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Breaking the cipher: What Pak Lah is trying to tell you…

People.. get this right..

When Pak Lah said the government has nothing to do with the latest sodomy accusation against Anwar Ibrahim, what he is trying to tell us exactly??

You must know this man. He is not able to say thing as it is.. He is the master of cryptic, his words are more ambiguous, full of hidden and mystifying meanings than Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. This is one damn talented guy we are talking about here. You constantly need to crack your head to figure out what exactly he is saying. Most of the time, he is making no sense, so do not worry or disheartened if you cannot understand him. Sure, you can always call him a pathological liar, if you have diamond encrusted balls..

At first it is hard to read him. After a while, you will see the pattern. You will get better by experience..

I am not very sure what exactly he is saying.. especially when he said unnecessary thing like this:

“I believe even my friends like (Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri) Najib (Tun Razak) did not … PM: BN not behind latest sodomy allegation against Anwar ..

“The government has no intention of wanting to make life difficult for him or to harass him,”

Don’t you think it is funny when he said those things? Especially on Najib, how the government never instruct the police to take any action against Anwar and has no intention of wanting to make life difficult for him. Why the need to explain so much when so little questions were asked? Yes I watched the interview on TV3 just now.

Why he needs to say so many things? OMAIZGOAT!! He is trying to say something but as usual he doesn’t know how to put it.. It is a cipher and you need to decode it, like always. It takes a very smart man to do things like him. Yes, he has problems putting things as there are. You do not believe me? Let’s see:

1. When he said the news about him going to re-marry was just a baseless rumour, it actually meant the news was true. Yes he re-marry soon after that.

2. When he said the election would not be held on the next day, it actually meant the election would take place next day. Yes, it happened that way.

3. When he said BN still received many supports from Malaysians, well.. you know. It’s obvious what the GE 2008 tells you.

4. When he said there would be no fuel increase until August, he raised the fuel price on the next day by 40%.

There are more, but I think you pretty much get the idea, right? Come on, you are not that badawee are you?? I trust my readers to be at least as smart as our genius, respected PM. Now I shall leave you to decipher these cryptic words:

From The Star:

Earlier Sunday, Current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi reiterated that the Barisan Nasional Government was not behind the latest allegation of sodomy against Anwar.

Stating that he was shocked on hearing the police report lodged by an aide of Anwar on Saturday night, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he would leave the police to conduct investigations on the allegations and to take the necessary action.

He said he or the Government did not instruct the police to take any action.

On Anwar’s statement that the allegations were a complete fabrication to kill his political career, as in 1998 when he was sacked as Deputy Prime Minister, Abdullah said the Government had nothing to do with the police report.

“We are not (involved). Umno and Barisan Nasional did not plan to trouble, disturb or accuse him.

“I believe even my friends like (Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri) Najib (Tun Razak) did not have any intention to do such a thing to him,” he told reporters here on Sunday after launching the Bumi Hijau programme.

Abdullah said the alleged victim has the right to lodge a police report if it had really happened.

When asked if Anwar would be arrested following the latest allegation, Abdullah said he did not want to speculate on the matter and would leave the matter to the police.

There is no need to thank me. Just buy me a teh tarik kurang manis.

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New Cabinet Line-Up = Same Shit Different Day

Pak Lah just announced the Cabinet list. Downsized from 32 seats previously to just 27 seats. (Still pretty humongous though!) Check this out :

The full list:

FT
Minister - Datuk Zulhasnan Rafique
Deputy- M. Saravanan

More at The Star Online and Malaysiakini

Notice none of the Ministers is from Sarawak (except the old face - Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui), the state that gave BN 30 seats during the election. Yes, some of the Deputy Ministers from Sarawak.. nothing to be proud of.. yawn….

Good thing is Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, one of the few politicians I respect a lot is in the list. The rest? Pretty much the same, old ministers still there, only switched their ministry. Pak Lah, are you deaf or still sleeping? The guy with two Muhammad aka Mike Tyson in his name still there!!!? Nazri Aziz is still given the license to bark?? Azalina Othman as Tourism Minister!!!!? Shafie Apdal?? (With so many screw ups on the shortage of goods, and funny pricing - cooking oil, flour, chicken, etc he is still there???), Hishammuddin? Are you joking? With his fetishes to short sharp weapon (read = keris) and all the ‘good’ things since he is became Education Minister, he is still there???? Oh wait, maybe because Malaysia now officially have a student that scored 21As? Wahhh!! That is so impressive!! Should go for Guinness World Records

That is it. ‘SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY,’ served by Pak Lah to Malaysians. Anyway I am very baik hati (generous/kind) today, so let’s give this new cabinet a chance. Let them prove their worth. After all we are giving Barisan Rakyat (BR) a chance.

Updated 3.30pm :

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Updated : Malaysia’s Competitiveness

This is an updated post for the previous ‘Tell Us, Pak Lah’ post in regard to Malaysia’s Competitiveness Ranking published in the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2007 report.

Malaysia’s competitiveness: Anwar accuses Abdullah of “misleading”

PETALING JAYA, Jan 30 (ES) - Former deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has accused the current premier of making a “deliberately misleading” claim that Malaysia is currently ranked eight in the world in term of competitiveness.

Anwar who is also former finance minister said “closer examination” of the data released by World Competitiveness Report 2007, revealed that the claim was only true within the category of countries with a population of 20 million or more.

In a press conference held here Jan 29, Anwar who is also the opposition People Justice Party (KeADILan) de facto leader said Malaysia “in fact” was ranked only 23rd in the world.

“Fifteen of the twenty two countries ranked above Malaysia in 2007 have populations of less than 20 million people, while seven of the twenty two have populations exceeding 20 million,” he noted.

Competitiveness is plummeting, Anwar countered

He noted that Malaysia’s competitiveness had worsened compared to 2006 from the same report. Malaysia was ranked 22nd in 2006 and its best ever ranking was at 17th place in 1997.

Anwar said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi’s decision to resort to such “misdirection” was a “weak attempt” to hide the fact that Malaysia’s economic fundamentals have weakened progressively under his government.

He contended that the country competitiveness “is plummeting” and cautioned Abdullah to make a comparison to Singapore and Hong Kong which currently were ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively.

“Malaysia is clearly in need of a higher caliber leadership if we were to realize our full potential as an economy of global stature,” he said.

The government controlled media had widely reported Abdullah’s assertion that Malaysia is currently ranked eight in the world in term of competitiveness. – Saadon Aksah/ES

(source : here, here and here)

Pak Lah, how could you? Misleading the people, that’s not the right thing to do, no? Is this in line with your bombastic Islam Hadhari concept? To hide the facts and twist information for your own convenience? Pathetic…. sob.. sob.. (I didn’t mean that ‘SOB’, that was me crying…. :P)

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Tell Us, Pak Lah

Cibol posted about this yesterday in his post ‘Kerajaan Malaysia Keenam Paling Cekap Di Dunia’. Today The Star page 4 screamed ‘PM: Improved economic performance and government efficiency‘. Let us see how they spinned it this time. I am so furious now since they treated Malaysian readers like dumbass.

PM: Improved economic performance and government efficiency

By V.P.SUJATA

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia improved its rankings in government efficiency and world competitiveness last year compared with eight years ago, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said. 

The Prime Minister, quoting statistics obtained by the World Competitiveness Yearbook released by the Swiss-based IMD (one of the world’s leading business schools), said Malaysia’s economic performance last year was sixth in the world. 

The ratings, of countries with a population of more than 20 million, also put Malaysia as the world’s 19th leading trading nation. 

In terms of government efficiency, Abdullah said Malaysia was ranked sixth last year, up from eighth in 2000. 

“We ranked better than Britain, Germany, Thailand, Spain, Japan, Russia and France. Not bad, huh?” he noted, adding, however, that China, Canada, the United States, India and Taiwan fared better than Malaysia. 

Rapt attention: Civil servants listening to the Prime Minister’s speech at the 8th Civil Servants’ Premier Gathering at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre Monday.

Malaysia’s business efficiency was “especially good”, he said, with the ranking climbing to fourth from 13th last year. The country’s infrastructure ranked 10th in the world compared to 13th in 2000, he told 8,000 civil servants at the 8th Civil Servants’ Premier Gathering at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre yesterday. 

Abdullah said Malaysia’s world competitiveness ranking improved to the eighth position last year from 10th in 2000. 

He said the seven countries which did better were the United States, Canada, Australia, China, Germany, Taiwan and Britain. 

Saying “Malaysia Boleh,” Abdullah said Malaysians should improve in their work and perform even better than last year. 

Read the rest here.

I was curious how the hell Malaysia end up ranked in the 6th place for government effiency, so based on the little information in the newspaper I did some googling at the very website of the school that came up with the ranking, which is IMD. A quick search gave me this.

 
On a closer look :

(Source : http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/upload/scoreboard.pdf)

Well, I have no data about government efficiency ranking and I am going to lay that off, but I want to quote this :

“Abdullah said Malaysia’s world competitiveness ranking improved to the 8th position last year from 10th in 2000.”

The World Competitiveness Scoreboard Report I posted said we have slipped from 22 to 23 last year from the previous year. Now which page is this he reading from? Or did he get the facts right? Or is he manufacturing information for the gullible Malaysian public?Penipu besar. And he went to compare last year ranking with 2000?? Why?

Now Pak Lah, please tell me we are comparing the with 8 years ago not last year? Is there anything you are trying to hide?  Anyone with a brain in statistics will tell you, you have to compare year-on-year, the previous year being the most significant. In this regard, Malaysia’s world competitiveness has slipped from 22 to 23 in 2007, so we are worse off. We are worse off than Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and little known Estonia.

The PM does not seem to understand that Malaysians in general are not bothered about research reports that tell us we have improved in government efficiency from 8th to 6th place and has beaten countries like Germany and UK in this survey. People are curiously disbelieving the research methodology. Anyone who has been to UK or France will tell you how fast and responsive their public service is.

People are interested in these issues instead:

1. Why we pay more for oil when we earn a lot from oil -where is the money going?
2. Why is chicken, flour, roti-canai and essential items for living so expensive?
3. Why is salary not rising in step with inflation?
4. Why is our regional competitiveness worse than our neighbours?
5. Why is the government so corrupt?
6. Why is the judiciary so biased, weak and a lame duck for the government?
7. Why is crime getting so bad in Malaysia?
8. Why are politicians getting so fat like Zakaria and not in jail?

(Thank you Casey for allowing me to use your above comment for my blog. Belanja you teh tarik next time!)

 Updated 1:

I think I figured it out. Check this out.

From Wikipedia

Early political career

Abdullah was born to a prominent religious family. His father, Ahmad Badawi, was a prominent religious figure and UMNO member. Badawi’s maternal grandfather, Ha Su-chiang (also known as Hassan), was a Chinese Muslim who came from Sanya in Hainan.[2]

Abdullah is a former student of Bukit Mertajam High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies from the University of Malaya in 1964. He originally wished to pursue a degree in Economics but did not meet the required standard after failing his statistics paper.

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No wonder our economy is in such a mess. Go to university to study economics also cannot pass. And the paper he failed? Must be ES115, the compulsory maths/statistics paper in Year 1. (Thanks to Casey again )

 Updated 2 :

Okay I got the official annoucement of 2007 results for the World Competitiveness. Check it out here at the official page :

On a closer look :

http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/announcing.cfm?bhcp=1

We know who is lying now…..

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Mr Clean Poem

I got this from RPK’s blog. This guy sure love Pak Lah a lot, since he created a poem for him… Bwahahahahaha! Well, we all love him. (Pun intended..) Hmm… I couldn’t agree more with what he said… Somemore after I read this..

This is what he said in Penang as reported by the Star:

PENANG: If Malaysia practised genocide or apartheid, half the Cabinet would not be filled with non-Muslims, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.

“When Hindraf said we carried out genocide, its allegation was a sign of evil. Please think about the Cabinet.

“Half of it is non-Malays, non-Umno members and non-Muslims,” he said at a press conference at the IMT-GT SME Conference & Expo 2007 here yesterday.

He said the Cabinet would not follow the Government if such atrocities were being practised.

“You think they (the Cabinet) would go with the government and allow themselves to be associated with it? Tak masuk akal (This does not make sense),” he said, referring to a front-page article in a foreign newspaper that claimed Malaysia was practising apartheid against Hindus.

Abdullah said only those who did not know the real situation would be hoodwinked……

The PM said that half of the Cabinet ministers are non-Malays, non-UMNO members and non-Muslims.

Well, just take a look at the Cabinet line-up yourself at the Prime Minister Office website. You can easily find out that 69% or 22 out of the 32 cabinet ministers are from UMNO, 23 out of 32 cabinet ministers are Malay, 25 out of 32 ministers are bumiputera and 23 cabinet ministers are Muslims. What he is cooking that I do not smell???? Tak paham..

Back to the poem.. Enjoy…

Mr Clean Poem

This is a story about Malaysian society
Where the different races supposedly live in harmony
In 2003, came along a PM by the name of Badawi
Who led his party to a resounding election victory.

This is a PM whose promises are many
All his slogans are equally catchy
As a result, many people are taken in completely
By his humble and Mr. Clean personality.

First among his chief promises is to combat corruption immediately
That has everyone applauding loudly
But until today, all the major cases are still one big mystery
Lack of evidence or is he fooling us secretly?

Not long after, he introduced Islam Hadhari
Some complained there is only one version of Islam from the Almighty
Anyway, what is it all about, no one knows exactly
Except for some broad points outlined in theory.

Then, he said we need to cut our budget deficit quickly
Which started the dismantling of Tun M’s legacy
This caused us to hear about the crooked bridge flip flop story
With all the accusations, what is fiction and what is reality?

By his own admission, his son is extremely wealthy
Because he controls a listed company by the name of Scomi
Was once implicated in the shipment of banned components to a Middle Eastern country
But his son claimed ignorance and that’s the end of the story.

He also has a son-in-law by the name of Khairy
Not elected but is UMNO Youth’s deputy
Got entangled in the merged Avenue-ECM Libra entity
Which happened right under the nose of the PM-led Finance Ministry.

Then, we came across a foreign newspaper reporting factually
Of his adventure to see a yacht at a faraway place somewhere in Turkey
This is not true, he said insistently
But I don’t see the newspaper issuing any apology.

Next, came the jet on the itinerary
Bought or leased, he is lucky that Malaysians are not financially savvy
The jet is also for the Agong’s use, he said publicly
I wonder whether the Agong requested for one specifically?

Later, we read of his holidays in an Australian city
Staying in a mansion owned by someone whom an old man named as Patrick Badawi
We shouldn’t be so critical if he was only away temporarily
Except for the fact that there was a major flood in our own territory.

Then, we get the case of Proton disposing off a subsidiary
Not for a large amount but for a mere penny
Many think behind the deal something’s very fishy
Tun M’s pet project is certainly going awry.

Overall, crime rates are going up highly
Confidence in our police is at its lowest historically
But the IGP got his tenure extended easily
He must be thinking everything’s hunky-dory.

He has also been busy launching economic regions lately
Trying to attract foreign investments into the country
Sadly, some are saying that the northern development is benefiting a crony
While others argue the southern one will end up as LKY’s colony.

You see, I can go on and on about this indefinitely
Because it is easy and I do not need to create any of them individually
They are all plucked from the web where the stories about him is a plenty
From promoting judges unfairly to always being sleepy.

Actually, I am just an ordinary Malaysian who cares about her country
And I have to state that I am not against him or his policy
For I do not care who is the Perdana Menteri
As long as the person is capable and thrustworthy.

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