Johor car registration - Anthony Loke's tip-toed through the tulips

Prior to GE14, when told by his party, the DAP, to contest in the federal seat of Labis, Dr Boo Cheng Hau refused, preferring to contest in his old state seat in Skudai.

Dr Boo Cheng Hau (DAP)

too straightforward and not sly enough to be a politician, wakakaka 

But the DAP for reasons unknown except to its movers and shakers, took Skudai away from Dr Boo and in a hurtful twist, nominated his mentee Tan Hong Pin, already ADUN for Mengkibol, to contest.

Dr Boo had questioned DAP's bizarre decision to place him in Labis when several other senior DAP members such as Teng Chang Khim, Gobind Singh Deo and also Johor-born Teo Nie Ching had rejected the Labis seat before him.

No wonder Dr Boo suspected something fishy for him in Labis. OK, now leaving aside the story of Dr Boo, badly marginalised-by-DAP, we came to know that the DAP eventually nominated a retired party old timer, Pang Hok Liong to the seat of Labis.

Happily, Pang, with nothing to lose as he was already retired, turned up heroically for duty in the 2018 GE14 to contest MCA's Chua Tee Yong (son of Chua Soi LeK) in Labis and, eff the odds, won the seat, wakakaka. 

Today, YB Pang Hok Liong MP, recently had the temerity to raise the status of 2 Johor vehicles with royal licence plates in Parliament. He asked if two vehicle licence plates in Johor, numbered 'TMJ' (wakakaka) and 'RZ', used by members of the state royal family, are registered with the Road Transport Department?

Licence plate 'TMJ' is used by, guess who?, of course TMJ himself, wakakaka, and licence plate 'RZ' by the Johor Queen, HM Raja Zarith.

That question in Parliament blew a fuse, raised a storm and initiated a Malay tsunami of vociferous protest, objection and outcry.

How dare:

(a) a Chinese,

(b) member of that biadab-ish Chinese-dominated party, DAP, and worse,

(c) a Johorean and the MP for Labis,

has the bloody blooming biadab-ish audacity to touch on matters royal to Johor, and quite frankly, out-of-reach to a Dhimmi.

BTW, 'Dhimmi' means, according to Wikipedia, (literally) "protected person", referring to the state's obligation under sharia to protect the individual's life, property, and freedom of religion, in exchange for loyalty to the state (and for modern times, a non-relevant and non-applicable [for now, wakakaka] tax).

Transport Minister Anthony Loke wisely refused to confirm or deny if the “TMJ” and ‘RZ” vehicle plates used by two Johor royals are registered with the Road Transport Department (RTD), which my bloody suspicious mind believes that under Anthony Loke's parliamentary Baguazhang, aren't, wakakaka.

Baguazhang is one of the 3 main Chinese martial arts of the Wudang school, the other two being Taiji quan and Xing Yi Quan. It is more broadly grouped as an internal practice. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring to the trigrams of the I Ching, one of the canons of Taoism

Even when pressed for comment, Loke evasively told reporters to refer to his ministry’s written parliamentary statement on the issue yesterday — which, wakakaka, neither confirmed nor denied the registration nor answered the question surrounding the road-worthiness of the vehicles.

In essence, Anthony Loke showed why he is today among the top leadership in the DAP - he Bagua-wise and Taiqi-wise, shrewdly tiptoed through the bunga raya, pokok daun pandan and sireh by saying sweet nothing (bugger all), demonstrating his high sense of political survival, unlike straight-as-a-ruler Dr Boo Cheng Hau, wakakaka.

Yes, he brilliantly 'walked the circle a la Baguazhang' and evaded any probable conflict with the Johor Royal Institution even though on legal points vis-a-vis Pang's query in Parliament, he was significantly A.W.O.L as the Transport Minister, wakakaka.

Pandai ponteng tanpa ketidakhadiran, (absent without being absent or silent without being silent), wakakaka again.

Meanwhile, the eff-up Johor DUN, with some (wakakaka) already in HM's black book, saw a golden opportunity to redeem themselves as Pahlawan Melayu a la Hang Tuah, fell over among themselves to show their outrage at Pang's non-Melayu biadab-ness, proclaiming their utmost loyalty to HM and the royal family.

They swore fealty to the nth degrees, indeed beyond the constitutional rights of HM and his royal family, but I guess in such a situation where their loyalty are already in question and in HM's black book, all gross exaggerations of professed fealty to their liege Lord would in their bodek minds be most welcome, wakakaka

However, what this demonstrates is that a Chinese Malaysian, no matter how loyal he is to 'King and Country', must not try to be too clever or even diligent in performing his statutory duties whenever his said duties may affect Malay royalty. No one will pat his back and say 'well done Pang'.

Thus, it's better to STFU, earn buta gaji, and let Mamak eff the Royals. Yes, Mamak's have been getting away with eff-ing Royals since the golden era of the Malacca Sultanate, but alas, Chinese, no matter how taat setia they might be, can't.

Ain't Dr Boo now happy he is not the MP for Labis? Wakakaka.