tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56240707524479865672026-02-06T12:38:08.570+00:00Ability to judge and assess something usually comes from experience, and often that experience comes from own poor judgement. Balan Kumarbalanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-39329621003867459122012-05-16T10:44:00.000+01:002012-05-16T15:31:43.864+01:00

Aside from Tunku Aziz Fiasco, this is a reminder for CM Lim as well as the 'mudah lupa' hardcore DAPsters. September last year CM Lim said this "You don't have to worry about your safety when you come to Penang. In Johor, if you are a Singaporean, you are likely to get kidnapped." http://www.ntv7.com.my/7edition/local-en/PENANG_CM_APOLOGISES_TO_JOHOR_SULTAN.html And during his reign,

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PKR & DAP's silence over recent passing of bills, that any Fatwa issued by the state mufti or Fatwa Committee, whether gazetted or not, cannot be challenged in courts. http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/pas-mp-defends-kedah-fatwa-challenge-ban/ PAS Presidents ramblings and intention to amend the constitution. Karpal's rebuttal and PKR's silence http://www.nst.com.my/nation

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Read here, and there are many Madurai Veeran temples in Malaysia. They beleive he is a god. Many of them are illegal, hardly patronised, and it's annual prayers includes sacrificing goats, i mean slaughtering goats which is then cooked for the devotees (so-called) . What more can I say, stupidity that knows no bounds. Read somewhere that Hindu groups are also suspected of converting muslims into

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Immediate Reactions The recent JAIS raid on Damansara Utama Methodist Church reveals one thing, that people who are KL Centric do not know what they are talking about and some politicians loves to comment without thinking, which is immediately lapped up by their equally stupid hardcore supporters and spread wide through the web and twitter. No correction are made when they are proven wrong.

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Read here or below, quite sure that these are facts!To our beloved Chief Minister of Penangfmt | July 29, 2011FMT LETTERFrom Sylvester Goh, via e-mailSaudara Guan Eng,We, Pakatan supporters, congratulate you on your perfect, top class performance as Chief Minister of Penang. Your boastful letter head with the tagline, “Penang Best Lah – Envy of true-blood Patriotic Malaysians” make egoistic

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-72465105131870542542011-02-02T08:27:00.002+00:002011-02-02T08:35:16.269+00:00

'Pariah was not a fashionable word to insult anyone anymore until this issue surfaced. Therefore Indian leaders, Murugiah, MIC and other Pakatan Indians are equally responsible in revival of this word, which until recently was regularly associated with dogs rather than Indians''The day Indian Malaysian themselves reject caste system, seeks equality in social standing and work towards making it

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The current crisis in Selangor has, as expected revealed the true colours of the Pakatan Rakyat state government.It has also revealed how inefficient the state government has become despite promising otherwise to the electorate. Let’s put aside Barisan’s supposedly attempts to sabotage the Selangor State government by appointing their own men. There is no need to go deeply into legal terms and

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-7438479140528228932010-12-01T08:48:00.003+00:002010-12-01T09:01:46.889+00:00

I have written on Hindraf in the past, you can read it here,1. Hindraf – One Year Later, click here 2. Hindraf Part 2 – Memorandum to British Government, Click here3. Hindraf – I rest My Case, Click here4. Hindraf – Reader’s Comments, click here3rd year Anniversary3 years after the Nov 27 2008 rally at Jalan Ampang, Hindraf has become the biggest embarrassment to the Indian community in

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-23846820302530043862010-11-29T07:43:00.003+00:002010-11-29T07:57:20.224+00:00

Let’s look at major highlights and achievements this year and Pakatan’s brand of Competency, Accountability and Transparency in Pakatan controlled states this year supposedly in line with their Zaid Ibrahim powered ‘Common Policy Framework’.CAT, SELCAT and whatnot being separately announced and established by different Pakatan State Government. How common!Support Letter Issue in Selangor –

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-6524804977565421142010-11-23T07:35:00.002+00:002010-11-23T07:48:27.479+00:00

DAP elections in Perak ended in similar fashion as did in PKR albeit not as bad. By opening enough branches and voters on your side means you control the state, no matter whether the candidate or team is good and capable. It is quite baffling how these elections systems work. It's not that this does not happen in BN. ut Pakatan is supposedly superior and practises far superior demecracy, as they

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-15768466671913762492010-11-15T02:01:00.001+00:002010-11-15T02:14:57.758+00:00

Recent political developments suggests what many had lamented for a very long time, Malaysian politics is certainly dominated by personalities rather than policies.For example, if any other prominent leader in another country tries to do a Sept 16 government takeover and fails, he would have been now shunned by the populace and become a political deadwood by now.But in Malaysia, a politician’s

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The upcoming visit of Indian Prime minister received mixed reactions and welcome in Malaysia. While diplomatically ties are strong, both economically and people to people relationship, there are sections of Malaysian Indians who are either unhappy over his visit or wants to take advantage to raise unnecessary issues to gain cheap publicity.Here’s the feedback from a splinter group of Makkal

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The Selangor State government has decided to go ahead with building a temple in Section 23, Shah Alam. This is an addition to another temple to built to replace the infamous Kampung jawa temple. Read here. This might bring about another round a chaos within the residents there. As I have written before, both Pakatan Rakyat and BN are just pandering to the newly found political power of Indians

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-51059020481177655902010-09-24T08:04:00.003+01:002010-09-24T08:08:57.640+01:00

I read recently that Selangor State Government is planning to rebuilt the controversial Kampung Jawa Hindu Temple which was demolished in 2007. It must be acknowledged that the demolition has lead to the Hindraf demonstration and is also one of the main emotional reason why Indian Malaysians chose to vote for Pakatan Rakyat in the 2008 General Elections.Recent sentiments suggest that Indians have

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With all the recent talk about, race, racist remarks, race based policies, racist politicians racist teachers, perkasa etc, one thing is quite clear, this debate will never end and only likely to tone down for a while until some groups or cetain individuals feel that they are losing popularity and want to be in the limelight again.Not much is going to change, not in my lifetime, I guess. The only

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DAP to lodge complain with MCMC over doctored pictureBy Yoges Palaniappan (Malaysian Insider)September 03, 2010GEORGE TOWN, Sept 3 — DAP publicity chief Tony Pua said today the party would send a letter to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) next week to complain about the doctored photograph purportedly showing party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng slaughtering a cow.Pua

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I lived in brickfields for a while in the early nineties, paying RM 850 for a condominium at Palm Courts, a hefty sum back then. At that time, only professionals and well to do can afford to purchase a unit, costing RM 180K at Palm Courts.Presently, Palm Courts is no longer a place Malaysians would like to either buy or stay as it has turned out to be a mini Andhra Pradesh (a state in Indian,

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Following up with the ending paragraph of my recent article, With all the recent debate on race, one thing is quite clear, Malaysia is not ready to do away with racial policies and politics.Post 2008 Elections : False Sense of RealisationFurther to 2008 Tsunami, I did write that Pakatan Rakyat won because Rakyat was angry with BN and Pak Lah. Each community (read RACE) had their own grouses with

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-81075864640216174242010-08-24T09:21:00.004+01:002010-08-24T15:40:03.214+01:00

Apa lagi mereka ni mau??That’s what a driver told me minutes after I got into a taxi after quite a long gap. I left my car at a service center and took a cab back.The middle aged driver with a scull cap went on without even a hint on stopping to ask my opinion, never mind that I would rather listen than debate or support his piece. It’s good to listen from the man in the street rather than

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-18496253178058917792010-08-19T15:55:00.004+01:002010-08-19T16:08:58.152+01:00

While the politicians from both divides are busy debating the NEP and NEM, Tamil Language newspapers appears not in the know of the whole discussion and debate. For the benefit of many of my non-Indian readers, this write up is to provide some information on Tamil dailies in Malaysia.  I only buy Tamil Newspaper in weekends and I finish it within 15 minutes as there are usually no interesting

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-39930790484565708342010-08-09T09:32:00.002+01:002010-08-09T09:37:13.774+01:00

The recent Pakatan Rakyat related scandals in Selangor, convinced what neutral critics and political analyst (active and those armchair analyst ) suspected when Pakatan came to power in 4 or rather 5 states, that nothing much is going to change and reforms remains in the lips of politicians from the Opposition and never really took off.The worst, Pakatan are repeating the same blunders committed

balanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690251500338023283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624070752447986567.post-35277719848414021022010-06-01T15:35:00.001+01:002010-06-01T15:38:39.682+01:00

In Their Own PandoraOne word sums up it all. Both the party and it’s leader is irrelevant, a word made famous during sodomy 1 trials by Judge, the late Augustine Paul.MIC and Samy appear to live in their own world. While I know for sure that the GAS movement will not have impact on him, I am baffled that Samy is ignorant of numerous show of disgust by fellow Indians in the country. Only someone

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Now that the battle is over, various armchair analyst and critics from both ends have provided their take on the Hulu Selangor by-elections. Let me provide my view now.Having been to some of the campaigns as well as talking to mostly Pakatan Supporters throughout the campaign period, the results came as a shock. I was constantly told by Pakatan Supporters that Zaid is very likely to win although

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I am again bemused with Pakatan supporters. When put on a defensive mode, they suddenly turn into some right thinking clean and positive supporters. They have the cheek to call others hypocrites.They have forgotten that they were equally bad, naughty and ugly before. Who started all these name calling, blatant accusations and personal attacks in the first place.No less that Malaysian’s mudah lupa

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As expected, PM Najib and his cabinet members descended upon Hulu Selangor as soon as the pervious MP was laid to rest.Although campaigning should not start until the nomination day, both BN and Pakatan has started lobbying hard for votes. Their understanding of campaigning rules is limited to not putting up posters and banners until the nomination day. Everything else is not forbidden. BN

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