Archive for May 31st, 2008

31
May
08

Proof of the pudding Crap


Petrol and Diesel Control



Said it before, and this post will say it again: the decision makers are pure nincompoops. The proof is in the eating, they say…


The fuel proposal was clearly not thought out carefully. Not in the planning stage. And no thought went into the implementation. Well, back to the drawing board


Other nations take a great many months to effect some laws. Here in Malaysia, anything goes. It’s like there is no value in the laws being promulgated. A piecemeal stop gap measure. A clear bet that the leaders are bereft of ideas . A fact that all the sloganeering and chest thumping will not change.


If you own a company, would you hire these half-past-six to run it?


Scary thought…


Crap

31
May
08

Dead Man Talking Crap



Che Dead

Dead man talking. Not sure from which end of the opening. Like everything UMNO, fork-tongued.

His is a bankrupt idea – raising the racial spectre just so he could get rid of a Malay leader. I shudder to think what the aftermath would be if his sworn enemy is a non-Malay.

Damage control (source: Malaysian Insider)

I respected the man when he first took over the helm. How he took over UMNO was irrelevant to me – I was too young then.

By and large, in the early days, he showed he really cared for the people. In my opinion, he was successful in navigating Malaysia towards industralisation and modernity.

In all honesty, I was proud of him.

Until the Bank Bumiputra (Hong Kong) issue, the foray into forex market. The nation lost billions at a time when millions were sufficient to boggle the mind. I realise then, that behind the facade of a caring leader, lies a somewhat vicious person who was not below resorting to extremes to get his ways.

Unfortunately, over time, he became more vicious, especially in dealing with his ‘enemies’.

And in the matter of forex control during the economic crisis of the nineties, in my opinion, the success could be attributed to luck rather than Che Dead’s wisdom. He did not have many choices. Approaching IMF was a no-no. Think about it: despite all advice to the contrary, he went ahead with the fixed currency rate. Come hell or high water, without any reasonable underlying basis, he went ahead with it. Fortunately for all Malaysians, the implementation proved right. What if it was wrong? Shudder…

He was willing to sink the nation rather than veering from his known position.


He is still willing to do it today, just to sink Abdullah.

Crap

31
May
08

King Crap



NEPAL


The newest republic (voted 560 to 4) on 29 May
2008.


“King Gyanendra, the last of the Shah dynasty, is to become an ordinary citizen and was given 15 days to vacate the salmon-colored Narayanhiti Palace in Katmandu, where he has been holed up, virtually incommunicado.”



protest
protesters want him out immediately (Source:Lost Angeles Times

An overwhelming vote. The people believes he is no longer relevant. I feel for the institution. But he did exacerbate the issue himself, and thus accelerated the change.


Hmm…wonder if other countries with constitutional monarchy will start to have ideas?