Open Letter To Chua Soi Lek - Victim of the 3-man MCA snoop squad?

"Since my family has accepted my apology, I will continue to move on."

Datuk Seri Dr. Chua,

You shouldn't worry about your future in politic. You have been an excellent leader all this while and I could not give up the idea that you would become the President of MCA soon.

The only ones who do not accept your apology are those who are responsible for the "DVD" set up. I have been observing your movements since the scandal broke out, and I think you've been frank, straight forward, and naively honest. These are the basic elements of good leader. You had handled your case like a doctor should: amputated the "bad leg" without hesitation, applied with strong doses of medicine, and finished off clean and neat. This is the quality that current MCA leaderships are lacking. The current leaders are just not good enough to compete and work with whoever the political groups emerge in the future. The leader who is only spending time on eliminating his potential comrades is sinful, and betrayal of the trust from the grassroots.

Tun Mahatir left UMNO

What a shame! A man of such a high reputation has to restart his struggle against someone whom he recommended for the post of Prime Minister. Of course, he asked for it but unwillingly. He thought he was soft and weak that he could get him removed at wish after a term of governing the nation as prime minister. Not anymore, as he later found out, the man didn't want to give up despite all the demands for his resignation; he simply wants to continue until he's done. Tun Mahatir has a lot to protect his family and the so-called supporter's interests. There are simply so critical that removal of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is the only solution. One dynasty is not enough, and AAB dynasty has barely taking off.
Tun M's plan will not succeed this time that no one will take the risk following someone no longer has real power. Unlike before, Mahatir can easily rallied people to come to his aid at wish, not mentioning the resources from government where he could easily manipulate to his advantages. He will make himself looking like a fool at the end.
I really doubt that Tun M cares for his people (Malays), he merely makes use of his peoples to regain his family glory, fortune, and power. Maybe he's not totally not caring for his peoples, but I guess that he might be working for his family a lot more than the public.
Can Najib take over from AAB? Answer is "No" because Najib has been plaquing with the Mongolian Girl case and has been hardly able to be ambitious. Other UMNO leaders are not really able to cause any impact to AAB. That's why Tun M became impatient to the extent of quitting hoping that others in UMNO will follow suit in order to pressurise AAB to leave office.

Party Hopping - PR to BN, or Vice Versa

I wonder if Musa shares Anifah viewpoint that Sabah is like living in a nice bunglow but living next door to a toilet. Since the two are bothers, surely there are substance to believe that the two might have been conspiring to get what they want. Their "demand" is seen as putting more pressure on federal to release more development funds to the state - faster. Are they playing the "good guy & bad guy" show?

By the way, the political status quo should remain as it is for the sake of the nation. With 5 states and denial of BN with 2/3 majority, it is almost perfect to benefit the rakyat. PR has to show that they could run a government; as contrary to BN claim. BN has to learn being opposition whilst PR has to learn being government.

The recent call by PR for those elected to change their allegiance is unethical and harmful to the country, internally or externally.

YBs were elected on their particular platform which the voters decided to appoint, surely then, it’s only fair that they consult the people again out of ethic, and respect.

Don’t give the lame excuse that they could get away from the hopping if they crossed to the “right” party. There’s no such thing as the “right” party when it comes to party hopping, either side that you join, you’re still guilty of the sin.

An honest and sincere politician should resign their seat if losing faith in their existing platform and leaving the seat available for suitable candidate to fill. In fact, hopping by elected YB is an act of coward. Hopping in Sabah was a normal phenomenon twenty years ago. Hopping was “endorsed” by the people, but it is different today. People understand the issue better and do not want to be fooled again and again by those sub-standard politicians out to make a quick fortune for themselves. Bearing in mind, some of the elected representatives were not chosen because of their personal quality but rather, based on the party they belong.

Metal Theft & National Security

The recent rampant cases of stealing public metallic materials that caused blackout throughout the Sabah for 5-6 hours should serve as a critical warning to the country administrators. The menace is equivalent to the country being invaded by its own terrorists or "termites" that are out to destroy our basic infrastructures without which would slow down or causing further damages to our economic development efforts, not mentioning to the inconveniences caused to the people at large.

Imagine our telecommunication services such as telephone, internet, fax, etc. are down just for a day in Kota Kinabalu area due to one of the main cables were cut and carted away by the thief; havoc is the only word. If electrical power cables were cut too, the effect had already been experienced by the whole population recently. Next time, they might after the water pipes and more metallic items they could find available in the public. Things like the control cabinets of traffic lights, telephone exchange/substation, electricity substation transformers, etc...

One wonders why no bodies were caught since there were only a few legal metal traders around. The traders are the key to the problem. The enforcer is the other problem that seen to be unbelievable in their inability to tackle the rampages. The two, both the traders and enforcers, must have some coordination in order to export these "hot" items out of the state through the container port.

It's time that those in the trade to exercise their conscience not to accept these dubious metals that directly encourage more sabotage acts.

The authority must act fast with bold move, and seriously rid the menace once and for all. The only way is to freeze all the scrape metal trade. Why should Sabah export the scrap metals when we don’t really have enough to provide a regular exporting volume?

With or without the so-called Central Agency to deal with scrap metal business, the authority has not really look into the crux of the problem. The move to introduce the government agency merely legalized the metal theft and worsening the situation even further. It’s time that all parties concerned use their commonsense and conscience and address the issue without selfishness and greediness.

Do you love your country?

Politician and Education

My view of today's politicians is that they lack reasonable level of competency in their own field, for example, I encountered one minister said that in order to raise our standard of English language, apart from starting young, we have to double our effort by learning science and mathematic in English. It's like killing two birds with one stone. Is it logical?
My view is that they don't know anything about education, especially learning process.
Apart from this ridiculous thinking that have already been implementing in our society, they have been forcing our young generation in primary school to study a lot of subjects aiming to turn them into "Einstein" or professionals overnight. They believe that the young must study longer hours in order to gain more knowledge. Educating a person just don't work this way, we merely torture them to the state where they run out of breath and missing out the wisdom that passing through their brain.
They simply have no time to think or re-think all the subject that they learn from the class.
It's all the fault of the education department and its ministry master.
Blinds lead the blinds, the situation is worsen as parents are panicky due to the overwhelming workloads of the student that tution classes are mushrooming and tutors are laughing their way to the bank.
The earning from tution classes is more lucrative than earning from teaching in the class.
The quality of teachers are very poor as they don't normally picked from the best high school graduates during their entry/selection examination. They are simply the left-over of those not being picked for their first choice of subject.