前门也好后门也罢！

 

生米已煮成粥，再争也已是事实，给你林氏父子争赢又如何？

 

我们且拭目以待！大家所期待的、要看到的国阵“学长”或“包青天”可以称职的交出成绩单，且牢记再也没有第二次的“打入国阵纠正国阵”的借口可用了！这次真的输不起了！

 

民政党还有没有明天就要靠这位国阵的“学长”或“包青天”的成绩单！

http://www.earthhour.org/

VOTE EARTH
YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.

For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.

We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.

Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

现今的年轻朋友们对政治的意识有多深？

好一句“得民心者的天下”，如何得民心这是一门非常深奥的学问。往往苦口婆心、尽心尽力的默默耕耘，都比不上宣传博取民心来得易。 光讲这点前任首席部长就需多多向现任首席部长学习！

所谓时势找造英雄！因为巫统的问题而造就了现任林首长，因为有安华才有今天的林首长！今天的首长不需费太大的心思在治理州务（别误会哦不是没有），不必怕得罪人民，因为他都出去博运气，谁知马六甲人不要他槟城人要他。有时反而要人民听话，偶尔做不到的还会大条道理、理直气壮的还给人民自己搞定。

现在的州行政人员只需讲些可讨民心的政治话，时不时秀一秀就可以事半功倍！ 秀：

其一：大选前说如果选中周末泊车一律免费，但中选上任后推给非法看车童。一日不能解决这问题都不可以免费！所以如果要免费泊车那人民必须自己先解决非法看车童问题！？

其二：大选前说安华说：如果中选两个月内政府不给拨款粉刷打枪埔组屋，我安华自己给钱粉刷；现在将近一年了又如何？。。。。

其三：大选前说这电讯塔危害居民健康必须拆，现在说还在健康水平，不必拆！

其四：某某人民代议士投诉被看车童恐吓！那是否要人民解决后，才能让代议士感到安全？这不是代议士的工作吗？为何反而一直会投诉?

其五：之前支持916的非民联民选议员如果过挡组新政府，就是有义气的，有用的，用良心的议员！可是204后所有离开民联的都是汉奸、吴三桂、背弃选民、埋没良心！这是什么道理？？ 还记得国阵的台湾之旅吗？是谁也跟上了，说已得到国阵议员的答应跳糟过当！哦！原来是安华的华裔同志跑腿也跟上了！是谁咄咄逼人！

其六：自己党内斗争，无法平息，结果有人退党了，他就是出卖党！他就是汉奸！他早有退意！他教育水准低！他那么的不好为什么你还要派他上阵？你岂不是308前就先欺民吗？

其七：槟城人民强而有力的支持力量获得将近一年的执政后！（根本是不会垮台的除非，自己打自己）恐怕人民忘了，情绪降了，就趁着他州的垮台，搞一搞气氛，讲：如果要槟州垮台就先杀他！此计高！他不但可以抬高自己，又可增加人民对国阵的憎恨心，一石二鸟！ 每个人理智分析能力往往都会给一些激昂的情绪掩盖。明明知道他是错的，但他是我喜欢的所以做了什么都对；相反的对方是我不喜欢的无论对错都一概论为错, 风水轮流转啊！所谓“只许好人做坏事，不许坏人做好事”这就是我目前可以观察到的可形容的局势。

This is an forwarded article I received from my friend, so what said you?

Is the NEP still helping our Malay friends or it will cause Malays community stagnant even at Dr M era.

I will rather use this NEP describe as our Penang Pesta, when it first launch during 80s, it seem like very effective because during that time we still don’t have much open space or mall to organize exhibition, so government take this opportunity to organize such event to let the investor / factory to exhibit their products.

But now, is this so call Pesta still suitable for that purpose? Or like what we can see is year end giant pasar malam expo.

So the political Leaders should really look into this NEP, should it remain or revise or expert it, then come out more effective policy to help those hardcore poor Malaysian. #

 

Cry my beloved Malay soul

AB Sulaiman | Feb 6, 09 10:51am

 

When Alan Paton wrote ‘Cry The Beloved Country’ he was lamenting over the inhumanity of man over man, of how the whites can devise, construct and implement race- and colour-based social and economic injustices over the blacks in apartheid-era South Africa.

 

The whole world had condemned this practice; we were among the loudest screaming against it.

 

South Africa has moved on since then, and today it is one shining example of an emancipated, open and progressive country, enjoying a respectable place in the community of nations. It has thrown apartheid into the bins of its history.

Here in Malaysia, yes we condemn apartheid, and quite rightly so. But in the same breath we were and are still its major proponent our version of apartheid.

We do not call it apartheid; of course not. We call it instead ‘Ketuanan Melayu’ under the guise of ‘championing Malay rights,’ and implementing it under the New Economic Policy. It’s smart, right? In none of them does the word ‘apartheid’ appear!

 

Yes, we are smart. We do not blatantly call it apartheid, we merely perfected the process of social separation. First of all we ensure the great majority of civil servants, the police, and the military are manned by Malays (the target benefactors). We give them good salaries, good perks and assured employment. We then devise rules and regulations, and even laws, to ensure the NEP’s easy implementation.

 

We then brainwash our Malay brethren with the notion ‘untuk agama bangsa dan negara’ that there is a higher ideal beyond performing a duty with professionalism and dedication, and that is doing things in the name of religion and race.

 

We devise rules and regulations, and even laws, to ensure the NEP’s easy implementation.

 

Then we design and implement social and economic policies like channeling lucrative government contracts, separate education streams, housing rebates, banking and financial support, in favour of, you guessed it, the Malays.

It does not stop there. We devise measures to prevent the people from raising too much objections to all these by introducing or continuing legislation and religiously implementing them.

 

The Sedition Act for example stops people from talking too much about language and religion. The Official Secrets Act prevents people from gaining access to government files.

 

Students and lecturers are not allowed to discuss and make public any subject that would appear to be critical to government (yes, government, not political) policies and philosophies.

 

All publications must, first of all, get operating licences. Newspapers must not only get a licence before publishing but it must be renewed every year.

Sacrifices conveniently forgotten

 

The king of all of the suppressive and oppressive laws is the Internal Security Act, when a citizen can be put under detention without the benefit of any charge!

 

All said and done, we sacrifice the rule of law in favour of rule by private individuals. To show that we are really smart, we pooh pooh the loyalty and patriotism of the non-Malay segment of the population.

 

We call them pendatang or immigrants bearing the stigma that they are social discard from their original country, similar to rogues, rascals, refugees, mercenaries and scoundrels. We just ignore their proven talent and ability in wealth creation and economic productivity, as well as to their demonstrated loyalty and patriotism.

 

Many of such pendatangs have made the ultimate sacrifices as military personnel defending its security, during the Emergency, the Confrontation period with Indonesia and as policemen while policing the social environment.

They have contributed and are continuing to, in sport and the arts. Their record as loyal and patriotic Malaysians is quite impeccable. But we do not really care.

 

The perplexing thing is that despite these attributes and positive records of the non-Malays, we are still going about championing and implement apartheid principles. In this new year, perhaps we can do with a little reflection: why are we doing all this?

 

We do this apparently to recover our lost soul. We perceive that we have been victims of colonisation when the Portuguese, Dutch and British colonisers all but butchered the Malay entity, psychology and culture. In the process we perceive that we have lost our Malay identity.

 

With independence, we thought we could recapture the lost glory of Malay suzerainty by becoming masters of all facets of a nation, especially its commerce, and economy. We found out that the Chinese community had beaten us to it.

 

We felt the Chinese had capitalised on our weakness and captured the economic initiatives (and wealth) as well as the social characteristics of the country. We lost ‘face’.

 

Now we want to regain the mertabat or dignity and pride of the Malay race!

Yes, we feel that we have to recover our soul and it is here that we are reminded of Paton’s book title, but in this case suitably paraphrased to – cry my beloved Malay soul.

 

Our Malay soul needs to cry for doing the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason; even for the wrong thing for the wrong reason, but not for the right thing for the right reason.

 

To start with colonisation is really not an excuse for our psychological malaise and ineptitude.

 

Colonisation has been a feature of human history and felt all over the world. There are very few countries that have not been colonised in the world.

 

It is thus a neutral concept in human social and economic development. It is certainly not an impediment to social or economic progress as we are wont to portray it. We should dump this notion that we hold dear into the bin of history.

Rethinking our way of thinking

 

Just look at the records. The Koreans were once colonised by the Japanese, but today Korea is an industrial power house. Singapore was once colonised by the British and was indeed a part of us, and today we see this tiny country being a solid financial, trading and industrial entity.

 

Most pointedly of all, the US was once a British colony and today it is the mightiest nation in the world. Our second grouse – that the Chinese have cornered the economic sector of the country also needs re-looking into, on two counts.

 

First, the Chinese did not become successful based on any conscious and concerted economic programme to economically marginalise us.

 

We did this self-inflicted wound ourselves. As proof, we have to note that most of the Chinese came to our shores with only their feet, hands, guts and brains and perhaps a bundle of clothes, nothing more.

 

They become successful for their hard work, both physically and mentally and for the sacrifices they were prepared to make and had undertaken. They were successful for having the mental fortitude to seek opportunities, grab those that come along and worked extra hard to realise the potentials of these opportunities.

 

Secondly, we have been given a chance to be equal with them, both under numerous ’special privileges’ enshrined in the Constitution, as well as under its NEP implementation programme.

 

The special privileges have always been in the constitution while the latter began in 1970. In short, we have been given the chance – the opportunity – many times over, to better our Malay polity.

 

Whereas the Chinese had to struggle just to find and identify the opportunities, in our case they were handed to us on a silver platter!

 

Thus far we have failed to capitalise adequately on them. It rather shameful we missing out on these chances specially created for us in the first place.

 

Either way the root cause of our weaknesses and the strength of the Chinese lies in two words – positive thinking. Our thinking is mired with so many dos and don’ts, so many musts and musn’ts, so many cans and cannots, may and may nots, plenty enough to created and internalise doubts and fears in our minds.

 

So much so that we have doubt over what we can and what we can’t do, what is allowed and what is not. We spend a lifetime looking for these highly complex cans and cannots, musts and must nots, that we have hardly any mental energy left to develop and self-confidence to get on and face the realities of life.

 

Let’s refer to this case as the ‘can’t don’t and won’t syndrome’. The Chinese by the way are not encumbered by such syndromes.

 

What appears to have happened is that this syndrome has affected our mental ability to conceptualise. We see things on the straight and narrow. We accept wisdoms handed down to us by our elders as the gospel truth.

 

Blinded by sentiment

We do not see that things can be seen and interpreted in many alternative ways. We feel we have the monopoly on truth; we therefore think that we are right all the time and other people are wrong all the time. Witness the way we see religion for example.

 

We think that we as Muslims are right and other people who profess other religions are wrong, all the time.

 

We need to cry for thinking that we can and have doctored the way the people think and do things. We have been intimidating the people with what they can read or write or think and do.

 

We seem to be saying “you can think anything, do anything, write anything so long as it does not criticise or condemn the government”.

 

Soul-searching and resuscitating is not or should not be about pointing accusing fingers at some bogeys. That would be a most negative thing to do. It would be better for us to be open-minded and be able to identify our own strengths and weaknesses.

 

We improve upon our strengths and dump our weaknesses. Mainly we must be able to develop the awareness that we have both the strengths and weaknesses in the first place.

 

To illustrate, the NEP has proved many time over as a failed strategy for our socio-economic advancement. Let us be aware of this in the first place and move on seeking other ways with better chance of success.

 

How about secularising the Malay mind? It might make for a good start for we can see many of the don’ts, can’ts, musn’ts dissipating into the wind.

 

In the meantime, here we are in the early days of a new year. We should begin by realising that whatever ’smart’ moves we had undertaken all this while have not really been that smart after all.

 

The joke is on us. Everybody says so – the liberated Malays, the non-Malays, our neighbours and the rest of the international community. Only those of us basking in our closed mind and benefiting from the profits of the status quo say it’s alright.

 

Happy New Year all the same and here’s hoping this year we can get a good perspective as to what propagating a good mertabat really means. It’s long overdue.

 

In the meantime, cry my beloved Malay soul.

 

领袖的绅士风度！

图：眼神零度交流。。。在场的都可见证！

你可说我是前朝的，可无论什么朝我只是槟城州的子民罢了！对就是对，错就是错，不须帮任何人，那就是我！

 

初七晚，很多人包括我在邱公司前，见证了一州之长的“绅士风度”的程度是多么的“有限公司”。位子您也坐了还要怕什么？莫非怕像霹雳州般似的。。。垮台？许子根或国阵没那个本事吧！

 

这场新春庙会真的苦了各姓氏青联委一般热心文化的年轻人，竟然无端端的成了今前两朝的夹心饼！必须兵分两路带领两朝人物游庙会，之余又必须有不同的路线恐怕王不见王遇上!

 

哪知！人算不如天算！要碰面的总须碰面，前朝已从主人家成为槟州子民出席参与，遇见主人家还停下脚步向主人家问好，没料到主人家真的当前朝的一州之长为一面镜子。反而周玉清夫人才是有大将之风。。风度翩翩（希望我没赞错人。。。哈哈！）。

霹民联政府垮台谁受益！？国阵吗？巫统吗？亲国阵的支持者吗？小弟愚见。。。非也！而是精心策划改朝换代以成首相的反对党领袖-安华。

 

这场的州政府垮台不但没帮上国阵任何一个政党，反而加深了人民对国阵的怨声！这岂不是安华要的吗？

 

公正党其实应该讲安华个人在这场仗胜得漂亮！他不但警惕了民联其他成员，不可没有他，也从而削了回教党的锐气！826之前回教当不是说回教党也有人可以胜任为首相吗？安华这一箭双雕漂亮！

 

可他始料不及行动党也内部乱得一团糟；或他已了如指掌，如实那他的算盘打得更响了，厉害！一箭三雕，最后这一雕那就厉害了，那就是加深人民对国阵的怨恨！下届就可稳如泰山当我国政坛第一号人物，不必留下骂名，反之当上第一号人物后做得好那可喜可贺，做不好顺理成章可说是你们要我的而非我什么916挖掘计划！

 

这场仗啊最可怜的莫过于许月凤！内斗不但没成功，只得一个虚有的名衔[副议长]，苦了20载终败给后起之秀当了行政议员。其实很多民行的中坚份子，开始被遗忘，被边缘！所谓瘦田无人争，耕开有人争！或长江后浪推前浪，可是前浪就很无辜的死在沙滩上！不知是可悲还是可笑！

 

不知是霹雳州Jelapang的选民真的不满还是民行自行点火！这边骂人吴三桂，那边希望人回来，是你你会吗？

 

其实无论谁跳到谁处都不是好事！这不但断送自己前程，留下骂名谁要？可是有时当局者迷！或是忍无可忍！犯下了此不能回头的错，无可奈何，只有承受！要紧别成了某些人的上位棋子就好了！华哥你真行！

我国自08 308后就一团糟！。。。这一年来我国的政、经、文、教更是乱透了！

政

从政者为争政权而枉顾人民的困苦，变!变!变!成骗!骗!骗！ 安华916的变已成第一骗！议员蛙蛙跳为第二骗！许月凤为第三骗！（刚开完记者会没变，但其实已变）。

为何民已选，而不踏踏实实的做，反而一直要变！要挖！越炒就越香，不敢停下，怕停了没人闻到而冷了，所以久而久之就炒一炒！

凡是都政治化，博宣传！明明可以解决的，不顾三七廿一你的生死你的苦，就先炒一炒，推一推，中央不帮嘛！然后才解决，赢民心嘞！高！

经

经济一直没好，外资自身难保，本土人民失业，从政者理应救而非公开数字后让民自行解决！推得一干二净，推向世经，推给前朝，今朝一些责任都没？！

文

传承文化人人有责，是件好事！无可奈何，一拥人且政治化！你办我自己也办！可怜无辜的一群热心文化爱护文化的年轻人且成为了某些人的政治工具。

教

拨款独中赞！华小赞！提倡CAT的猫王出猫了。。。你有你的提议，你有你的开会讨论，我有我的决定！我想给谁就给谁多少就多少！与你无关！甚至有些人还说为何那么独中？一间就够了！万人宴、万人露天讲座企业不是一间罢了吗？哈哈！

 

华小拨款公平吗？同样的也是拨给宗教学校、谈小多过华小！查查数字吧！纠正我如果我错。

大家尊敬万分而常‘关心政治’ 常为安华站台，我们高崇的华教斗士又如何？也不过如此，自古以来男人难过美人关！

 

hey DAP dude you are elected by people `DON’T ABUSE PEOPLE、DON’T ABUSE POWER’

 

 

***久而久之发发牢骚，小弟文笔不好，希望不会得罪任何人！如真的伤及任何人，小弟向您鞠躬道歉！我可没钱别控我上法庭，这不但拿不到钱反而还可让我博博宣传！求求你还是别控吧！哈哈！

恭祝各界位朋友们，新年快乐！

祝愿各位金牛年，扭转乾坤，事事顺心如意！

 

方志伟 衷心祝贺

己丑年吉时

 

恒毅

校友会总务 / 董事（校友会当然董事）/ 童军兄妹队主席

 

马来西亚青年团结运动（青团运）

升旗山支会顾问 / 东北县会顾问

 

马来西亚民政运动（民政党）

灵丹律分部主席 / 升旗山区部青年团团长 / 槟州青年团秘书 / 全国青年团副总秘书

 

丹绒博特新世纪狮子会

创会会长 / 08-09财政 / 青少狮会顾问 /

国际狮子会308B2区

2008-09 – 第一分区地方政府理事会主席

2006-07 – 308B2区青少狮会主席

2005-06 – 308B2区学院狮子会主席

2004-05 – 第二专区主席

 

亚洲青年自由与民主联盟

2009总秘书 / 2008执行委员 / 2007会员籍主席

 

方氏宗亲会 / 北马六桂堂

青年团团长

 

至德宗亲会 / 槟州华人大会堂 /

会员