It is just unbelievable to learn that not only Datuk Chua Jui Ming has to suffer the injustice of having his Datuk Seri title revoked by the Sultan of Johor but also the other three recipients.
What our country has become is just sickening.
I beg to defer with many of the comments written by sympathetic readers telling Datuk Chua to return what is no more his. It is a practical suggestion but without knowing why is really painful.
The way how Datuk Chua handles the situation is important to keep his self-esteem and dignity harnessed at the same time. He earned the award and is definitely painful to part with it.
If the award is bought and the recipient has to return, it is just the money lost. But the sad case is through one’s contribution for the nation that comes to nothing!
The most important of all is that the mentioned recipients have their rights to know the reason why they are subjugated by such injustice. It is not a matter about the prerogative of the sultan but his reputation to be just in his revocation.
So, to Datuk Chua Jui Ming, Sharifah Mazlina Syed Abdul Kadir, Shaftdean Lufty Rusland and Hassan Yunos, we fellow Malaysians understand your predicament and the best thing to do is to comply and move on.
Such unfortunately incident really leaves a bad taste for the country and for the rakyat to come out with more snide remarks.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Myanmar Celebration Day
Myanmar Celebration Day
At the Kuala Lumpur Bar Auditorium
(Level 10, Wisma Kraftangan, No. 9 Jalan Tun Perak, across Menara OCBC, Masjid Jamek)
Date: 18th June 2010
Time:6 :30- 10:00p m
Amnesty International Malaysia together with Bar Council Human Rights Committee and partners will be holding this event in conjunction with:
1. World Refugee Day
2. The 65th. Birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
3. Women's Day of Myanmar
At the Kuala Lumpur Bar Auditorium
(Level 10, Wisma Kraftangan, No. 9 Jalan Tun Perak, across Menara OCBC, Masjid Jamek)
Date: 18th June 2010
Time:6 :30- 10:00p m
Amnesty International Malaysia together with Bar Council Human Rights Committee and partners will be holding this event in conjunction with:
1. World Refugee Day
2. The 65th. Birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
3. Women's Day of Myanmar
I Had Uncannily Slipped Into The Beyond
Planet Earth is surrounded by umpteen mysteries where the impossible do happen. And because we do not understand why they existed then fear becomes the factor to manipulate our thoughts allowing superstitions to prevail.
I am not into the mood to talk about the unknown dimension on libido but the unexplained because on a few occasions they had scared the hell out of me!
Ghost, haunting, paranormal and even sighting are common but many of us chose not to talk about them or to find out why they happened but to opt for superstitious practices instead.
When fiction becomes fact and when dreams can blend with reality, should we consult the medium or call for agent Mulder to unfold the mysteries?
Movies made the most out of such tales and undoubtedly some were from true experiences yet sceptics are bound to laugh their heads off to such hocus-pocus.
There are various versions about ghosts and the afterlife. If there are ghosts or “runaway” souls then such existence need to be proven before determining that a house or location is haunted or a person is possessed for the matter. It is too subjective a topic I guess.
As I know there are no ghost hunters in Malaysia but in Singapore perhaps. My encounters have not made me courageous enough to be a ghost hunter. I am not in this fraternity of intellectual and pioneering phenomenal seekers to explore locations notoriously known to be haunted with all the sophisticated equipment to make contact.
Many people had experienced different and unexplained sightings of weird creatures that not only could be seen at night but also in the day time. Some of us have hyper-sensitive intuition and could literally feel how near “the thing” is to us. And those with an active “third eye” they could see the apparition!
I am like those who have strong intuition and fortunately without an active “third eye” otherwise I could end up to be a ghost whisperer or medium.
As I aged, the unexplained followed me no matter where I lived. I have not experienced seeing ghostly apparition but could feel its whereabouts somehow.
Twice in my sixty years of life, I had the most astonishing experience because I had uncannily walked into the other dimension! Laugh or be cynical if you wish but I just don’t care because you are not me. My first experience was in 1986.
Let me share with you my latest “one step beyond” that happened on the early dawn on the 4th. June 2010.
We went our separate ways from Selayang after our usual gathering and I felt hungry. It was about 2,30 a.m. 4th.June 2010. I turned into Jalan Kucing heading towards Pudu for my “teohchiew” porridge.
As I reached the junction of the flyover leading to Segambut on the left and Jalan Duta, suddenly I could see nothing but total darkness. I flicked on my headlight hoping to catch some cat-eyes on the road but in vain.
Then, my car wobbled and my steering was pulled to the left. That moment, a puncture of my front left tyre came into my mind. I pulled my car to the left and I activated my emergency light.
I pulled out the “Rescue Care” card that was kept behind the sunshade. I remembered vividly that I alighted from my car and lit a cigarette and got to work on my hand-phone.
The next thing I remembered was jacking up the front of my car in an unfamiliar ambience. I was about thirty yards from a T-junction where a couple was standing looking at what I was doing.
I spoke to them and knew that they were waiting for a bus. Nothing spooky and I did not ask where the place was and who they were. Nothing crossed my mind!
The next instance, a Malay man on a motor-cycle asked me what I was doing and I replied that I was calling for emergency help with my hand-phone still in my palm. At this point of time, I was standing beside my car at the driver’s side.
He told me that from the distance behind my car he already saw me standing like I was lost in the world of my own. Then immediately the thought came to my mind that I was jacking up my car but not standing beside it. I told him what I was doing and I guessed he must be wondering what I said did not collaborate with where I was standing.
I thanked him and he sped off.
I knew I had not kept my car jack and with the help from the light beaming from my hand-phone, there was nothing at the front of my car and there was no puncture.
Yes, I was confused and could not think straight. Spontaneously, I got into the car and drove off. It was the moment that fear became overwhelming and my right leg on the accelerator began to shiver making the car punctuated along the way.
I don’t do drugs nor am I an alcoholic drinker. I only indulge in tobacco. So, hallucination is out of question.
Slowly, I managed to be composed and took a U-turn at Bank Negara and kept following a car in front going back to the direction where I came from at the speed of 110.
If I am asked to describe the couple now, the best I could is to state that they were humans. I could not decipher their race and what language we used to speak to each other. I realized now that it was through telepathy that our conversation took place on that fateful night.
Now I am contemplating to enact the scene and document it as a gambit to my intended spooky column – A Date With The Unexplained.
Deep inside me I know that I am not alone and many out there do somehow or rather had their own experiences. I like to hear your amazing stories if you are willing to share and enhance them with enacted scenes.
If you have uncanny experiences and want to share your intriguing yet mind-boggling moments, please write to: strauslite@yahoo.com
I am not into the mood to talk about the unknown dimension on libido but the unexplained because on a few occasions they had scared the hell out of me!
Ghost, haunting, paranormal and even sighting are common but many of us chose not to talk about them or to find out why they happened but to opt for superstitious practices instead.
When fiction becomes fact and when dreams can blend with reality, should we consult the medium or call for agent Mulder to unfold the mysteries?
Movies made the most out of such tales and undoubtedly some were from true experiences yet sceptics are bound to laugh their heads off to such hocus-pocus.
There are various versions about ghosts and the afterlife. If there are ghosts or “runaway” souls then such existence need to be proven before determining that a house or location is haunted or a person is possessed for the matter. It is too subjective a topic I guess.
As I know there are no ghost hunters in Malaysia but in Singapore perhaps. My encounters have not made me courageous enough to be a ghost hunter. I am not in this fraternity of intellectual and pioneering phenomenal seekers to explore locations notoriously known to be haunted with all the sophisticated equipment to make contact.
Many people had experienced different and unexplained sightings of weird creatures that not only could be seen at night but also in the day time. Some of us have hyper-sensitive intuition and could literally feel how near “the thing” is to us. And those with an active “third eye” they could see the apparition!
I am like those who have strong intuition and fortunately without an active “third eye” otherwise I could end up to be a ghost whisperer or medium.
As I aged, the unexplained followed me no matter where I lived. I have not experienced seeing ghostly apparition but could feel its whereabouts somehow.
Twice in my sixty years of life, I had the most astonishing experience because I had uncannily walked into the other dimension! Laugh or be cynical if you wish but I just don’t care because you are not me. My first experience was in 1986.
Let me share with you my latest “one step beyond” that happened on the early dawn on the 4th. June 2010.
We went our separate ways from Selayang after our usual gathering and I felt hungry. It was about 2,30 a.m. 4th.June 2010. I turned into Jalan Kucing heading towards Pudu for my “teohchiew” porridge.
As I reached the junction of the flyover leading to Segambut on the left and Jalan Duta, suddenly I could see nothing but total darkness. I flicked on my headlight hoping to catch some cat-eyes on the road but in vain.
Then, my car wobbled and my steering was pulled to the left. That moment, a puncture of my front left tyre came into my mind. I pulled my car to the left and I activated my emergency light.
I pulled out the “Rescue Care” card that was kept behind the sunshade. I remembered vividly that I alighted from my car and lit a cigarette and got to work on my hand-phone.
The next thing I remembered was jacking up the front of my car in an unfamiliar ambience. I was about thirty yards from a T-junction where a couple was standing looking at what I was doing.
I spoke to them and knew that they were waiting for a bus. Nothing spooky and I did not ask where the place was and who they were. Nothing crossed my mind!
The next instance, a Malay man on a motor-cycle asked me what I was doing and I replied that I was calling for emergency help with my hand-phone still in my palm. At this point of time, I was standing beside my car at the driver’s side.
He told me that from the distance behind my car he already saw me standing like I was lost in the world of my own. Then immediately the thought came to my mind that I was jacking up my car but not standing beside it. I told him what I was doing and I guessed he must be wondering what I said did not collaborate with where I was standing.
I thanked him and he sped off.
I knew I had not kept my car jack and with the help from the light beaming from my hand-phone, there was nothing at the front of my car and there was no puncture.
Yes, I was confused and could not think straight. Spontaneously, I got into the car and drove off. It was the moment that fear became overwhelming and my right leg on the accelerator began to shiver making the car punctuated along the way.
I don’t do drugs nor am I an alcoholic drinker. I only indulge in tobacco. So, hallucination is out of question.
Slowly, I managed to be composed and took a U-turn at Bank Negara and kept following a car in front going back to the direction where I came from at the speed of 110.
If I am asked to describe the couple now, the best I could is to state that they were humans. I could not decipher their race and what language we used to speak to each other. I realized now that it was through telepathy that our conversation took place on that fateful night.
Now I am contemplating to enact the scene and document it as a gambit to my intended spooky column – A Date With The Unexplained.
Deep inside me I know that I am not alone and many out there do somehow or rather had their own experiences. I like to hear your amazing stories if you are willing to share and enhance them with enacted scenes.
If you have uncanny experiences and want to share your intriguing yet mind-boggling moments, please write to: strauslite@yahoo.com
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Anti Israel Protest
The 4th of June 2010 saw an approximate crowd of three thousand strong walked from Kampung Baru to Jalan Ampang where the American Embassy is.
The video clips are the evidence to prove that no matter what is the size of the protesting crowd will be,it is always peaceful.
It is all about sheer common sense to state that when the police is helping out to direct the traffic, no matter what the crowd size is and how far the people want to walk, it will be over in a matter of hours.
In less than three hours, the protesters dispersed peacefully because intimidations and "inplanted" trouble makers are missing.
Common sense should prevail so to speak and this should be learnt by those who wail the power!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Straight A's To Nowhere
Year in and year out we are seeing young and bright students are left in the limbo after their SPM year. With excellent results yet being deprived a place for tertiary learning is indeed painful.
Meritocracy is the devil in disguise for those from poor families. In short, meritocracy has given the false hope to Malaysians. We are seeing this for years where education has moved in tandem with politics without a level playing field.
Intelligent students are deprived of their rightful places for tertiary education while those who performed below the expected level are given the privileges instead.
When politics is allowed to sneak into the education system, the country will suffer from brain-drain rather than brain-gain. Despite knowing the fact, yet the government allows the rot to continue.
I believe that the quality of education today is significantly lower than it was way back in the sixties. Those days, students were encouraged to excel but today, we see “dummies” are churned out from our local universities. Those who have made their grades through sheer hard work and intelligence become marketable but the other so-called graduates are left half-baked and nowhere to go.
My consolation to students who have become the victims of meritocracy is to recapitulate what I had written last year.
In our country, people work hard and pay their taxes, even though endless. It is with a hope that such taxes can be intelligently ploughed back to sustain the economy and with the manageable cost of living to take the burden off the wage earners shoulders. But, it turns out not only otherwise but also chaotic through wanton mismanagement.
This is where the government has failed us to the core.
People work hard, play by the rules but when they need help, “they” give you the rope to hang yourself. Uncountable smart students are deprived of their tertiary education and their parents are left in the lurch because they don’t have the financial means. On the other hand, those who are not qualified are fed with privileges down their throats.
This is where the people should wake up and know where they stand.
So, why must people choose to be in slumber when you have all the means to vote the present government out for good!
Meritocracy is the devil in disguise for those from poor families. In short, meritocracy has given the false hope to Malaysians. We are seeing this for years where education has moved in tandem with politics without a level playing field.
Intelligent students are deprived of their rightful places for tertiary education while those who performed below the expected level are given the privileges instead.
When politics is allowed to sneak into the education system, the country will suffer from brain-drain rather than brain-gain. Despite knowing the fact, yet the government allows the rot to continue.
I believe that the quality of education today is significantly lower than it was way back in the sixties. Those days, students were encouraged to excel but today, we see “dummies” are churned out from our local universities. Those who have made their grades through sheer hard work and intelligence become marketable but the other so-called graduates are left half-baked and nowhere to go.
My consolation to students who have become the victims of meritocracy is to recapitulate what I had written last year.
In our country, people work hard and pay their taxes, even though endless. It is with a hope that such taxes can be intelligently ploughed back to sustain the economy and with the manageable cost of living to take the burden off the wage earners shoulders. But, it turns out not only otherwise but also chaotic through wanton mismanagement.
This is where the government has failed us to the core.
People work hard, play by the rules but when they need help, “they” give you the rope to hang yourself. Uncountable smart students are deprived of their tertiary education and their parents are left in the lurch because they don’t have the financial means. On the other hand, those who are not qualified are fed with privileges down their throats.
This is where the people should wake up and know where they stand.
So, why must people choose to be in slumber when you have all the means to vote the present government out for good!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Censoring The Truth
The Bakun Dam documentary seems to upset the government or "someone else" who wanted to get involved. For what reason, your guess is as good as mine.
The producer, Chow Z Lam became the victim for telling the truth and got fired is a show of arrogance. The action itself shows that there are many things have gone wrong!
For five long years the villagers have been protesting against TNB over the high-tension wires that will cut through their village.
Listen to what she has to say.
The producer, Chow Z Lam became the victim for telling the truth and got fired is a show of arrogance. The action itself shows that there are many things have gone wrong!
For five long years the villagers have been protesting against TNB over the high-tension wires that will cut through their village.
Listen to what she has to say.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
You Should Be A Registered Voter
The Member of Parliament for Segambut, YB Lim Lip Eng calls for all who are yet to be registered as voters to come at the stated venue.
It is our responsibility as Malaysians to be registered voters.
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