PKR signals war to DAP in Sarawak

TMI - PKR names candidates for 15 ‘non-negotiable’ Sarawak seats (extracts):

Dr Jayakumar made the announcement on behalf of PKR elections director Nurul Izzah Anwar, the Lembah Pantai MP who was barred from entering Sarawak earlier in the day.

He said the 15 seats were deemed "non-negotiable", ahead of talks with partners DAP and Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) in Pakatan Harapan.

The term 'non-negotiable', especially used among supposed allies, is undeniably arrogant, combative, preemptively negates options for cooperative discussions or comprises, and smacks of a lamentably nasty 'ketuanan' mentality, but then PKR has this selfish habit of making unilateral public announcement on seat allocations while never fails to get the goat of its allies.

Apart from a propensity to seize the lion's share of Pakatan seat allocation, PKR has been known to want a monopoly on mixed ethnic constituencies (on whatever nebulous basis it has claimed as its party credentials) while at the same time avariciously eyes the attractive blue ribbon seats with Chinese majority in which DAP has traditionally contested.

Thus, we would expect PKR in claiming it's a multi-racial party to want most or all of the mixed-ethnic seats while at the same to also demand a sizable chunk of the blue-ribbon Chinese-majority seats as well, two humongous gluttonous bites of the cherry chiku (sapodilla, manilkara zapota).

We saw PKR's selfish avaricious gluttonous appetite for seats in the last Sarawak election where it unilaterally, preemptively, and arrogantly grabbed 52 (subsequently 49) seats out of an available 71 state constituencies - yes, kid you not, 52 out of only 71 seats, wakakaka, leaving 19 to be shared among DAP, PAS and SNAP. It even talked down patronizingly at SNAP.

But it ended up with a bloody well-padan-muka tummyache, winning only a miserable 3 out of 49, while DAP won 12, wakakaka.

So the jealous budak kecil PKR wailed and ranted post-election like the sore loser it was, has been and undoubtedly will be.

Yes, it groused, groaned and grumbled like a green-eyed monster, suddenly accusing DAP of staying safe in urban areas instead of venturing forth into rural constituencies, conveniently forgetting that its own self had unilaterally sapu all 49 (initially 52) seats, thus denying DAP the opportunity to contest in the outback. What @$$h*le logic!

As I wrote in May 2011 in a post titled PKR's green-eyed monster:

 ….. a disgraceful petulant sour grapes merajuking Baru Bian … told The Malaysian Insider PKR wants DAP and PAS to prove they’re multiracial, but obviously targeting the DAP.

He claimed that PKR “...wants its Pakatan Rakyat PR partners to contest in ‘black seats’ in the next general election and dismiss the notion that they cannot cross the racial divide.”

He also told reporters that PKR “... could not continue shouldering the burden of contesting in BN strongholds alone."

Shouldering the burden of contesting in BN strongholds alone? My bloody foot, don't make my toes laugh!

This has been the state head of a party who preemptively grabbed 52 (subsequently 49) seats without even a thought for its coalition allies, presumably in an unrealistic expectation PKR could be the winning Pakatan member with the majority of seats, with him as CM wakakaka.

Here’s a case of a greedy gluttonous grabbing beast which had refused to share and ate more than it could practically swallow, and then blamed DAP for its tummyache. Padan muka and wakakaka.

To summarise, as expected, as known and as true to its selfish gluttonous nature, PKR the ultra kiasu creature has again done the same thing in seat allocation for the coming state election, ignoring its own history that in the last Sarawak state election it also UNILATERALLY gobbled the lion's share of seats but ended up as a dismal failure (its true intrinsic self, wakakaka).

To reiterate, the arrogant and selfish use of the term 'non-negotiable' in a PREEMPTIVE and UNILATERAL public announcement could possibly mean a likely war with DAP and Amanah, especially the former.

Push comes to shove, DAP should bite the bullet and contest the seats it feels it has a good chance of winning even if it means a 3-corner fight with PKR and BN.

I say this because we need to remember the DAP in Sarawak is unlike its more accommodating Peninsula branch, and therefore is more inclined to meet the Sarawak PKR head on!

Just a reminder of the Sarawak DAP's independent nature (from Peninsula control) it was the first in the old Pakatan to break off completely with PAS.

OK, it's time to prune off PKR, at least in Sarawak if not in Peninsula, wakakaka.

Malaccan Polyglot

Nowadays the word 'polyglot' would remind me of Hang Tuah, mainly because once Dr Azly Rahman wrote about Malaydom's most famous warrior (or most notorious, depending on your political philosophy) being that in his article titled a most tongue-twisting (wakakaka) Neo-feudalism of the cybernetic Malays, specifically on the influence of the legendary Tuah on the Malay psyche.

Dr Azly wrote: “The concept of a hero in Malay society is enshrined in Hang Tuah, the most popular symbol of the warrior-class in Malay history; the good ‘polyglot’, the magical-mystical Malay hero who pledged blind loyalty to the Sultan. The image of the warrior-blind loyalist is well-inscribed into the literature and consciousness of the Malays”.

Re above paragraph I am not going into the eternal dilemmatic question of Tuah's loyalty to a tyrannical sultan versus his bizarre treacherous disloyalty to his best friend, someone who had actually defended Tuah's honour by defying and rebelling against the sultan's cruel tyranny.

My interest in this post is more on the word 'polyglot' which incidentally means 'a person well-versed or in command of several languages'.

It has often set me wondering what were the languages that Tuah knew and used.

We have been informed that Tuah was born in Malacca, and started life as a woodcutter. He learnt silat and some form of meditation from his sifu, a sage by the name of Adi Putera.

Next we knew, Tuah was already an admiral in the confidence of the Malacca sultan, travelling with the ruler to Java where he somehow (against the legend of a magic keris) was able to defeat Taming Sari, the eponymous owner of said magical keris.

Well, the legend which surely must have been bullshit and proven so by Tuah himself, was that the keris Taming Sari would make its owner invincible or undefeatable, but yet on two occasions, Tuah was able to defeat the respective owner of that very keris.

Firstly, he defeated the Javanese warrior Taming Sari, owner of said magic keris, and was thus presented the keris by the Javanese ruler for his feat. Next, he killed his friend-enemy, Hang Jebat, despite the latter being in possession of the keris.

Dei Jebat Tambee, lend me your keris for a while. Take mine, it's sharper 

Today some provided explanations for that contradiction, not unlike latter-day Christians explaining away mysteries or horrid and unjust scenarios in the bible to budak2 kecil, eg. Jephthah sembileh-ing his daughter as a human sacrificial offering to Yahweh, or why Judah was not executed for the profane crime of lustful incest with Tamar his daughter-in-law, wakakaka.

Yes, they suggested that Tuah had somehow tricked the owners, respectively Taming Sari himself and Hang Jebat, of possession of the keris thus rendering them no longer invincible.

If so, then Taming Sari the keris did f*all in ensuring its two owners were really invincible including not succumbing to being conned like budak2 kecil, wakakaka.

Anyway, I digress (aiyah, alamak, adoi, again lah, wakakaka).

So back to the post's thread, what were or would have been the languages that Tuah was well-versed in, remembering he was no doubt a great fighter but nonetheless one who was an uneducated woodcutter?

I think we'd be safe to say that likely he spoke Malay (wakakaka), perhaps even Thai though this might be a wee doubtful, and presumably some Javanese. In his time there was no such thing as Indonesia nor Bahasa Indonesia.

But I reckon there would have been more languages in his command to make him earned the distinction of being a 'polyglot'.

Perhaps he spoke Chinese as well as he was said to have travelled to China as a Malacca emissary, though whether the Chinese he spoke was Mandarin, Canto, Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka, or perhaps many or all of the mentioned, was unknown.

If he did speak Chinese, this would bring us dangerously close to a contemporary myth that Hang Tuah could have been Chinese, profiled as possibly a kungfu-skilled imperial bodyguard to Princess Hang Li Po who was sent by the Emperor of China as bride for the Sultan. And after being domiciled in Malacca for years Tuah picked up Malay and even Javanese.

Princess Hang Li Po

The idea of Hang Tuah being Chinese must be a repulsive suggestion and totally unacceptable to Malays, especially today's Malays wakakaka. Personally I have to admit I don't believe in this myth.

Leaving aside for a moment the dilemmatic question of Tuah's heroic status vis-a-vis his dodgy character in that troubling duel-to-the-death with best friend-worst foe, Jebat, how could Malaydom's greatest hero be a f* Chinaman? Wakakaka.

It's not unlike the traumatic identity situation of the Jews' greatest hero in the 1930's. Then Sigmund Freud, a Jew himself, showed another side to his fame which most Jews wish to hide, wakakaka.

Freud might not have been the first scholar to point out that the Jews' greatest prophet-hero, Moshe (Moses), he of the 10 Commandments and the Parting of the Red Sea, was not a Hebrew nor an Israelite, BUT an Egyptian. But I suspect he was the first Jew to do so.

BTW, the ulama in PAS should not get a hard-on at this stage (wakakaka) because Moshe though an Egyptian was NOT an Arab nor a Muslim, as would be most of today's Egyptians.

He was not even an Egyptian during the times of Cleopatra VII Philopator (the most famous one who seduced both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony) or in any period during the Ptolemaic Dynasty (323 BCE to 30 BCE). The Ptolemaic Dynasty was Macedonian Greek.

Cleo played by the late Elizabeth Taylor 

by the by, Cleo was a 'polyglot', speaking Egyptian, ancient Greek, Macedonian, Latin and probably some Semitic languages like Phoenician and Punic (Carthaginian)

Moshe, if a real person, was an ancient Egyptian which no longer exists as a distinct race today.

The Book of Exodus (like the other Books of the Old Testament) shows so many discrepancies and inconsistencies that many wonder why or what the authors were up to. Freud, having noticed the puzzling way the biblical personalities and events were written up, wasn't one to remain silent.

As a Jew, Freud was invariably interested in the story of the Jews’ greatest prophet. But he wasn't satisfied with the biblical tale. He might not have been the first to notice the weird and bizarre discrepancies, but as mentioned above, he was probably the first Jew to put his observations into print, namely that Moshe (or Moses) was not a Hebrew nor an Israelite but an Egyptian.

In 1937 he published his thoughts on the matter in a book titled Moses And Monotheism, in which he also wrote on his personal feelings regarding his exposé on Moses:

"To deny a people the man whom it praises as the greatest of its sons is not a deed to be undertaken light-heartedly, especially by one belonging to that people."

He agonised that as a Jew, he was about to disabuse the Jewish people with his discerning observations on the true origin of their greatest prophet.

In fact, many Jewish leaders at that time begged him not to publish the book but then, as an academician he wasn't persuaded to hide what he thought was a plausible assessment. Even till today, many Jews are still angry with him for stating that Moshe wasn't a Hebrew nor Israelite - oh no, surely not one of those hated Egyptians?

Fortunately for Malaydom, thus far no Malay with impeccable academic credentials has wrote of Tuah as a Chinese. Only the Internet, where some articles would only be as good as perbualan kopitiam, had suggested this possibility.

But the term 'polyglot' still troubles me.

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Okay then, what about the Indian (Tamil) connections?

We know that the Tamil (Muslims) had powerful presence and influence in the Malacca Sultanate, with two Bendahara (PM of yonder days) being of Tamil origin, Bendahara Sri Nara Diraja Tun Ali and Bendahara Seri Maharaja Tun Mutahir.

We take it that those Tamils were fluent in Malay to be able to officiate as the Sultan's Bendahara, and no doubt would have still spoken in Tamil at home or in private, as some UMNO branches (especially in Penang) have been alleged to have conducted their entire meetings in, wakakaka.

Maybe instead of Tuah being Chinese, he was Tamil, thus speaking Malay, Javanese, Thai, Tamil, and even Malayalam, Telugu, etc?

There is actually an academic hypothesis that Hang Tuah and his 4 brethren-in-arms (the 'Lima Sekawan' of my primary schooldays' history reading, wakakaka) were based on the 5 Hindu warriors of the Mahabharata, presumably the Pandava Brothers or even their cousins-foes, the Kauravas.

Pandava Brothers with Draupadi, their 'shared' wife
lucky sweetie

Coincidentally there were five significant/renowned warriors in each respective family. The Pandava Brothers were Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, while the well-known Kauravas (out of Dhritarashtra's 101 sons) were Duryodhana, Dushasana, Vikarna,Yuyutsu and Dussala.

Ya, 'polyglot' lah!

Isn't this better than talking about the same old political issues of Najib vs Mahathir, Musa Hitam saying padan muka to Mahathir (wakakaka), Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim joining forces in a covet kitchen (sink) cabinet (wakakaka), Nurul Izzah being cozy-pally-buddy with Jacel Kiram, Tian Chua clearing Kiram family of any untoward association with terrorism, etc etc etc?

Wakakaka.

Do we have a Malaysian Opposition Leader?

At a time like this, I cannot but help wonder what Wan Azizah, the putative Opposition Leader of the Malaysian Federal Parliament, is planning, strategizing or doing? That is, if she is at all planning, strategizing or doing anything, other than to have her husband released from prison?

what do you mean I'm not doing anything?

see how well I wave my fan!

She allows her deputy president to deliberately ignore the existence of Pakatan Harapan in Selangor ... so as to please PAS, but which will inevitably render apart the coalition (and if Azmin Ali says there is no PH, then what coalition?) and its dreams of assuming majority rule post GE-14.

Really, is there any point in DAP and Amanah hanging on to a hope PKR will come to its senses vis-a-vis the 'bigger picture'?

Wan Azizah seemed to be in a (political) slumber regarding the passing of the NSC bill. 

And she was in a similar comatose regarding her 'admiral too long out at sea', until the political scene went so ferociously pissed off with the outrageous views of her party's Lumut MP that she was compelled to come out (seemingly reluctantly) to say 'something', but then only with a pathetic excuse for the seaman instead of a resounding repudiation and criticism of such a misogynistic medieval mafulat-ish view.

wah, ta'boleh tahan liao lah
hope he's not from Lumut

wakakaka 

In the same process she insulted the nation's sailors, perhaps unwittingly but in a terrible sexual sense.

Her daughter was allowed to pose cozily (in sheer unmitigated inexcusable bad judgement) with an alien whose notorious father, so-called Sultan Jamalul (Kiram) III, had already boasted of being responsible for the foreign intrusion in Sabah which saw a number of our policemen slaughtered and mutilated in the most heinous barbaric manner, ... and all these without a word of admonition from her as either party leader or mother.

Then her party VP and Information Chief had the outrageous temerity and effrontery to lecture to us that the Kiram family are not terrorists, thus TC's angel-in-our-midst is completely innocent, ipse dixit, wakakaka.

But what a horrible representation of the party's view of our security problems in Sabah. But then he did bite a policeman, didn't he?

nice bloke? 

As if that was not enough, the kang-kang taxi-sapu party's upper echelon leadership went ostrich-like in its attempts to whitewash the bizarre fact of its party whip in Penang abstaining from an important Pakatan stand against the state opposition motion.

OK, just hold that lovely position

wakakaka

Can you believe such a bizarre happening, a party whip so undisciplined as to deliberately ignore a party line on a motion? Wakakaka, only in PKR!

But dearie dearie me, just how in the world are voters going to believe in the integrity and reliability of a party's policies and promises when the party, especially its bizarre party whip, couldn't even uphold party discipline and unity on a policy stand in parliament, even at state level?

And worse, the party's state leader Rashid Hasnon was kept completely in the dark by the 5 recalcitrants and their Pearl-Habour-like intentions.

indeed, a day of infamy

Indeed, we can only commiserate with poor Rashid Hasnon, Penang's DCM I, for being embarrassingly played out kau kau by his own party whip and 4 others, and yet, nary a single word of chiding from party HQ which instead went into silly childish damage control with its bullshit on 'conscience voting'.

Ya men, with its bullshit 'conscience voting' (not applicable to Chegubard of course, wakakaka), PKR is now only as good as a bunch of Independents yang masing2 buat suka & syiok sendiri saje!

How can we voters then rely on its stated policies when its individual politician can do what each like in total disregard of party stand?

I think it'd be better (and timely) for DCM I Rashid Hasnon (Pantai Jerejak), Abdul Malik Kassim (Batu Maung), Dr Afif Bahardin (Seberang Jaya), and deputy speaker Maktar Shapee (Sungai Bakap) to review, reassess and reconsider their political future and do a 'Dr Bari', seriously (no wakakaka).

It's timely because the DAP is in need of experienced dedicated and conscionable Malay politicians. And it'll be okay to change party (together with your seats, wakakaka) since the PKR party president Wan Azizah herself welcomed Kamaruddin Jaafar, a PAS MP (Tumpat) when the latter moved over to join PKR, together with his federal position, wakakaka.

Assuming PKR is still in the new Pakatan Harapan, that is, if its sluttish kang-kang self doesn't elope with PAS to Sungai Golok* wakakaka, does PH still hope to takeover Putrajaya in 2018? Taan kookoo lah! (tunggu sj selama2nya)

* in 2010 Star Online reported: An average of four Malaysian Muslim couples solemnised their marriage (nikah) in southern Thailand every day during the first quarter of the year. Most of the cases were polygamy without the knowledge of their first wives, reported Berita Harian.

Surely Pakatan Harapan can find a better Opposition Leader.

Maybe someone like Mat Sabu if Amanah promises to not raise the syariah laws as being equivalent to our civil (secular) laws and not resurrect the hudud issue.

I would even be prepared to accept someone like gasp gulp omigosh Azmin Ali if he is not so kiasu as to continue flirting sluttishly with PAS, to ignore that cohort of ulamas and to focus on building up Pakatan Harapan (minus PAS).

Wan Azizah must be allowed to retire from politics and devote herself full time to the needs of her husband, because with her as coalition leader, Kapal Diraja Pakatan Harapan is still stuck in dry docks, even with an 'admiral too long out at sea', wakakaka.

KD Pakatan Harapan?

wakakaka

A kitchen sink called Anwar

FMT - Khairuddin says guilt not the issue in his support for Anwar (relevant extracts):

Bring back the 'good olde days' lah 

PETALING JAYA: Umno dissenter Khairuddin Abu Hassan has denied that his call for Anwar Ibrahim’s leadership was prompted by feelings of guilt for sparking the political persecution that led to the jailed opposition leader’s downfall.

“That is not the issue,” he said in an apparent response to PKR President Wan Azizah Ismail, who speculated yesterday that the time Khairuddin recently spent in incarceration had produced remorse and the motivation to repent.

In a Facebook posting today, Khairuddin said he was motivated only by the desire to see all Malay leaders united in the interest of rebuilding the nation, which according to him is on the verge of collapse.

In 1998, Khairuddin published the controversial book 50 Dalil Kenapa Anwar Ibrahim Tidak Boleh Jadi PM, which some have argued was the beginning of Umno’s persecution of its then deputy president.

Well, I have to say Khairuddin has been right, though only partially, wakakaka.

I would say he's a man unlikely to have any guilt about attacking Anwar, thus he has been correct in his denial of even that flimsy straw (of morale) to a poor politically drowning Wan Azizah.

But why has he been only partially correct?

That's because I doubt in his call for Anwar to be released from prison he had been being "motivated only by the desire to see all Malay leaders united in the interest of rebuilding the nation" (wakakaka, even my toes are laughing).

Let us never ever forget he's Mahathir's man, and we know that Mahathir has one current obsession, to remove Najib from the UMNO ledaership post and consequently the PM position, or vice versa (wakakaka).

So it would appear that Mahathir is now down to throwing even the kitchen sink at Najib, by attempting to coopt Anwar or more likely, PKR (and perhaps even Pakatan Harapan) in his campaign against Najib.

The English idiom 'everything but the kitchen sink' means 'every possible thing under the sun you can imagine', so when the kitchen sink is also included, wow, that's way beyond every conceivable or imaginable person he would coopt against Najib to now include even his once (for him) unmentionable bête noire Anwar Ibrahim, wakakaka.

Wait! Maybe this is an excellent occasion to update his bête noire as being Ah Jib Gor and not Manmanlai, wakakaka.

RPK recently wrote: When Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali flew to London to meet Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad the alarm bells starting wailing like a banshee and the Boffin Boys in Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s office went on red alert.

Azmin meeting Dr Mahathir was not what was of interest as much as the fact that Azmin was there as an emissary of Anwar Ibrahim.

The following day Azmin flew back to Malaysia and two days later he visited Anwar in the Sungai Buloh Prison to report the result of that meeting.

Basically, there was only one purpose for that meeting — which was to see how Pakatan Rakyat (and now Pakatan Harapan) could enter into some sort of pact with the old man. And if so then what sort of pact would it be and what would be the terms of that pact?

All Pakatan wanted was to get into federal power while all Dr Mahathir wanted was to see Najib kicked out of office. So if a merger of interests was possible then a pact would also be possible. It would be what is called a win-win situation.

And in a win-win situation, as opposed to winner takes all situation, it would mean compromises need to be made. You gain some ground but must lose some in return.

One year ago such a meeting of the minds would not have been possible. The very thought of Dr Mahathir making a pact with an Anwar-led Pakatan would tantamount to blasphemy of the highest order, both for Dr Mahathir as well as for Anwar.

But would this be Mahathir's final attempt at removing Najib?

No, I don't think so as the old man will continue to do so until either he or Najib dies, politically that is, wakakaka.