Tiger bit Lim Kit Siang

Thank goodness!

The spirit of my Bhai lives on!

... in his son Ramkarpal Singh Deo, the MP for Bukit Gelugor.

new Tiger of Jelutong

In a TMI news report titled Working with Dr M to remove PM will be a ‘disaster’, Pakatan told we read (extracts):

“The question of working with Dr Mahathir is an unimaginable disaster waiting to happen.

“There can be no doubt that Malaysia needs to be saved. While I agree that Najib ought to go, I cannot agree with the means by which Dr Mahathir proposes to do so,” Ramkarpal said in a statement here.

“Asserting pressure on a democratically elected prime minister to step down cannot be democratic and it is high time that Pakatan Rakyat come together at this very critical time against Umno and the Barisan Nasional (BN),” the DAP MP added.

Ramkarpal said that working with Dr Mahathir would mean that PR would just be maintaining the status quo and allow “corruption to continue”.

“I am firmly of the view that saving Malaysia can only mean a new clean, accountable and transparent government."

“Pakatan Rakyat must live up to its promise to Malaysians of being that alternative and democratically oust Najib and the BN through the ballot box,” Ramkarpal stressed.

Democratic process, through the ballot box - not bloody conniving 916 or dictatorial bullying.

Of late I have been uncomfortable with a few of the DAP politicians' behaviour.

Take for example YB Lim Kit Siang who I had respected almost as much as I respected and adored my Bhai.

He first disturbed me in April 2014 when he posted on his blog a news article MH370 flew inverted to site of acoustic signals, I was very upset because that unnecessary and totally sensationalizing macabre description of MH370 in its final moments would have only added to the miseries and sufferings of the families of those lost on MH370.

Indeed I was very very upset that Lim KS saw fit to post the naughty piece of sensationalizing and unworthy speculation on his blog. What was he trying to achieve if not further politicization of a terrible tragedy? I believe my concerns for DAP was not unfounded. I don't want my DAP to be that sort of political party.

But what troubled me most of all was when I wrote a comment at Lim KS's blog to refute the sensationalizing, it was not posted for days - I checked the time stamps of other comments to find they were made much much later than mine, which meant only one thing, my comment was withheld and would probably be moderated out.

Was this the DAP I respected and supported?

On 09 April 2014 I posted Has Lim Kit Siang ignored my comments at his blog?

I additionally wrote an email to Lim KS' blog to clarify that my comment was purely technical and not political, and asked why it had not been posted. Following that, the moderator, whether YB Lim KS himself or just a blog administrator acting on his behalf, published my comment - see my post Long-ish moderation?

Why did it require me writing in an explanatory email before my comment was published? Was it because my comment would have moderated or ameliorated what had been a macabre and unworthy sensationalizing of MH370's final moments?

The next disappointment had been Lim KS's blind support for an air force major who as a 26-year service veteran could not adhere to Armed Forces Council Instructions about making unauthorized media statements to the press.

Unfortunately there has been a fostered incorrect belief that the major was vindictively punished for blowing the whistle on the very delible so-called indelible ink which the Election Commission had purchased for use at polling stations during the general elections.

Firstly we must be clear that there was/is a monumental difference between a military person making a police report on the useless ink and the same person making an unauthorized press statement about the same subject.

The former is an undeniable right of every citizen including a military person, but the latter is not permitted for a serving military officer unless authorized by the armed forces.

Three (3) military personnel on that occasion each made a police report, but only two were charged by the military. WHY?

Because only two made unauthorized statements to the press (the major and a flight sergeant) whereas the third person did not - She was the wife of the air force major, herself also a serving air force personnel.

Did Lim KS know what he was doing, lending blind support to a naught indisciplined officer who was obviously violating Armed forces Council Instructions and in the process (if not charged) making political mockery of military rules and regulations?

Did Lim KS want to encourage behaviour by our military officers to mirror and eventually grow into those who had illegally-unconstitutionally deposed a democratically elected PM of Thailand?

Depressed, I asked myself then, what Faustian pact is the DAP willing to take up just to get into Putrajaya?

Is there no bottomline for its once-vaunted principles, integrity and democratic observances?

And let's not even talk about DAP supporting PKR in the latter's nonsensical Kajang Satay Deformasi or in an earlier period, the notorious deformasi 916! What horrendous shame on the DAP!

Indeed it was the late Bhai who condemned 916 as immoral and unethical. Got that HY?

And I also hope the DAP won't be that shameful again as to beg for a deputy speaker's appointment in the Selangor DUN for supporting PKR in its recent MB tussle - just how the fuck would that extra appointment have help the rakyat? Yes TP, I cringed in great shame.

And that's why when I read Bhai Junior's admonition, indirectly but clearly against Lim KS for advocating working together with Dr Mahathir to unseat Najib, I sighed a sigh of relief that the spirit of Bhai is back with the DAP.

Just to remind you of what Ramkarpakl said:

“There can be no doubt that Malaysia needs to be saved. While I agree that Najib ought to go, I cannot agree with the means by which Dr Mahathir proposes to do so.”

“Asserting pressure on a democratically elected prime minister to step down cannot be democratic and it is high time that Pakatan Rakyat come together at this very critical time against Umno and the Barisan Nasional (BN).”.

“I am firmly of the view that saving Malaysia can only mean a new clean, accountable and transparent government. Pakatan Rakyat must live up to its promise to Malaysians of being that alternative and democratically oust Najib and the BN through the ballot box.”

Amen! and have you got that Uncle Lim?

Zaid Ibrahim's Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

TMI - Embrace Anwar to oust Najib, Zaid tells Dr M

looks like we're back Kid
Ya Pak Partner, but let's not go to Bolivia. okay
wakakaka

... Zaid Ibrahim is suggesting that Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his former number two bury the hatchet after 17 years of animosity.

This, he said, is to unite the nation and rid it of the current leader.

He also called on the former premier to put aside his personal dislike for Anwar as the latter is better than Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Zaid also stated: "I mentioned earlier how Mahathir and (former finance minister) Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah could do wonders if they just sat down together to work out how to save the country. That work would be more effective if Anwar were to join the group."

"Such a triumvirate would ensure the quick disposal of Najib's government because the parliamentary opposition combined with BN would be enough to unseat the prime minister, who is now getting support from some royal houses."

Interesting! Zaid is proposing a triumvirate of Dr M, Anwar and Ku Li, with Ku Li as interim PM to replace Najib for 3 years whence then Anwar will take over.

best thing is that bridge

Recall RPK's SD on the Altantuyaa's murder - can you remember which two parties provided RPK with the contents of that SD and who assured RPK it was reliable?

So, an anti-Najib triumvirate based on the Altantuyaa murder? Wakakaka.

Anyway, Zaid tempts Dr M with an assurance that once Anwar takes over from Ku Li (presumably 3 years after Ku Li becomes PM), Mr Manmanlai the new PM will build our eminence grise's crooked bridge so as "to remind Singapore once in a while that we are able to decide what we want for ourselves."

On that crooked bridge, in 2009 Dr M had already sounded a warning for Najib (but then still an 'advice' for Ah Jib Chai, wakakaka) to continue with his crooked bridge, with TMI reporting:

Dr Mahathir said that since Singapore would only agree to a straight bridge to replace the Causeway if the ban on selling sand was lifted and that considering Johoreans were against the sale, the government’s only option was to build the crooked bridge. […]

Dr Mahathir cited the package of outstanding bilateral issues, including Singapore’s refusal to release CPF contributions to Malaysians, the railway land issue and the low rate in which the island republic pays for water from Malaysia.

“All these issues are in Singapore’s favour and not negotiating better terms because the Johore people refuse to sell sand is like cutting one’s nose to spite one’s face.

Leaving out the rhetoric, Dr M was actually right, but obviously Najib like AAB saw it differently.

worst thing I did was to ignore that bridge

As for Anwar, I noted he had then attempted to make his move back to The Mothership or at least for a start, into UMNO's grace during the Scenic or Crooked Bridge affair in April 2006 as I posted in A Bridge Too Far - Anwar Ibrahim.

Now, get this my dear Zaid, Anwar after blaming the whole crooked bridge fiasco on Mahathir (wakakaka) for sending Daim Zainudin to negotiate with former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew over the terms of the project, openly pontificated: “I would grant the criticism of many that negotiations with Singapore are not always easy. The solution therefore is to send competent people to negotiate. If you send semi-literates to negotiate, we will lose out in the negotiations.”

From that statement, one couldn't be blamed for noting that Anwar deemed Daim Zainuddin a semi-literate (wakakaka) who shouldn't be sent to negotiate with a tough intellectual like Lee Kuan Yew.

Hmmm, I wonder who was the Malaysian ‘intellectual’ Anwar had in mind then who should be sent to negotiate with Lee, wakakaka again. Yes you bet - He was more or less directing his comments for the benefit of the Sultan of Somnabulence.

But then, didn't Zaid also admit that Anwar Ibrahim's fault in the 1998 financial crisis: "... was to swallow hook, line and sinker the prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund as the only solution to manage the crisis."

over my dead body - sorry Bhai I said it first

"This would have meant massive 'restructuring' that would have put the sovereignty of the nation at risk."

"Mahathir acted well and saved the country ..."

So who had been the semi-literate? Wakakaka!

After gently chiding AAB for not doing his homework on the matter of the crooked bridge (again Zaid, note this), Anwar poured on luscious honey for AAB by expressing full support for the latter’s decision to abandon the project as a commendable decision, crooning: “It takes a lot of courage and wisdom ... after weeks of massive campaigns against Singapore ... (for Abdullah) to suddenly say that the decision (to build the bridge) was faulty and that we have to scrap the project...it’s commendable.”

Wakakaka, he had then agreed with AAB to abandon the crooked bridge, but then I'm sure he will now be quite capable of agreeing with Dr M on building the bridge - that's the Anwar I know, wakakaka.

who the f* cares about that bridge

Anwar then continued: “I support the decision taken by Abdullah because any responsible leader cannot proceed with a project affecting another country without that sort of arrangement being made.”

“Even if it’s not related to relations between Malaysia and Singapore, you cannot imagine in this modern time any country wanting to undertake a major project - a bridge, highway, whatever - affecting another country, unilaterally. We have condemned the United States for its unilateral decision to invade Iraq, so we can’t seriously proceed in such manner (ourselves).”

I was very much ‘taken’ by Anwar’s opinion that building the scenic or crooked bridge, actually already agreed to by the former Singapore's PM Goh Chok Tong in a letter, would be equivalent to the US invasion of Iraq

Anyway, he continued: “I would not discount any possible meeting with Abdullah [AAB] if he were to ask my views on the issues ... like the negotiations with Singapore on the bridge and even information on the negotiations with Indonesia on border issues.”

Wow, 'I would not discount any possible meeting with Abdullah [AAB] if he were to ask my views on the issues' - very manmanlai, and his offer of international negotiations was not only with Singapore but Indonesia as well. Wakakaka.

OK, I'm very fond of Zaid but I have a few questions, namely:

(a) Who is going to release Anwar from jail?

Until Dr M and Ku Li defeat Najib, Ah Jib Gor is still PM and Anwar remains behind bars. Has Zaid been hoping Anwar will direct his PKR (a now split party) into cooperating with Dr M's portion of BN? But then, that's almost achieved by you-know-who in London, wakakaka, and no doubt talk is still continuing.

(b) quoting Zaid, the quick disposal of Najib's government because the parliamentary opposition combined with BN would be enough to unseat the prime minister I wonder how many in BN will join forces with the parliamentary opposition to defeat Najib? But this has been essentially what Lim KS had proposed much earlier.

(c) Once Ku Li is in the chair, will he be willing to vacate it for Anwar in three years time? And will he even release Anwar from prison? Wakakaka.

(d) Will a future Ku Li build the bridge? Wakakaka.

(e) In the proposed joint operations by BN and Pakatan against Najib, how will a new cabinet be set up?

Apart from Azmin becoming DPM (with blessing from Dr M?) to PM Ku Li, what role will be played by PAS and DAP? Will MCA and Gerakan remain silent? Wakakaka.

Home Affairs is mine
No, mine, you take Religious Affairs
I want Finance
F* you
MCA is more senior
F* you too, we have more MPs
Gerakan is truly multiracial
F* you, one without a single Indian or Malay MP
Dei tambee, we're the Indian party lah
Podah, we have more Indian MPs
We were originally from UMNO
So were we, much earlier than you

wakakaka

Pro Sedition Bill

Malaysiakini - Who were the 108 who voted for the Sedition bill?

The following MCA, MIC and Gerakan MPs voted for the Sedition Bill:

MCA

1 P077 Tanjong Malim Ong Ka Chuan

2 P089 Bentong Liow Tiong Lai 

cheen chnea hoe, you voted for him

3 P135 Alor Gajah Koh Nai Kwong

4 P142 Labis Chua Tee Yong

5 P148 Ayer Hitam Wee Ka Siong

6 P158 Tebrau Khoo Soo Seang

7 P165 Tanjung Piai Wee Jeck Seng



MIC

1 P094 Hulu Selangor P Kamalanathan



Gerakan

1 P076 Telok Intan Mah Siew Keong 

hoe liao, you voted for him

2 P151 Simpang Renggam Liang Teck Meng

MCA
	1	P077	Tanjong Malim	Ong Ka Chuan
	2	P089	Bentong	Liow Tiong Lai
	3	P135	Alor Gajah	Koh Nai Kwong
	4	P142	Labis	Chua Tee Yong
	5	P148	Ayer Hitam	Wee Ka Siong
	6	P158	Tebrau	Khoo Soo Seang
	7	P165	Tanjung Piai	Wee Jeck Seng
		MIC
	1	P094	Hulu Selangor	P Kamalanathan
		Gerakan
	1	P076	Telok Intan	Mah Siew Keong
	2	P151	Simpang Renggam	Liang Teck Meng

How many god's gifts are there in Malaysia?

Aiyoyo, even in jail he is not spared competition for his wife-given title of "God's gift to the people".

Wife says I am
You're not
Am
Not
Am
Not

Our dear Ibrahim Ali has now claimed that Mahathir is God's gift to all Malaysians and even repudiated Dr Wan's claim.

Both deserve a note in the Malaysian Book of Records, but only after Nik Abduh's flood warning, wakakaka.

The vulnerability of Dr M?

In TMI's Umno today is about money, Dr M fires back at critics I read one of the saddest thing about Dr M.

Dr M is undeniably the toughest PM we ever had, one while as PM and even now as retired senior statesman, took/takes no prisoner. We have seen how he demolished Anwar Ibrahim for the latter's disloyalty to him, and how he single-handedly removed AAB from his PM-ship when Pak Lah didn't continue his (Dr M's) legacy.

Currently he is doing the same to Najib, with the aim of replacing the PM, one he is not satisfied with.

Najib has been called Mr Zig-Zag, a man known for his extraordinary survival skills, so everyone waits to see whether Dr M will succeed in his current campaign against Najib as he had with AAB, because Najib may be a different kettle of fish to Pak Lah.

Dr M is not only a highly intelligent, hardworking and astute politician, but an unique paradox because he has also shown unusual tolerance and forgiving care to those he considers as his loyal subordinates, even if they are professionally incompetent, intellectually lame and conduct-wise, immoral.

But at the bottom of his heart (Asian way of indicating 'mind') he has a very very sad vulnerability which must have tormented him over the decades of his adulthood.

What we might have suspected for years and even cruelly jeered at him but can now confirm, only because he Dr M himself reveals so, is the heavy emotional millstone he wore for the past several decades around his neck, namely his painful awareness of his (biological) non-100%-Malay ethnic origins. Though he didn't mention it, we know his granddad was a Malayalam, hailing from Kerala.

In the above TMI's news, Dr M has been reported as follows:

He also defended his right to criticise Najib, saying that when it came to national and Malay issues, he has the right to talk about them as he considered himself Malay, even though this has been disputed.

“About the country and the Malays, I am here, I am a Malay. Although some people say I am not. Legally I am Malay. I've struggled for this."

Finally that emotional burden has come out of his own mouth that he is a legal Malay and has struggled for his constitutional status.

However, unlike Ridhuan Tee, he had not gone around self-promoting himself as a Melayu. But I can only wonder what stress, strain and suffering he must have endured in silence through the decades because of this emotional vulnerability.

Strangely or should it be, I do not feel any animosity or ill-humour towards him for saying so. Au contraire I feel sad to learn what must have stuck bitterly in his heart for years.

In many other countries people of mixed ancestry live normal lives, and are even admired for their richer heritage. Yours truly for example possesses tomyam in my blood, wakakaka, but I have never felt any burden on my self worth because of my mixed ethnicity.

Look mate, Sultan Muzzafar Shah of the Malacca Sultanate had an Indian wife (daughter of a rich Indian merchant) and thus his son Sultan Mansur Shah was of mixed Indo-Malay parentage.

Since times long ago the Malays have had inter-marriages with Indians so it shouldn't be considered as a stigma, well, an emotional one anyway.

Just as another example, Sultan Muzzafar's grandson, Sultan Mahmud Shah had the hots for, and through a series of murders, eventually married the widow Fatimah, whose husband was 'off-ed' to enable the sultan to get her. Fatimah was the daughter of Tun Mutahir, Malacca' 7th Bendahara (PM). Both Mutahir and daughter Fatimah were Tamil Muslims.

Indian blood not only flows in many Malays but Indians had served as Bendahara in the Malacca Sultanate like Tun Mutahir (7th Bendahara of Malacca) and Tun Ali (4th Bendahara of Malacca). I believe Anwar Ibrahim also has Indian blood in his veins.

I guess I have to blame our politico-socio-cultural environment for 'punishing' Dr M, at least internally-emotionally for, I suppose, decades. It's a vile politico-socio-cultural environment when one's ancestry imposes guilt or lack of self-esteem on oneself.

'Roti' would be another nice name for the boulangerie, but alas is an Indian word

Dr M - stirring, not shaken

James Bond might have his Dr No, but we have better, our own Dr M, wakakaka.

shaken, not stirred

stirring, not shaken

See TMI's Umno today is about money, Dr M fires back at critics - reading Dr M's complaint, all I can do is wakakaka.

Is he telling us that UMNO is about money only after his PM tenure? Didn't he, for example in 1998 reveal that both Anwar Ibrahim and Ahmad Zahidi (then in Anwar's camp) enjoyed 'privileges' after the latter attempted to smear his name with allegations of nepotism and corruption, written by RPK as follows:

Umno Youth leader Ahmad Zahid Hamidi raised allegations of nepotism and corruption against the Prime Minister.

Dr Mahathir practically went berserk and retaliated by revealing the names of others who had benefited from government contracts and cheap share allocations, including those friends and family members of Anwar and of Zahid himself.

Also, wasn't Ali Rustam at one stage barred from contesting for an UMNO's VP position because of alleged money politics? Wasn't our dear Selangor dentist convicted? The list can go on and on.

I reckon Dr M has now been driven into mentioning UMNO's money politics as if it's recent because he's damn mad at those UMNO members who said it would be him and not Najib who would bring UMNO down because of his constant attacks against Najib just as he had done against AAB.

In my previous post Char koay teow, Malay style I had stated:

In any case, it can be argued that it has been Dr Mahathir who made UMNO lost its 2/3 in 2008, and not AAB. AAB was the hapless victim of Dr M's continuous very-public criticisms.

Dr M has recently said that Najib will lose the next election for UMNO but on the logic of this post's discussion we can argue that if UMNO were to lose in GE-14, it would be Dr Mahathir who loses it for his party by continuously undermining Najib and thus indirectly UMNO.

aiyah, it was a bridge too far for me lahand that anwar what's-his-name wanting to help me, with him saying: “I would not discount any possible meeting with Abdullah if he were to ask my views on the issues ... like the negotiations with Singapore on the bridge and even information on the negotiations with Indonesia on border issues.”

what a joke man! at least I have been PM for more than 5 years

I had also stated that Dr M in harassing Najib with the case of Altantuyaa has been motivated by nothing more than Dr M's personal agenda (against Najib for .....?) and has nothing to do with so-called justice for the dead Mongolian woman. I had written:

Najib revealed that in his tete-a-tete with Dr Mahathir, one of two things Dr Mahathir wanted him to do was to revive the “crooked bridge” project linking Johor and Singapore, thus confirming our suspicion on why he undermined AAB to such an extent that UMNO suffered collateral damage in 2008, and from which the party never quite recovered.

The 'crooked bridge' was, we suspected, to spite Sing!

Some of my visitors, who were pissed off with my consistent demand for 'evidence' before condemning Najib in the Altantuyaa case, pooh-pooh-ed away at my comment on Dr M's demand for the crooked bridge to be built, but guess what, today the Malay Mail Online has just published Dr M: Najib broke pledge to build crooked bridge and also mentioned that, according to Dr M, Najib in so doing (not building the bridge), has kowtow-ed to the Sing government.

It's obvious Dr M detests that lil' red dot.

Aiyoh, yes lah, it's so clear but of course those unfortunately blind couldn't see, but how about those visitors of mine who want to be blind because they do not want to see?

Anyway, I guess with Dr M not liking this or detesting that, I want to make a guess that Dr M has at least 3 bête noires.

In French the word (plural) bête noires means 'black beasts' and has been adopted by the English language to signal 'things or persons detested or to be avoided'.

I reckon Dr M's 3 bête noires are:

(a) Chinese Malaysians who do not support BN-UMNO.

Incidentally, in general Chinese Malaysians have until recent times (2008 onward) supported BN-UMNO, and perhaps the round about-turn by them from BN to Pakatan (including supporting PAS, gulp) has traumatized not only Dr M but many in UMNO.

But they have never bothered to ask why, or they are 'acting dunno', perhaps to them, because UMNO is never ever 'wrong'. To paraphrase Eric Segal, 'UMNO means never having to say sorry' - a notorious example would be Ismail Sabri Yaakob, our dearest Minister of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry.

OK, so accept the consequences.

In his younger days Dr M stated quite publicly and arrogantly he didn't need the Chinese votes, so in the 1969 election the Chinese in his constituency of Kota Setar Selatan handed their votes to his competitor, Yusof Rawa, the party president of PAS (then called PMIP).

Remember this was in 1969 and not 2008 nor 2013 and for Chinese to support PMIP then must have meant they were most hurt by the arrogance of the UMNO candidate.

Of course Dr M lost and according to RPK, he has never forgiven the Chinese, though we should remind him that it was he who said he didn't need their votes, wakakaka, so what was there to be angry about those damn Chinese voters. Adoi, he not only wanted his cake but also to eat it.

RPK also wrote recently: Dr Mahathir also accused the Tunku of giving in to the Chinese and that, said Dr Mahathir, was why the Chinese no longer fear the Alliance Party, as the result of the May 1969 general election had proven.

In other words, the Chinese should be kept in fear of the government so that they will continue to vote for the ruling party.

vellee sollee lah latuk
wah didn't undi latuk because wah vellee takut latuk mah

And do read my November 2013 post Those damn Chinese! on Dr M, his son, the Sungai Limau by-election and those bloody Chinese voter-kingmakers, wakakaka. Just a very brief extract of that post, as follows:

... we know what really happened after that, no small thanks to Dr Mahathir’s Perkasa, and the Chinese were once again stampeded into voting for PAS in 2013 as they did in 1969 and 2008 ...

So again I have to say, if UMNO loses GE-14, it's all no thanks to Dr M, wakakaka, though I'm not too sure what the future holds in store on Chinese support for PAS.

(b) Chinese Malaysians doing better than Malays. While I can understand somewhat his ethnic concerns, it would be more balanced if he also realizes that there are many Chinese who have fallen by the wayside, admittedly not as many as the Indian Malaysians.

Chinese

He should also be aware that the marginalized or fallen nons do NOT have one thing many of the poor Malays have, to wit, land to work on and eke out at least a meagre living.

But the more important point is that it's better to encourage the Malays to do better than the Chinese (and many Malays have) rather than begrudge the Chinese their success (remembering Chinese have also failed abysmally) - see my post June 2005 post titled The Lotus Will Not Bloom For One Man.

(c) Sing doing better than Malaysians, perhaps because he and the late LKY have been acrimonious competitors or perhaps because Sing government and people are mainly those pesky Chinese? If so on the latter, see (b) above.

Anyway, Sing may be doing better only in the material aspects, when in reality Malaysians are far 'richer' in the holistic sense than those materialistic kiasu Sing.

Yes, we are far more lay-back but then we're by far more happy, and I dare say we in general are by far more filial to our parents - I read of a Sing man who after his parents had signed over their assets including their apartment to him, he and his wife drove the parents out of the house. with those parents ending up living in the stairwell of their apartment block. He is a most un-Confucian Chinese. We Malaysians must be better children and hopefully also parents.

Only drawback is we in Malaysia suffer a high level of corruption and non-accountable public institutions compared to those in that lil' red dot.

Chinese

O GOOD LORD (excuse my atheist's blasphemy in using the name of looes74's god, though not in vain, wakakaka), it suddenly dawns on me that Dr M's 3 bête noires are all bloody f**king Chinese lah, remembering that Sing are mainly Chinese.

Hmmm, I am sure it's just a coincidence, wakakaka.

But also read my July 2013 post titled Chinese - there's one behind every Mahathir's bush, wakakaka.

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