Posted in Malaysia: New Deal on October 7, 2009 | Comments Off
You call me a ‘Paki’? Did you?! I’ll sue ya …. Now, where is this Bangsa Bolehland? I hear Pakis can go on to be prime ministers in that country.
The Bangsa Malaysia types, along with the PKR Nathaniels, Elis, and the Malaysiakini Swee Engs, look to Britain for inspiration on multiculturalism (no Kadazans, no Dayaks, [...]
Posted in Malaysia: New Deal on September 28, 2009 | Comments Off
The West is the White man, White once he is conscious of his past, his conquest, his plunder, his god and whatever else he is conscious of. This coloured self-consciousness surfaces in the mirror of his thoughts. It used to happen once he leaves England or Scotland or Amsterdam, arriving thus in Africa or in [...]
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 Malaysia: New Deal on August 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Umno may have gained no ground in Permatang Pasir, but then it lost nothing. Instead, an even outcome there, Anwar Ibrahim’s home, can reassure Umno for the second time after Manik Urai (Kelantan) the spread of Pakatan Rakyat’s influence has ceased. Its popularity has peaked. That being the case, might as well let PAS have [...]
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 Malaysia: Dialogue, Malaysia: New Deal on August 12, 2009 | Comments Off
In his essay and speech, Time for a New Beginning, Razaleigh Hamzah makes an intriguing – and interesting – juxtaposition. This is followed by an philosophical observation, rare among Malaysians or Malays, rarer still among politicians.
The juxtaposition reads:
“In my own parliamentary constituency, jungle covered, far inland and one of the most remote in the peninsula [...]
Posted in Malaysia: New Deal on July 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Lim Kit Siang speaks of crisis of confidence, Malaysiakini likes to imagine slaughter, and Najib Razak extols 1Malaysia. False, catchy one-liners like these reflect the present times, a mass media (“pigs over humans”) and their Internet followers, adrift, jobless, with nothing to do, are stuck with clichés that generate lots of noise, hollow, no way [...]
Posted in Malaysia: New Deal on June 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Kongzi (孔夫子) or even Ma Huan (马欢) and the other Ming era (明朝) government officials might have sworn, the Malays and Chinese are such natural allies. Sadly, that has not happened. Instead, grievances were before invented and this, below, is the result.
Table 1: Dewan Rakyat as at March 2008, votes in millions, “outcome” is guessing [...]
Posted in Malaysia: New Deal on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The closer the Malaysian Islamic party PAS is to the central seat of national power, the closer it gets to the fundamental basis for its politics. The 55th party muktamar has only one issue and which, all said and done, reaffirms unanimously this: what is the reason for the existence of PAS?
Quick observations, and the [...]
Posted in Malaysia: Dialogue, Malaysia: New Deal on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is not a power on earth that has not relied on some form of terror. Man lived not merely in fear of invaders who would ride furiously in from the distance, he lived in fear of gods or of God and his representatives on earth. He lived in fear of the authority of officers [...]
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 [...]
