Now that Anwar become the prime minister, what's next?

It was announced on 24th November 2022 that Anwar Ibrahim is chosen by Agong as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia. Finally, after so many years of struggle and setbacks, the dream of one person is realized. 

I have an entry about Anwar earlier titled Anwar Ibrahim should not be the prime minister of Malaysia. I was not skeptical of the possibility of him being the next prime minister and is more against the notion that he is the right one. While many are in joy of the news and people of all races singing Negaraku, I am concern of he will do for the country.

One of the announcements he made is a public holiday upon the prime minister appointment, he made this promise during the election. I would consider that this is not a wise choice of promise, especially when it is absolutely unproductive to the economy.

Next, he claimed that he will not be receiving a salary and the minister roles will receive a pay cut. This is a little disturbing to me. If he is to be full time prime minster, what is his source of income if he is not taking his salary Note that he is a lifelong politician and NOT businessman like Donald Trump. 

Furthermore, it is not about high salary that people are concern, it is corruption that people are concern about, how is his government going to curb corruption practice? as far as I am concern, a pay cut is highly likely cause a person to think about alternate source of income.

He also announced the arrangement for 2 deputy prime ministers (DPM), one will be for East Malaysa while the other UMNO. I am in agreement that an appointment DPM for East Malaysia, it is long overdue and East Malaysia is seriously under-developed. 

However, DPM for UMNO?

What makes UMNO deserve the DPM role? It is not the biggest political party in the coalition, with only 30 seats. The biggest party goes to DAP with 40 seats. It is the second largest party in parliament. 

Anwar as emphasized that he wants to build an inclusive nation, shouldn't one of the first signal he sent out is a government base on meritocracy? Is DAP candidates not under consideration simply because they are Chinese? Are Chinese then still classified as second-class citizens under his government?

Furthermore, if the position is given to UMNO, who will fill this role?

Ahad Zahid Hamidi was a close associate to Anwar during his time in UMNO, it is Zahid's insistence of his participation this election that UMNO loses big in this election. It is Zahid who link up UMNO with PH. Zahid is instrumental to the success of Anwar and PH, with Zahid remains as the president of UMNO, does this mean that he is by default the main candidate for the DPM role?

It is true that Zahid will not be the next prime minister of Malaysia. However, never has he said he won't want to be the DPM. It does not matter who leads the government, the possibility of him remaining as DPM is high. over 130 regional heads of UMNO have supported Zahid continuation as the president of the party and there is not sign of him resigning or removed by means party election. He is here to stay.

Remember Gafa Baba? He was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time of his appointment as DPM, the charges were dropped since his appointment. Will the same thing happen when Zahid turn DPM?

Making Zahid answer for this crime has been the battle cry of PH especially DAP during their election run. They specifically claim that a vote for UMNO is a vote for Zahid. As such, if Zahid become the DPM, will any of them object? Will they insist that Zahid should not take up the role? 

As for his coalition government, it is more a rosy ideology while reality is far from perfect. The difference between the parties is much greater than the time of PR and early Harapan. He was already unable to hold together the coalition them, I will see even a bigger challenge on partnership with BN. I strongly believe that it will follow his legacy of another partnership failure.

To be frank, I believe that this is a great opportunity that UMNO is going to miss out in reforming itself. Its eagerness to stay relevant leading to its desperation to accept the coalition with PH. further to that, continue to allow Zahid leads the party only let more people convince that UMNO has not learnt its lesson and is more corrupt than before. At the same time, it will demonstrate how lack of integrity PH is by doing what it has told thee people to go against.  

At the moment, Anwar's government already has a simple majority. To further its grip of power, DAP apologizes to GPS and Sarawakians for its behavior to persuade them to join the unity government, I am seeing people with no bottom line for the sake of power. Anwar even claim that he will get 2/3 majority once Sabah also join in.

By then, Anwar can pass policies without parliamentary debate and vote, he can even change the constitution "for the good of the country". This is very dangerous for Malaysia, for absolute power corrupt absolutely, we have no idea what he will do at all. 

When Agong intended for a strong government, he is with good intention. However, Malaysia is no short of history with strong government and result is abuse of power especially during Mahathir era, Malaysia has been a long spiral of corrupt deterioration till now. Personally, I believe it is not going to benefit the country. It is better with formation of a minority government and policies to be strongly debated to ensure right decision is made for the country.

Lett's hope that I am wrong on this.

Hung parliament? Coalition government? Minority Government?

The result of PRU15 is finally out, and it is what I favor, no one party or alliance is with a clear majority. 

With slight surprise, Pakitan Nasional (PN) overtake Barisan Nasional (BN) coming in second with 73 seats, BN with the worst showing of 30 seats. While Pakatan Harapan boasted about their 100 seats gain during the election process, they managed to get a mere 82 seats. GPS from east Malaysia with 22 seats, Warisan with 3 while GRP with 6 seats.

What is better?

First of all, while PN is led by Bersatu, it gained a mere 24 seats while PAS a majority of 49.

At the same time, while PKR is the lead party in the coalition, it holds a mere 31 seats while DAP is the majority shareholder of 40 seats.

I can see the uneasiness for these 2 leading parties with their subordinates with a larger majority then them. Their balls are constantly being grabbed if they don't listen to their "subordinate".

Even better still?

All parties and alliance dislike one another. These are their claims before the result:

1) PAS of PN refuse to work with BN claiming NB is infidel and evil, and that Zahid Hamidi is the symbol of their corruption.

2) Bersatu of PN refuse to work with PH, noting their highly pro-Chinese ethic.

3) Sarawakians and Sabahans refuse to work with PH due to its arrogance while in office.

4) Sarawakians and Sabahans claimed that they have not agreed to work with BN. 

5) Voters of these political parties and alliance demand that none should work with Zahid who is the head of UMNO.

6) DAP and PAS are nemesis and is unwilling to cooperate.

7) PH has been crying that BN is corrupt and that BN stole the power of governance from PH during the last succession of government.

This mean:

1) PH cannot work with PN. This will be the worst scenario for Malayisa as this combination can allow for change in constitution, allowing too much power to the alliance, they may collude to altrer the constitution to their advantage;

2) PH cannot work with East Malaysia;

3) PN cannot work with BN;

However, there is one option which is possible.

PH can work with BN. this will make a number of 112. However, with PH's hype on BN's corruption and how they stole the power of governance. This will show a lack of integrity for PH and another great disappointment for those who vote for them.

The other alternative is PN with BN and East Malaysia, but something has to be done to cleanse UMNO to make this possible. Again, PN will lose the people's support as a result. Many will be angry and feeling betrayed.

At this moment, due to stalemate within the alliance, Bersatu of PN is looking into loophole to justify the PN and BN collaboration. They are asking Zahid to resign as the president of UMNO as the condition of participation. The problem here is that Zahid IS officially elected as MP of his constituency, and he continue to exist within the coalition.

This requirement, however, is not specified from PH. However, as I have specified in Anwar Ibrahim should not be the prime minister of Malaysia, alliance with PH is dangerous and will lead to break up of the party.

What would I do if I am BN? 

I am one of the most hated team in Malaysia politics and I see that I need to change. Forming alliance with others will be seen as me not learning my lesson. I will have to reject all proposal for alliance and let myself remain as an opposition party for at least 1 term, demonstrating my ability to work for the better good for the people.

In addition, I will use this time to restructure and modernize BN, cleanse the organization of the old corrupt practice and making it more people oriented, introduce meritocracy to enable the nurturing of competence candidates to serve the people instead of depending on loyalty of individuals.

In addition, strengthen the groundwork with building up stronger grassroot to be more engaging with public and not be "above" like those precedes them.

The move will be seen as a sincere gesture to reform and will gain more trust and credibility with the people.

The coming 5 years is not going to be easy for anyone who take over the governance of Malaysia. The world is facing another round of recession of possibly 5 years in length. It is better to sit back and let others have a go at it. After all, it is easy to find fault and complaint instead of planning, organization and execution.

If BN accept any invitation to form coalition, they will be worse in the coming election. By then people will want them out of the political arena for good as they are seen as not learning from their mistake.

Forming a coalition partnership in any way will not benefit BN at all, neither will other parties. It will further lead to people's delusion to the Malaysia political arena.

Enable a minority government, the amount of opposition will keep them on their toes to ensure policy relevancy. One might question then: how to ensure other won't dare to score political points? 

Well, the people are the ones who voted for such formation, it will be the people's responsibility to make sure the politicians are in alignment to what they want.

We have done this before after the first tsunami when the people forced PR at the time to behave properly and worked accordingly. We can do it again.

Anwar Ibrahim should not be the prime minister of Malaysia

My first knowledge of Anwar Ibrahim was the time he rose to prominence as the deputy prime minister of Malaysia under UMNO umbrella in 1993. My parents even told me at the time that they even met him while touring the great wall of China. 

The next time I heard about him was the Highland Towers collapse disaster in the same year. The rescue team at the time was led by Anwar, which also comprised of 2 teams, one from Japan and the other from France. However, Anwar was indecisive at the time as both teams proposed contrasting solution to rescue the victims. 

In the end, only 2 were rescued while 48 persons perished.

His realtionship with Mahathir was "exceptionally good" to the extent that it is compared to a father-son relationship. 

Soon, words started to spread that Anwar is poised to replaced Mahathir as the next prime minister of Malaysia. 

At the start of the financial crisis, Mahathir and Anwar were in direct confrontation as to how the crisis was to be handled. Anwar took radical steps in changing the governing mechanism during Mahathir's absent which mainly dealt with Malaysia's response to the crisis.

Their relationship further deteriorated with his attack on the short coming of UMNO and its ruling coalition when he attempted to deal with nepotism and cronyism within the party.

By 1998, he was voted as the "Asian of the year" by Newsweek magazine and poised to challenge Mahathir for the leadership of UMNO. It was at this time that a book by Khalid Jafri titled "50 reasons why Anwar cannot become prime minister" emerged.

This was followed by his sudden termination from cabinet and expelled from UMNO for act of sodomy. He was jailed. It is believed that he was framed by Mahathir to have him removed. He was charged with both sodomy and corruption and was jailed for 6 years.

This however, tore the party into 2 fractions, with one breaking away to form Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR). By 2008, the party formed an uneasy alliance with both Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS). PKR acted as the mediator to bring the 2 nemesis together to fight against Barisan Nasional (BN) under the coalition name of Pakatan Rakyat.

They fought BN during the 2008 election and managed for the first time in history deprived BN a 2/3 majority and governance for 5 states. By August 2008, Anwar made his come back to the political arena through a by-election in Permatang Puah, becoming the leader of the opposition.

Rumor also started at this time that PR was going to flip the government with member of parliament (MP) from opposing team deflecting over. It went for few months never happened, all these whiles, Anwar and his team continued to spread rumor leading to panic on BN side so much so that they sent their MPs for oversea team building trip.

Flipping of government did happen though in state of Perak, but it went the other way with 3 members of PR went over to BN. 

By this time, PR managed to gain the governance of a few states including Selangor which Abdul Khalid Ibrahim was appointed as the chief minister. Selangor was progressing well under his care leading to challenge from the then Anwar's good friend and supporter Azmin Ali within PKR for the position. support for Abdul Khalid was removed causing him to lean towards BN for support. He was eventually removed and replaced by Asmin Ali. all this while, Anwar stayed silent on the matter.

By the 2013 election, PR again failed to take power. Anwar pointed the fingers to the "unfair" electoral system. He continued to heckle the BN government at the time, specifically the prime minister Najib. This led to his second imprisonment of 5 years on sodomy charge in 2015, stopping him from winning a state by-election in Selangor. By now I am skeptical if he is innocent as his relationship with his intern certainly seemed to be more than ordinary.

In the same year, underlying conflict between DAP and PAS surfaced. The new president of PAS, Hadi Awang decided on a different leading to the collapse of the alliance, with PKR still led by Anwar Ibrahim sitting on the fence. This also caused PAS to break into 2 fractions, the conservative group remained as PAS, another Parti Amanah Negara led by Mohamad Sabu which remained with PR..

Came election during 2018, Anwar was approached by Mahathir asking for support to overthrow the then BN government. Mahathir arranged for his pardon by the royal family after the new coalition Harapan won the election. This time, the remaining parties (PKR and DAP) of former PR joined force with Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) of Mahathir.

Anwar then again returned to politics through another by-election in Port Dickson. While he claimed to not be in a hurry to step in replacing Mahathir as the next prime minister, there was nevertheless continuous pressure for Mahathir to hand over his power, eventually leading to Mahathir's resignation as the prime minister. 

This led to conflict with Bersatu due to their discontent that Anwar allowed DAP to take the lead creating policies favoring the Chinese while viewed as Malay as being sidelined. This causing another collapse and pushing Muhyiddin to move toward BN, becoming the new prime minister while Mahathir formed a separate party Perjuang, while Syed Sadiq who was not willing to collude with both formed Muda.

Now Anwar and what's left of Harapan is calling for blood on BN, Bersatu and Perjuang for depriving them of maintaining the power which rightfully theirs. The called those in Bersatu as traitors, BN as corrupt and Perjuang as liars.

While busy blaming and discrediting others during the present election run, they have not self-reflected of what went wrong with their coalition. 

The story of Anwar is a series of partnership implosion, starting from his existence in UMNO, PR and lately Harapan. He is highly indecisive in time of urgency while his action is radical. 

While critical over the act nepotism and cronyism in UMNO, Anwar exhibits the same behavior pattern. He allowed Azmin power grab in Selangor and turned a blind eye on DAP's execution of policy based on racial and party line, causing imbalance within the coalition. 

All these behaviors to me have much to do with his want to be the prime minister of Malaysia to the extent that he will disregard certain underlying principles to realize his dream. I am really concern if he became the prime minster of Malaysia one day. as long as the root cause of the continuous implosion is not found, we may see history repeating itself again. 

Unfortunately, the self-reflect mechanism of is lacking within the party, the team continued to blame external factors ignoring the fact that it is what's within the causing their own failure.

I will feel sorry the day they return to power, it will be another 5 years of instability, this round they will increase their urge to be in control.  We will witness a more dictatorial form of government in Malaysia as a result.

Are you for real, UMNO?

 UMNO has just released their manifesto a few days ago. There are only a few points but created quite a huge disturbance in the force. Not because it was spectacular, but ridiculous.

Their manifesto covers a few areas:

1) Recognize Malaysian citizenship of children born oversea with mother of Malaysia citizenship:

I went to the Malaysian embassy in Singapore many years ago (early 2000) and asked the same question, the person in charge told me that citizenship follows the mother. Either that lady lied to me or UMNO and BN is pulling a fast one. 

Not only that, but most of the citizens oversea are also of non-Malay ethnic origin. Is UMNO to say that the government under BN is barring citizenship of offspring of citizen who are non-Malay all these time? You really do not treat us as equal in the country. There is no reason for non-Malay to support the country then since we are so unwelcome in our own country.

I for one will never reciprocate with kindness when the other side try treating me like shit.

2) Ensuring minimum income of MYR2,208 for B40 household:

the first thing I did was to check on number of households in Malaysia, which is 8.2Mil. Assuming B40 = lowest 40%, which is 3.3Mil. If each family receives 2,208 per month, it will equate to MYR86Bil! That will be greater than1MDB! Where is the government going to get this money?

My brother then pointed out to me that there is further categorization where B1 of B40 is the only group below MYR2,499, with median at around1,599. 

I then further breakdown the subgroup, since with no data on the size of B1, I assume a 1:2:3:4 ratio, lading to 1.312 mil household. At the same time, I consider a mean subsidy of MYR600 per month per household to reach the minimum MYR2,208. That will give me MYR9.4Bil. this is much smaller but still a sizeable amount. So where is UMNO going to find the money to pay up? 

Furthermore, the number of families benefit from this is only 1.312Mil, about 16% of the population. My brother even went further to estimate that the number of household would only be 400K and not 1.312Mil.

Is UMNO trying to pull another fast one on us?

3) Free Laptop for for textbook-free initiative and free higher education for B40 children

If I use the 3.3Mil for B40 again, assuming there are 3 children in each family. This leads to 3 sets of notebooks (I assume it is notebook and not chrome) which cost around MYR3,000 each for entry level. This will sum up to MYR29Bil!

This, is a large sum of money, even Singapore won't dare to give away notebook, they initiated co-payment for a cheaper chrome book, iPad or Tablet. Malaysia must be DIRT RICH!

It also never mentions if the notebook will be replaced or up graded after a few years, considering obsoletion is common. That will lead to a much larger sum.

as for fees for higher education, I have to put an assumption of MYR5,000 per year for normal course and only 1.5 children reach this level. That will be another MYR74Mil!

This is just an estimation, but such subsidies will cost the country about MYR29,074Mil. on top of 9.4Bil. 

4) 5G available in all schools

This is irrelevant, upgrade to 5G is definite a go in the future, but it will be done by service provider, not the government. 

Furthermore, isn't WIFI a better option for school? You do not need a sim card to connect your notebook to the internet when WIFI is available.

These are the main highlights of their manifesto. I am definitely not interested.

To start with, if I have left for another country and with offspring, I have found a better place, since no matter where I go, I am only a second-class citizen, but it is still better than Malaysia since I know I won't be milked to support government giving out of freebies.

Hasn't the Malay realized by now it is these freebies that is causing the Malay to keep going backward while other races, no matter what hardship they experience as a result of unfair treatment due to their race, they are progressing.?

I would rather see reform to the school system when they train students to be strong in science and math instead of ideological agenda of Bahasa Malaysia prioritization. Remove the unequal treatment of quote system and discriminatory standards of SRP and SPM for non-Malay.

It is not doing the Malay a favor at all. You give a person a fish, he eats for a day, you teach him to fish, he will live on.

May be you have not yet notice, but the country is already deep in debt, are you going to keep stretching your hands out until Malaysia announce bankrupt on day?

Lastly, let me show you a great manifesto.

Why Harapan urge the people to vote on party line and not the candidate?

While browsing through the internet events on PRU15. I come across a common theme, “选党不选人”. It means pick on party line and not the candidate.

Going through their ceramahs, I find that Harapan is great at discrediting their opponents, including bringing up age old faults of their opponent parties justifying corruption, betrayal and incompetence.

UMNO so far is labelled as a party of absolute corruption and that the party leaders are trying to use the election win to escape criminal conviction. They made it clear that UMNO was so scheming that they stole the governance of the country from Harapan, who surpassingly the rightful owner of this 5 years of governance.

MCA, their nemesis was labelled as the loyal lapdog of UMNO and only emerged recently for election. DAP went on to claimed that MCA was not there for the people when they needed help. further enforcing the belief that it was DAP alone who supported them in the time of needs.

Needless to say, Muhyiddin, Azmin Ali and their Bersatu are the traitors of Harapan, if not for their betrayal, Harapan would not have lost control of parliament.

Of course, I must also mention Mahathir who is labelled as the fox who lied to obtain control of Harapan and then refused to relinquish his role of prime minister for Anwar.

Oh! How can I miss out PAS who used to be an ally but now an extremist group trying to convert Malaysia into Afghanistan.

Harapan lead by Anwar are out to help Malaysia to clear all the evil, remove corruption and bring law and order to the country. It is "US" against "THEM" and a vote for Harapan is a vote for righteous while a vote for the other side is supporting the downfall of Malaysia because these people will hand the fate of Malaysia to people of corrupt nature.

The propaganda machine was in full force since day one marketing their ideology to the extent that the man on the street can recite the theme, turn a blind eye on who the candidates allocated to their constituencies and just choose the logo of Harapan.

This is all too familiar to me. I was at one point with regular travel to China and lately quite focus on the country's political changes due to my interest in Hong Kong. 

The China propaganda machine is always quick to deflect any faults blaming external influences for any mishaps. Too much rain causing flood? Must be USA weather changing machine. Protest in Hong Kong? Must be US infiltration inciting riots. all sorts of ridiculous excuses and accusation, sky the limit. 

They will even create stories on how they fought off foreign threats to them. There one very interesting story line which the online amateur reporters claim they were taking photos near a the seaside where Japan , Taiwan or Korea on the opposite end. A military vehicle drove behind them and told them that they are there to act as a barrier in case the enemy on the other side fire a missile over. These reporters declared how touch they are to the military personnel.

The thing is that these are recycled over and over again until I am sick of listening.

Back to Harapan, among all these betrayals, lies and deceits, I can't help but to note a common denominator, which is Harapan. If you connect all the strings, it all lead back to Harapan and no one else.

Anwar and his PKR for instance, was riddled with infighting since day one. The leaders within could not even wait until they are in full control before the distribution of power. The indecisiveness of Anwar himself not only fail to resolve the dispute, instead escalating it. 

One famous incident was the position of Selangor Mentri Besar which was then seated by Abdul Khalid Ibrahim. He was hardworking and managed the state well, but was unseated due to the greed of Azmin Ali whom at the time a strong component within PKR. He under the silence of Anwar forced Khalid to apporach BN for help and then in the end removed by the party.

DAP on the other hand, while claiming to be multi-racial, is ruled by an iron fist. They depend on the Chinese vote by continuously feeding propagandas of external threats and danger in order for the Chinese to vote for them. It is no wonder that we very seldom see their ceramah in full Malay, because they could not spin the same story to the Malay. 

With the collaboration between PKR and DAP however, they make it possible to divide and rule, PKR to convince the Malay community for support, while DAP on the Chinese.

Why then the theme of "pick on party line and not the candidate"? It is not because of them fearing the good credential of candidates from the other side. They are more scared the voters seeing their own candidates. 

While failing to secure power in parliament, they are still holding to many of the seats, some reaching 4th term, and if you look closer, most of them did nothing to service the people who voted for them. In fact, you will find a lot of frogs leaping from constituency-to-constituency after 1 or 2 terms. Lim Kit Siang for instance is a great frog, jumping all over Malaysia.

A good example is Nurul Izzah Anwar. My constituency Lembah Pantai voted for her and she was our member of parliament between 2008 till 2018. During this period, she has never appeared in our area at all. We however, found her going around the country making speeches as it that is the sole duty we have asked her to fulfill. When came 2018, her credit ran out and she lompat to Permatang Puah.

She was replaced by a Fahmi Fadzil, a professional actor who also disappeared after the last election only to reappear recently to ask for vote. However, based on what my father told me, Bangsar Baru is really quiet now as if nothing is happening.

You do not need to believe me, just search on their ceramahs, you will find that they are quick to blame everyone for their misfortunes, discredit others to leverage their position, they even spue the notion that they were not able to fulfill their pledge because they were only in office for 22 months before the scheming UMNO took it from them. For some reason however, they never mention what happened within the 22 months which they were in office, not a single word of apology.

The point here is, not only you need to pick based on the candidates, you need to scrutinize every single aspect of the candidate, or you will come to regret when of your choice. 

An agent of change

 

Have you ever been forced to take initiative?

I have. I have an entry about my ex-company titled German Tech firm Infineon Technologies Ag.I was based in Singapore and have worked there for 6 years until the retrenchment exercise. 

As described in that article, it was a company with calm appearance yet riddle with hidden power struggle between multiple parties and regions. I was hired as a business manager of a market segment but the restructuring within month migrated the marketing controlling power from Singapore to Taiwan. 

A person more familiar to the head of department replaced me for the role. I was then re-assigned to handle system level road map, reporting directly to Munich. Even so, a local director was assigned to supervised me on administrative level.

As a newcomer to the company, I was an outsider and managed to see the weakness of the organisation, I did not adhere to the norm as I deemed that it would only hinder the progress of my work. This is a typical trait of an agent of change, we are contrarians with urge to keep evolving.

I was despised for my position. I was challenged of my ability to handle the job technically and he compared me with a technical person. While I was officially in a market, my previous roles involved in management of design team and within depth knowledge of the market technically. Still, it took me much effort to stop his advancement to eliminate me from his team Nevertheless, my movement was greatly restricted as he attempted to make me incompetence by immobilising me.

Then came another round of restructuring, my boss from Munich was reassigned, I was no longer shielded from attack of my local boss and would be made redundant. The department was dealing with system roadmap would be headed by a new team. 

One of the first thing they did was to visit Singapore. I was aware at the time they might have another person to lead the roadmap of the market segment, it was not finalized. I knew that should I wanted to survive in the company, that was my only window.  

On my one-to-one meeting with my new director, I asked to take over my previous boss' role to be fully in charge of the roadmap. This was a monumental task as I would not only be collecting data from Asia region but engaged with an international team. My findings would have to go through rounds of scrutiny and eventually presented to the top management in Munich.

To my surprise, I was given the opportunity after I presented my view on the market requirement. This made me do the same role as my administrative director in Singapore, but on different market segment. As a result, all my effort was put in to produce a very compelling scenario of the market with details into requirement and direction of different sub-segments.  

 At the end of the presentation to multiple parties with different regions, my bosses in Munich were amazed with my work, much better than my administrative director, making him speechless.

Since then, I managed to further elaborate the market structure of my segment for 3 more years before another round of restructuring commenced and this time the top level was too far for me to reach, I was retrenched. 

Even so, I am proud of what I achieve started as an outsider to the company to a position that can influence the research direction of the organisation. The fact that I was a target of elimination only made me stronger and more powerful, shutting the mouth of those who look down on me.

Why do I share my story? Because I can feel for Khairy, we are of similar nature. I can't believe how similar our paths resemble each other.

He first rose to prominence as the son-in-law of the then prime minister Abdulah Ahmad Badawi, but was his progress was into limbo after the fall of his father-in-law in 2009. He was with little backing and have to fight on himself as his father-in-law was with very few allies in the party. 

His role within the party changed multiple times including being the head of UMNO youth, minister of youth and sports, and the most prominent role as acting minister of health.

I did not like this guy at the start, he was cocky and arrogant then. But what caught me by surprise was him being caught having alcohol intake while he was studying in UK. When the reporter revealed picture evidence, he brushed it aside ask, "so?"

This was not a typical answer by a politician as they view haram as taboo and will give every excuse to justify their action. He on the other hand, seemed to ignore the need to keep an appearance. That was when I understand that he would not adhere to standard norm.

This guy is also outspoken to what is right and what is wrong, like voicing his negative opinion on quota for university. 

While everyone rejoiced after the tsunami in 2018. I withheld my happiness, because there was nothing to be happy about, we have the guy who caused all these fiasco in Malaysia brought back as hero. In fact, I have an argument with my cousin during the Chinese New Year before the election that I would not be voting for anyone as I did not see a good outcome in any way. True to my words, I did no cast my vote that round.

While many of the UMNO leaders were in disbelief of their loss and making attempt to regain control. Khary was the only one who said, " Now that we are in the opposition, we have to make sure we perform our role properly." He believes in doing the right thing, not making it "right".

When came 2020 with the dissolution of Harapan government and the political arena of Malaysia in a mess, my father asked me who then might be the best choice. He was in disbelieve when I told him, "Khairy." This person has never crossed his mind at all.

While many were surprised and amazed at his work, including my father, I was not, because I know him. He will use every single opportunity to demonstrate his capability. My father even came to me and said, "Wow! You are right on this one."

Came PRU15, Khairy is in fact outcast by the UMNO leadership. While he is popular with the people, he is not aligned with the UMNO leadership, they view him as their threat. As such he was not being considered as a candidate of UMNO at all even though it would be quite certain he will win a seat for them in many constituencies.

However, if you think that he has no choice, you are wrong. He could decide to wait this round off, let the UMNO leadership hi the wall. He could jump. to another party like few others who were not happy that they were not assigned a constituency. 

He chose to stay with UMNO even though he knew that it would diminish his chance of winning, because it is the right thing to do. He chose to take action, if the leaders do not come to him, he goes to them. While the options were limited, Sungai Buloh was not the only available choice. 

IT WAS HIS DECISION.

What will happen next? 

It is about survival for him, he will fight with all his might to show case to those who despise him. He will even want to outdo their result, shutting their mouths. 

He knows it is an up-hill task as there were 26 thousand majority from his opponent during the last election. Yet, you have not seen any other candidates with such energy to push for a result.

Will he then disappear like most elected members of parliament? No, he will make sure Sungai Buloh is well taken care of, because it is the people of Sungai Buloh who has given him the chance, he will repay in kind.

My only words to Khairy then is, "Khiary, please proves me right one more time!"

A highly knowledgeable budak

 

Syed Sadiq was elected to parliament representing Muar in 2016, he was part of the Harapan team and was appointed the minister of youth and sport.

On first look, I thought to myself, "isn't him a little young?" 

In fact, he was mocked by a member of opposing party as 'budak', meaning child.

Came 2018 with dissolution of Harapan, he refused to collude with Muhyiddin, nor is he interested to follow Mahathir. I recall that he deemed their action as not righteous.

He became the founding member of Muda.

What so special about him?

Well, this 'budak' is more than meets the eye.

I came across this interview with him on the current education system, and I am truly impressed by his insight.

He believes in the equal rights of opportunity and not outcome, Malaysia for so many years has focused on the later. He also believes in the restructuring of the education system which is badly needed by Malaysia not only to survive but to thrive.

He is still young with and to some extend I believe he is an idealist; He has much aspiration to contribute to the future of the country and is the kind of people we badly needed. I am sure when he gains sufficient experience, he will know how to reach where he wants to go. 

I would like to see more of his milestone in the coming future.

Vote along party line or on person?

 I think many might know by now that I do not have a good impression on DAP. In fact, I do not have good impression on any political party at all. Many attempt to show a beautiful front but corrupt internally. 

That is why I choose the candidate base on their action and not the party they come from.

The person in this picture is Young Syefura Othman. She is DAP' s candidate for Bentong. I must say that I LIKE HER!

Yes, she is beautiful, but that is not the point. In this video here, she is seen going from house to house giving mandarin oranges for Chinese New Year. she wished them happy new year in Chinese.

Do I like her because she speaks a little bit of Chinese in an attempt to pander to our race? "Oh! A Malay trying to be part of us, how proud we should be..."

No that is not it neither.

Itis rare sight to see a politician willing to walk across to another race, you can see from her action that she is genuine. Many politicians that I see, including Khairy Jamaluddin, with most of their activities surrounded by people of the same race. 

The thing is that you can't claim to represent the people when your activities is of mono-racial nature.

Moreover, she is willing to serve the people, how I know? The time this video was taken, it was Chinese New Year, which I believe was the beginning of this year, the election was still far away.

She also knows what she is into and definitely know what she should be doing. You can see from her eyes she is with aspiration and vision of the future, unlike many others whom are looking for a pay cheque.

While still young, I am sure she will make a good member of parliament for the people of Bentong. I will go there to check on the Lemang.

The rule of law or the rule of people?

 

I come across this video which DAP's candidate for Raub Chow Yu Hui (邹宇晖) spoke about his role in the illegal durian farms clearance incident at Raub.

When it happened, he stepped up on behalf of the farmers to stop the Pahang Forestry Department from cutting down the trees. His speech was emotional recounting the hardship he encountered. 

He went as far as applying for stop order from court to halt the operation. 

He went further to challenge his political opponent if they will allow contract of bias against the farmers in order for them to continue their cultivation. 

First of all, I find this ridiculous, who was the member of parliament at the time, him or the guy from MCA? It was his dty to take action and not the other side. 

What if the other guy step in? He will then claim the other side trying to meddle and take credit. There is always justification to discredit your opponent. 

He truly stood on the side of the farmers.

I mentioned from the start that it is an ILLEGAL DURIAN FARM CLEARANCE INCIDENT. By standing on the side of the farmers, he is condoning the act of crime of happen. 

While he claims to fight for the rights of the farmers, what of the right of the landowner, no matter who that is.

This is a typical example of the rule of people, when certain people with more rights than others. Do you know who is well known to the rule of people? Chines Communist Party (CCP).

Just check on what is happening in China today and you can see how bad the rule of people can lead to. 

The action of the farmers is no different from that of the Malay teenager in Plaza Low Yat incident. 

As such, how can I ensure that should DAP be part of the ruling coalition, the rule of law can be ensured. Certainly, from what happened in this incident certain people can be excused from law because of who they are.

Added notes:

Just watched another video about Ronnie Liu of DAP being asked to go up the police truck due to his involvement in the illegal durian issue, instead of cooperating, he chose to resist and accused the police of laying hands on him, making further intimidation

This is such disrespect of the law, disrespect of the officers who are just trying to do their job.

He might have been helm as a hero when he was elected in during the first Tsunami. But at this point of time, do you think this is the type of people you want in parliament?

Here is a solicitor rebutting the action of the farmers, urging them to pay tax on the profit from durian before claiming rights to the land, which belong to the state.

"Borrowing your head.."

 There was this subject that was compulsory when I was studying for my diploma, it was called Management Study.

On one occasion, the subject touched on responsibility and accountability. It stated that the higher the power, the higher the accountability of an issue. the teacher further pointed out example of Japan when
 accountability at its most extreme when the prime minister will apologize and resign over short coming.

she then compared it to local context when the common practice of the Chinese is to fault the people of lower hierarchy for the top management to evade accountability.

This reminds me of part of the Romance of Three kingdom, when the army of Cao Cao (曹操) was running out of food due to mismanagement, the troops were getting frustrated when they started to starve, and he is in danger of mutiny.   

He called in Wang Fang (王垕), who managed the logistic of supply. After he provided an up-date on the logistic status, Cao Cao asked if he could borrow something rom Wang Fang. He wanted to use Wang fang's head to calm the troop. Even with much resistance, Wang fang was quickly being apprehended by the guards and executed. 

Cao Cao then let the troops know that it as Wang Fang's mismanagement resulting in the food shortage, and that the issue was already settled, and food will arrive soon.

In the case of Wong Tack, who was elected by people of Bentong as their member of parliament (MP). He was a an environment activist known for his opposition to Lynas, a mining company of rare earth. 

He was elected partially due to people were disgusted with the corruption in the then BN government and wanted a change.

While in office, he did not make many headways into the Malay community, review on his performance was mixed. Worst was his changing of stance supporting continuation of Lynas operation, which was also backed by the then Harapan government.  Support for him was falling as a result.

The thing here is that the dwindling of support for him cannot be solely blamed on him. On Lynas incident, he was not the only one doing U-turn. The hole Harapan government including his adopted party DAP went silent on the matter, contrary to the time before they were elected to power. It was unfortunate that he was with additional banner of being an environmentalist.

As for his lack of performance in servicing the people and improving relationship with the Malays, he is not the only one.

If one look through the politicians in Malaysia, they have an inert reluctance to engage with people of other races, prefer to stay in the comfort zone of their own kind. Moreover, most simply disappeared immediately after election and miraculously found alive and well when next season come. Wong Tack is just one of them.

To me, it is the responsibility of DAP leadership itself to ensure their MPs work for the people. DAP and even Harapan really needs to be accountable for the lack in service quality.

It is unfortunate that DAP request for Wong Tack's head to remove themselves from responsibility. While pretending that they have no other choice (shown in the video), we do not know what happened behind the door. As far as I know, DAP rule their members with an iron fist. 

They however, failed to anticipate such resistance from Wong Tack, that he is willing to sever ties with DAP and run as independent candidate. While he may not win at all, it will dilute the votes for DAP. I believe bentong will go the way of the MCA candidate, after all, he did a good job servicing Bentong in the past.

Prime Minister in waiting at Sungai Buloh, are the people of Sungai Buloh up to it?

Today I continue to witness Datok R. Ramanan from Pakatan Harapan attacking his opponent. He has earlier questioned Khairy over a past issue which has already been settled. Afterall, if there was any wrongdoing on Khairy part in those issues or if he was corrupted, I am sure he would have been under investigation during Mahathir second coming between 2016 to 2018. 

When it did not work out, he switched his tactic.

Harapan started declaring the asset values of their candidates yesterday, and Mr. Ramanan was declared with over MYR 60 million worth of asset. 

He was quick to direct the reporter to ask Khairy about his asset.

I really question the legitimacy of asset declaration. I find that it serves no other purpose than misleading people into believing that it indicates how clean the politicians are. Furthermore, it allows opponents with justifications for further attack. 

What if Khairy is known to have lots of asset, even more than Ramanan? Should we then breakdown the source of his wealth? Can he not inherit his richness? Does it even indicate if he is corrupted at all? 

If his asset is very low, does it mean that he is of lesser right of serving the people? Should he then be despised as a poor and have not?

When people asked him for the breakdown of his asset, Ramanan was quick to brush it off that the voters are not interested to know how many rings he has. I really wonder then how he manage to secure such large amount of wealth. Furthermore, I am interested to know if how much tax did Mr. Ramanan under report. Would he be interested to clarify, or simply say people not interested to know.

In fact, with the declaration of their wealth, we see that there are many millionaires or even Billionaires in Harapan, can they all elaborate as to how they accumulate their wealth?

The truth here is that asset declaration is on volunteer basis, and you can't blame others of not doing so if you are following your leader's instruction blindly, with exception to opposition, of course.

With such amount of wealth, I truly question if he understands the plight of the man on the street, and that he can truly serve the people of their needs.

Khairy on the other hand, has shown his dedication and ability through his handling of Covid-19, reducing the infection from 30,000 plus a day to a mere hundred.

I can understand the reason for the relentless attacks, Ramanan is new to the territory, he is taking over the role from his colleague on the constituency. He can't say a thing as to what his predecessor did badly, and he does not have success story yet in politics. worst, he is facing a very strong opponent with strong motivation to succeed.

However, there are more than one way to promote himself. He can relate to the people his hard work to his status today, and that he can duplicate the formula to Sungai Buloh, he can even tell the people about bring Sungai Buloh to the next level. 

Unless of course, his path of success is stepping on others to reach where he is now.

There is no need for negative campaign, it only shows that he has nothing to show and unprepared. In my industry, it only indicates he is a follow and not a leader. Leader only focusses forward, while follower focuses on his opponent. 

Khairy on the other hand is inspiring, his campaign is about the future and his aspiration to lead the country. He even maintains that he is ready, and the only thing left is to prove himself to the people. 

My question to the people of Sungai Buloh: Do you want a follower or a future prime minister to represent you?