It’s been the talk of the town lately in Penang….

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GEORGE TOWN: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak handed over RM15mil to 15 Chinese schools here while praising the Chinese community for its commitment and dedication in educating the next generation of Malaysians.

He said the community’s emphasis on a solid education was admirable and the Federal Government shared the hopes and aspirations of parents wanting a better future for their children.

“I am reminded of a Chinese saying that no matter how poor we are, we will not compromise on education.

“Be it for Chinese, Tamil or religious schools, we can do much more if we join hands,” he said, before handing over RM15mil to 15 Chinese schools in the state during the 1Malaysia Charity Ride for Education 2011 in Tanjong Tokong.

The event was organised by Kwong Wah Yit Poh newspaper and sponsored by 1MDB.

Najib said Mandarin is important in linking Malaysians to the global community.

“If more Malays spoke the language, it would make us more competitive.

“My son recently thanked me for encouraging him to learn Mandarin and that meant a lot.”

The 15 Chinese schools which received RM1mil each are: SMJK Chung Ling Butterworth, SMJK Jit Sin, SMJK Chung Ling, SMJK Heng Ee, SMJK Phor Tay, SMJK Perempuan Cina, SMJK Union, SMJK Convent Dato Keramat, SMJK Chung Hwa Confucian, SMJK Sacred Heart, Chung Ling (Private) High School, Jit Sin Independent High School, Penang Chinese Girls High School (Private), Phor Tay (Private) High School and Han Chiang High School.

In his speech, Kwong Wah chairman and businessman Datuk Ong Gim Huat said Najib had “created a buzz” by uniting leaders from different political parties in support of education.

He said Najib’s effort was a clear signal that politics had stopped at Penang’s water edge.

“Penangites are passionate about food, business, education and politics.

“Your presence today will be the main talking point at the kopitiam (coffeeshops) here in the days ahead,” he said.

Later, Najib said they should set aside their political differences and work together for education.

“I want to thank the (Pakatan Rakyat) politicians for attending this event to raise funds for education.

“For once, we do not have to talk about politics. We can all work together for education,” he said.

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and several state executive councillors and assemblymen from Pakatan were dressed in yellow shirts.

Lim said they came dressed in the state’s colours.

It’s pretty obvious don’t you think? Najib is sending a clear message to all Malaysians – ELECTION IS COMING!

First the ISA news, and now giving out money to vernacular schools like they’re candies (they’re our tax money anyway), stuff that they should have done long time ago.
Pffft… politicians.

Saw this in TheStar today

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Salon owner fined for letting employee wear ‘inappropriate’ blouse
KOTA BARU: A hair salon owner is fuming after she was issued a summons for allowing an employee to wear a three-quarter-sleeved blouse while on duty at her salon on March 6.

The owner, who declined to be named, said she was upset because her employee was washing a client’s hair when the Kota Baru Municipal Council enforcement officer raided her salon.

“I would not mind paying the fine if my employee was not wearing a headscarf, which is a violation of the business permit conditions, but it is ridiculous to issue a summons for wearing a three-quarter-sleeved shirt.

“She was washing my client’s hair and it would be messy if she was wearing a long-sleeved shirt,” she said.

The salon owner was issued a summons under the municipal Trade and Industry 1989 By-law.

She also accused the council of double standards as other establishments had workers who did not wear headscarves.

“Why only target my salon when the others clearly flout the law and should be issued with summonses?” she asked.

MCA central committee member Datuk Ti Lian Ker said the council’s action was “unconventional” and “unbecoming”.

“This is sending the wrong signal to the world about Malaysia,” he said, blaming the PAS-led Kelantan government for the actions of the council.

“Most people prefer to take the ‘easy way out’ for fear of repercussions from local authorities.

“This is not the first time that such a summon had been issued,” he said, adding that many often paid up because they did not want trouble with the local authorities.

Ti said this could also give the wrong impression that people were condoning such laws.

The Kelantan Government had recently come under heavy criticism after banning the sale of lottery tickets.

If you were to ask me what’s the most embarrassing thing about the opposition party, I’d say having PAS in it. We often find these PAS nincompoops do stupid things in the name of their religion, and put our country in a bad light. I understand that this PAS party is very ardent about their beliefs and shit but, really, isn’t this ‘going around to fine people for trivial stuff’ a bit ridiculous? Like, haven’t they got anything more important to do?

If you were to look at it my way, you’d see that this PAS party is against everything that has a connection to either one of these – money, looks and modernization. So in a way, if they were to be given a chance to run the government, they’d do everything in their power to regress the society backward, to become rustic, parochial and irrationally anal retentive bunch of shitfucks. The people will all dress the same color, grow a stupid goatee and smell like a clogged drain (the women on the other hand, will be reduced to wearing ponchos and reproduce domestically).

Looks like we haven’t got much choice nowadays… either BN, or Pakatan Rakyat. If your district only fields reps from BN and PAS, then you’re in for a tough choice. It’s like selecting to swallow a roach or a stink beetle. Makahai. Tak boleh pakai.

Caught this shocking news in TheStar today…

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Malaysia run by competent politicians, Najib assures investors
ALOR GAJAH: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has assured investors that the country is run by very competent politicians.

“I assure you that Malaysia is not run by incompetent politicians but by very competent politicians,” he said when officiating the opening of AUO Sunpower Corporation Sdn Bhd’s manufacturing plant here Wednesday.

He cited the US$600mil (RM1.88bil) investment to set up the world’s largest solar panel manufacturing plant as a good example of “effective partnership” beteeen the federal government, state government and foreign investors.

The plant, which covers 108,000sq m, is a joint venture between US-based Sunpower Corporation and Taiwanese company AOU.

It will be able to produce more 1,400 megawatts of high-efficiency solar cells annually by 2013 and will employ 4,000 workers and engineers.

Yeah right, they’re soooo ‘competent’ that they need the Prime Minister to tell everyone in the press. “Hey, my son here is hot and has a big dick! You girls should totally sleep with him!”

The fact is, if the politicians in Malaysia can be deemed as ‘competent’, then the bunch of sniff ass macaques in Penang Botanical Gardens would be in the positive 3 times the standard deviation of the competency distribution curve (if you do not know what that means, never mind).

Caught this in the news today

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Malaysia donates RM3.14mil to Pakistan

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is donating US$1mil (RM3.14mil) to Pakistan to help the country which has been hit by massive floods since July 22.

Foreign Ministry in a statement said the humanitarian aid was a manifestation of Malaysia’s sympathy and empathy towards the Pakistani government and people who had suffered the loss of lives and damage to major infrastructure and property in the floods.

“We hope the humanitarian aid can help ease the pain suffered by the flood victims.

“This is the worst flood Pakistan has experienced in 80 years. It has claimed about 1,600 lives, while almost one million have lost their homes.

“The lives of about 3.5 million people in several areas including Punjab, Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and Kyber Pakhtunkhwa have been affected because of this disaster,” the statement said.

The money would be delivered as soon as possible to Pakistan, which was also received aid from other countries and agencies such as the United Nations.

Malaysia donates to Pakistan, after a round of subsidy cuts. While 3.14 million may not be much (I wonder how they come up with that number…), but it paints a false impression that we’re very well off to give away money like that. It’s like a manager sees his employee buy a brand new car after having heard the fella complaining about being underpaid. False impression.

Hello!? Depa ada sendiri mia nuclear weapon! What makes you think Pakistan can’t afford a measly few million bucks to aid its own people??

Caught this in the news today.

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Bar Council: Police identification a standard procedure
PETALING JAYA: Police officers should identify themselves regardless of whether they are in uniform or not, said Bar Council chairman Ragunath Kesavan.

He said that showing police identity cards should be the standard operating procedure for officers when approaching suspects or members of the public.

“Police officers must produce their identity cards to show their name and badge number.”

Ragunath said this when asked to comment on the front-page article in yesterday’s Sunday Star in which police have proposed gazetting blue uniforms as the police’s so they had exclusive rights as it was difficult to tell them apart from other agencies and security guards who wore similar dark blue uniforms.

This follows complaints from the public over alleged abuse by “men in blue” who eventually turned out to be enforcement officers from local councils and other agencies or security guards in the private sector.

An informal survey had also found that most people could not tell the difference between genuine badges/paraphernalia and the fake ones, which are widely available and often misused.

Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Arjunaidi Mohamed disagreed with Ragunath saying that uniformed police officers were not required to show their identification cards as the full uniforms would show that they were genuine police officers.

He said plainclothes police officers, however, are required to show their identity cards for obvious reasons.

“Those who impersonate police officers usually do not wear uniforms,” he added.

Asked whether the public should be hesitant in requesting police officers to produce their identity cards, he said “there should not be a problem about doing so (asking for it).”

You know, it’s really sad that a ‘developing nation’ like us could go into such a quandary – arguing whether or not law enforcement officers should have their own gazetted uniform and produce identification to make an arrest.

I was thinking, who actually gives a crap?? Definitely not me. So what if the police were to wear a striped red and yellow clown suit to discern them from the others?? It’s just a SUIT! Same shit in different packaging! I say, they should spend all their energy to work on their PR skills instead. And buff up their competency which they grossly lacked. Some police officers have bigger pot belly than a whale and still type their report with 1 finger (and of course, the inability to shoot the right people). They seem to have bigger problems at hand than the self proclaimed identity crisis.

But if they insist, then maybe they can just tattoo ‘POLIS’ on their forehead (yeah, like what they did in “Inglorious Basterds”) and don’t have to worry about wearing a uniform or identifying themselves. To verify if the tattoo is genuine, we can just scrape the officer’s forehead with a piece of Scotch Brite with a little spit…