The highly debatable debate

I still think that this debate would be a pointless exercise. But somehow, I had this sliver of hope that the debate will turn out to be an informative and an engaging one. Hopefully it will not be a platform for either one of the politicians to push for their own personal and selfish agenda.

In other words, any political rhetorics will surely defeat the objective of this debate. As I recall, Anwar wanted to challenge the government on the decision of rising the fuel prices. Now this is where we can see how Anwar can offer his thoughts on how to decrease the fuel prices.

I sure hope he can say that he has the ability to decrease the price of fuel back to what it was 2 months ago. 

But knowing Anwar, I am sure he will take this opportunity to stamp his presence in the mainstream media with a barrage of incessant and irrelevant issues at hand. That is why I thought this debate is going to be pointless.

Diverting attention would be his greatest ploy to gain popularity. Take this Newsweek article for example. Anwar was interviewed by the magazine’s reporter, Jonathan Kent. An interesting question by the reporter somehow peaked my interest. It goes like this;

Kent: The government has again made allegations of sexual misconduct against you. What is your response?

Anwar: It’s disgusting of them to repeat this, but there is a difference from last time. [Now] I don’t cast aspersions on the entire government machinery or on the prime minister. I’ve no evidence to link him to fabricating evidence, but [Najib's] office appears to be involved. I also have evidence on the fabrication and suppression of evidence in my 1999 trial involving the current Inspector-General of Police and the Attorney-General.

Now this is why I dub Anwar as ‘Darling of the Western Media’. See how the US based magazine worked hand in hand with Anwar in diverting his current sexual charges? They just love him to death! 

Firstly, it was not the government who made the allegations. It was HIS OWN AIDE. And see how Anwar here did not link Najib to the so called conspiracy simply because he has no evidence of it. But, he managed to create an insinuation that Najib appears to be in cahoots with Saiful over a mere happenstance (Saiful took picture with Najib’s aide and Saiful went to see Najib to complain about Anwar). In fact, I am surprised that the reporter did not do his homework. Should I start relegating Newsweek to the same level as our mainstream media?

Then follows the second question;

Kent: So you believe the charge against you was prompted by the fact that you are about to make public new evidence against these officials?

Anwar: Yes. The sodomy allegation may have been prompted because the police chief and the Attorney-General are privy to my initial complaints against them [from 1999]. The former volunteer in my office who made these latest sodomy allegations has been part of Najib’s apparatus, and we have evidence to that effect.  

Huh? As far as we know, Anwar had no inclination to make public any of this so called new evidence. He was so busy dealing with PKR’s nepotisme issues at that time. In fact, a day before Saiful made the police report on 28th June 2008, Anwar’s blog posted a rather mild article about ‘pantun Melayu’. There were no announcement regarding any ‘new evidence’ anywhere in all the articles concerning him prior to the 28th June . And we all know how Anwar will rant and shout about something new he just stumebled upon. But in this case, there was none.   

As a matter of fact, if the AG and the IGP were so afraid of Anwar and they had to resort to create the trumped up charges through Saiful, why would Anwar dragged Najib into this whole mess?

Maybe because Najib was a convenient target? We now venture into the realm of conspiracy theories. Cooked up by Anwar himself.  

Okay then. All these conspiracy theories will absolve Anwar from any sodomy charges in the eyes of his loving supporters. 

You’re clean Anwar. No need to investigate you further. You are the cleanest, the most ethical and the most unselfish politician in the world.  

Nevertheless, Anwar should not even be this panicky. He should just emulate and learn from what the veteran singer Datuk M. Daud Kilau had gone through. At least the singer came out more dignified than Anwar.

Can’t wait to watch them on the telly tonight. I wanna see how both politicians outwit each other in this possible pointless exercise.

Of Euro 2008 and Microsoft Vista

Seriously, who would wanna support Manchester United?

There is another funnier version of this on Youtube. But it’s too vulgar to be posted here. Anyway, these 2 videos are too funny not to be posted.

And to all who have problems with Microsoft Vista (including yours truly), here’s the video for you;

 

And I laughed my socks off watching this Jerry Maguire spoof, Indonesian style.

Have a good weekend everyone. May the best team wins!

www.chedet.com gets whacked

I think someone managed to complain to Bloggers.com about TDM’s blog and they automatically locked his blog for the past 2 days. No wonder there were no new articles since then. Plus, the blog lost thousands of comments from its readers. A shame really. Here what the special notice says.

On Friday June 19th, chedet.com was locked by the administration of Bloggers.com for what was termed as “suspected spam blog”. Following that chedet.com has not been able to publish any new posting pending approval by Bloggers.com.

Depsite repeated appeals Bloggers.com have yet to “unlock” chedet.com to allow for posting of new comments. Due to this measures have been taken to migrate chedet.com from Bloggers.com in an effort to avoid further disruption, hence the new page set up.

Chedet.com apologises to all readers and commentators for the inconvenience caused. Chedet.com would like to notify readers that comments for previous postings have not been attached currently while the technical team resolves certain matters. As for new postings commentators are only required to follow the simple registration steps accordingly before submitting comments.

In line with this chedet.com would like to remind commentators that critical comments are welcome but in efforts to maintain the integrity of this site and to promote healthy debate, readers are urged to refrain from using deragotary terms, name-calling and racial and seditious remarks. Such comments including comments that are UNRELATED to the posting WILL NOT be given priority…Chedet.com

I think I need a technical team too. I still have some problems when pasting pictures in this blog :). Blogging should not be so complicated!

By the way, I love reading comments from readers of my blog. But please stay away from using profanities when writing comments especially writing nothing else but ‘F-bombs’. How to make a reply when there is nothing intelligent to read in the first place? 

Anyway, thank you for reading this 50th article. Nothing much really. It is a lazy Sunday afternoon afterall. Have a good week ahead. It’s gonna be an explosive one indeed. I could almost hear Rosmah tearing her hair in anger upon learning about a certain statutory declaration, and from the other side of the town, Pak Lah is busy handing over goodies to Umno division and branch leaders from Melaka and Negeri Sembilan in PWTC.      

The week in review

I’m sorry for not being able to update my blog for almost a week now. Have been terribly busy with work and some voluntary jobs over the weekends. But aren’t we glad to be living in these exciting times? There has never been this much interesting news to chew upon since the day after the general election. I am overwhelmed with the amount of things that had happened for the past 1 week that had made it impossible to complete dissecting any news before another story crops up and stole the previous news’ limelight.

Therefore, in the effort to gain a little bit of sleeping time, here is the round up of the past week (please click on the link to read the full story);

FRIDAY 16th May 2008

• Royal Commission of Inquiry submits its report to the Cabinet and later on, the AG ordered the people connected to the VK Lingam inquiry to be investigated. One point that needed to be raised here is how can Tun Dr Mahathir be made guilty when what he did was following the provisions provided in the Constitution?

  Under Article 122B of the Malaysian Constitution, the appointment of the Chief Justice, like those of the President of Court of Appeal, the two Chief Judges, judges of the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court, are made by His Majesty The Yang di-Pertuan Agong on the advice of the Prime Minister after consulting the Conference of Rulers.

  However, before tendering his advice as to the appointment of a judge other than the Chief Justice of the Federal Court, the Prime Minister shall consult the Chief Justice. A tough act by any prosecution I guess. To a large extent, any critics need detail out what are the parameters on the relevant words such a ‘advice’ and ‘consult’. And what kind of evidence needed to even suggest that Dr Mahathir had done wrong there? 

• The Prime Minister’s Department lodges a police report against several mainstream newspapers including The Star, Utusan and NST. A bit peculiar here since the 4th floor boys are acting against a newspaper headed by one of them (Kalimullah Hassan). It is obvious that the ‘leaks’ came from one of them initially.

• An odd job worker got the green light by all three of his current wives to marry another younger woman (reading this piece of news gave me hope as I know there are some single women out there who do not care about looks, status, wealth or the wrath of the first wives club).

• A man was jailed for sending lewd photo to a female friend through his mobile phone. Why would he want to send his wife the photo of his private parts anyway? Thinking his wife may have forgotten how it looks like maybe? That was just an excuse. To me, he is unmistakenly a pervert.

SATURDAY 17th May 2008

• It seems that Tony Fernandes had been barking up the wrong tree with the revelation by the Transport Minister, Ong Tee Kiat. Poor Tony. Greedy boys won’t win anything Tony. Even the deputy CEO seems to be equally dense by saying - “We have many restraints. Why is MAS focusing on AirAsia routes? Why are they targeting our model?” . Err.. aren’t those AirAisa routes originally being serviced by MAS before AirAsia took over? And now,  those routes were given back to MAS after AirAsia had finished sucking out money from it.
• In the mean time, Datin Seri Wan Azizah’s effort to highlight corruption in the Ministry of Defense (definitely taking orders from her husband) had greatly backfired and left her face red in embarassment. In the end, it was made known that it was her husband who had approved the project.
• Malaysia lost in the semi finals of the Thomas Cup in Jakarta. The lost of 2 - 3 to China was not unexpected. But Malaysia fought hard and should not feel ashamed by the defeat. The surprise finalist, South Korea beat the Indonesians to reach the finals against China.
• Nik Aziz proclaimed that Pak Lah should not take all the blame for the political situation in Umno and Malaysia generally. Nik Aziz forgot that he is also a politician in a political party. Maybe he should take the blame for politicising religion for the sake of having power. Trumpeting that Islamic country is the aim of PAS ad nauseam can be quite nauseating since that aim is strongly opposed by PAS’ partners in the Pakatan Rakyat.       

SUNDAY 18th May 2008

• If you are looking at a sample on how stupid the Malaysian government is, look no further than the indelible ink fiasco. The indelible ink fiasco continued to haunt the SPR and the government with a statement by the SPR Chairman days earlier regarding the directive from the Cabinet to cancel the use of the ink. In return, the government denied it was a directive and instead, deemed it as only a ’suggestion’. I assume, unlike all the road signs in Malaysia (which nobody cares), the Cabinet suggestion could easily be regarded as a directive. Read it here and here.
• Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that he is not an ambitious politician. Logically, a non-ambitious person would have never rise as high as him in the first place. He was the Menteri Besar of Johor from 1982 to 1995 and now a Vice President of Umno. I’m betting that he will challenge the top two post and will announce his intention by June 2008. Humility is good. But ambition will make you go further. 
• MIC is asking a yearly fund of RM300 millions from the government to help the Indian community. I do not understand the request of this fund as the people already have the proper channels to ask for government’s assistance. For instance, the MIC President said that the fund will be spent on agro-based business development and school affairs. I think that is the reason why we have Agricuture Ministry and the Education Ministry not to mention the Rural Development Industry in the first place. In my opinion, this is just a ploy to increase his war chest in the face of party elections coming up soon. Being unemployed sucks with no source of income to appease his supporters’ appetites.
• The civil servants need not to be selfish in serving their role, so says the Raja of Perlis. It is sad for the civil servants to be reminded about this issue time and time again unless they actually are known to be selfish and corrupt. Are they?      

MONDAY 19th May 2008 

• Tun Dr Mahathir and Tan Sri Sanusi Junid quit from Umno. Too many analysis and opinions came forth from this issue. From my observations, people tend to see all the good and bad things brought forward by Dr Mahathir during his 22 year tenureship as the Prime Minister. However, people often forget that he is the last surviving Prime Minister who had directly involve in the fight for the Independence. He was one of the first, original Umno members and he was among the people who had decided to defend the sovereignity of the Malay rulers against the creation of Malayan Union. Thus we must not see him as only a former Prime Minister but also as one of the founding fathers of Independence. In 1957, Tun Abdul Razak (then Datuk) became the Deputy Prime Minister at the age of 34. Tun Dr Mahathir, was 32 at the time and was actively involved in the nation building process eventhough he wasn’t politically active at that time. To confine his good deeds just within his 22 year rule is seemed unfair. At least he should be applauded for his efforts and sacrifices made during the fight for Independence. Without Tunku Abdul Rahman and his Umno members (including Dr Mahathir) in that era, we can never be as prosperous as we are today.   
• Happy Wesak Day!
• Tun Musa Hitam equates Tun Dr Mahathir as a ‘thorn in the flesh’ when giving his comments about the former Prime Minister quitting Umno.
• Melaka opened a new landmark called ‘Menara Taming Sari’. A gyro-viewing tower which can accomodate up 3,500 people during the weekends. Also billed as the highest viewing tower in the world.

TUESDAY 20th May 2008

• AirAsia Bhd owes MAHB RM110 millions since 2002. And the amount owed did not show in AirAsia’s financial statements! Tony Fernandes sounded more and more like a petulant child complaining and throwing tantrums needlessly.
• Efficient robbers came in wearing only their underwear and facemasks and robbed a house in Miri. I think their leader went to time management course some time ago and practiced this time saving method in order to save time (robbing and raping).
• Illegal parking operators are a menace to the public and thank god DBKL is catching these unscrupulous people under their ‘Operasi Jaga’.
• Predictably, all the Umno MPs pledged their support to Pak Lah. Datuk Mukhriz however, was missing during the meeting.

WEDNESDAY 21st May 2008

• Malaysian bloggers ought to be happy they are living in a country where the media freedom is very much lax as compared to their neighbour down south. And to think most of the Malaysian bloggers like to migrate there! If we use the yardstick used by the Singaporean government, most of the bloggers and their commenters in Malaysia would be hauled up in jail (judging from the awful comments in most of Malaysia Today’s articles).
• Datuk Nallakarupan, now the President of a new found party - Malaysian Indian United Party, met Pak Lah for about 5 minutes and declared his undying loyalty and love towards the Prime Minister. Nallakarupan was infamous for his friendship with Datuk Anwar Ibrahim but suffered a fall out after the latter did not select the former to stand in the Ijok by election a couple of years ago. Anyway, all this brown nosing made me sick.
• Who the hell is Beego and why would we care about his divorce?
• Where are you? 1,649 children have been missing since 2002 and not much has been done to deter the rising crime index. Somebody must be sleeping somewhere.   

THURSDAY 22nd May 2008

• Tun Dr Mahathir gave a stinging reply towards Tun Musa Hitam’s assertions that the former is a ‘thorn in the flesh’. It is true with what some people are thinking. Dr Mahathir outside Umno is more dangerous to Pak Lah’s government than when he was inside it. I bet some people would be more cautious before they launch any attack towards him. Tasting one’s own medicine can be very bitter indeed.
• Matthias Chang, a lawyer and former political secretary to Tun Dr Mahathir, continued his lucid attacks towards Tun Salleh Abas. He may have a case there. The judiciary crisis of 1988 story may be far from over. 
• Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Aziz arrogantly declared that Umno will do better without Dr Mahathir in it. Two questions came to my mind the moment I saw his interview here. One, is Umno can be better with him (Nazri) in it and two, will Umno going to be stronger in the coming months when it is being led by someone like Pak Lah? 
• And the picture of the week;    

Pak Lah fell asleep during a press conference while his deputy spoke on during an Umno Supreme Council Meeting last Wednesday night. Sheesh..!

 

Meanwhile, back in the 60’s…

S. Shamsudin, Datuk Aziz Sattar and the late Tan Sri P.Ramlee’s family members together with the film producers should be dragged into courts for insulting the high and mighty UMNO. How dare they equate UMNO to a circus!

But then again, with these kinds of behaviour, not much difference from the actual circus innit?

(the poor chap was chastised and thrown out from the hall)

(maybe he didn’t get some the night before)

Bak kata Datin Siti Nurhaliza, ‘Saya buat ala kadar saja…’

So here’s a blog that is quite redundant. It’s about redundant TV shows. As tonight, I was sucked into this vortex of weird entertainment. I couldn’t escape. I was in awe. TV3 was telecasting live the wedding show of the century. While, RTM1 - not to be outdone, aired a live show about Mawi and his ex-fiancee Ina.

Bloody crap.

To those of you who were lucky enough to miss it, Siti’s wedding was indeed, grandiose. She was fucking beautiful alrite. She even sang at the end of the wedding. Which was near midnight. Datuk K was jovial and looked perversed as usual. They had kids dancing all sorts traditional dances on the ‘pelamin’ area while the starving guests had their dinner. I think, to those who would have just tuned in, it would be like watching a show for Hari Merdeka. Ziana Zain was the first to sing a song for the bridal couple. If that wasn’t bad enough, M. Daud Kilau sang next in all his glory. Complete with that ridiculous fluorescent attire of mismatched colours and sunglasses. Why would he wear shades in the middle of the night anyway?

All in all, it would be a fairy tale wedding for a simple girl from Kuala Lipis and an old man just out from the divorce courts 2 weeks ago. 

Switching over to RTM1, that gay fella Aznil Nawawi was busy coaxing Mawi to bare all on what he feels about his past relations with Ina. On the other side of the room, Rosham Noor was interviewing the teary eyed Ina on what had happened between them. Fucking losers. Ina, who is not even an artist, managed to sing a soapy song about her love life. What the..??!! All of us were duped into watching this freaking redundant show.

Okay like I said, this blog is quite superfluous. I can’t believe I even watched them both. I blame it all on the remote control keeper (my sister). Goodnight everyone. No nightmares I hope.

The week in review

KL is having a really good run for the past few days. Weather wise. No rain since Sunday night. The mornings have been quite cool and the afternoons were balmy and breezy. Whether the weather is just a forefront of good things to come we may never know. With the political scene in a sorry state, I’m sure it will be stormy quite soon.

Pak Lah just took off this morning amid the political crisis of his fledgling 3 years at the helm. Good on ya mate. This would be the 3^rd time he’s on holiday in Perth for the past 18 months. Run Forrest… Run!

What is there in Perth anyway? Perhaps he wants to hone his skills at sandboarding in the Pinnacles Desert. Awesome.

Maybe he has a girlfriend there somewhere. He is after all, Malaysia’s most eligible bachelor. Whatever it is, he isn’t telling. Elegant silence. That’s what Tun Musa Hitam is referring to about our PM’s mute response towards Tun Dr Mahathir’s criticisms. In school, if I had kept quiet when a teacher asked me a question, I had to stand on the chair. Maybe I should have told the teacher that I was just being elegantly silent. That should do the trick.

Oh well the PM is away and the country is running on auto pilot. That means, nobody is in charge. Not even your daddy. Therefore, I declare 10^th of July a public holiday. This is to avoid seeing all the red eyes and eye bags on that day. You know, The FINAL is just the night before.   

Speaking about the World Cup, I’m glad Italy came through to the quarter-finals. What a game. Deep found respect for the Italians. Playing with 10 men for 40 minutes is not an easy feat. Kudos to the team. Cannavaro was amazing. And what about Lucas Neill? Clearly it was a penalty. His left hand was undoubtedly obstructing Grosso.

You get what you deserve Mr Neill. You broke Carragher’s leg 2 seasons ago without batting an eyelid and now you broke the OZ’s hearts. Well don’t fret too much about it. OZs are bunch of wankers anyways. Bastards.

And how about that iGallop exercise machine huh? Isn’t it the best invention yet? I’m sure Osim had it spot on. Applause! Applause! Not only we’re the 3^rd rudest city in the world, we Malaysians are also perverts. Judging from the sales response for the product, Osim revealed that most of the buyers are males above 40. Maybe Osim forgot to mention that the scantily clad cowgirls do not come in a box with the iGallop. Nanti kena wallop from your wife baru tau. Applause! Applause!

Speaking of wife, I saw a terrific marital spat in Cynna the other night. Quite a commotion. The wife was accusing the husband of flirting unashamedly with one of the girls there. Can’t blame him for that. They served oysters that night. Maybe he was getting randy after eating them. Man, even I was randy! I ate about 8 of them in a single plate. Even that skinny dark little door bitch of Cynna looks tasty afterwards. Dan had a dozen. God knows what he was up to that night.  

Okay kids, before I leave you to attend on the more serious thing called life; I just want to say, Forza Italia! And buy iGallop for your role-playing pleasure with your respective spouses.

Thank you