Taib remarried?

If this is true, it is a shock. He lost Laila just last year and it came with such a sudden news. A few points of thought:-

His image of being a nice husband to Laila was almost a joke. Perhaps he was too afraid of Laila and behaved as a mouse.

Why 74 years old and 30+? No doubt that he likes young woman. Viagra or Pokok Bintangor?

Why from Lebanon? This is another doubt on why the woman has to be imported and how he got to know her.

Lastly, if the woman is again much taller than him. As usual, a habit.
[Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Taib_Mahmud
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By The Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 — As speculation mounts over Sarawak’s polls, state Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud has instead gone ahead to marry a Lebanese, believed to be a former flight attendant, in Kuching last night.

Umno’s Utusan Malaysia and political sources said the 74-year-old widower’s private wedding was officiated by Sarawak Mufti Kipli Yassin. The wedding reception is scheduled for tonight, the newspaper reported.

Asked to comment on the reported marriage after a dinner and dialogue with Chinese associations last night, the newspaper quoted the chief minister as saying:”Not yet.”

Abdul Taib’s wife Puan Sri Laila Taib died of cancer in April 2009. They had been married since 1959 and have four children — Jamilah, Mahmud Abu Bekir, Sulaiman Abdul Rahman and Hanifah apart from 15 grandchildren.

Price Hike

There is only one good item: sugar.
We should consume less sugar. Don't you know that we all are over weighted?
Tobacco is bad for health and the price got higher and higher ever since. The sugar should be the same. Let's drink half each time.

PUTRAJAYA: The prices for RON95 petrol and diesel will increase by 5sen per litre at midnight (12.01am Dec 4) while the prices of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and sugar will be up by 5sen and 20sen per kg respectively.

RON95 would be raised to RM1.90 per litre from the current RM1.85 while price of diesel would be retailed at RM1.80 per litre. LPG and sugar will cost RM1.90 and RM2.10 per kg respectively.

老騙術

州選舉快到了﹐老騙術又復活
就像機場和盧仙大橋﹐經過無數的動土禮
結果是讓我們等待了幾十年

詩巫直航新加坡或是福州
不是第一次聽到的好消息
問題是好消息無法實現

選舉一過的話﹐需要再等待下一屆的選舉
不然話題無法復活

Taib.Mountain.Tiger

There is a Chinese saying (上得山多終遇虎): If one goes up mountain often, one would eventually meet the tiger. That is, if you keep doing bad things, you will be arrested.

There has been no way for Sarawakians to find out the mystery of Taib's wealth, such as how much wealth Taib family has and where has he been hiding his wealth, etc. Since the amount of over US$100 million is so big, he could not manage the big wealth by himself. He has to hire a specialist to handle it. There, the secret started to leak since his relationships with the employee turned sour. If you cannot commit the crime by yourself, don't do it, else the secret will be out one day.

Much of the secret has been published in Sarawak Report with Taib's signature on the documents. The blind (pretended to be blind) ACA does not want to act. What else does ACA need in order to act? All secrets are compiled for immediate action at Sarawak Report.

Recently, the US agency withheld the American properties of former Taiwanese President because of money laundering. Will there be double standard if US will not act on Taib's American properties? I think the oppositions and NGO need to initiate the process in the American court. I hope this will not be far so that all the wealth can be back to Sarawakians one day.

過橋費

伊干橋不收費﹐這是有反對黨存在的功勣。

那南蘭橋呢﹖要廢除收費嗎﹖

看起來黃順舸為了保住席位﹐開始在做一切的”犧牲“。不過這些犧牲也不是出於他本人﹐是大家應該享有的權益。

可是﹐選舉過去的話﹐有誰敢保證不會收費嗎﹖

Mountains are melting

Some local Foochows said the mountains beyond Kapit were melting. The melted mountains sent the ice (mud) and trees down the river.

After eating, one needs to go to toilet. But the toilet pipe was blocked and the poo could not pass down smoothly. What a poor situation for Rejang. The whole thing looked so ugly just like a crazy person who could not do the right thing in the toilet (in Foochow: sei zo suo lou ban) - with poo all over the floor.

I think Rejang River is full of cancer tumors now, blocked here and there. When will the doctor be operating this main intestine?

Bakun Dam

Every body knows that Bakun Dam is a super white elephant.

Why we need Bakum Dam and how Sarawak can have that much money to buy it? The money can be spent in a better way to benefit the people.

Bakun Dam has been milking us for a long time, and will continue to milk us

不要臉 We all stayed in power!

Do you think Taib Mahmud, George Chan and Wong Soon Koh would consider to give up seats as they claimed?

Do you think SUPP was really considering to get out of BN as reported?

That was just their regular acting. To fool the people.

They are just an useless group of people and political parties. How would these people dare to give up the best job on earth? Those waiting on the line simply have been cheated. Another disappointment for the people and their party members on the waiting list. It will be another 4 years until your chance MAY (not sure) come.

They would not step down because there are still so many juicy stuffs to suck from the people.

They will be gone only when God throw them to the hell (death sentence for them) or when the people vote them out. That day is numbered, no matter which one comes first.

leaders, but lacking vision

When you build a road from Sibu to the airport, you keep modifying and modifying, as if the ending is never coming.

When you said for flood control, you just fill the road a bit higher, filling and refilling, for more than half a century. The ending of filling never come.

When you say we will have a new airport, it was like a little hut, and you have to keep expanding and expanding it. The final shape is never coming because we never have one of the international standard.

What is wrong here? The leaders lacked vision. You cannot guess and predict about the future. You cannot plan for the future. You should not be called a leader. This kind of cut and paste idea is really bad. You wasted the tax payers money because you have to constantly pour in money.

And one more item. Why only the companies from west Malaysia can build and modify our airport? Are we that backward? Do you know that in order to help the local economy going, the money has to be dropped in Sibu. Don't let the outsiders (MCA or UMNO cronies) come and take away from us.

We need the jobs badly.

you help me, I help you

中秋節要到了﹐到處的社團宗親會開始大動作﹐舉行聯誼會﹐歌唱比賽﹐分發紅包﹐獎學金
看了華團的網頁就有這麼多個新聞了

*砂中國貿易進出口商會 『中秋聯歡晚會暨2010年度會員子女教育獎勵金頒獎禮』
*首相兑现承诺 千万拨款惠67华小
*高阳许氏公会 11月17双禧庆典
*颁助学金办敬老会 古田公会周三庆中秋
*全砂婦女常識比賽頒獎禮
*拉讓江曾邱（丘） 26日中秋歌賽
*歡迎購餐券出席 福州周一慶中秋
*潁川陳氏公會 中秋聯歡會

可是﹐到底優秀學生可以領到多少錢﹖
記得小時候拿到第一名的時候是10塊錢吧
現在物價膨脹的時候﹐幾十塊錢沒什麼作用呢
我們也有很多不同的大學獎學金﹐不過數額都不大
太多散砂了
除非是'you help me, I help you'的1千萬﹐不然真的無效
假如華小董聯會把這些錢捐給內陸的同胞﹐我覺得1千萬的意義至少會是目前的10倍大

前言不對後語

What a joke! Goh was inconsistent with what he said within a speech. He needed to be re-elected in order to look after the Heng Hua people. And then he started talking about 1Malaysia, looking after all Malaysians irrespective of the race, religion, etc.

These two points are in contradiction to each other. So what was his main point? Was it that in BN, they look after their own race, thus he needed to be reelected??

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吴春祥：倘无法蝉联 兴属失争取权益管道

（本报诗巫19日讯）诗巫兴化场边同乡会顾问兼诗巫拉让海港局主席暨柏拉旺区州议员吴春祥感触，如果他在来届选举无法蝉联为州议员，兴化属群将会面对没有代议士的局面，兴化属群将会从零开始，并将无法争取获得兴化属群的权益。
据了解，吴春祥已经是将近60岁了，因此，他希望能找寻一个兴化属群的接班人，以便接班人能获得栽培，成为新一代的兴化属群领袖，为兴属谋求福利。
他坦言，政治是现实的，他希望能有一群兴化属群陪伴他左右，为他在政经教文上为兴属服务，谋求利益，让兴属的生活更上一层楼。此外，他亦期望追随他的兴属能在政治领域占一席位，并成为新一代的兴化属群领袖，照顾全体兴属乡亲。
盼兴属不分彼此
据知，他是兴化属群的代议士，因此，他盼望兴化属群能不分彼此、不分宗教，共同努力奋斗，造福兴属社会。且身为人民代议士的吴春祥声称，他从政已有30年了，故他是有义务为兴属人民献上关怀与祝福，照顾兴属人民，共创和谐社会。
吴春祥是在诗巫兴化场边同乡会的中秋晚宴敬老会兼理事就职典礼暨颁发教育奖励金致词时，支持首相所提倡的一个马来西亚概念。因为该概念包含各族人民不分种族、宗教、背景，并共同创造一个全新的马来西亚。
因此，他呼吁兴化属群皆要为兴属奋斗，因为大家都是流着兴属的血液，是兴属的下一代，故有义务为本身兴属的身份努力耕耘，创造兴化属群更美好的明天。
他透露，兴属前辈早在1912年登陆砂拉越诗巫，在此，兴属前辈们都非常努力奋斗及耕耘，流下了许多汗水与血汗，开辟了兴化属群的另一片天空。这可证明兴化前辈皆能自立更生，并为兴化属群后代留下一个美好的土地，所谓前人种树，后人乘凉，就是这个道理。
他表示，月到中秋分外明，人逢佳节倍思情，他希望兴化属群趁着这个中秋佳节一同与家人在一起，共享美好的月圆之夜，联系彼此间的情谊，好让兴属人的感情更进一步发的展。

女傭

馬來西亞虐待女傭的新聞實在太多了
燙和鞭打女傭
逼她吃豬肉﹐....
到底馬來西亞人懂得怎麼對待別人嗎﹖知道怎麼把別人當人看待嗎﹖

我認為我們不應該有女傭制度的存在﹐因為它跟奴隸制度沒差太多
基本上我國的女生們也太懶惰﹐認為出點小錢可以自己什麼也不用做
我國的男生也糟糕﹐都不願意幫忙做家務

每當我看到新聞說老公跟女傭搞上關係﹐我就哈哈大笑
笑那老婆的真活該﹐為了輕鬆點結果老公也賠上了
而且做老婆的比不上女傭﹐所以她老公才選擇了女傭

記得再過不久我們的石油也將結束了
到時候您的子女﹐可愛的孫女﹐也將要到其他國家去當女傭
您忍心她們被欺負虐待嗎?

讓位

It is very true that the old goodies have been in power for too long until they became so corrupted and so abusive. They have to be told about democracy and set a term limit to the top posts. They must also be told about not passing the power to the sons and relatives. The kind of political dynasty, like that of North Korea and Singapore, should be avoided.


东姑安南评人联困境　在位太久领袖应让贤

　　（古晋9日讯）全国国阵总秘书东姑安南向砂人联党今天的困境开药方，认为一些在位太久的领袖或许是时候退位让贤了！

　　他在接受"大马局内人"网络媒体的访问时认为，人联党近期之所以会提出慎重考虑在国阵的去留问题，乃是由于受到许多内外因素困扰所引起。

　　他说，由于州内存在的一些因素，导致人联党自认无法再有效的在朝扮演好有效的角色。

　　除了党外因素，在党内，人联党也应该注入更多心血，强化党的新陈代谢。

　　"我依然坚信，如果一些问题能即刻得到纠正，比如需要更多的新力军。或许陈康南在位太久了，或许黄顺舸也太久了吧。或许他们需要新面孔，但当然推出新人也会面对一些风险。"

　　现年74岁的拿督巴丁宜陈康南从1983年开始就中选为州议员，后入阁担任助理部长和正部长，在1996年攀上副首席部长高职迄今。68岁的拿督斯里黄顺舸则是在1991年中选为州议员，先后担任州立法议会议长和正部长，目前是第二财政部长兼环境与公共卫生部长。

　　提到人联党可能退出国阵的课题，东姑安南认为人联党所需要的是振作起来，而非自我流放。

　　他强调，人联党依然是国阵的成员党，其州议员仍在州内阁担任许多要职。

　　"不论人联党对今天的处境有多深的感受，也不论人联党在上届州选举战果如何，我们都希望人联党会继续成为州国阵的一员。"

　　他说，国阵视人联党为真诚的伙伴，也没有任何伙伴党会被边沿化。

　　他指出，事实证明，人联党即使在上届州选举遭受严重的挫败，但人联党以及整个华社依然在政府内拥有一定代表性。

　　"我们结婚已久了，绝对不会因战果不佳就处罚伴侣的。"

　　人联党在2006年州选举攻打19席，只赢得11席。

　　人联党目前在州内阁拥有两名正部长和五名助理部长，其正部长是拿督巴丁宜陈康南和拿督斯里黄顺舸，五名助理部长为拿督邓伦奇、拿督孙春德、拿督李景胜、拿督法兰西哈汀和陈如飞。

　　本届州议会将在明年7月期满，因此州选举任何时候都可能举行了。

　　东姑安南强调，国阵的合作基础是坚固的，他以民政党为例子，虽然民政党在大选中兵败如山倒，但依然委任该党主席丹斯里许子根为上议员而进入内阁担任首相署部长。

　　为此，他不认为，拥有26巴仙人口的砂拉越华裔会在来届政府中失去代表。他更补充，人联党当前的问题其实还是可以解决的，至少能获得缓和。

　　人联党主席陈康南最近拜会了首相拿督斯里纳吉，向首相提呈了本州华社所面对问题的备忘录。他也会在近期拜会首席部长。

　　提到本州的土著习俗地课题，东姑安南提醒砂州领袖尽快解决有关问题，这项课题已成为反对党的重要宣传课题了。

　　"我赞同政府拨出2000万令吉，测量及发出地契给习俗地地主，我相信人民也会大力支持。但人民最终所要的是，能拿到地契，因此政府必须交出成果。"

治水提案 - a proposal

在kampong Kerto挖運河﹐減少河水滾進詩巫(畢竟河水不喜歡走彎路)﹐也避免因為流速減低導致泥沙沉澱在詩巫河道。

運河通過最狹窄的部份才一公里左右﹐應該是算不困難的工程。

伊干江的河水還是可以往下流﹐不過也許需要考慮阻擋拉讓江潮水倒灌詩巫﹐比如弄一個水閘門。

運河開闢後﹐詩巫附近的江以後甚至可以弄成一個遊覽“人工湖”﹐促進觀光業。

當然還有一些小細節需要考慮﹐歡迎大家對各種問題點進行討論。

This is a proposal to deal with the constant flooding problem. The most straight forward idea is to dig a canal at Kpg Kerto to allow direct flow of water along Rejang River. Water does not like to meander because it slows down and also it rushes into Sibu town. As the water gets trapped, it floods Sibu. The canal will be about 1 km long at the narrowest point, and therefore, the construction will not be difficult.

To prevent high tide from entering Sibu, a gate may be needed. In the long run, Rejang River in front of Sibu may become a tourist spot, to become like a man-made lake.

I appreciate your discussion on this proposal, especially its potential problems.

Note: this is the proposal to deal with flooding from Rejang River. The drainage from inside the town is a separate issue that will be addressed separately.

非港主說

漳泉人說的黃乃裳非港主﹐詩巫非新福州
歷史是由人所寫的﹐歷史是可以被美化的(當然也可以被醜化)
就像白天鵝可以突然天降變成詩巫的標誌

我個人對黃乃裳先生持有不同的看法﹐我覺得他會是所謂當今的"蛇頭"嗎﹖
黃部長上台後﹐黃乃裳被捧得很高
(到處出現他的石像﹐包括在福州.請看下面的新聞﹕黄乃裳先生石像揭幕)

漳泉人從詩巫的“華人bumiputra”變成“華人的非bumiputra”
我可以想象到他們的心中感受
就像伊班達雅族跟馬來族之間的微妙關係

不過﹐歷史都是由多數派吞沒少數派的
福州人今後是不是需要撤退到下游的鄉村去了(balik 山芭)



周平清：助巫开埠发展 先辈功绩盼记入正史

（本报诗巫5日讯）砂拉越漳泉社团联合会名誉总会长周平清促请漳泉籍的部长把漳泉人在诗巫垦场的史实告知州政府，让漳泉人先辈的功绩记入正史。

周平清总会长指出，诗巫垦场时期的发展与漳泉人息息相关，漳泉前辈当时在环境与困苦情况之下，刻苦耐劳，与土人和睦相处。

“早在19世纪抵达诗巫开埠的漳泉人，在诗巫创业与经商。当时他们大概建立了60多间的店屋，而且诗巫首间银行，进口第一架汽车，成立第一间出口公司、运轮公司和船务公司，开设第一间酒厂等等。”

周氏又说，漳泉人最特出的人物，有张烟都（第一任侨长）和张宗罗（第二任侨长），他们在诗巫生活，并死于诗巫，对诗巫的开埠发展贡献良多。然而，诗巫人都把他们忘记了。

他还提出，诗巫于1889年经历一场大火，烧毁整个市镇；于1928年再遭大火洗礼，诗巫惨被夷为平地；于1941年，世界第二次大战下受到惨重破坏之后的重建都与漳泉人有关系。

黄乃裳实非“港主”

提到港主黄乃裳，周氏说，时约20世纪初，抵步诗巫的黄乃裳通过他的女婿林文庆的帮忙，推荐给古晋甲必丹王长水侨长，经王长水侨长的帮忙，黄乃裳才能够见到拉惹。

“后来，拉惹才和黄乃裳签合同，出资给黄乃裳从中国福州召募劳工来砂州种植”。周氏说，黄乃裳以“工主”的身份与拉惹签约，这是一种雇主制度，而后来“工主”被译为“港主”。

周氏认为，此翻译是误错的，也非拉惹委任的。

周氏继续说，后来黄乃裳带来1000多名福州人到诗巫，在亚山港到开叉港，宋溪美禄到罗马安一带垦荒，而黄乃裳所称的“新福州”是指上述垦场地带，并非诗巫整个埠。后来黄乃裳新福州垦场经济发生困难，而拉惹也认为此种“工主”制度不实际，结果政府决定废除“港主”制度。同时定福州移民为砂拉越人民之一。拉惹更委任富雅各为义务的政府官员，并于第二年委富雅各为“福州人的监謢人”。

黄乃裳于1904年被驱逐出境，新福州恳场在他领导下彻底失败；富雅各改进后才获成功。也是诗巫漳泉公会名誉名主席的周平清也认为，黄乃裳在新福州垦场仅短短的4年，所以诗巫从1904年以来的发展，与黄乃裳没有关系。

避称诗巫“新福州”

周平清也坦诚，诗巫一路以来的煇煌发展，是各属人与马来人、土著共同创造的，而福州属人更把诗巫的经济发展推上一层楼。这不是黄乃裳所领导的。

为此，周平清认为，州政府和华人领袖应避免把诗巫称为“新福州”，或把黄乃裳称为“港主”。

“我提起此事，并不是要中伤黄乃裳，而是说出真垦场历史的过程。”他也说，可能因漳泉籍贯家庭提倡“礼让”，因而漳泉人没有因为诗巫被谓为“新福州”以及黄乃裳有“港主”称号，作出抗议。

纵然如此，周平清要漳泉人不能为“让礼”美德，而忽视整个漳泉团体的利益，反而要为族群争取合理的对待。

为此，周平清认为，州政府和华人领袖应避免把诗巫称为“新福州”，或把黄乃裳称为“”。


黄乃裳先生石像揭幕

　　福州（黄玉琼）2005年3月7日讯：2005年2月25日，新春伊始、万物更新，在闽清县坂东镇湖头村乃裳街路口锣鼓喧天、彩旗飘扬、宾客云集，民主革命家、爱国侨领黄乃裳先生的石像在这里隆重举行了落成揭幕仪式。

　　福建省侨联副主席江宏真、福州市侨联主席徐凌云等省、市、县侨联系统的负责人，以及福州市和闽清县领导和有关部门的负责人，马来西亚砂捞越第二财政部长兼城市发展部暨旅游发展部部长拿督斯里黄顺舸和福州公会署理主席黄应岳等海外乡亲出席了揭幕仪式。

　　黄乃裳先生石像是由马来西亚诗诬爱国侨胞拿督斯里黄顺舸一家祖孙三代捐建的。这个石雕像高3.38米，宽2.26米，汉白玉花岗岩雕刻，象征着这位清代华侨领袖的高风亮节和立功异域的开拓精神。

　　在庆典大会上，黄顺舸说：在闽清家乡树立黄乃裳先生石像，一是为缅怀黄乃裳先生为国为民立下的丰功伟绩；二是继承和发扬他爱国爱乡、无私奉献的崇高精神。

　　黄顺舸还提到黄乃裳先生曾说过的一句话：“辛苦我一人，照顾许多人”。他不仅铭记在心里，并以实际行动为社会和家乡做了许多有益的工作，尤其为家乡教育事业的发展慷慨解囊。目前，他正筹备为中马两国文化教育事业交流架设桥梁。

　　（福建侨联网 2005年3月7日 10:00 AM )

難看的部長

政治家應該回到原點﹐現在該做的是什麼﹖就是疏通水道﹐減輕詩巫的水患。

現在事情不馬上去做﹐在那邊喊著要反對黨的報告﹐真的讓老百姓看了火大。老百姓要看到的是結果﹐而不是報告書。

假如要讓反對黨難看﹐就發出你答應過的執照﹐假如反對黨無法去挖﹐或是挖得不好﹐那真的會變得很難看﹐算是無翻身的機會。

我不希望自己變得很難看呢﹐黃部長拜託你好好想過﹐繼續這樣吵下去﹐你的立場真的變得很難看。

選舉要到了﹐你還會把你整團的候選人拖下水去死

詩巫人

您曾經對宗教跟種族仔細想過嗎﹖

華人只管種族血統﹐不考慮宗教﹐所以華人信仰不同的宗教﹐包括道教﹐基督教﹐天主教﹐回教﹐佛教﹐最後大家還是華人。所以華人也算是最大的種族主義者。

猶太人的話﹐只要你信猶太教的話﹐不管是在中東還是歐洲的白人或是非洲的黑人﹐大家都是猶太人。記得不久前他們還撞進非洲﹐把一些失落的黑人猶太部落救出來﹐現在居留於以色列﹐受到不同良好的待遇。對俄國的猶太人﹐共產垮臺後﹐很多移民到以色列﹐也受到良好的待遇﹐有的生活在以色列﹐有的再度移民到歐洲或是美國。所以猶太人是以宗教為基礎的﹐我認為是最開放的人種。

印度人的話﹐也是有不同的宗教﹐那些改信回教的話﹐好像就是變成馬來人了。我們聽過前首相的家族就是這樣)。他們不以種族為標準嗎﹖

反過來﹐馬來人的話﹐也是跟華人一樣以種族(可是不曉得馬來族的起源是那裡﹖我覺得是阿拉伯和南亞跟本地土著的混合)為基礎﹐再搭配上回教﹐才是馬來人。這跟回教的元祖的阿拉伯人和回教有蠻大的差距﹐無法享有阿拉伯人回教徒同等的地位﹐雖然回教世界在談平等﹐不過對非阿拉伯的回教﹐的確有歧視的存在。

西方人的話﹐種族是白種﹐可是還是有很多不同的分類﹐什麼意大利系﹐法國系﹐德國系﹐北歐﹐等等。他們大部份信基督教或是天主教﹐可是最後看起來是以國籍來分類的。

同樣信耶穌的華人﹐根本無法與白人的基督和天主教徒享有同等的地位。在外國還有白人教堂跟黑人教堂的區別﹐然後黑人教堂被極端份子放火燃燒的惡劣行為。在耶路撒冷的耶穌昇天教堂附近﹐還可以見到不同派系的基督教在你爭我奪和爭吵的行為﹐來自非洲的耶穌信徒需要在別人屋檐下爭一小塊屁股那麼大的地﹐然後不敢離開硬守著﹐怕被搶走。

羅馬的天主教徒就高於大家一級﹐比如教宗以前大部份都出自意大利﹐南美的主教大概也輪不到當教宗的機會了。假如跑遍世界﹐還可以看到埃及時代的耶穌的畫像﹐看起來皮膚是有點褐色的﹐然後傳到歐洲的意大利或是法國﹐耶穌變成白人﹐到亞洲的話﹐尤其是韓國﹐耶穌也自然地變成韓國人了。

詩巫的華人多信基督教或天主教的﹐對這一批的少數民族﹐我們是否需要有個新的代名詞﹐也許我們不能再稱自己是華人了。華人應該歸于血統來自中國﹐然後信道教的人﹐信佛教的也不該是華人(應該是印度人吧)。

那新的華人的名詞是以宗教為主的嗎﹐還是以地方名為主﹖也許詩巫人是我們最適合的名字吧﹗

挖砂[2]

由我來當第三者(不是愛情的第三者)﹗

你們可以別吵了好嗎﹖

重要的是去做事﹐吵沒有用。

報告也沒有用﹐不知道國陣已經出了多少沒有用的報告﹐浪費大家的時間和精力。

紙上談兵最要不得﹐趕快去挖了﹐沒執照也去挖吧﹐看國陣敢不敢去捉挖砂的義工。

我們期待的是效果

Please stop fighting and arguing.

We want to see the action, real action! It is useless to argue.

You want the report for what? BN has produced many useless reports. It is a waste of time and effort.

Just go ahead to dredge it, even if there is no permit to dredge. Let's see if BN will send in the police to arrest the volunteers.

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两阵营11分钟对喊呛声　历史性会面草草收场

　　（诗巫30日讯）砂州第二财长兼环境与公共卫生部长拿督斯里黄顺舸今早11时准时和5名党领袖及私人秘书和特别助理来到民主行动党位于周锡萱路的党部，行动党干部在底楼的楼梯口只放行黄顺舸、张泰卿和吴春祥上楼，余者严建安、钱本统、郭金斌、黄顺泉及包久泉都不得其门而入。黄顺舸等3人在行动党党部停留11分钟，在对喊声和呜声中，双方的历史性会面，不欢而散的草草收场。

　　对话实录

　　以下是拿督黄顺舸等造访民主行动党党部，与黄和联的对话实录：

　　黄顺舸：我们今天主要.....

　　黄和联：等下等下等下....不是由你来讲，这是行动党的家，慢慢慢来，慢慢来。（双方干笑，缓和气氛）

　　黄顺舸：（笑着说）我是要跟你道贺，跟你请安，不是说我要讲话。

　　黄和联：谢谢你，谢谢你！

　　黄顺舸：Good Morning！（笑）

　　黄和联：（笑着回应）Good Morning！这是行动党31年来第一次来有部长到访，所以我看这是行动党之福，也是诗巫人民的大幸，欢迎大家在任何时候都可以来的。（黄顺舸切入：我们今天不谈政治，我们谈大家关心的诗巫治水问题，不谈政治。）

　　黄和联：可以可以可以。不止是政治，我看什么都可以谈的。（张泰卿插口：我们来的目的，我们拿督斯里....）

　　黄和联：先让部长讲目的。

　　黄顺舸：客人先讲。

　　黄和联：好的好的。

　　黄顺舸：我们行动党主席，YB黄和联国会议员跟立法议员，我们今天来主要的目的呢，就是想要寻求一份你已经说过由美国跟中国治水专家为行动党拟定的这一份书，我想你应该要给我们一份来分享，因为你要..已经大胆的说你要去承担这麽大的一个工程，所以我们作为负责任的政府，应该可以向你要求这一份你一直强调说由美国和中国专家替行动党拟定的这一份治水疏通拉让江流域的计划书。第二，我们也要希望你能给我们一份槟城和雪兰莪州的疏浚水道的计划书，因为你说过，我认为说那...太好了，那是双赢的....（黄和联切入：我们一个个来....（黄顺舸继续说：政府...）

　　黄和联：NO, NO,部长，我知道你的来意了，一个个来，不要两个来（黄顺舸：不，我就完了..，我就完了...)

　　黄和联：OK。

　　黄顺舸：你给我这一份槟州跟雪兰莪州双赢的这个疏通水道的...，你说政府不必还钱给承包商，由承包商付钱去疏浚水道的这个报告书，同时也向我们说明看看那一件公司还有做什么工程，还给槟州跟雪兰莪多少钱的这个工程，我们想多多学习。

　　黄和联：好，就两个，两个。

　　黄顺舸：对，我们来的目的要拿这两个报告书。

　　黄和联：好的好的，好的好的。那先问黄部长我们要求的那些文件你带来了吗？

　　黄顺舸：我们....你给我们这个书，我们的计划书随时有的，因为你还没有申请书还没有来，你应该要给我们一个完整的财政与技术报告计划书，and give us your company profile，根据你说你公司都还没有注册，我们怎么能交你一份我们的计划书。

　　黄和联：You See，部长说我连公司都还没有注册，已经要求这些文件是吗？我看部长相当健忘，你忘记了这个...你在报章上的宣布是说你要给黄和联机会，啊，并不是给他人机会，也不是给行动党机会，也不是给国民党机会，对不对，那个我看是文不对题了。很简单，你的建议是说你的执照将出给谁，你要给黄和联一次赚钱的机会，做政治，我想这个赚钱机会，我先坦白声明一下，那是第一点。第二点我看整个诗巫的治水计划，不止是关系到你们三位YB，所谓民选议员，我今天看到有5 个椅子放在那边，人联党方面至少有5个民选的议员，今天我们都欢迎他来，包括阿旺比米，南甲的州议员，也包括都东的州议员孙春德，嗯...(黄顺舸插嘴说：我不谈政治，我....）

　　谈话陷入混乱

　　接下来的谈话开始陷入混乱，双方都不听对方说话，彼此打断对方。

　　黄和联：等下等下...(黄顺舸说：我只要你给我这两份书就好了。

　　黄和联：这个不是州议会（黄顺舸：不是政治，不要谈政治，），部长有最后的发言权。

　　黄顺舸：我不是跟你辩论。（黄和联：这个是行动党的家）

　　黄顺舸：对对，我不是来辩论，我是来请教。

　　黄和联：所以我很简单的告诉部长，我也希望两位在诗巫的民选的议员包括阿旺比米，包括孙春德医生本来今天也要来的，对吗？（黄顺舸应说：对对），比如说实达包上面水深5尺这些东西，我看部长你不会不知道...（黄顺舸：我们不要谈政治...）

　　黄和联：等下等下...（黄顺舸：你不要把话题转移啊！）

　　黄和联：等下等下...(黄顺舸：我要书，假如你没有书，我们就...OK啦)

　　黄和联：（提高声调）我告诉你，我告诉你（黄顺舸：你给我们书好不好....)

　　这时坐在后方旁听的行动党支持者突然发言说：两位YB，请....

　　黄和联：不要心急....（黄顺舸与吴春祥站起来指着后方说：他可以讲话吗？）

　　黄和联：坐下坐下...

　　吴春祥：我们今天来的目的，你说你有那个建议书....

　　黄和联：你要答案吗？你要答案你坐下来。（黄顺舸：我们是为全诗巫人来请教你的...)

　　泰卿忍不住站起来

　　此时现场陷入七嘴八舌的局面。张泰卿也坐不住站起来了。

　　吴春祥：我们不是来听你训诲，（黄和联：我不是跟你训诲，你也没有资格听我训诲，我们讲的是....）

　　黄顺舸：（提高声调）国会议员，你没有建议书，你答?

　　黄和联：你坐下来...（黄顺舸此时动怒的拉高声调喝问：不，你有没有？

　　黄和联：你坐下来...（黄顺舸追问：有没有？）

　　黄和联：你坐下来....(黄顺舸：你有没有？

　　黄和联：有足够涵养的，（黄顺舸：有没有？）要求你坐下来你就坐下来，好吗？等下.....（黄顺舸：站起来比较有礼貌，你有没有建议书？）

　　此时有行动党人叶海量不断的叫着：校长，校长，校长，我们请校长坐下来...。黄和联一直不断叫黄顺舸、吴春祥及张泰卿坐下来，嘴里说：不急，不急，你坐下来。

　　黄顺舸：不，不，站起来比较有礼貌，比较有礼貌哦。

　　黄和联：（大声说）请你坐下来。（黄顺舸：你讲...)

　　黄和联：你坐下来...(黄顺舸：不不不，站起来比较有礼貌）

　　黄和联：我要求你坐下来，请你坐下，好吗？

　　张泰卿：你要我们来听你话，我们是要来拿报告书...。

　　黄和联：没有没有，我叫你坐下来，这样外边怎么说，我们打架了。

　　黄顺舸：没有没有。

　　吴春祥：我们只想知道...

　　黄和联：你要知道，你坐下来，好吗？

　　黄顺舸：你没有书就算了（黄和联：一点涵养都没有...)

　　黄顺舸：你没有涵养，不是我们没有涵养。（黄顺舸等人一边走出火箭党部一边回应黄和联的话）

　　现场进入吵杂声，多人同时都在拉开喉咙喊着说话...。黄张吴3人在离开火箭党部时，后方坐着的10多名支持者也加入战围，有人对着黄顺舸笑着高喊说：你有权吗？你有权发执照吗？喊完后有人拍掌叫好，呜声四起，还有人叫着MACAM部长。

假的國慶

很多資料是假的

國家在喊我們獨立53週年﹐這根本是騙人的
馬來半島從英國獨立了53年﹐可是東馬才47年

那馬來西亞是53歲嗎﹖不對﹐這是錯的﹐馬來西亞才47歲。
也許有的人說馬來亞是53歲﹐這也錯了。
馬來亞是從1957-1963﹐才活了六年而已。

那真的東馬獨立了47年嗎﹐我覺得很有疑問
我們目前還是處於被殖民統治的時候

還有﹐國慶不應該是定於8月31日
馬來西亞的成立是9月16日

挖砂[1]

千錯萬錯﹐錯在黃乃裳。這位書獃子竟然選擇一塊地在拉讓江畔﹐連地質也不曉得﹐害后代需要面臨房子和道路的下沉問題﹐最近整塊地還被水淹沒。

為什麼罵黃乃裳是書獃子﹖因為他不是工程師﹐只會科舉考試的﹐對工程的事情一點也不清楚。

反過來說﹐那時候他需要的是農業﹐土地肥沃就好了。這塊腐植土最適合於農業﹐還有定期的氾濫也為土地增肥﹐像我們書本上所讀到的埃及尼羅河就是這樣﹐幾千年都適合於農業﹐養活不少人。而且那時候也沒有車子﹐沒必要考慮到車路﹐房子也沒有目前這樣的水泥屋﹐根本不會有土地下沉的問題。看起來詩巫原本的用途跟現在大不同呢。

100年後﹐掌握這塊土地的政治家還是很會考試的人﹐可是讀歷史的﹐我們叫他怎麼能夠解決這重大的問題﹖自己是門外漢的話﹐就需要把工作交給專業的人去做﹐不是什麼都要管。這種小拿破侖的心態很要不得﹐完全無法為老百姓解決問題。

朋友說國外的專家是博士﹐我們的專家是學士﹐所以我們能夠期待的也是很有限的。

看起來﹐挖砂的問題還會吵一陣子吧﹐但是選舉一過就開始風平浪靜。

say no to white 'hair' rajah dynasty

We cannot tolerate the formation of a second white 'hair' rajah dynasty in Sarawak. This got to stop. No more passing of power from uncle to nephew or to son or cousin or whatsoever.

Also don't count on useless Alfred Jabu.

In addition, the chief minister cannot have such absolute power, and should not stay in throne for so long. Something like 2 or 3 terms is a maximum.

Get out of the Rolls Royce, the castle and the private jet.

At the moment, the politicians have no say to Taib. All the party members are too afraid of him. They always expressed strong support in public, but you know what is behind the scene. All hated him.
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Najib, Taib to discuss CM’s post
August 27, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will meet with Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) president Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud over the latter’s intention to withdraw from politics.

Najib, who is also Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman, said any decision made must be based on the spirit of friendship between BN and PBB.

He said PBB, as a loyal friend of BN, had contributed a lot to BN’s success and was still the pillar of the BN government in Sarawak.

“I will have a heart-to-heart talk with the Sarawak chief minister before any decision is made,” he told a news conference after chairing the Umno supreme council meeting, here, today.

Recently, the 74-year-old Taib who is the longest-serving chief minister after 29 years since March 26, 1981, said he could not decide whether to step down as the matter had to be discussed and approved by the top BN leadership.

Taib who has been PBB president since 1981 and is also Sarawak BN chairman, was reported as saying that he had wanted to withdraw from politics in 2006 but many in the party wanted him to stay on and he decided not to retire then.

Taib

He is indeed a king, hiding inside the castle and not knowing what the people want. He only knows how to travel by Rolls Royce on the roads and fly by his private jet in the air.

The opposition said SUPP did not reflect the Chinese request to Taib, thus Taib has no clue of our need.

But, is Taib the chief minister for the Melanau only? In fact he does not know what the Chinese want, what the Iban/Dayak and all other people want.

He knows only what he and his family wants.

If Taib will be removed, this is a great achievement of the opposition. No body dared to speak against Taib in the past. I think even SUPP will be so grateful to the opposition.

But we need all those stolen nation wealth back to the state.

Indonesia

They are both country of Malay majority, dominated by the same language and religion. But recently the relationship between the two countries have turned sour. Much demonstrations against Malaysia can be seen in Indonesia.

What went wrong? My personal accounting of the events, such as Indonesian former president expressed personal support against political assassination of Anwar, bad and inhuman treatment of the Indonesian beauty by the Trengganu royal prince, in human treatment of Indonesian maids by Malaysians, etc.

What has this government do to rectify the deteriorating relationship?

I think Sarawak is the first state to be in danger shall a riot be coming to Malaysia because of the direct land access. Sarawakians should pay attention to development of this series of events.

Swan & Flooding

The swans are very happy because there is a lot of water during flooding. They swim and they dive, any place in Sibu.

So what to change? The name (SiBU) or the meaningless symbol (Swam)?

When I look at this statement, it means the flooding problem will not be solved until the 10th Malaysian Plan will be over.
部长今日在救灾行动中心迎接副首长阿弗烈查布后，在新闻发布会上表示，在第十大马计划下，联邦政府已批准拨出3千万令吉充作疏浚拉让江之用途。

老天識破謊言

選舉前的演戲﹐就是進行水溝工程﹐說可以防止詩巫的水患。

可是﹐工程還沒結束﹐老天爺就來個審判﹐先告知我們結果。那就是這水溝工程行不通﹐是場謊言。

我可以了解到國陣政府人聯黨現在的心情﹐一定在罵老天怎麼這麼快就來個結論﹐告訴老百姓答案。反過來﹐反對黨很感謝老天提早來報告答案﹐讓騙子無法繼續騙下去。看來人聯的命運已經註定了﹐要去掉“巫”也沒辦法改變結論。

進行三峽水壩工程的時候﹐共產黨說這水壩可以預防500年一次的長江大氾濫。可是最近的中國水患嚴重﹐死掉那麼多人﹐更淹沒了不少家園和財產﹐已經被視為是天方夜譚。水壩還忙著泄洪﹐自身都難保﹐沒垮掉已經算很幸運了。

看起來那裡的騙子都一樣﹐最終都敵不過老天爺的考驗。

SUPP out of BN?

This is just a show and the show is broadcast in Sarawak Chinese newspapers only. SUPP has been praising Taib's leadership all the time. What would they say now?

SUPP top guns will be meeting Najib? They better suggest to Najib that Taib should be removed. People are not supporting SUPP mainly because of Taib. SUPP should insist that Taib be removed as a criteria of staying in BN.

The opposition suggested SUPP to get out of BN. It is better not to offer any good suggestion. The life of the opposition will be better if SUPP (and MCA) continues to stay with BN.

Cheap publicity

I think the right way to do is first to find out if this is not the extramarital son of the man. Do a DNA testing.

It is still hard to believe how this story can be true. In Sibu, many men have an Iban woman as second wife, and they bear children. Perhaps he took his son home to let the wife take care of him with a story made up. If some one left a child with you, the right thing to do is to report to the police.

I am still not sure if this man did not break any rules (if it is not his son).

（本报诗巫18日讯）钱本统市议员于今日分别前往国民登记局、法庭及警局奔波，为陈伟贤申请临时证件，以让他能于本地学校求学。
钱本统将继续为陈伟贤申请本地身份证及出生证明。
10多年前，陈瑞万意外获得一名达雅籍的养子，乃是一名伊班男子托付予他，并要求他帮忙照顾几天，未料这一去，时间经已过去10多年，而该男子依旧没有来领回孩子。
陈瑞万今年60岁，是一名船员，有时候也兼作船上的机械助手及船长。
10多年前，一名伊班男子到他的船厂，向他应聘工作。而几天后，这名男子带来了一名1岁左右的婴儿，并表示他因妻子过世，要回去为妻子奔丧，所以将婴儿托付予他，要求他代为照顾几天。
亲父交代领养
一去10余年
但陈瑞万没有想到，男子这一去，就离开10多年，如今这名婴儿也已经长大，他的亲生父亲却一直没有出现。而陈瑞万也曾经去过对方的甘榜寻找该男子的消息，也曾托人查他的下落，但就一直没有该名男子的消息。
由于陈伟贤没有身份证，也没有出生证明，故他在读完幼稚园后，未能继续升上小学。因此，陈瑞万仅好让他转回去幼稚园再读，直到不能再念了，才跟着姐姐在家里开办的补习班与学童一起上课。
沒身份证
不能升读小学
惟陈瑞万非常担心陈伟贤的前途，所以一直有一个心愿，就是为他申请身份证及出生证明，以让他能继续升学。
因此，陈瑞万找到了钱本统市议员，而钱本统非常赞赏陈瑞万夫妇的作为，所以决心要帮助他们。
按照程序助申请证件
钱本统于今日带领陈瑞万及陈伟贤前往国民登记局为陈伟贤申请临时证件，但登记局人员表示必须按照程序进行，须先前往警局报案后，再前往法庭宣誓，方可申请。
且在那之后，钱本统市议员也按照程序，带陈瑞万两父子前往警局报案，然后前往法庭宣誓。

長輩快斷氣﹐所以爭家產

I am quite disappointed because no more MP and YB died recently. As a result, we don't have any b'U'y election. No santa gifts are coming!

(诗巫15日讯)千万华教特别拨款分配终达成共识!

　　中区的华小为了首相于诗巫补选期间发出的一千万令吉特别拨款争得面红耳赤，华小董联会千万令吉特别小组为了平息争端，今早和10间外省的华小代表开会后，小组最终还是建议让诗巫、沐胶和加帛省的67间华小共同分享这笔款项。不过，小组的方案还将于本月29日早上10时召开的华小董联会理事会议上寻求通过及定案。

　　据悉，千万令吉将于9 月20日分发出去。至于分配方式，在小组会议上已提出方案，只待本月29日的理事会议后才正式公布。

　　华小董联会于6 月27日召开的理事会议上，在讨论特别小组提出的3项分配方案上发生激烈的争论。出现最大的争议就是千万令吉是只分给诗巫省内的57间华小还是包括沐胶及加帛的10间华小。

　　特别小组和10间外省（沐胶与加帛省）的华小在今早的会议上达致共识，同意诗巫省57间华小平均分配16万令吉，余额88万令吉由华小董联会补足到90万令吉，再平均分配给10间外省的华小，每间得9 万令吉。

renaming Sibu?

Come on, most Chinese do not know about this intention of renaming Sibu. Only a very tiny fraction of Chinese are involved and majority are placed in darkness.

If possible, we should throw away the white swan into the drain and decide a new symbol for Sibu. We should not have a symbol decided by a few minority.

My old friend, Lau(old) NaiYou(you know and I know), said that he doesn't know what Lau Nai Hoh is trying to do.

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Chinese name for Sibu? Bumiputera leaders see red
August 15, 2010

SIBU, Aug 15 — Bumiputera community leaders are not happy over a plan by the United Chinese Association (UCA) here to seek a new Chinese name for the town.

A front-page report in a local Bahasa Malaysia daily Utusan Borneo today quoted their leader, Temenggong Datuk Wan Hamid Edruce Tuanku Mohammad, as saying they were unhappy that “a number of sensitive issues” had been raised lately.

“Give us a little respect and do not hurt our feelings.

“We have been around for a long long time. Sibu is not going to be our second home,” he said.

He made the statement yesterday together with Pemamca Sharifah Mariam, Temenggong Sir Adrian Ringgau and Pemanca Wilfred Kiroh of the Iban community, Penghulu Shari Ubu of the Melanau community, and others.

UCA president Datuk Lau Nai Hoh had recently proposed for the new name.

He said in Chinese, Sibu was known as “Shi Wu” but the second word or “Wu” was a witch.

Wan Hamid said the community should have been consulted first over any proposal for changes and especially when they involved mutual rights.

“Sad to say, we have never been consulted. We are not against the government or any of its policies.

“But when sensitive issues regarding church, temple, mosque or cemeteries are concerned, we will appreciate it if we are consulted for our views,” he said.

He said even many road names here had been changed lately without any consultation with them. — Bernama

順舸是算命師我們又不是詩"阿拉"﹐怎麼不宜

“巫”字不宜當地名‧詩巫徵求華文譯名

2010-08-07 20:02

（砂拉越‧詩巫）詩巫省華人社團聯合會將主辦“為詩巫徵求華文譯名”比賽，希望為此城市取得一個好意頭的華文名。得獎者將獲豐厚獎品。

該會會長拿督劉乃好表示，詩巫（Sibu）目前的華文譯名是“詩巫”，當中的“巫”字有巫師之意，並不太適合當地的譯名。

他週五（8月6日）晚出席第9屆婆羅洲文化節慰勞宴時說，該會計劃與砂拉越州環境及公共衛生部長拿督斯里黃順舸和其他地方領袖討論後，即籌辦這項比賽。

“我們希望公眾踴躍參與，為此城市取一個適合及擁有好兆頭的華文名稱。”

另外，劉乃好指出，婆羅洲文化節在中國導遊的協助下，已成功介紹給中國遊客，反應良好。

Any more flooding for Sibu?

It looks like all the flood control projects are close to completion. We are now guaranteed a flood-free Sibu!?

巫治水如火如荼 四大工程 年底竣工

（本报诗巫3日讯）诗巫治水计划排水系统提升四大工程，预料在今年年底可全数竣工，其中南甲万隆、宋溪安都和乌也路大水沟工程将在今年10月中完工。

“目前，南甲万隆大水沟工程已完成82%、宋溪安都（甘榜南甲中学一带）大水沟工程也完成82%。”

至于乌也路大水沟工程目前则已完成逾60%，预料将在今年12中完工。

诗巫水利灌溉局局长陈成光于今天接受本报记者访问有关治水工程进展时，如此表示。

他指出，另一项治水工程，即红水沟和林梦岸位于晶木酒店旁和林梦岸出口的两座大抽水站，进展比较慢，目前，工程也已经完成49%。

他透露，在南甲万隆面对的非法木屋和工厂问题已经解决，至于宋溪安都方面的地下电线和电缆问题也获得解决，因此，天气允许的话，工程将在10月中全面完工。



地下电缆问题解决


“至于乌也路大水沟工程方面，也同样的面对地下电缆等问题，不过已获解决。”

以下是诗巫治水四大工程简介：

（一）宋溪安都排水系统提升工程：

此项工程涵盖5米宽的洋灰沟、暗沟、天然沟和地下电缆箱之建筑工程，从而提升排水系统的排水量。工程耗资844万5000令吉，由AKOBEST SND BHD承建，施工期预计为12个月。该工程已于2009年7月展开。

（二）宋溪南甲排水系统提升工程：

此项工程是由万隆路第一巷至宋溪南甲的排水水沟提升，包括2.5米宽的洋灰沟、和地下电缆箱。工程耗资989万6000令吉，由HOCK SENG LEE BERHAD承建，工程期12个月。该工程已于2009年7月展开。

（三）红水沟和林梦岸抽水站工程：

该工程是为了减少诗巫市中心水患问题，将在第十大马计划下展开。这包括了兴建两座大抽水站。该工程耗资3598万900令吉，工程已交由MUSYATI SDN BHD公司承建，另外，ACCURATE TECHNICS HOLDING SDN BHD则为二手承包商，负责机械技术工程。该工程于2009年9月28日移交予承建公司，施工期52个星期。

（四）乌也路排水系统提升工程：

乌也路诊所旁排水系统提升工程，由该路旁的排水沟通布律克路大水沟，开拓另一条的排水道，疏通该地区的积水水患问题。工程将包括1.8米宽的洋灰沟和 2.5米宽的暗沟，耗资908万8000令吉，预计施工期是12个月。该工程于去年9月24日移交予承建公司MEGAH CERIA REKABENA SDN BHD。

以下是诗巫治水四大工程最新进度：
完成率
（一）宋溪安都排水系统提升工程82%
（二）宋溪南甲排水系统提升工程82%
（三）红水沟和林梦岸抽水站工程49%　
（四）乌也路排水系统提升工程　60%

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红水沟与林梦岸 2抽水站完成近半
（本报诗巫3日讯）红水沟和林梦岸两座大抽水站工程已完成49%。

“两座大抽水站的排水量足可以应付诗巫的积水量，只要完成了堵住所有水流出入口。”

诗巫水利灌溉局局长陈成光于今天接受本报记者询问时，如此表示。

该工程是为了减少诗巫市中心水患问题，两座大抽水站将排出诗巫多余的积水，同时堵住高涨的河水。

该工程耗资3598万900令吉，工程已交由MUSYATI SDN BHD公司承建。另外，ACCURATE TECHNICS HOLDING SDN BHD则为二手承包商，负责机械技术工程。该工程已于2009年9月28日移交予承建公司，施工期52个星期。

据了解，这项抽水站工程，包括林梦岸大暗沟清洗工程。

由于这大暗沟是密封式的，所以在清洗方面有一定的技术问题，必须顾及沟内的沼气等。

林梦岸排水沟是诗巫的主要排水沟之一，武吉阿瑟、巴拉路往内进一带排水都是靠这一条大水沟。

然而，因为这条大水沟在当局美化市景的走道建设下，已经被差不多密封，所以，在清洗方面有一定的困难。这一条大沟长约1公里左右，沟上除了是走道之外，也是诗巫中央市场所在地。

I am a minority

Only recently during the Sibu b'U'y election did I realised that the population of Christian was around 10% in the country.

In addition, Foochow is a small tribe among the Chinese.

So we are really an endangered animal. We need protection.

Are we really Chinese? I afraid we are not, because our religion is not traditional Taoism. But we followed a bit of Confucius thinking.

We deserved a new naming for our tribe.

10000000 ringgit

Are Chinese smart? Are the Chinese independent school management board smart? do they know how to use this 10000000 ringgit? a lot of money!!

Do you want to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs? It is better to let it lay the eggs continuously than killing it and rob the wealth. Put this 10000000 ringgit into a foundation and then use the interest each year.

Will that be too small? Then have another b'u'y-election to increase the amount.

Or there is another plan?

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Grants for Sibu, Kapit Chinese schools to be distributed

The RM10 million grant for 60 government-aided primary schools in Sibu and Kapit will be distributed soon, Environment and Public Health Minister Wong Sook Koh said.

Laila Taib College

Despite some fishy things going on, Wong Soon Koh pointed his fingers at others for politicising the "lehlon" of United College. He said he does not want to explain more about it in the future.

It is dictatorship, thus you can explain it only at your wish. The best way is to open up your check book and let the public make the judgement. There were indeed so many gray issues on the management of United College and then the "lehlon" of this college to become Laila Taib College. You cannot run this College as your family business.

You kept saying it is the cheapest college in Malaysia. You could be right, but the fact is its quality is also the lowest.

You mentioned that Taib's brother donated the land. I wonder how can an outsider of Sibu got so much land in Sibu.

黄顺舸：提供廉宜升学选择 联合学院建设乃为砂民

（本报诗巫26 日讯）原砂联合学院董事主席拿督斯里黄顺舸部长表示，当初砂联合学院创设时，土地和硬体建筑分别是由拿督杜菲玛目和已故拿督斯里刘会干博士的启德行集团所报效，当年捐款给该学院的人士包括丹斯里张晓卿、拿督许如泉、拿督许如衡、已故拿督陈仁华以及拿督斯里陈则颂等。

对于这些人的贡献，他感到十分感激，也表示不欲再对反对党将莱拉泰益学院政治化的种种课题再作回应。

他表示，反对党指责人联党以1令吉象征性的费用，就将联合学院过名给砂拉越基金的事，并声称这是来自人民血汗钱。

他反问既然是上述有关人士的捐献，才有联合学院，以及发展成今天的莱拉泰益学院，那是没有理由要将有关人士捐献的联合学院变卖给政府，再将收益还给捐款和捐地者。

他指联合学院的建设是为了诗巫以及砂州全民的，因为联合学院创设当初旨在为提供学子们廉宜的升学选择，因为在全马要完成一个文凭证书，最起码也要花去2万令吉，但在该院，却提供了最便宜的收费。

享全免学费条件

随着联合学院易名为莱拉泰益学院的推展礼于今年3月份举行后﹐现有在莱拉泰益学院升学的学生已有800名﹐且在砂拉越基金的奖学金计划下﹐享有全免的学费条件。

他说，800名以及明年继续入学的学生，总人数约1500名，全部是学费全免，这当中的全免数额又值多少钱？

他指，那是千千万万的钱，但如今却全免了，受惠的是学子们，现在﹑将来﹑以后的以后，下一代学子们也一样享有这个福利，只要升学条件符合要求。

全马找不到全免学费学院

推展礼期间以及首相到访莱拉泰益学院时，对于该学院能提供全免学费的事﹐高教部长和首相两人感到万分惊讶﹐因为全马再也找不到﹐在砂拉越基金奖学金计划下 ﹐提供全校学生学费全免的事。

但在莱拉泰益学院﹐在州政府和砂拉越基金的创造下，全免念书的事就达成了。

州政府和该基金已承诺将提升学院的软硬设备﹐最终会在2012年提升为大学地位。

他希望反对党停止将学院问题政治化。

也是本州第二财长暨环境与公共卫生部长的黄顺舸今早在常青酒店举行的联合学院第十一届毕业及颁奖典礼上发言时，这么表示。

这也是该院最后一届的毕业生举行毕业典礼，共有139名毕业生领取他们的毕业证书﹐惟今天出席典礼的学生只有70多位。

勿把教育政治化

他强调，教育是千秋事业，不能为了个人利益以及政治议程，把教育政治化了。

由先辈到现在的诗巫家长们，尤其是重视教育，因为惟有教育可以改变生活，带来更好的机会。

他说，教育对孩子们是非常重要的事，尤其莱拉泰益学院是一所技术学院，为砂中区的再生能源经济发展走廊提供资源人才，它将在未来几年开动。

该走廊将把诗巫、沐胶及民都鲁划为发展的三角区，涉及的领域包括各类工业、养殖业、制造业、渔业等，估计它会在2030年期间创造150万个工作机会。

“因此如何在未来10到20年里去创造这些领域的工作人才？同时政府欲在2020年达到发展的州属地位，现在是处于发展中阶段。”

他表示，今天毕业的学生将后有许多机会等待他们掌握，以及接受各方面挑战，毕业生们是明天的领袖，今天的领袖们已逐步要退休。

时间不断变迁，易了名的联合学院，将迈向更好的明天。

他希望毕业生们不论是步入社会工作，还是继续到国外升学，都要努力将自己塑造成全方位的人才，惟有如此才能确保自己在社会中立足，同时成为一名成功人士。

支持賭博的人怎麼有面子當副教育部長?

How can a deputy education minister supports gambling, while he is holding this position?

Let me vent my anger toward Wee Ka Siong. If he supports gambling, he better quit his job as deputy education minister now. This is like an uneducated proposal that is unhealthy for education, thus he is unfit (no longer relevant) as deputy education minister.

It is wrong for UMNO to say that Chinese like gambling or support gambling. It is only MCA that supports gambling. Remember, MCA represents only less than 30% of the Chinese.

I suspect MCA supports gambling because it is tied to the black money. It needs these black money to operate.

連國陣都支持民聯議員

怎麼國陣那麼害怕補選﹐會是連續的每場惡夢吧
每場補選﹐老百姓都期待聖誕老爺的NAJIB分大紅包﹐不是糖果吧了。
這人民對他的期待是他自己製造出來的
可是﹐禮物被拿了還無法勝利。可見沒禮物的話會敗得更慘
現在聖誕老公公害怕補選﹐一直禱告國會議員請別死掉
別辭職製造補選
就連民聯議員﹐國陣也希望他(民聯)保留議員的資格
國陣害怕連場的惡夢﹐拼命踏BRAKE也已經來不及煞車了

Nazri: Parliament need not decide on Tian Chua
Jun 20, 10 6:47PM
Minister in the PM's Department Nazri Aziz said everyone should hold to the High Court decision to avoid a by-election for the Batu parliamentary seat.

Election promise

No university for Sibu, confirmed by the Minister for Higher Education. So what are all those nice promises during election?

Who said the number of universities satisfied the need of Sibu? It is not the case. We should ditch away BN


高教部长：需求满足 政府不增设国立大学需求满足
(本报诗巫18日讯)高教部长在书面回答诗巫区国会议员黄和联时表示，鉴于目前的国立大学已能满足需求，政府没有计划增加国立大学的数目，包括没有计划在诗巫设立国立大学。

高教部长表示，政府将根据私人学院的条件，如稳健的财务状况，合格的师资，来把私人学院提升为大学。

在诗巫有四所私立学院，他们是卫理毕理学院、ITA学院、诗巫圣心学院及莱拉泰益学院还没有达到升格为大学的水平。

黄和联是询问高教部，联邦政府是否有计划在诗巫建立一所完整的大学，以克服人才外流的问题。

在诗巫，许多的学子赴外留学，就没有再回流。

巫需有素质的大学

高教部长是在6月10日回答黄和联的提问，虽然高教部没有计划在诗巫设立大学，黄和联于本月14日，再次为诗巫人请愿。

他在国会再次要求在诗巫设立一间完整的大学，而不是在补选中，为了要赢取选票，答应升格一间学院为大学。

他指出，诗巫需要有一间有素质的大学，以满足诗巫子弟的需求，因此，希望在下周的国会会议，联邦政政府会回答这问题。

他表示，诗巫有20万的人口，家长注重子女的教育，每年有1-2000名学子赴外留学，流失了上千万的外汇，要留住诗巫的人才，诗巫有必要设立一间完整及有素质的大学。

对于诗巫人才的外流，黄和联表示，昨天副人力资源部长在回答他的提问时表示，人才外流是马来西亚的趋势，不仅只有诗巫有人才外流的问题。

但是，黄和联指出，副部长并没有正面的回答他的提问，即如何阻止诗巫的人才继续外流，他就此而作出抗议。

他指出，诗巫的许多问题，在没有诗巫的代表如数道来的情况，没有得到重视。

在这季的国会，黄和联共提出15道问题，包括5道口头提问，至今，他已得到4个提问的回答，在到7月13日，本季国会结束时，将会得到所有的答案。

Tian Chua b'u'y election?

Whenever there is a b'u'y election, the santa has to give out millions of ringgit. I don't think Najib wants to have another one, especially if it is the strong hold of the Pakatan.

My guess is the election commission will let Tian Chua go. Let's wait and see the outcome

Brunei Sultan and M'sian wife

The sultans in bolehland are full of scandals (revoking Chua Jui Ming's datukships, in-fighting between the princesses in Kelantan, fightings between royal families of different states, princess abused Indonesian wife, etc.), and the sultan in Brunei is also facing his kind of problems.

After the oil fields were taken away, surrendered by Abdullah and Najib, now the Malaysian girl is ditched after having acted as little wife for 5 years. I afraid our feeling toward Brunei would be at its lowest point.

When the Indonesian beauty was abused by the Kelantan princess, the anti Malaysian emotion was at its peak. I don't know if there will be any demonstration against Brunei sultan by UMNO and Perkasa.

Young pretty girls, don't ever tried to dream of becoming a snow white!

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Brunei Sultan divorces M'sian wife

The sultan of the small oil-rich kingdom of Brunei has divorced his third wife and stripped her of all royal titles after five years of marriage.

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, 63, divorced Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim, 30, a former Malaysian television journalist, whom he married in 2005, according to state television late Wednesday.

too many bright students

We are really good in producing abundant bright students. Bright in the sense that they got so many A+, leaving aside the real contents of our A+. Are we enough to create the world record?

No wonder we can afford to export so many of our bright people to overseas in the form of brain drain, because we have too many of the bright ones!

Why we give people free lunch? Let them be responsible a bit for their spending by giving them loan instead of free lunch.

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Nazri: Putrajaya has no funds for bright students
By Clara Chooi
Nazri said the academic achievements of students have outstripped the government’s ability to sponsor them. — file pic

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz admitted today that the government did not have the “capacity” to finance the studies of the growing pool of bright students in the country.

The minister in the prime minister’s department said the public would just have to accept the reality of the situation although it was an unpopular decision.

“We have to tell the truth. We just cannot afford it. Just like how a parent cannot afford to send their children abroad to further their studies, the government cannot afford it.

“We do not have the financial capacity that permits us to send every good student abroad,” he told The Malaysian Insider at the MP’s lounge in the Parliament building here this afternoon.

Nazri, who is the minister in charge of the Public Service Department (PSD) scholarships, was explaining the Cabinet’s decision to eventually scrap the 1,500 scholarships offered to students for undergraduate studies overseas.

He said the government spent billions on scholarships annually and could no longer afford to accommodate the growing pool of bright students.

“There are two things here. One, it is financial capacity. Secondly, it is this: however we do it, whether we reclassify the As that the students get to A+, A and A-, the fact remains that in this year alone, the number of students who obtained 9A+ were over 1,200.

“This means that the boys and girls are getting more and more clever and we cannot reduce the number of scholarships we give out by re-grading the As any further,” he explained.

As a result, said Nazri, the Cabinet last week agreed that PSD scholarships given to students applying for courses in foreign universities would only go to those pursuing postgraduate courses and not undergraduate courses.

He noted that the 1,200 of the 1,500 presently offered to the students would slowly be phased out from next year onwards.

The remaining 300, which make up the quota for the Perdana Scholarships, would be retained.

“This is based solely on merit. Like this year, 80 per cent of the 300 scholarships were given to non-Bumiputras,” he said.

The Perdana Scholarships, he noted, would be given out to the cream of the crop and only to those accepted in Ivy League schools.

“For the remaining 1,200, we will phase them out completely over the years. For example, last year, from the PSD, we gave out 2,000 scholarships, including the Perdana Scholarships.

“This year, we reduced the number to 1,500. Next year, we will continue [to reduce this further],” he said.

Nevertheless, Nazri said that the extra funds would be given out as scholarships to students pursuing courses in the local universities.

“Ultimately, the purpose is also to retain our good students here in our local universities. We want our good students to study locally and this is our long-term goal.

“We want our universities to be first-class. We want to retain the money here, so we finance those in local universities — we want the talent here,” he said.

Nazri noted that one of the reasons behind the brain drain problem in the country was that many students pursued their studies in foreign universities.

“And when they are there and they have the connection, they no longer want to return,” he said.

First Lady

Najib: 'First Lady' not higher than the queen

Who can say that the first lady is not higher than the queen?

The boleh queen can last for only 5 years, but the boleh first lady can be 17 years in the case of Siti Hasmah, or almost 29 years in the case of Laila Taib.

no more public university in Sarawak

Does Taib mean that Laila Taib College will not become the next university in Sarawak? This sounds like a serious matter based on what SUPP promised to the Sibu people

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CM: No plan for another public university

June 11, 2010, Friday

KUCHING: There is no immediate plan to set up a new public university in Sarawak, said Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.

“The present population (in the state) does not justify such a big plan.

“Nevertheless, I think it is worthwhile to get reputable private universities to come in and develop their own campus in Sarawak instead,” he told reporters after a delegation from Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus visited him yesterday.

Taib pointed out that both Curtin and Swinburne were actually doing quite well, where the latter was looking forward to increase its capacity to 4,000 students next year from the present 3,000.

He said that Curtin and Swinburne universities had been conducting good programmes for undergraduates and both had been able to maintain their high standard.

“As for Swinburne, it has just receive a self-accreditation recognition from the Ministry of Higher Education, which means they now can get the accreditation for their own courses themselves,” he explained.

Taib said private universities ought to maintain their high quality of education and grow big enough to attract both local and international students.

At the same time, he also urged the various universities in Sarawak to have sufficient consultation among themselves so as to avoid conducting too many “uneconomic courses”.

He added that the present set of education programmes in the state was on the right track to meet the state’s manpower demands, particularly with the development of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE).

Meanwhile, during the visit, the Swinburne delegation, led by its chairman Datuk Amar Tan Sri Adenan Satem, presented a copy of the university’s certificate of self-accreditation status to Taib, who is the Pro Chancellor of Swinburne’s Sarawak Campus.

The Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) awarded Swinburne Sarawak the status after an audit of the campus in October last year based on the Code of Practice for Institutional Audit.

MQA is a statutory body responsible for monitoring and overseeing quality assurance practices and accreditation of national higher education.

In the audit, it looked into nine areas, namely — vision, mission, educational goals and learning outcomes; curriculum design and delivery; assessment of students; student selection and support services; academic staff; programme monitoring and review; leadership, governance and administration; and continual quality improvement.

首长：须具一定人口数量　砂无意再设公立大学

　　（古晋10日讯）砂州政府目前暂无计划再额外设立政府公立大学。

　　砂州首席部长丕显斯里泰益玛目表示，设立一家公立大学是属于大型计划，必须具备一定程度的人口数量，因此，本州政府无意再设立新公立大学。

　　继续引进国外大学设分校

　　他指出，虽然州政府暂无计划设立新公立大学的意愿，不过，州政府将继续努力引进国外知名大学前来砂州设立分校，有如目前位于美里的澳洲柯廷大学砂分校，及位于古晋的澳洲斯威本科技大学砂分校的成功模式。

　　他说，澳洲斯威本科技大学砂分校今年的学生总人数超过3000人，估计明年将突破4000人。

　　他说，上述两所国外分校提供的各种优质课程，吸引到许多国内外学生前往升学，例如澳洲斯威本科技大学砂分校开设的课程，成功获得我国高等教育机构大马素质委员会发出认证证书，既是一个典范。

　　他希望这两所国外大学分校继续扩展发展，以便能容纳更多国内外学生升学，而他也赞扬这两所国外大学分校管理良好，避免开设不符经济效益，即开办班级过小或成本过大的课程。

　　他认为砂大和这两所国外大学分校可进行适当配合，为砂州再生能源走廊培训足够的专业和本专业人才。

　　他也认为砂州现有的大专院校数量可基本满足砂州子民对深造需求。

A+

Is this a joke for the government? The standard of the SPM examination should be raised. There is no way you can produce so many A+ students compared to that of several decades ago. You just wanted to show that the education ministry did an excellent job by giving out A+ to many students. This abusing of SPM was after the fact that most people now have secured free pass in the SPM examination. If all these A+ students were true, we are already a country full of genius people.

Saturday June 5, 2010
Too many top scorers, too few PSD scholarships
By LOH FOON FONG
newsdesk@thestar.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: It is not possible to award Public Services Department (PSD) scholarships to all of the SPM straight-A students because there are too many of them.

Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong said 7,800 students obtained straight As while the PSD could only offer 1,500 scholarships.
Engrossed: Pupils Lai Siew Shan (left) and Chin Xin Yee looking at a book at the Read Malaysia fair in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

However, MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek and Dr Wee, who is also MCA Youth chief, said they had appealed to the PSD during a recent meeting to give out more scholarships in view of the high number of top scorers.

During the meeting with PSD director-general Tan Sri Ismail Adam, Dr Chua and Dr Wee brought up the case of 1,304 top SPM scorers who did not get scholarships from the department.

“Currently, 1,500 scholarships are given out, 214 to students with A+s,” said Dr Wee after launching the Read Malaysia 2010 book fair yesterday.

Dr Wee hoped that in future students with the most number of A+s would be given priority in the awarding of scholarships.

He also said that the DAP should not hit out at him because the awarding of the scholarships was not under his ministry.

At the book fair, Dr Wee said that the Malaysian Reading Profile Study 2005 by the National Library found that the number of books read by Malaysians in the past 10 years improved to two books each a year compared to the average of only two pages in 1996.

“Despite the improvement, the figure is still minimal for a nation that has a population of 28 million, and we hope Malaysians will also choose books that are of substance to read,” he added.

Pasar Sibu

Did you notice that all the main politicians came to the Central Market? Is this place the centre of population concentration?

Photos from See Hua Daily News (used without permission)

Samy vs Taib

So many people are pushing Samy to retire. Even Mahathir is suggesting Samy to retire, since Samy's term far exceeded his. Samy has been president of the MIC for 31 years.

However, Samy has never been a prime minister. How can that satisfy him?

Taib is in power for 30 years and is enjoying more wealth than Samy. Why no one from the federal is asking Taib to go? Mahathir mentioned about Samy but never mentioned about Taib. That was not fair.

Besides the opposition, who else dared to ask Taib to go?

Taib implies Sibu does not deserve to be a city

Instead of praising Miri, he simply implied Sibu does not deserve to be a city.

首长：拥各方条件 美里升市实至名归
Saturday, 22 May 2010 08:21

（本报美里21日讯）砂州首长丕显斯里泰益玛目表示，美里升格为市后，人民生活水平逐渐提高，人民都能在安居乐业。
他说，还记得在5年前，在砂第一副首长拿督巴丁宜丹斯里陈康南领导的人联党与其团队，都积极证明美里拥有升格为市的能力。
“还记得当时还与他们讨论说，要让美里升格为什么主题的城市？经过一番讨论后，该团队确定将美里升为旅游城。而美里的确有升格为旅游城市的资格。”

“因为美里拥有良好的地理位置，除了自然生态的旅游景区外，美里也拥有漂亮的海边及国际大学等，这些都可以证明美里拥有升市资格。”
砂州首长丕显斯里泰益玛目为今晚在东林高尔夫球俱乐部举行的“天王巨星麦可杰逊模仿舞蹈团歌舞会”主持开幕仪式，致词时发表上述谈话。
他续称，之前刚公布的《修订地契更新政策》，相信也为美里市民捎来佳音，毕竟在美里拥有多间豪宅，无论豪宅占地多少，地契更新费将以更新单位的数量为收费依据，独立式房子每单位收费仅6000令吉。
他说，每位屋主都可享有统一的地契更新费，不因为富豪或贫穷而有所分别。政府统一地契更新费，主要也是要鼓励人民拥有自己的屋子，不为昂贵的更新费用烦恼。
他还说，美里拥有高素质的生活水平，只要往鲁洼湾走一趟，就可以证明美里人的高生活水平。美里人生活水平高是因为美里是个工业城市，吸引国外人材前来工作、创业及投资，间接也使得本地人民收入变高，提升生活水平。

Wong Soon Koh

If Wong Soon Koh keeps bullying the opposition in the State Assembly, he will not just be defeated, but will be knocked out miserably in the coming state election. He has not learned from the recent defeat of his party in Sibu.

How can they simply bully our representatives who were elected by us? It is a direct bullying on the people. After being granted the job by his cousin, it is 20+ years. It is too long enough to corrupt a person like him. He has all that he wanted.

Wong Soon Koh led the BN team for the recent Sibu b'U'y-election. He made the prime minister lost so badly especially after the prime minister has pledged additional 5 juta the night before the polling with the most well-known Rejang Park speech. Wong Soon Koh would have been sent to the guillotine for this defeat if it were the middle-age China or Europe. In modern world, he would have accepted the defeat and judgement of the people. He would have taken full responsibility by stepping down or retiring from politics like what Wong Soon Kai has done. Instead, the man showed no shame.

Frog control

Sibu needs a flood control system, but Malaysia needs a reasonable frog control system.

There are some unethical politicians who were elected because they were in Pakatan Rakyat, yet they jumped because of personal financial interests offered by the Barisan Nasional. We need to teach these politicians a lesson. Of course we can wait until next election to cast our votes, but I think we can do something better before their term is over.

Can the PR controlled states first pass a law allowing the boss (we, the people) to remove the wakil rakyat at anytime during their tenure, if we can have signatures from more than half the voters? Can such decision be made by the state assembly instead of the election commission?

Political Analysts

Sibu b'U'y election produced a vast group of political analysts. Most of them are fresh. Some of them have been to Sibu for the first time and still some have never been to Sibu. By the way Najib has been to Sibu for three times and he said he knows about Sibu - we need 5 million ringgit!

They all gave their claims over the opposition victory. It is interesting to see how they torn Sibu into different pieces and analyse it. But the nice job was done after the election. These could be perfect and a part of academic exercise.

But how many of them were able to do a perfect job before the b'U'y election? No one had satisfied us with the prediction. I afraid you all understood just a part of Sibu, and not its heart.

Sit down in the kopi-tiam and the average Sibu people can give you a better answer. They know all the ins and outs.

I want to see more predictions before the election rather than perfect analyses after the election. So please go ahead to predict the next coming state or parliamentary election.

beauty contest as part of election campaign

SUPP used this beauty contest as part of the election campaign. Wong Soon Koh appeared in the function at RH Hotel to address these beauties.

It ended up as a joke because the organiser gave the Taiwanese beauty a sash TAIWAN CHINA, which roused anger by the Taiwanese government. The beauty had to quit over the pressure of the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry.


黄顺舸著党服为国际选美赛致辞

竞选期进入第4天，32位2010年国际旅游小姐比赛佳丽正式入驻诗巫市，为补选增添一道“漂亮的风景”。警方也再度传召行动党党员录取口供，调查一场早 已获得警察准证的集会，公青团则投报该党讲座场地东主遭国阵竞选人员恐吓。

32名来自不同国家的佳丽，是在今日中午正式抵达诗巫市最豪华 的常青酒店，以宣传下周在美里举行的2010年国际旅游小姐比赛。他们预料将会逗留两天，然后就会在周四出发到美里。

民众争相与各国佳丽合照
这些打扮漂亮和火辣的佳丽一出现，就顿时引发竞 选工作人员、媒体与公众的关注和兴奋，同时也捉紧机会与他们合照。

一名记者甚至笑称，这项活动所引起的兴奋，甚至是超越提名日的热潮，全 城似乎都在等待她们的到访。

常青酒店也是砂州国阵这次补选设立的竞选总部，以及新闻部设立的媒体中心地点，因此是许多记者、竞选人员与高 官频密出入之处。

忙于为本身候选人刘会耀助选的砂州第二财长黄顺舸，也在百忙中于下午两点抽空到常青酒店，为这些佳丽们举行记者会。

黄 顺舸尽管在致辞时没有触及补选，但是他却一身国阵制服，让这场记者会也增添了拉票的意味。

NONE他也欢迎这些佳丽到访，并介绍诗巫别称“天鹅 城”，是因为这里以前是不漂亮的城镇，犹如丑小鸭一般，但随后却蜕变为美丽的天鹅。





披TAIWAN CHINA肩帶 被爆矮化國格

〔記者謝文華、許紹軒／台北—馬來西亞越洋採訪〕馬來西亞阿拉力克公司（ALARIC’S PRODUCTIONS COMPANY）六日至二十日，於馬來西亞沙勞越舉辦「二○一○洲際旅遊小姐選拔（MISS TOURISM INTERCONTINENTAL）」，為台灣小姐披掛「TAIWAN CHINA」肩帶，遭民眾踢爆矮化國格。

外交部訓令駐大馬外館抗議

外交部新聞司長陳銘政對此表示，由於前往參加選美的團隊在事前並未向外交部通報，因而對於她們去馬來西亞參賽一事並不知情，外交部的一貫立場是只要獲悉有類似情形就會提出交涉，目前會訓令駐馬國館處向選美單位提出抗議，不能將台灣列為中國的一省。

帶台灣小姐赴外參加選美賽事二十多年經驗的造型總監張明珠獲知後，向阿拉力克先生詢問，她轉述，「阿拉力克表示，只要台灣政府抗議，他就更換台灣小姐肩帶。」

張明珠昨天上午致電外交部新聞處，要求外交部應向主辦單位表達抗議。她憂心，過去赴外選美，台灣能接受的最底線是「CHINESE TAIPEI」，若外交部不抗議，未來國際選美賽事恐循此模式，台灣在選美舞台上，將永遠淪為中國的一部分！

這項賽事現正進行到親善訪問、媒體爆光階段，民眾向本報爆料，在「當今大馬」馬來西亞當地新聞網刊登的照片，台灣小姐身上竟披掛「TAIWAN CHINA」肩帶。

阿拉力克接受本報記者電話採訪時表示，台灣小姐叫「陳ㄆㄟˋㄧㄥˊ」，被追問肩帶一事，阿拉力克只重複說了「Taiwan China」，未解釋說明就把電話掛上，不再接聽。

參賽佳麗認為不必修改肩帶

陳小姐受訪時，則堅持不願透露真實姓名，她說，因為是個人報名參賽，希望低調一點；她還說，對外都用藝名「藍翎」或「Amanda」。

對肩帶惹上國格矮化爭議，陳小姐不以為意且語帶不悅認為「台灣有人惡意中傷」。她說，自己目前在中國工作，在台灣也隸屬某經紀公司。她強調：「我持『中華民國護照』，代表台灣毫無疑問，中國對我也很友善，肩帶沒必要改。」

張明珠指，洲際旅遊小姐並未在台灣舉辦初賽，台灣選美界對陳小姐的背景十分陌生。

民進黨立委陳瑩認為，不論參賽者態度、觀念為何，外交部都應向主辦單位表達抗議。對於陳小姐認為披「TAIWAN CHINA」肩帶沒有不妥，陳瑩感嘆，陳小姐國家認同錯亂，顯示出國家在建立台灣認同的教育上非常失敗，再加上中國無時無刻用各種正面、負面的方式「同化」台灣，這是很嚴重的事，未來台灣派到國外的參賽者，都應該先上一堂「台灣認同課」，導正觀念再踏出國門。


遭批不愛國　余祥銓女友淚眼退賽 【5/19 19:27】



〔本報訊〕立委余天兒子余祥銓的女友Amanda，因為披著「Taiwan China」肩帶參加選美，遭批「不愛國」，據傳Amanda因為不堪外界的壓力，已經決定退出比賽。

　人在馬來西亞參加選美的Amanda，因為披著「Taiwan China」的肩帶現身鏡頭前，遭網友批評，甚至引發政壇口水戰。但余祥銓的母親李亞萍表示，Amanda到馬來西亞後承受很大壓力，每天都以淚洗面，18日晚間兩人視訊通話，就看到Amanda把眼睛都哭腫了，為了平息爭議，Amanda也決定退賽，今日就會從馬來西亞返回台灣。

　Amanda原本在選美比賽中，獲頒「最佳人緣獎」，還入圍決賽，但如今不僅要放棄比賽，可能也很難繼續她的選美夢想，讓李亞萍感嘆地說，她現在就怕這次事件，會影響兒子余祥銓與Amanda的感情。

BN should benefit from the defeat

It was quite a surprise that the BN accepted the defeat graciously. If by usual ways, they would have always blamed the people. The local BN politicians, those from Sibu and Sarawak, are trying to be careful in their comments because they have the big brother Najib in mind. Since the big brother Najib has indicated that the campaign lacked creativity and not energetic, anything may be expected to hit their heads as a result of the defeat (Najib said, 'machinery there is still operating in the old ways when they are supposed to be more creative and energetic').

The BN Chinese parties, such as MCA and SUPP, immediately took advantage of the defeat. Where is Gerakan (no voice yet although Koh Tsu Koon was around in Sibu a lot during the campaign)? They started sending signals to UMNO. For example, Chua Soi Lek made the comments about fair implementation of policies. As far as I know, SUPP top guns made similar type of comments about fair implementation of policies which they have denied in the past. Thanks to this defeat, else the 'yes' men would never had a chance to speak out to the big brothers.

I think the government should stop bashing on the opposition. Most people do not like to see the nasty behavior exhibited by the BN politicians, such as expelling or suspending the opposition members in the State Assembly. The YBs or MPs were sent by the people to the legislative assembly and punishing them meant punishing the people. The friendly politicians would be more acceptable to vast majority of the people. For example, look at Lim Guan Eng. He is the Chief Minister of Penang, yet he is so humble and close to the people during the campaign period. Would you like to compare Taib and BN top guns to him, who acted like an emperor, having many body guards around and coming with the most luxurious car and living in a palace? We want to ask the question: who are you?

BN should work hand in hand with the opposition in solving the issues. The ultimate goal of the politics and government is to create a better living society for the people. Development fund, for example, should be allocated to the constituencies which are under the control of the opposition. Much of the money allocated to BN are wasted. Don't throw money around to your kids because you are going to corrupt and destroy them. Direct election of the local members are demanded by the people. Even a big part of the state constituencies of Sibu are under the opposition, there has been no councilors from the opposition. The people want their voice to be represented directly.

P.S. There are a lot more issues about Sibu associated with the failure of BN. I am not going to repeat them here.

NOT LONG AFTER I POST THIS MESSAGE, I READ ABOUT BN SUSPENDING TWO STATE REPRESENTATIVES IN SARAWAK. SHAME ON YOU, BN POLITICIANS. YOU HAVEN'T LEARNED A LESSON

Rocket and Shuttle

How nice is this victory when compared with the space shuttle. They both reached the target on Sunday, May 16.

Published: Sunday May 16, 2010 MYT 9:28:00 PM
Shuttle closing in for space station docking

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP): Space shuttle Atlantis drew closer to the International Space Station for a Sunday morning linkup, as the astronauts - all 12 of them - excitedly awaited the 215-mile (346-kilometer)-high reunion.

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Election Commission should just admit that: yes, they played tricks. Even that, they could not win.

DAP - 18,845
BN - 18,447
Ind -232

Congratulation, the people's power and democracy!

I hope the DPM Muhyiddin has had a pleasant flight lari back to KL.

What is next for Sibu? Reformasi!

The whole SUPP team should be fired. Return the power back to the people.

Taib should also be fired because the b'U'y-election was about the referendum on him.

As indicated in the previous message, the people said NO to Najib's big shopping.

Say 'NO' to God of Wealth

Teach Najib and Barisan Nasional a lesson: we don't worship the God of Wealth! Najib, UMNO and SUPP insulted us because they thought we are less intelligent like Ulu Selangor.

Sorry Ulu Selngor, indeed your created such a record, or else Najib would have stopped doing it. Now, we, the people of Sibu, will stop him.

What Najib showed us is he is rich because he is controlling our money. Do you think such an idiot politician knows how to manage properly a country? He is spending our future. He is not just buying locally for what he wants, but also paying close to 100 millions to APCO in getting to meet Obama.

We are terribly sick of this BN government. They are going to bankrupt the country.

'one' Malaysia is just 'one' thing: big shopping or b'U'ying (and no brain)

Evaluation of SUPP candidate

We got to know better the SUPP candidate for this b'U'y-election. My general impression is he is not ready for the job. He is like a newbie and I could hardly believe that he has served the council for 17 years and has been a practicing lawyers for a while. I do not consider my view on him a personal attack, because I believe a representative should be open to our evaluation.

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1. The appointment as the designated successor by Robert Lau Hoi Chew, because he is the cousin, is the first negative fact. He is from a super rich family with the corporation making its wealth from destroying the natural resources.

2. Sibu is a town of great intelligence and we thought we have best brains around to represent Sibu, such as Dr. Wong Soon Kai. We were already disappointed by the representatives such as the deceased Robert Lau and Tiong Tai King who are not the most well educated people in Sibu. New Robert Lau is a lawyer, studied in UK, but we found out that he attended a so so school, not better than our local universities, with a world ranking of 936.

3. Robert Lau does not speak well. His English is so so and his Mandarin is poor. The most important skill of a politician is public speaking. The speech should be convincing to the people. That is how Obama won the support of the people and world leaders. I would feel so malu if Sibu is represented by him. Compared to the politicians coming to Sibu over the past week, we could see how much better they are compared to our local politicians. Over the campaign period, he hardly made any good speech, and most of the time he was a puppet. The big brothers such as Wong Soon Koh and even MCA and UMNO leaders have to speak for him. I do not see any way he can speak for us, and likely he is another yes man.

4. His public service record is weak. In the video released on youtube, he admitted that his job was mainly on the toilet project. There are so many problems in Sibu to be solved by the politicians. We cannot afford to have this position filled by a trainee who said please give me a chance. We have to pick up one who is ready for the job.

5. Most fundamental issues about Sibu have not been addressed by the candidate and the ruling party: infrastructure, flooding, employment, university education, among others. The worst part is their use of big money (bribes) in trying to cover up all these problems. This b'U'y has greatly insulted our Sibu intelligence. If you are not ready to solve our problems, forget about our votes.

Honestly speaking, I am at a loss about the 'surprise' of the candidate that Taib mentioned not long after Robert Lau Hoi Chew passed away. Perhaps, nothing surprising coming out of this candidate was the 'surprise'

Vote for the change

The young generations have changed. Many of them know exactly why we need to have a change in the government and Sibu b'U'y election can be an important step.

However, we have many older generations who thought they owed the government. They owed Wong Soon Kai and then Lau Hui Chew, in particular through the tiny b'U'y that they got during the previous elections.

They did not know that it is the responsibility of the government to serve the people. There needs no special appreciation as we all are entitled to any help given by the elected government. That is the way I view it if I were the MP or YB. We elect them to serve us.

We need to convince the older generations to change. If you happen to be not living with your parents or if you are outside the country, talk to them or make a phone call, and ask them to go to vote.

Vote for the change. That would be one of the most fantastic jobs you can do for your country.

Fundamental issues

With the coming of the God of Wealth, the fundamental issues in Sibu have been buried under the cash. I must say that the cash has shifted the focus of our major concerns.

Infrastructure, flooding, employment and university must be addressed by the Barisan Nasional toward the last stage of the campaign. The ruling party has been promising to solve the problems, but they were never solved. Rather, the problems are becoming more serious.

Long ruling of any political party is going to corrupt the system. Cronies grew bigger and bigger. We can see this clearly by looking at how the major companies (and United College) are tied to the political parties. With the power, one can secure more wealth from the people. There is increasing imbalance between the rich and poor Chinese, not to say between the Chinese and Dayak/Iban. This is not an issue about the race, but the rich and poor of all races.

Let’s see what will be popping up during the last few days of the campaign.

The international organisations should condemn Najib for openly buying votes during the elections. Was it the advice by APCO?

選舉已將進入最後的階段,可是隨著財神爺的到來,本地的一些基本問題卻被埋在金錢底下.這些金錢轉移了大家的視線.

基本設施,水患,就職,大學,....之類的問題還需要等待執政黨的解釋.雖然長年以來執政黨都在答應解決這些問題,可是問題不但都沒有結果,反而變得更深刻.

長久的執政導致政治腐敗,商官勾結變得很嚴重.我們都已經親眼看到大公司跟政黨的勾結,比如聯合學院的問題.當然,有了權力,更方便政治家獲取不當的利益.華人之間,貧富的差距變得越來越大,別說是華人跟友族之間的貧富差距.貧富之差距並不是某一個種族的問題,而是全部的種族間都存在的問題.

現在我們等待著看接下來最後幾天的進展.

國際組織應該公開譴責財神爺Najib在光天化日下買票.難道這都是APCO所提供的建議嗎﹖

Malay God of Wealth (財神爺)

Najib - the Santa as named by the media or better known as the God of Wealth in Chinese.

Unfortunately the Malay Santa was too busy and had too many clients to distribute his angpao. So he could not enter the temple or stay for longer. This is in contradiction to what SUPP politicians had announced beforehand - Santa will join in the procession. Even for such a simple matter, the SUPP cannot deliver the promise. They always talk big and either cannot deliver or will deliver very little.

After the Malay Santa gave the big angpao, we need some watchdogs to see that the money will be used in the right and transparent way. We don't want them to be wasted or flowing into the crocodile mouths of the cronies of SUPP politicians.

These angpao are not just for helping the Chinese schools, but the ultimate goal should be for helping the LOCAL economy. The projects should be done by the local companies, or a kind of NEP for Sibu in helping the employment. Again, be transparent in awarding the contracts.

Take the money and vote against corruption! You don't want to sell the soul of the Chinese. We will have to pay for it.

b.s. for more than 40 years

Has been developing Sibu for more than 40 years, but SIbu is still under-developed.

Has been fixing the roads in Sibu for more than 40 years, but the roads are still sinking.

Has been cleaning the drains in Sibu for more than 40 years, but the drains are still blocked.

So can we trust you about the flood control? Show us the engineering plan and design instead of just bull shitting about it in the press conference.

已竣工的治水计划的项目如下：

1.西段河美化及提升工程耗资1600万令吉，于2001年12月13日竣工。
2.巴拉路水沟提升工程耗资390万令吉，于2001年7月竣工。
3.林曼河提升工程耗资680万令吉，于2004年6月竣工。
4.诗巫市议会提升工程（第2配套）耗资1625万令吉，于2004年6月竣工。
5.伊干江与西段河口疏浚工程耗资320万令吉，于2009年12月竣工。

目前善在施工中的计划如下：

1.第一期诗巫治水计划耗资1亿3700万令吉，预定2012年2月完成，主要的内容是填高南兰律2.4公里路段、建3座水闸及2座抽水站等。
2.双溪安都治水工程耗资840万令吉，预定2010年5月完成。
3.双溪南甲治水工程耗资980万令吉，预定2010年7月完成。
4.林曼岸河乌也路治水工程耗资900万令吉，预定2010年9月完成。
5.红水沟及林曼岸河治水工程（抽水站）耗资3590万令吉，预定2010年9月完成，主要的内容是建2座抽水站、防洪池及河川疏浚等。

拿督斯里约翰尼贾尔斯说，在第九大马计划下，诗巫共获得2亿3700万令吉展开治水工程。

I was a good student

The news mentioned that Robert Lau has the most books in his collection and how much he has been reading per day. That sounds very good, but why he attended such a lousy school in UK? More in which candidate is smarter?

刘会耀藏书最多　亦热衷球类玩冲浪

　　访问刘会耀，在如火如荼的竞选期间，他的行程排的密密麻麻，各路媒体的访谈也是纷至沓来，我是在缝中插针，谈了不到半小时，他又要赶场，只好草草结束。相隔5天后，好不容易又挣来20分钟，他又得赶场。临走前，他丢出一句话：2个星期后，你们不会再有兴趣来找我了。

　　两个星期之后，正是全国瞩目的诗巫国会议席补选成绩揭盅之后，胜败已知。我在想，如果刘会耀中选，他还是媒体追逐的目标，只是不会聚焦在一时之间；一旦落选，以他的背景，难道就会从此隐没在政海之中吗？

　　一位朋友说得好：盛极有时，做名人要耐得住寂寞。

　　一夜间成媒体宠儿

　　过去鲜少在媒体面前曝光的刘会耀，一夜之间成为媒体的宠儿，一旦镁光灯暗去，多少会有点怅然。但是，我相信，他已经站上政治舞台，不会轻易消失。动中有静的刘会耀，家中第一多是藏书，他看的书多是社会学、公司经营学、经济、法律案列和名人传记。偶尔也看看小说，但绝不会是言情小说。

　　他平均一两个月看一本书。“我比马来西亚人一年平均看一本书好的多。”

　　晚上没有应酬或社交活动，他就呆在家里看书听轻音乐。不过，他在大学时期曾经很喜欢已故流行音乐天王迈可尔杰克逊。

　　生肖属蛇，蝎子星座的刘会耀并不相信这些会对人有什么影响，他认为一切上帝都做好了安排。包括他现在所选择的道路。

　　小学喜欢看老夫子、龙虎门和李小龙的漫画书，但是这些漫画看过就不留底，中学时期就改看书本，多数是阅读英文书籍。

　　目前，刘会耀除了热衷壁球与足球之外，他涉猎所有球类，甚至在新加坡也玩过滑浪。

Internal Security Act

It would be even better if May 13 commemoration rally will go in Semananjung. Please do it and you will see the response of Sibu!

Can you imagine that freedom of speech is not guaranteed?
Whenever BN felt not comfortable, they would use ISA. This is another reason to reject BN. We should stop them for abusing their power.


Sarawak CID chief Huzir Mohamed has advised all political parties to stop using the "Allah" issue throughout the campaign period.

He said that it is a sensitive issue and warned that if campaigners persist, they could be detained for sedition or under the Internal Security Act.

Chruches and politics

Churches are at the front line to seek the best for the people. They should even sacrifice their lives in protecting the people. Some twenty years ago, the Catholic church stood up to support the people"s power in the Philippines in order to get rid of the dictator Marcos. It was because the people suffered so much under the dictatorship, who was involved in abuse of power and corruptions. With the help of the Catholic church, the people won the democracy. This led to a change in the Philippines.

In the course of history, the church has also been blamed and in fact, carried a black name, because of their attitude of taking no action against Hitler that ended up in the Holocaust and lost of millions of Jewish lives......

So for the churches in Sibu, what course would you take? Don't tell me you do not want to be involved. The candidates are your believers. I hope you should make a decision instead of being political - trying to please the politicians who gave you funds.

Ill-planned projects and candies during election is a waste of the people's money. Not just that, the money will lead to more serious corruptions, no matter if you give it to the Chinese community leaders or who else. This will only end up in the pockets of BN politicians.

In general, both parties are well prepared for the campaign. I think PR, especially, have done very well the homework. The assistance by the PR from Semananjung seems especially useful. DAP from the west are all good in Malay language and they help to penetrate into the Malay population. In addition, the help of Keadilan and PAS definitely allows to secure more Malay votes. If DAP is able to keep the previous Chinese votes and with an increase in non-Chinese votes, I think the victory is there.

Big and small thieves

The thief who drove away the car of the Selangor police chief returned the car to the street, and left a message: Sorry PDRM tesilap sapu (Sorry PDRM it was a mistake)

I think this thief is better than our BN politicians and he should be pardoned. First, he returned the car and then he admitted the mistake he made. If I were the thief, I would not have returned it so that I would add more embarrassment to the police.

The BN politicians are worst because,
First, our BN politicians thought they are entitled to steal from the people.
Second, they never admitted that they are doing anything wrong.
Third, they would never return the stolen wealth to us.

I hope the mansions of SUPP politicians will be put up in the web, and we compare them to the long houses and houses of the poor people.

Have you noticed the difference in the kind of cars that BN leaders are using (regular cars versus Mercedes and Lexus)? the kind of chairs they are sitting (coffe shop plastic chairs versus the sofa)? as they come to meet the people.

How many of the politicians here are rich because of their stealing of the people's wealth?

Sibu

Sibu becomes well known because of this b'U'y election. Let's learn some historical and cultural aspects of Sibu in a few minutes, if you were not aware of it.
Unfortunately the documentaries are in Mandarin.

Sibu
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

Sibu's Ship building
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

Sarikei shares many similarities with Sibu
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

Democracy requires regular change in government

To assure democracy, we need to have a change in government from time to time. This is a natural process in any democratic countries.

This was the basic philosophy of Dr. Lee Yuan Tseh (李遠哲), the first Taiwanese Nobel laureate, in supporting Chen Sui-ben leading to him being elected as the president of Taiwan in 2000. The change in government ended the dictatorship of the Nationalist party that had ruled Taiwan for more than half a century.

We, the people of Sibu, need to follow this philosophy!

Many people later blamed Dr Lee for supporting Chen, but he insisted that he made a significant contribution to democracy in Taiwan by allowing a change in the government.

When a ruling party does not perform, it will be judged by the people through election. This happened to Chen's party as well.

李遠哲還是深深認為2000年的政黨輪替對台灣的民主化的過程中是件很重要的事，也覺得以後台灣政黨輪替的發生將會是個常態，民進黨表現不好，人民也已經用選票說明一切了

Consumption tax

Now it comes ......... the consumption tax

Do we think that those money used to buy votes in the b'U'y-elections is from the pocket of Najib? No, definitely not.

The people will have to pay for the price. We pay for Najib's generous shopping. In order to balance the budget, he needs to get the money from some where - from our pockets.

Consumption tax and higher tax rate would be awaiting for us, for both rich and poor, young and old.

Stupid person praised by low-IQ person

Why is the guru besar of UNIMAS trying to praise about Laila Taib College?
You have to realise that Unimas is one of the worst local universities. Your world ranking is 3441. You are the worst among the major government universities in Malaysia.

Your praise of LTK is like a person of low IQ praising a stupid person. Don't treat us Sibu people as stupid. There is a Chinese saying: When crossing the river, the clay Buddha cannot protect himself. Indeed Unimas needs to first improve itself, and how can you try to save LTK with your current ranking?

You can go and sign a thousand papers of memorandum. What is the purpose of doing so? It is meaningless. By doing so, you cannot become better by default.

More about Laila Taib College here: 2012

Why Alfred Jabu and not Soon Koh?

The politicians are so blinded about democracy and thought they can simply hand-pick their successors. The biggest recent joke being Mahathir picking up sleeping Abdullah that happened to be a political disaster. Tun Rahman picked up his nephew, Soon Kai picked up his cousin, and Robert Lau picked up his cousin......

Now Tun Rahman wanted to name another successor for his nephew. But he definitely named a wrong person. I may as well ask why it is Alfred Jabu and not George Chan or Wong Soon Koh? The reason is very simple. Under current BN structure, only the biggest party can be the decision maker, just like UMNO is dominating the Malaysian politics where MCA and MIC are just for decoration purpose. Yes, SUPP is there only for decoration purpose and served no other purpose. On the other hand, under the PR structure, any competent person can be the chief minister like in Pulau Pinang.

Alfred Jabu, Wong Soon Koh and George Chan are the worst politicians. They stick to the old tradition of securing their positions by praising Taib, suggesting Taib to continue leading the State. They do not advocate for democracy but for dictatorship. They can sell their race for their own benefit. Look at the situation of the whole Iban/Dayak community that is more obvious to us. A very common stupid thing they did was to support Taib as a motion in the State Assembly during the Haze Disaster. Guys, do you still remember the suffering of the people when Taib enjoyed a trip to Canada by twisting the fact? Yes, SUPP was supporting it blindly so that they can secure their position under Taib.

The presence of Taib - Soon Koh combination is the worst for Sibu, yet Taib could not elevate the status of Sibu in 2005. It is not just the Chinese who suffered greatly under Taib. The Malays are under serious threat. We saw pieces after pieces of Malay kampung disappeared from the Sibu map after being converted into commercial properties.

Recently Soon Koh could sell the people's college for 1 ringgit and renamed it Laila Taib College, under the name of Taib Mahmud's late wife. This was just to please Taib! These politicians could do anything to you in order to secure their own position.

That is all they have been doing and they can do. They are just the songbirds for Taib. They are just holding balls, or called 'Hulingpa' in Foochow (or you can pronounce it as 'falling apart' if you do not speak Foochow). So we better wake up now! Rejecting BN is the only way to change the political structure and to eliminate such family politics and dictatorship in Sarawak.

2012? Laila Taib College

2012 is definitely sooner than 2020, the well known Wawasan 2020. But do you think we will get a university in Sibu if supporting BN during this b'U'y election? My answer is NO.

Sibu to become city in 2005 was an empty promise. It was just a slogan to win the elections. Without fulfilling the promise, the Wawasan team members still do not dare to apologise publicly to the citizens of Sibu. Robert Lau has died and we will never hear his word of apology. We have trusted them in the past, and do we still want to be treated like a 3-year old child?

During previous state election, the same tactic was used by a BN candidate in promising the TARC campus in Bintangor. Even a piece of land was cleared with a construction sign board to make thing looked more real. Of course, nothing happened after the BN candidate won the election. So we should be extra-careful with what BN promised.

Najib better declare that Laila Taib College is renamed Laila Taib University now. There is no need to wait until 2012.

We do not see any plan for Laila Taib College to be changed into a university. If with Wong Soon Koh's son continuing to be the CEO, how can you call it a university with the top not having a PeeHD degree? These people are continuing to treat Laila Taib College as a family business. Remember the Chinese saying not to let the fertile water to flow into other people's rice field. There is no plan of hiring the teaching staffs. If it is for 2012, the hiring should have started by now. You don't come and tell us a kindergarten will be named a primary school tomorrow, with the same teachers.

The whole thing is at most to make it a branch of Unimas with the lecturers flying in and out of Sibu everyday? Or to get a few lousy lecturers. Will you then call it a university? Will we send the children to this kind of ochipara university? We already rejected it as a college and people continue to send their children to outside Sibu. With this Wawasan team, there is no way they can run the college properly, if putting own benefit above public interest. They can only deliver something inferior to us.

If Najib cannot declare the status of university in Sibu now, we may as well wait until 2012 and then see if it happens or not. Then we can decide to vote for BN or not. After having learned several lessons in the past, we should not rush to vote for BN.

So the verdict vote for BN should be a NO.

Limbang

Limbang issue is always in the mind of Sarawakians. Was it around 1970's when Datuk James Wong was jailed and rejailed because of his voice in the Limbang issue (or he was accused of trading off Limbang)? He became a free man only after he switched SNAP from the opposition to join the ruling party.

Now we suddenly heard of the undertable deal between Malaysia and Brunei about the oil resources near Limbang. Basically we abandoned the wealth. Abdullah and Najib did it without consulting the parliament. Tengku Razaleigh and Mahathir had smelled it, but it took so long until the whole thing started to surface.

Abdullah and Najib sold Sarawak away. How much more are we going to lose from this undertable deal? Do we still want to put our future on BN?

Perkasa, are you ready to fight with BN and Brunei on this serious problem?

Hantu b'U'y election

It is very very funny with this b'U'y election. This has probably never happened before in our local history.

First of all, a great local politician named his cousin as successor before he passed away. It was not a sudden death and thus he had had a bit of time to lay down the ground for his cousin.

Then the legacy of this deceased politician became a major part of the b'U'y election. The prodigy candidate jumped many grades (sorry, Soon Choon Teck, David Teng, and many others permanent assistant ministers), despite the fact that he graduated from a university with world ranking of 936 - came close to our local u.

In addition, the prime minister came to worship Wong Nai Siong, in order to tell the local Chinese how close he is to this dead man, as a way to b'U'y the Chinese votes with zero ringgit because Wong Nai Siong has been portrayed as a Foochow God by SUPP.

We are not electing politician based on the candidate himself, as he is less well known. He hardly speaks publicly and seems to have limited idea. He rather employed the big brother agents such as Wong Soon Koh to do the promotion for him. He is behind the scene.

We are now told to elect the new politician based on the spirit of the deceased persons. It also depends on how good are his agents. This is like electing hantu.

Liars in the Press Conference

Where is Soon Choon Teck? He no longer appears in the press conference. But I saw a few interesting reports about how SUPP lied to the people.

Daniel Ngien suggested the people to give the young blood a chance, but did these old goodies of SUPP ever give their young people a chance? They gave it only to their cousin.

Soon Koh accused Kit Siang of the father-son combination in DAP. This is exactly what I meant by the family tie in politics. Look at Taib Mahmud and his son, how Taib got the job from Tun Rahman, how Robert Lau wanted to transfer the job to his cousin. and how Soon Koh made his son the CEO of the United College.

Soo Koh accused DAP of cooperating with PAS. But, who is cooperating with Perkasa? Perkasa is worst than PAS, which has not done anything bad since ruling Kelantan. This Soon Koh is slapping at his own face for what he has said.

There are a lot more statements by Soon Koh that did not make sense. For example, he mentioned that throwing in a few million ringgit by the federal government was not because of the b'U'y election. He also accused Pakatan Rakyat for driving the people out of Malaysia. He does not need to tell us in Sibu about this because everyone know the answer.

Soon Koh and his associates are truly liars who wanted to fool the people. It is a big mistake to try to underestimate our mentality. We are now much smarter than before.

explain! why?

Wong Soon Koh, please don't tell us about the 3 million ringgit budget for flood control. We cannot trust you and your team.

Explain, why the following failed:-
. Sibu to become a city in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,..never
. keep telling us about flood control for several decades, yet there is still flooding
. keep filling the roads and yet the roads are still sinking
. university in Sibu
. more (to be added)

Can you give us more job opportunities? can you guarantee each one of us in Sibu to get a job (in the government or Rimbuan Hijau or KTS)

Why Robert Lau does not speak and Wong Soon Koh keeps campaigning for him? Does the candidate know what to do? Is the candidate incompetent to such an extent?

Welcome Perkasa and Allah issue

Can we invite Perkasa to Sibu? We want to see Ibrahim Ali coming with his Kris. That is exactly the kind of leaders UMNO has, such as Najib and Muhyiddin who pointed their Kris (to the Chinese).

SUPP has been campaigning against PAS in the past by trying to associate DAP with PAS. But the problem is SUPP has the worst enemy of us: Perkasa and UMNO. The real Islam is not that bad because Islam is actually close to Christianity compared to the extremist Perkasa, which is not about religion but about the racism. SUPP has no gut to voice against UMNO and Perkasa. In recent Ulu Selangor b'U'y election, we saw openly that Perkasa in fact supported BN. We should be able to confirm that Perkasa would support SUPP. If invited, Perkasa would come to campaign for SUPP??

It felt like a long while ago when Allah issue and church burning happened. But this was not too long time ago. We tend to forget about thing as soon as we do not get reminded often in the newspapers. The Allah issue is going to resurface again very soon after the b'U'y election. For a town with majority Christians, we certainly need to put this issue as a great concern.

We are the victims

We heard of million of ringgit being used to bribe the people during any b'U'y elections. Nowadays, bribing is always done under the day light, such that it may not be considered as a bribe any more. It is also disgusting that the Chinese communities, especially the schools, dared to accept such a bribe. It really damaged our good names.

SJKC Rasa sold our Chinese soul for 3 million ringgit - a lot to the small community at Ulu Selangor but negligibly small for the whole Chinese population in Malaysia. From now on, Chinese will be labelled as one who loves money and can be bought cheaply.

My question is, where will those money go? Did they usually go to cronies of BN politicians? Please check the school constructions in Sibu. Who are the contractors? Are the costs reasonable?

Those money spent on Sibu Gate, etc., could have better been spent on other facilities.

The persons who ultimately benefited and became very fat from the b'U'y elections could be the BN itself. The communities are being used by these politicians to make big money. Afterall, all these money come from the poor tax-payers. The people are always the victims.

Which Candidate is Smarter?

The candidates from BN and PR are now confirmed. Congratulation to Robert Lau Hui Yew (RLHY) and Wong Ho Leng (WHL).

But how did the media know that there will be no independent candidate(s), and if I will not stand in order to get some big money, as big as that of Ulu Selangor, from the bUy election?

I want to do something different from the old media, such as the newspapers, else you would not have to visit this blog. The newspapers have reported about the age, profession, family background, etc., for the candidates. You may be interested in measuring their wealth in terms of money and properties, their terms of public service as councillor or ADUN, to whom they are connected to.....

Based on the basic information from the media, I cannot judge which candidate is better (smarter). I simply love smart men. So I look at their educational background. They are both from good secondary schools in Sibu: Methodist and Sacred Heart. I don't know their SPM scores - definitely they did not get 10A or 13A, so they were both not as smart as half of our recent secondary students.

Then, the next measure is where did they go for the tertiary degree? You probably think that those who studied in local universities are not as good as those who studied overseas, because the moon are bigger and round overseas. Wong Ho Leng was reported to have graduated from University of Sydney, Australia, and Robert Lau from University of Hull, United Kingdom. I searched in the web and got the rankings of the universities where the two candidates attended. For comparison purpose, I also got the rankings of several of our major local universities.

I looked at the world ranking by Shanghai Jiaotung University (that is the one Lim Kit Siang always raised in the Parliament because he could not find MU there). University of Sydney is 94. But, I could not find the University of Hull....What should I do?

I looked at another website, 'Ranking Web of World Universities' at http://www.webometrics.info/
I found all the information that enabled me to make a direct comparison.
University of Sydney is 126 (for the boss of Premier Hotel, your Monash U is 99), and University of Hull is 936.

The best ranked local universities are UPM(686), USM(725), UTM(733), UM(778), UKM(985). To be honest, when coming to these numbers, we are confident in saying that they are equally good.

Now I can tell which candidate is smarter than the other, although they were not up to the standard of our recent secondary school students. Hopefully the information may form part of your judgement in deciding the candidate to vote for. I would vote for a secondary school student if anyone of them will stand in this coming bUy election.

The media are welcome to quote my news, but please cite this blog of your beautiful 'very fat lady.'




The following information are from www.chinapress.com.my

劉會耀簡介

市議員要貢獻鄉親

人聯黨新雀劉會耀今年45歲，執業律師，已婚並育有1女3男。1993年加入人聯黨。目前是人聯黨詩巫支部屬下市區事務所主席，也擔任了7年的詩巫市議員。

同樣叫Robert的他是人聯黨詩巫支部推荐的唯一人選，也是已故詩巫國會議員拿督劉會洲指定的接班人。

劉會耀曾在詩巫聖心小學和聖心中學求學，之后赴英國赫爾大學攻讀法律學位，并在倫敦修讀一年律師專業課程。他于1991年返回詩巫，任職執業律師已19年。

無論在求學或工作時期，他都熱衷參與社團、體育活動。熱愛運動的他，目前是砂壁球協會會長、詩巫壁球協會主席。

此外，他是聖心校友會主席，他也參加基督教青年會。

在詩巫土生土長的劉會耀對家鄉懷有一份濃郁的感情，希望能為家鄉人民貢獻力量。他在其面子書上指出：“我有一個夢，那就是以詩巫為首，把詩巫變得更好！”

黃和聯簡介

州議員披甲打國席

現年50歲的黃和聯，執業律師，已婚並和太太鄭愛鴒育有4女1男。

他曾在鼎新小學、敦化小學就讀，大學先修班分別在衛理中學及澳洲新南威爾斯州艾斯費爾德男子中學完成后，在澳洲修讀法律系、商業系及經濟系。

從澳洲返國后，1985年當執業律師，1986年4月19日年成為行動黨永久黨員。他曾任行動黨砂州委員會宣傳秘書、財政、政治教育局、砂州社青團團長美里支部主席及詩巫支部主席，從 2000年10月迄今，他出任行動黨砂州委員會主席職。

目前是武吉阿瑟區州議員的黃和聯，自1986年開始便在全國大選都披甲上陣，只有 1990年那一屆息戰。

他在1986年出戰美里藍卑爾國會選區，與人聯黨的陳華貴交峰，但卻敗北；1995年再披戰袍，在詩巫國會選區挑戰劉會洲，也吃敗仗；1999年國選，挑戰現任南蘭區國會議員拿督張泰卿，再度飲恨沙場；2004年和2008年國選，屢敗屢戰的黃和聯再與劉會洲對壘，同樣被對手打敗。