My Elite Guard List for Castle Age

Elite Guard

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Girls!
Linda	Katherine	Cynthia	Brandy	Tabitha Marie	Karen Paholsky
Katarin Suriya	Nikki Breeden	Tin-Tin Dolot	Laure Lei

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Jeremy	Desmond	Kyle Kendall
Yong Hao	Mike	Marcus	Michael Williams	Steven Wong
Tony Toh	Paul Koch	Michael Golden	Alan Tui	Hyacinth Janecyk	Morgan Parry
Dave Emery	Benjamin Toon	Corey Cassey	Kurt Felton	Bee Cher
Kumpol Hongrapipat	Jacob Andersen	Elmer Llana	Pyro Phoenix	Daniel Chua	Wilfrid Chua

Malaysia National Cars: Prides or Shames?

When the Malaysia National Car Project was initiated and launched in 1985. It was meant to built cars that would make Malaysians proud. The National cars would be our National prides and joys. It was supposed to provide us with cheaper and more affordable cars.

22 years has passed. Do we have cheaper and more affordable cars? Does our National Cars bring us prides and joys?

Recently, one of our national car, the Perodua Kelisa has caught international lime-light. It was labelled the worst car of the year by Top Gear host Jeremy Clarksons.

Here's the BBC reports of the Top Gear Show:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6528087.stm

Here's the video in Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3Rw8VW3aE

To be fair, Top Gear is a car show that features fun, fast, and luxury cars. Kelisa was not designed to be fun, fast, and luxury. It was designed to be economy. So, we Malaysian shouldn't feel too bad about the trashing of the car. After all, it's not the first time this had happened to Perodua. The Kancil was once compared to a washing machine.

What is worse? The answer is Proton. After 22 years, Proton can't even make a safe car!

Here's the video on Waja's Crash test in Top Gear:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJnYEUwa8pA&mode=related&search=

So, Malaysians let be honest with ourselves, have our national cars brought us prides?

Now that foreigners can have 100% stakes in Islamic Banks...

Business Times report on 28th March, 2007

http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BT/Wednesday/Frontpage/BT615501.txt/Article/index_html

Prime Minister Datuk Abdullah Badawi has announced that the Government has eased regulations and allowed foreigners to own 100% stake of an Islamic Financial Institution so as to make Malaysia, the Islmic Financial Hub of the world.

I would applaud the move. The way I sees it, it is a sensible move and with the tax holidays incentives, this would certainly spur Malaysia on as a prefered choice of Islamic Financial Institution in and around the world to come to Malaysia bringing with them tonnes of money.

Being optimistics, I wonder if this is a testing-the-water move by the National Coalition Government to see how the 'people' (i.e the Malays) would react. As this could become a pioneering move that has the potential to spur the government away from future race-based affirmative policies.

I guessed we could only wait and see.

'Juggled Toll Figures'

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Friday/National/20070323083510/Article/index_html

NSTP reports on 23th March, 2007 that according to our beloved work minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said yesterday that the Toll figures were 'juggled by opposition' to give the impression that the toll concessionaires were enjoying huge profits.

I wonder how the opposition could do that. First of all, where is the source of the toll figures? If any 'juggling' has been done by the opposition, wouldn't it a black and white evidence for the concessionaires and the good work minister himself to sue the opposition for defamation? There are other questions relating to the juggling claims as well. Like, why not published the good Work Minister publish the 'unjuggled' figures to the public and let us, the road users, decide on our own if the 'juggled' figures were indeed, juggled?

Malaysia to start ending Racial Policy?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv4pAZCxigM

Found this piece of Bloomberg News, dated 21st March, 2007.

Apparently, acting as an adviser, Our former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Musa Hitam is advising the government to exclude the bumiputra affirmative policy in the Johor Re-development project to lure foreign investors.

There are optimistic views expressed in the news piece that, the Malaysia Government, could use this opportunity to gradually doing away with the race policy, though there are also those opinioned that by doing so, would be like commiting political suicide for the National Coalition Government.

In my opinion, it remains a dream for the minority in Malaysia that the Government would abandoned it's race policy. In other words, until it really had happened, don't hold your breath for it.

Subshini vs Saravanan Case: A sure fire way of winning custody fight.

Subshini vs Saravanan, the Hindu woman, Subshini, has her effort of stopping her estranged muslim husband, Saravanan, from converting their two sons to Islam had been squashed by the Malaysia Court of Appeal, on 13 March, 2007.

So, what does that have anything to do to you and me and other average Joe on the street? Well, if you think about it, if you are a non-muslim man in Malaysia, you have been given the ultimate weapon of winning the custody of your children from your estranged wife. Here is what you need to do:
Step 1) Convert to Islam;
Step 2) File a Divorce in the Syariah Court as You are a muslim man now;
Step 3) Convert your kids to Islam;
Step 4) File a Custody Claim of your kids in the Syariah court;
Step 5) This is more of a conclusion: You win the custody of your kids.

Let see how this work, since in Syariah Court, Islam is the better religion compared to all other religion, and since the divorce is filed in the Syariah court, you as a muslim have more rights in converting your kids to Islam compared to the other "lesser" religion.

Why is the winning of custody is a fore-gone conclusion? Well, it's because when you are a muslim and your kids are muslims, any legal issues are to be settled in the Syariah Court. And since you and your kids would form a better Islamic family together, there is no question there who would win and become the Custodian of the kids.

Where does that leave the wife? Well, she can go crying to the Civil Court but don't worry, precedence had been set: The case is now fall within the jurisdiction of a Syariah Court, not a Civil Court. So, victory is assured.

Here you goes, the 5 steps of winning the custody of your kids in Malaysia. And yes, we have equal rights in Malaysia, the Constitution have assured us that!

The Massacre of Thirteen Dogs

I read this poet in Sin Chew Jit Poh, the original author is Huang Jian Hua (Translated using Han Yu Pin Yin).

Will try my best effort of translating the poet to english. Here it goes:

When the Assassin fired the last shot
The gun became the history

Even the life of a dog have meaning and pride, according to you lot
Peaceful coexistence is a multi-dimensional lie
We have long foreseen the result of being from a different race
have prepared to die here and for this cause

On this piece of land where we call home
We serve with all our hearts faithfully
obeying all decrees and non-decrees without conditions

There is no words that could really mourn our life and our death
language have lost its feeling, and is cold
it even started to rot
hypocritical empathy focused by the eight hundred pixel camera
zoomed in, extended, and distorted
the focus blurred

Ignorant and stupidity is forgiven
everything worked must be rewarded

When the last bullet penetrated the remaining title
It is blood flown that form a series

The Maginalized Race

Latest hot news in the newspaper: Malays are marginalized in Penang!

So, here we go again. Penang have been made the scapegoat by the politicians again to divert the people's attention. Now, the debate would be whether the Malays are really marginalized or not. Malaysian's, correction, the Malaysia Medias seems to have very short memories and easily distracted. Our Medias, intentionally or not, have always been played right into the hands of the politicians, who can't wait for their chances to appear as the champions of their tribes.

Now, instead of asking PETRONAS what happened in Chad, you see Politicians hanging banners and mocking other politicians to voice out the injustice done to the marginalized Malays.

When will we wake up? I remembered that recently our government have started an initiative to establish Malaysia as a South East Asia Regional Education Hub. How come no one in the media have ask the government, what happened to the initiative? How come in the recent Newsweek Top 100 Most Global Universities Ranking, there is not even one Malaysia University featured in the list? To add salt to injury, even our neighbour down south (who has had the well established reputation in Malaysia for marginalizing Malays) have a couple of Universities ranked in the list!

If we continue to bicker amongst ourselves about what percentages of economy stakes are being held by what races, about whether the lucrative government contracts are being properly awarded to a bumiputra contractors, we will be over-taken by Vietnam (whose pepper exports have already caused much suffering of our fellow Sarawakian farmers.)

We are now living in the globalization era. If we can't unite and if we still bicker about racial issues, how are we going to compete in this cut-throat era? Don't be fooled by self-serving politicians who will not hessitate to stir up racial sentiments to gain political mileage. How many times have we seen the same crops of politicians using the same tricks to divert our attentions from issues that raised questions about their integrities?

If our universities still offers admission based on skin colours when others are offering scholarships to our top young brains, how will reverse brain drain be happening?

Now is the time, now is the time to look beyond our skin and our religion, or all of us, Malaysians, might really be ended up as a marginalized race.