Posted in Culture & Politics on October 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Even in conceding the Pakatan Rakyat loss in Bagan Pinang, the arrogance of power and self-righteousness is palpable. Here is DAP’s Lim Kit Siang:
“(Isa Samad’s) victory despite his record of Umno money politics would be a clear and unmistakable message that Umno/BN could not be redeemed.” (In his usual meandering, convoluted prose, Kit Siang, who [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics on October 6, 2009 | Comments Off
Poems from the past to the dead…
On a mountain slope, at the end of a flight of concrete steps, total count 240 because 2.4 millon (soldiers) is in Chinese script writing 240 wan 萬, the timber gateway is painted red, as it is always, and topped by a roof that says in hanzi and Korean [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics, Malaysia: New Deal on September 12, 2009 | Comments Off
The fallacy in the Belief in God
God is on the loose and, below, is why he must be returned into the genie bottle. This is, after all, guijie 鬼节 season, time to can the ghost that White superstition calls “God”.
One of the central tenets in Malaysian political life, primarily imported, is the “Belief in God”. [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics, Lina Joy Writings on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 – Mosque committee members such as the imam and the bilal will be given powers to arrest Muslims drinking alcohol in public, in a move that highlights the fundamentalist face of PAS and could scare off non-Muslim voters from backing the Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
The “news” by the reporter of the above [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics on August 24, 2009 | Comments Off
It is unlikely Kadir Jasin (yet another “journalist”) has either the intellectual depth or profundity in hitting on the idea language “monitoring”, the kin of thought control. More likely it stems from a deep-seated racism, the Anglophile variety, coming into the open and invariably meeting its European neighbour, totalitarianism. In Malaysia, all public discourse on [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics on August 21, 2009 | Comments Off
In his hey-days as finance minister Anwar Ibrahim was regularly with the West picking up, copying, then re-applying the latest, the snazziest American-style financial deals that made possible the North-South Expressway, the LRT, and all the other equally despised privatised water, electricity and infrastructure. All the projections on traffic and usage turn out to be [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics, Malaysia: New Deal on August 20, 2009 | Comments Off
齊人有言曰:
雖有智慧
不如乘勢
雖有鎡基
不如待時
Though you may be clever and wise,
The fortunes of circumstance are better to ride.
Though you may farm with the blade of a hoe,
The time of the season is what you must know.
Those lines are from the book Mengzi (孟子), whose name-sake author Mengzi (also Mencius) was confronted with the problem – when to take part [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics, Malaysia: New Deal on August 17, 2009 | Comments Off
This is the concluding part from two earlier essays, Zhao Mingfu, DAP & the Price of Power.
Table: Onslaught against the DAP – who’s who
Party
Date
Agency
Name, Constituency
Allegation
Arrested, prosecuted
DAP
2008 Nov
Police
Ronnie Liu, Pandamaran, Sel
Obstruction
2009 Jan
Police
Tony Pua, PJ Utara, Sel
Illegal assembly
2009 Jan
Police
Lau Weng San, Kg Tunku, Sel
Illegal assembly
2009 [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics, Malaysia: New Deal on August 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Justice is only possible among equals. – Friedrich Nietszche
The conclusion at the outset: the DAP must get out of Pakatan Rakyat. Detailed explanations follow, but the tactical reasons are, in sum, this: governing can wait.
(a) Pakatan, with PAS inside, is an electoral liability: The DAP cannot expect to win more seats in the next elections [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics, Snippets on July 13, 2009 | Comments Off
The Urumqi mass murder of Han Chinese is today stirred and covered up in scattered Uyghur demands in Europe and America for “freedom” and “independence”, much like what Tibetans did. Readers of this modern narrative depend almost entirely on the Western media (quite an anti-China bunch) that take in the history of the last 60-odd [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a swelling momentum recently by the more extreme Islamist sections of the Malay community in spreading the widespread misguided belief that Malaysia is an Islamic nation. – Fahri Azzat
The remarks illustrate, once again, why Malaysia is at the intersection of a political and social precipice. As the old Barisan order disintegrates, something else [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics, Malaysia: New Deal on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a mathematical problem written around 300BC (Zhou era), some date it 1,000BC, in a book called the Nine Chapters. This (Problem #26 of 246) has to do with irrigation:
A cistern is filled through five canals. Open the first canal and the cistern fills in 1/3 day; with the second, it fills in 1 [...]
Posted in Culture & Politics on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In early April, Nga Kor Ming of the secular democratic DAP went to town on a Quranic verse, using it as a religious prop for an election candidate of Party Islam (PAS). The tactic might have worked or might not have – there is no way to determine causal relationship – but PAS Nizar Jamaluddin [...]
