Malaysia Day 16 September......

Malaysia Day 16th September,2010.
This year will see the first year of another National Holiday called Malaysia Day which will be celebrated on September 16 annually.This day commemorates Sabah and Sarawak joining Peninsular Malaysia as a nation of Malaysia.
The city of Kuching will host the first state level Malaysia Day celebration at Stadium Perpaduan(Indoor Stadium) on Sept 16.

 

Indoor Stadium in Kuching.

Stadium Perpaduan in Petra Jaya

Themed ‘1Malaysia: Menjana Transformasi’, hundreds of participants will turn up in traditional costumes in the spirit of unity and national integration.

Politic in Sarawak.....this opposition political party having they own version of Malaysia Day ,16 sept .

Raising of Malaysia & Sarawak flag by a small group of opposition party supporters at Padang Merdeka.

Sibu ByElection-Nomination Day.

I was in Sibu on 8th May,2010 to witness the nomination day for Sibu byelection.

This good looking uncle at first I thought he is a chief police on duty as I saw many police man standing near him. He wear black T and wanted to be "Arrest Me"

I am wearing BLACK.He is no other then popular blogger

ZORROW UNMASKED .

 

Too many police in Sibu now..Do you know Sibu have extra 2000 police during the election day.Good Job.....

Barisan Nasional..present Government of Malaysia.

The hard core supporters of ruling party Barisan Nasional.

The opposition party...

Sibu, is not a big and well-known town in the context of this country, but recently because of the by-election, almost everyday you can see Sibu on TV! Besides that, all political big names either from ruling parties as well as opposition parties are blooming into this town since the nomination day (8th May). It is predicted that this phenomenon will continue until the pooling day which is scheduled on 16th of May! Therefore if you wish to visit Sibu in this period of time, please be reminded that all hotels, no matter big or small, expensive or cheap, new or old... all had been fully booked!

Housing in Kuching.

Almost 90% still empty...NO BUYER ??.

The gate is closed due no tenants ........

Anyone agree with the below statement ( from the public).

I am dead against anyone buying any properties in Kuching and this is for a variety of reasons.
Among them:-
1. Cos do not justify what you get
2. Kuching have been over built
3. Buyers are enriching the developers and the ruling family
4. Buyers are paying for inefficient and out dated construction technology and via this Sarawak/Kuching contractors take 30-40 percent extra time to built houses and this is translated to hefty labour and holding cost for the developers/contractors and subsequently pass on to buyers
5. Many buyers are buying for investment and hoping that it will appreciate in value and subsequently resell it. The question is how many have actually make money investing in residential houses!!
On the Tribunal, it will take a long time and I suggest DAP start a column blacklisting Property Developers and their Directors instead as have been done by ad-hoc bodies in Semanjung in the Past.
It is a shame that we cry when we discover we are fleeced by this unscrupulous developers when no one is high lighting the present mirco economics of the housing situation in Kuching.

Is it true that Kuching have been over built...now just look at the empty apartment (pic above) still empty since completed about 10 month ago (if I'm not mistaken).

Have you ever been to SIBU?.

View of Sanyan building(the tallest) from the river bank of Rajang river.

When I go to Sibu,like most other visitors would think of the Sanyan building,which is the tallest and great building in Sibu and are just beautiful.

However I saw some real poverty along river bank of Rajang river.

And I realised that this is like for many local Sarawakian or Sarawak Malaysian.

Well,this is what people say The Rich become Richer & The Poor become Poorer.

I'm not a citizen photojournalist but taking picture is my priority .Maybe my photo will tell the stories to all those who are blind because they are not present ,capturing the message.

My Responsibility .

I'm behind the camera just about to have a final check on my name with the EC officers on duty.I ask one of the officers on duty about my wife name not on the electrol list and he says it is a common mistake .It's seem that the EC did not take this seriously.
The polling centre ..this picture capture at about 11:00am and I can see just one or two voters including me or maybe most of the voters have cast the vote earlier but by looking at the transparent ballot box is yet to 50% fill in.This polling centre is not OKU friendly user and I wonder how the voter on wheel chair go up to the class room to cast the vote as the stair case is very narrow.(not allowed to take picture)

PKR candidate for PetraJaya

BN candidate.

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As usual I woke up as early as 04:30am a preparation for my Suboh prayer.My main responsibility as a Muslim Solat five times a day.Suboh(dawn solat)Zohor(after mid-day solat)Asar(late afternoon solat)Maghrib(after sunset solat)Isya'(night solat).

To-day 8th of March 2008 Saturday as a Citizen of Malaysia my resposibility is to cast a vote.This resposiblity come once in every 4 years.Woke up 04:30am it was heavy rain outside and I do hope the rain will stop before 08:00am so I can go out there to cast my vote.My wife is not coming with me to cast the vote this year because very suprising that her name was not on the SPR aka EC voting list,I check her name on SPR website but NO RECORD FOUND.

Anyway I might discuss this matter to EC officer after the 12th GE.

Moment of truth today and I'm sure VVIP's,VIP's and their supporters can be seen having a gathering or teh tarik (TT) gathering to-night expecting election result.

09:00 am weather is OK now but still very cloudly and may be the sun is shy to shine to-day .

At the polling centre where I 'm casting the vote I was suprise to see not many voters yet around or no Q at all .

So I'm now already fulfil my democratic obligation and the EC prediction is the first election result is expected to be announced at 7pm.

So have a cup of Kopi tongkat ali tonight..infront of your TV .

The games of earth breaking ceremony.

Street to kampung Gersik,Boyan and Sourabaya .I'm on my way to this kampung to see the preparation of to-morrow event (election Campange) by our Sarawak BN leader...let the picture that I captured tell the story..................

Kids playing at nearby football field ask me why capture picture of empty parking lot.Is it another concert to be held here again.I still remember during last Sarawak Dewan Undangan Negri(DUN) election.There is a large canopy with stage for concert at this parking lot.Beside concert a n eart breaking ceremonies also held here(See picture below)that is for Rumah Mampu Milik(Medium low cost housing project).This is the promise of YB to Rakyat during party campange.
To-day 06/03/2008 Thursday.The empty land .....project as promise by YB ...become rubbish.

The earth breaking ceremony has become the annual event or tradition during every election .

Old business premise only open at 6pm till late night.

Majlis pecah tanah or earth breaking ceremony in Kuching.
Kampung Gersik,Boyan and Sourabaya folk will have new premise for business as promise by PBB-BN Sarawak to voters.

One my way to UNIMAS Kota Semarahan to fetch my daughter ,the weather is very bad,heavy rain and tunderstorm.Just look at this two guys no matter rain or shine and they still carry on with the job because there are paid with handsome cash.

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MAHATHIR-We need an opposition:

Malaysiakini is available for Free for one week from 4March-10,2008.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/

Former PM Tun Mahahir told voters that the country needs an opposition that can hold up a mirror to the government."I believe in an opposition and they should be critical of the government if without which we don't have mirror to look at our faces.We think that we are beautiful but it is the opposition that keeps telling us(that may not be true).

You know the government members (of parliament) sometime they are "AHLI BODEK"(apple polisher).They are always"YOUR'E RIGHT",and you have no means of assessing whether you are going in the right direction or not".

Election 2008 is powered by the power of the rakyat and internet

The Latest from Tun Mahathir, Warisan Negara ELECTION 2008 : Bloggers test their popularity in General Election Posted: 26 Feb 2008 12:44 AM CST
Election 2008 is powered by the power of the Rakyat and Internet.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The Internet is changing the face of Malaysian politics, becoming a virtual political party of its own as the country gears up for elections next month.
Three high-profile bloggers, all opponents of the ruling coalition which has effectively governed for five decades, are standing for the first time as candidates on March 8, hoping that their popularity on the Net will translate into votes.
"Everyone of us has a stake in the country's future, but talk is cheap. We now need to walk the walk," says Jeff Ooi, a well-known blogger contesting a seat in northern Penang state for the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP).
A 52-year-old former advertising copywriter, he has made his name writing a political blog, "Screenshots" http://www.jeffooi.com/, one of dozens that have found an active readership outside the pro-government mainstream press.
Another popular blogger, also running on a DAP ticket, is 34-year-old Tony Pua, a fresh-faced Oxford graduate who started blogging three years ago after setting up a high-tech firm.
"I've had opportunities to migrate but I decided that Malaysia is my home," Pua said as he dreamt up campaign slogans at a cramped DAP office on the second floor of a shophouse, above a Chinese restaurant, on the outskirts of the capital.
"So the next question is what should I do to make it better?" His blog's address is: tonypua.blogspot.com.
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Pua, like Ooi, is running from an urban constituency where Internet penetration is highest and opposition sentiment runs stronger than in the countryside.
A third blogger, Badrul Hisham Shaharin, said he is struggling to spread his message because of the limited Internet access in the rural Malay majority seat where he is standing.
"I admit that is difficult because my blog is not accessible here, but I am getting a lot of help from fellow bloggers," he said by phone from his electorate of Rembau, a sleepy farming district south of Kuala Lumpur.
Badrul, who is running on opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's party ticket, will take on Khairy Jamaluddin, the prime minister's son-in-law and an ambitious politician. Badrul's blog: chegubard.blogspot.com
Considered a thorn in the government's side due to their often critical political and social commentaries, Malaysia's blogging community offer alternative views in a country where the government keeps a tight control on mainstream media.
The government said last year it might compel bloggers to register with the authorities to curb the spread of malicious content on the Internet.
Government backers doubt whether bloggers turned opposition politicians could make their presence felt.
"Beyond the major cities like Kuala Lumpur and Penang, there's not much the bloggers can really hope to accomplish," says Mohamad Norza Zakaria, a leader in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's UMNO party (http://www.umno-online.com/)
The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) dominates the 14-party Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
Only a fifth of Malaysians have access to the Internet, official data show. There are 10.9 million voters in a nation of 26 million people.
Blogger Ooi spoke of the difficult challenge ahead. "Compared to the BN, we are behind on the three M's - money, machinery and media access."

BUSY DAY

Is there any cheeky politician out there to support our Gambir Sarawak entrepreneur to get the ISO cert...or whatever.....just like V sold worldwide....

Funny eh..why suddenly I upload this image of cake lapis Sarawak...is it something to do with the election...OK the story is simple....I hear the local Fm radio station in Kuching interview the lady candidate for BN who won uncontested...her project is cake lapis Sarawak ..is that funny subject for YB to discuss....is it's out of topic ....so this is what happening when you choose the wrong candidate to become your Wakil Rakyat.

Not a Busy Day for this foreign workers.Jalan Jalan every week end at this beautiful place and view Kuching Waterfornt.The meeting place for foreign workers.

This driver is not worried about how much he spend on the petrol to-day because I fly the right flag and they pay me the right amount of cash to refueling my car..Busy Day eh!!!!...............
Hey Bro...ada concert rock kah.....No! No! we are The seasonal suporter of who ever willing to pay us.Bro...ada register untuk undi kah...how come you uncle..don't you know that I'm still 17yrs and my friend here only 16yrs.Enjoy lah..busy day to-day for us a lot of freebies such as BN t-shirt,meal voucher.petrol voucher ..free concert at The campaigning Nite..macam macam ada.
What happening here to our PakCik and MakCik nasi bungkus and drinkng water belum sampai kah......and that guy with stick say to me..How come you said we wait for nasi bungkus and cheap drinking water...did you see in the dewan(Hall) nearby that the 5 star hotel catering is ready to serve us nice and delicious luncheon.Siapa belanja ? who else if not our YB to be..... .

The Latest from TunMahathir-Warisan Negara,Malaysia's opposition mounts campaign in CYBERSPACE.

The Latest from Tun Mahathir, Warisan Negara Election 2008: Malaysia's opposition mounts campaign in cyberspace Posted: 19 Feb 2008 10:31 PM CSTThe power of Internet.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia goes to the polls next month and this time the campaign is going online, as opposition parties turn to blogs, SMS and YouTube to dodge a virtual blackout on mainstream media.
Major newspapers and television stations -- many partly owned by parties in the ruling coalition -- are awash with flattering stories on the government and its achievements ahead of March 8 general elections.
The opposition parties rate barely a mention, but thanks to the Internet they have begun campaigning feverishly in cyberspace with the aim of reaching young, urban, educated voters.
"They control the television but we've got YouTube now," said 31-year-old Lee Sean Li, an accountant who avidly surfs the Net for alternative news and complains there are only negative glimpses of the opposition in the main media.
Lee was delighted to see parliamentary opposition leader Lim Kit Siang post a speech on the upcoming elections, just minutes after Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dissolved parliament earlier this month.
"I was impressed at how professional he was and it is a clever use of technology," Lee said, adding that 67-year-old Lim is one of the most "wired" politicians in the country.
While many of his generation may struggle to send an email, Lim runs three blogs which are meticulously updated with multiple posts every day, and many of the party's other leaders follow suit.
"Blogging is one way to get word out and an opportunity to circumvent media control," said Lim from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), which is aiming to dent the government's thumping majority in the upcoming vote.
"We cannot neutralise the state-controlled media," he told AFP.
"But Internet pick-up rates will keep getting higher. We will not be blacked out forever."
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders ranks Malaysia 124 out of 169 on its worldwide press freedom index, and says the main media are "often compelled to ignore or to play down the many events organised by the opposition".
One of the alternative pioneers is Malaysiakini.com, an online news journal which since it began operating in 1999 has been raided by police and denied media passes for its reporters to cover government events.
Co-founder Steven Gan said the use of the Internet as a campaign tool was hampered by penetration rates which remain low in rural areas where the government enjoys strong support.
"But in urban areas, it is significant. They now have this alternative access to news and other views," he said.
The Malaysiakini website receives about 100,000 daily hits and has struggled to cope with the volume since an unprecedented series of public protests against the government broke out in recent months.
"During this election period, I expect it to increase by tenfold and we are preparing for that kind of explosion in the coming weeks. We have upgraded the bandwidth for better access," Gan said.
Malaysia's Islamic opposition party PAS runs its own online journal HarakahDaily.net which features six different online television channels and original reporting on the election.
And political dissident and ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim also writes his own blog which has news links and videos of his Keadilan party's campaign activities.
Anwar last year used the site to release a video clip which allegedly showed a high-profile lawyer brokering top judicial appointments -- a scandal which triggered a full royal commission of inquiry.
Well-known blogger Jeff Ooi, who is standing as a DAP candidate in the elections, said news and views on blogs appealed to a cross-section of people and was not limited to urban youth alone.
"It is not really restricted by age. We are attracting many concerned citizens who are above 45 years old and these are the people who are more interested in politics and the oppositions' viewpoint," he said.
"Our campaign videos will be transmitted through YouTube because it is unlikely for television stations to broadcast them, of course," said Ooi, who is facing a defamation suit by the government-linked New Straits

The Latest from TunMahathir,Warisan Negara-Next General Election.

The Latest from Tun Mahathir, Warisan Negara Next General Election : List of promises by BN for the Indian Community Posted: 05 Feb 2008 01:44 AM CSTGeneral election is really around the corner. Due to the recent HINDRAF protest, most of the Indian Community are going to vote against the current BN-coalition government. To make up for all the mess created under the everlasting leadership of MIC's president, Samy Vellu, Barisan Nasional (BN) made a list of promises to the Indian Community. Here are some of the promises made, and you can be sure there will be more promises in the near future.

DPM Najib said BN government could guarantee the future of Malaysian Indians by continuing to improve their social-economic well-being. He also said that they must work within the system and not against it. DPM Najib also denies that the current BN-coalition Government disregards MIC's suggestions for the Indian community.
DPM Najib made a promise to the Indian community that the Government will ensure the relocation of temples and other places of worship were done in an orderly manner.
PM promises to the whole Malaysians that there will be equitable distribution of opportunities for professionals, quality services and wealth regardless of race or creed.
Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop has promised to get Indian youths jobs in the Government if their applications are rejected without reason.

My View::::
India Street in Kuching,Sarawak.
The word India well....just a few tenant of Indian or Indian Muslim are doing business here and the rest Gong Xi Fa Cai to them.