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。