tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26141457804653989082024-03-13T18:50:27.251+08:00unter diesem gesichtspunktI don't bother. Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Bernard BaruchAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comBlogger447125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-17276934036801578432018-02-08T20:44:00.003+08:002018-02-08T20:49:22.074+08:00try to hold onall the photo here, the source is from :-<br />
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Tadi pagi aku membaca FB, tentang seorang economist yang bercerita tentang bonus Tabung Haji.<br />
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Entah macam mana, ada seorang Non-Muslim, an Indian guy, memberi komen yang kurang aku senang.<br />
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<i>"Race and religion is one of many things manipulated in this capitalistic structure and society".</i><br />
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Membaca komen lanjut beliau, dia menganggap pelaburan Tabung Haji ni macam pelaburan duit yang guna agama.</div>
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Sebagai Non-Muslim di Malaysia, aku tak pasti samada dia tahu atau tidak apa tujuan Kerajaan buat Tabung Haji ni.</div>
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Ia bukan untuk pelaburan macam ASB. Dia nak membantu Muslim menyimpan duit untuk pergi Haji.</div>
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Ini lah masalah bila semua orang nak komen atas semua benda dalam social media.</div>
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Sebenarnya aku pun dulu bersalah dalam benda macam ini. </div>
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Tapi mungkin selepas tahun lepas di mana aku banyak kali masuk ke hospital, aku tak tahu lah mengapa, aku mula rasa, those things in Internet are actually, things that doesn't matter much.</div>
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Those things, gossips and news, macam nak mencuri masa dan attention kau, supaya kau sedikit sebanyak melupakan kepayahan di dunia sebenar.</div>
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Tapi selalunya, yang aku lihat, social media ni kadang2, menambahkan lagi kepayahan, sekurang2nya menyesakkan minda kau dengan pendapat itu dan ini, by those FB literary greats.</div>
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Aku kongsi pengalaman aku berkenalan dengan watak2 famous di social media.</div>
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Yang kebanyakan kau sangka hebat dan cool itu, kadang2 duit nak makan pun tak ada. Ada yang tak ada rumah dan duduk di office, ada yang duit dalam bank hanya rm200-100 saja.</div>
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Dalam masa yang sama, ada banyak likes ramai followers.</div>
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Entah, aku sejak akhir2 ni merasakan, dunia social media ni, banyak "fakes". </div>
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It is full of glitters yet it is mostly fakes.</div>
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Kadangkala, seseorang melakukan sesuatu untuk likes, atas logik mahu dihargai, tapi entah lah, aku seperti tak percaya tentang itu. Tapi kalau kau memilih untuk itu, silakan. Your choice.</div>
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Sebenarnya, aku dan kau, kita ni semua, are just those dying souls. </div>
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Ya, kalau kau fikirkan, ia mungkin menakutkan, tapi factually, semua kita ini hidup menuju kematian. </div>
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Dalam kehidupan masing2 yang mungkin bosan, sesak, mencekik, jadual hidup kau yang entah ke mana.</div>
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Aku masih ingat tika awal aku membuat blog ini, waktu itu, aku bekerja sebagai staff sub-con, dan naik motorsikal berulang alik 30km setiap hari dari rumah di Kajang ke site di Klang.</div>
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Ya gila, but then that's life.</div>
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Dan satu benda, aku tak tahu lah ini mungkin menjadi motivasi untuk orang lain atau apa, kehidupan itu agak mencekik, tapi aku rasa itu kehidupan yang "honest", jujur.</div>
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Sejak akhir2 ni, aku lebih gemar dengan FB page Happy Cats, daripada nak ambil tahu benda sekeliling yang aku rasa agak "menyesakkan".</div>
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Penat kerja.<br />
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Walau apa pun, teruskan hidup dan try to hold on.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-9458549117702137172018-02-02T14:01:00.004+08:002018-02-02T14:01:32.136+08:00paranoid android<i>Note : all photos here, the source is from http://www.lovemeow.com/orphaned-kitten-left-in-alley-finds-grandma-cat-to-love-in-these-beautiful-photos-2507537881.html</i><br />
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A friend of mine, a girl, was so stressful about the current issue in Malaysia, which is the suicide of Vasantha Priya, a 14 year old girl who hanged herself after a "dispute" over allegation from her teacher that she stole the teacher's Iphone.<br />
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Ok, the case is now under Police investigation. The teacher involved is now under Education Ministry supervision, and her fate will be decided after the investigation.<br />
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In summary, the issue is undergoing a process.<br />
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My question to that female friend, why you get so stress over this?<br />
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It's just like the case of that tahfiz fire who killed 23 students last year.<br />
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When it happened, most noises in the social media suddenly get emotionally heightened, blame "penunggang agama" / those who abuse religion for profit, blame tahfiz schools and imply that those tahfiz schools doesn't give much damn to the safety of students, only using religion to cash in as much as possible.<br />
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History of previous burning involving tahfiz schools, implying that the schools aren't safe.<br />
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In the end, the investigation proved it was an arson case.<br />
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And suddenly those who were emotionally heightened, became quiet. No more blaming.<br />
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I myself was also one of those social media bloody noises.<br />
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A fortnight ago, I was hell on Facebook making noises supporting #undirosak movement. Comments and noises.<br />
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Then the KLSCAH forum happened. And suddenly it made me to question things.<br />
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I asked the #undirosak fellas, why are you guys harping so much about Maryam Lee, and not Fahmi Reza?<br />
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I felt Fahmi Reza's case was more "oppressive" compared to verbal abuse to Maryam Lee.<br />
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The answer to my question, "why? Do you want to start donation for Fahmi Reza, is it?"<br />
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I kept quiet.<br />
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Then I was told "Relax mate, the case is still under undecided in Court. We see how to progress after the case is decided".<br />
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Look at the current news happening in Malaysia.<br />
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<i><br />- KUALA LUMPUR: A man has claimed trial to 200 counts of raping his then five-year-old niece, at a Sessions Court in Ampang here.<br /><br />- PORT DICKSON: Police have obtained a seven-day remand order against a couple over the death of the man's nine-year-old daughter.<br /><br />- KOTA KINABALU: A man who was seen in a viral video jumping on top of a car at a roundabout in Likas here is a drug addict with a criminal record.<br /><br />- KOTA KINABALU: He had a promising future ahead of him, but the 18-year-old Filipino has probably blown it for supporting Abu Sayyaf.<br /><br />- KOTA KINABALU: Two more state government engineers with the Sabah Railway Department have been arrested, bringing to seven the number of people detained in a graft probe on suspected fictitious projects and claims.<br /><br />- SUNGAI PETANI: The man who was caught on video fondling a young girl under her dress at a funfair and trying to kiss her pleaded guilty at the Sessions Court.<br /><br />- PETALING JAYA: Teachers have been reminded to adhere to the standard operating procedure (SOP) when dealing with cases of theft following the death of a 14-year-old Penang schoolgirl who attempted suicide after being accused of stealing her teacher’s handphone.</i><div>
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Ok. The world is shit. We all take note of the news above.</div>
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But must you spoil your mood and stress yourself over those news?</div>
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Do all those news, demands your explaination and review in Facebook, and you feel like a Social Justice Warrior over an injustice world, and made you stressful after that?</div>
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Then, comments and reviews in your FB comment section, replying each other, sometimes shooting each other back, heightened emotions, and made you more stressful.<br />
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In the end, like the Fahmi Reza case, or the Tahfiz case, we still rely on the mechanism in our society, ie. police, Courts, even though most of us in Malaysia, mistrust the Government, or what you might term as the System.<br />
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It's ok and your democratic right to make noise, but I'm just concerned over your stress.<br />
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And the source of the below photo is my wife.</div>
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my niece, Chayra, 19 Jan 2018</div>
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Today, Chayra is sick with diarrhea. She's tired but she want to play, but she was tired and is tired.</div>
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Me too.</div>
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I told myself, there's no need to update the blog, to bla bla so much in the social media, but I'm just like Chayra.</div>
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I'm tired but I want to play, but I was tired and am tired now.</div>
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Too many things in the social media, from Undirosak movement,</div>
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an Indian kid who got killed at a low cost flat just because some dickhead threw a chair from above,</div>
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a non Muslim who debated Islamic stuff with a Muslim in FB,</div>
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the news and the feeds,</div>
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the noises,</div>
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and all the other noises, </div>
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whether white noises, background noises, screams, whispers, propaganda, talks.....it's just that everyone want to speak, because they think, to validate their existence, to validate their thoughts.</div>
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I'm like Chayra, I'm tired but I wanted to make pretty speeches in the social media.</div>
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Instead, I felt numb and dumb.</div>
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Actually over this week, I've written few things, about my argument with my wife, some things about friends, people in the social media, 3-4 writings at my PC,</div>
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but then at this moment, I'm just overwhelmed by a mega magnitude of disconcern.</div>
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So here it is. A blog entry with the spirit of art collage.</div>
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Since I've wasted your time reading this, I guess it's pretty good to actually give you back something worthwhile. So here it is. Go and download it</div>
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Jacques Derrida</div>
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Martin Heidegger<br />
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Jean Paul-Sartre<br />
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Friedrich Nietzsche<br />
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Ludwig Wittgenstein<br />
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Baruch Spinoza<br />
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Arthur Schopenhauer<br />
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Rene Descartes<br />
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Noam Chomsky<br />
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Hannah Arendt <br />
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Syed Naquib al-Attas <br />
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Karl Marx<br />
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Syed Hussein Alatas<br />
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Rabindranath Tagore<br />
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Confucius<br />
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Leo Tolstoy<br />
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Next week I will start back working full time, so I'll just update an entry here before I get busy.</div>
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As there are people out side Malaysia reading this, I had to explain a bit as simple as possible in my story.</div>
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Well in Malaysia, there are many races, and 3 predominant race here are Malays (the native, although technically this fact can be debated), Chinese and Indians.</div>
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Cultural assimilations happens, but no matter how you understand and tolerate each other,</div>
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you can't really change the color of your skin.</div>
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(I used the phrases "cant really change" because there are people who did plastic surgery to make themselves "white", yet they are still perceived as their original race)</div>
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It is an open secret among us Malaysians, that there is a "divide", that still exist, you can say it due to income inequality and whatever reasons out there.</div>
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There is still stigma that Malays are lazy, Chinese are greedy, Indians are drunken people,</div>
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and other stigma,</div>
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that Malaysian use to "shoot" each other whenever some shit occurs.</div>
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Yet, when Nicol David became World Champion in squash from 2005 to 2012,</div>
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nobody in Malaysia question her race.</div>
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Because she was successful, everybody want to identify with her,</div>
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hence people called her as Malaysian.</div>
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So do Tony Fernandes (Air Asia boss) and Lee Chong Wei.</div>
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So my idea here,</div>
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don't get butthurt if you're a victim of racism.</div>
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For me, those who have this racist mindset, usually, have poor mentality in their mind.</div>
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Get successful and nobody will bother about your race.</div>
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Playlist I'm listening today.</div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">2- Chevalier Bulltoe (</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWVFu2ASbE&t=95s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">01:35</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">3- Tonton Alain Michel (</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWVFu2ASbE&t=307s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">05:07</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">4- Festivalbini (</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWVFu2ASbE&t=624s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">10:24</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">5- Motte-Rock (</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWVFu2ASbE&t=818s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">13:38</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">6- Osao San (</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWVFu2ASbE&t=1059s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">17:39</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">7- Eric Colson (</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWVFu2ASbE&t=1330s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">22:10</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">8- Tigers & Gorillas (</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWVFu2ASbE&t=1709s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">28:29</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li>
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</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=96s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">1:36</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Yaaaago</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=303s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">5:03</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Trop fort Jéjé</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=493s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">8:13</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Saveur cheveux</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=708s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">11:48</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Beverly Pills</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=1039s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">17:19</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Ouad & Khaled</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=1162s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">19:22</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Tomate polisson</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=1395s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">23:15</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> 100% repos</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=1886s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">31:26</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Clara mystère</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=2213s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">36:53</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Gérard Blast</span><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTP0rTS4RI&t=2499s" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">41:39</a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> Come to Mexico</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-60053601926757898692018-01-05T22:17:00.002+08:002018-01-05T22:24:29.719+08:00Life is but postponement of defeats<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Someone I knew is in a predicament, which I could not do much help.<br />
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I knew he wanted to vent out his frustration, but I kinda cut the conversation, and just told him my idea how to solve it, and not to think so much about being failures and those negative thoughts, because I don’t want him to turn up depressed.<br />
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When a few people, close and personal to me, died, passed away throughout my life,<br />
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after the prayers, the Fatihah, Yasin and tahlil.<br />
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I will pickup my acoustic guitar (gitar kapok) and play this Carcass - Polarised endlessly in repetition, to cope with the loss.<br />
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In this video, the minute 1:56 above is the beauty of this song. Actually I could not play that part as perfect as this fella, I improvised a bit to get the sound closest to it.<br />
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The feeling is what Chairil Ahmad said “Life is but postponement of defeats.”<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-89150839723708722018-01-03T16:43:00.003+08:002018-01-03T16:43:24.671+08:001st, 2nd and 3rd of January 2018<b><u>A. January 1st</u></b><br />
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I cooked this, as I've promised my wife during an argument previously. (Men always promise things just to stop arguing with the wife)<br />
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It was:-<br />
1. Pumpkin cooked in chillied coconut milk gravy.<br />
2. Chillied cooked anchovies<br />
3. Fried Winged bean cooked in chillied soy sauce.<br />
4. Egg fried with tomato.<br />
5. Fried dried fish.<br />
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<u><b>B. Indie Writer</b></u><br />
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I wrote in previous post that I argued with a prominent indie writer in FB.<br />
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I felt that if I'm a gentleman, after arguing stupidly with someone, that I should meet him face to face over a cup of tea.<br />
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So I went to his office, met him then sat over cups of tea and drinks, food.<br />
From 5.00pm to 4.00am of the next day. 11 hours session of talking listening, pausing a while thinking of something to talk, and repeating the cycle.<br />
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But I won't tell anyone what we talked and discussed.<br />
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Recently at TV2, they were playing advertisement of the movie The Bucket List to broadcasted sometime this week.<br />
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For me the dialogue in the advert interest me the most as it kept me thinking.<br />
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<i><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Carter Chambers</a>: What are you so afraid of?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Edward Cole</a>: <u><b>Just because I told you my story, does not invite you to be a part of it!</b></u><br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Carter Chambers</a>: Oh, like the lady in the bar?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Edward Cole</a>: That's different.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Carter Chambers</a>: Tell me how it's different.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Edward Cole</a>: I build a billion dollar business up from NOTHING! Presidents have asked my advice, I have dined with royalty, and i'm supposed to make out like what? This trip was supposed to MEAN something to me? Like it was gonna change ME? How did you see it playing out Carter, I knock on the door, she answers, she's surprised and angry, but I tell her how much I love her and miss her, and OH, by the way, I'm gonna be dead soon so I'm reaching out to you because I don't wanna die alone?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Carter Chambers</a>: Everyone's afraid to die alone.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Edward Cole</a>: I'm not everyone! This was supposed to be fun. That's all it ever was.</i></div>
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That idea blew me inside out.</div>
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Anyhow, if I told everyone about it, it'll be a story from me, as if I'm part of it, that is something that I felt phoney.</div>
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So it'll remain between the two of us.</div>
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<b><u>C. Making Up with Wife : How Tenaga Nasional Berhad helped</u></b></div>
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Anybody's wife will be crazy if her husband only turns up at the house at 5.00am in the morning.</div>
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I tried to be as silent as possible, with the lowest decibel (dB).</div>
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She had the most serious look I ever witnessed. Oh shit.</div>
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But she was silent. She didn't spoke a word.\</div>
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Actually, as a guy, that is a bit relief and a bit of worry as well.</div>
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The relief part was the silence, you escaped the "membebel" / babbling / arguing bla bla because it'll drained you mentally.</div>
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Listening to a "ceramah" at 5.00am in the morning?</div>
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So that was the relief.</div>
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The worry part is the silence also means you don't know what will happen next.</div>
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I said the sweet words, no reply.</div>
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I guessed, the Pak Kaduk 3 story was boring like shit, she got up, she went into the bedroom and locked it from inside.</div>
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I understand my punishment then. I had to sleep at the living room.</div>
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Then I woke up around 9.00am feeling hot as hell.<br />
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I got up and went to the front door to switch on the lights and the fan.<br />
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Then I realised, the bedroom's door is open!<br />
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Oh Graceful God, I give much thanks to Thee!<br />
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I walked coyly to the bedroom, and my wife was just coming out from the bathroom.<br />
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As I tried to hug her, she screamed,<br />
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"Eh rimas lah, rumah dah lah tengah takde elektrik ni, panas, eh siap siap lah kita keluar breakfast lepas tu lepak mana mana, kat shopping mall ke"<br />
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She opened the door because it was hot, and that was because there was disruption of electrical supply from the power provider Tenaga Nasional Berhad.<br />
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We spent the afternoon at an air-conditioned shopping mall nearby, and this late afternoon at an air-conditioned cybercafe where I wrote this while she played Tennis Titans.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-91856219287189872462018-01-01T15:19:00.004+08:002018-01-01T15:19:56.311+08:00welcome 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Binatang ni nama dia Stoat. Kau boleh wiki pasal binatang comel ni.<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoat<br />
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Sejenis weasel yang tak hidup di Malaysia ni. gambar dia ada sini pasal dia comel.<br /><br />Hampir setiap orang yang aku jumpa tadi pada 1 Januari 2018, dari gadis stesen minyak, brader 7-e dan lain2, aku wish selamat tahun baru. Takdak niat apa, orang yang kerja retail, kau wish dia tiba2, selalunya dia rasa a bit warm dan terima kasih.<br /><br />Aku doakan semua korang yang membaca ni, , akan kesejahteraan dan kesihatan semua. Semoga semua damai2 saja.<br /><br />
Gambar comel ni nak bagi feeling warm untuk semua time2 ni, where most of you guys tengah holiday.<br />
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Ok sekian and gtg (got to go, wah lama gila tak guna term gtg)</div>
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Aku dah janji dengan wife aku, yang aku nak masak lemak labu hari ni.</div>
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Aku kat cybercafe up2 entry ni, wish2 orang di FB lepas balik dari pasar haha.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-14846073328181473502018-01-01T15:10:00.001+08:002018-01-01T15:10:10.686+08:00satu kisah TLDR pada akhir tahun 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All the photos in this entry, the source is from NST online <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nstonline/">https://www.facebook.com/nstonline/</a><br />
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Itu hari aku ada gaduh bodoh2 dengan seorang Indie Writer di FB.<br />
Dia punya pissed off memang tak ingat.<br />
So ini just a review about it, plus a few cerita yang a bit melalut tapi aku rasa worthwhile to think.<br />
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Kata Indie Writer tersebut "kau bukan orang dalam scene ni", so aku better verify sini.<br />
Memang aku orang luar yang skema pun.<br />
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<u>A. Intro</u><br />
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Perang, konflik, it happens everyday in man's life, that somehow, an atheist might ask, "kalau Tuhan mercyful, sebab apa orang Syria Muslim tu kena slaughter?<br />
Kenapa Tuhan wujudkan konflik dan perperangan?"<br />
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Pada aku lah, jawapan soalan ni dia senang cakap but very hurtful, but it's quite true,<br />
war and conflicts somehow indirectly makes us progress.<br />
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Aku bukan wakil Tuhan untuk bagitau, itu adalah jawapan absolute, cuma aku rasa semua benda ada both bad and good value, it all depends on how u look at it.<br />
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World War 2 bunuh 50 juta orang lebih, tapi banyak teknologi yang ada sekarang ni disebabkan both sides nak menang perang tu.<br />
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Mamat yang invent microwave tu kerja di Raytheon sebab nak majukan lagi teknologi radar time World War 2.<br />
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Kau mungkin terfikir kenapa orang agungkan sangat penciptaan transistor? It is because makes radio parts (terutama part tuning, kau nak amplify signal)<br />
and other electronic equipment much easier,<br />
hasil dari improvements of radio technology yang orang intensify research during World War 2,<br />
semua orang nak progress kan technology radio and RADAR to get better radios for military,<br />
cuma, teknologi transistor finally perfected lepas perang, the idea and concepts behind it datang from those who worked during the war.<br />
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Internet kau pakai takkan ada tanpa satelite network, and people won't launch anything to space kalau tak sebab teknologi rocket V2 yang menjadi objek pertama di dunia<br />
yang terbang melepasi Von Karman line (100 km above sea level, which FAA now considers as "Space")<br />
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Liquid fuel for V2 rockets volatile sangat for handling, mamat nama Pearson terfikir nak tambah bitumen dalam mixture to make solid fuel, senang nak handle and<br />
bubuh dalam rocket, research funded by US military during world war 2 sebab<br />
military ada problem nak launch aircraft besar2 berat from carriers, they need jet assisted takeoff for this.<br />
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In the spirit of this argument, aku rasa pergaduhan mulut di FB ni, sebenarnya, kalau viewed positively, banyak juga idea yang aku rasa<br />
worthwhile to think off.<br />
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Dan kebetulan, it happens masa Antithesis Benz Ali diharamkan.<br />
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To divert to Antithesis,<br />
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Pada aku, kacamata skema, daripada tanya, patut ke tak buku tu diharamkan (just to question sentiment) , i think a better question should be,<br />
"Macam mana government nak haramkan satu buku?<br />
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Government boleh sesuka suki cakap haram, tapi boleh ke dia stop buku tu dari dibaca?" (apa mechanism nak mengharamkan buku?)<br />
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<u>B. how it is implemented.</u><br />
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Ada 3 elemen penting dalam book industry di Malaysia ni.<br />
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1. Writer<br />
2. Publisher<br />
3. Pencetak<br />
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Selalunya layman tak peduli sangat pasal pencetak, tapi dia lah elemen paling utama sebab pencetak-lah yang bagi "rupabentuk fizikal" buku tu untuk kau baca.<br />
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Pengharaman buku, falls under Akta 301 Akta Mesin Cetak dan Penerbitan 1984. Implementation dia by Kementerian Dalam Negeri.<br />
KDN, as you know, one of the responsibilities is about nation's security.<br />
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Akta ni, kalau kau baca, lepas dia habis define legally all terms that is used, dia start dengan Seksyen 3 dengan clause<br />
"tiada seorangpun boleh menyimpan untuk digunakan atau mengguna mesin cetak melainkan jika ia telah di beri lesen di bawah subseksyen (3)."<br />
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Sebenarnya kalau ikut Akta, permit bagi buku, nak bagi dia boleh di-distribute, adalah bergantung kepada permit kepada pencetak.<br />
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Kalau Government nak haramkan buku,<br />
dia perlu stop 3 benda,<br />
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1. Pencetakan<br />
2. Pengedaran<br />
3. Pemilikan<br />
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First KDN perlu bagi notice pengharaman. Dalam kes Antithesis, a press conference was made last Friday. In a way, the way it is told to the respective companies,<br />
"Your permit to print now, no longer includes this books".<br />
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So company yang cetak perlu faham, kalau dia print juga buku "haram" tu, the permit to print other legal books can be revoked.<br />
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Then, untuk halang pengedaran dan pemilikan, Seksyen 8 diperuntukkan untuk tangani.<br />
Seksyen 8(1) = pemilikan penerbitan haram = denda tak melebihi RM 5,000.<br />
Seksyen 8(2) = distribution = penjara 3 tahun atau denda tak lebih RM 20,000 atau kedua duanya.<br />
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Yang tak best dalam akta ni,<br />
Seksyen 16 - Waran Geledah<br />
Seksyen 17 - Kuasa Membuka bungkusan<br />
Seksyen 18 - Kuasa Menyita dan menahan<br />
Seksyen 20 - Tangkapan tanpa waran tangkap = yang ni paling tak best.<br />
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Patut ke tak buku tu kena haram? Ada board yang review untuk define buku tu haram ke tak?<br />
= Ikut Akta ni, ia bergantung kepada budi bicara Menteri (Menteri Dalam Negeri). Kuasa penuh kat tangan dia.<br />
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Bila baca benda ni, pada aku, kurang bijak juga kau letak email kau di FB minta orang email kan kau buku tu, sebab itu menunjukkan bukti pemilikan.<br />
Pada pendapat aku je lah. Kau ada pendapat kau sendiri with your reasoning.<br />
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<u>C. Books demanufactured.</u><br />
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Pernah dengar kes publisher Thukul Cetak buat jualan solidariti lepas PBAKL 2017?<br />
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In summary, Thukul Cetak ter-over produce buku. 50 title buku diorang aim for PBAKL. What happens is banyak yang tak terjual, tapi company pencetak<br />
mintak jugak duit over cetakan buku.<br />
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In the end, Thukul Cetak terhutang RM100k kepada pencetak, and Pencetak dah start pakai lawyer tuntut duit tu.<br />
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(Mutalib Uthman ada pencetakan dia sendiri yang dapat lesen KDN, Percetakan Mutalib Uthman. My best guess is, untuk aim<br />
sales PBAKL 2017, Thukul Cetak pun ada pakai syarikat pencetakan lain sekali untuk tolong produce buku sebanyak mungkin for PBAKL)<br />
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Sekali, what happens, ekonomi cilaka, walaupun hype dan trendy PBAKL 2017 dengan promotion bagai,<br />
ramai orang datang, tapi sales kurang dari PBAKL terdahulu,<br />
orang ramai dah start berkira2 beli buku sebab duit poket masing2 bocor.<br />
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So itu yang terpaksa buat jualan solidariti untuk cover that debt.<br />
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Sebagai orang skema, aku tak berminat sangat sentiment, justification whether ethical ke tak tindakan jualan solidariti tu.<br />
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In the end, when shit hits the fan, janji nak setelkan masalah saja, last last TC pekak-kan telinga atas cakap2 orang tentang salah atau betul, ethic ke tak.<br />
Yang penting tak muflis.<br />
Aku pun akan buat benda sama. Bankruptcy bukan benda kecil anak, yang kau perlu nak layan sangat sampai nak buat debate bagai.<br />
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Kalau tak salah aku, untuk cetak buku, minimum quantity selalunya 1000 ke 2000 books per title. Ikut company pencetak, sebab dia pun nak ensure profit margin.<br />
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Tapi tanggungjawab buku tu laku ke tak, falls under Publisher.<br />
Publisher pun kena keluar duit bayar kat pencetak,<br />
tapi publisher tak ada cara sangat nak ensure profit margin.<br />
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Tu sebab, royalti buku divided ikut percentage between Publisher and writer.<br />
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Publisher terpaksa all out buat marketing untuk pastikan sales tu dapat cover cost bayar pencetak dan ada margin nak cover overhead (staff, office) dan lepas<br />
tu baru fikir profit.<br />
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Dan yang paling frustrating dalam business book publishing ni,<br />
online likes, online words of mouth, popularity, belum tentu translate into sales.<br />
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Most indie publishers macam Terfaktab Media, (ya sayang sekali dah tutup) aku rasa diorang dah realise benda ni quite sometime.<br />
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Popular atau power macam mana pun satu2 books, belum tentu orang beli.<br />
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<u>D. Prinsip Pareto</u><br />
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Masa 2013, masa aku startup blog ni dan ada angan2 taik ayam nak jadi writer, ada satu view yang menarik aku dapat dari one book-shop owner.<br />
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Kau tau prinsip Pareto? Idea Prinsip Pareto dalam isu buku basically is, 20% je buku yang hasilkan 80% of the sales in the book store.<br />
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This fella shared with me, Indie book sales masa mula2 2012 2013 memang jadi some of those 80% but somehow dropped after that. Indie books no<br />
longer became the profits.<br />
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"Kau jangan jadi writer la kalau nak buat duit", kata beliau.<br />
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Kalau kau nak juga, make sure ada stable income. Most writers in Malaysia did that. Faisal Tehrani tu lecturer kalau tak silap.<br />
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I learned also that most book shops profit margin banyak dekat stationeries dengan book sekolah. Sebab stationeries<br />
and buku sekolah a necessity, buku lain selalunya orang beli hanya kalau ada duit lebih.<br />
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Memang ada orang macam aku yang beli buku for reading and collection, tapi tak seramai yang perlu untuk support sales.<br />
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Kalau dalam komik Shin Chan, ada watak 2 orang kakak tua, yang bertugas untuk halang orang baca free.<br />
Kat Malaysia jarang kedai buku employ orang macam ni, sebab ikut pemerhatian bro tu,<br />
selalunya orang yang kalau dah tahap pegang2 buku tu 2-3 kali, most likely dia beli buku tu.<br />
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Tapi orang kebanyakanya, masuk kedai buku window shopping.<br />
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Then government incentive came in the form of Kad siswa. Tapi economy pulak sengal.<br />
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The thing is, budaya simpan duit beli buku untuk bacaan santai jarang2 ada, dan kalau ada pun, very few. And these few pun, kadang2 beli comics.<br />
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Orang kebanyakannya simpan duit untuk beli buku sekolah anak, dan stationery anak. Ada duit lebih pun, belum tentu lagi beli buku.<br />
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Kau nak blame kurang budaya membaca?<br />
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Sometimes, orang penat kerja 9-5, dan dah ada FB dan handphone, kau nak expect dia beli buku novel, bila masa dia nak baca?<br />
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Tapi kalau minat boleh. Cuma most people don't and didn't.<br />
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<u>E. Menganjing orang</u><br />
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Untuk orang luar macam aku, dan apa yang aku faham seperti di atas, aku tak nampak sense kenapa budak2 scene indie ni, suka benar menganjing sesama sendiri.<br />
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Aku tengok, benda2 ni start dalam indie scene ni sebab football hooligan, yang orang suka kutuk2 team bola orang lain.<br />
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Komuniti online dekat Malaysia tahun2 2006-2010, mesti tahu tahu Obefiend.<br />
Abg Obe start buat benda2 hip macam blog FOA dan Sokernet (ini sebelum blogserius popular lagi), dan time2 ni la budaya troll kutuk2 ni start kat Malaysia.<br />
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Aku ingat lagi Mamat nama Luqiee (dia claim dia anak Sultan Brunei) kena troll kaw kaw dengan Obe followers.<br />
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Aku kebetulan 2006 dah start keja, memang selalu spend time surfing sebab masa tu di Dubai, UAE from 2006 - 2009,<br />
memang kena online pun nak tau apa jadi kat Malaysia.<br />
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Aku tak considered myself as those yang dalam komuniti online, aku jenis tergelak2 baca benda2 kelakar dalam Net.<br />
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Year 2010 or so, time tu kerja di Malaysia full time, aku follow Terfaktab, and that included that Indie writer yang aku bergaduh tu.<br />
Then aku start beli buku2 Terfaktab, ikut2 cerita2 diorang online semua.<br />
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Somehow time ni lah indie book scene Malaysia up. Analogy dia macam lagu2 metal underground yang tak keluar radio.<br />
Kau tahu thru online. Dan kau beli.<br />
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Cuma yang tak best pasal scene diorang, geng2 indie ni terbawak2 lebih2 sangat semangat troll2 kutuk ni.<br />
Masa 2012 2013 memang hip. Dan troll2 kutuk ni membawa publicity, and in 2012, 2013, it brings sales.<br />
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Cuma, dah 2017 ni, indie publisher macam Terfaktab pun dah tutup, masih duk bawak style2 kutuk troll orang ni, dia tak translate into sales.<br />
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Face it, zaman 2017 ni zaman buku2 santai dah terover produce.<br />
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Kau buat style sensasi kutuk2 troll ni, it will bring a certain type of audience,<br />
cuma these audience yang suka sensasi kutuk2 troll ni,<br />
confirm ke beli buku?<br />
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<u>F. Indie writer dan FB</u><br />
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Buku dia ok sedap. Dan yang penting, dia orang yang suka membaca. So bila dia up tulisan di di FB, tulisan dia thought provoking.<br />
Tambahan pula, buku dia banyak aku beli. So aku follow FB dia, cuma FB account dia tak ada butang Follow, so setiap kali aku nak baca dia,<br />
aku search dia di FB.<br />
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Dulu aku pun jenis suka meluahkan idea di FB. Lama2 aku rasa misguided. Sebab aku rasa macam force sedara mara aku baca TLDR stuff.<br />
Aku bukan jenis suka force2 orang sebab aku rasa semua orang ada otak dan taste sendiri.<br />
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So kalau aku nak luah idea suka suki, aku tulis di blog. Selepas aku kahwin, FB aku restrict to really close friends dan sedara mara.<br />
Sebabkan idea yang aku selalu tulis di blog ni, quote dari Bernard Baruch "those whom don't matter, matters, those that matter, matters not".<br />
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Bernard Baruch buat satu dinner event, tapi somehow seating arrangment dalam event tu agak berterabur. So ada wartawan tanya Bernard Baruch, macam tak ok je<br />
seating arrangement kau, dan dijawab Bernard Baruch dengan quote dia tu yang somehow become classic.<br />
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In summary idea dia is, orang2 family dan close friends kau, dia tak kisah hal2 remeh, dan orang2 yang amik tau sangat hal2 remeh ni, kau tak payah kisah sangat.<br />
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Dan aku tak suka nak popularkan blog atau idea aku. Pada aku, popularity benda melecehkan. Sebab nanti kau nak layan orang leceh2, time dan effort dan data Internet<br />
kau wasted tanpa ada pulangan duit yang boleh bayar bil.<br />
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<u>G. Itu hari punya cerita.</u><br />
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Well a group of youngsters bersemangat hari tu buat sambutan API. Indie writer ni gurau kasar dengan these youngsters.<br />
Cuma aku ternampak satu point yang boleh tembak balik Indie writer ni.<br />
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The youngsters sangat2 disappointed dengan gurauan Indie writer ni. Diorang appeal dengan hujah.<br />
sebenarnya boleh saja "wat lek wat pis" sudah (Malay local slang term from buat rilek buat peace sudah).<br />
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Cuma aku rasa, diorang support writing kau, kau gurau2 kutuk macam tu, of course orang disappointed.<br />
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Orang kata, orang Melayu ni penuh dengki dan hasad dendam. Well aku tambah sikit, selalunya all those dengki and hasad dendam, selalunya berpunca<br />
daripada mulut kutuk2 sound ni la.<br />
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Orang Melayu, in a biased generalisation, suka benor kutuk2 sesama sendiri. Kadang2 in the name of fun. Tapi tu la yang punca dengki, dia nak<br />
counter balik pakai hujah tak boleh, sebab orang kuat mengutuk ni selalunya pandai bercakap.<br />
In the end, kau sakit hati, kau dengki.<br />
Pastu kau wonder apa hal Melayu tak bersatu.<br />
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Dengan saja2 niat nakal, aku print screen what Indie writer wrote, aku send kat company publisher yang dia represent.<br />
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Point aku mudah saja. Kau duta syarikat, kau makan gaji dengan company tu, kau selamba je tulis pasal bong bagai.<br />
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One thing juga, boleh je nak argue pasal socialism bagai tulis panjang2, tapi it'll look like giving drink to a drowning person.<br />
Well intent, tapi pointless act.<br />
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Kalau betul2 nak impact, kau tak semesti lawan hujah. kalau kau nak fight, dan nak menang, well Machiavelli-ly, try buat macam ni.<br />
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Aku rasa Indie writer tu terkejut dan mintak aku delete.<br />
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Aku bagitau, well, nothing much will happen sebab aku tak ada pengaruh ke apa, most probably management publisher tu tiau kau je.<br />
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And I guess, that's what happen.<br />
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For the next few days, wah dia maki aku dalam FB tak cukup tanah. Well, I accept that sebab betul juga, apa aku buat tu boleh sampai<br />
tahap orang hilang mata pencarian.<br />
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Sorry la bro, aku susahkan kau.<br />
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One thing la, kau tulis la apa kau nak. Aku tak ada nak force kau accept. Aku bukan preacher pun in the first place.<br />
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But itu lah popularity and fame.<br />
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Bila kau popular, kau attract both bees and flies.<br />
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John Lennon tu tak salah apa pun. Tahu2 keluar studio, Mark Chapman tembak dia sampai meninggal. Dia punya justification, John Lennon sell out. Orang sell<br />
out ni phony, macam dalam buku Catcher In The Rye yang dia pegang waktu tembak John Lennon.<br />
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Dunia ni gila sampai macam tu sekali.<br />
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Aku waras lagi, so aku tak justify apa aku buat. Yang aku buat tu salah dan sengal. Sorry la bro.<br />
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<u>H. Some review about Indie writer's latest work</u><br />
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Aku follow Indie writer punya latest writing, Cheras Perdana series, di Wattpad.<br />
(https://www.wattpad.com/user/comradenami)<br />
dia ada a few, Operasi Bocor, Mencari Si Jongos, those are also what I considered CP series.<br />
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Aku rasa, due to previous novel's sales, dia dah mula nak tinggalkan tulisan berat dan nak tulis santai2.<br />
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It's about a group of youngsters living in Cheras Perdana. Cerita2 remaja, youngsters prank and macam2.<br />
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First thing, kau kena betul2 follow series dia untuk get the rythmn sebab writer tak mau bore kau dengan plot yang disampai oleh pihak ketiga.<br />
Approach macam ni bagus sebab free flowing imagination dan dia tak mau dictate kau punya fikiran.<br />
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Social critic dia lebih kepada impression kepada watak2 yang pegang authority (Ustaz dan cikgu). Orang yang does not practice what they preach.<br />
Dan in the end watak authority tu pun terpaksa depend dengan watak prank dalam series ni.<br />
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Elemen2 cinta remaja yang macam dalam Awek Chuck Taylor tu pun ada dalam ni.<br />
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Benda baca rilek2.<br />
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Kalau series ni berjaya in sales, memang ada potential boleh emulate success Awek Chuck Taylor.<br />
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Aku suggest korang follow series ni di Wattpad dan beli buku dia bila keluar nanti.<br />
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Chayra and Sabrina, my nieces, playing</div>
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I think the previous blog entry posts are too negative, that it shouldn't be that way.</div>
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It shouldn't be the way to end this year 2017.</div>
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I want to ask for forgiveness should anyone whom read this blog, feel disturbed or negative after reading those. You don't deserve that.</div>
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At this moment, I'm enjoying a cup of hot tea, and try to think of 2017.</div>
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If you focus on the bad stuff, you'll be reminded of the bad issues, Donald Trumps news, those negative stuff.</div>
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And you might miss the forest from the trees.</div>
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you might not even notice that beautiful snowflakes that glistens on the trees.</div>
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27 March 2017, my niece Chayra was born.</div>
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Last Friday, my wife's families and in-laws visited me. Despite being sick, I played and had Chayra in my arms. She played with my spectacles, and tried ecstatically to strike a conversation with me saying "ata ata ata" to me, with serious changing faces.</div>
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It was lovely, maybe the angels were present there at that moment too, looking at her loveliness too. It was beautiful.</div>
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2017 is the year I learned about the album "Kind Of Blue" by Miles Davis, and learning the jazz music.</div>
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So many beautiful arts, lovely music, charming books that came to my attention this year.</div>
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I managed to relocate some of my books from the old Bukit Mewah house (now my bro's house) to my Subang apartment. I hope by end of 2018, all the books are relocated and I will have my library and book collection at my house.</div>
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Some of the rare CD and music collections too.</div>
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This year also, my relationship with my bro was made beautiful again.</div>
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There were too many, it was numerous, in-numerable, blessings, like that glistening snowflakes, that actually I miss out.</div>
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I was wrong about many things too. Mostly about people.</div>
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I was right, about one thing, there are people who matters to you, and you should think about them more often than those news.</div>
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So this is a swansong to the year 2017, alhamdulilah and thank God for the those glistening moments.</div>
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before Christmas, I was sick.<br />
few times juga pergi Hospital Sungai Buloh.<br />
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then Christmas, or malam Christmas, I forgot the exact moment,<br />
aku macam ada bergaduh dengan orang di FB. but<br />
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The people yang aku macam argue ni, are what I termed as "those who shovelled shit in Lousiana".<br />
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The exact term, aku ambik from that famous speech from General Patton to the Third Army.<br />
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<i>Then there's one thing you men will be able to say when this war is over and you get back home. Thirty years from now when you're sitting by your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks, 'What did you do in the great World War Two?' </i><br />
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<i>You won't have to cough and say, 'Well, <u>your granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana</u>.' </i></div>
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<i>No sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say 'Son, your granddaddy rode with the great Third Army and a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!'</i></div>
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Ada seorang dua kawan se-universiti aku, yang mana aku "discriminate", ie. aku ignore dan block these people without prejudice, despite being friends in the past.</div>
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These people have the same habit, cakap sembang besar with, endless critics about other people, and one thing, diorang ni suka troll dan "bakar line", criticise in order provoke people, just to jest people's action.</div>
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Selalunya diorang akan kutuk party politics, NGO, or those yang diorang rasa "buat benda poyo".</div>
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But, they themselves pun tak ada apa contribute untuk wellbeing of society. Nein. Zilch.</div>
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Cakap kutuk orang, provoke bakar line, dapat like dan gelak2 orang, lepas tu sambung layan booze atau ganja atau whatever shit.</div>
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For me la, orang PAS yang orang kutuk2, well, at least, they did <u>spend </u>effort. Ada gak keluar effort.</div>
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Geng bikers, geng tabligh, NGO, those people whether you want to call right or wrong, ada gak keluar effort untuk something.</div>
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But those who "shovelled shit in Lousiana", cakap je berdegar2 tapi tak ada apa.</div>
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Lepas tulis panjang2, macam biasa, aku kena kritik, atau in their words "kena pundek".</div>
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In the end, those yang did something, rasa malas. </div>
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Aku rasa bodoh dan penat tulis panjang2 dengan well intention, tapi no use.</div>
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Kau tegur anak murid kau, anak murid kau sound kau balik, kau tampar dia, in the end kau naik mahkamah, mak bapak murid kau blame dan salahkan kau,</div>
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padahal kau nak betulkan keadaan.</div>
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In the end, kau rasa malas.</div>
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Kau jadi fragile.</div>
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Orang boleh sembang SOP lengkap dengan hadis Nabi "tak mencederakan muka" bagai. Orang boleh sembang kencang jadi pro dalam education degree bagai.</div>
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Tapi in the end, it doesn't even matter. Murid tu lagi cilaka, mak bapak salahkan kau.</div>
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Penat.</div>
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Letih.</div>
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Dan started from that night, tiba2 aku realised something.</div>
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Aku fragile. Aku dah tua, umur 35 tahun ni. Aku bukan prophet nak ubah orang, aku bukan the bloody messiah untuk ubah dunia ni.</div>
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I'm just tired.</div>
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Bila kau tired, kau realise limitation kau, tenaga, umur, masa kau yang limited, kau akan start discriminate.</div>
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Kau hanya focus dekat family kau, life kau. Selain dari itu, kau ignore.</div>
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Anak melayu lain yang bermasalah, pergi jahannam. Orang nak hisap bong, lantaklah.</div>
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The world keeps turning.</div>
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Kau nak mati dengan glue inhalement kau, kau bukan anak aku, mak bapak kau boleh uruskan.</div>
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Aku ignore dan discriminate. </div>
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Ada yang mintak tolong tadi, aku just delete je butang conversation.</div>
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Aku malas. Let them shovelled shit in Lousiana for all I care.</div>
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<a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=0s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">0:00</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Roundabout</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=510s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">8:30</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Cans And Brahms</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=611s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">10:11</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We Have Heaven</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=711s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">11:51</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> South Side Of The Sky</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=1186s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">19:46</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Five Per Cent For Nothing</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=1224s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">20:24</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Long Distance Runaround</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=1430s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">23:50</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Fish (Schindleria praematurus)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=1592s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">26:32</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Mood For A Day</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xx5pzHDlY&t=1771s" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">29:31</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Heart Of The Sunrise</span><br />
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Cuti tahun baru ni, selain dari lepak dengan family, bermain dengan nieces aku Sabrina dan Chayra, aku nak rilek2 main guitar saja. nak practice strumming, sebab aku masih tak pandai nak strumming upstroke downstroke dengan beat macam ni (selancar yang boleh).</div>
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Lead dia banyak kau boleh tengok di Youtube, covered by other guys (kau boleh belajar dengan kelajuan slow sikit), anyway it's a fun video.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-3134372399243172502017-12-16T18:49:00.002+08:002017-12-16T18:52:08.681+08:00intransigence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Intransigence is just a new English word that I learnt this week. To use it as a topic doesn't reflect any meaning on what is written in the post actually.<br />
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<b><u>1. To feel sorry and thankful</u></b><br />
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<b><u><a href="http://www.dayangdeno.com/2017/12/inshaa-allah.html">http://www.dayangdeno.com/2017/12/inshaa-allah.html</a></u></b><br />
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I read this with sympathy and empathy.<br />
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Tahun ni, mata aku, out of a sudden, kabur. Thank god, penglihatan aku masih ada. Sugar control, tukar spectacles, dan pelbagai benda lagi, alhamdulilah, aku masih boleh membaca dan melihat fairly well.<br />
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She lost her left eye vision and now recuperating.<br />
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Kalau fikir mendalam,<br />
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betapa bersyukur masih dapat melihat.<br />
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And, bila kau sedar, actually, vision can be lost anytime, sebenarnya, apa benda dalam life kau boleh Tuhan "tarik" out of a sudden,<br />
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Kau akan sedar, katakan kalau kau hilang vision tu, dan kau dapat vision tu dalam 30 minutes per day,<br />
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kau akan selective dengan apa yang kau baca dan lihat,<br />
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benda2 negative, komen2 bajet bagus, orang2 bajet bagus dan sebagainya, kau akan stay away atau "eliminate" dari eyesight kau.<br />
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Not worth it.<br />
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Aku selepas the scare of diabetic retinopathy hari itu, start to be more selective dalam apa yang aku baca dan aku tak rasa bersalah untuk discriminate any person, dalam hal pembacaan aku,<br />
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Ada some person, complain, that it is a pity Malaysian people have a third world mentality.<br />
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Masalahnya, banyak kali aku tengok dalam FB, that person keluarkan komen kat page Siakapkeli, page2 gosip artis.....dan dengan komen2 negative tak habis2...........<br />
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and I thought "oh, come on!"<br />
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Di Internet, banyak lagi benda berfaedah, buku2 online yang thought provoking,<br />
dan benda2 happy2 macam anak kucing comel,<br />
and you choose to read those,<br />
dan bising2 lagi...<br />
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And in the end, not worth it to think much about those person, aku hanya discriminate dengan silent ignore sebab aku fikir bila2 masa penglihatan boleh hilang,<br />
dan umur aku 35, bukan muda sangat,<br />
Life yang pendek ni not worth untuk spend to unnecessary dramas.<br />
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<b><u>2. SKMM Seksyen 211 dan 233</u></b><br />
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Kau boleh baca di sini<br />
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<b><i><u>https://www.skmm.gov.my/faqs/online-content-problems/2-what-is-mcmc-s-jurisdiction-in-addressing-compla?lang=ms-MY</u></i></b><br />
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<i><br /> Yang aku nak highlight :-</i><br />
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<i><br />Seksyen 233: Penggunaan tidak wajar kemudahan rangkaian atau perkhidmatan rangkaian, dll.<br /><br />(b) memulakan suatu komunikasi dengan menggunakan mana-mana perkhidmatan aplikasi, sama ada secara berterusan, berulang kali atau selainnya, dan dalam masa itu komunikasi mungkin atau tidak mungkin berlaku, dengan atau tanpa mendedahkan identitinya dan d<u>engan niat untuk menyakitkan hati</u>, menganiayai, mengugut atau menggangu mana-mana orang di mana-mana nombor atau alamat elektronik,<br /> <br />adalah melakukan suatu kesalahan.........<br /> <br />(3) Seseorang yang melakukan suatu kesalahan di bawah seksyen ini apabila disabitkan boleh didenda tidak melebihi RM50,000 atau dipenjarakan selama tempoh tidak melebihi satu tahun atau kedua-duanya dan hendaklah juga boleh didenda selanjutnya RM1,000 bagi setiap hari atau sebahagian daripada sehari kesalahan diteruskan selepas pensabitan.</i></div>
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Hati2 lah sebelum nak komen2 sentap, komen2 burn dan membakar orang di media sosial. Sedangkan application Whatsapp pun applicable dalam Seksyen 233 ni.<br />
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<b><u>3. Buku bagus untuk baca di tika weekend</u></b><br />
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Henry Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson<span style="background-color: white; color: #494e54; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration-line: underline;">https://mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson</span><br />
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<a href="https://mises.org/system/tdf/Henry%20Hazlitt%20Economics%20in%20One%20Lesson.pdf?file=1&type=document">https://mises.org/system/tdf/Henry%20Hazlitt%20Economics%20in%20One%20Lesson.pdf?file=1&type=document</a><br />
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dan dalam Wikipedia, kau boleh baca<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences</a><br />
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Dia ada beberapa sub-topics dalam Unintended Consequences.<br />
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Kalau kau boleh baca ni, dan at least, kalau kau tak fully faham pun, kau boleh empathy (maknanya kau tak perlu setuju, at least kau dapat terima dengan emosi mengapa orang present idea tu) dengan argument yang aku pernah tulis dalam previous entry dalam "PHD dan Statistics", iaitu,<br />
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<i>Correlation does not imply causation </i><br />
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Sekurang2nya, kau berhati2 untuk keluarkan statement, dan at least kau boleh be fair dalam bagi statement.<br />
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Maaf, tapi kadang2 orang agama, orang politik, dan pengikut/penyokong/pembantah/pelawan (apa apa je lah), sebenarnya banyak yang mereka katakan,<br />
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tak semestinya betul atau benar,<br />
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walaupun mereka quote ayat Quran atau Hadis, tapi ayat Quran dan Hadis bukan directly imply apa yang dikatakan,<br />
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maknanya kau perlukan disiplin dalam quote tu,<br />
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sebab kau perlu menghormatinya sebagai ilmu.<br />
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Even dalam kajian economy, policy yang sound dan wise juga, adakalanya ada unintended consequences. Dunia tak semudah dan se-simplisitic seperti yang disembangkan.<br />
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Dah, aku nak cozy2 dengan minum2 hot tea sambil berselimut mengharap demam selsema ni sembuh sambil2 melayan Bill Evans ni.<br />
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Kalau kau berminat untuk bermula mendengar Jazz, aku sarankan kau bermula dengan album "Kind Of Blue" dari Miles Davis.</div>
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Well, it's a gem in jazz world, a pretty good start, it is said as to be the greatest jazz record of all time.</div>
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2. Piano - Bill Evans</div>
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4. Saxophones - Julian Adderley</div>
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Dan Dream Team Jazz ni, setiap artist masing pun selepas kejayaan album Kind Of Blue ni, berjaya dengan karier solo masing2. Aku suka Bill Evans dan John Coltrane, dan sekarang dalam misi mengeksplorasi setiap album dari Bill Evans dan John Coltrane.</div>
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Selepas itu, baru selesa untuk bermula dengan Chet Baker dan Theloniious Monk (dia ni cover album dia hebat2) dan lain2 artist jazz.</div>
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Dan selepas itu, kau mungkin akan berasa Norah Jones atau Adele itu sebagai pop music mainstream.</div>
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Oh aku masih lagi mendengar punk dan metal, guitar driven aggression adalah sesuatu yang menarik dan sukar dilupakan. Jazz ni, seperti yang aku kata, meluaskan skop pendengaran.</div>
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Secara terus terang, aku mula mendengar Jazz, pada tahun ini 2017.</div>
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Entah mengapa, aku kurang suka dengan Rap, seperti kau harus berkata2 banyak hanya untuk prove kau bling bling atau something special,</div>
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bila Jazz hanya, just play the music and feel the emotion without feeling overwhelming, just felt it as elegant as it can be.</div>
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Aku tulis ini semata-mata nak menyangkal fikiran "cause and effect" sesetengah orang.</div>
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Masalah ini aku rasa bermula dengan sistem pendidikan KBSR, (for most 80's and 90's kids), yang mana konsep "cause and effect" diajar dalam Pendidikan Islam dan Pendidikan Moral bagi pelajar2 Darjah 1,2,3. (Pendapat aku saja lah)</div>
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Pada aku, ini sedikit silap, kerana cause and effect ni tak disentuh sangat dalam subjek Alam Dan Manusia pada waktu ini (Aku rasa zaman Sains diperkenalkan di Sekolah Rendah, dah mula nak sentuh konsep ni sebab ada belajar konsep inference, cuma masih terlalu asas)</div>
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Jadi, konsep "cause and effect" kita lebih pada holistik dan kurang saintifik.</div>
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Maka jadilah pikiran seperti,</div>
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"Trump jahat dengan mengisytihar Jerusalem capital Israel, jadi effectnya kebakaran besar di Southern California = balasan Tuhan"</div>
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"Penang banjir sebab Oktoberfest, cuba menentang kuasa Tuhan"</div>
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"Ubat tu berkesan kat pakcik kanser tu, jadi ni ubat kanser".</div>
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Untuk selesaikan masalah ini, Barat, atau kuasa2 Timur, Jepun, Korea, yang berjaya dalam Sains dan menguasai teknologi ni, sebab mereka faham dan berdisiplin dalam satu benda iaitu, kaedah fikiran saintifik.</div>
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Dan dalam metodologi saintifik, benda yang paling penting dalam satu2 kajian, ialah bagaimana nak establish "cause and effect" tu benar2 tepat.</div>
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<i>1. Strength (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_size">effect size</a>): A small association does not mean that there is not a causal effect, though the larger the association, the more likely that it is causal.</i></div>
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<i>5. Biological gradient: Greater exposure should generally lead to greater incidence of the effect. However, in some cases, the mere presence of the factor can trigger the effect. In other cases, an inverse proportion is observed: greater exposure leads to lower incidence</i></div>
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<i>6.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_plausibility">Plausibility</a>: A plausible mechanism between cause and effect is helpful (but Hill noted that knowledge of the mechanism is limited by current knowledge).</i></div>
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<i>7.Coherence: Coherence between epidemiological and laboratory findings increases the likelihood of an effect. However, Hill noted that "... lack of such [laboratory] evidence cannot nullify the epidemiological effect on associations".</i></div>
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<i>8. Experiment: "Occasionally it is possible to appeal to experimental evidence".</i></div>
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<i>9. Analogy: The effect of similar factors may be considered.</i></div>
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Dia tak semudah "A jadi, B terjadi, maka A jadi akibat B".</div>
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Sebab essence dalam metodologi ni ialah "correlation does not imply causation".</div>
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Dan kesemua PHD student yang aku tahu dan kenal, dalam kajian mereka, dalam mereka nak menentukan "cause and effect", dalam apa2 bidang sekalipun, sains atau bukan sains,</div>
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untuk mengetahui adakah disebab kan A, dan hanya oleh A, maka B terjadi.</div>
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Bidang statistik, ni antara cerita2 best dunia sebenar mengenai kegunaannya, adalah seperti satu cerita bila Pihak Bersekutu menjalankan kajian statistik untuk mengetahui kekuatan industri Jerman menghasilkan kereta kebal, maklumat penting sebelum mereka decide untuk landing D-Day di Normandy June 1944.</div>
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<a href="https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/allies-deployed-mathematics.html">https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/allies-deployed-mathematics.html</a></div>
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In summary, kalau kau Muslim, tolong lah, jangan kau keluarkan statement "fenomena alam / kejadian/kemalangan ini terjadi sebab menyalahi agama" atau seperti itu, melainkan kau ada dalil yang directly cakap ini terjadi maka itu terjadi,</div>
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atau kalau tidak, kau nampak lekeh,</div>
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atau, kau menunjukkan agama kau seperti lekeh,</div>
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atau, orang akan berkata, "kau ni wakil Tuhan ke kau boleh tahu bencana itu bala Tuhan atau ujian Tuhan?"</div>
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Pada aku, kalau boleh faham konsep ni, banyak benda yang minda kau boleh terbebas, </div>
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seperti orang bukan2 yang claim bukan2, orang politik yang guna dalil agama untuk main sesuatu isu, </div>
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orang canang ubat-ubat atau perubatan-perubatan tertentu,</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q15mlDY0D5s" target="_blank">Ryo Fukui - Sonora (from album A Letter From Slowboat)</a></div>
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<i>"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true…Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.<br /><br />The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness." ..............<br /><br />................"Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest — forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries."<br /><br />— The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt</i><br />
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Asalnya aku bercadang mahu mendapatkan auto-biografi Robert Kuok pada akhir minggu lepas, tetapi Sabtu lalu ada kenduri kahwin sepupu ku di Perak, dan dengan tidak disangka, Jumaat lalu (aku cuti dari Jumaat hingga ke Ahad) terlalu sibuk dan kekangan yang tak dapat dielakkan, </div>
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Namun, ada bacaan menarik atas talian (online), Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism, yang seakan akan "kena" dengan iklim politik minggu ini, a.k.a. Persidangan UMNO,</div>
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<b><u>Politik Malaysia dan Football Hooliganism</u></b></div>
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Terus terang, aku masih belum habis membaca buku tersebut, aku masih lagi di awal bab asal usul Anti-Semitism dalam buku tersebut,<br />
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"<i>Kebanyakan borak politik di kalangan orang ramai di Malaysia ini tak lebih dari mentaliti football hooliganism sahaja</i>".<br />
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Ada kawan2 se-universiti aku, yang selalu "aktif" tentang politik, ada seorang bekas rakan sekelas aku yang menjadi teman media sosial pada AmenoWorld, dan kebanyakan yang aku kenal,<br />
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sebenarnya cara fikir dan mentaliti yang ada tak lebih seperti seorang penyokong bola EPL Manchester United, Arsenal, atau Chelsea, atau apa apa kelab.<br />
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Ianya sebenarnya tak lebih daripada menganjing kelab orang lain, dan menyokong kelab sendiri, atas dasar "aku dalam team ini".<br />
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Yang malang selalunya, ia berselindung di balik kata2 seperti "pencerahan minda", "perbincangan matang politik", mengupas itu ini tentang pro and cons sesuautu tindakan politik oleh seseorang atau sesebuah parti,<br />
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tapi sebenarnya, tak lebih dari menjatuhkan pihak satu lagi dan menaikkan status atau "martabat" pihak satu lagi.<br />
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Dan selalunya, pada akhiran-nya, selepas habis memaki, dan merasa seronok berjaya "mengalahkan" pihak satu lagi (sebenarnya tak lebih dari ego-soothing sahaja), perbualan itu habis begitu sahaja.<br />
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Kemungkinan ianya berulang lagi pada satu tempoh akan datang.<br />
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Dan seperti biasa, bising2, bergaduh jatuhkan orang lain dan berasa seronok dengan kebijaksanaan sendiri memilih parti (sama seperti memilih team bola), dan akhirnya tiada apa konstruktif atau tindak positif yang akan lahir dari bingit bingit itu.<br />
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Sebenarnya ia seronok dilakukan kerana, kau tak perlu melakukan sesuatu yang aktif, kau tak perlu melakukan tindakan susah payah, kau hanya perlu pilih "team" yang baik,<br />
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dan selebihnya, kau menganjing team satu lagi.<br />
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Ketika ada orang yang benar2 melakukan sesuatu, baik NGO, atau pun apa2 organisasi, baik Unit Amal parti PAS pun, sekurang2nya orang2 ini ada <u><b>melakukan</b></u> sesuatu,<br />
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kebanyakan hiruk pikuk yang bergaduh politik itu,<br />
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banyak yang tidak berdaftar sebagai apa2 ahli dalam mana2 badan politik atau badan amal,<br />
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banyak yang sebenarnya hanya bercakap sahaja,<br />
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Ramai yang hanya football hooliganism sahaja pasal politik ni.<br />
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Bahaya nya fenomena ini, kerana,<br />
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<i>|The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness|</i><br />
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sebab kesedaran politik yang wujud bukan kerana nak membantu orang atau kesedaran masyarakat, tetapi lebih kepada rasa seronok diri berjaya memilih "team" yang hebat. Team aku hebat kerana aku bijak memilih = aku hebat.<br />
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<b><u>Filled-Bun Dumpling</u></b><br />
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Satu lagi yang aku jelik, ialah sesuatu yang aku temui ketika di dunia construction.<br />
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Pau. Sikap suka mengepau.<br />
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Sebab itu saja2 aku letak title "filled bun dumpling", kerana ia adalah translation kepada kuih pau.<br />
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Sayangnya, benda ni sebenarnya adalah corruption, tetapi entah mengapa, aku berasa jelik kerana ramai yang "mengepau" dan "mahu mengepau" ni kebanyakannya yang aku perhatikan di dunia construction,<br />
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ialah mereka yang mengucap dua kalimah syahadah, dan berbangsa majoriti di Malaysia ini.<br />
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Waktu aku bekerja di satu syarikat konsultasi M&E lama dahulu,<br />
ada satu lelaki, yang dari satu parti politik,<br />
selalu datang ke office dan "mengepau" bos Cina aku,<br />
selalunya diminta sponsor jamuan, atau majlis keraian orang2 politik,<br />
dan dijanjikan projek itu projek ini,<br />
dan selalunya, tak dapat pun projek itu.<br />
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Aku jelik,<br />
sebab,<br />
ada kerani akaun yang hanya bergaji bawah RM1,000,<br />
ada budak fresh baru habis belajar yang bergaji Rm1,800,<br />
tetapi,<br />
orang yang berbangsa sama dengan mereka,<br />
dengan nada suara ego dan pandang rendah,<br />
"mengepau" bos aku dengan minta duit untuk sponsor sesuatu,<br />
dan bos aku membayar lelaki itu,<br />
dengan aku tahu yang dia sentiasa menilai harga bangsa,<br />
bangsa yang sama di-upah kerja, yang sama bangsa dengan geng poilitik yang mengepau dia.<br />
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Waktu aku jadi PM acah acah dulu (jadi Project Manager, tanggungjawab PM, tapi gaji aku bawah RM4k je bang),<br />
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yang banyak "mengepau" aku ialah kebanyakan bangsa yang sama yang "mengepau" bos lama Cina aku tu.<br />
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alasan, gaji sediikit, sedangkan gaji kebanyakan yang "mengepau" aku itu ada yang 200 peratus lebih tinggi,<br />
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tapi memandangkan,<br />
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"ah ini PM Melayu, boleh pau ni"<br />
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maka diberi lah pelbagai alasan, pelbagai benda yang melecehkan kerja,<br />
yang mana kalau tak mahu kerja itu leceh,<br />
"belanja pelincir" perlu di beri.<br />
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Dengan alasan aku boleh claim., dan sebenarnya, aku dengan tangga gaji engineer, walaupun claim aku kadang kala lepas, tapi aku perlu menunggu 2 bulan lagi untuk dapat balik duit belanja itu.<br />
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Celaka sungguh.<br />
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Ada yang meminta terus dari bos aku. Kadang kala, paperwork aku dikatakan kurang teliti, ini claim, ini dokumentasi tak boleh lepas, melainkan.....<br />
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Jelik.<br />
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Dan menambah jelik aku, ada yang mengepau ini, pro dengan politik kerajaan,<br />
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dan satu petang ketika minum,<br />
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sambil berbual,<br />
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diberitahu aku, GST ni sebenarnya sangat2 bagus, kerana dia benar2 mencukai peniaga bangsa Cina, Melayu yang miskin tidak meniaga ini mana perlu membayar GST.<br />
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"Yang teruk sebenarnya business-man Cina, diorang untung juta juta selama ini, memang patut sistem GST ni kerana ianya adil bla bla bla".<br />
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Aku jelik kerana yang bercakap itu seorang yang "mengepau" bos aku.<br />
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<b><u>Summary</u></b><br />
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Mungkin aku nampak terlampau marah, jadi maafkan aku jika tulisan ini menganggu emosi.<br />
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Tapi, apa yang nak aku sampaikan ialah,<br />
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1. Mungkin perlu retrospective tentang apa yang kau pernah percaya tentang politik atau kepartian.<br />
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2. Aku pernah cerita juga dahulu, ada satu staff Main-Con yang asyik mengutuk aku,<br />
"Kau ni tak percaya ke Tuhan bagi rezeki", bila mana aku share yang aku dan isteri aku ada family<br />
planning kami.<br />
Lepas kutuk2 aku, lebih kurang 2 minggu selepas itu,<br />
dia menghubungi aku pada malam hari,<br />
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"Firdaus, boleh pinjam RM300.00?"<br />
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Dalam Quran, surah As-Saff pun ada mention betapa Tuhan benci orang yang kata benda yang<br />
dia sendiri tak lakukan.<br />
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Aku yang makhluk ni pun benci.<br />
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Dan banyak manusia yang begini, berharap Malaysia ini sesuci bersih dari corruption,<br />
Tapi dia sendiri pun filled-bun dumpling.<br />
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Aku tak mengatakan NEP atau dasar bumiputera tu satu ke-tidak-adil-lan.<br />
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Aku cuma jelik dengan orang meminta corruption dengan alasan NEP/Bumiputera entitlement.<br />
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Dengan kau bising2 pasal tawakal rezeki Tuhan dan sebagainya, tapi in action apa yang kau<br />
bercanggah, itu adalah jelik.<br />
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Jadi tolonglah, hentikan lah corruption ini dengan mengubah mentaliti bahawa it's ok to take<br />
from others, atas alasan politik atau ini tanah asal maka aku ada hak untuk menge-pau.<br />
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Kerana,<br />
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<i>“You’re going to be the leader of a nation, and you have three sons, Hussein. </i><br />
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<i>The first-born is Malay, the second-born is Chinese, the third-born is Indian. </i><br />
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<i>What we have been witnessing is that the first-born is more favoured than the second or third. Hussein, if you do that in a family, your eldest son will grow up very spoiled. </i><br />
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<i>As soon as he attains manhood, he will be in the nightclubs every night because Papa is doting on him. </i><br />
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<i>The second and third sons, feeling the discrimination, will grow up hard as nails. </i><br />
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<i>Year by year, they will become harder and harder, like steel, so that in the end they are going to succeed even more and the eldest will fail even more.” </i><br />
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- Robert Kuok to Tun Hussein Onn<br />
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Aku sedih bila mana ada saudara aku sendiri yang berkerja di dunia construction, yang merasakan OK untuk menge-pau.<br />
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Kadang kala dia saja bagi susah sedikit untuk sub-con untuk buat kerja, atas alasan, yang mana akhir niatnya itu untuk menge-pau.<br />
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Aku yang bekerja di bawah Cina Cina ini tahu apa rasanya, dan tahu pandangan mata mereka bila menghadapi perkara sebegini.<br />
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They will grow hard as nails.<br />
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Below here is much of the article clippings from Robert Kuok and his anticipated auto-biography which will be released soon.<br />
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Pertama, banyak orang, terutama kenalan dan relatives Melayu, yang merasakan aku pro-Chinese.<br />
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Kau yang membaca ini mungkin merasa begitu.<br />
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Bahkan isteri aku sendiri merasakan begitu, rak2 buku di rumah aku ada satu kawasan khas untuk buku2 berunsurkan Chinese, samada kisah2 perang Cina dahulukala, Confucianism, Buddhism atau Tao-ism.<br />
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Pada aku mudah. Ambil tahu view orang lain. Dan sehingga kini, Alhamdulilah tak terfikir lagi nak tukar agama.<br />
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Lecturer aku di Universiti di Fakulti Kejuruteraan UM dahulu, ada yang Chinese (ajar Fluid Dynamics), ada yang bangsa Tunisia (thermodynamics), ada pelbagai bangsa, pelbagai agama.<br />
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Bukankah peribahasa Melayu mengatakan "Buang yang Keruh, ambil yang jernih"?<br />
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Apa saja agama, bangsa dia, aku akan ambil manfaat yang ada padanya, selain dari pada itu,. aku tak begitu peduli.<br />
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Lagipun, sebahagian mereka yang anti-Chinese, yang mengeluarkan kata nista tentang Chinese,<br />
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well,<br />
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aku banyak melihat mereka mengomen di laman Siakapkeli dan blog2 seangkatan di FB, berkenaan perkara remeh temeh dan leceh leceh.<br />
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Kedua, dengan mengambil semangat dari "Buang yang keruh, ambil yang jernih", aku rasa ini satu bahan bacaan yang menarik. Then be critical about it.<br />
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Sekurang2 nya, meluaskan pandangan hidup kau, agar tak terbatas pada benda2 remeh, seperti terlalu kecoh tentang kahwin Fattah Amin/ Fazura contohnya?<br />
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Ketiga , Robert Kuok yang kaya bilionaire ni pun tak menggelabah bagai, hina2 orang berpendapatan rendah, buat kisah2 makan di tepi jalan di Eropah sebab kena halau restaurant dan sebagainya.<br />
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Something about inferior minds.<br />
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Keempat dan teraskhir, kau boleh pilih bahan bacaan kau.<br />
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You can actively choose what goes into your mind.<br />
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<i>HONG KONG: “Sugar King” Tan Sri Robert Kuok has released his memoir, giving a glimpse of his ties with Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn.<br /><br />Describing the first Prime Minister as someone who had “tremendous rhythm”, he wrote:<br /><br />“If you talk of brains, Tunku was brilliant, and very shrewd.<br /><br />“His mother was Thai, and he had that touch of Thai shrewdness, an ability to smell and spot whether a man was to be trusted or not.”<br /><br />“Tunku was like a strategist who saw the big picture. He knew where to move his troops, but actually going to battle and plotting the detailed campaign – that was not Tunku. He’d say, ‘Razak, you take over. You handle it now.’ In that sense, they worked very well together.”<br /><br />As for Hussein Onn, he wrote that both of them were in the same class in school in Johor Baru in 1932.<br /><br />“My father would often spend weekends with Dato Onn.<br /><br />“Two or three years later, Hussein returned to Johor Baru and we were classmates again at English College from 1935 to 1939.”<br /><br />The Malaysian tycoon also shared his views on race relations and affirmative actions with South China Morning Post which published extracts from Robert Kuok, A Memoir, out in Malaysia on Dec 1.<br /><br />Kuok recalled his conversation he had once with Hussein.<br /><br />He told Hussein that “the best brains will come, in all shades and colours, all religions, all faiths.<br /><br />“They may be the whitest of the white, the brownest of the brown or the blackest of the black.<br /><br />“But Hussein, the foreigners must never settle in the driving seats. The days of colonialism are over.<br /><br />“They were in the driving seats and they drove our country helter-skelter.<br /><br />“We Malaysians must remain in the driving seats and the foreign experts will sit next to us.”<br /><br />Kuok said that he implored to Hussein to “use the best brains, the people with their hearts in the right place, Malaysians of total integrity and strong ability, hard-working and persevering people.”<br /><br />“Use them regardless of race, colour or creed.”<br /><br />Hussein, Kuok recalled, spelt out to him that it was going to be Malay rule.<br /><br />“He was saying that he could not sell my formula to his people.The meeting ended on a very cordial note and I left him.<br /><br />“I felt disappointed, but there was nothing more that I could do. Hussein was an honest man of very high integrity.<br /><br />“Before going to see him, I had weighed his strength of character, his shrewdness and skill.<br /><br />“We had been in the same class, sharing the same teachers.<br /><br />I knew Hussein was going to be the Malaysian Prime Minister whom I was closest to in my lifetime.<br /><br />“I think Hussein understood my message, but he knew that the process had gone too far.” — South China Morning Post</i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/11/26/kuok-there-are-very-big-crooks-among-chinese/">https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/11/26/kuok-there-are-very-big-crooks-among-chinese/</a><i><br /><br />PETALING JAYA: While praising Chinese contribution to South East Asia, Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Robert Kuok (pic) said some ruthless Chinese had also devastated many parts of the region.<br /><br />In excerpts of his memoir published in South China Morning Post, Kuok said he remembered being invited to a brainstorming seminar in Jakarta when Indonesia was under General Suharto and he talked about the migrant Chinese.<br /><br />He said there were about 30 people who sat around a big oval table. From Malaysia, there was (foreign minister Tan Sri) Ghazali Shafie and himself. From Singapore, there was Devan Nair, who later became President of Singapore. The topic of one session was economic development.<br /><br />Kuok said he spoke about the South East Asian Chinese who were playing sterling roles everywhere and were entrepreneurs blessed with business brains, though many of them lack financial backing.<br /><br />“Should not the leaders of this brand-new Indonesian nation harness more of the Chinese entrepreneurs’ energies to develop the country? The Chinese can do it, and they will do it economically, not the bulldozing, multinational way. Use the overseas Chinese, shoestring-economy style and build up your economy like that. That’s my plea,” he said.<br /><br />Kuok said he concluded his discussion with "one strong caveat.”<br /><br />“Some of these overseas Chinese will become very big crooks, and if you let them run rampant they could ruin your nation.<br /><br />“Therefore, it is vital that you also build up an executive monitoring arm, one armed with teeth.<br /><br />“Where there is abuse and crimes being committed, you must come down very fast and very hard and punish the crooks severely.<br /><br />“You should make examples of them so that the honest Chinese will help your country and the dishonest ones will be deterred,” Kuok said.<br /><br />In the ensuing years, Kuok said Indonesia (and most other countries in the region) didn’t heed his warning about the need for watchdog institutions with bite.<br /><br />“The decent Chinese have helped to build up Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, and made these countries what they are today.<br /><br />“But you also had the rise of the unscrupulous and ruthless Chinese, who in turn have devastated many parts of Southeast Asia.<br /><br />“Why were these people allowed to wreak havoc? It is because the leaderships have been weak.<br /><br />“If the leaders were strong, all these devils would have disappeared overnight.<br /><br />“Singapore had the same number of Chinese crooks, but you try and find one today. They are all hidden, camouflaged, or dormant.<br /><br />"The crooks were held on steel leashes by two hands: Lee Kuan Yew’s left hand and Lee Kuan Yew’s right hand. With the unsavoury elements under control, look what Singapore has been able to accomplish by harnessing the energies of the overseas Chinese.”<br /><br />"Robert Kuok, A Memoir’ is set to be released in Malaysia on Dec 1.</i><br />
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/11/26/chinese-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-southeast-asia-says-kuok/">https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/11/26/chinese-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-southeast-asia-says-kuok/</a><br />
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<i>PETALING JAYA: The overseas Chinese were the unsung heroes of the region, having helped to build South East Asia to what it is today, said Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok.<br /><br />He said that it was the Chinese immigrants who tackled difficult task such as planting and tapping rubber, opening up tin mines, and ran small retail shops which eventually created a new economy around them.<br /><br />"It was the Chinese who helped build up Southeast Asia. The Indians also played a big role, but the Chinese were the dominant force in helping to build the economy.<br /><br />"They came very hungry and eager as immigrants, often barefooted and wearing only singlets and trousers. They would do any work available, as an honest income meant they could have food and shelter.<br /><br />“Robert Kuok, A Memoir’ is set to be released in Malaysia on Dec 1.<br /><br />Kuok said the Chinese immigrants were willing to work harder than anyone else and were willing to "eat bitterness", hence, were the most amazing economic ants on earth.<br /><br />In the extracted memoir published by the South China Morning Post, Kuok, pointed out that if there were any businesses to be done on earth, one can be sure that a Chinese will be there.<br /><br />"They will know whom to see, what to order, how best to save, how to make money. They don’t need expensive equipment or the trappings of office; they just deliver.<br /><br />"I can tell you that Chinese businessmen compare notes every waking moment of their lives. There are no true weekends or holidays for them. That’s how they work. Every moment, they are listening, and they have skilfully developed in their own minds – each and every one of them – mental sieves to filter out rubbish and let through valuable information.<br /><br />"Good Chinese business management is second to none; the very best of Chinese management is without compare. I haven’t seen others come near to it in my 70-year career," he said.<br /><br />"They flourish without the national, political and financial sponsorship or backing of their host countries. In Southeast Asia, the Chinese are often maltreated and looked down upon. Whether you go to Malaysia, Sumatra or Java, the locals call you Cina – pronounced Chee-na – in a derogatory way," he said.<br /><br />He added that the Chinese had no "fairy godmothers" financial backers.<br /><br />"Yet, despite facing these odds, the overseas Chinese, through hard work, endeavour and business shrewdness, are able to produce profits of a type that no other ethnic group operating in the same environment could produce," he said.<br /><br />Kuok ultimately attributed the Chinese survivability in Southeast Asia to its cultural strength.<br /><br />"They knew what was right and what was wrong. Even the most uneducated Chinese, through family education, upbringing and social environment, understands the ingredients and consequences of behaviour such as refinement, humility, understatement, coarseness, bragging and arrogance," he said.</i><br />
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<i>In 1967, word reached my ears that the Blue Funnel Group was coming to set up the national shipping line of Malaysia.<br /><br />Blue Funnel was probably the largest shipping conglomerate in Britain at that time.<br /><br />It owned Blue Funnel, Glen Line, Straits Steamship Co in Singapore and many other lines.<br /><br />The executive chairman, a man whom I recall walked with a bad limp, was making frequent lobbying trips from London to Kuala Lumpur.<br /><br />They agreed that I should put in a similar application to be considered for the right to establish the national shipping line.<br /><br />My interest was partly patriotism – a desire to help Malaysia to launch its own independent shipping line and not be tied to the apron strings of the ex-colonial government of Britain through Blue Funnel.<br /><br />I had become interested in shipping from about 1964, due to our large scale buying of sugar for our refinery, wheat for our flour mill and our international commodities trading activities.<br /><br />For example, we bought free-on-board sugar from India and delivered it to the government of Indonesia on a cost-and-freight basis (sellers only wanted to sell on the basis of delivery at their own ports; buyers wanted the sugar delivered to their ports. Thus, covering the span of the ocean was my risk).<br /><br />In those days, shipping was quite volatile and freight rates could sometimes shoot up 25%-30%.<br /><br />Since margins on sugar trading were small, you could easily make money on your trade, but lose on the freight.<br /><br />There was one problem: I knew nothing about shipping. I did know that in any business, unless you know the tricks of the trade, you can be badly burnt. I couldn’t even submit a decent memo for the application. So I looked for a partner.<br /><br />On one trip to Hong Kong, I had been introduced by a Malay civil servant friend to a man called Frank WK Tsao.<br /><br />I remembered that Tsao was a shipping man, chairman of International Maritime Carriers, so I telephoned him.<br /><br />I said I would like to come and see him to discuss a business proposal.<br /><br />He gave me an appointment and I flew to Hong Kong. When I went to his office, Tsao was only mildly friendly.<br /><br />I was quite humble in my approach. I told him that we had met.<br /><br />He said, “Oh yes, we have met, we have met.”<br /><br />In business life, you learn early on that you must swallow your pride.<br /><br />I told him that some Malay civil servants, who wanted to stir up competition, were encouraging me to submit an application to set up a national shipping line.<br /><br />I said, “I can’t differentiate between the front and rear ends of a ship”, which was a bit of an exaggeration, “so why don’t you come and help me to set up the Malaysian national shipping line? You’re well known in the shipping business. Are you willing to become my partner?”<br /><br />Without thinking for a second, he retorted, “Do you know, so and so and so and so have also approached me. They are Tan Sris, and I turned them all down.”<br /><br />He was virtually saying “And who are you? I’ve turned down people way ahead of you in the pecking order in Malaysia”.<br /><br />When I heard these remarks and saw his body language, I said, “I’m sorry then. I thought I would give you first crack. I am going to go at it.”<br /><br />I didn’t tell him what a determined man I am in life.<br /><br />I concluded, “Never mind, nothing has been lost by this little chat we’ve had. Thank you for receiving me.”<br /><br />I got up and was walking out when he shouted, “Oh, no, no. Please, Mr Kuok. Don’t go! Don’t go! Sit down, sit down.”<br /><br />To this day I don’t know what made Tsao change his mind.<br /><br />I had one shipping expert on staff, Tony Goh, a Singaporean-Chinese who was running my plywood factory.<br /><br />Goh had been a manager at Ben Line, a Scottish liner, before he joined me in 1964.<br /><br />So I sent Goh to draft the memo with Tsao.<br /><br />I rewrote certain parts to suit the reading style of the Malaysian civil servants, and we submitted the memo in the joint names of Kuok Brothers and Tsao’s International Maritime Carriers.<br /><br />A little later, I heard that we were one of the leading contenders.<br /><br />I asked Tsao to meet me in Kuala Lumpur. I had made up my mind that we should pick one day to call on as many important ministers as possible.<br /><br />From eight in the morning we whipped around Kuala Lumpur at a furious pace, such as you can’t do today due to the traffic, and saw seven ministers by lunchtime.<br /><br />Some of them gave us good time and good hearings, and we told them the same story.<br /><br />In the afternoon, we visited one or two more.<br /><br />I remember calling on the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, Home Minister Tun Dr Ismail, Finance Minister (Tun) Tan Siew Sin, Minister of Works (Tun) V.T. Sambanthan and Minister of Transport (Tun) Sardon Jubir.<br /><br />Within two or three weeks, we were picked at a Cabinet meeting to start the national shipping line, Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC).<br /><br />We were like a dark horse coming from behind in the last furlong and pipping the favourite at the post!<br /><br />I was chairman of the board and provided business management guidance.<br /><br />Tsao’s side provided the shipping expertise.<br /><br />Just around the time of MISC’s formation in 1968, my dear friend Dr Ismail resigned from government when he found that he had cancer. I immediately invited him to be the first chairman of MISC.<br /><br />Tsao already knew Dr Ismail through a textile mill investment Tsao had made in Johor (Dr Ismail resigned from MISC after the May 13, 1969 riots to return to the Cabinet. I then took over the chairmanship until the 1980s).<br /><br />Our first two ships came from the Japanese.<br /><br />Simultaneous with our moves to start the shipping line, there was an initiative by MCA to demand war reparations from Japan.<br /><br />The Chinese community was angry about the Japanese massacre of innocent Chinese and was seeking compensation for this blood debt.<br /><br />Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Malaysian Prime Minister, supported the demand and raised the issue during official trips to Japan.<br /><br />The Japanese finally agreed to give two blood-debt ships to Malaysia, which the Japanese called “goodwill ships”.<br /><br />MISC started with these two cargo ships and paid for them on a monthly bare-boat, hire-charter basis.<br /><br />Tsao’s ship architects and engineers in Hong Kong supervised the design and construction in Japan.<br /><br />Tunku made some very cogent suggestions about the design of the flag for this new national flag carrier.<br /><br />MISC had an initial paid-up capital of RM10mil.<br /><br />Since Kuok Brothers led the show, we took 20%; Tsao took 15%.<br /><br />As the ships were reparation from the Japanese to MCA, not to the Malaysian nation, the vessels were assessed a reasonable value and MCA was given MISC shares in lieu of payment.<br /><br />MCA and other Chinese associations, combined, took 20%-30%, so in the beginning the holding of Kuok Brothers, Tsao and the MCA group together was easily over 50%.<br /><br />We had a fairly united board in the beginning.<br /><br />MISC started business in the second half of 1969 and quickly flourished.<br /><br />Much of the credit must go to Tsao, the deputy chairman, who recommended capable managers such as Eddie Shih.<br /><br />Shih, another Shanghainese who had settled in Hong Kong, ran the show with Goh.<br /><br />Very early on, Goh recommended his one-time colleague in Ben Line, Leslie Eu, who at the time was manager of Ben Line Bangkok.<br /><br />Eu, the son of Burmese Chinese who had settled in Malaysia, quit Ben Line and came in as managing director of MISC.<br /><br />Within a year of our launching MISC, Tun Razak, who by then was Prime Minister, sent for me.<br /><br />Razak said, “I want you to make a fresh issue of 20% of new shares. I’m under pressure because there is not a high enough Malay percentage of shareholding.”<br /><br />I said, “Tun, are you quite serious about this request?”<br /><br />He answered, “Yes, Robert.”<br /><br />So, I replied that I would do it.<br /><br />I went back and, with a little bit of arm-twisting, persuaded the board to pass a resolution waiving the rights of existing shareholders to a rights issue (MISC was not yet a public company).<br /><br />Razak allocated all the new shares to government agencies.<br /><br />So, I was diluted to 20 upon 120 – the enlarged base – and Tsao became 15 upon 120.<br /><br />One or two years later, Razak again sent for me.<br /><br />He said, “I’m under a lot of pressure at Cabinet meetings. You know, Robert, it’s just the price of your success. MISC is doing well, people are getting envious. But now, instead of giving in to those factions, what I’ve decided is this: Issue another twenty per cent, five per cent to each of four port cities in Malaysia.”<br /><br />This entailed enlarging the capital base to 140 from the original 100, making the Malaysian Government the largest single shareholder and relegating Kuok Brothers to second position. And he again wanted the shares issued at par – the original issue price.<br /><br />I said, “Tun, I have always cooperated with you, but it’s getting very difficult. Three, four years have elapsed from formation, but I would be loath to ask you for a premium since we are a growing company. So I will go back and ask the board again to issue shares at par to you. But Tun, can you please promise me that this is the last time?”<br /><br />He smiled and very gently signified his agreement, without saying the words.<br /><br />Then Tsao and I decided that we should go public.<br /><br />Before we listed in 1987, I made quite a radical move, adopting a practice that I had used within Kuok Brothers. I explained to my Kuok Brothers senior directors that the MISC shares were now worth a lot of money, but only because of the great effort put in by other members of the board and many of the very deserving staff.<br /><br />I wanted to take about 15% of our shareholding and sell the shares at par to deserving directors, staff and ship captains.<br /><br />Quite a number of people benefited from this move. I have always believed in some degree of socialism when you have made money. You know very well that you alone didn’t make it; it was a joint effort.<br /><br />I was inspired by the example of Genghis Khan, who, when he conquered cities, usually turned the spoils over to his generals and soldiers.<br /><br />He was not selfish, and that is why he became the greatest general the world has ever seen. — South China Morning Post<br /><br />Robert Kuok, A Memoir will be available in Hong Kong exclusively at Bookazine and in Singapore at all major bookshops from Nov 25. It will be released in Malaysia on Dec 1 and in Indonesia on Jan 1, 2018.</i><br />
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<i><br />Recently, the government offended Robert Kuok, as a result, the Malaysian economy suffered great blow! After the official Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Malaysia, the Najib government now really understands Robert Kuok’s influence on China!<br /><br />In order to benefit their cronies, they arm twist to swallow Robert Kuok’s sugar empire. The cronies get richer by 10s of billions, but it caused a national loss of more than 200 billion! Those who has insider info can only curse: PKHKC it!<br /><br />Malaysia sugar king left forced to leave Malaysia, but became the world’s sugar king! He bought the world’s largest sugar mills in Australia, invested USD10 billion, It is the world’s largest sugar cane sugar refining industry, living up to the name of the world’s sugar king.<br /><br />On the other hand, the Malaysia government benefited cronies at the expense of national interests. For those who know the insiders info, Kuok offered much help to the Malaysian government in the past few decades, he had done everything possible; but what the government did was like what you will get when you turn over a pig stomach: feces. In other words, Najib Government is UNGRATEFUL!<br /><br />In the “Confidential” news, is about the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Malaysia recently, it hit a snag with Najib.<br /><br />Prior to Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Malaysia, Najib and his cabinet on more than one occasion, hinted that he hoped China will double the amount of palm oil with Malaysia.<br />We all know that China is the largest consumer of palm oil from Malaysia. Rapid economic rise in the recent years, China became the largest palm oil market for Malaysia, but Malaysia is also strong competition from Indonesia, trying to sell palm oil at lower prices to China and India, diluting Malaysian market share. This is most worrying got Najib.<br /><br />Najib hoped to sign a new palm oil trading contracts with Premier Wen Jiabao to sign in order to more than double the average 10 million tonnes monthly exports to China. But Wen Jiabao came to a Malaysia, told Najib, it is impossible. It was an utter disappointment.<br /><br />Najib knows the Chinese market demand. Even to import one million tonnes of palm oil monthly, is not a problem. So, where is the problem?<br /><br />The problem lies: Sugar Kuok does not agree!<br /><br />Why Sugar King Kuak was able to influence China’s decision to buy Malaysian palm oil?<br /><br />Who is the monopoly of Chinese national oil market? China national oil market leader is “Arowana oil” cooking oil, accounting for nearly 40%! The Arowana oil cooking oil boss, is Robert Kuok!<br /><br />Think about it, Premier Wen Jiabao on behalf of the Chinese government to buy Malaysian palm oil. Who is to refine it into cooking oil? Of course, it is the privatized enterprises! With 40% market share, if Arowana oil cooking oil company refuse the supply, how the Chinese government going to utilize the supply?<br /><br />Najib was insensibly from the outset, and did not know Kuok has such big influence with China. He had helped cronies, forced Robert Kuok to give up the Malaysian sugar king throne, and didn’t expect to have such quick retribution<br /><br />Kuok was forced to leave Malaysia, the heart is of course very unhappy. People of Malaysia must know, during the early days of Malaysia, we do not have aviation professionals, the BN government requested Kuok’s father to help set up Malayan Airways.<br /><br />1970 Malaysian maritime shipping industry is also a vacuum, the Malaysian government sent representatives to Hong Kong to personally invite Kuok’s help. Kuok for national development, he put aside the Group’s business, came back to Malaysia to assist the Government to establish a national maritime shipping industry, this has the later MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING COPERATION, referred to as MISC.<br /><br />Robert Kuok was a big help when Malaysia was repeatedly faced economic difficulties. Even MCA Tan Koon Swan’s case, it was Robert Kuok who paid the bail! Malaysia successive governments, from BN to the National Front, owed Robert Kuok hell lot. But the Malaysian Government was ungrateful, using the hard arm twisting excuse to forcefully take over Kuok’s empire. This is not ungrateful?<br /><br />Deng Xiaoping made a comeback in the 70s, announced China’s reform and needed most generous help of overseas Chinese entrepreneurs; Robert was first to take actions to help Deng. Among the entrepreneurs of Chinese economic miracle are Henry Fok and Li Ka-shing Hong Kong. Malaysian entrepreneur Robert Kuok is the first to response of Deng Xiaoping in Beijing and built China’s first five-star hotels: Shangri-La!<br /><br />With over 30 years of deep relationship with the Chinese government and leadership, Kuok has great influence. Najib failed to foresee that. This is why the quote at the start of this post : “For the interests of their cronies, they arm twisted to take over Kuok’s Sugar Empire, cronies get rich by the 10s of billions, but it caused a national loss of more than 200 billion!”<br /><br />Kuok’s sugar empire was eaten by the fat vampire’s family abruptly. Imagine, a world renowned international trade business personality, what humiliation he received in return for his single-minded help all this while for his own country & government? And Najib would never think the consequences of offending the Sugar King will be so so serious.<br /><br />Right after Sugar King left Malaysia, he immediately announced the acquisition of Australia’s biggest sugar factory. This is the world supplier of raw material for sugar manufacturing. Of course, this includes supplying to the family of the fat vampire woman’s Sugar factory in Perlis.<br /><br />Early this year, Kuok announced plans to invest USD 10 billion in Indonesia for development of the world’s largest sugar cane growing areas, as well as advanced refinery. The world economic was facing downturn, the Malaysian government travel around the world to solicit investment. How much was Malaysia foreign investment? Kuok’s single investment in Indonesia is equivalent to as USD10 billion dollars! Don’t you want to screw the couple: PKHKC!?<br /><br />At the moment, Kuok’s take towards China’s palm oil contract with Malaysia was to remain with the agreed terms. There won’t be any increase. Indonesia has more palm oil than Malaysia. It is cheaper too. Now that Kuok had invested so much money in Indonesia, the Government of Indonesia would have treated him as their God of Wealth. Certainly, open to negotiate anything with him. Moreover, Indonesia has been eyeing to take over the China palm oil supply contract from Malaysia.<br /><br />The CONSOLATION China gave in return for not increasing the purchase of palm oil was buying frozen durian. Do the Chinese people have the habit of eating durian it? How much time and effort needed to market frozen durian from Malaysia? Thai durian may not sell well in China, let alone Malaysia frozen durian?<br /><br />Business is business, who would supply millions of dollars’ worth of frozen durian into a brand new market with no durian eating habits? Should the Chinese people is not receptive of it. How to deal with return stocks? A total lost with capital. Is this how to do business? Do not be silly!<br /><br />Earlier this year, when the news hit the papers about Kuok announced to invest USD 10 billion in Indonesia. Many criticized Kuok for unpatriotic, preferring to take so much money in Indonesia instead of Malaysians. What an injustice! You have arm twisted to take over other people’s empire, forcing Kuok to leave Malaysia in much hurt & humiliation; now that Kuok ignore Malaysia market, and you have to criticize him?<br /><br />For him to bring his huge investment to Australia & Indonesia instead of Malayia, who is to be blamed?<br /><br />Incidentally, Kuok is not just Chinas’ hotelier, king of cooking oil, the world’s sugar King; he is also the patent owner of coca cola soft drink brand in the Chinese market. Kuok involved in a diversity of businesses in China. He created many job opportunities for China. The Chinese central government and leaders have great respect for an entrepreneur. He spoke a word, the weight will never lower than some foreign leaders.<br /><br />So far, Kuok is the only one who never accepts the honors of the Malaysian Royal Malaysian entrepreneurs. Many people address him as “Tan Sri Robert Kuok,” In actual fact, he did not have these honors, he doesn’t need those honors. To put the record straight, he neither “Tan Sri” nor “Dato”.</i><br />
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Robert Kuok (Sugar King of Asia & Hotel King) interview with CCTV "Dialogue" - Chinese Business Leaders series (1st broadcast) on 5th Jun 2011.</div>
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<a href="http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2121058/devils-friends-how-chinas-communists-won-over-malaysian-pm-tunku">http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2121058/devils-friends-how-chinas-communists-won-over-malaysian-pm-tunku</a></div>
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COMMUNIST DEVILS? PLEASE, PRIME MINISTER<br />
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Malaysia has had six Prime Ministers since independence. I have known all six. The first, Tunku Abdul Rahman, had tremendous rhythm. He was a well-educated man, having graduated with a law degree from Cambridge. If you talk of brains, Tunku was brilliant, and very shrewd. His mother was Thai, and he had that touch of Thai shrewdness, an ability to smell and spot whether a man was to be trusted or not. Tunku was less mindful about administrative affairs. But he had a good number two in Tun Razak, who was extremely industrious, and Tunku left most of the paperwork to Razak.<br />
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Tunku was like a strategist who saw the big picture. He knew where to move his troops, but actually going to battle and plotting the detailed campaign – that was not Tunku. He’d say, “Razak, you take over. You handle it now.” In that sense, they worked very well together. In my meetings with Tunku, he demonstrated some blind spots. He had a bee in his bonnet about communism. One day, when we had become quite close, he said to me, “Communists! In Islam, we regard them as devils! And Communist China, you cannot deal with them, otherwise you are dealing with the devil!” And he went on and on about communists, communism and Communist China. I responded, “Tunku, China only became communist because of the immense suffering of the people as a result of oppression and invasion. I think it’s a passing phase.” He interjected, “Oh, don’t you believe it! The Chinese are consorting with the devil. Their people are finished! You don’t know how lucky you Chinese are to be in Malaysia.” I replied softly, “Tunku, as Prime Minister of Malaysia, you should make friends with them.”<br />
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TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN HAD A BEE IN HIS BONNET ABOUT COMMUNISM<br />
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Years later, when Tunku was out of office, he was invited to China. Zhao Ziyang, then Premier, entertained him in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Tunku travelled with a delegation of 15 Chinese businessmen who were good friends of his. On his way to China, Tunku stopped in Hong Kong and I gave them dinner. Then on his way out of China, he stopped in Hong Kong and we dined again. I asked him for his impressions. All of his old prejudices had vanished! He didn’t even want to refer to them. He just said the trip had been an eye-opener. “They are decent people, like you and me,” he said. “We could talk about anything.” From then onward, you never heard Tunku claim that the Chinese Communists were the devils incarnate.<br />
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FRIENDS, NOT CRONIES<br />
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One thing I will say for Tunku: he had friends. His friends sometimes helped him, or they sent him a case of champagne or slabs of specially imported steak. He loved to grill steaks on his lawn and open champagne, wine or spirits. His favourite cognac was Hennessy VSOP. Tunku would also do favours for his friends, but he never adopted cronies.<br />
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When Tun Tan Siew Sin was Finance Minister, Tunku sent him a letter about a Penang businessman who was one of Tunku’s poker-playing buddies. It seems the man had run into tax trouble and was being investigated by the tax department, and he had turned to Tunku for help. In his letter, Tunku wrote, “You know so-and-so is my friend. I am not asking any favour of you, Siew Sin, but I am sure you can see your way to forgiving him,” or something to that effect.<br />
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TUNKU WOULD DO FAVOURS FOR HIS FRIENDS, BUT HE NEVER ADOPTED CRONIES<br />
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Siew Sin was apoplectic. He stalked into Tun Dr Ismail’s office upstairs and threw the letter down. “See what our Prime Minister is doing to me!” Tun Dr Ismail read the letter and laughed. “Siew Sin,” he said, “there is a comic side to life”. Ismail took the letter, crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the waste-paper basket. He then said, “Siew Sin, Tunku has done his duty by his friend. Now, by ignoring Tunku, you will continue to do your duty properly.” That was as far as Tunku would go to help a friend. Cronyism is different. Cronies are lapdogs who polish a leader’s ego. In return, the leader hands out national favours to them. A nation’s assets, projects and businesses should never be for anyone to hand out, neither for a king nor a prime minister. A true leader is the chief trustee of a nation. If there is a lack of an established system to guide him, his fiduciary sense should set him on the proper course.<br />
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A leader who practices cronyism justifies his actions by saying he wants to bring up the nation quickly in his lifetime, so the end justifies the means. He abandons all the General Orders – the civil-service work manual that lays down tendering rules for state projects. Instead, he simply hands the projects to a Chinese or to a Malay crony. The arms of government-owned banks are twisted until they lend to the projects. Some of these cronies may even be fronting for crooked officials.<br />
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Tunku was unnerved by the riots of May 13. After the riots he was a different man. Razak managed to convince him and the cabinet to form the National Operations Council, a dictatorial organ of government, and Razak was appointed its director. Parliament went into deep freeze. By the time the NOC was disbanded, Razak had been installed as prime minister. Tunku felt bewildered. He had helped the country gain independence and had ruled as wisely as he could, yet the Malays turned against him for selling out to the Chinese. In fairness to Tunku, he had done nothing of the sort. He was a very fair man who loved the nation and its people. But he knew that, if you favour one group, you only spoil them. When the British ruled Malaya, they extended certain advantages to the Malays.<br />
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Malay Sultans along with then Malayan High Commissioner Donald MacGillivray sign an agreement creating an independent Malaysia on August 5, 1957 in the official residence of the British high commissioner of Malaya. File photo<br />
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When the Malays took power following independence on 31 August 1957, more incentives were given to them. But there was certainly no showering of favours. All of that came later, after 1969. The riots of May 13, 1969, were a great shock to the system, but not a surprise. Extremist Malays attributed the poverty of many Malays to the plundering Chinese and Indians. Leaders like Tunku Abdul Rahman, who could see both sides, were no longer able to hold back the hotheads. The more thoughtful leaders were shunted aside and the extremists hijacked power. They chanted the same slogans as the hotheads – the Malays are underprivileged; the Malays are bullied – while themselves seeking to become super-rich. When these Malays became rich, not many of them did anything for the poor Malays; the Chinese and Indians who became rich created jobs, many of them filled by Malays.<br />
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ON PRO-MALAY POLITICS<br />
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I vividly recall an incident that occurred within a few months after the May 1969 riots. I was waiting to see Tun Razak when a senior Malay civil servant whom I knew very well came along the corridor of Parliament House and buttonholed me. He asked, “What are you doing here, Robert?” I replied, “Oh, I’m seeing Tun.” He snarled, “Don’t be greedy! Leave something for us poor Malays! Don’t hog it all!” I could see that, after May 1969, the business playing field was changing. Business was no longer clean and open. Previously, the government announced open tenders to the Malaysian public and to the world. If we qualified, we would submit a tender. If we won the contract, we would work hard at it, and either fail or succeed. I think eight or nine times out of ten we succeeded.</div>
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DON’T BE GREEDY ROBERT. LEAVE SOMETHING FOR US POOR MALAYS!<br />
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But things were changing, veering more and more towards cronyism and favouritism. Hints of change were there even before the riots. I was hell-bent on helping to develop the nation: that’s why I went into shipping, into steel – anything they asked of me. Even among the Malays there were those who admitted their weaknesses and argued for harnessing the strength of the Chinese. Mind you, that may have created more problems. If they had harnessed the strength of the Chinese, the Chinese would ultimately have owned 90 or 95 per cent of the nation’s wealth. This might have been good for the Malaysian economy, but bad for the nation.<br />
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Overall, the Malay leaders have behaved reasonably in running the country. At times, they gave the Malays an advantage. Then, when they see that they have overdone it, they try to redress the problem. Their hearts are in the right place, but they just cannot see their way out of their problems. Since May 13, 1969, the Malay leadership has had one simple philosophy: the Malays need handicapping. Now, what amount of handicapping?<br />
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The Government laid down a simple structure, but the structure is full of loopholes. Imagine that a hard-working, non-Malay Malaysian establishes XYZ Corporation. The Ministry of Trade and Industry rules that 30 per cent of the company’s shares must be offered to Malays. The owner says, “Well, I have been operating for six years. My par value of 1 ringgit per share is today worth 8 ringgit.” Then the Ministry says, “Can you issue it at 2 ringgit or 2.50 ringgit to the Malays?” After a bit of haggling, the non-Malay gives way. So shares are issued to the Malays, who now own 30 per cent. But every day after that, the Malays sell off their shares for profit. A number of years pass and then one day the Malay community holds a Bumiputra Congress. They go and check on all the companies. Oh, this XYZ Corporation, the Malay shareholding ratio is now down to seven per cent. That won’t do. So the Malays argue that they’ve got to redo the shareholding again. Fortunately, the ministry usually acts as a fair umpire and throws out such unscrupulous claims.</div>
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THE MALAYS’ ZEAL TO BRIDGE ECONOMIC GAP WITH THE CHINESE BRED UGLY RACISM<br />
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It’s one thing if you change the rules once to achieve an objective agreed to by all for the sake of peace and order in the nation. But if you do it a second time, it’s robbery. Why is it not robbery just because the government commits it? And when people raise objections, it is called fomenting racial strife, punishable by three years in jail. As a Chinese who was born and grew up in Malaysia and went to school with the Malays, I was saddened to see the Malays being misled in this way. I felt that, in their haste to bridge the economic gap between the Chinese and the Malays, harmful short cuts were being taken. One of the side effects of their zeal to bridge the economic gap was that racism became increasingly ugly. I saw very clearly that the path being pursued by the new leaders after 1969 was dangerous. But hardly anyone was willing to listen to me. In most of Asia, where the societies are still quite hierarchical, very few people like to gainsay the man in charge. As in The Emperor’s New Clothes, if a ruler says, “Look at my clothes; aren’t they beautiful?” when he is in fact naked, everybody will answer, “Yes, yes sir, you are wearing the most beautiful clothes.”<br />
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THE EAR OF THE PRIME MINISTER<br />
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I made one – and only one – strong attempt to influence the course of history of Malaysia. This took place in September 1975 during the Muslim fasting month. Tun Razak, the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, was gravely ill with terminal leukaemia, for which he was receiving treatment in a London hospital. My dear friend Hussein Onn, son of Dato Onn bin Jafar, was Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and acting Prime Minister in Tun Razak’s absence. He was soon to become Malaysia’s third Prime Minister. I went to Kuala Lumpur and sent word that I wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk. On the phone Hussein said, “Why don’t you come in during lunch time. It is the fasting month. Come to my office at about half past one. There will be no one around and we can chat to our heart’s content.”<br />
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Hussein and I go back to 1932 when we were in the same class in school in Johor Bahru. Shortly afterwards, his father fell out with the then-Sultan of Johor and the family moved to the Siglap area of Singapore.<br />
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My father would often spend weekends with Dato Onn. Two or three years later, Hussein returned to Johor Bahru and we were classmates again at English College from 1935 to 1939. Hussein’s father, Dato Onn, did not have a tertiary education. But he read widely and was very well informed. He was a natural born politician, a gifted orator in Malay and in English. He was a very shrewd man with a tremendous air of fine breeding even though he was not from Malaysian royalty. When you were in his presence, you knew you were in the presence of someone great. Dato Onn would go on to found UMNO, the ruling party of Malaysia, and become one of the founders of the independent nation of Malaysia. He set a tone of racial harmony for the nation – and he practised it. Our families were close.<br />
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So, I went to call on his son, my old friend Hussein Onn in 1975. His office was in a magnificent old colonial building, part of the Selangor Secretariat Building. In front of it was the Kuala Lumpur padang, where, in the colonial days, the British used to play the gentlemen’s games of cricket and rugby. I climbed up a winding staircase and his aide showed me straight to his room. There was hardly another soul in that huge office complex. After greeting one another, I warmed up to my subject with Hussein very quickly. I said, “Hussein, I have come to discuss two things with you. One is Tun Razak’s health. The other is the future of our nation.” I said, “You know, Razak has been looking very poorly lately. We all know he has gone to London for treatment.” Hussein interrupted: “Tun doesn’t like anybody discussing his health. Do you mind if we pass on to the next subject?” I said, “Of course not.” I continued, “I had to raise the first subject because that leads to the next subject. Assuming Razak doesn’t have long to live – please don’t mind, but I have to say that – you are clearly going to become the new Prime Minister in a matter of months or weeks.”<br />
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“I’m listening,” he said. “Hussein, we go back a long way. Our fathers were the best of friends; our families have been the best of friends. In our young days, you and I always felt a strong passion for our country, which we both still feel. Whatever has happened these past years, let’s not go backwards and ask what has gone wrong and what has not been done right. Let’s look at the future. If there was damage done, we can repair it.”<br />
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Hussein listened patiently. I pressed on, “First, let me ask you a few questions, Hussein. What, in your mind, is the number of people required to run a society, a community, a nation with the land mass of Malaysia?” This was 1975, when the population was about 12.5 million. He didn’t reply. For the sake of time, I answered my own question. “Hussein, if I say 3,000, if I say 6,000, if I say 10,000, 20,000, whatever the figure, I don’t think it really matters. We are not talking in terms of hundreds of thousands or millions. To run a society or a nation requires, relatively speaking, a handful of people. So let us say six or seven or eight thousand, Hussein. And of course this covers two sectors. The public sector: government, civil service, governmental organisations, quasi-governmental bodies, executive arms, police, customs and military. The private sector: the economic engines; the engines of development, plantations, mines, industry.<br />
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“The leaders of these two sectors are the people I am referring to, Hussein. If we are talking of a few thousand, does it matter to the masses whether it becomes a case of racially proportionate representation, where we must have for every ten such leaders five or six Malays, three Chinese, and one or two Indians?” I continued, “Must it be so? My reasoning mind tells me that it is not important. What is important is the objective of building up a very strong, very modern nation. And for that we need talented leaders, great leadership from these thousands of people. If you share my view that racial representation is unimportant and unnecessary to the nation, then let’s look at defining the qualifications for those leaders.<br />
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“Number one, for every man or woman, the first qualification is integrity. The person must be so clean, upright and honest that there must never be a whiff of corruption or scandal. People do stray, and, when that happens, they must be eliminated, but on the day of selection they must be people of the highest integrity. Second, there must be ability; and with it comes capability. He or she must be a very able and capable person. The third criterion is that they must be hard-working men or women, people who are willing to work long hours every day, week after week, month after month, year after year. That is the only way you can build up a nation.”<br />
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I went on, “I can’t think of any other important qualifications. So your job as prime minister, Hussein – I am now assuming you will become the prime minister – your job will then be from time to time to remove the square pegs from the round holes, and to look for square holes for square pegs and round holes for round pegs. Even candidates who fulfil those three qualifications can be slotted into the wrong jobs. So you’ve got to pull them out and re-slot them until the nation is humming beautifully.”<br />
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THE BEST BRAINS COME IN ALL SHADES AND COLOURS, ALL RELIGIONS, ALL FAITHS.<br />
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“We do not have all the expertise required to build up the nation,” I added. “But with hard work and a goal of developing the nation, we can afford to employ the best people in the world. The best brains will come, in all shades and colours, all religions, all faiths. They may be the whitest of the white, the brownest of the brown or the blackest of the black. I am sure it doesn’t matter. But Hussein, the foreigners must never settle in the driving seats. The days of colonialism are over. They were in the driving seats and they drove our country helter-skelter. We Malaysians must remain in the driving seats and the foreign experts will sit next to us. If they say, ‘Sir, Madame, I think we should turn right at the next turning,’ it’s up to us to heed their advice, or to do something else. We are running the show, but we need expertise.<br />
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YOU’RE GOING TO BE THE LEADER OF A NATION, AND YOU HAVE THREE SONS, HUSSEIN … YOUR ELDEST SON WILL GROW UP VERY SPOILED<br />
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“You’re going to be the leader of a nation, and you have three sons, Hussein. The first-born is Malay, the second-born is Chinese, the third-born is Indian. What we have been witnessing is that the first-born is more favoured than the second or third. Hussein, if you do that in a family, your eldest son will grow up very spoiled. As soon as he attains manhood, he will be in the nightclubs every night because Papa is doting on him. The second and third sons, feeling the discrimination, will grow up hard as nails. Year by year, they will become harder and harder, like steel, so that in the end they are going to succeed even more and the eldest will fail even more.”<br />
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I implored him, “Please, Hussein, use the best brains, the people with their hearts in the right place, Malaysians of total integrity and strong ability, hard-working and persevering people. Use them regardless of race, colour or creed. The other way, Hussein, the way your people are going – excessive handicapping of bumiputras, showering love on your first son – your first born is going to grow up with an attitude of entitlement.” I concluded, “That is my simple formula for the future of our country. Hussein, can you please adopt it and try?” Hussein had listened very intently to me, hardly interrupting. He may have coughed once or twice. I remember we were seated deep in a quiet room, two metres apart, so my voice came across well. He heard every word, sound and nuance. He sat quietly for a few minutes. Then he spoke, “No, Robert. I cannot do it. The Malays are now in a state of mind such that they will not accept it.”</div>
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He clearly spelt out to me that, even with his very broad-minded views, it was going to be Malay rule. He was saying that he could not sell my formula to his people. The meeting ended on a very cordial note and I left him. I felt disappointed, but there was nothing more that I could do. Hussein was an honest man of very high integrity. Before going to see him, I had weighed his strength of character, his shrewdness and skill. We had been in the same class, sharing the same teachers. I knew Hussein was going to be the Malaysian Prime Minister whom I was closest to in my lifetime. I think Hussein understood my message, but he knew that the process had gone too far. I had seen a picture developing all along of a train moving in the wrong direction. During Hussein’s administration, he was only partially successful in stemming the tide. The train of the nation had been put on the wrong track. Hussein wasn’t strong enough to lift up the train and set it down on the right track.<br />
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THE TRAIN OF THE NATION HAD BEEN PUT ON THE WRONG TRACK<br />
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The capitalist world is a very hostile world. When I was building up the Kuok Group, I felt as if I was almost growing scales, talons and sharp fangs. I felt I was capable of taking on any adversary. Capitalism is a ruthless animal. For every successful businessman, there are at least 10,000 bleached skeletons of those who have failed. It’s a very sad commentary on capitalism, but that is capitalism and real capitalism, not crony capitalism. Yet, I’ve always believed that the rules of capitalism, if properly observed, are the way forward in life. I know that, having been successful, I will be accused of having an ‘alright Jack’ mentality. But I am just stating facts: capitalism is a wonderful creature – just don’t abuse its principles and unwritten laws.</div>
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FROM SEA TO AIR<br />
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It was likely that some people in the government thought that it was shameful for Chinese Malaysians to run the national shipping line. When I sensed that this was their attitude, it was time for me to call it a day. Kuok Brothers eventually sold all their MISC shares and pulled out of the national shipping company completely.<br />
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In the early 1970s, the Kuok Group started its own shipping company, Pacific Carriers, in Singapore. By then I was a semiexpert on shipping. Any business can be learned through hard work, honesty and adherence to basic principles. There are qualified technical people for hire in the world. You can easily employ captains, ship engineers and architects. But most important are your businessmen.<br />
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During Pacific Carriers’ infancy, we carried mainly our own cargo. Bogasari was already very big, with a ravenous appetite for imported wheat; MSM, the sugar refinery, melted 1,600 tons of raw sugar a day and was steadily expanding its capacity. Our internal demand alone required the chartering of more than 250 vessels a year, including some time charters. I also saw in shipping the potential for a new line of business, another ball to toss, because shipping is a major world industry.<br />
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Shipping, of necessity, becomes global once you buy bigger ships. The minute you go into 20,000-ton vessels and upward, you can sail the Pacific, the Atlantic and around the Cape of Good Hope. In the past 20-odd years, we have carried ore, bulk and oil – whatever freight generates a good profit. Around the time we were launching MISC, one more job landed in my lap, this time initiated by the Singapore Government.<br />
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SAYING NO TO SINGAPORE<br />
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Dr Goh Keng Swee, Singapore’s deputy prime minister, asked if I would serve as chairman of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA). The Malaysian Government had proposed Dr Lim Swee Aun, the former Minister of Commerce and Industry, who had failed to get re-elected in the elections of May 1969. “We do not like him,” said Keng Swee. “But he’s not a bad fellow,” I replied. “Oh, never!” thundered Keng Swee. I said, “No, no. I’m overworked and underpaid by my own company.”<br />
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I’M OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID BY MY OWN COMPANY<br />
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I was joking, though it was true that I hardly had a moment’s rest in those days. I told him I couldn’t take the job, because I didn’t have the time to do it justice and didn’t know the airline business. I don’t think anybody had talked to Singapore Government leaders like that. They were already known to be very fierce. As I walked towards the door, Keng Swee said, “Well, you know there are hardly any links left between Malaysia and Singapore. If you don’t want to serve, then this link will also go.” It was just like a scene in a Hollywood film. Two steps from the door, I wheeled around and asked, “Are you telling me that if I take the job, that link will be preserved?” “Yes.” Again, I felt I had no choice. “If I agree to take the job, what do I need to do?” “Simple things. First, go to see Tunku Abdul Rahman and [Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak Hussein] and tell them we gave you an indication that you’re acceptable to us.” “You mean I have to sell myself to my own leaders?” When he replied in the affirmative, I said, “Give me time to think about it. This is getting very sticky.”<br />
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MOTHER’S ADVICE … AND SAYING YES TO SINGAPORE<br />
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So I went away and called up mother. I explained the situation to her. She said, “Well, if you can help preserve the link, then do it, but for one term only.”<br />
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We belonged to a generation when Malaya and Singapore was one homogenous territory, and felt very strongly that ties should be preserved. So I called Keng Swee and told him that, subject to securing approval in Malaysia, I was prepared to accept the MSA chairmanship for one three-year term. A day or two later I made appointments in Kuala Lumpur and went up.<br />
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Relations between Singapore and Malaysia have always been uneasy. I saw signs even during my Raffles College days. Nine out of every 10 students from Singapore could be called city-slickers. They were keen to know who your parents and grandparents were, and whether they were rich. By and large, those students who came from Malaya had rural backgrounds. They were usually very charming and uninterested in your wealth or status in life. They were at college just to study and to make friends.<br />
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I THINK TWO-THIRDS OR THREE-QUARTERS OF THE TOP CIVIL SERVANTS IN MALAYSIA HAD BEEN AT RAFFLES COLLEGE WHEN I WAS THERE<br />
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Those of us Chinese from Johor had learned to live much more comfortably with Malays. There was far more give and take. Now relations between Singapore and Malaysia were strained. Singapore felt that I could play a diplomatic role; they knew that I was well connected with the Malaysian Government. I was in Raffles College when Razak was there. In fact, I think two-thirds or three-quarters of the top civil servants in Malaysia had been at Raffles College when I was there; many of the others were in school with me in Johor Bahru.<br />
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I first went to see my very close friend Tun Ismail in Kuala Lumpur. He said, “Robert, if you’ve decided to take it on, take it on, but I don’t know whether you can push it through with Tunku.”<br />
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I went to Tunku’s house at 9am and was kept waiting for about half an hour. He was a late starter. Then Tunku emerged – it was a big, rambling house – and entered the living room where I was waiting. “Ah, Kuok, Kuok. I know you. Your brother [Philip] is one of our ambassadors.” I said, “Yes, Sir.” “What’s this about?” he asked. “You want to become Chairman of MSA?” I responded, “It’s not that I want to, Tunku …”<br />
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He didn’t sound too enthusiastic about my taking on this role. He made some remarks about the problems he was having with Singapore. I kept quiet, since it was not for me to say anything. Then I prodded him a bit. “Sir, do you mind if we come back to the subject?” In the end, he said, “OK, Kuok. If you want the job, take it. It doesn’t matter to me.” So I accepted the position of Chairman of MSA.<br />
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THE JOB – AND THE BICKERING – BEGINS<br />
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The board of 15 directors comprised one chairman, four directors nominated by the Malaysian Government, another four by the Singapore Government, one director from Straits Steamship (then a British shipping company controlled by Blue Funnel Group), two directors each from British Airways and Qantas Airways and the managing director, who was on loan from British Airways.<br />
YOU COULDN’T HAVE HAD WORSE BICKERING THAN BETWEEN THE SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT-NOMINATED DIRECTORS<br />
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So there were six white men, eight Malaysians and Singaporeans, and myself, a Malaysian. You couldn’t have had worse bickering than between the Singapore and Malaysian Government-nominated directors. If one side raised a point and asked for a resolution to be passed, the other side would object. Each side tried to peel off the skin to see what hidden agenda existed under that resolution. The meetings would start at 9:30am, and quite often I couldn’t wind them up until 7:30pm, this at a time when I was in the thick of my sugar business. I was fortunate that my health held up. I was not just chairman of the Board. I constantly had to make peace between the directors from the two governments. I tried every fair and reasonable device I could think of. The evening before a board meeting, I would host a dinner for just the eight government directors and the company secretary.<br />
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During dinner I would work on them to make peace. “Tomorrow, these are the thorny items on the agenda,” I would explain. “Please try to understand both sides.” Sometimes, I would obtain a semblance of agreement, only to have bickering erupt at the board meeting the following day. The articles of incorporation granted each of the eight a veto, so I was running a company with eight vetoes. It was horrendous! But I stuck with it for nearly two years. I should mention that some of the conflicts I had were with one Western director in particular. When I was chairman, the managing director and CEO was David Craig, who came from British Airways. I had acrimonious exchanges with him. He tried very hard to ingratiate himself into the good books of the Malaysian directors, since the Singapore directors were very rigid and severe managers.<br />
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Whenever David wasn’t performing, they were severe, and so he ran to the Malaysian side for protection. He found the Malaysian directors by and large convenient pillars behind which he could hide. I tried to haul him out from hiding, and our relationship soured. One day, I was in the MSA office on Robinson Road in Singapore, which was a much grander office space than my own humble sugartrading cubbyhole. David spoke to me about engaging expensive European expatriates for the airline. I asked what was wrong with engaging pilots from Burma, which at that time, under the military regime of Ne Win, was training pilots and sending some of them to aeronautical schools in England. He retorted, “Oh, no, no. Only British pilots are safe.” I pointed out that some of our commanders here were Chinese from the Malay Peninsula. He responded that there were too few. Then I suggested he try Indonesia, since Garuda was a relatively seasoned airline. He responded, “Ah, these guys land their planes in the ocean and in jungles and kill all their passengers.” I rounded on him: “Aren’t you being racist?” I noted that a Qantas or British Airways plane piloted by whites had crashed in Singapore’s Kallang Basin Airport. We had a very rough exchange. He had his agenda. When I took the job, I had no agenda whatsoever. I just wanted harmony between Malaysia and Singapore.<br />
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WHEN I TOOK THE JOB, I HAD NO AGENDA WHATSOEVER. I JUST WANTED HARMONY BETWEEN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE<br />
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Meanwhile, the Singapore Government, which was very good with its abacus, was analysing the economics of the airline industry. They began to realise that the Malaysian domestic routes were profitmaking, but looking into the future, they could not see such air travel as big-scale business. The international airport in Singapore, and the international traffic, was really the jewel in the crown of the airline industry in the Malaysia/Singapore region. So the Singapore Government felt it would be useful to break Malaysia-Singapore Airlines into two and let each country go its own way. The Board meetings grew increasingly acrimonious. I made an appointment to see Goh Keng Swee to appeal to him to hold back his aggressive Singapore directors. I hinted that the game was getting very one-sided. I was acting as referee, but I was seeing the poor Malaysian directors slaughtered at every meeting because the Singapore directors had minds as sharp as razors. In fairness, I must say the contribution to running the airline properly and efficiently came almost entirely from the Singapore side. The Malaysian side was too subjective and often allowed their feelings to influence their comments. The writing was on the wall: the airline would separate. Now, I’m sort of a bulldog. When I want to do something, I am very tenacious. But serving as chairman of MSA was a thankless task and I was working like a slave, virtually day and night, in addition to juggling all my other balls.<br />
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TIME TO RESIGN<br />
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Moreover, I had been under the impression that this link between the two countries would be preserved. Now that the decision to split was imminent, I decided to pen a resignation letter that they could not refuse. But how do you write two lines of English words which say just that and nothing more? It took me two days to come up with those two lines. Then there was silence for three or four months.<br />
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The Minister of Finance of Singapore then was Hon Sui Sen, one of the finest men to serve as a cabinet minister from the creation of the island state of Singapore to this day. Born in Penang, he graduated in science from Raffles College about two years before I entered the school. Then came one of the nicest letters I have received in my life. It was penned by Hon Sui Sen himself, and said words to this effect: “I apologise for taking so long to reply. The reason it took so long was we could not find the right successor. This in itself is a compliment to you and what you have done for all of us. Following considerable discussion between the two governments, we have finally come up with a formula of one Chairman from each side to co-chair the board.”<br />
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They could not have asked for a more classic mongoose and cobra arrangement. The individuals they picked fought each other tooth and nail. When I stepped off, I stepped off completely. I even shut my mind to the whole matter.<br />
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The Malaysian Government chose Tun Ismail Ali, then Central Bank Governor. The Singapore side picked Joe Pillay, who had been a Singapore director of MSA from the day that I joined the board. In one sense, you could say Joe Pillay gave me the most trouble. In another sense, you could say he was the single most efficient director on the board. I admired his tremendous intellect, an intellect that had no superior in the Singapore/Malaysia region. His grasp of economics and cost accounting was fantastic.<br />
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I learned from him, watching the way he worked at his job. But he was rather highly strung. Joe is a lovely human being and a gentleman, but when it came to protecting his nation’s interest and discharging his job, he could come out unnecessarily aggressive. I remember one unpleasant exchange between Basil Bampfield, a British Airways-appointed director, and Joe Pillay at a board meeting. Joe told Basil that he should go back to British Airways and Qantas and tell them that some of the existing arrangements were unfair, and that the two airlines should make concessions to MSA. At the next meeting, Basil reported that, on behalf of British Airways and Qantas, he was authorised to agree to every request made at the preceding meeting.<br />
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I said, “This is amazingly good news. May I on behalf of all of us make a motion to express our thanks to them?” Joe Pillay interrupted, “No! It is ours by right and we should have got it long ago.” I appealed to Joe. Why cry over the past, I thought. Basil Bampfield was a fine English gentleman in an invidious job. He must have gone back and argued MSA’s case forcefully. What the two co-chairmen presided over was like a funeral. To dismantle and separate the whole company was like performing surgery on Siamese twins. It took them a long time to carry out the operation.</div>
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MOTIVATION, NOT MONEY<br />
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Tim Dumas, one of the senior partners in ED&F Man, once asked me, “Why do you want to go on battling the odds in the business world, Robert? You’ve made your pile. Why don’t you retire?”<br />
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My answer may have sounded strange to him: “Tim, can’t you see we come from two different worlds? The British Empire spanned the world; wherever the sun rose, there was a Union flag fluttering in the breeze. You had colonies for over 200 years. Even today, Britain punches above its weight because of that history. I belong to a developing Southeast Asia. And now there is China, the land of my parents and ancestors. As long as I can still contribute, I cannot rest.”<br />
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I BELONG TO A DEVELOPING SOUTHEAST ASIA. AND NOW THERE IS CHINA, THE LAND OF MY PARENTS AND ANCESTORS. AS LONG AS I CAN STILL CONTRIBUTE, I CANNOT REST<br />
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My 1958 sugar barter deal with India and Mitsui almost led to disaster after the Chinese entered the market as a seller of sugar at the exact same time. However, in the end, it was a blessing in disguise. Through this deal, I got to know the Chinese trading companies based in Hong Kong. They decided that they would rather work with me than against me, and Kuok Brothers gradually built up a strong trading relationship with Chinese-affiliated trading firms in both Hong Kong and Singapore.<br />
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Business is about one individual getting to know another individual and then another, and so on. We did sugar, we did rice, and then we went sideways into miscellaneous small things like photographic film and dyestuffs. From 1965, I began travelling to the mainland itself. My first trip took me to the Canton Trade Fair, with a side trip with several busloads of overseas Chinese to a commune outside the provincial capital. We had a good lunch of simple village-style food at a village community hall. In my early visits, I sensed that the people in China were highly moral and decent. I never felt like a stranger.<br />
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MOTHER, MAO AND DENG XIAOPING<br />
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China went into a self-imposed period of isolation during the Cultural Revolution, and the China that I returned to in the mid-1970s was a very different place. There was a lot of red tape laced with a high degree of suspicion. Many cadres did not have experience of business, and they feared that every capitalist was coming to try to rob the nation of its national treasures. The cadres didn’t know how to develop a business; but neither were they prepared to let you develop it. Mother warned me against investing in China: “You are going in too soon, my son, too soon. You will meet brick walls. Why bang your head on a brick wall? Your head will only bleed, and you won’t achieve anything. Worse still, if you achieve something, then they will take it away from you and you will be back at zero.”<br />
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Mother knew the Chinese make-up and the mindset of her generation. However, I saw that China was pitifully backward. I felt that the country must wake up and join the modern world. It was much poorer than the Malaya into which I was born. I felt that I wanted to help China and, if possible, push the country to develop faster.<br />
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Thank God there were good people, and standing above them all was Deng Xiaoping. I have Mother to thank for my lifelong interest in the birthplace of my parents. Mother always retained a strong and deep emotional tie to her homeland. Yet, she was very objective and critical of all the Chinese faults, including the foibles of successive governments and leaders. She was travelling regularly between Malaya and China in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She welcomed the victory of Mao Zedong and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.<br />
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THANK GOD THERE WERE GOOD PEOPLE [IN CHINA], AND STANDING ABOVE THEM ALL WAS DENG XIAOPING<br />
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Mother always stood up for the poor. In 1951, on one of her trips back to China, she collected all the title deeds for her properties in Shandong province and went north with an assistant. They identified each tenant farmer and made a gift of the land to those who had tilled and maintained it. Until her death, she said Mao’s pluses far outweighed his minuses. But, from early on, she knew that mistakes were being made. She saw the harm that the Great Leap Forward did to the rural areas.<br />
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I think that, today, we would say Mao didn’t really understand how to run an economy. During the war years you needed heroic acts. The tales of daring during the Long March and the call to fight the Japanese resonated with the people. But once all the battles are won, you have to focus on building up the economy and bringing up the standard of living of the people.<br />
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Mother was a strong critic of the bad and bullying behaviour of local bureaucrats towards their fellow Chinese. This was particularly so during the Cultural Revolution, which she saw as the dark period in China’s history. In the early 1970s, she made a trip to Fuzhou after many years away. She was required to deposit her passport with the Public Security Bureau of Fuzhou. After staying for a few months and feeling unhappy at what she saw around her, she decided it was time to go back to Malaysia. She went many times to retrieve her passport, but the Public Security Bureau always gave her some kind of stupid answer and wouldn’t return it to her. One day, she got really angry. She went to the bureau, pounded on the desk, and said, “I am an overseas Chinese citizen of Malaysia. The Chinese Government told us to go overseas and become worthy citizens of the countries of our adoption. Why do you keep my passport? What have I done wrong? Why are you treating me like this? I shall go to Beijing to lodge a strong complaint.”<br />
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MOTHER ALWAYS RETAINED A STRONG AND DEEP EMOTIONAL TIE TO HER HOMELAND. YET SHE WAS VERY OBJECTIVE AND CRITICAL OF ALL THE CHINESE FAULTS<br />
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Within a few days of that incident, an official brought the passport to her home, and she booked a flight and returned to Malaysia. Many poor Chinese from Fujian had left to seek a better life abroad, particularly in Southeast Asia, and when they went back to China to visit relatives and asked for assistance, they would often find the bureaucrats at the Overseas Chinese Bureau officious and unsympathetic. On her other trips home to Fuzhou, the bureau would send someone to greet her who would say, “Madame Kuok, I have come to welcome you. What can we do for you?” Her response would be: “I have come back to see relatives and to worship at the temples here. I do not need any help from you, but you could offer your help to the many returning overseas Chinese who are poor and illiterate and who really need your help.”<br />
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She assessed Deng Xiaoping quite correctly from the beginning. She told me, “Nien, China will go back to capitalism in your lifetime. It’s already moving in that direction. I can tell you, son, man can only be driven by the selfishness in his heart and the betterment of himself and his children’s well-being. Only that can propel him to achieve more things, to be more creative and productive. China will and must continue to be driven by this.”<br />
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But in her mind, the ultimate goal of society should be true socialism, where man truly works for all his fellow beings on a totally selfless basis. But that stage is a long way off. Before that, man must complete the long march to becoming truly civilised, and we have only travelled the first few of ten thousand miles.<br />
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HONG KONG, A BIGGER (TAX-SAVVY) POND AND SINGAPORE’S FOUNDING FATHER<br />
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The principal reason that I elected to move to Hong Kong in the 1970s was taxation. At that time, it almost appeared as though the Singapore and Malaysian governments were competing with each other to see which could levy the highest taxes on those who were generating wealth for the nations. Both were taxing our profits at punitive rates. If you earned a dollar, you barely kept fifty cents. My main business at the time was in commodities. I was a substantial trader, taking large positions. Three thousand lots is the equivalent of 150,000 tons of sugar. A movement of one US cent a pound would bring huge profits or losses. If I went long and wrong, or short and wrong, margin calls could easily wipe me out. So it was imperative for me to build up my company’s cash reserves.<br />
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HONG KONG WAS A MUCH BIGGER POND THAN SINGAPORE – OR MALAYSIA<br />
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Because of Singapore’s steep tax rates, I was handicapped in my effort to build up cash reserves. And without deep reserves, I would be dangerously vulnerable to margin calls if our trading positions went sour. Although Singapore did not tax offshore trading profits, officials imposed extremely onerous conditions on you to prove that your profits were generated offshore. They essentially regarded you as guilty until proven innocent. A tax audit was a bit like the Spanish Inquisition. By comparison, Hong Kong’s tax environment encouraged business. You only paid 17 per cent corporate tax, so you were better off by 33 cents on every dollar of profit.<br />
I SHALL STRESS THAT I HAD NOT – AND INDEED, HAVE NOT – LOST ONE IOTA OF MY AFFECTION FOR SINGAPORE<br />
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Since I was in the international sugar-trading business, with mobile operations it seemed almost irresponsible not to trade sugar from a low-tax base. Tax policy plays a very important role in encouraging or discouraging business. Hong Kong’s policy is very straightforward. Why would I want to hire an army of lawyers and accountants to avoid taxation? I should stress that I had not – and indeed, have not – lost one iota of my affection for Singapore. It is simply that it made more sense to base my operations in a low-tax jurisdiction like Hong Kong.<br />
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In fact, from about the mid-1970s, I often met with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in a sitting room next to his office. His office would call my office at short notice when he had free time. In an early session, Kuan Yew explained that he wanted to have chats with me because I had a good feel for the scene in Malaysia. He had an embassy in Kuala Lumpur, but he wanted a different perspective. I was always very frank with him. If he asked questions for which I had no answer, I would tell him so.<br />
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We had many pleasant such sessions, sometimes over lunch. Unfortunately, these informal sessions ended when I moved to Hong Kong, as I could no longer pop around at a moment’s notice. Hong Kong was a much bigger pond than Singapore or Malaysia. I began to see very clearly that the CEOs of the top American, Japanese and European corporations were visiting Hong Kong, if not once a year, then once every two or three years. The senior VPs would go to Singapore and the VPs or departmental managers would visit Kuala Lumpur. That was the pecking order. Today, of course, CEOs are more likely to frequent Beijing and Shanghai. We had considered relocating part of our operations to Hong Kong from the 1960s. I finally made the plunge in 1974, deciding that I must form a Kuok Brothers Hong Kong.<br />
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I summoned several of our executives in Singapore: Richard Liu, Lee Yong Sun, James Lim, Kenny Yeo, and one or two others. I told everyone that we had to act quickly: “I have made up my mind that we will open a branch in Hong Kong. I ask for volunteers. Please give me your answer today. Two weeks from today, I want you to be in Hong Kong, ready to work. On the plus side,” I concluded, “anyone who follows me to Hong Kong will be well rewarded.”<br />
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THE MORE I HEARD PEOPLE CALL CHINA BACKWARD, THE MORE I FELT WE MUST SHOW THE REST OF THE WORLD, SOME DAY, THAT CHINA CAN BE ADVANCED<br />
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Lee Yong Sun, Kenny Yeo and James Lim all put up their hands. I asked Richard Liu to commute back and forth, like I was planning to do, to look after both sides of the business for at least a year. I spent about seven to ten days a month in Hong Kong from 1974, and then gradually it became 15 days a month, 21 days, until eventually I moved there in 1979.<br />
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Robert Kuok at his office in Hong Kong, c 2000. Photo: Robert Kuok, A Memoir<br />
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We started with about HK$10 million when I formed Kerry Holdings Ltd, the name that we chose for our Hong Kong operation. The executives who relocated to Hong Kong were allowed to apply for the first allotment of shares in the company. Trading, of course, migrated with me; that was unavoidable, as I was the main trader. Within 20 years, Hong Kong has blossomed into by far the largest of our three group companies of Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.<br />
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THE RISE AND RISE OF HK PROPERTY<br />
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I saw great potential in China, but I can’t claim to have had a crystal ball on the momentous changes that would follow the death of Mao Zedong. Luckily or unluckily, I was born Chinese, and I have always remained very proud of being Chinese. The more I heard people call China backward, the more I felt we must show the rest of the world, some day, that China can be advanced. I felt that I had something to offer my fellow Chinese: modern ways of thinking and management, and respect for the value that both sides brought to a business relationship.<br />
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However, our focus was most certainly not on China during the first few years after we moved to Hong Kong. Kerry Holdings focused on supplying sugar and rice to Indonesia. That was when Yani Haryanto had his magic arrangement with President Suharto, under which all that vast land’s sugar and rice imports passed through Yani’s hands. My first major investment in Hong Kong came in November 1977, when I bought a piece of land in Kowloon at auction and built the Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel. It is still a very important jewel in the Group’s hotel crown more than 40 years later.<br />
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After that, I plunged into the Hong Kong property market, then into warehousing and local stock-market investing.<br />
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It is well known that Hong Kong property has created quite a few billionaires. In the hindsight of history, it is not hard to see why. My first visit to Hong Kong was in 1947, when Joy and I were there on honeymoon. We drove with a friend, Eddie Cheung, past the old Peninsula hotel in Kowloon. When we were maybe a few hundred metres down Nathan Road from the Peninsula, Eddie said, “Robert, if you have spare money you should buy land here. I think you can buy empty land at about HK$5 a square foot.” Well, that is probably the greatest missed opportunity of my life!<br />
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I SAW GREAT POTENTIAL IN CHINA, BUT I CAN’T CLAIM TO HAVE HAD A CRYSTAL BALL ON THE MOMENTOUS CHANGES THAT WOULD FOLLOW THE DEATH OF MAO ZEDONG<br />
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Fast forward to the late 1970s, when we had been in Hong Kong for three or four years. We had established a small office, and we rented apartments so that those of us who periodically came over from Singapore would have a place to stay. When a two-year tenancy expired, the rent would always shoot up. The rising rents were creating a strong headwind for our business. So I called several of our executives into my office, and said, “If rents keep going up like this, we will never be able to gain a foothold here. We have to go into property investment.” So, we established Kerry Properties Limited, which is now a public company, and which has been our primary company for investment in Hong Kong and mainland China real estate since 1978. Even I did not see how important this decision would be. In the 1970s, despite the rising rents, the cost was not that steep. But, as China developed, it became very apparent that rents would continue to soar and soar. We decided not to stop at buying just one or two floors of office space or one or two apartments. We branched into development. We built entire buildings, and then major integrated commercial and residential complexes. We have never looked back.</div>
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ON CHINA’S CULTURAL STRENGTH<br /><br />At a very young age, perhaps four or five years old, I was becoming conscious of mother’s stories, and her frequent exhortations to me and my brothers. Father, his associates, and even the Chinese labourers working in the shop also had wisdom. I learned from them and from their behaviour that I belonged to a people with a very rich culture.<br /><br />As I grew older, through the 1930s and 1940s, I began to realise that what the Chinese lacked most of all was discipline and unity.<br /><br />With our continuous culture going back thousands of years, I think that there are certain good qualities as well as certain defects in the marrow of our bones.<br /><br />The Chinese are very hard-working. Wherever they go they will try to earn their own living. Some of these migrants started life in their new homes as rickshaw pullers. So the natives of those regions connect the Chinese with the odour of sweat and say they are a miserable lot. I never got taken in by that nonsense. You have to learn to distinguish between form and essence. If your eyes are always glued to form, it is doubtful that you will ever succeed in life.<br /><br />The teachings of Confucius are part of Chinese culture. Photo: Alamy<br /><br />The Chinese today don’t have to learn about Confucius and Mencius from books. The teachings of Confucius and Mencius are part of our culture; these teachings have been with us since birth.<br /><br />Why, then, are so many Chinese running around today in China and all over the world setting bad examples? It is because of greed.</i><br />
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<i>IF THE JOURNEY TOWARDS THE GOAL OF CIVILIZATION IS TEN THOUSAND MILES LONG, I DOUBT WE HAVE GONE EVEN ONE HUNDRED MILES<br /><br />If the journey towards the goal of civilization is ten thousand miles long, I doubt we have gone even one hundred miles. People make a lot of mistakes in their rush. China has been transformed in 30 years. I have seen many mistakes along the way, but I have also seen a serious effort to turn back and correct mistakes when they are made.<br /><br />*********************<br /></i><br />
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<i>ON MODERN CHINA AND ENLIGHTENED LEADERS<br /><br />In its 5,000-year history, I doubt that China has had as enlightened a group of leaders as during the past 30 years. They wanted their country to grow, and their people to prosper. Few leaders today compare with China’s in terms of true patriotism, selfless devotion to duty, and complete willingness to dedicate their lives to the causes of nation-building and raising the peoples’ standard of living.<br /><br /><br />There was a period where I think the Chinese leaders misunderstood Confucianism, or they deliberately did not want Confucian values passed on to young people. They eschewed every religion, and Confucianism was seen as the religion of old China. Mao wanted the people to replace their old thinking with communist idealism. However, in the process, he overlooked the barbarism that still exists in man’s hearts and minds. It is easy to talk about all human beings being equal, but all men are not equal, and barbaric instincts still course through our veins.<br /><br />In my business travels around China, I often came across incompetent or bigoted officials. Nearly every time I had a major tussle with one, or I met a dubious vice governor or mayor, I would come back and, in my judgmental way, tell my colleagues, “How can that man run such-and-such a city?” And sure enough, the next time I visited the place, say a year later, the man had been removed and a better man was in his place. I began to note to myself and to others that in Southeast Asia, a bad egg gets promoted; in China, a bad egg is removed.<br /><br /><br />Still, I think more can and should be done to root out nonperformers. I have a wonderful colleague named David Pang who helps out with our companies’ efforts to lift the poor around China from conditions of extreme poverty. We are trying to open up the sky above their heads and offer them hope. Through this effort, we have come into contact with many local village officials.<br /><br />The quality of these officials varies greatly; the more corrupt ones are all talk and no action.<br /><br />David Pang told me a sad story about a very bright young man from a small village who made it to the top university in China.<br /><br />After graduating, he went back to his village to share his knowledge.<br /><br />He is a man with a good heart, but after 20 years, he had lost all his vigour and energy and dreams. He became a forgotten soul captured by the bureaucratic web. His superiors think poorly of him because he challenges their intellect. He is bullied and ignored.<br /><br />There are many individuals like him throughout China, individuals who want to do good things and improve the lives of those around them but who are stymied by vain and arrogant officials.<br /><br />ON DENG XIAOPING<br /><br />I was invited to meet Deng Xiaoping in the autumn of 1990.<br /><br />He impressed me as a very fine and humble human being. He was by then an elderly man, but from the moment he saw me, his whole behaviour – his smile and his body language – was like that of an eager young man seeking to make a new friend. In none of his actions or words was there a hint of: “I am a great leader of a great nation. Who are you?” You could sense that the man was never thinking of himself. He was all for the people, his people.<br /><br /><br />When we sat down, his first words were to thank and to praise the Overseas Chinese for their contribution to the birth of the new China, and for the major role they had played and were continuing to play in China’s economy. Then he said several things that still stick in my mind. One was: “In 30 years’ time, China will be the most important and strongest nation in Asia, which will by then be the strongest continent in the world.” There was no hint of arrogance in Deng’s voice. It was as if he were a wizened sage looking into his crystal ball and describing what he saw. He stated it very humbly, and then he added words to this effect: “I shall not live to see that day, but I have no doubt that it will become true.”</i><br />
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<i>THERE WAS NO HINT OF ARROGANCE IN DENG’S VOICE. IT WAS AS IF HE WERE A WIZENED SAGE LOOKING INTO HIS CRYSTAL BALL AND DESCRIBING WHAT HE SAW<br /><br />He also said, “Mr Kuok, they all say I am the one that is bringing this huge and rapid development to China. They are wrong. When I opened the door for China, they were all pushing me from behind. They are still pushing me.” He wasn’t trying to gain more credit by trying to divert the credit. He just said the truth. The people want economic progress.<br /><br />Then Deng spoke at length on the Taiwan issue. He said, “I have offered them more than I was prepared to give Hong Kong. They will be given everything that I gave Hong Kong, in addition to which they can maintain their armed forces, and renew and update their weaponry. All I ask is that we are one unified nation again; one flag, one foreign ministry, one people. There can be no other way forward for China!”<br /><br /><br />He smiled throughout the meeting and I thought he was a very kind, friendly man, totally unselfish. But when he spoke on Taiwan, for the first time I saw in the man a sense of extreme frustration.<br /><br />That was the first and only time I saw Deng. I later heard through Chinese friends in Beijing that mine was the last official meeting granted by the government. After that, a curtain came down and his only visitors were family or close friends.<br /><br />China is still transforming. When you talk of the transformation of a nation of more than 1.36 billion people, it is too great for one single human mind to follow. Imagine an elephant that is so enormous in girth that if you are standing right in front, you cannot imagine it in its entirety.</i><br />
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<i>[DENG XIAOPING] WAS A VERY KIND, FRIENDLY MAN, TOTALLY UNSELFISH. BUT WHEN HE SPOKE ON TAIWAN, FOR THE FIRST TIME I SAW IN THE MAN A SENSE OF EXTREME FRUSTRATION<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />When I saw what Deng Xiaoping was doing, I virtually worshipped the man. I have often told overseas friends that, throughout China’s 5,000-year history, there has rarely been a period when the leadership has been as committed to providing for the people and nation-building as that since Deng came to power. It has now been more than 35 years since Deng set the country on its current course, and the present leadership continues to put the people first.<br /><br />We met obstacles and small-minded people in China. Some think you have come to rob them; others just think about themselves, and when you won’t line their pockets they turn their backs on you. In some of the provinces, you meet bigoted, narrow-minded officials who are envious before they have given away anything. All you can do is to avoid those places.<br /><br />Overall, I think my relative success has been due to my willingness to give way. If you were operating in Singapore or Hong Kong, you would not meet with that situation.<br /><br />In China, I was willing to flow with the currents. I was not expecting to make a fortune. I think, in the main, I felt I was there to help the country. But because of all my years of business training and sense of fiduciary values, there were times when I could not compromise. If they were not willing to be reasonable, I could not accept it, and those frustrations sometimes got to me.<br /><br />******************<br /><br />The years of experimenting with extreme left-wing communism have had adverse side effects on Chinese society. One effect is that many grew up without a strong moral compass. They acted as though your wealth should be shared with them. While they professed to share their wealth with you – they knew full well that they had nothing. I used to tell Chinese cadres: “That is not communism; it is highway robbery! You people are even indecent in not telling the truth to yourselves.”<br /><br />To my mind, the two greatest challenges facing China are the restoration of education in morals and the establishment of the rule of law.<br /><br />Top President Suharto of Indonesia (middle) with Yani Haryanto and Robert Kuok in the President’s country home in Chiomas, outside Jakarta, c 1970. Photo: Robert Kuok, A Memoir<br /><br />A moral society cannot be attained through policing. You must begin at the beginning, and infuse the young with a strong sense of morality from a young age, both at home and at school. For centuries, Confucian principles provided China’s moral compass; they can do so again.</i><br />
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<i>THE TWO GREATEST CHALLENGES FACING CHINA ARE THE RESTORATION OF EDUCATION IN MORALS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RULE OF LAW<br /><br />The second important point is that China must strive to understand and implement the rule of law. This is more important than implementing democracy. It is a basic principle of the rule of law that everyone is equal before the law. In China today we have rule by man. Under the rule of law, even the General-Secretary of the Communist Party is not above the law.<br /><br /><br />I know many believe that it is impossible for a communist party to accept the rule of law. But I think that, if the Chinese Communist Party is to survive, the leaders of the Communist Party must adapt.<br /><br />Otherwise, the people of China will reject them and cast them out.<br /><br />I only hope that the Communist Party will take the lead in implementing the rule of law. It will require a gigantic effort, as the culture must change and the legal infrastructure must be created.<br /><br />You have to train upright judges and lawyers to uphold the legal system. This may take 20-30 years, but it must start today. If the party succeeds in this monumental task, then the road ahead for China is filled with hope for all mankind.<br /><br />***********************<br /><br />XI JINPING’S CHINA<br /><br />The world is now witnessing a spiritual rejuvenation in China led by Xi Jinping.<br /><br />In my lifetime, I have followed the astonishing transformation of China. I grew up hearing daily tales of the country being in a horrible state. After many decades of misrule, internal strife and foreign oppression, the country was ripe for a revolution. The People’s Republic of China was founded by Mao Zedong and his amazingly able colleagues on 1st October 1949. But Mao was no genius at economics or commerce, and when the economy suffered setbacks, he was criticized by those around him. Mao got mad and thought he would use a fire torch to burn the pestering ants along the edges of the house, not realising that the house was bone dry, and that it would burst into flames and set off the Cultural Revolution, which eventually left the nation shattered.<br /><br /><br />After a period wracked by extreme instability and political intrigue, Deng Xiaoping came to power. He saw the right direction for his people and personally led them for about fifteen years. I met him in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in September 1990 and was struck by his humility. He said that he did not deserve the peoples’ acclaim that he was responsible for the country’s booming economy and rising prosperity. He said: ‘All I did was to open the door, but it was the people charging up behind and they pushed me through the door’. I found Deng to be a wise and compassionate leader: a great man indeed.<br /><br />After Deng had ushered in a time of increasing prosperity, there developed the disease of greed and decay. Fortunately for China and its people, Xi Jinping assumed leadership of the country in November 2012. What he has accomplished in just five years is truly amazing. He has greatly reduced corruption in the government bureaucracy, in state-owned enterprises and in the armed forces. The economy had been developing in too uncontrolled a manner (excess capacity in steel, cement, and aluminium, etc.), and some of the agonies due to enforced adjustments are now being felt.</i><br />
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<i>XI IS EFFECTIVELY BRINGING CHINA INTO THE MODERN AGE BY DISMANTLING, STEP BY STEP, THE FEUDAL ATTITUDES AND OFFICIOUS PRACTICES WHICH HAVE BEEN DEEPLY INGRAINED IN CHINESE SOCIETY<br /><br />Xi realized it was not just the body but also the mind and spirit where decadence had entered Chinese society and systems. He is fostering mental, physical, moral and spiritual rejuvenation. It is a difficult job because China is relatively affluent now. Leaders have an easier job when the people are poor and have nothing to lose.<br /><br />Xi is effectively bringing China into the modern age by dismantling, step by step, the feudal attitudes and officious practices which have been deeply ingrained in Chinese society.<br /><br />From my knowledge of Xi Jinping, he is selfless, compassionate, patriotic, with a profound knowledge of Chinese history and culture. He is putting good practices in place, which will further transform China. He may need several more years to put his imprint on the country, but I firmly believe that history will honour him as one of China’s greatest leaders.<br /><br /></i><br />
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<i>THE PERMANENCE OF PRINT AND THE SCMP<br /><br />In 1993, we bought a controlling interest in SCMP Group Limited of Hong Kong, which publishes the leading English language newspaper in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post, from Rupert Murdoch. I feel that an independent media is a crucial component of a fair and orderly society. Perhaps I am old fashioned in believing that print media is important, given all the new media that have emerged. But I believe in the permanence of print, recording events day in and day out. I don’t see that books or newspapers will ever become obsolete, although their form may change.</i><br />
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<i><br />When I read the Post in the morning, I wouldn’t agree with everything. But that had never prompted me to try and change the contents. However, if the paper ever printed something libellous, I would have come down very fiercely and told them, “If the paper is sued for libel, you have to be responsible and meet the cost, because the owners did not personally print that news.”<br />A paper must publish news, not speculation. For every slanted opinion piece, there should be a proponent for the opposite view. Give the reader a choice, and let the reader decide who has the better argument.<br /><br />In March 2016, a decision was made to sell the South China Morning Post to Jack Ma of Alibaba. I was pleased for Jack to take over, as the Post is a strategically important newspaper and I felt it should be in good hands. When the sale was completed, friends asked me how I felt after having owned the Post for 24 years. I replied by wiping my brow in relief and saying, “pheww!”<br /><br />Robert Kuok, A Memoir will be available in Hong Kong exclusively at Bookazine and in Singapore at all major bookshops from November 25. It will be released in Malaysia on December 1 and in Indonesia on January 1, 2018</i><br />
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<u><b>Winter of discontent</b></u><br />
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<i>Now is the winter of our discontent<br />Made glorious summer by this sun of York</i><br />
- Richard III by Shakespeare<br />
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Term "Winter of Discontent" ni ikut Wikipedia, ialah pada musim sejuk 1978 - 1979 yang mana banyak mogok oleh trade union di UK, dan kebetulan winter tu ialah winter tersejuk for the past 16 years.<br />
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Winter of Discontent ni juga salah satu faktor kemenangan Margaret Thatcher sehingga menjadi Perdana Menteri UK pada 1979.<br />
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Mogok tersebut begitu teruk, bukan setakat pengutip sampah mogok, bahkan penggali kubur juga turut serta.<br />
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Aku tukar blog layout kepada "black and white" scheme, sempena musim sejuk di Northern Hemisphere sekarang ni. (banyak negara di dunia yang musim sejuk sekarang, kecuali negara2 iklim Khatulistiwa, dan juga Australia di Southern Hemisphere.)<br />
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Dan dengan kenaikan harga minyak, dan kebejatan ekonomi yang masih dirasai kebanyakan anggota masyarakat (if you don't feel the pinch, then be glad and thankful you belong to the minorities), aku rasa theme Winter of Discontent ni is a little bit connected to life of people around me. <br />
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Actually, aku nak tulis tentang insecurity. It is just that, aku rasa previous entry tadi, tak cukup best pada pembacaan aku sendiri. To delete and re-write, aku rasa malas, better just write a new one.<br />
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I'm sorry for that entry though, mungkin masa menulis tu, aku masih lagi trauma dengan kes baling2 barang/jerit2 pekik by someone dearest, yang hanya disebabkan rasa insecure beliau pasal pemilikan rumah pusaka keluarga or some sort.<br />
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<u><b>Women the best insecurity radar</b></u><br />
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It is because insecurity is a major turn-off to most women. No matter how feminist a women could be, an insecure man is a big No-No.<br />
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Kau tak confident untuk carry your own self, how could it be possible for us to be together and eventually end up as a strong family unit? = bisik hati most women out there when they see insecure folks.<br />
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Hence, why confidence is an attraction, to any women.<br />
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I do think, actually women somehow will know, whether a man fakes the confidence or not. She'll feel it nonetheless.<br />
But sometimes, she's blinded by the increasing emotion of the relationship, that made her to bypass her judgement.<br />
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Lelaki, and somehow I observed this in the working world of construction, men are sometimes devious, and they employ few tactics, and I just share it with you, whether you agree or not.<br />
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1. The peacock strategy<br />
Show off strategy. Kepandaian, duit, sembang kencang babi terbang, whatever he can show off. <br />
Actually all a women need to detect, is whether the guy have any substance underneath.<br />
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Observe him during a crisis. And not just one crisis, few crisis.<br />
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2. The control strategy<br />
Oh ini yang paling devious, dan paling susah escape, a every clever hidden man-trap.<br />
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First, he will present himself as "responsible".<br />
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Underneath the cloak of responsibility, dia start control every aspect of your life. It is hard to detect because, <br />
it is slow time consuming process.<br />
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But then, by the time kau da rasa suffocated dengan beliau, kau tak boleh buat apa, <br />
simply by this time,<br />
too much time has flown by,<br />
kau pun rasa malas nak engage another new relationship,<br />
tapi dia terlalu toxic,<br />
so kau sakit dan nangis2 selalu sebab kalau kau teruskan pun hurtful, kalau cut-off pun hurtful.<br />
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And the promises, kau pun tunggu dan berharap. And somehow ada elemen agama dan jodoh.<br />
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Macam ni lah. Religion tak salah. Alat pisau tu pun tak salah. But both the knife and religion can be mis-used to abuse.<br />
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For women, entah la.<br />
Aku bagitahu, aku sendiri pun tak pegang ATM card wife aku.<br />
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Dan berapa banyak women, among of them divorced single mothers, yang in the end rasa ada lelaki ni just like having a poison in your blood.<br />
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I think, just don't be insecure about relationship, relax2 saja, keep your money to yourself.<br />
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Know that there are many insecure men out there who made you think he loves you, but in the end abuse you.<br />
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Well I knew all this, simply because I was an insecure asshole myself before.<br />
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Bukan setakat hal wanita, kadang2 rasa insecure bila tengok kawan2, or buddies, got better house, better car, better salary, better this better that.<br />
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And somehow, I kinda grew out of this comparing things, maybe after I got married, kinda realised I should be thankful.<br />
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Tak payah peduli sangat nak compare dengan orang lain sebab you don't know what kind of headache presents with the "gifts of life" they have.<br />
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And, nowadays I always tell myself,<br />
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As humans, we are actually limited,<br />
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Of time, strength, knowledge, money, wealth, etc, that we can't encompass all the things we wanted, especially if we want those things simply because we felt we should have it because others had it as well.<br />
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We are limited, so the best is just to do the best with what you have.<br />
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<u><b>Menganjing</b></u><br />
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Obefiend, Mutalib Uthman, Luthfi and all those popular social media folks of my generation, during the 2000 - 2010 - 2017,<br />
I believe, somehow, are guilty of something.<br />
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Guilty of popularkan budaya "menganjing" or troll.<br />
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Sokernets, sokerleaks, it all started dengan "menganjing" team bola, then somehow benda menganjing ni menular.<br />
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Dan lama kelamaan, everybody enjoyed menganjing that it end up became something of a necessity.<br />
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Menganjing ni cool. Menganjing ni bagi benefit popularity. Menganjing orang boleh menyebabkan post kau keluar Siakapkeli <br />
and whatever popular thing out there.<br />
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And what we have in 2017, is a generation yang suka menganjing.<br />
And some old folks, tak habis habis menganjing.<br />
Everybody laughs, everybody had fun.<br />
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In denial, we are actually breeding an insecure generation.<br />
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And some of these "insecures" end up being psycho's, some became those MLMers, people yang hanya nak look better than others so that they feel better about themselves.<br />
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Mesti Angkuh dan Liar baru boleh jual buku.<br />
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Semua nak jadi famous. Sebab dalam famous tu, ada hidden meaning "well post aku popular, sebab aku better than you".<br />
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Untuk jadi Ubermensch, orang lain perlu di-anjingkan sehina2nya.<br />
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Yang sedih tu, most that did this, are Muslims yang grew up with the story of Adam and the Devil.<br />
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Bukankah Devil tu kena tendang dari Syurga sebab "eh aku api, aku lagi better dari dia yang dari tanah".<br />
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<u><b>Shin Chan</b></u><br />
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Analogy ni mungkin sounds stupid and childish, but it is all I could think of.<br />
Kalau dalam komik asal, dan siri anime Shin Chan, ada watak Ai, budak perempuan kaya yang suka pada Shin Chan.<br />
Semua budak lelaki di Tadika meminati Ai, kerana Ai dapat pikat semua budak lelaki, kecuali Shin Chan seorang.<br />
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Dalam komik asal, bila Ai cuba mengurat Shin Chan, reply Shin Chan : "bercinta dengan budak tadika?, ah begitu leceh."<br />
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Sebab Shin Chan waktu tu minat nya pada perempuan dewasa.<br />
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Anyhow point aku,<br />
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Kalau viewpoint kau besar, kau dapat faham things in a wider scope, kalau kau pernah travel luar dan experience life luar dari keselesaan kau,<br />
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benda2 berusaha sungguh2 atas dasar "aku lebih bagus dari kau" sebenarnya benda yang agak leceh saja.<br />
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In the end, rezeki kau ialah benda2 yang kau dapat makan dan experience benefitnya. <br />
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Kau ada Ferrari pun tapi stuck di Federal Highway sebab jam, kau kalah juga dengan mat motor yang pass-by kau menyelit2.<br />
Mat Motor pun motor besar sekalipun kena hujan tetap basah.<br />
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And worst still, bila kau dah perleceh orang sekali, kau create un-neccessary enemy yang makan masa, tenaga dan emosi kau untuk handle dia.<br />
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Kalau kau ada business, and I suggest you to have one, walaupun seremeh mana pun,<br />
in the end kau nak profit,<br />
then kau nak besarkan business kau.<br />
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Subsequently kau akan lebih kepada networking, cari seberapa banyak business atau people yang beneficial untuk business kau,<br />
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musuh2, cakap2 sembang negative ni,<br />
benda2 yang tak menyumbang kepada profit kau,<br />
selalunya orang yang fikir business akan pedulitaik kan musuh dan negativity tu.<br />
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Orang insecure, akan fikir banyak pasal ego dia, bukan business, dia akan melawan mempertahankan ego, dan seperti aku tulis di atas, it'll become un-necessary waste of time, energy and effort.<br />
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Kau lawan pun kalau kau rasa business kau boleh benefit whether in winning or losing.<br />
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Dalam kes akak FB owner 6 houses tu,<br />
my honest opinion,<br />
dia cuba popularkan seminar talk dia dengan bad publicity, well bad publicity is a publicity too.<br />
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and well, lekehkan orang untuk made yourself heard, selalunya orang2 insecure yang buat.<br />
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And housing issue is a very emotional issue for Malaysians yang sedang hadapi economies of discontent ni.<br />
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Habis orang korek semua rahsia, sampai kantoi few houses yang dia beli tu kos rendah.<br />
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Dah jadi satu kes leceh.<br />
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Well, semua yang superficial adalah begitu leceh sebenarnya.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-42327267092096954162017-11-26T20:08:00.001+08:002017-11-27T01:14:11.163+08:00psychosomatic insane / far beyond driven : the thin line between insecurity and hunger to successThis might be the longest title in the history of this blog.<br />
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There is a thin line between insecurity and being success-driven.<br />
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People always confuse that insecurity, kiasu-ness is that little nitro ingredient that kicks in to drive that success.<br />
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Mom was married to my present step-dad then, somehow they had some misunderstanding with my bro, and they moved out from the Kajang house renting somewhere near.</div>
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At first, I thought, "oh shit, this fella's nuts, he's gonna need help, he's related to me", all those thoughts.</div>
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He's crazy, but there is a sadistic drama being played here. </div>
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He felt "insecure" about that Kajang house, thinking that I was trying to take away that house from him by getting engaged then married.</div>
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My suspicion prove correct when he spat out the words to my mom some months later.</div>
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I rented a house nearby in Kajang, using the Subang rented money to pay the Kajang rent. When I got engaged, and married, I was quite determine to stay nearby with my wife, to my mom at least.</div>
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Shit happened then, and we moved to Subang now.</div>
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All the time went by, I thought that, that resentment already died when my wife and I now settled in Subang.</div>
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Last week I visited everyone in Kajang.</div>
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Then somehow, my motorcycle tyre punctured, and I had to stay somewhere, so I asked to stay for a night at "that guys house".</div>
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He ok'd with it, but I don't know, maybe by the time I rested in the house, some shit thoughts crossed his mind, or maybe he was just screwed.</div>
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We went to dinner, with his car, then when I wanted to pay, he was changed from a nice man to a psychosomatic angry insane fella.</div>
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I wanted to go out but hell everything was locked, and the grilles, the gate was being locked with big locks with chains.</div>
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Oh shit, I made a mistake sleeping at a psycho's house.</div>
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But I made it.</div>
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<a href="http://www.dianaishak.com/2013/05/saiko.html?m=0">http://www.dianaishak.com/2013/05/saiko.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.dianaishak.com/2017/07/cara-nak-berurusan-dengan-orang-saiko.html">http://www.dianaishak.com/2017/07/cara-nak-berurusan-dengan-orang-saiko.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://hanisazla.blogspot.my/2015/02/lelaki-saiko.html">http://hanisazla.blogspot.my/2015/02/lelaki-saiko.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://sophiealyahya.blogspot.my/2011/06/jumpa-orang-psycho-lagi-dan-tips.html">http://sophiealyahya.blogspot.my/2011/06/jumpa-orang-psycho-lagi-dan-tips.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://ishowermysoulwithlove.blogspot.my/2013/05/saiko.html">http://ishowermysoulwithlove.blogspot.my/2013/05/saiko.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://k-rukawa.blogspot.my/2013/07/psiko-sama-saiko.html">http://k-rukawa.blogspot.my/2013/07/psiko-sama-saiko.html</a></div>
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And please, don't think that your pityness will help, you'll be drowned with the drama.</div>
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With what happened to me this week, and what I read in FB of a certain lady who have 6 house and charged student exorbitant renting prices, and actually bragged about it, telling other people are shit because she is better,</div>
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all I could think is, this is nothing but symptoms of insecurity.</div>
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all I could think is, this is nothing but symptoms of insecurity.</div>
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What Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, that FB lady who own 6 house, and most insecure people I met and known, is wrong,</div>
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<i>Barbara Corcoran is a real-estate mogul and a star investor on the ABC series "Shark Tank."</i></div>
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<i><i>She thinks kids who don't grow up with money have an advantage over kids who were raised wealthy when it comes to business, partly because the former are accustomed to failure.</i></i></div>
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<i><i>"I shouldn't say this," says <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/barbara-corcoran?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral">Barbara Corcoran</a>. "But I think a poor kid has a better shot than a rich kid."</i></i></div>
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<i>Corcoran is a real-estate mogul and a star investor on the ABC series "Shark Tank." Though she grew up one of 10 kids in a two-bedroom house with one bathroom, today she's a multimillionaire raising her own pair of rich kids.</i></div>
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<i>On an episode of Business Insider's podcast, "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/barbara-corcoran-real-estate-mogul-investor-and-shark-tank-star-2017-11?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral">Success! How I Did It</a>," Corcoran told US editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell why she thinks "poor kids" have the business advantage:</i></div>
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<i>"My bias toward the poor person coming up is they're usually hungrier. They're more injured. They have more to prove. They haven't been given a lot of privilege in their life to make their landing softer. So they've had a few bumpy endings and they're used to failure, and, my God, what's more important in building a business than failing?"</i></div>
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<i>Corcoran has shared this opinion before, on season six of "Shark Tank."</i></div>
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<i>As Business Insider's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/shark-tanks-barbara-corcoran-on-rich-kids-2014-12?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral">Richard Feloni reported</a>, when entrepreneurs Ben and Eric Kusin revealed that their father is the founder of GameStop and had invested $2 million into their business, Corcoran said: "I feel very badly saying this to you, but I, as a matter of principle, don't invest in rich kids' businesses."</i></div>
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<i>"The best way to think of a solution in business when you're slammed up against a wall is to try to think of five different solutions to get around it and keep going," Corcoran told Feloni.</i></div>
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<i>"But when you know that you have a trust fund, you know that you can always fall back on your parents, and you know that you can get additional funds, you get cheated out of thinking of those spur-of-the-moment, very needy ideas that get you through."</i></div>
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<i>Corcoran clarified her point for Shontell: "It's not that I don't like rich kids. I love my children, and they're rich kids now. But I think they, with their good education and the coddling that even I've given them and their father is giving them, makes kids a little softer in the belly."</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/11/26/chinese-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-southeast-asia-says-kuok/">https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/11/26/chinese-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-southeast-asia-says-kuok/</a></div>
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<i>He said that it was the Chinese immigrants who tackled difficult task such as planting and tapping rubber, opening up tin mines, and ran small retail shops which eventually created a new economy around them.</i></div>
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<i>"It was the Chinese who helped build up Southeast Asia. The Indians also played a big role, but the Chinese were the dominant force in helping to build the economy.</i></div>
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<i>"They came very hungry and eager as immigrants, often barefooted and wearing only singlets and trousers. They would do any work available, as an honest income meant they could have food and shelter.</i></div>
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<i>"I can tell you that Chinese businessmen compare notes every waking moment of their lives. There are no true weekends or holidays for them. That’s how they work. Every moment, they are listening, and they have skilfully developed in their own minds – each and every one of them – mental sieves to filter out rubbish and let through valuable information.</i></div>
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<i>"Good Chinese business management is second to none; the very best of Chinese management is without compare. I haven’t seen others come near to it in my 70-year career," he said.</i></div>
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<i>"They flourish without the national, political and financial sponsorship or backing of their host countries. In Southeast Asia, the Chinese are often maltreated and looked down upon. Whether you go to Malaysia, Sumatra or Java, the locals call you Cina – pronounced Chee-na – in a derogatory way," he said.</i></div>
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<i>"Yet, despite facing these odds, the overseas Chinese, through hard work, endeavour and business shrewdness, are able to produce profits of a type that no other ethnic group operating in the same environment could produce," he said.</i></div>
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<i>"They knew what was right and what was wrong. Even the most uneducated Chinese, through family education, upbringing and social environment, understands the ingredients and consequences of behaviour such as refinement, humility, understatement, coarseness, bragging and arrogance," he said.</i></div>
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For me, the answer can be realised, if you yourself run a business of your own.</div>
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If you found yourself comparing too much with others, or trying to get better than others, then I say that is "insecurity".</div>
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It is because, if you have a business, you want your business to expand further, and for that, at some point you'll need networking. And for starters, at least you are in the right group of people with the right mindset to further your business.</div>
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Most insecure Malays, I realised, mixed with wrong fellas, and spent time bragging and trying to look better than "others".</div>
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Those who are good, are usually more laid back and relaxed in their approach to people because "anyone might be your next potential customer".</div>
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There's no irate talk of making others feel shit.</div>
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If you think too much about other people being shit, or other people being potential enemies, then I'm sorry, it's not a hunger to succeed, it is plain insecurity.</div>
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There was this controversy regarding certain hotel that discriminates tudung-wearer from holding certain jobs.</div>
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I don't want to discuss the issue though. I want to talk about the word "discrimination" and "discriminates".</div>
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Firstly, about this Ella - Penawar video clip, I have a certain understanding and view about it, which makes the feeling more tragic and melancholic.</div>
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There was someone I knew, quite an old person.</div>
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He was outspoken, and he was critical. But then he was too <i>critical, </i>and hurt his family, friends, or those near to him. </div>
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He was being abusive with his mouth and words, whether he realise it, or not, or maybe he didn't give a damn because of certain proudness.</div>
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Like the Napalm Death's song "How The Years Condemn", the flow of time is something that people forgets, and truly, the years gone by condemns.</div>
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People starts disappearing from our life, whether by death or they chose something more important, or maybe started not giving a damn.</div>
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His life too.</div>
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Then one day, out of rage, this guy, divorced his wife. </div>
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The kids were by then are teens in University and soon started their own career. What happened was, the kids lived together with their mom, while the guy, had to move out somewhere else.</div>
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He soon had problems with my bro, with his words, telling no-good stuff. He was critical. His eyes were sharp but his words <i>sharper</i>.</div>
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I was back and forth from Malaysia and outside, then when I was in Malaysia for good, sometimes I met him alone.</div>
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With me, I guess he respected me, so I was saved from his critical remarks.</div>
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By then, he was quite a fragile old man, who lived alone, renting room with Myanmar and Bangladesh guys, at some office shop building.</div>
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He had a heart attack, and my family (without my bro), tend to him and assisted him to hospital. He had few heart surgery before this.</div>
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One day, while chatting, he told me something over cups of tea, that for him seems non-chalant, but for me, that was the "oh shit" moment. He told me "critical".</div>
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I guess he felt he was being closed to me, and felt relaxed, and somehow he opened that dam of resentment overflowed to those who are near to him.</div>
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I never invited him to my wedding some years later.</div>
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I'm glad that nowadays, some of his kids do came from far to attend to him while he was sick. Or visited that old man during spare time. The guy even came to my mom's house recently asking advice from my mom about diabetes.</div>
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But I stayed away and quiet.</div>
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When I read this, I truly agree with it, but would like to made the view more broad.</div>
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People discriminates. You and me, we discriminates.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy</a><br />
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I even thought that discrimination is actually our ESS, in order to protect ourselves from getting hurt.</div>
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Whether you agree or not, I don't really want to preach you to change your mind.<br />
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The thing is, men, no matter how positive we like to tell about our self, we are actually quite limited.<br />
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Our time, effort, health, abilities, friends and folks, whatever we have or own, are limited and bounded within our confines.<br />
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So you have to choose the best and make the best with what you have.<br />
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With this limited resources, and with time gone by, sometimes we have to discriminate.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mutalibuthman/posts/1908708015811237">https://www.facebook.com/mutalibuthman/posts/1908708015811237</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/comradenami/posts/10207736848459684">https://www.facebook.com/comradenami/posts/10207736848459684</a><br />
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And with the increasing petrol prices, (well the crude oil price today is 55.4 USD per barrel at NASDAQ), and all the negative reviews and views in the Net,<br />
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I choose happy things to think about.<br />
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And I hope you too.<br />
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Wish you guys to be happy and healthy.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-81735719202807693982017-11-08T15:01:00.003+08:002017-11-16T13:51:09.129+08:00Ujian ke bala Tuhan?Something happened, and I learnt something. But it'll be a quick update, hence the writing will be in Malay.<br />
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Rumah aku area Mutiara Subang U5 tak ada air.<br />
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Religiously, kalau renung2 surah Al Mulk ayat 30, time tengah tak ada air ni, boleh buat kau insaf. Bagus lah kalau insaf.<br />
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Ada la geng2 berbual aku, bercerita tentang banjir baru2 ni di Penang. It is said ada kaitan bala Tuhan tentang Oktoberfest or sort of.<br />
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Aku tanya tadi. Habis tu, yang tak ada air kat area rumah kita ni, kira macam mana, ujian Tuhan atau bala Tuhan?<br />
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Tengah2 musim banjir musim hujan, area kita tak ada air, macam mana tu?<br />
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Senang saja. Benda discomfort ni musibah. Usaha sama2 kita, untuk bantu membantu apa yang patut, daripada mengupas isu tak habis2.<br />
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Bila benda kena kat orang lain, memang sedap nak cakap ni bala Tuhan, bla bla bla.<br />
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Bila musibah kena kat diri sendiri, then kau sendiri pun rasa tak seronok bila orang cakap ni bala Tuhan. Kau hanya tahu nak bagi lepas masalah saja.<br />
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So don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you.<br />
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Dan, kalau Muslim tu, rajin2 la ke surau, at least kau dapat tahu public info, dan boleh join volunteerism untuk bantu area berdekatan yang ada problem.<br />
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a continuity of things from the previous post.<br />
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This stories are ok if you are religious or a bit religious. If you're atheist or doesn't care about religion, then I'm sorry I might bore you to death.<br />
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For me, sometimes things need to be understood and felt at the same time.<br />
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<u>3. Love</u><br />
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Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire = The Arcadian or Pastoral State - 1836</div>
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Some days before our visit to Kota Tinggi, I slept at my brother's house at Kajang, while my wife slept at her family's house at Cheras.<br />
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I'm now on talking terms with my bro, the relationship between us is fine.<br />
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So, the story goes, that some months previously, my bro found a helpless kitten after he finished his prayer at a surau nearby home.<br />
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The poor kitten was helpless, partly because she was blind. My bro named her Ema.<br />
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My bro went to few vets, she's fine now, yet still blind. My bro had a collection of photos and videos of Ema, which is told by vets, to be 5 months old.<br />
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I was chilling with my bro, practicing guitar of Metallica's "Jump In The Fire" together when Ema came, and my bro took her and fed her milk with bottle.<br />
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My bro's got boring and tired playing music maybe, so he turned on one of the preaches from the popular Dr. Maza, the Perlis Mufti / Cleric.<br />
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I followed this Dr Maza on Facebook, it was that time Dr Maza with Raja Muda Perlis was on a visit to the Rohingya's refugee camp in Bangladesh.<br />
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One story was, when Dr. Maza was asked to give a speech in English by Raja Muda Perlis to the Rohingya's refugees, and so he had to speak English as it was the only language both understood, and so he started with few Quran verses.<br />
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Dr Maza was surprised when he saw some of the refugees were moving their mouth when he recited the Quran verses, and yes, he was proved correct when he guessed there were some refugees who were actually Quranic Tahfiz. (those who memorised the whole Arabic Quran).<br />
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Dr. Maza later wrote life was bloody harsh and yet there are Rohingya people whom are Tahfiz, we Malaysians who never experience the same tragedy should take note and lesson of this.<br />
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I was reminded of this story, when I heard the preaches of Dr Maza on my bro's laptop, while watching Ema being fed, that led me to think of this.<br />
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My thoughts, can be described like this.<br />
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If you ever watched the poor mothers in Africa, holding their sick hungry children in their arms, do you know how they felt? Can you figure what the mothers felt?<br />
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The poor mothers in Rohingya, who hold their children in a refugee camp, the destitute mothers somewhere in the bloody conflicts around the world, can you figure what the mothers felt?<br />
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I can think at least of two.<br />
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At least there will be two things the mothers would've felt.<br />
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One, is the mother's love to a child.<br />
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Second, is the mother's pityness to her child, that her child should not suffer this.<br />
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I think that, God, at least in Islamic view, is Ar Rahman and Ar. Rahim, which means love.<br />
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And somehow, God's love to you, is more great and more near, than those of the poor mothers I mentioned above, and my bro's love and pity to Ema, single or combined.<br />
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And so, don't delay for the Istighfar / asking for forgiveness, even if you felt you are a total loss sometime, because the magnitude of God's love you, is so great that I can't describe it with words, but only with emotional coherence.<br />
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At Kota Tinggi, during 1 night, I had a lengthy conversation with a younger cousin, about things in life.</div>
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He told his stories, I told mine.</div>
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At one point, this question was asked.</div>
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"God made creatures, both the devil and Adam, the man.</div>
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Both made mistakes, and both are \kicked' out from heaven.</div>
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But why the disparity, why is Devil so condemned without forgiveness but Adam, and the man that followed, some are blessed, some are condemned, but there are forgiveness for them until their moments of death?"</div>
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The answer was Takabbur, or Proudness.</div>
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You see, the Devil is so proud that he wouldn't "submit" to Adam, because he felt he was better created.</div>
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Adam in the other hand, made mistakes by lust, and by advice from the Devil too, but forgiveness is there who those who humble themselves.</div>
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The idea we had was, almost all sins and mistakes, the problems in this life, is actually created by our lust, but the most problematic ones are actually because the "feeling of being better".</div>
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Those who do scam, not only does it because of lust, but because he/she felt brilliant cheating others. There's that element of "I am better than you, that's why I do this shit on you because I am more clever than you".</div>
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Even in rape, not only lust, but sometimes the shit ego of making the other person subjected to serve his lust.</div>
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Stealing, yes, the lust is there, but there is also the element of choosing victim, they only steal from those they can overpower or escape with, there is the element "I can do this, somehow because that victim can't do back on me, because I am better than the victim".</div>
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Almost all mankinds shit came from lust, or lack of control of lust, and this Takabbur thing.</div>
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That's what we realised in our late night conversation.</div>
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Today I read this <u><a href="https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4442743">https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4442743</a>.</u> and also about the Adibah Noor being attacked by #KamiGengNajibRazak social media people after she voiced out about artist, dancers, volunteers not being paid for Sea Games finale.</div>
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Not forgetting the 29-year-old Datuk Seri who assaulted the 3 Rela members.</div>
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the source of this = "I am better than you" = the Takabbur thing.</div>
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I remembered some years ago when I was involved in a project, a shopping mall refurbishment project.</div>
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This shopping mall had this client team who was supervising this project. My company was doing fire fighting installation works.</div>
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One day, a fire broke out at the mall. I remember running frantically with a senior of mine, carrying a ladder to a nearby sprinkler main pipe to access the butterfly valve, to "open" the butterfly valve so that the water can flow in and help putting down the fire.</div>
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Yeah, during the construction phase, we had to "isolate", ie turn off the butterfly valve, so that the other contractors can do work, especially electrical contractor who do re-wiring, without having water sprinkled onto them by accident.</div>
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I remembered doing all that in the thick smoke (hey the area was burning that time), somehow the butterfly valve was a bit tight to be opened, so we take some time. I thought I might not make it to safety because the smoke was getting thicker. My senior also did. </div>
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My senior, myself, plus a mall maintenance staff was with the BOMBA guys, when our boss came with the client. Everybody chit chatted. All the client team were there, with the Main-Con.</div>
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"Well this fire must have been planned and done by this fire fighting company so that they can claim more money", he said.</div>
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This famous photo, well the 90's kids will recognise it as Rage Against The Machine debut album cover, is a self-immolation by Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, protesting against Ngo Dinh Diem South Vietnamese government on June 11 1963.<br />
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Ngo Dinh Diem, the government leader then, is a bachelor, and has a brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu which served as his "advisor", hence holding political power. Nhu's wife, known as Madame Nhu, is somehow considered as the government First Lady. Weird isn't it?<br />
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What's more weirder was Madame Nhu's response to this self immolation.<br />
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<i>"Let them burn and we shall clap our hands."<br /><br />“if the Buddhists wish to have another barbecue, I will be glad to supply the gasoline and a match."</i><br />
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Somehow on November 1963, Madame Nhu's husband and her brother in law was assasinated. Surprisingly she was in US with her kids during the assasination, and she never returned to Vietnam again.<br />
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Last week, during the Deepavali holiday on Thursday October 19th, until last Sunday, my wife and I, with my mom and stepfather, went to Kota Tinggi Johor. My 6-month old niece is having her "aqiqah". We went there with two cars, one driven by my stepfather and another by my wife. They had a jolly good time chasing each other at Plus Highway on the 4 hour journey, I guess.<br />
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Most of my cousins from Johor, together with their boyfriends and girlfriends, somehow works in Singapore, and travels daily in and out from Malaysia to Singapore. They rented rooms at Johor Baru, and came back on weekends to meet their family.</div>
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I have cousins who somehow at this moment, plucking fruits at Australia. Whether legal or illegal, it's not for me to comment.</div>
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I noticed, whenever my stepfather, or any relatives from KL, try to start a political topic over cups of tea while enjoying "kuih",...somehow my cousins, one by one, will somehow take their cup of tea and move over somewhere else.</div>
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And they end up watching Disney XD at Astro together with me over some non-sense action.</div>
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It's pretty easy actually.</div>
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Whether you're pro government or oppo, we don't know and we don't care.</div>
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Everybody's tired.</div>
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The economy's not good, everybody had to go that extra mile just to get the same income enjoyed previously, and for that, we still want to listen to pretty speeches?</div>
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I was wrong before. I always write people being stupid for not thinking critically and bla bla bla.</div>
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Actually, we are just damn plain tired.</div>
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When we are tired, we don't care of pretty idealistic speeches, which somehow, doesn't bring that incredible change.</div>
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We somehow knew, it is just hopeless hoping.</div>
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Nobody did in the first place, anyway.</div>
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Pretty mei mei who actually carried guns to fight and not just hiding behind the computer keyboard and monitor</div>
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There was this old relative of mine, his age is 65 years old, so compared to my 61 year old mom, he is quite "young". </div>
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But he looked old. He had that "look old" quality of an old guy.</div>
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Somehow during the few days I stayed in Kota Tinggi, I indeed got trapped in the political speeches and critics over dinner/lunch table by the political uncles and aunties. Simply because it is dinner and lunch. It is because it is considered rude eating briyani rice with mutton curry c/w masak merah chicken in the living room watching Disney XD.</div>
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You have to eat that wonderful dish in the dining room, listening to your uncle and aunties, which somehow, had transformed to General Mao Ze Dong or Aung San Suu Kyi debating on Malaysian politics, whether good or bad.</div>
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I didn't had time to determine which facts were good, or bad, or whether this talk would won them Nobel Prize, because I was busy chewing that surrendipitious wonderful amazing delicious delighting astonishing tender cooked mutton.</div>
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Even my wife forgotten about my existence. I looked at her, and damn, she was in her own hysterical happiness. </div>
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Actually, I wanted to go and lick those spilled rice, believe me, you probably would, because even my noisy wife was drowned in silence enjoying the dish.</div>
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Somehow, I observed him and waitied for my old relative to finish his dish.</div>
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It was that particular feeling when watching an old helpless old man/woman. But in the same time, you're astonished by his will to speak politically. As if he knew his days are near, and he need to dispense all his all-these-hard-working-years knowledge.</div>
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Each word, with a fiery emotion, with a tiring breath.</div>
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By the time he ended, he didn't ate much, so I offered to take his plate to the kitchen sink.</div>
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I was surprised somehow, when I, and that relative of mine, standing together side by side at the kitchen sink.</div>
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I opened the tap water, he hold out his hand.</div>
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And somehow the water flowed downwards. But never touched his wrinkled hand. The water didn't touch his wrinkled hand.</div>
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It was then I realised.</div>
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He couldn't see properly. He couldn't estimate distance because his eyesight is poor.</div>
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No wonder he keeps spilling his food.</div>
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Those silence moments when I realised something.</div>
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I observed him a while. He still speaks. He still wanted to be heard. But he couldn't take that cup of tea. So I took it for him, and passed to his hand.</div>
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Some hours later, when he wanted to go back, he couldn't find his shoes. Some cousins of mine pointed to him the shoes. I just went down, hold his feet, and helped him to wear his shoes.</div>
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He then spoke to my uncle of something, proudly, actually.</div>
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But I notice, he always stand back quite some distance while talking to my uncle.</div>
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My guess, might not be correct, old people sometimes are far sighted. They could not see things near to them.</div>
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He said thank you to me profusely. But I just kept my silence.</div>
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I just think it's better for me to be in silence because like most old people, they cannot see things near to them.</div>
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<i>Save us from fate, save us from hate</i></div>
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<i>Can we survive the blitzkrieg?</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634064678413307812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614145780465398908.post-2361622657213442252017-10-14T14:45:00.002+08:002017-10-14T14:45:20.596+08:00few lesson I learnt from 8th to 13th Oct 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Uberfall Hochkirch </i></div>
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<i> Hyacinthe de La Pegna - 1760</i></div>
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There was this engineering project that I got involved for a couple of years, and somehow I resigned from that project almost a year ago.</div>
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Back then there was a new batch of staff coming in, and the new senior guy decided that I was not a competent person for the project. And so he told the main con, the client, the consultant, everybody, including myself on quite a daily basis, before he told my boss about the incompetence after I resigned.</div>
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I was pissed, but then, life has to go on, and since he's more experienced, and when the company already decided to play the dice on his part, you know you are somehow "not needed" and it's best that if you go gently and quietly so that the new team can move on progressively without hindrance.</div>
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In life, at my age, you don't linger on with sadness and melancholics. You just move on.</div>
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When I was un-employed back then, I did few things and started some ventures.</div>
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There was this dearest friend back from my university days, somehow contacted me for a chat over a cup of tea.</div>
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When I told him, I was un-employed, (I didn't told him about the ventures, the business and CAD drafting works), suddenly he became a bit critical, and sometime after that, he went "invisible".</div>
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I knew he was online, because the things that he "likes" keep appearing on my FB timeline, but whatever I "hi!" or "hello", it turned into un-answered echoes.</div>
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Surprisingly, last week, I received a call from someone, from the previous project, for a chat over a cup of tea.</div>
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As I had bad experiences from previous chats over a cup of tea, I decided to cut straight into the points. No running around the bushes.</div>
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I just told him I was busy, and just state what he wants to know, and see if I can help.</div>
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He asked me "what is the actual pipe level installed at this bla bla area at this ___ level?"</div>
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I could just answered I don't know. That wouldn't be wrong, as I had resigned for almost a year from that project.</div>
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I asked him what pipe, and for which mechanical services. You don't simply ask a general question and expects people to give a direct correct answer. Or maybe he ask a general one first to see if I'm interested for the conversation or not, whether it's worth buying cups of tea for this chat.</div>
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He then told me the pipe.</div>
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During the early phase of construction, mechanical installers usually installed this sleeves during the formwork phase.</div>
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So sometimes this sleeves is installed, so that later these can be used either for the same size or smaller sizes pipe to run. And I kept the record of each, and I remembered it, simply because,</div>
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during the early phase of the project, when there weren't many staff and workers, I myself installed those sleeves, while the Bangladeshis formwork workers looked as they had to install additional rebars around the sleeves.</div>
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So I told that guy of the value to "what is the actual pipe level installed at this bla bla area at this ___ level?"</div>
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Somehow the conversation then got long and boring, and I do have my own things to tend with.</div>
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So along the line, I just told the best answer. "Sorry I don't know".</div>
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Not to criticize, but, in practice, a competent senior, should do a thorough paperwork and recording of documents. Otherwise, it will haunt everyone when problems arise later.</div>
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So taking these stories, plus the arrest of Zamihan and death of Kassim Ahmad,</div>
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We are all sardine tin-cans in a way. We have labels, or have labels forced upon us, but inside all of us are just all red.</div>
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People can just label you of they dislike you. And people got into shit after too much labelling others.</div>
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Based on the labelling, some sardine tin can got dented and thrown away.</div>
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We just live in the world of sardine tin can labels.</div>
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<b><u>Lesson 2 : People from the past</u></b></div>
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People from the past, your dearest friends, schoolmates, university friends, colleagues, everybody changes.</div>
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Everybody changes with time.</div>
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The thing is, some of your dearest clumsy friends, might now hold senior important positions, or might have "jump over" the "social status". </div>
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At the present moment, with their important present people, present aura, power, position, you can't help but maybe just became a pure embarrassment to them.</div>
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So, just let go.</div>
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I have my own loved and important ones at the moment, treasure them. There's no need to cry melancholic shit over those who no longer treat you the same. </div>
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In summary, you got your own life, they got theirs, so live it.</div>
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<b><u>Lesson 3 : Silence might be the best mercy, given onto you.</u></b></div>
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Previously, when somebody died, people will just give respect.</div>
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Nowadays, it can't be helped, that when someone died, people might just be "cynical" about it.</div>
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And so, even dead ones, can't escape from shitty criticism and bad mouthing, or as Lesson 1 says, sardine tin can labelling.</div>
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Hence I think, if you're forgotten or not needed or heeded, when people doesn't care much, actually then there's no ill speak to you, and it might be that blissful mercy blessed upon you.</div>
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You don't have to feel ill over those ill words. Just find peace with your loved ones and God.</div>
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Just that sometimes people who resort to labelling are like the kinds of girls, sung in this song.</div>
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Following the herd</div>
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Down to Greece</div>
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On holiday</div>
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Love in the nineties</div>
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Is paranoid</div>
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Take your chances</div>
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Looking for</div>
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Girls who are boys</div>
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Who like boys to be girls</div>
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Who do boys like they're girls</div>
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Who do girls like they're boys</div>
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Always should be someone you really love</div>
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Avoiding all work</div>
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Because there's none available</div>
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Like battery thinkers</div>
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Count your thoughts</div>
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On one-two-three-four-five fingers</div>
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Nothing is wasted</div>
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Only reproduced</div>
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You get nasty blisters</div>
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Du bist sehr schan</div>
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Note : Cari makan is Malay for earning a living<br />
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I write this, not only because of the "fake dentist" issue, but also reminiscing on some life events.<br />
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On 2009, when I came back after working in Dubai for several years, ending up un-employed in Malaysia for few months, oh of course I could not forget what critical words was spoken to me by those people I thought dearest.<br />
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"Kau pergi Dubai masa kau belum matang lagi, tu la pasal" (You went there because you were still immature, that's why).<br />
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Years later, when I have worked few years in construction in Malaysia, there was this girl whom I liked, and somehow our family knew of each other.<br />
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So sometimes, that girl and I Whatsapp on personal matters, and sometimes I showed her my "working place", the construction areas and all.<br />
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Her father gave the best appreciative remark that made me realised this relation will not work well.<br />
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"Pakcik tengok kau ni pandai tapi bodoh, anak saudara pakcik pun kerja engineer kat kilang, ok je duduk dalam aircond buat kerja, kau ni macam Bangla kerja je pakcik tengok".<br />
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In summary, I just translate that her father thinks I works like those Bangladeshis when I can earn a good living working in air-conditioned office.<br />
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I find peace in all these critical genius comments, after a belief I found in three books.<br />
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Adam Smith - Wealth Of Nations.<br />
Imam Ghazali - Ihya Ulumiddin<br />
Thoreau - Walden.<br />
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Adam Smith says in the Chapter Ten : <u>Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock</u><br />
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<i>We trust our health to the physician; our fortune and sometimes our life and reputation to the lawyer and attorney. Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people of a very mean or low condition. Their reward must be such, therefore, as may give them that rank in the society which so important a trust requires. The long time and the great expence which must be laid out in their education, when combined with this circumstance, necessarily enhance still further the price of their labour."</i></div>
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Imam Ghazali discusses occupation and economic in the Chapter of Ter-celanya Dunia, but if you read through, the concept is not discussed in Islamic religionistic way, but more logical approach, which he discussed the needs of man, why man need to socialise and to be govern, all in all this is done by the demands of economic necessity.</div>
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Imam Ghazali's approach in Ihya, for me it's quite the same theme as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations logic and methodic approach. Only after discussing thoroughly this, that Imam Ghazali asks the students to know the reasons why, and hence not to be to absorbed with the worldly matters.</div>
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Go read it. Don't ask and debate if you didn't because it\ll be a waste of time.</div>
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In summary, I believe, free your mind from comparing with others about success. </div>
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Success is objective.</div>
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Man, as age and time flows by, is somehow limited, whether in strength, genius, time, effort, opportunity. etc.</div>
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So one does best by what he have rather than what he insist.</div>
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1.Too much Information - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=0s">00:00</a> </div>
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2.Ordinary World - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=299s">4:59</a> </div>
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6.Come Undone - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=1316s">21:56</a> </div>
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7.Breath after Breath - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=1597s">26:37</a> </div>
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9.Femme Fatale - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=2233s">37:13</a> </div>
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11.Shelter - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=2818s">46:58</a> </div>
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13.Sin of the City - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=3350s">55:50</a> </div>
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17.Come Undone" (12" mix - Comin' Together) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=4595s">1:16:35</a> </div>
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18.Ordinary World" (acoustic version) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=5040s">1:24:00</a> </div>
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19.Too Much Information" (David Richards 12" mix) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifzJX4KR4A&t=5351s">1:29:11</a></div>
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<b><u>A. Men are born to compete</u></b></div>
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Last week, I had this feverish cold for few days. And honestly, I missed my intake of medication for hypertension and diabetes, as I just started working at a new company.</div>
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Last Friday, asthma attack, and out of a sudden, I coughed heavily and vomitted green coloured phlegms. I guess my new boss was so disgusted looking at it, that he asked me to excuse myself from work and get proper treatment.</div>
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Went back quite late as I was resting at some place before I arrived at my house, hence wife is already at home back from work. We directly went to Hospital Sungai Buloh.</div>
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As for always, since there's quite many experience going to hospital, whether private or Government run hospital, there will always be sometime that you will have to wait. A long wait.</div>
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Based on this knowledge, I will usually bring along books, the thick-kind of book, sometimes I bring one of the "jilid" of the 7 "jilid" of Ihya Ulumiddin. (Religion book is a common thing to be read when you are sick, as you are at this stage, very honest and very dependent on God).</div>
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Not that day, I brought along a book on German Renaissance.</div>
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Arrived at the asthma room at the hospital,. the Medic Officer checked the pulse and blood pressure reading before starting the nebulizer treatment. </div>
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As I opened my thick book to start reading, I was surprised when the Medic Officer arrived on a second time, with a wheelchair.</div>
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Shit, my blood pressure reading was 165/112. At any time, there's this risk of Stroke or TIA due to that high reading.</div>
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I was brought to a Yellow Zone at Emergency Ward of Hospital Sungai Buloh. For a second time, this year, what an achievement.</div>
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I was strategically located besides high blood pressure reading patients. A very friendly talkative 30-40 year old Malay "abang" and beside him, an old Indian man.</div>
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I saw them very talkative, and quite jovial too. They asked questions to me, which I replied with short messages. I wasn't feeling very well for this kind of "forum". I'm not breathing well, some more to reply to long talks about sickness, hospitals.</div>
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The "abang" told me I shouldn't worry, because his blood pressure is 200 something that time. He was quite proud when he told me, on a normal day, he could easily get MC from any doctor.</div>
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He seems so proud of his achievements that I had to give a proper head nodding movement, minimumly, to indicate my respect of his "achievements".</div>
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The Indian man told me of his heart condition, his previous history of heart.</div>
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Hence, I realised, this forum is a competition of "he is macho is the the one who is the sickest yet the presevered of them all". </div>
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Thank god, my asthma condition doesn't permit me to join the forum. The doctor and the Medic officer then proceed to give asthma nebuliser, while monitoring the blood pressure. </div>
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So with that oxygen mask in my face. I read about the rise of Albert Krupp steel business, supplying cannons to Otto Von Bismarck's war to unite Prussia, all while my fellow bedmates continuing their forum of history lesson of blood pressure and sickness.</div>
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The malay "abang" then asked the nurse to go to toilet. Somehow they let him go, and after 20 minutes, a commotion among the nurse and the doctor happens, on why the "abang" disappears.</div>
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The Public Announcement speaker in the hospital started mentioning the Malay abang to come back to his bed.</div>
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The Malay abang smells of cigarrete when he came back.</div>
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I was in the Yellow zone for 2 hours plus some minutes. with two nebulizing session, with my blood pressure around 140/90 range.</div>
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One personal lesson, is, don't cheat to your doctor. I just told truthfully, that my medication is 8mg of Covapril daily, 1000mg of metformin twice, daily and 80mg of glicazide daily. And I might have skipped taking it because I was not disciplined in my diet.</div>
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Because, nationwide, my hospital record is there, the doctor knows what medication they gave and whether I followed it. Thank god, when the doctor checked my sugar reading, it was 9. hence the doctor believed that I can learn to take this medication thing more seriously.</div>
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So I was let go early.</div>
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The Indian guy couldn't believe that I was let go early, he shouted "ma-ci-bai" (profanities in Cantonese) then started criticising hospitals generally.</div>
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He must've felt that it is not fair. The thing is, I believe, it is not a sport or a competition that it has to be fair in the first place.</div>
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<b><u>B. Compete and compete, so that you not end up a loser</u></b></div>
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The news of that fake "doctor-dentist" who was bailed-up at RM70k by some MGO must have appalled Malaysians.</div>
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and her reply pissed many people off.</div>
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The lady, poor family, had to become breadwinner, had to do something, but then people conspired against her, and now when she is bailed, it is a win. the conspirator lose.</div>
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So what is right and wrong, can somehow be portrayed as a competition of an underdog going against companies or establishments.</div>
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Put religion and some under-dog theme and anything can happen.</div>
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That's why there are flat-earthers in Malaysia. Deep inside, the fuel was belief and competition.</div>
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The answer to this all can be found in this video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8tDiANJWAI" target="_blank">Psychology: Defense Mechanisms & Rationalization: "Facing Reality" 1954</a></div>
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<u>Note Update 8 October 2017 :</u></div>
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In a recent video, I understood that the 70k money was from a motorcyclist gang called Dragon76.</div>
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Somehow they sympathise with her"fake dentist" father, and did fund collection for her father. Her father was personal friends with these guys.</div>
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The money was not from PPIM.</div>
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Only that, they didn't expect the girl to come out with that video, and for PPIM to come out with a statement.</div>
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So yesterday and today, the fever was still there. So I remembered some nice warm memories in my life, to try make things more positive.</div>
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And I remembered Duran Duran Wedding Album, released in 1993.</div>
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I was 11 years old. Back then, my mom had this credit card difficulties, that she had to use big portion of her salary to pay off the cards.</div>
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So, in order to support the family and cover the loss income, my father, who was a general clerk at UM then, had to do a part time job at night working at a petrol station.</div>
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The time was quite tense, as my father felt tired and pressured. Mom was feeling guilty and everyone doesn't feel nice when we're together.</div>
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So each people in the family treasure their personal time. For Mom, she usually rent Hindustan videos and watch it after dinner by herself until it was sleeping time. </div>
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Me, I was into listening to music in the radio, and I was find by this Ordinary World song by Duran Duran. One day, I recorded this on a casette tape when the song was played on radio.</div>
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I played this on my mom's car-radio everytime she sent me to school around 6.30am.</div>
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Sometime later, she bought me a Walkman with this Duran Duran Wedding Album.</div>
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Surprisingly, the album released in Malaysia, doesn't have this acoustic track, nevertheless, being 11 years old, I was into the record.</div>
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I was lucky when I got good result, and I got into the special class in Standard 6. My mom then never hesitates buying whatever record I wanted since.</div>
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I don't know, sometimes, I tend to block people or personal problems and just listens to songs. </div>
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This week started off with local Malaysia news of Syed Saddiq rejecting Oxford offer, and saying he did it because he wants to save Malaysia (this guy is involved in politics)<br />
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<a href="http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/10/02/syed-saddiq-says-hes-turning-down-rm400k-scholarship/">http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/10/02/syed-saddiq-says-hes-turning-down-rm400k-scholarship/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/oxford-confirms-syed-saddiq-scholarship-but-not-amount#HvCgm4V0zv8l7XQa.97">http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/oxford-confirms-syed-saddiq-scholarship-but-not-amount#HvCgm4V0zv8l7XQa.97</a><br />
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For me, I look at this with a different view, which doesn't involve politics or gimmics.<br />
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If you searched the Oxford University web for the info on Master of Public Policy, you will understand 1 thing, it is a 1-year coursework based Master programme.<br />
And it could not be progressed into a Doctorate study, a.k.a. PHD.<br />
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If you checked about Public Policy, if you completed the course, actually the job scope that you gonna get are posts in the Government agencies or its think-tanks. There's no demand in the private sector for that, unless, if Saddiq wants to write a critique book on Malaysia government policies.<br />
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When I mentioned this in the Social Media, people are just focused on Saddiq being "Sad-Dick", and nothing else. The fella himself was giving immature remarks himself by going political about it; so I guess I was just stupid.<br />
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But then, I think, I pitied the Malaysians in the social media, they got so emotioned, and jock-happy seeing someone making fool out of himself, that they couldn't think more than making fun with Sad-Dick jokes, for days.<br />
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And when in the same day, there was this video, I just gave up. I give up on Malaysia and its people after I saw this. Whether you oppose the government or not.<br />
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We just could not escape our mind to be free from all this politicking and think something beyond, something that is at least productive to our life.</div>
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And so, I told myself, gear up.</div>
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Forget about the conditions, others small minded talk, just gear up and improve yourself.</div>
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And have some purpose in your life, or do something that you like, without caring much about what others think or "likes".</div>
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I'm not a great guitarist, I just play for fun. And not only that, I watch these awesome guitar videos because I want my playing to be better, not for anybody else, but just for myself.</div>
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<a href="https://www.mr-stingy.com/angry-with-employers/?utm_content=buffercbef9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer">https://www.mr-stingy.com/angry-with-employers/?utm_content=buffercbef9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer</a></div>
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<i>Here’s what I’ve always observed: The happiest people I’ve known had some kind of side project to make themselves and colleagues happy. </i><br />
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<i>Whether it was mentoring new employees, helping to beta test new software, or organizing after-work football games. </i></div>
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<i>They weren’t getting paid to do these extra things. </i></div>
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<i>But it sure made them happy.</i><br />
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<a href="https://oliveremberton.com/2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-is-unfair-its-your-broken-idea-of-fairness/">https://oliveremberton.com/2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-is-unfair-its-your-broken-idea-of-fairness/</a></div>
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<a href="https://lifehacker.com/the-company-you-work-for-is-not-your-friend-1692113529">https://lifehacker.com/the-company-you-work-for-is-not-your-friend-1692113529</a></div>
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If you read Malaysia Today (RPK writings), I kinda pity all these political bloggers.</div>
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RPK is 67 years old, his daughter is now trying to make into politics, and you know what, on that Syed Saddiq's story, he had to post 2 entries. </div>
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For me, it's not "elegant" for RPK stature, he's that old and previously respected, yet have to give so much attention to that so called "immature" guy.</div>
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That's sometimes the price of being too political. You ceased to become a respected idea and become a cheap commodity instead.</div>
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My latest interest :-</div>
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1. Computering</div>
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You have to follow the sequence.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA12Z7gQ4P0" target="_blank">Using an EEPROM to replace combinational logic</a></div>
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and then you can follow this playlist</div>
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This video show how they built the logic gates AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, EXOR and EXNOR into the Integrated Circuits.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div>
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This is more on the hardware programming.</div>
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this Youtube user Ben Eateractually programmed the Fibonacci found in the video "Comparing C to machine language" to his breadboard computer he built, described in the Youtube playlist. </div>
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Pretty awesome.</div>
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I graduated in Mechanical Engineering, so learning all this computering things, even though it might be basic to some, it felt awesome.</div>
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My wife shared me in Whatsapp the video of the 16 year old kid who whacked his mother just because he didn't get enough money.<br />
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It pains my heart.<br />
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Then some days later there was this video interviewing the mother, whom somehow protected the kid from any blame for the "misforgivings" that happened previously.<br />
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It pains my heart even more.<br />
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Somehow, my wife's break-day is today, she went to my in laws, and went to her sister's house too. Seeing cute baby Chayra and naughty older sister Sabrina.<br />
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As she send me photos of Chayra and Sabrina, I thought of something.<br />
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The news is negative in some way. NEWS = Notable Events, Weather and Sports.<br />
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If something has to be notable, most of the time it is negative in nature.<br />
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Like the news about the "dobi" laundry in Johor that was "restricted" to Muslims only, and Sultan Of Johor came out on front page of The Star newspaper saying it is wrong.<br />
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If everything is fine, the news will just be dull, there's nothing to be noted, everything is just fine.<br />
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But something negative has to be found to be noted, and reported, for you and we to watch, analyse and comment.<br />
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What if, those news, don't let it linger too long in the mind, just delete it as you delete those unwanted or noisy Whatsapp message.<br />
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Worry about the world going to shit ways? Well it was many years now the earth has turned, million liters blood spill, yet every generation die and born, remembering and forgetting, and in the end, the world progress in some way.<br />
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I'm 35 years, and the moments are flying fast then in some months, I'll be 36 years old.<br />
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One thing in this short life, take lesson from the news, or if you could not, just forget it, and fill those space in your head with good fond moments.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iErjaKTX_3w" target="_blank">Tame Impala - Alter ego</a></div>
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from their debut album, Innerspeak (2010)</div>
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<i>Said the voice from afar,</i></div>
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<i>Don't you know it doesn't h</i><i>ave to be so hard? </i></div>
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<i>Waiting for e</i><i>veryone else around to agree,</i></div>
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<i>Might take too long</i></div>
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<i>When it won't be so hard,</i></div>
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<i>(It won't be so hard)</i></div>
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<i>Well it's true, yes, but you</i></div>
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<i>won't get far </i></div>
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<i>telling me t</i><i>hat you are </i></div>
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<i>all you're meant t</i><i>o be, </i></div>
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<i>when the one from our d</i><i>ream </i></div>
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<i>is sitting right next t</i><i>o me </i></div>
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<i>and I don't know</i></div>
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<i>Oh alter ego.</i></div>
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<i>Get them to love you,</i></div>
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<i>While they may depending o</i><i>n your words and wealth,</i></div>
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<i>The only one who's really j</i><i>udging you is yourself.</i></div>
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<i>Nobody else.</i></div>
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<i>Well it's true, yes, but you</i></div>
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<i>won't get far </i></div>
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<i>telling me t</i><i>hat you are </i></div>
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<i>all you're meant t</i><i>o be, </i></div>
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<i>when the one from our d</i><i>ream </i></div>
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<i>is sitting right next t</i><i>o me </i></div>
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<i>and I don't know</i></div>
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<i>what to do</i></div>
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<i>Oh alter ego.</i></div>
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<i>Instrumental track from this cool album</i></div>
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<i>the original photo for the Innerspeak album cover</i></div>
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<i><i>It features an image of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, United States. The original image has been digitally altered using the Droste effect in recursion to make it appear as if the image continues into itself, creating a distinctly psychedelic feeling reminiscent of Pink Floyd's album cover for Ummagumma. -<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innerspeaker" target="_blank"> Wikipedia</a></i></i></div>
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