Watch this hilarious why MCA video from Comedy Court. I like the Ali Baba part and bang balls. It is a spoof of the YMCA song with the lyrics changed to suit the recent political climate. This video came about as MCA has been almost defeated by the opposition. Though not as bad as MIC, it is still reeling from its losses to the electorate, causing Ong Ka Ting to reject a minister post to concentrate on rebuilding the party. But will he succeed? We shall know in the next general election in 2013.
Since the election on 8th March 2008, many members in UMNO and Barisan talked about building blogs as an alternative way to reach the people. They want to emulate DAP-PKR-PAS coalition parties which used the blogs to speak out to the public. This will enable the people to know the real truth behind every scandal and much more. And frankly speaking, I find that I am getting addicted to reading political blogs; more information that you cannot find in the mass media via newspapers.
I just got an sms from my youngest sister that our new Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng attended Way of the Cross in Cathedral of the Holy Spirit plus tons of pressmen. Though I am a Protestant attending a Baptist Church, my dad and my two younger sisters are Catholics and are church lectors. This is a pleasant surprise to know that Guan Eng is a Christian.
Today is Good Friday and the coming Sunday will be Easter. This is an important occasion marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after being crucified. Now with Lim Guan Eng being a Catholic, hopefully the churches in Penang will have more power and authority to preach and build more churches with crosses. In the previous administration under Dr Koh Tsu Koon, the word Church was not allowed to be used in new church buildings and they can only be called Christian Centre. Notwithstanding, even crosses are not supposed to be shown in the new church buildings. It was a systematic suppression of the practising of Christian faith and gradual Islamisation all over Malaysia. May God bless Penang and the new Government comprising DAP, PKR and PAS alliance.
Here is a YouTube video of Malaysiakini, an independant news web site on Malaysian politics. On that night, I was on the way back from Gurney Plaza and I was stunned by the many thousands of cars parked along the main road of Jalan Masjid Negeri, formerly known as Green Lane. As it was drizzling, and knowing the ‘ceramah’ will be jam packed full of DAP supporters, we did not stop to watch as it will be very difficult to find a parking space. Many people even parked near GreenLane’s Mac Donalds and walk about 4 km to Han Chiang Chinese High School with a big compound to cater to DAP supporters in collosal proportions.
You could see Jeff Ooi the blogger belted out a song with his electric guitar, lawyer Karpal Singh sitting in his wheel chair, DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang and his son Lim Guan Eng and the rest of the party members standing with hands held high on stage. These are the heroes who have been jailed for a cause beyond themselves and the sacrifices they have made thus far. Many people wore red to show their support to the party. There were even fireworks to mark the occasion. What was initially intended was to deny the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional(BN) a two thirds majority became a victory for Penangites that totally wiped out the opposition in a political tsunami. BN was trounced by DAP on the 8th of March 2008. The people have spoken and made up their minds. Enough of NEP, insensitive remarks and wielding of keris by UMNO members.
It is a day of reckoning when DAP (Democratic Action Party) trounced Gerakan and BN in the recently concluded Malaysian 2008 General Election. Now we have a new Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng who was sworn in yesterday to be the people’s spokesperson. No longer do we have an academic Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon who was muted about the NEP (New Economic Policy) and could hardly fight for the Chinese rights. NEP was implemented by the second prime minister of Malaysia Tun Razak. It is biased and unfair to the Chinese and the Indians while enriching the Malays, more likely those in positions of political power.
To quote from Datuk Lim Keng Yaik, it is scary to see the UMNO Youth president, Datuk Hishamuddin wielding the keris (Malay sword) in their general assembly. This should stop. No wonder the Barisan Nasional lost quite a lot of seats. There has been much corruption, cronyism, and insensitive remarks made in the past by UMNO members. And we Chinese have to learn to bear with it and try to get along with them because they are in power. Hopefully with DAP in charge of Penang now, this will no longer be the case.
The results of the Malaysian 2008 General Elections took everyone by surprise. Incumbent Barisan lost 4 more states - Penang, Kedah, Perak and Selangor to the opposition. What has really happened? There are some plausible reasons to this. When our former deputy prime minister, Anwar released the Lingam’s video to the press near election time, it was very destructive for the goverment to know that a common lawyer like Mr Lingam could broker the appointment of judges in high court. There was much corruption with the ‘Correct, Correct, Correct’ lawyer offering free tours, houses, handphones to top judges. This show how corrupt the judiciary is.
Secondly, churches were not allowed to use the word ‘Allah’ in their printing materials and in their preaching. What the heck! The word ‘Allah’ was used before Islam came to Malaysia. It shows how narrow minded the government is. And Bibles were confiscated recently by the customs that belong to a Baptist church. Looks like the citizen’s freedom is being eroded bit by bit.
People were also fedup especially the non-Malays of the NEP (New Economic Policy) favouring the bumiputras or simply the Malays. All government contracts are given to bumiputra companies only leaving out the other races, the Chinese and the Indians. No wonder Lee Kuan Yew said we were being marginalized just because we are more hardworking, diligent and rich. Most of the common Chinese in Penang have felt the pinch of NEP and they are not as rich as before. People are angry and therefore, don’t expect the rakyat to vote for you when you are not fair to all races to begin with. You preach one thing, but your actions speak another.
Since Penang is now in the hands of the opposition, I hope future tenders will be fair to all races and not solely for bumiputras only. Hopefully my company will be able to participate in sports open tenders meant for anyone and any race on a fairer system. I also hope that goverment planned projects to develop Penang like the monorail, Penang’s second bridge, Penang Outer Ring Road and the like will not be delayed any further by the government since the rakyat or citizens have chosen the opposition to govern them. Congratulations to Lim Guan Eng and Karpal Singh of DAP, Datin Seri Wan Azizah of PKR and the other victorous candidates.
I joined Herbalife, a multi-level marketing (MLM) or direct selling program just 3 days ago. It was so convenient. I paid by internet banking to my upline’s Maybank account and the next morning, it was delivered right to my door step by Skynet from Kuala Lumpur. Above are the items I have received from Herbalife. And I was introduced this by my upline who is also my Yahoo Messenger online chat friend based in KL. He has been doing this business for 3 years now since they started in Malaysia and have even gotten RM10,000 check in commissions from his 30 downlines.
I am happy I have made the right choice to reduce weight. As you can see, I love food too much and it is about time I need to reduce my weight for an optimum BMI (Body Mass Index). From the BMI chart, I am considered overweight but thank goodness not obese. So I bought Formula 1 nutritional shake of french vanilla flavor to replace my daily meals. Just 2 scoops with 250ml of water to replace my lunch and dinner. As of today, I have already lost 0.5kg after 2 days of drinking the vanilla shake. And it is delicious and not sweet at all. I have previously joined other MLM companies, all to no avail like Perfect Youth and Lampe Berger which cost a whopping RM30,000 just to be a count. I only paid RM98 for the business pack with distributor license and form. And another RM79.23, after 50% discount at cost price from my upline at a supervisor level, for the Formula 1 nutritional shake. For more details, check out here and see the pictures of consumers with slim sexy bodies from an otherwise obese body. By the way, F1 nutritional shake mix is the bestseller product of the company to help people reduce weight.
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I had a very good weekend vacationing in Dorset Hotel in Larut Road, Penang. It was located just opposite Kentucky Fried Chicken’s outlet in a colonnial bungalow. It was also conveniently located opposite my church known as Georgetown Baptist Church with English services at 9:00am, 11:00am and Hokkien service at 4:30pm by Pastor Yeoh Guan Hock. That’s one of the reason why I booked this hotel instead of staying in Vistana Hotel like last weekend. Our church service venue has been changed from Relau to Larut Road in town. This is a much bigger place and better location which is quite established. Below are the photos taken from my camera.
View from our hotel room in Dorset Hotel.
See the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet at the bottom. Another view from our hotel room.
Writing table with lamp and mirror.
How comfortable the huge sofas in the lobby.
Bathroom of our hotel room. There’s a basket of freebies like shampoo, shower cap, cotton buds, sewing kit and soap in the corner.
