Planned Messiness?

I'm putting the latest poll results right at top of this post to facilitate your reading.

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0110

I have to admit my initial elation about Perak was a bit premature. Looks like both PAS and PKR couldn't come up with the goods.

I believe in the post election wash-up, PKR and PAS must face facts that they shouldn't bite more than they can chew, whether this be in Perak, Kedah, NS, Sarawak or Sabah (including Labuan).

I personally would like to see Balik Pulau and Bagan Serai given to DAP, tho' of course I doubt PKR will be that generous or realistic.

0058

BN has achieved 112 federal parliamentary seats to stay for another term in Putrajaya. Looks like Anwar Ibrahim's dream of becoming PM has been shattered.

0045

According to MKINI's tally, BN has won 97 federal seats. It needs only another 15 to win a simple majority. PR has only 41. I think from these figures we have to grudgingly come to the realization that PR won't be in Putrajaya tomorrow.

FLASH - latest MKINI tally for BN = 111

But PR has retained rule in Kelantan, Penang, Selangor. It's still unknown in Perak but the chances for PR are pretty good.

Unfortunately PR botched its chances in NS where PAS lost all 10 seats it contested, and PKR didn't come up with the minimum required 8 to form with DAP's 11 a simple majority.

It has lost Kedah, and I regret to say most Chinese don't have any sympathy for PAS, the major PR party there.

Wonder what's going on in Raub where Sakmongkol AK47 is standing as a DAP candidate.

0040

There are 36 state seats in NS. DAP contested in 11 and won all, which means for PR to govern NS, it needs another 8. PAS contested 10 and lost all, including the one seat it won in last election. Can PKR come up with 8?

One of my observations is that PAS is not very well accepted in some places like Sabah (including the FT of Labuan), Sarawak and obviously NS.

Hvaing read about PKR's leadership problem in NS, I have a sinking feeling PR may not get to govern that state.

0025
very happy to know Patto's daughter sweetie Kasthuri Patto has won Dr Rama's old parliamentary seat of Batu Kawan in Penang with a 25962 vote majority. Indeed the daughter of her illustrious father. Syabas sweetie.

0002

Blast. Just went for a snack and found out on return young Chua Tee Yong scrapped through in the final count for Labis, winning by a majority of a mere 353. Chua Snr should be pleased for his son, and I congratulate both son and dad.

Also bad news that Greenie Wong Tack somehow lost to Liow Big LIE by also around 350 votes. THis wqas one MCA loss I was looking forward to, but dash it. Looks like my razor won't be needed.

Good news - Ali Rustam will lose Bukit Katil. 

2330

Looks like Nurul has won Lembah Pantai tho' there's as yet no direct official result, but indirect indications from news that RNC has lost.

2327

Anwar won PP by majority of nearly 12K

2322

Good work by 2 PKR blokes, Dr Tan Tee Kwong and Khalid Ibrahim who won Wangsa Maju and Bandar Tun Razak respectively.

2313

Whoa man, Bukit Bendera in Penang has always been a Chinese heartland constituency, and Zairil Khir Johari (DAP) has just won it with a marvellous humongous 32,778 vote majority.

Syabas Zairil, your dad if alive would have been damn proud of you.

yet another DAP Malay MP

2310

Another piece of good news. Ibrahim Ali lost in Pasir Mas, which means both Perkasa candidates sponsored by Dr M kalah teruk. wakakaka.

2305

What's happening in Lembah Pantai? Heard FRU are there in force as the tally for the two candidates are pretty close. Last heard Nurul was leading.

2300

Bloody good news - Zulkifli Noordin has been resoundingly thrashed by Khalid Samad in Shah Alam.

But in Bentong, Liow Tiong LIE is slowing catching up with Greenie Wong (DAP). Hope he doesn't.

2250

My fave Bhai has won Gelugor with more than 40,000 majority, though this pales into insignificance when compared with DAP colleague Teresa Kok's majority of 51,771 votes in Seputeh, wakakaka.

The Lion roared but once and won Gelugor, wakakaka

DAP is expected to sweep all its seats it contests in Johor, NS, Perak and of course it has done so already in Penang. Syabas.

PKR has won the Miri seat that DAP had surrendered to it out of goodwill for being allowed to use the PKR symbol when DAP was under siege by the RoS.

2240
Unofficial but Wow nonetheless, PKR First Admiral (R) Mohd Imran Abdul Hamid won Lumut from MCA secretary-general Seri Kong Cho Ha of the PKFZ saga. Anwar had been worried about this one but if the report is true then it's beautiful, and Anchors Aweigh.

2235

OKAY!!!!!! Uncle Lim has won Gelang Patah by a 15,758 majority while my fave PAS man Nizar Jamaluddin wins Changkat Jering, hopefully to become MB Perak again.

But sorry, Chua Jui Meng lost Segamat to MIC S Subramaniam by 1, 204 votes

2232

PAS announced it has retained Kelantan. But it lost its deposit in Labuan, garnering only a pitiful 386 votes. Bro Haris Ibrahim had implored the party to give the seat to PKR but t was too stubborn to accept that it's not welcomed in East Malaysia.

2225

Apparently DAP has claimed victory in all 11 NS state seats and two federal seats it contested. However, it lost Cameron to MIC Palanivel by a mere 80 votes.

2220

very happy Dr Jeya will retain Sg Siput with comfortable lead.

another great news but yet to be confirmed - Pakatan has won Selangor - only dark cloud is who'll be the MB?

2210

It's likely Greenie Wong Tack of DAP will put Liow Tiong LIE into retirement. While counting continues, Wong leads by 4K. I hope no medical magic occurs. Pahang Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob may have to cut his ears if Wong wins. I'll lend him my razor, wakakaka.

Unfortunately for Chua Jui Ming, there's only 4K votes to go and he's lagging by about 50-ish votes - still winnable but too close for comfort.

Young Chua Tee Yong (CSL's son) is likely to join his dad outside Parliament as he lags behind DAP's Ramakrishnan Suppiah by 2K

2205

Liew Chin Tong has virtually won Kluang. Uncle Lim is almost past the finishing line first, and sweetie Teo is likely to win Kulai. Once Uncle Lim wins, I'm going to bed, wakakaka

Lim Kit Siang, the finest statesman Malaysia has

Dr M could have been another but like Darth Vader
he chose the dark side of the force

2200 hr

Amazing, the majority by which several DAP candidates have won, especially those in federal seats. People like sweetie Teresa Kok is reputed to have won by a 50,000 majority which remind me of the old Bukit Bintang where MCA cannon fodders were sent there to be slaughtered by Lee Lam Thye - looks like Seputeh is another slaughter house for BN candidates.

sweetie is such a HOT candidate, yummy

Heard that Tan Seng Giaw has won Kepong by a 40,000 majority.

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Forgot to add that DAP held on to the federal seat of Sibu and won another federal seat, Stampin in Sarawak. Nurul is likely to retain Lembah Pantai - good on the sweetie

2135 hr

Yahhooooo - when it rains it pours for MCA-Gerakan. Lim GE has announced PR retains rule in Penang with 2/3 majority. Sorry, Miss Muffet, wakakaka.

Chief Minister again

2130 hr

DAP doing bloody well in Sarawak - apart from a landslide victory in Bandar Kuching, it has won Lanang and Sarikei.

Heard Ngeh Koo Ham has won Bruas with 3K majority. Tony Pua is leading fantastically and likely to win, while Uncle Lim is doing fine in GP, and sweetie Teo Nie Ching is also okay. 

DAP also doing great guns in Damansara Utama and Kg Tunku state seats in Selangor.

But I haven't heard anything about Ong KM in Serdang?

BREAKING NEWS

Heard BN has won Kedah state by a mere 2 seats majority - if so, not surprise as I have personally heard from Chinese Kedahans they regretted voting PAS in. I think the previous state government interference in Chinese festivals was too much for the Chinese there to swallow.

And once it's confirmed that BN has won, congrats will be in order to Mukhriz Mahathir as the new MB.

Also read my 25 Jan 2012 post Next MB of Kedah

2300 hr

Malaysiakini analysed that on preliminary results thus far, there has been a Malay swing back to BN.

If true, then congratulations are in order for Dr Mahathir for succeeding in his clarion call ad nausem of bangsa, agama dan ketuanan Melayu to Malays. Man still has some good & nasty tactics left, which explains how he was able to rule for more than 22 years, even until now, wakakaka.

2030 hr

Yahhooooooo, Rocket has landed in Bandar Kuching with INCREASED majority from 10K to 20K

DAP is leading in all its 19 state seats, and require only two more from PKR or PAS to continue PR's 2nd term as government of Penang. Eat your heart out, Miss Muffet, wakakaka.

Unfortunately BN (T. Adnan) has won Putrajaya, hardly surprising with an early start of 620 postal votes.

BREAKING NEWS 2000 hr

Okay, Sweetie Nurul has now taken the lead (600 votes). Phew!

just love her hat

2000 hr:

FMT tally for states - not sure about its correctness as other media haven't posted any full results yet

STATE PERLIS KEDAH KELANTAN TERENGGANU PULAU PINANG PERAK PAHANG SELANGOR NEGERI SEMBILAN MELAKA JOHOR SABAH TOTAL

NO OF SEATS 15 36 45 32 40 59 42 56 36 28 56 60 505

DAP 0 1 0 0 9 6 3 1 4 0 1 1 26

1955 hr:

I'm not sure about Free Malaysia Today's (FMT) tally thus far (also at RPK's M2D) which has DAP winning 23 federal seats as follows:

4 in Penang

6 in Perak

2 in Pahang

1 in SElangor

3 in FT 

1 in NS

2 Johor

4 Sarawak

Let's wait a wee while to see whether the above is true.

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Dr Rama is doing just fine in Perai and on his way to a second term as DCM Penang. Sorry Uthy, wakakaka.

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BREAKING NEWS

SWEETIE NURUL MAY BE IN TROUBLE THOUGH IT'S STILL 'EARLY DAYS'

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From Malaysiakini's polling day live report Malaysia decides, but process often 'messy' the common denominator appears to be EC officers insisting on messy and unnecessary procedures which cause long queues, frustrations and hardships to voters, or perhaps in my suspicious mind, "some" voters.

Perhaps an oxymoron here - Planned Messiness - may be appropriate.

It's known the EC lacks impartiality, and has been long suspected of being an UMNO tool. Already voters have shown that the so-called indelible ink could be rubbed off with grass, fortifying the voters suspicion that the ink has along been a joke and not meant to deter repetitive voting by (other camp's) "some".

Nonetheless, let's hope and see whether the determination and mass of voters will overcome the EC's questionable procedures.

Latest: Stupid remarks by EC's Wan Ahmad, who said: "I'm not worried about indelible ink being washed off today because tomorrow you can't vote."

But can't one vote again and again and again today.

Just "a little bit of soap" to wash the ink away

Listen to this once popular song in SE Asia

One commentator said: Bodoh macam lembu.

But I think he's not bodoh; it's part of the EC's "Planned Messiness".

2nd Update: Malaysiakini's 'Someone has stolen my right to vote' reported:

Teo said another voter Chu Moi Moi, 74, was also not allowed to vote at SMK Kulai Besar, as the personnel on duty there claimed that she had already voted earlier. 

The DAP candidate also said another voter Chong Mui Yoong, 52, was not allowed to vote at SMK Sultan Ibrahim as the EC also alleged that she had already voted earlier.

Teo said she has noted all the complaints including Liew’s and Chai’s. 

She also claimed that the EC officer in SMK Kulai Besar told her that the polling station would be closed at 5pm sharp even if there are still some voters queuing, as those voters did not come early in the morning.

"The polling station has seen long queues of voters since this morning," said Teo.

Now, you know why the EC has deliberately messed up procedures to delay the voting so as to cut off still waiting queues of voters.

3rd Update: Malaysiakini's Suspicious voter asks Pakatan for cash after voting at Pandan Selangor. Wakakaka.

Apart from that Malaysiakini also reported that:

Caretaker Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's press secretary Cheong Yin Fan reports that a member of the public has "caught" a Bangladeshi coming to vote at the SRJK(C) polling centre in Air Putih.

my name is Ban Gar Dshi
I was born in Kampung Dhaka in Ayer Itam
The PM of Malaysia is Sheikh Hasina ... ooops ... I mean Najib

The voter, JJ Choo, says he felt there was something suspicious about another voter, who later was discovered as a Bangladeshi with a Malaysian identity card.

Choo went to the EC website and tried to find his name, which was actually registered under another polling centre - Chung Ling High School, in the Air Itam state seat.

He immediately alerted the DAP volunteers on the ground, who contacted the DAP candidate for Air Itam Wong Hon Wai.

However, nothing could be done as the person holds a valid IC. 

Kamsiah to Dr M.

4th Update: Free Malaysia Today's Spoilt votes boon to BN? reported that:

KOTA KINABALU: Complaints of the indelible ink being “smudegable” and “washable” have raised fears here that Sabah and Sarawak may likely see a mother load of spoilt votes in its borderline seats.

Fast circulation text messages and MMSes on social media of “smudgeable” and “washable” indelible ink markings has lent credence to reports that BN will “sweep” back into power in many areas considered to go ‘either way’.

Among these seats are Keningau, Penampang, Tuaran, Kota Marudu, Sandakan, Beaufort, Pensiangan, Kota Belud, Ranau and Papar in Sabah and Baram, Saratok, Mas Gading, Miri, Sibu and Lubok Antu in Sarawak among others.

In Sabah, Moyog seat’s State Reform Party (STAR) candidate Bernard Lawrence Solibon this morning said after casting his votes: “The ink has gone off. I didn’t even put anything on it. The transfer may cause stains on ballot papers and spoil many votes.” [...]

The EC had then defended itself by blaming polling officers for not shaking the ink bottles properly before applying them to the voters.

no f*-ing ink, man

BUll BULL BULLSH*T. 

Because the EC has just come up with another excuse, that the Malaysian version of the indelible ink is in fact not indelible because the silver nitrate content (which makes the ink stick to the skin) has been deliberately reduced from 15% to 1% to allows water to seep through so as to enable Muslims to perform ablution as required by the National Fatwa Council.

The silver nitrate cannot exceed 1% so as to comply with health regulation.

The EC can't f*-ing make up their minds as to what bloody f*-ing excuse they want to use.

For more, read TMI's Halal status affected indelible ink’s strength, says EC

Meanwhile as we wait for the Bangla-diceyd results, here's a kaytee poem to entertain you, wakakaka:

Hello, my name is Mr Farooq Majumdar

I was born in Kampung Paya Terubong

Which by the way, Sahib, is not very far

Just the distance of a Bangladeshi song

Yes Sahib, indeed I am very very Malaysian

Which is why today I have come to vote

‘Coz there is also lucrative compensation

And I really don’t mind coins or bank note

Best of all I don’t have to go home, I mean

Kampung Paya Terubong as per my address,

And that’s what makes me really super keen

To vote as told, for a citizenship to possess

PM Sheik Hasina

"Farooq, you naughty rascal, come home immediately"

5th Update: TMI's PKR claims agents told to leave Lembah Pantai centre reported:

KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — Fifteen PKR counting agents were ordered to leave the Lembah Pantai counting centre at SM Seri Pantai temporarily this evening after voting closed at 5pm, the party’s communications bureau said today.

In a statement here, PKR said the reason giving for asking the agents to vacate the premises was to allow the Election Commission’s (EC) officers inside the centre to “rest”.

The party said their 15 agents refused to comply with the request, insisting that they have the right to observe all parts of the voting process, particularly the whereabouts of the ballots at all times.

sweetie Nurul - nice hat sweetie

Sheeesh, they would even try such a lousy non-procedural trick. Pariah!

EC - Najib's Emergency Contingency

It's not impossible for Najib to get his 2/3 majority in GE-13 as he asserted.

Yup, it's not impossible when he has activated his EC or Emergency Contingency wakakaka to full gear.

We hear of many tens of thousands of Bangla, Filipinos and various other foreigners being flown into Peninsula by more than 16 chartered flights. They will pose as Chinese with names like How Seow Ong, Tua Phean Sian, Gau Lau Lang, etc.

Apart from the above, bomohs from Indonesia, Africa, Middle-East and Pakistan (Pakistan???) have been recruited for spiritual assistance, wakakaka.

Also, Operations IC Series II is in progress for those Banglas and others flown in.

I was born in Kulna, Penang
I was born in Comilla, Johor
I was born in Jalan Sylhet, KL
I was born in Rajshahi, Johor
I was born in Dhaka, Penang
wakakaka

Meanwhile, Operations Ang-Pow is known to be in progress in Air Putih, Penang.

And best of all, Operation Mandore has already being activated, wakakaka. The Codeword for the sneaky treacherous Pearl Habour-like attack on our ballot box is "Climb Mount Niitakawaytha", wakakaka.

EC (or Najib's Emergency Contingency, wakakaka)  has prepared questionable list of voters and questionable very washable 'indelible' ink for voters. 

For this particular election, EC has arranged such that political agents will be severely handicapped in their ability to observe the voting process.

something like this?

See FMT's Can EC defeat Pakatan? for details on Najib's EC or wakakaka Emergency Contingency

Seats specially targeted are Air Putih in Penang State where the incumbent Lim Guan Eng is re-contesting. The aim is to chop off the DAP's Penang head even if Pakatan wins the state election, because BN sees Lim GE as too popular and thus strategically too dangerous.

Another target is the federal seat of Lembah Pantai where a future Pakatan leader, far more credible by zillions of kilometres to her father and a political pygmy or dwarf, is re-contesting. The strategic aim again is to kill off the political future of Nurul Izzah

Hmmm, I wonder how many of those new 16,000 voters
in Lembah Pantai were 'born overseas'?

I won't be surprised if Lim Kit Siang meets a similar specifically-targeted fate as his son, and Anwar Ibrahim as his daughter.

As I said, the aim is to chop off the dangerous Pakatan leadership.

Yes, a 2/3 majority will be quite possible for Najib!

Who I will vote for in GE-13?

On 05 May 2013, just two days away, we will be voting for our preferred political party or coalition to govern our country for another parliamentary period.

In the usual Malaysian style of political campaigning, there have been and will be, until the very last permissible second of the campaign period, obscene quantum of pork barrelling by politicians on both sides of the political fence. Most of the campaign promises and pledges will likely not see the light of day in their supposed implementation.

‘Pork barrelling  is a marvellous English term simply for its connotation of non-kosher stuff because that is exactly what the political campaign pork barrelling actually is, chiefly non-kosher (haram), where public money is recklessly gifted back to the tax payer but with the pretence (or expected impression) that it has been a gift from the political party (or coalition) and with the expectation that due gratitude from the rakyat in the form of their votes should be forthcoming.

Some aspects of pork barrelling have been outrageously mindless and if implemented, are likely to lead to national bankruptcy, thus we may expect these to be not fulfilled.

But I dare venture that most Malaysians TRULY want only one assured avowal from the politicians, that of public security and safety.

We Malaysians want to be safe and secure from threats to our lives and property and we request for this requirement, nay, even appeal for it, because not one of us currently feel safe and secure as we go about our daily lives. We are not even referring to the intrusion by Filipino terrorists into Malaysia.

We have seen a mother, Irene Ong, slain before her daughter’s eyes during a jogging run. We have read of a number of public members being shot at, with a recent fatality in the person of Shaharuddin Ibrahim, the Royal Malaysian Customs Deputy Director-General, while he was being driven to his office.

Nurin Jazlin Jazimin
Who killed her?

Young girls like Nurin Jazlin Jazimin and Preeshena Varshiny were evilly murdered, and a young woman in a northern state (Kedah?) disappeared while jogging and is yet to be found. We may presume she has fatally fallen prey to wicked person or persons.

Preeshena Varshiny
Who killed her?

Women were killed through violent falls caused by ferocious bag snatchers. Robbers, burglars, murderers, assassins, gangsters, thugs, rapists and molesters plagued our daily lives.

Just a few nights ago, two young students attending to the visit of Prime Minister (PM) Najib Razak at Southern College were molested allegedly by Barisan Nasional (BN) supporters, right in the presence of the PM and the security personnel, namely the police. Obviously those alleged molesters did not fear the law. For more, read Malaysiakini's BN supporters molested us at Najib event, claim students

What happened to our once safe Malaya-Malaysia?

allegedly BN Mat Rempits molested 2 Southern College students
who were in attendance to  PM Najib
Who were those molesters?

Has the Malaysia Boleh spirit even imbued and motivated those nefarious villains as well?

More importantly, the Malaysian Police has failed the public miserably. Its claim of decreasing crime rates has obviously been a lie.

And we have Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein brazenly informing us that violent incidents would worsen during the campaign period due to police shortage.

His predictions have certainly come true but his casual abdication of responsibility or non proactive strategy to address his forecast violence is lamentably disgraceful. If he has any self respect or filial regard for the names of his illustrious father and grandfather, he should have resigned then.

There will be violence leading up to the elections
but I'm not worried as I have my Panca Warisan and
the entire Police Force to look after me

When the domestic security of Malaysia has become so scary to the public, it becomes obvious the ruling party for the last twenty five years, BN, is unlikely to fulfil our most urgent expectation of a ruling government, that of a secure and safe Malaysia. Those BN politicians and their families and friends can live safely under escort and bodyguards and in gated communities, but what about us ordinary rakyat?

It also concerns me greatly when Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) took on board a former Inspector General of Police (IGP) on its so-called security advisory panel when it is well known that the crime rates during the tenure of this former IGP were shocking. PKR’s lack of judgment in allowing the former IGP to join its security advisory panel is equally shocking.

Musa Hassan & Md Hashim Hussein

Dei Waythamoorthy, it's okay to criticize Musa as he is with PKR 

Forget about the obscene and nonsensical pork barrelling of free this and free that. I will give my vote to the party which can convince me it is likely to ensure a rejuvenated police force to ensure the security and safety of the Malaysian public, and a police force which will not be a ‘pagar makan padi’, one which neither extorts from nor oppresses members of the public.

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This post has also been published in Malaysiakini as a KTemoc letter titled Forget pork-barreling, vote for public security

Towards The Final Countdown

I love science fiction stories especially when one comes in a good movie, like Alien with yummy Sigourney Weaver as the heroine or, as my post title alludes to, The Final Countdown.

The Final Countdown is an oldie science fiction film about a modern aircraft carrier that travels back through time to a day just before the 1941 Japanese naval air attack on Pearl Harbour.

I love the story-line on how the captain of the aircraft carrier deals with his unusual predicament. 'Twas about decision-making under extreme pressure, namely, the pressure of war as well as the pressure of known history and that challenging question, should he interfere with it?

But for this post, The Final Countdown would be obvious to be my dear readers as Malaysians 'multi-task' by holding their breath for who will emerge with the majority of federal parliamentary seats in GE-13, while somehow (indeed miraculously, wakakaka) continuing to vent their spleen and spew out bile against anyone they consider as the competitor or non-supporter.

Poor Michelle Yeoh was one such victim of feral cyber-fascist attacks. Some Malaysians can't handle democratic differences. I dread to think of those intolerant cyber-bullies ever coming into power.

Other unjust victims might have been 3 PKR office holders in Kedah, S. Manikumar (the incumbent for Bukit Selambau), Lim Soo Nee and Tan Joon Long, who were not re-nominated by their party as candidates for GE-13 but, to add insult to injury, weren't even informed of being dropped. So they decided to relinquish their office-appointments and remain as just ordinary members in PKR instead of office bearers. Nonetheless, they were cursed, lambasted and excoriated for being frogs, traitors, rubbish and whatnot - all this vicious bile piled against them despite their remaining in PKR as non-office bearers - see Malaysia-Today's Three Kedah PKR executive councillors quit all posts in party, which tells us:

The trio will remain as PKR members but would not participate in party matters, including attending meetings. Manikumar said they were disappointed because they were not given any explanation by the PKR top leadership why they were dropped as candidates.

He said they were among the five top state leaders and were also in the state leadership council. Even the Kedah PKR chairman Datuk Wan Salleh Wan Isa himself was not notified about their being dropped, ...

RPK has been more than spot on when he had on several occasions sneered at those moronic mindless Malaysian myrmidons for their lack of basic reading skills, or they would have known the 3 didn't resign but merely, and quite within their rights, chose to relinquish their office appointments after expressing their frustration at not being duly informed.

don't fret darling, kaytee still loves you, wakakaka

Yessirree, there's lots of tension, wakakaka.

The most interesting events to watch have been those intra-party squabble brought about by members'  dissatisfactions for being omitted from the candidate nomination list as well as those back-stabbed like PKR party president Dr Wan Azizah and PKR member Chegubard (Badrul Hisham Shahrin) - wah, the gnome had been very busy in the noxious depths of his malodorous putrid subterranean cavern, wakakaka.

Just imagine, a party president's candidature was decided by her party subordinate, sheeesh!

Of course PKR is not the only party having internal strife as Johnny, Jimmy and Jenice (no pun intended, wakakaka) merajuk over their omission from the party candidate list and decided to do their own things.

PAS is also getting excited as its ulama see the pending fruition of their dreams, making Malaysia an Islamic State, even though such an event has never been part of the Pakatan Agreement.

In their usual 'amnesia' brought about by their anticipated spiritual 'ambrosia', they have conveniently forgotten or ignored coalition agreement on the non-event of hudud.

Like sharks sensing blood, the PAS ulama heedlessly move aggressively forward to stake their pet claim and are already licking their chops at the thought of implementing hudud, a legal move which I suspect has more to do with consolidating their power than any pious piety and which will render their positions impervious to questioning by the hoi polloi as they know they, the majlis ulama, will be the only ones who will be 'untouched' by the harsh penal code of the hudud.

Why? How? Because they will the ones who decide who shall be prosecuted for whatever and who will be found guilty, wakakaka.

Additionally, they decided to go for broke and grabbed as many seats as possible, even and especially from their PKR ally, wakakaka. Like thugs, they even attempted to violently prevent Chegubard from submitting his papers for the Sungai Acheh state seat. Alhamdulillah, they weren't successful.

Chegubard

Five more days to go! What other peccadilloes and political atrocities will we witness? wakakaka.

Poor Dr Mahathir has worked himself into a frenzy of racist spewing even unto saying untrue stuff like Lim Kit Siang was responsible for May 13. One of UMNO's kitchen sink wakakaka.

The son of the late Gaffar Baba stepped in to tell the truth, that while Lim Kit Siang was actually in Sabah at the time of the tragic May 13, it was Dr Mahathir himself who had supported UMNO (Tun Razak) engineering of the tragic May 13 incident to depose Tunku. Good work by Mohd Tamrin Abdul Ghafar and DAP advisor, Zaid Ibrahim - for more, see Malaysiakini Ex-Umno man defends DAP against May 13 charge.

Najib and Mahathir have been playing good cop, bad cop all along, with each selecting the role he prefers. It's a shame that Bapa Bangsa Malaysia has become Bapa Bangsat Malaysia.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are - Robert Louis Stevenson

It's not only UMNO throwing in the kitchen sink. I have NOT been impressed at all by the wife of the world's best private investigator coming in at this juncture to tell us of alleged recent nefarious interference in her life, with predictable (or desired?) outcomes.

There have already been so many inconsistencies demonstrated by her husband and she has now added to that list of inconsistencies, for example, first informing us she didn't know what her husband was doing, then asserting her husband didn't do this and that. But really, the timing of her media interview sucks.

Anyway, on that evening of 05 May 2013, we'll know one way or other which coalition gets to govern Malaysia for the next five years (or less, as our political system is that of a Westminster democracy where a PM can, with the approval of HM the Agong, dissolve Parliament early and call for a new election), indeed, with or without the 'help' of the EC, or with or without the use of the so-called 'indelible' ink, wakakaka.

Meanwhile down in Oz, friends who went to Canberra to process passport renewals and whatnot, came back relating stories gleaned from fellow Malaysians at the High Commission that BN was doomed, wakakaka.

Another case of counting the chooks before the eggs have been hatched? Bet you the UMNO will not lie down quietly on its back and accept the long overdue screwing it should get. Things are likely to get even more vile, vicious and violent as we get nearer 05 May 2013, inclusive of self-planted and detonated devices for sympathy votes, wakakaka.

Note I've underlined 'which coalition' (no single party will emerge with a election majority) because I'm disappointed by the way campaign events have moved along, deliberate or unwitting, towards a presidential style election as a choice between Najib Tun Razak or Anwar Ibrahim (though many PAS members would silently disagree with the latter, wakakaka).

There is no denying that the reputation, personality and charisma of a coalition leader is important and can attract or/and sway the opinions of voters, but I would have loved to see the election fought over policies and of course the governing track record of a coalition, which alas, we Malaysians have been less than fortunate in that throughout our nation's independent political experience, we have only experienced one ruling political coalition. Besides, what's there to choose between Najib and Anwar? wakakaka.

Of course, when we talk about governing, we include and embrace issues like competency (performance), integrity (non-corruptibility), transparency (good governance), and accountability (fiscal responsibility and prudence).

In this, some could claim the virgin (or lack of) track record of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition should be an advantage because they have a clean slate. But equally so, others could argue voters would be chancing their and their children's future by voting for a coalition without any track record in governing.

Likewise, some could claim the track record, warts and all, of the Barisan Nasional coalition would be an advantage because they are able to show they have brought the nation to where it is today. But then, others could argue that voters could have obtained a far better deal (look at Singapore as an example) by voting for the alternative political choice which will be less corrupt, more prudent and less wasteful, more effective, efficient and accountable, and asserte these by pointing to the performance of state governments the Pakatan Rakyat have governed for the last five years (despite severe handicaps, wakakaka).

Though almost every voters have more or less made up their mind, the competitors are working on their 'more or less' because some voters can be a wee fickle (like a couple of my Ex's, wakakaka) and liable to last minute change of minds.

And this is what Nat Tan has attempted to do with his letter to Malaysiakini titled In business and gov’t, folk gain from competition though I think poorly of his attempt at the following analogy he wrote:

It is as if for all time, our neighbourhood has had only Hypermarket A, and no other supermarket.

As in all monopolies, the lack of choice for the consumer inevitably means higher prices and terrible service.

Today, for what is in effect the first time ever, we have the opportunity to allow Hypermarket B to open its doors in our neighbourhood.

Viable competition creates immediate ripples: both competitors suddenly trip over themselves in trying to reduce prices, offer rewards, and provide better service.

Customer satisfaction means nothing to a business without competitors, it means everything to a business that must beat its competition to survive. A consumer without options is a consumer without power.

How can a government elected into power faced governing 'competition'? There can only be one government of Malaysia. It's either so-called Hypermarket A or Hypermarket B, unlike the commercial world where both can exist at the same time as hypermarkets and where the public can choose between shopping at A or B, or even both!

Sorry Nat, poor pathetic analogy.

The far superior advice, zillions of kilometres by far, comes from Khoo Kay Peng who posted Irrational Voters & Check-and-Balance: SAY NO TO 2/3 MAJORITY! at his blog.

Khoo has been spot in by his observation of voters', or more correctly, party supporters' irrationality as the one I mentioned earlier about Michelle Yeoh and the 3 PKR members in Kedah.

In his post he advises voters to consider 4 points before voting, most of which will be wasted on those irrational voters. But the one I believe is a gem is this:

Do not allow any political coalition/party to gain a 2/3 majority. In the last 5 years, the reforms that we enjoy is a result of a strong opposition. A good check-and-balance needs a good government and a strong and constructive government (should be) opposition.

Well pointed out, Khoo. For years we had experienced the evils of 2/3 parliamentary majority which allowed the BN government to muck around with our Constitution, the most amended in the World, surely a record for our own Malaysian Book of Records. And we have been bloody responsible for giving BN that 2/3 majority.

A coalition requires 113 to rule (112 majority plus a speaker). Give the one you prefer, say, 123 with an extra 10 MPs for political stability. We must avoid giving any coalition or party a 2/3 majority again.

Considering Dr Mahathir, the obsessed proponent of the idea of 2/3 majority, indeed insisting on it even as late as yesterday, had once said if he won by one single vote he would still rule, it's a bit rich for him to demand 2/3 as a minimum standard of a good government.

I suspect he wants to be like the captain of the aircraft carrier in The Final Countdown movie and travel back into time when he was PM, with all the weapons. For him he won't face a dilemmatic problem in decision-making as had challenged the captain of the aircraft carrier captain in the movie. He would simply blast all opposition to smithereens regardless of whether he might interfere with history as it had unfolded, wakakaka.

His so-called lecture on some bullshit 'solidarity' to naval personnel at Lumut, as informed by S Thayaparan in Malaysiakini's Something rotten in Lumut naval base is a lamentable politicization of the military.

Thayaparan wrote: Many former and current serving armed forces personnel are bewildered by Navy chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar's comments that former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad was addressing the crowd in the Lumut naval base about "solidarity" and not "politics".

Why do the armed forces need a lecture in solidarity? Whom do they have to come together against? And the implication here, considering that Mahathir is the Perkasa patron, is that solidarity means Malay/Muslim solidarity and the question, then becomes, is this the kind of solidarity that a supposed multiracial 1Malaysia armed forces requires?

But PKR has been equally bad as well in bringing on board the despicable former IGP, Musa Hassan. PKR is certainly living up to its 'taxi sapu' label.

Anyway back to the issue of a government with a 2/3 majority. Such a government will be tempted, as BN was, to muck around with the Constitution and various other agreements our founding fathers had agreed upon.

Yes, so much is at stake that, as mentioned, each side has already resorted to throwing in the kitchen sink.

Recall I mentioned in my previous post Najib's Han Chiang Counteroffensive? the caretaker PM would do well to woo the Chinese voters on a topic close to their hearts, namely, vernacular education.

As I have written several times before, it's not so much vernacular education per se that the Chinese are concerned about, but rather the high and reliable standards of education they have come to favourably identify Chinese independent schools with, while viewing national types schools either with disdain/disrespect or suspicions, or both.

The quite recent exposures of the racist behaviour of BTN-ized headmasters of national type schools had merely consolidated their suspicions their children would have gotten a rotten deal if they had attended national type schools.

Unfortunately, visitors reading and interacting vis-a-vis my previous post have strayed away from the thrust of my article into social debates over the merits and demerits of vernacular education. My post has been about the politics and not social dimension of vernacular education.

As my erstwhile matey, sweetie Helen Ang once remarked in Malaysiakini's Di mana bumi ku pijak:

"The [Chinese education] boat has left the harbour and sailed too far to turn back now."

Be that as it may, I thank my visitors for their interesting discussions which perhaps I will use to formulate a new post sometime in the future. 

Thus, Najib and Muhyiddin have both played on the education theme promising to build or improve Chinese schools in Alor Setar, Pokok Sena, Johor, Rawang, etc, and even approved Han Chiang College as a university college with a grant of RM1 million. It's a pity Najib didn't capitalize on the occasion to announce approval of the UEC. He would have stolen a gia-normous march on Pakatan with all the attendant political benefits.

Quite frankly Najib and Education Minister Muhyiddin would have obtained more certain support from the Chinese if they had done this much earlier as there now exists a high degree of scepticism about BN promises, but I suppose it's never too late.

But nonetheless, much as Pakatan may not like what I now say, Najib would have scored a few brownie points with the Chinese voters - though I stress, only a few brownie points - on approving Han Chiang university college status.

We continue to watch with interests, wakakaka.