Kinabalu in particular, one can see that mega complexes projects costing millions in construction cost are being built literally everywhere. Currently we only have the Centre Point Shopping Complex, Karamunsing Shopping Complex, KK Plaza, Wisma Merdeka and Wisma SEDCO as the main shopping destinations around Kota Kinabalu. But with all the new shopping complexes recently being completed such as Wisma Warisan, Star City and other on going mega complexes such as KK Times Square, Harbour City and the biggest one, 1 Borneo soon to be completed, Sabah will be soon most probably be put into the Malaysia’s Book of Records being the “Most Developed State Under One Administration”. Isn’t it weird?. It’s like ” cendawan tumbuh selepas hujan” kinda thing…Big cendawan lagi tuu..

I’m not a politician, but personally I think why all these projects being approved and implemented in very short period of time is because of the political changes within Sabah itself especially with the establishment of UMNO in Sabah soil. Maybe its about time that Sabah needs a new face in this new millennium, but I just wished it could be something more close to Sabah’s cultural and ethnic identity rather than a building to represent a political party in Sabah (worst, it’s not even a sabahan party!).

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Inside the assembly hall, all kinds of controversial issues are being discussed, such like �Malays are being polarized under current economic structure�, � The inequality of wealth distribution between Malays and Non-Malays�, �The racial integration� and �The unity of the nation�.

Outside the assembly hall, UMNO�s members are telling another story, a story of blood and tears about how HARD, how TROUBLED and how MISERABLE Malaysians’ lives are, in this oil exporting nation, Malaysia.

Malaysians begged, �Stop rising the petrol price!�, claiming that they can hardly cope with their fuel expenditure. While they are driving some of the most oil consuming luxurious cars, Porsche Cayenne and Brand New Mercedes Benz S-Class 350. Each of them cost approximately RM 1 Million after 200% Malaysia�s Imports Taxation.

*MUST SEE!!!! It’s like a car show with the latest models all parked illegally outside PWTC and surrounding areas, with the exception that ultra-rich politicians own them on government salary!

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