Malaysiaku, Negaraku

  It is more than Anti-Hopping Law Amendment in DAP By Stephen Ng   There is more than meets the eye when one reads the explanation given by both DAP national chairman Lim Guan Eng and secretary-general Anthony Loke .               These are two DAP men whom I have always thought to be credible but, unfortunately, I find their explanation recently about the Anti-Hopping Law to the public is anything but truthful.               To put it nicely, it is more like half-truths and smokescreens that they are putting out to the public. And, when told a few times, the public will begin to believe them. The Quotes               Allow me to quote Lim from an article in the Malay Mail: “"This is not about the party members, but about the elected representatives, especially those who...

  By Rafidah Aziz  UNLESS WE , the People , are  FLOCK OF pliable SHEEP....EASILY HERDED by the Shepherd , and the Sepherd Dogs...to go wherever, and do whatever, that is DECIDED BY THEM , and FOR THEM...      ...THEN it is important for US , and  those ENTRUSTED to GOVERN...to understand ...     ...WHAT GOVERNMENT and GOVERNANCE            MEAN , and INVOLVE     ....WHAT the PEOPLE EXPECT  as results , and             Impact ,of that GOVERNANCE     .....WHAT it takes to be RESPONSIBLE in           Managing and Utilising PUBLIC MONIES...                ie MONEYS belonging to THE PEOPLE                     THEMSELVES  ......HOW to COPE with CHANGE , and do what is          NECESSARY, to MANAGE, SUCCESSF...

  I see a trend these days in Malaysia that tries to alienate individuals.           Instead of solving issues , they are more interested  to push their own agenda. They cannot tolerate voices of dissent, because  their personal agenda is at stake.           So, rakyat must be fully aware of the power of one voice. Their strategy is to alienate and smear the reputation of the individual so that people are afraid to associate with them.  Good People Are Individual Voices          Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther the Reformer, and many more all began with just one individual. Their voices were soon heard.           I remember years ago, Dr Tan Chee Khoon used to be the lone voice. Known as the Mr Opposition, he was respected by even the then prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman himself.     ...

Chief Grand Councillor Heshen This is based on my assignment, as a partial fulfilment of my doctoral studies:  Emperor Qianlong’s (1736–1795) biggest mistake was to allow too much power in the hand Heshen (1746–1799), one of the most corrupt officials during the Qing Dynasty who, coupled with his autocratic style of ruling China, caused the end of the Qing Dynasty’s golden era. He was later sentenced to death by slow slicing ( lingchi ) by Qianlong’s successor, the Jiaqing Emperor, Renzong but subsequently allowed to commit suicide himself. [1] Renzong also executed both Hu Weiyong, Lan Yu and some 4000 of their relatives for the alleged conspiracy by the two to usurp the throne, and most of the ministers of the Six Ministry for corruption of Guo Huan. The collapse of the Qing Dynasty is, however, not because it did not have a good system of government. Renzong’s mistake was when he also executed particular officials who were bold enough to criticise the emperor. This destroyed...

At the federal level, every vote is still important.            Although I have mentioned that I may cast a spoilt vote for Selangor, depending on who are the candidates in my parliamentary and state constituencies, at the federal level, every vote counts.           It now depends on how the Malay and East Malaysian votes will swing, especially after they have seen how Barisan Nasional for over five decades fail to improve their livelihood. They have also seen how the Penang State Government has run the island state that it is easy to see the transformation in the state if you had been there 10 and five years ago, and recently.          Whereas Selangor has turned from bad to worse under Pakatan Harapan in the past one or two terms, Penang is a 'miracle' by itself that even Penang people are proud to now tell people it was the state government now under DAP (previously, also under a Chinese ba...

  By Stephen Ng           Frankly, if the General Election is held this year, Umno and its Barisan Nasional component parties are likely to perform badly.           Barely one year after the Covid-19 pandemic, the country is still reeling from its standstill economy between 2020 and 2021. People's tongues are still wagging that should BN win the general election and become the government, former prime minister, Najib Abdul Razak, his wife Rosmah Mansor, and Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi will be set free among others.          The Najib-Rosmah duo together with flamboyant playboy Jho Low had caused billions of Ringgit to disappear from the public coffers, leaving the nation still in huge debts -- to be precise, in the quantum of  RM32.08 billion as at June 30, 2022. This makes the 1MDB scandal the mother of scandals and as the US Department of Justice put it, 'unprecedented.'    ...

  Oleh Stephen Ng            Cara gaya saya selama ini adalah mudah.           Dua siri television THE LEGEND OF LOBO dan INCREDIBLE HULK yang saya ikuti semasa di bangku sekolah lagi sudah mengajar saya berkenaan dengan prinsip hidup untuk bantu menyelesaikan masalah orang lain, dan selepas itu, merayau ke tempat lain.          Prinsip yang dipelajari dari siri Incredible Hulk pula adalah kemarahan itu, jikalau kemarahan untuk kebenaran (righteous anger), ianya kadang-kadang diperlukan untuk menegakkan keadilan atau menyelesaikan masalah terutama dengan cara sesetengah pegawai kerajaan menjalankan tugas mereka.           Ramai yang tidak faham fikir saya hanya menggunakan cara yang kasar, kesat dan tidak sensitif terhadap perasaan orang lain, atau mengambilkira beban kerja mereka. Mereka lupa bahawa Incredible Hulk pun orang biasa yang peramah, dan saya...

  Quote from a book Zhang, Qizhi.  An Introduction to to Chinese History and Culture.  New York, NY: Springer Heidelberg, 2015.         In politics, the highly centralized and autocratic monarchical system fomented serious corruption. From the perspective of Chinese history, this political system played an active role in making China a unified multinational country and in promoting social productivity, yet as time passed, its drawbacks became more evident.          The Qing emperors inherited the political system of the Ming Dynasty and developed it to its peak. The Qing emperors were at the center of this system, and they were surrounded, at both central and local levels, by a large number of fully functional and closely linked bureaucratic groups, whose job was to safeguard the emperor’s authority and autocracy by managing people’s discontents and crushing any insurgence and revolt.     ...