November 2006 « MageP’s Lab

Sex and corruption

Ignore the close one eye Jasin MP Mohd Said Yusof, his confession can’t stand valid for real. Look for another context from another perspective.

The trouble with many politicians is that while they are quick to criticise what they perceive to be sinful, the same decibel is not heard when it comes to corruption. [...]

Ailing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) who is still in the process of recuperating, reporting a net profit of RM240.3mil (US$66.2 million) in the quarter ended Sept. 30, rebounding from a loss of RM366.4mil in the same period a year earlier, thanks to improved business conditions, cost-cutting measures and one-off gain of RM194mil (US$53.4 [...]

Mentally immature

A few months ago, Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin a.k.a ZAM refused to accept the idea of parliament TV, saying that racist Malaysian viewers are not ready for live parliamentary proceedings.

Yesterday, he repeated the similar call. "No live parliamentary proceedings," said ZAM.

"The time has not come for RTM to telecast the parliamentary proceedings live because [...]

Toll increment

People, huge new year gift from Works Minister S Samy Vellu, right a month before the arrival of Year 2007!

Starting from Jan 1, toll rates for five highways will go up starting Jan 1 next year. The typical and annual recurrence factor: The Government no longer afford to subsidise toll increases, but able to sustain [...]

Realpolitik

Umno veteran member Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, fondly known as Ku Li, who once come very close in toppling former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad as the Umno president in 1987, said that Mahathir is entitled to his opinions.

However, unfortunately, according to him, Mahathir’s opinion wasn’t heard as certain group of people were trying to shut him [...]

Municipal councillorsssss

Via The Star:

(SOURCE: The Star, 25 November 2006)

The Star’s K. Suthakar was caught by surprise with the full attendance and branded it as a rare moment.

Rare moment? What does that mean?

Meanwhile, the son of Port Klang assemblyman Zakaria Md Deros, Zainuri Zakaria, whose DZ Satay House was torn down by the Klang Municipal [...]

Temple demolition: Illegal or insensitive?

Correct me if I’m wrong, we (Malaysians) love to take great pride in Malaysia’s cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity which has always defined our national unique identity.

On the other hand, religious issue is always a sensitive matter, what’s more when you’re talking about an Umno Youth Leader(?) of admitting writing to the Seberang Perai Municipal [...]

CNN Future Summit

When CNN Future Summit: World in Motion debuts today on CNN International, one of the on-going discussion of the technology and how they’ll change our lives is about space exploration.

Mind if I ask fellow politicians, civilians or in another word, every single Malaysian to watch this on CNN, imagining yourself ask ing the group of [...]

DZ’s palace & Selangor Government … (3)

Remember DZ?

At last, it was torn down.

What’s the lesson that we’ve learnt from this scenario? Do Malaysians need national attention together with great effort to unseat merely a municipal councilor who go against the law?

What’s more when Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi complained that he is still dissastisfied with the efficiency of the civil service [...]

NEP: Spillover pickup group

Be it 18.9% or 45%, here comes something refreshing.

At a public forum titled "Is the NEP still revelant?", Penang economic Planning and Education committee chairman Dr Toh Kin Woon that race was only a masquerade for the adoption of policies that served the elite, especially those close to the leaders.

However, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun [...]