Why must we and our elected government put up with all these ignorant talks?

http://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/18565/#more-18565

Sabah & Sarawak should be excluded from this so-called 'social contract' and the 'generosity' of certain group in the country.

What about our safeguard with the '20-point agreement' and the '18-point agreement' for Sarawakian? Had or Have they (the Semenanjung People) been honouring it fully?

The people of the semenanjung should have left all their unhappiness and bad history behind, and not to unnecessarily burden us with it as it's very unfair for us to shoulder for something not our doing. They can keep it for themselves but not passing it to us.

If our forefather during the time of the independence negotiation had heard of this type of saying; they would have had told these idiots to get out of our land and forgot about the idea of forming Malaysia.

I think it's time that our state government to take a stand on this matter and making sure that this sort of twisted thinking and self-made belief will not be a part of the 1Malaysia currently championed by PM Najib's government.

Equally important, our federal government and their coalition partners ought to declare that they will subscribed solely to the constitution, and not any transient acts outside of the constitution.

恭喜李集锦同志受委沙巴航空董事局主席Congratulation to MCA Kudat Division Chief , Mr. Li Ji Jin, for his appointment as the new Board Chairman of Sabah Air Sdn. Bhd.

沙巴马华终于争取到一个还像样的官职，恭喜李集锦同志荣获这一项重任和委托。

这个职位原由自由民主党(LDP)的拿督彭育明担任主席。

据说，在彭育明上任之前，该公司是亏损累累的，在其掌管之下，终于转亏为盈。

希望在联邦交通部（马华拿督江作汉部长和来自沙巴的Datuk Bakri副交通部长的协助和配合下，能够提升沙巴航空至另一高峰- 成为本区域的航空泰斗。

李集锦同志：任重道远了。

 

Congratulation to MCA Kudat Division Chief cum Kudat District Councillor, Mr. Li Ji Jin, for being appointed the new Board Chairman of Sabah Air Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary state government company in the business of air transportation services.

Prior to his appointment, the position was occupied by Datuk Pang Yuk Ming of the LDP.

It's positively believed that Mr. Li's appointment will catapult Sabah Air to new height with the expecting closer relationship of Li and the Ministry of Transport which is headed by MCA's Secretary, Datuk Kong Cho Ha, and coincidently, an even closer relationship from fellow UMNO/BN Kudat MP, Datuk Bakri.

Let's wish Mr. Li all the bests and wishing him success in making Sabah Air a regional air transport challenger/might in the foreseeable future.

Utusan tells BN to ignore Chinese vote after Sarawak polls - The Malaysian Insider

Utusan tells BN to ignore Chinese vote after Sarawak polls - The Malaysian Insider

I hope that the Utusan Editor would instead calling the government to step up the effort of 1Malaysia to educate all the citizens of the land to unite and focus on one thing - to achieve advance country and high income for all in the near future.

But, regrettably, he chose to go for the negative option, that is to isolate the community which went against the government in the election.

I wonder if he understands what democracy, freedom of expression, and minority rights are all about.

Utusan is the most influential voice of UMNO and of the Malay community, being a media of such magnitude, it should be promoting the 1Malaysia spirit of inclusiveness than exclusiveness.


They should approach the urban voters by telling the majority community what these urbanites want and the advantages of going along with the urbanites than promoting 'marginalization' and more misunderstandings between the urbanites and the rest of the country.


They (Utusan) shouldn't behave like this simply because the urban people voted against the government.


Their mentality and attitude are very much undesired especially when UMNO-led BN has been trying relentlessly to unite the people of Malaysia for the future benefits of the nation.


What Utusan Editor is doing is to sabotage it instead of helping the government.

BN must rectify the medical woes in Sabah first before re-seeking new mandate from the people

Sabah people had had high expectation of Malaysia when it was formed 48 years ago, this negative report of the condition at Labuan hospital from the mouth of its MP is alarming and definitely will damage the credibility of the federal government especially the BN.

Health Minister Datuk Liow shouldn't be taking it lightly as the medical health services has been an ongoing and very hot issue in Sabah. The BN shouldn't give the opposition the chance to raise this matter even if this is a nationwide dilemma of the authority.

East Malaysia states especially Sabah must be given highest priority in addressing all the medical service problems as the condition in the top Sabahan hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), is embarrassingly unbearable and unacceptable.

The rectification process in 're-instating' the hospital has been too slow going that people are beginning to wonder if the government really had the sincerity in resolving the various  issues.

One thing regrettable is that the hospital has so far not been visited by the Prime Minister himself amidst of the 'controversy' when he visited Kota Kinabalu several times for the Meet-The-People Walk-about activity.

Had he been to the wards of the QEH and its internal areas, he might have had a different idea on his mind when he got home to Putra Jaya.

Even though Sabah is a fixed Deposit of BN and the federal government but the situation of the medical services remains an unbelievable mystery to the Sabah people and the rest of the world.

The QEH needs some changes on its  administration and management in order to have any slightest hope of a turn-around.

Sabah state government must quickly take over the responsibility by setting up its own Medical Health Department or Committee to ensure the performance of the Health Services in Sabah is acceptable and within the United Nation's standard of quality service.

BN must rectify all the medical woes in Sabah first before re-seeking new mandate from the people.

马华必须协助沙巴的华裔土著争取该有的政治地位和权益(MCA must help Sino-natives in Sabah to gain their entitled status)

他们应该归类为‘沙巴土著’。沙巴马华有很多的这类土著党员。沙巴马华应该如何处理这些华嘉混血裔的问题呢？是否应该成立一个专案小组来处理呢？马华中央又能够如何协助他们呢？应为如果您是华嘉混血裔的话，您就应该享有土著的权利了。所以沙巴马华是不是应该稍微更改调整来适应沙巴的情况呢？






我希望他们最终能够守得云开见明月，得回他们应得的权益。马华中央，尤其是沙巴马华领导，必须协助他们能更快的取得该有的政治地位和权益。这也是中央国阵政府体现‘一个大马’精神贯彻的美好时机，即是：公义和公平。


MCA, especially Sabah MCA, must help these Sino-natives to gain their legal status as a true native in the land (Malaysia). This is also the good opportunity for BN government to show what 1Malaysia is all about, that is : Justice and fairness for all.

Mahatir should not undermine PM's good efforts - from Mohd Fauzi Patel

What Patel said is really appropriate and fair to say that Tun M has been behaving very strangely and inconsistently lately.


His latest unbecoming behaviour really have made us to rethink and re-evaluate his historical contribution to the nation building.

From Maliau Basin as a future 'World's Heritage' to Coal-fired Power Plant in Lahad Datu

PM: M'sia keen to list Sabah's Maliau Basin as a world heritage site
By MUGUNTAN VANAR / The Star online

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/29/nation/20110129131341&sec=nation

Listing it as the world's heritage will be difficult, taking its advantages for sustainable benefits from its 'world's heritage' status will be an even more difficult challenge for the government and its people; it will take both the state and federal governments a lot of wisdoms and competencies to make the Maliau Basin a long term asset of Sabah and Malaysia.


The return and the values from the status shall be getting larger as the times go by because tropical rainforest with conservation, research,  and recreational purposes becomes rarer in the world by then. it's the Eco-tourism that we are talking about, the future income earner of Sabah.


The conservation of Maliau Basin, or the likes, may have to deploy of high technology as an addition in order to be effective. In fact, the whole Sabah should go for Green Energy policy and it ought to be committal in this frontier, be it in the west or east coast or interior of the state, the government must make landmark decision to adopt the latest trend of earth living direction in order to move on confidently in the world village community.


The much-talked and controversial coal-fired power plant project for the east coast of Sabah should therefore be abandoned for good.

NEW YEAR WISH (2011)

I'm finally home this afternoon. There's no place like home.


One month of self-exodus is enough for me.


One month of 'living' in advanced foreign countries makes me feel sad and worry about our country's future especially on the gaps between us and these European countries.


The gap is actually widening further apart than bringing closer.


Our political leaders must first of all unite the people, and working on basic principles of politic - to bring up the status of the nation and its people by good Governance via administration and management.


It's time that the leaders put down the priority of self-interests and sacrificing for the people and the nation for the generations ahead. They should make Sabah their home.


I must say I had enough of those slogans, and I really want to see results and performance in the new year ahead.


For the Malaysian government of the day, my new year advice is "Mind The Gap'.

Car park closure angers visitors, patients

Car park closure angers visitors, patients

Just based on the report, I think the customer of SMC shouldn't be mad on DBKK for issuing the stop order as there are laws to comply for every body regardless of their status (ideally). The action of DBKK may be viewed as 'inhuman' but they are  just trying to carry out their responsibility.


The chaos in fact all originated from the day the now demolished tower block of QEH which declared unsafe in November of 2008. The SMC is considered the 'victim' and the 'beneficiary' of the declaration. As 'Beneficiary', it is sold at a good price to the government and the shareholders of SMC are all laughing their way to the bank, 'Victim' is their customers are suffering with government hospital patients jamming into the same hospital complex and therefore all the chaos and mess.


All in all, the people are the losers.


If people wanted to look for scapegoat, the government is likely be the one as QEH had been neglected during those politicking years between the 80s and 90s. Then, even more unforgivable was that the continuance of the negligence after BN re-took Sabah.


However, what's happened already happened, what we want now is the government swiftly rectify all these problems in the shortest time possible.


People should be patient and sacrifice for another few more months or a year or two (if my observation is not wrong) before things progressed and improved.


Meanwhile, people should write in or voice out to the various channels to tell the government of their grievances on the health care services in Sabah starting from the QEH.


We must start our concern from the 60 state Assemblymen and 25 Members of Parliament.


Have they collectively passed a resolution in the state assembly for our concern on the medical service in Sabah yet?

It's the priority on governance, and not the originality of 1Malaysia

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=551552 

PM Najib shouldn't be too concerning on the originality of the 1Malaysia concept, what's important to us as citizen is that we want good governance. A government that can unite all the people of Malaysia under a fair & just policies of governance, caring for our welfare, and deliver what a good government should.

I'm still not quite understand the rational behind all these fuss from the opposition about the originality of the campaign except that it's about the so-called Zionist Israel.

On foreigner to be involved in the civil service (or governance?), I hope that we will not be too liberated to allow foreigner to become our Prime Minister in the near future. It's not impossible if the Sabahan PTI is not resolved, by then technically some of these PTIs become Malaysian, they are eligible to run for the UMNO presidency. I hope embracing the PTI into Malaysian is not part of the 1Malaysia plan and spirit.

The day will come when UMNO leaders keep saying publicly the word 'Malaysian' than the word 'Malay'. UMNO leadership shall be the deciding factor in the direction of future Malaysia.

The fact that the 1malaysia created by the so-called consultant merely a coincidence that Israel had something similar years ago. There's nothing wrong to copy the idea and concept so long as it's beneficial to us and without the legal liabilities and violation of international laws.

If BN government could really carry out the 1Malaysia in reality, and successfully, then the next Nobel prize winner may be our PM Najib.

Just wait and see.

为什么一个马来西亚会有东西之别呢？

为什么一个马来西亚会有东西之别呢？

因为东马人尤其是沙巴人生性温驯，鲜少对事情有激烈的争取，因此，于人误认为沙巴人很满意政府的一切所作所为。

因为发展有悬殊，有施政上的偏心，所以才会出现东西马有别矣。

今天东马人还要付西马人都不必付的所谓运输费就能买到理想的汽车了 。东西马怎么会不有分别呢？

以前（60，70年代）的’东西马有别‘是东马（沙巴人）比西马人较富有，可是今天产油的东马人皆比不产油的西马穷，何解？

因为60，70年代的东马盛产木材，木材税是100巴仙归东马的州政府（沙巴）；反观今日的石油税，州政府却只能收到区区的5巴仙。

如果联邦合理公平的发配发展金，这个’东西马有别‘根本就不会出现。

有关华总认同沙巴州政府和人民要求联邦检讨提高石油开采税的可行性

联邦政府会认同吗？有可能吗？

正当联邦政府四处找钱的时候，这项要求似乎是天方夜谭吧？

如果联邦和州的关系良好，也许这样的要求或许是大有可能的事，但是作为联邦政府，钱交来联邦先，好过直接叫到州政府手上吧？不然给人错误印象，以为联邦的势力给削弱了。

如果这项要求是在308刚发生的头六个月内提出的话，或许成功的机会会很高。现在嘛，则要看州政府是否是团结一致的一群了。如果沙巴国阵是名副其实的团结，那么这项要求也许会有结果的。再说，沙巴国阵的主导权是在沙巴巫统的手上矣。

问题是有谁敢去碰这个‘蜂窝’呢？

所以杨德利的进步党还是有其利用的价值的。

How I wish PM was warded in Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

How I wish PM was warded in Queen Elizabeth Hospital so that he'd have personal experience in understanding our dilapidated condition better?

By providing up to standard medical cares to the society at a competitive cost is one of the top priorities of the government. But, how long can the government sustain the huge costs involved every year with the present rate of fees at a meager RM1 & RM5 per visit respectively?

We pay less and we should expect to get less, it's the rule, therefore, it's important that we must have a clean and efficient government in the first place that fund allocated are fully used in the services.

People must also start to pay more at public hospitals or clinics in order to relieve the government burden but at the same time government must also help people to earn more to reduce the government's subsidies on various welfares rendered to the public.

The real answer still lies with money or fund, that is how good the government in handling the economy.

How I feel about high income economy?

HIGH INCOME ECONOMY
by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
Putrajaya, Malaysia
Prime Minister of Malaysia
1981 - 2003 http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2010/10/high-income-economy-1.html

The above link from former PM Tun Mahathir is referred.

Surely the government has the answer on how much would be enough for each individual in order to pay for all their necessary living costs, and therefore should be able to come out with the minimum income figure so that every employers must pay at least the minimum amount say for a clerk as example.

The authority should also have  figures for other categories of workers in the country, some sorts of guidebook or guideline for remuneration.

The government should therefore act now with the minimum income policy instead of seeing workers staging strike or demonstration.

 

How long can the government or the country afford on the human resource drains?

The success of the high income policy lies with its implementation which is most crucial in its entire cycle.

There seems even more serious problems ahead than just losing our people to other countries; it is the unemployable human resources that we really should be worrying now, and the education department must really be fully revamped quickly.

I hope we will not end up with high salary but zero purchasing power just because of our human resources are 'molded' to be of low quality and productivity.

From Free Wi-Fi in Gua Musang to Telecommunication problems in POIC of Lahad Datu, Sabah

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=538553

If 30 villages in Gua Musang can enjoy free Wi-Fi service provided by the federal government, why can't our villages in Sabah enjoy the same benefits?

In the midst of government's Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), free broadband services shall be an essential infrastructure for growth and success so that higher productivity and efficiency can be achieved, thus realizing the government's aim of achieving higher income for the population soon.

Just take Lahad Datu, a major town in the east coast of Sabah, its Palm Oil Industrial cluster (POIC)(http://www.poic.com.my/index.asp?p=aboutus-intro
), the internet services, or telecommunication infrastructure, has been very disappointing that the service is very unreliable and of unbelievable performance.

If government really means business of wanting to help the people and bringing up the country economy, apart from appealing for transforming the civil services, a quality telecommunication infrastructure is one of the most important elements that need to be addressed now.

Transform Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TMB), and other related communication corporations, should now be a priority in gearing towards a better tomorrow of Sabah.

Doubtful reasons to divide Kota Kinabalu to two zones

May I remind Datuk Jumat that it's unnecessary to split Kota Kinabalu City into two (2).

The impression I have with the suggestion is that the city is going to be 'specifically' run by 'bumiputra' or non-bumiputra' officers. Just when Sabah has been hailed as the role model of 1Malaysia, the suggestion seems very odd and somewhat contradictory to the spirit of 1Malaysia championed by our PM Najib.

May I also remind Datuk Jumat that it's the meritocracy, competency, and trustworthiness that they want for their Mayor. It's just when we all talk about uniting all the races together regardless of whether bumi or non-bumi in order to restart our mission in the national building, the proposal from Datuk Jumat is definitely out-of-date.

Do we need to enforce the use of Bahasa?

My view is : NO NEED.

There's no doubt that we should be using Bahasa Malaysia but not necessarily to use force in order to achieve the so-called patriotism as 'full use' of the language doesn't mean that we are all patriotic, pro-Malaysia or Malay. The language will be loved or preferred by all Malaysian if it serves the purpose of an efficient communication language. There shall be no suspicion about it nor worry about its usage and importance.

In my case, as a Chinese Sabahan/Malaysian at the age of 57 years who had not been educated in Bahasa Malaysia from young, the encouragement of the use of language is acceptable but not with the 'harsh' tone of enforcement etc.

 

The 20-point agreement in the formation of Malaysia had clearly stated of the rights of using other languages freely, and this had sown the seed of diversity in the use of languages in the country, and because of this, we are better off than many neighbouring countries although it may seem at times that we are lacking the impression of dominant of the national language. In reality, the Bahasa, our national language, has been widely used, and in time to come it may eventually grow to the extent of 100% usage in all the levels of the society.

Therefore, it's unnecessary for us to amplify this matter by overly promoting the national language by jeopardizing the use of other existing languages which are of national interests too.

By the way, Sabah UMNO, or even UMNO in Semenanjung,  must be sensitive in their approach in promoting the national language. They should avoid causing resentments over the issue by intimidating other language users.

By the way, after reading the following Jamawi's comment on KJ's AGM speech last year, I think he is not an extremist who will hurt the feelings of his fellow Sabahan or Malaysian in general.



http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/14/nation/20091014135546&sec=nation
Get rid of siege mentality, Khairy urges Malays

 





http://www.thenutgraph.com/will-khairy-succeed/Jamawi (Courtesy of Jamawi Jaafar) 
Additionally, Khairy’s message may sell better in some places than others, notes Youth executive council member Jamawi Jaafar, who is from Sabah.

Jamawi explains that Umno in Sabah can’t afford to be locked in the straightjacket of “Malay supremacy” because party membership includes those of other faiths as long as they are bumiputera. Hence, Khairy’s message may be more well accepted in Sabah than in the peninsula.

恭喜沙巴马华亚庇区会秘书叶茂光同志荣膺沙巴州元首封赐ADK勋衔

恭喜沙巴马华亚庇区会秘书叶茂光同志荣膺沙巴州元首封赐ADK勋衔。马华，尤其是亚庇区内的同志门，大家继续努力，以在来年获取更多更高的勋衔，为我沙巴马华争光。

恭喜沙巴马华必打丹区会署理主席罗伟源（甲必丹）同志今天荣膺沙巴州元首封赐ASDK(准拿督)勋衔

恭喜沙巴马华必打丹区会署理主席罗伟源（甲必丹）同志今天荣膺沙巴州元首封赐ASDK(准拿督)勋衔。罗伟源同志，继续努力，以在来年争取更高的成就。

恭喜沙巴马华保佛区会主席杨光华同志今天荣膺沙巴州元首封赐PGDK (Datuk)拿督勋衔

 恭喜沙巴马华保佛区会主席杨光华同志今天荣膺沙巴州元首封赐PGDK (Datuk)拿督勋衔。拿督杨光华同志，继续努力，以争取更高的成就。