In loving memory of my beloved wife

在我生命中的每一天,我拥有了什么,渴求了什么或埋怨了什么? 我想自己也懒得去思考.总是会在失去或将要失去时,才心如刀割.
我曾经拥有及现今的所有都是我生命的一切及支持我的动力.
也许我会有少许贫心,但也只是少许...就让我拥有这多一少许.

Finally, after more than 1 week of hassle, political games plays and acts, the new Perak MB sworn in formally on today 3/17/2008. To me, this is somehow is a relief as I begin to see twilight in the new state government in forming a calibrated coalition.

A friend of mine, who is considered a Feng Shui fanatic has commented and provided some statistical data on his success of "prediction" and precise calculation on some of his friends' rags to richness. I remembered that he also has been following Lillian Too's classes and practises a few years back and should have been "graduated" some times ago.

Ever since the new Toyota Camry launched, I had been admiring this model greatly. This is what I called a car. But the price is still too high for my liking.

很多时候,人总会事后放炮,发表炮论,娱人娱己,自吹自擂.不是吗? 那就读读昨天,前天,大前天或今天,明天,后天的报纸杂志,某某华社"精英们"的马后炮!
炮吗?我也会放,可能也会响.马后炮吗?我也懂. 不就是这个,那个,假如吗?
如此这般的华社"精英",真教人敬仰!

老大如此,过气老大也如此.小二如此,不懂从那来的阿某们也学着如此. 一炮响一炮, 炮论连天!

就请精英们高抬贵口,少放炮,真做事.

p/s : I must apologize for writing this in Mandarin, but this is exactly how I feel. These people are "good" at speaking or making claims on Chinese newspapers, manipulating the issue in local Chinese community emotion...

I will make a simple translation but you would not be able to get the fun of the writing unless you understand Mandarin. "... people normally are excellent in after events comments that claims if I were to... All of such after events claims can be found in all newspapers/magazines of all days, be it yesterday, two days ago or today, tomorrow or future. We must respect these greatest comments from the Chinese heads. The bosses behave so and so too for the ex-boss. A few 2nd tier boss follows this practise and even some one who do not know where they are from with all of sudden appearance also giving big mouth comments.

Please, have the sour grape mouth shut, but really work out better for us..."

I once attended a two-day course on situation leadership. It discussed about the differences in responses of our reactions at different situation, position or roles you are playing. Although you are the same person, but because you are acting and representing different roles, the response to a similar issue or question will defer. It will be different in actions when you are a "si-manja" trying to get attention as compare to when you are a "big brother" who give directions

If you are acting the same way as you do in previous model, basically you are demonstrating an pre-mature reaction or protraiting that you are not ready to coach, to guide or to lead. A "si-manja" can manja and "boycott" or walk out of a discussion if there is something that is not favorable to the si-manja or its believes. A big brother well, will definitely cannot just follow suit with walk away as a form of protest or phone all friends to follow the big brother to have a boycott. No matter what or how bad the big brother could not agree, the big brother need to stay calm and demonstrate that he is indeed mature and managing the situation well and controlling the response.

When you are just a small company owner, you can call for boycott and close your company door so as not to trade with so and so. When you grow bigger and actually have a lot of subsidiaries, associates or franchises, you will unlikely want to easily call for a boycott due to a unfavorable trade practise by one of your suppliers or customers. You are not only causing a loss of income to your own company but the rest are affected and will definitely have another thoughts on you. You cannot act on emotionally. It is a different kind of games now.

People are looking at you. What you did previously can no longer be used. Prepare yourself psychological and practically. You are leading now. You do not need to get another attention. You are already the attention of people on what and how you handle the issue

The announcement of the dead of three kids in Hong Kong possibly due to infection of bird flu is indeed a shocking news. But HK reaction on this issue is speedy with immediate re-initiation of last SARS counter strike actions are something we at Malaysia need to learn and practise.
We at Malaysia have no major natural disaster except for the last Tsunami (not politic Tsunami) but I am not sure if we have a master counter strike plan for management of such disaster yet setup here. We are reactive nation and are commonly "letak batuk di balik tangga" and as such I hope the government has the remedy for such possible return of bird flu.
I also remembered that not so long ago, we have coxsackie attack some years back and are we ready?

Are you ready to face the return of the virus attack?

It is really amazing that we at Perak have never ending politic drama. I am losing my heart with such a pre-mature formation.
Get thing done with a decision and move on.

Finally, after almost a week of debate and waiting, the position of Perak MB is finalized and turned up as expected to be held by PAS member. Immediately following by this announcement, some voices surfaces as protests, dissatisfaction etc. And these mostly from Chinese, Chinese led parties, Chinese based societies etc.
Well, I understood the feeling of them. But i am mostly disappointed with the typical Chinese reaction. I surveyed through chats, talks and sms with most of my friends expressed that the MB should be held by the party that has the highest number of the DUN seats as this is democratic practise. I do not challenge this comment. But are you sincerely with such comment or purely because you want to see a Chinese as the MB! I understand why all of my friends commented such as the primary worries are "Islamic State" and "Islamic Practise" but not on Malaysia, economy, unity or whatever more important issue. Haven't you forgotten why you have voted out the previous ruling party? We want a more transparent ruling coalition party that can bring justice, development, less corruption and no more "Barang Naik" to the people.
From such a simple annoucement, it clearly showed that the three parties do not have a consensus understanding on fundamental believes.
I bet immediately I can see tonnes of comments from BN MP on this subject that the new coalition is shakingly weak and laugh seeing the "internal fight"
I also truly understand why Kit Siang wanted to call for stay away on the swear-in event. This is to calm the hearts and feeling of the majority Chinese who has voted them. This is politic and politic is people heart and support. If we can vote for change, why not see the change and wait the new coalition party to demonstrate that they can bring the changes to people. Not on this issue of never ending MB. There are dissatisfaction and upsets expressed and please tell me what is your master plan of development for the 4 newly formed states??? I care more of such rather than MB, MB and MB. Enough!

Let's move on. It is almost 1 week now and I still do not see the master plan of development.

With the newly formed coalition government, I do hope to see that the new government will steer Perak to a new era. Personally, these are my lists of "demands"

1) We need to have a new airport that at least serves several strategy flights. Singapore, HK and Bangkok for international flight. KL, KK and Kuching for domestic.
2) Should the existing airport cannot be expand, at least we must be readily transform it to become leisure based aviation training.
3) Transform the existing airport (if again cannot be used) to radio controlled toys center and start up the relavant industry that focus on the radio controlled aviation engineering field. Langkawi has LIMA. Ipoh will have IATC (Ipoh Aviation Toys Center) and be able to held international base radio aviation festival.
4) We want to have more shopping centers. (this is what my kids want!)
5) We want a new center market.
6) We want Ipoh city center to re-shine with hawker havens at nights.
7) We want new bus services and no more old buses on roads
8) We want more job oppoturnity and be able to compete with Penang and Selangor with more foreign investments. We do not want our friends to work in outstations or be the foreign workers else where.
9) We want more 5 stars graded health centers with moderate costs and attract other states/countries' patients as well as serving local needs.
10) We want some free parking and more parking lots inside the city for disables and elders
11) we want to have Ipoh to become the tourists choice for foods, shopping bargain, health and wonderful limstones hill visits.

I will compile the second list when I come to understand the new government focus when it is finally formed and firmed up.

Stay tune and I will definitely measure if the new government is doing anything good for us, the people of Perak who has given our trust in you (DAP, PKR and PAS)

Among the hot topics my fellow Chinese friends are discussing are still around why Perak Menteri Besar nomination is a PAS member...
It seems to me that majority of them are concern more of religion instead of economical or developmental or strategical reasons.
I myself do not seem to find it as an issue as long as we do not look at this with religion hat but see it in form of "Bangsa Malaysia" Perak overall houses may be over 70% Malaysia and 20% Chinese and 10% Indian and if not a Malay (who also Muslim) that chair the state head, don't you think it is a bit weird? Of course i do not deny that the chair should be given to the one that hold the majority of DUNs but aren't you forget something? It is the unity that more important. The new coalition requires a peaceful power take over without any sensible rioting and conflict between the races. It requires to demonstrate that the power shift will not cause any issue to the country.
Let's look at long term. Of course the arrangement could be upset some but the decision make sense to me. The new coalition needs to demonstrate there is fundamental understanding among them instead of power owning. Well, i sincerely hope the change really make some changes to Perak and Malaysia as whole. Or else, please do not waste our times.

My family has asked me that why would DAP gave way to PAS or PKR in the nomination of Menteri Besar in Perak state seeing that DAP is holding the majority DUNs and more than both combine of PKR and PAS. Why PAS as some of my members of family has been scratching their heads. My family may be able to represent the majority Chinese community on this matter on the question on such decision or nomination.
My members of family have no fear other than declaration or practise of Islamic State in Perak should the PAS head the Perak ruling. This could be the major concerns of most Chinese in the state and I bet there will be tremendous comments by other Chinese community leaders voicing such concerns and demanding explanation from DAP.
I did not answer my family directly but has asked them to look back on Penang previously where the chief minister is led by Gerakan with it always "bow" to the needs of another dominant party. "It is named as chief minister, worked as if chief minister but is it the chief minister in charge!"

I believed I also believed that DAP knew it for sure that the people will definitely reject it in the next election should it did not handle this concerns well.
I had my own formula but I believed that the reason behind was that Perak ruling is not 2/3 majority even with the formation of the new opposition coalition consist of DAP, PKR and PAS. As such, there could be difficulty in implementating "Dasar-dasar baru" without getting some consensus agreement at the DUN. Again the decision of any changes or dasar baru would have been discussed in EXCO which could have been held majority by DAP. Could there already an agreement that PAS would be the MB, but the majority of EXCO will be from DAP or PKR who will be the actual "decision maker"? Well, I could best guess as this could be the formula behind by the intelligence DAP mind. I could be "Bad mouth" even that there could be hardship in steering Perak and as such at the end if all fail...blame it on the MB!!!
Or the other formula could be, "well I gave up on the Perak MB but DAP will affirm on Penang as the ruling party and CM in charge."
Or that could it be giving up on Perak and Selangor MB in exchange of Penang and opposition leader in parliment?
Well, i could be just guess as only the mind at back will know for sure.

I am still shock on the overtaking of power in Penang, Perak, Kedah and Selangor although I had expected Kedah will definitely fall to PAS.

Time will tell.

The general election 2008 has concluded with BN still remain as the ruling federal government. But the people of Malaysia has spoken that the people want some changes in Malaysia where there are more than 80 MPs are non BN and generally are from educated and profesional group of people. The other component parties of BN namely MCA, MIC and Gerakan are generally slammed with the supporters shifted to oppositions. The greatest unexpected losts would be that Gerakan lost the Penang control with its former chief minister being chased out fo the Komtar office in next Monday.
Now, it is a matter of time if opposition, opppss it is the new state government now (made up of DAP and PKR) can demonstrate if they can bring some changes to Penang state. Will the pearl of orient (not sure how many of you still remember such claims) shine again under the new leadership or .... Well time should tell. Remember DAP/PKR, you could only have 1 golden chance of the life time. I am sure BN will be making a coming soon in next general election. Be responsible and demo to prove that "BOLEH"

Now, to my greatest concerns...since i am from Perak. Will there be planes in Ipoh? Will there be more new foreign investment in Perak, how about the health centric airport? Will Perak glory be return? We once used to be the richest state in 60 -70... Will the Benz sight be back on the hill again (at the sam po cave, previously being the mascot of Ipoh). Again, you (DAP,PKR and PAS) you only have a golden chance to show that you really can lead and bring changes. Will Perak be a state of change?

Another concerns that on my mind now are how will the new cabinet be alike? Will Chinese and Indian be "discriminated" of having less representatives in the cabinet seeing that MCA/MIC and Gerakan lost out the defending parlimentary seats. Will there be "Semangat Barisan Nasional" I hope it will, but i bet there could be tremendous resistances and barriers.

Let's wait and see the new cabinet in coming days. It will be a time to diagnose and strategize appropriately for BN. It is a great challenge to the ruling party now.