I knew I posted DAP - where sex romp is like snowflakes in hell yesterday morning. So when I saw the same title under RPK’s name in the blog corner of malaysiakini last night, where he had in turn placed my posting in the blog corner of his Malaysia-Today I felt a wee strange though not entirely surprised as RPK had published some of my postings before.
Still, it’s a delightful honour he picked my posting for his selection of what bloggers around Malaysia have been writing about.
So I decided to hop across from malaysiakini to RPK’s blog to see what comments my post had elicited as M-Today is known to have free range, fierce and feral visitors. Yes, RPK has a no-holds-barred blog which I admire in many ways.
But mate, let me tell you there weren’t any snowflakes there but plenty of hell for poor KTemoc ;-)
... which reminds me of what one of my pals told me some time ago, that people who visit blogs to comment should have not only an 18-years old age indicated on their MyKad but also the ‘can read’ and ‘can comprehend’ status, perhaps in the place where their MyKad currently state they belong to the Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, etc religion.
Some, nay, most of the comments cannot be reproduced here as they would be too ferocious or even indelicate for sweeties who may visit my blog (I am eternally hopeful).
BUT BUt But but ..... yes but I have to partly accept the blame as my buddies had warned me before that some people just don’t understand satire. Once I even had a bloke who condemned me for 'my views' in one of my Dodgee Dimsum’s letters ;-) well, what more can I say.
Even the title of my post on the DAP, '... where sex romp is like snowflakes in hell’ has been already a giveaway, yet yeT yET YET ..... hahhahhhahahahahahahaahahahaaaaaaaaaa
I don’t suppose those rather feral visitors to M-Today would understand what a ‘back handed compliment’ (to the DAP) means if they couldn’t a satire?
Let’s recapture what I had written in my last few paragraphs to see what had driven them over the wall. I had posted:
I heard one special guest to the DAP strategic planning workshop in Cameron highlands had entreated the DAP leaders to 'lighten up' a wee bit, to smile a little, even to take up some sports, like say, tennis or horse-riding, or maybe read Shakespeare because there's lots of humour in Shakespeare - stuff like 'Brutus, Brutus, wherefore art thou' ;-) and 'Et tu, Romeo' - imagine the Grand Ole Man saying that, or would he be saying instead: "Out, damn'd spot! out, I say"?
Then there is of course that famous Shakespearean advice in his Henry VI: 'Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.'
Yes, I think the DAP leaders should take up his advice, though not on the last quotation of 'Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all'. That's reserved for a special someone.
Now, if those angry comments were made by PKR devotees I can understand that, but disappointingly, I suspect some were by DAP members or supporters.
But truly the prize for the day (or was it night) goes to one person who commented in response to my concluding paragraph of “And I suppose Lim KS or Lim GE would refuse the suggestion to travel in a chauffeured Mercedes, apart from the likelihood they won't have the money to buy such an expensive limousine.”
Well, obviously he didn’t understand my double entendre, because he wrote:
“KTemoc, I did not know u had such small brains. Yeah Lim KS and son do not have the money to buy expensive cars and u know why?
Because they did not steal the nation's money and opportunity and enrich their children - until Forbes takes notice.
You must be a pariah or at least born for one”
As to what i would say about his social demotion of me to being a Harijan or Dalit for the double entendre is that, he has proven my point about a DAP member (or perhaps an ardent supporter) being serious and without humour - hahahhahahhaahhaaaahhahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa what did I tell you hahahahahahhahaaaaaaaa
All I can do is to is to implore upon RPK to explain to his visitors what a satire, back handed compliment and double entendre mean, but I seriously (hahaha that 'serious' word again) doubt he would oblige hahhahahahahaahahaaaahahahahahhaaaa - well, at least please please, to save me from being all in stitches hahahahahahahahhaahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Maybe I may have to lean on Lim KS and Lim GE to help – but, would it have to be submitted in triplicates without any typos? hhahahahahahhahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Hmmm, I suppose having their MyKad indicate ‘can read’ and ‘can comprehend’ would be far more difficult than poor Lina Joy changing her religious status from Muslim to Christian.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Friday, May 04, 2007
post Ijok - Quo vadis DAP?
Post Machap, our opposition leader cried out in Parliament that the DAP had won a moral victory, and post Ijok, Anwar Ibrahim did the same. So what’s the difference between these two opposition personalities?
The degree of the loser’s whinging, whining and wailing!
And what’s the point of grandstanding statements by Khalid Ibrahim that he’ll be sending a team of accountants, architect and whatnot to monitor Parthiban’s actions?
Apart from the obvious melodrama of an ungracious loser (even given BN's obscene pork barrelling and the usual use of officialdom obstacles), and yes, the moral boosting value for a demoralised PKR, one has to ask how much such a team of specialists will cost PKR? Or, is it to be the personal gift of Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim?
The DAP must not fall into that trap of useless oratorical cleverness or grandstanding.
The Ijok lesson, and undoubtedly that of Machap too, is that voters’ perception of what’s right or wrong may be very different from the opposition parties’ – something for the DAP to ponder over, considering a political party like the DAP which claims to represent the people ought to be able to tell what the people really want.
The DAP shouldn't grasp at the straw of the slight swing towards it in Machap and towards PKR in Ijok - those swings were each too insignificant to constitute any real meaning or message. It could well be an early warning to the BN (MCA and Gerakan) to pull up their socks rather than support for PKR.
Now, once upon a time DAP has a three-prong and very effective machine:
Tine No 1 - the Lim Kit Siang type and abstract concepts of democracy and the arty farty issues that appeal to the intellectuals and well-educated (probably western-educated)
Tine No 2 - the Karpal Singh type and his fearless fight for the people’s rights. His most notable record was his defence of a 14-year old boy who was to be hung for unwittingly carrying a firearm in a paper bag. The Lion of Gelugor is certainly the Khalsa warrior.
Lim Guan Eng would be another DAP warrior for his fight on moral and legal issues for an underage Malay girl. For that, he ended up in prison, and not because of a power struggle for his own position & interest.
Now the first and second prongs are merely KT's arbitary divisioning for ease of discussions when there is of course no such delineated divisions. Those guys may move from one area of issues to the other easily. But it serves to highlight their differences with the third and fairly important area.
Tine No 3 - the Lee Lam Thye type who deals with mundane issues like hawkers licence, electricity or water for those without, city hall’s regulations or harassment for the small business.
Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make a mighty ocean
And a very big land
More Lee Lam Thye’s are what the DAP seems to be lacking for a while. I said ‘… seems to be …’ because if the DAP have been addressing these street level issues for the common people since Lee Lam Thye left, I haven’t heard enough of them.
By contrast, look at the MCA – sneered at by most of us as fat cat sycophants polishing UMNO’s whatever for business benefits. Yes, the MCA is a party of businessmen but that’s no more different than many parties in the West. It’s actually not a crime to support or be pro-big business except perhaps in Malaysia, where there is a perception (and rightfully so) of dodgy association and dodgy deals.
But leaving that aside, what can the MCA boast?
Well, it has Michael Chong who’s doing what Lee Lam Thye used to do for the DAP. And of course the Star would make sure those are highly publicised. It can always fall back on its (a bit dated by now) argument that it secured for many Chinese their citizenship, and it does have a number of little projects going on for the community. The Chinese silent majority sees that. But are they satisfied with them?
The answer has to be ‘yes’ and ‘no’. I’m going to make this short because I don’t want to over-promote the MCA – my piece is more for the opposition DAP.
The Chinese Malaysians are certainly fed up with the government and UMNO’s excesses and stuff like the NEP. But they are a pragmatic people, understanding the political situation they’re in. Thus they want basically three things from the government: Education, economy (3 bowls of rice!) and crime (no one wants their mum, sis or daughter robbed or raped). Which is more important? I honestly can’t tell.
And education needn’t necessarily be limited to vernacular education. What the Chinese want is quality education, not the half past six variety.
I have blogged so often about how UMNO’s (including that of one particular former UMNO Education Minister) messing around with national education like a political football, have driven the Chinese into the arms of the vernacular education circle. Here’s what I commented with a visitor in one of my earlier postings.
And with the Chinese, vernacular school today is really BIG, because education has been one of the central pillars of Chinese culture for more than a couple of thousand years, and the only dependable decent primary education of some standards in the eyes of most Chinese parents are the Chinese medium primary schools - even the non-Chinese parents have recognise this.
So it’s not so much of Chinese language education but more of an acceptable educational standards that the Chinese want.
The DAP should think about these 3 issues and discuss them in a multi-ethnic dimension. And please try not to bring out solutions that focus just around the non-Malays.
It should also deal more at the working blokes’ level (3 bowls of rice!) rather than worrying about restricting the BN to less than 2/3 majority – while the latter is important, its (or rather Lim Kit Siang’s) obsession with this issue may gradually estranged the community.
The other issue is that the DAP has been tagged as an anti-Melayu party. That's hardly surprising when Malays aren't expected to be all that crazy about a party that calls for meritocracy rather than affirmative action.
Apa itu 'meritocracy'? What's that? As far as the majority of the Malays see it, it's exactly what UMNO has been warning them about the DAP - an anti-Melayu Chinese party.
Mind you, some Chinese support the DAP precisely because of that. Even Anwar Ibrahim has borrowed the DAP mantra, obviously to win support from the Chinese – what he (Anwar) says when Chinese are not around is anybody’s guess.
The DAP must rethink its strategy. Its Malaysian Malaysia is not working, no, not with the Malays. The DAP must understand and deal with the Malay fear. How it tackles this reality will depend on and be a reflection of its leadership, vision and courage.
Now, please don’t argue that’s exactly what the DAP did in 1999 and recently in Ijok – that’s about Lim KS’s magic 2/3, and not about the Malay fear.
And while we're at it, the DAP should carefully rethink whether it's in its own interest to be so close with the PKR. In the same way UMNO is the single greatest undermining factor and thus the real 'enemy' for the MCA, the PKR will be exactly that for the DAP, especially come the next election. There cannot be two Chinese tigers on one opposition mountain
I’ll stop here and continue some other time.
The degree of the loser’s whinging, whining and wailing!
And what’s the point of grandstanding statements by Khalid Ibrahim that he’ll be sending a team of accountants, architect and whatnot to monitor Parthiban’s actions?
Apart from the obvious melodrama of an ungracious loser (even given BN's obscene pork barrelling and the usual use of officialdom obstacles), and yes, the moral boosting value for a demoralised PKR, one has to ask how much such a team of specialists will cost PKR? Or, is it to be the personal gift of Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim?
The DAP must not fall into that trap of useless oratorical cleverness or grandstanding.
The Ijok lesson, and undoubtedly that of Machap too, is that voters’ perception of what’s right or wrong may be very different from the opposition parties’ – something for the DAP to ponder over, considering a political party like the DAP which claims to represent the people ought to be able to tell what the people really want.
The DAP shouldn't grasp at the straw of the slight swing towards it in Machap and towards PKR in Ijok - those swings were each too insignificant to constitute any real meaning or message. It could well be an early warning to the BN (MCA and Gerakan) to pull up their socks rather than support for PKR.
Now, once upon a time DAP has a three-prong and very effective machine:
Tine No 1 - the Lim Kit Siang type and abstract concepts of democracy and the arty farty issues that appeal to the intellectuals and well-educated (probably western-educated)
Tine No 2 - the Karpal Singh type and his fearless fight for the people’s rights. His most notable record was his defence of a 14-year old boy who was to be hung for unwittingly carrying a firearm in a paper bag. The Lion of Gelugor is certainly the Khalsa warrior.
Lim Guan Eng would be another DAP warrior for his fight on moral and legal issues for an underage Malay girl. For that, he ended up in prison, and not because of a power struggle for his own position & interest.
Now the first and second prongs are merely KT's arbitary divisioning for ease of discussions when there is of course no such delineated divisions. Those guys may move from one area of issues to the other easily. But it serves to highlight their differences with the third and fairly important area.
Tine No 3 - the Lee Lam Thye type who deals with mundane issues like hawkers licence, electricity or water for those without, city hall’s regulations or harassment for the small business.
Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make a mighty ocean
And a very big land
More Lee Lam Thye’s are what the DAP seems to be lacking for a while. I said ‘… seems to be …’ because if the DAP have been addressing these street level issues for the common people since Lee Lam Thye left, I haven’t heard enough of them.
By contrast, look at the MCA – sneered at by most of us as fat cat sycophants polishing UMNO’s whatever for business benefits. Yes, the MCA is a party of businessmen but that’s no more different than many parties in the West. It’s actually not a crime to support or be pro-big business except perhaps in Malaysia, where there is a perception (and rightfully so) of dodgy association and dodgy deals.
But leaving that aside, what can the MCA boast?
Well, it has Michael Chong who’s doing what Lee Lam Thye used to do for the DAP. And of course the Star would make sure those are highly publicised. It can always fall back on its (a bit dated by now) argument that it secured for many Chinese their citizenship, and it does have a number of little projects going on for the community. The Chinese silent majority sees that. But are they satisfied with them?
The answer has to be ‘yes’ and ‘no’. I’m going to make this short because I don’t want to over-promote the MCA – my piece is more for the opposition DAP.
The Chinese Malaysians are certainly fed up with the government and UMNO’s excesses and stuff like the NEP. But they are a pragmatic people, understanding the political situation they’re in. Thus they want basically three things from the government: Education, economy (3 bowls of rice!) and crime (no one wants their mum, sis or daughter robbed or raped). Which is more important? I honestly can’t tell.
And education needn’t necessarily be limited to vernacular education. What the Chinese want is quality education, not the half past six variety.
I have blogged so often about how UMNO’s (including that of one particular former UMNO Education Minister) messing around with national education like a political football, have driven the Chinese into the arms of the vernacular education circle. Here’s what I commented with a visitor in one of my earlier postings.
And with the Chinese, vernacular school today is really BIG, because education has been one of the central pillars of Chinese culture for more than a couple of thousand years, and the only dependable decent primary education of some standards in the eyes of most Chinese parents are the Chinese medium primary schools - even the non-Chinese parents have recognise this.
So it’s not so much of Chinese language education but more of an acceptable educational standards that the Chinese want.
The DAP should think about these 3 issues and discuss them in a multi-ethnic dimension. And please try not to bring out solutions that focus just around the non-Malays.
It should also deal more at the working blokes’ level (3 bowls of rice!) rather than worrying about restricting the BN to less than 2/3 majority – while the latter is important, its (or rather Lim Kit Siang’s) obsession with this issue may gradually estranged the community.
The other issue is that the DAP has been tagged as an anti-Melayu party. That's hardly surprising when Malays aren't expected to be all that crazy about a party that calls for meritocracy rather than affirmative action.
Apa itu 'meritocracy'? What's that? As far as the majority of the Malays see it, it's exactly what UMNO has been warning them about the DAP - an anti-Melayu Chinese party.
Mind you, some Chinese support the DAP precisely because of that. Even Anwar Ibrahim has borrowed the DAP mantra, obviously to win support from the Chinese – what he (Anwar) says when Chinese are not around is anybody’s guess.
The DAP must rethink its strategy. Its Malaysian Malaysia is not working, no, not with the Malays. The DAP must understand and deal with the Malay fear. How it tackles this reality will depend on and be a reflection of its leadership, vision and courage.
Now, please don’t argue that’s exactly what the DAP did in 1999 and recently in Ijok – that’s about Lim KS’s magic 2/3, and not about the Malay fear.
And while we're at it, the DAP should carefully rethink whether it's in its own interest to be so close with the PKR. In the same way UMNO is the single greatest undermining factor and thus the real 'enemy' for the MCA, the PKR will be exactly that for the DAP, especially come the next election. There cannot be two Chinese tigers on one opposition mountain
I’ll stop here and continue some other time.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Anwar Ibrahim - between Syaitan DAP & the deep Green sea
Dear Anwar Ibrahim - for a man not even permitted by law to stand as a candidate in Malaysian elections until the end of April 2008 – is under political siege, nay, not from UMNO or the Barisan Nasional (BN), but from the DAP and PAS, his main allies in the sometimes-on sometimes-off so-called Barisan Alternatif.
PAS has now dangled the Kota Baru carrot in front of Anwar, asking him to contest in Kelantan in the next general election while allowing his wife Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to defend her Permatang Pauh seat.
Either PAS or the Star Online referred to his wife’s Permatang Pauh constituency as his stronghold, which may be misleading as the last election had shown.
Yes, one could argue that the narrow escape by Dr Wan Azizah had been due to the BN’s naughty whatever, but that’s exactly what will happen again especially if Anwar were to front up as a candidate for Permatang Pauh.
Tengku Razaleigh had also advised Anwar that he will lose Permatang Pauh the next time he contests there.
So will Anwar take up PAS’ offer?
Kelantan Legislative Assembly speaker Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Abdullah said of Anwar contesting in KB: “He has a good chance of winning in Kota Baru because the three state seats under the parliamentary area are held by PAS assemblymen.”
The Kota Baru incumbent is Zaid Ibrahim (BN). So we may ask Wan Abdul Rahim why the KB seat is held by BN if the three state seats under the parliamentary area are held by PAS assemblymen.
On Anwar’s call for PAS and DAP to cooperate with PKR in the polls, Wan Abdul Rahim, who is known as a party strategist, said: “Our relationship with PKR is very clear. It is our sole partner in the Barisan Alternatif.”
“… sole partner …” – guess that makes it plain.
... hardly surprising when DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said DAP would not work with PAS “under any circumstances” unless it dropped its Islamic state ideology.
PAS has now dangled the Kota Baru carrot in front of Anwar, asking him to contest in Kelantan in the next general election while allowing his wife Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to defend her Permatang Pauh seat.
Either PAS or the Star Online referred to his wife’s Permatang Pauh constituency as his stronghold, which may be misleading as the last election had shown.
Yes, one could argue that the narrow escape by Dr Wan Azizah had been due to the BN’s naughty whatever, but that’s exactly what will happen again especially if Anwar were to front up as a candidate for Permatang Pauh.
Tengku Razaleigh had also advised Anwar that he will lose Permatang Pauh the next time he contests there.
So will Anwar take up PAS’ offer?
Kelantan Legislative Assembly speaker Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Abdullah said of Anwar contesting in KB: “He has a good chance of winning in Kota Baru because the three state seats under the parliamentary area are held by PAS assemblymen.”
The Kota Baru incumbent is Zaid Ibrahim (BN). So we may ask Wan Abdul Rahim why the KB seat is held by BN if the three state seats under the parliamentary area are held by PAS assemblymen.
On Anwar’s call for PAS and DAP to cooperate with PKR in the polls, Wan Abdul Rahim, who is known as a party strategist, said: “Our relationship with PKR is very clear. It is our sole partner in the Barisan Alternatif.”
“… sole partner …” – guess that makes it plain.
... hardly surprising when DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said DAP would not work with PAS “under any circumstances” unless it dropped its Islamic state ideology.
"... under any circumstances unless ..." - well Lim, bloody make up your mind, because your “under any circumstances” excludes "unless".
Lim said: “I confirm that DAP is working with PKR but maintain the stand that we are not working with PAS.”
DAP chairman Karpal Singh drove a stake into the heart of Anwar’s call for a united front when he chided Anwar, saying the PKR could not have the “best of both worlds” and must choose either the DAP or PAS as its ally.
“…could not have the best of both worlds …” – but that’s Anwar Ibrahim’s speciality!
The Lion of Gelugor warned that DAP would not collaborate with PKR as long as PAS was in the picture, though he did affirm his party’s willingness to work with PKR.
Now, firm commitment has not been a noted feature in Anwar Ibrahim’s pronouncements thus far (unless it’s for or against UMNO).
So now, we await with abated breath for his decision or more likely, his renown Houdini-ish elegant evasive escape from the PAS & Parti-tindakan-demokratik political Panzer-like pincer attack.
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