All of a sudden, the political scene was buzzing and hissing on the hyped up issue of the so called third force. Much of the hype were due to Hassan Ali and his latest NGO, Jalur Tiga (JaTi)...hmmm....sounds familiar...a striking resemblance to Pekida@Tiga Line. Road shows were held and are still being conducted to kick-off the NGO, and these road shows are also meant to discredit PAS. Poor Hassan Ali, the more damage he thinks he is inflicting on PAS, he is dead wrong...by the way things are developing, it is back firing. it is indeed causing severe self damage...any respect he used to garner...is fading very quickly...... I wonder how long would it take for him to realise that he is merely being used or rather abused by the ruling coalition for their own purposes. Heck! I wouldn't be surprised if he indeed knew that....but still carrying on just for the sake of getting back at PAS and Pakatan Rakyat. I also kinda agree with the former Perlis Mufti, Dr Asri, on the tagline of JaTi, namely Islam,Malay and Raja....Dr Asri's argument is if you really follow Islam it kind of take care of all, and there is no need for you to specifically cater for certaing group or people.It seems Hassan Ali's move is nothing more than a cheap gimmick gaunning for cheap publicity, sympathy and empathy.
Now back to the issue of the force, to begin with, it is not even a force, it consist of political jokers, idiots, swindlers, two timing clowns.......or to put it simple, rejects. Seriously.......Zul Nordin, Berahim Ali, Abu Zahrain, Wee Choo Keong, Gopalakrishnan, and of course Hassan Ali included, do you seriously think any of them still command respect or trust from the rakyat?....I can safely say that in a clean and transparent election all these jokers would lose their deposits, Berahim Ali can vouch for that, he has experience of losing his deposit.
These so called third force in fact could be called Parti Australia....the continent where convicts used to be dumped.
May the force be with the rakyat....God willing....we will be back on the right track...adios for now.....a.h.baharom
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Another scandal exposed: Highway to Hell
OMG!....they never seems to be slowing down, another scandal is being exposed, the award of lucrative RM2.2 billion contract to build the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex) to the cronies. Its sickening, how else would you describe the feeling? This time it is the turn of the flamboyant Datuk Hafarizam Harun, prominent Umno lawyer and the wife of former Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi who are being implicated. The source of expose also further claimed that the award of the project is the reward of bringing down the previous Pakatan Perak Government. If the claims are indeed true...Yucks!, don't these people (whoever they are, the planners, the executers as well as the conspirators), believe in Al-Mighty God?...Don't they believe in after life?....They better be prepared or else they would definitely be on the Highway to HELL!
GOD, please help us and have mercy on us....adios.....a.h.baharom
p/s below is the full article on the revelations..
UMNO lawyer confirms highway award, says not a ‘deal’ for Perak
By Debra Chong
February 21, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 — A prominent Umno lawyer confirmed today that a company controlled by him, and in which the wife of former Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi is director, was awarded a lucrative RM2.2 billion contract to build the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex).
But Datuk Hafarizam Harun told The Malaysian Insider that any suggestion of a deal struck because of his role in the Perak constitutional crisis in 2009 was “tainted with mala fide (bad faith) and intended to bring me and Tun Zaki into public odium, scandal and disrepute.”
Hafarizam, who is the ruling Malay party’s legal adviser, denied that the highway concession award was given as a reward to him and former chief justice, Zaki, allegedly for their roles in the 2009 Perak crisis that saw the state government switch from Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to Barisan Nasional (BN), which is held together by Umno.
Zaki declined to comment when contacted for this article.
“The contract was awarded to us after the company proved itself with its track records,” Hafarizam said in a text message to The Malaysian Insider.
Emrail Sdn Bhd and Zabima Engineering Sdn Bhd have been awarded the lucrative RM2.2 billion contract to build the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex), Hafarizam confirmed today.
“Yes I am a Director of both Zabima/Emrail,” he told The Malaysian Insider in a text reply this morning.
“Both Cos [companies] are separate in their core business ie Rail-track specialist and Class A contractor. D word ‘deal’ is misleading, tainted with mala fide and intended to bring me and Tun Zaki into public odium, scandal and disrepute,” he replied when asked to clarify an allegation by controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin posted online yesterday.
The editor of the Malaysia Today website claimed in an article published yesterday under the title “Episode 9: The reward for giving Perak back to Umno” that Harafizam and Zaki, who retired on September 9 last year, were awarded the highway contract, via Emrail that will be a tolled road.
“Incidentally, did you notice one very crucial matter in this whole thing? Yes, you got it, the current Umno Legal Advisor represented Umno in the Perak Constitutional Crisis while the previous Umno Legal Advisor (the Chief Justice) made the decision of ‘ordering his number two to sit on the bench in his place’. And guess who won the case? Talk about ‘all in the family’!
“Now, who are the other directors of Emrail?,” Raja Petra, popularly called RPK, wrote, adding “One is Toh Puan Nik Sazlina Mohd Zain, Tun Zaki Azmi’s wife. Yes, the same man we are talking about above, the recently retired Chief Justice. And the other is Tan Sri Dato’ Hari Narayanan Govindasamy, Samy Vellu’s proxy.”
Nik Sazlina is a director in Emrail, the same company that Hafarizam had admitted to sitting on its board as director.
Emrail’s website stated that the company is “steered by an able team of professionals led by captains of industry, chairman Datuk Hafarizam Bin Harun and deputy chairman Tan Sri Datuk Hari Narayanan a/l Govindasamy. As major shareholders of Emrail, they are at the helm in all projects from concept to finish.”
It listed “Toh Puan Nik Sazlina Mohd Zain” as a company director.
The new highway will link Kinrara and Pusat Bandar Damansara and will divert traffic on the LDP.
“I’m keeping my options open but I don’t think it’s RPK that’s the one who is attacking.
“There are ‘unseen hands’ maybe out of jealousy, greed and dissatisfaction because we are amongst the few Bumi-Controlled private Cos (sic) that got the project.
“As far as I’m concerned, I will soldier on to kick-start the project and complete well before time,” Hafarizam said in his text message to The Malaysian Insider.
The Edge Financial Daily reported on February 17 that the government had called a tender for the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex).
The announcement mentioned that seven companies are bidding for the job, which includes Bina Puri, Mudajaya, and Pesona Metro Sdn Bhd.
“The tenders are just out and it is not certain yet on the tenure of the concession as the CA has not been finalised,” said a source.
GOD, please help us and have mercy on us....adios.....a.h.baharom
p/s below is the full article on the revelations..
UMNO lawyer confirms highway award, says not a ‘deal’ for Perak
By Debra Chong
February 21, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 — A prominent Umno lawyer confirmed today that a company controlled by him, and in which the wife of former Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi is director, was awarded a lucrative RM2.2 billion contract to build the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex).
But Datuk Hafarizam Harun told The Malaysian Insider that any suggestion of a deal struck because of his role in the Perak constitutional crisis in 2009 was “tainted with mala fide (bad faith) and intended to bring me and Tun Zaki into public odium, scandal and disrepute.”
Hafarizam, who is the ruling Malay party’s legal adviser, denied that the highway concession award was given as a reward to him and former chief justice, Zaki, allegedly for their roles in the 2009 Perak crisis that saw the state government switch from Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to Barisan Nasional (BN), which is held together by Umno.
Zaki declined to comment when contacted for this article.
“The contract was awarded to us after the company proved itself with its track records,” Hafarizam said in a text message to The Malaysian Insider.
Emrail Sdn Bhd and Zabima Engineering Sdn Bhd have been awarded the lucrative RM2.2 billion contract to build the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex), Hafarizam confirmed today.
“Yes I am a Director of both Zabima/Emrail,” he told The Malaysian Insider in a text reply this morning.
“Both Cos [companies] are separate in their core business ie Rail-track specialist and Class A contractor. D word ‘deal’ is misleading, tainted with mala fide and intended to bring me and Tun Zaki into public odium, scandal and disrepute,” he replied when asked to clarify an allegation by controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin posted online yesterday.
The editor of the Malaysia Today website claimed in an article published yesterday under the title “Episode 9: The reward for giving Perak back to Umno” that Harafizam and Zaki, who retired on September 9 last year, were awarded the highway contract, via Emrail that will be a tolled road.
“Incidentally, did you notice one very crucial matter in this whole thing? Yes, you got it, the current Umno Legal Advisor represented Umno in the Perak Constitutional Crisis while the previous Umno Legal Advisor (the Chief Justice) made the decision of ‘ordering his number two to sit on the bench in his place’. And guess who won the case? Talk about ‘all in the family’!
“Now, who are the other directors of Emrail?,” Raja Petra, popularly called RPK, wrote, adding “One is Toh Puan Nik Sazlina Mohd Zain, Tun Zaki Azmi’s wife. Yes, the same man we are talking about above, the recently retired Chief Justice. And the other is Tan Sri Dato’ Hari Narayanan Govindasamy, Samy Vellu’s proxy.”
Nik Sazlina is a director in Emrail, the same company that Hafarizam had admitted to sitting on its board as director.
Emrail’s website stated that the company is “steered by an able team of professionals led by captains of industry, chairman Datuk Hafarizam Bin Harun and deputy chairman Tan Sri Datuk Hari Narayanan a/l Govindasamy. As major shareholders of Emrail, they are at the helm in all projects from concept to finish.”
It listed “Toh Puan Nik Sazlina Mohd Zain” as a company director.
The new highway will link Kinrara and Pusat Bandar Damansara and will divert traffic on the LDP.
“I’m keeping my options open but I don’t think it’s RPK that’s the one who is attacking.
“There are ‘unseen hands’ maybe out of jealousy, greed and dissatisfaction because we are amongst the few Bumi-Controlled private Cos (sic) that got the project.
“As far as I’m concerned, I will soldier on to kick-start the project and complete well before time,” Hafarizam said in his text message to The Malaysian Insider.
The Edge Financial Daily reported on February 17 that the government had called a tender for the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex).
The announcement mentioned that seven companies are bidding for the job, which includes Bina Puri, Mudajaya, and Pesona Metro Sdn Bhd.
“The tenders are just out and it is not certain yet on the tenure of the concession as the CA has not been finalised,” said a source.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
‘I don’t want to die useless’
Aneesa Alphonsus
| February 20, 2012
National laureate A Samad Said believes that Malaysians chose to keep their mouths shut, doing nothing; then 'don’t blame the government. Blame yourself'.
FEATURE
Walk into the National Museum and head into the “Malaysia Now” Exhibit at Gallery D and you will see him among the nation’s literary greats. National laureate A Samad Said, a dimunitive man with a larger than life persona and much revered by Malaysian.
Conversation with him is a surreal experience, more so when he ordered a hot chocolate with an impish smile, dashing the notion that all serious literary people drink coffee – black.
At 76 years old, Pak Samad has the kind of zen persona that makes even his most vitriolic statements sound like poetry. It does then seem odd that he should co-chair the Bersih coalition.
So how did this quiet, unassuming man get involved in one of the biggest demonstrations the country has seen?
Those who saw the photos or who were at the walk in July 2011 are likely to remember for a long time to come, the sight of him walking barefooted to the palace to deliver a memorandum after having lost his slippers in the foray of the demonstration.
After so many years of quiet, why now at this age, did he decide to lend his voice and be a part of such a rally?
A native of Belimbing Dalam, a villager near Durian Tunggal in Malacca, Pak Samad received his early education during the second World War years at Sekolah Melayu Kota Raja (Kota Raja Malay School) in Singapore.
When the war was over, he continued his education at Singapore’s Victoria School and went on to work as a clerk in a hospital.
Pak Samad confessed that he had always wanted to be a writer. He began an unsuspecting career in 1954 by writing short stories, poems, features, dramas, novels and even diaries.
Later, he would get a job with Utusan Zaman in Singapore and other well-known Malay language magazines like Mastika and Remaja. He added that the reason why he wanted to write to much was so that he could chronicle everything he saw as sincerely as possible as seen through his eyes.
His calling as a writer was cemented in the years of 1957 and 1968 when a novel he had written won the consolation prize in a writing competition organised by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
The novel was Salina. Salina was the story of a woman who, due to poverty, finds work in the Singapore’s red light district of the 1950s.
Salina the novel, is today touted as a literary masterpiece, moving in its portrayal of humanity.
Much ugliness in Malaysia
When asked if Pak Samad personally knew a woman like Salina, he proffered that he knew and met many women like her. Salina, he said, was a composition of characters he had met.
“When I was in Singapore in the 1950s, I lived in places like Lorong Lalat before moving to Rangoon road. Both these areas and the surrounding ones like Johor Road and Deskar Road were red light districts.
“The rooms and houses were cheap, so that’s where I stayed,” he smiled.
“It was during this time that I got to know a few waitresses and sex workers. I would say that the character of Salina was a combination of these women I met.”
Salina took Pak Samad to greater heights and his writing career flourished.
As the years began to roll out, he realised that settling to recording and writing what he saw wasn’t enough.
Leaning forward in his chair, he said: “Here there were so many ugly things happening in front of me. I would see unfairness, intimidation, fraud and this moved me a step ahead from what I was used to.
“I saw that after 54 years of independence, we have come to point zero again. We have become racial when we want to win votes.
“I think there’s something wrong somewhere if, after five decades, a nation cannot stand on solid ground; I think it has failed.
“This is why I decide to walk, as you asked me. I wanted to do more than just write about what I saw.”
‘We need sincere leaders’
Pak Samad has his own idea of what it would take for the country to thrive as she should.
It’s a big idea, but he put it simply when he said, “We need sincere leaders with a vision and with a real project in mind to galvanise a nation. We don’t have that right now.”
He added that having said that, it would only be fair to exclude Tunku Abdul Rahman from the equation.
“Tunku Abdul Rahman was the beginner… who started things.
“Tun Abdul Razak may have had a vision but this didn’t quite turn out because he was too pro-Malay.
“After that, everything became rojak… because things became messy; you don’t come to the ideal to have a nation which is now symbolised by a motto – 1Malaysia. That’s what it is – 1Malaysia is just a motto, an advertisement.”
At this point, Pak Samad opened his eyes wide in mock annoyance, then quickly breaks into a smile and laughing heartily he asked, “Do I look angry? I’m not angry. I just act angrily.
“My wife always reminds me to be careful about what I say and write. But I know that whatever I write, there will be repercussions. I have always said that poems are weapons. I even have an anthology out called Puisi Itu Senjata but people don’t read it.”
But Pak Samad’s sense of reassurance is settled in the fact that Malaysians are beginning to voice their thoughts.
He said he believed that the younger generation is making an impact in some of the changes being witnessed. The “old people” he has discounted because they already know who to vote for.
‘Don’t blame the government’
Pak Samad is hopeful that this will eventually bring about the balance which is needed for democracy.
He said that this equilibrium will end what the government is doing by giving abrupt citizenship to immigrants just to make sure they vote for Barisan Nasional.
Why should someone who has just been here for three or five years be given the power to determine the country’s rule is a question he posed.
He said there were millions of other genuine rakyat who are not been given that chance.
“I will come back to the same thing again and again. I’m afraid that Malaysians won’t do their bit.
“If you keep your mouth shut doing nothing, don’t blame the government. Blame yourself,” he stated.
Perhaps it is this dogged determination which he says is part of his personality that has kept him doing what he has all this time.
To those who are not familiar with Pak Samad, fiery is not how one would describe him. But make no mistake that he is.
He doesn’t suffer fools gladly but is still very compassionate about the rights of Malaysians and there isn’t an iota of doubt that this is a man who is in love with his country.
He laughs at his repetitive self and says he knows he sometimes sounds like a broken record.
‘I am still same person’
But he doesn’t mind, of course, because someone has to say something. And at the risk of getting into trouble for it, he is completely at peace with it being him.
Acknowledging that he is in the twilight of his life, Pak Samad expressed a desire to see Malaysia become an example of a new country – harmonious, rich, fair, respectful and dominant in a way that her voice will be internationally respected.
“Some people have told me that I have changed as a person. But I know I am still the same. I do what I do, say what I say and write what I write because I don’t want to die uselessly.
“I want to be able to die knowing that I did something for my country, even if it’s a small part, to bring about the change I hope to see in my lifetime.”
| February 20, 2012
National laureate A Samad Said believes that Malaysians chose to keep their mouths shut, doing nothing; then 'don’t blame the government. Blame yourself'.
FEATURE
Walk into the National Museum and head into the “Malaysia Now” Exhibit at Gallery D and you will see him among the nation’s literary greats. National laureate A Samad Said, a dimunitive man with a larger than life persona and much revered by Malaysian.
Conversation with him is a surreal experience, more so when he ordered a hot chocolate with an impish smile, dashing the notion that all serious literary people drink coffee – black.
At 76 years old, Pak Samad has the kind of zen persona that makes even his most vitriolic statements sound like poetry. It does then seem odd that he should co-chair the Bersih coalition.
So how did this quiet, unassuming man get involved in one of the biggest demonstrations the country has seen?
Those who saw the photos or who were at the walk in July 2011 are likely to remember for a long time to come, the sight of him walking barefooted to the palace to deliver a memorandum after having lost his slippers in the foray of the demonstration.
After so many years of quiet, why now at this age, did he decide to lend his voice and be a part of such a rally?
A native of Belimbing Dalam, a villager near Durian Tunggal in Malacca, Pak Samad received his early education during the second World War years at Sekolah Melayu Kota Raja (Kota Raja Malay School) in Singapore.
When the war was over, he continued his education at Singapore’s Victoria School and went on to work as a clerk in a hospital.
Pak Samad confessed that he had always wanted to be a writer. He began an unsuspecting career in 1954 by writing short stories, poems, features, dramas, novels and even diaries.
Later, he would get a job with Utusan Zaman in Singapore and other well-known Malay language magazines like Mastika and Remaja. He added that the reason why he wanted to write to much was so that he could chronicle everything he saw as sincerely as possible as seen through his eyes.
His calling as a writer was cemented in the years of 1957 and 1968 when a novel he had written won the consolation prize in a writing competition organised by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
The novel was Salina. Salina was the story of a woman who, due to poverty, finds work in the Singapore’s red light district of the 1950s.
Salina the novel, is today touted as a literary masterpiece, moving in its portrayal of humanity.
Much ugliness in Malaysia
When asked if Pak Samad personally knew a woman like Salina, he proffered that he knew and met many women like her. Salina, he said, was a composition of characters he had met.
“When I was in Singapore in the 1950s, I lived in places like Lorong Lalat before moving to Rangoon road. Both these areas and the surrounding ones like Johor Road and Deskar Road were red light districts.
“The rooms and houses were cheap, so that’s where I stayed,” he smiled.
“It was during this time that I got to know a few waitresses and sex workers. I would say that the character of Salina was a combination of these women I met.”
Salina took Pak Samad to greater heights and his writing career flourished.
As the years began to roll out, he realised that settling to recording and writing what he saw wasn’t enough.
Leaning forward in his chair, he said: “Here there were so many ugly things happening in front of me. I would see unfairness, intimidation, fraud and this moved me a step ahead from what I was used to.
“I saw that after 54 years of independence, we have come to point zero again. We have become racial when we want to win votes.
“I think there’s something wrong somewhere if, after five decades, a nation cannot stand on solid ground; I think it has failed.
“This is why I decide to walk, as you asked me. I wanted to do more than just write about what I saw.”
‘We need sincere leaders’
Pak Samad has his own idea of what it would take for the country to thrive as she should.
It’s a big idea, but he put it simply when he said, “We need sincere leaders with a vision and with a real project in mind to galvanise a nation. We don’t have that right now.”
He added that having said that, it would only be fair to exclude Tunku Abdul Rahman from the equation.
“Tunku Abdul Rahman was the beginner… who started things.
“Tun Abdul Razak may have had a vision but this didn’t quite turn out because he was too pro-Malay.
“After that, everything became rojak… because things became messy; you don’t come to the ideal to have a nation which is now symbolised by a motto – 1Malaysia. That’s what it is – 1Malaysia is just a motto, an advertisement.”
At this point, Pak Samad opened his eyes wide in mock annoyance, then quickly breaks into a smile and laughing heartily he asked, “Do I look angry? I’m not angry. I just act angrily.
“My wife always reminds me to be careful about what I say and write. But I know that whatever I write, there will be repercussions. I have always said that poems are weapons. I even have an anthology out called Puisi Itu Senjata but people don’t read it.”
But Pak Samad’s sense of reassurance is settled in the fact that Malaysians are beginning to voice their thoughts.
He said he believed that the younger generation is making an impact in some of the changes being witnessed. The “old people” he has discounted because they already know who to vote for.
‘Don’t blame the government’
Pak Samad is hopeful that this will eventually bring about the balance which is needed for democracy.
He said that this equilibrium will end what the government is doing by giving abrupt citizenship to immigrants just to make sure they vote for Barisan Nasional.
Why should someone who has just been here for three or five years be given the power to determine the country’s rule is a question he posed.
He said there were millions of other genuine rakyat who are not been given that chance.
“I will come back to the same thing again and again. I’m afraid that Malaysians won’t do their bit.
“If you keep your mouth shut doing nothing, don’t blame the government. Blame yourself,” he stated.
Perhaps it is this dogged determination which he says is part of his personality that has kept him doing what he has all this time.
To those who are not familiar with Pak Samad, fiery is not how one would describe him. But make no mistake that he is.
He doesn’t suffer fools gladly but is still very compassionate about the rights of Malaysians and there isn’t an iota of doubt that this is a man who is in love with his country.
He laughs at his repetitive self and says he knows he sometimes sounds like a broken record.
‘I am still same person’
But he doesn’t mind, of course, because someone has to say something. And at the risk of getting into trouble for it, he is completely at peace with it being him.
Acknowledging that he is in the twilight of his life, Pak Samad expressed a desire to see Malaysia become an example of a new country – harmonious, rich, fair, respectful and dominant in a way that her voice will be internationally respected.
“Some people have told me that I have changed as a person. But I know I am still the same. I do what I do, say what I say and write what I write because I don’t want to die uselessly.
“I want to be able to die knowing that I did something for my country, even if it’s a small part, to bring about the change I hope to see in my lifetime.”
Rakyat gives and forgives, Politicians gets and forgets
Why is that we the rakyat keeps on giving and forgiving, we keep on giving the mandate, the votes, the responsibility to govern, the task to manage the treasure chest, but they, the politicians, after getting the mandate seems to be forgetting us the rakyat. All they think of is their own piggy bank, they pusue their own interest, they prioritize their families and cronies...the loop keeps repeating....When is it going to stop? How are we, the rakyat going to end it? When are we going to put a full stop?
We should stop forgiving.....because they would not stop forgetting.Numerous scandals have surfaced, from balinese bungalow scandal to cowgate scandal, they doesn't seems to repent, they are least bothered by the exposes, how else would you explain the never ending 'soap operas' we are fed with?
Say NO to corrupt politicians....say NO to corrupt coalition....if you do not gives mandate...they won't get opportunities to swindle.
Adios.......a.h.baharom
We should stop forgiving.....because they would not stop forgetting.Numerous scandals have surfaced, from balinese bungalow scandal to cowgate scandal, they doesn't seems to repent, they are least bothered by the exposes, how else would you explain the never ending 'soap operas' we are fed with?
Say NO to corrupt politicians....say NO to corrupt coalition....if you do not gives mandate...they won't get opportunities to swindle.
Adios.......a.h.baharom
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