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Self cannibalization: the latest political tool to win at all costs
Mission schools: cheated by the system they trusted
PPSMI: The Language of Politics
Saya tidak percaya DS Rosmah membeli belah di David Jones. It's a low class shopping mall for her

Self cannibalization: the latest political tool to win at all costs

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:41 PM PDT

Anthony Loke reveals yet again elector roll irregularities"

On the right: if all complaints are raised, fee of RM8,320 is payable. More waste of money, it seems.

On line version here:

From an inspection of the recently released 2011 Q3 supplementary electors roll, Anthony Loke, the MP for Rasah, discovered that:

· 110 voters were transferred into Temiang state constituency , bearing addresses of 16 vacant houses in Taman Bukit Zamrud, Seremban

· Some of the vacant houses have "for sale/rent" signs hanging at the gate

· 6 females and 1 male were transferred to address no. 126, Taman Bukit Zamrud . Apart from one aged around the twenties, the rest were more than 50 years old. Among the 7, 2 were taken from Paroi, 2 from Jempol and 1 from Senawang

· Majority of the transferred voters are Indians, with some Chinese as well.

The above makes interesting reading.

Obviously this is not the work of Pakatan Rakyat. The motive is obvious, moving voters into one of Pakatan's constituency as signs of a snap election reaches fever pitch.

Mission schools: cheated by the system they trusted

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:34 PM PDT

"A Senior Physician" in a letter to Malaysia Today concerning Assunta Hospital, blames church leaders for allowing mission schools to have deteriorated under government hands. He is too harsh on the church. The source of the deterioration lies in the rapacious, dishonest and corrupt politicians that have been elected to power for 40 years, and an electorate willing to put their trust in men and women of no honour.

In his letter, he said:

" … the Bishop and the Catholic mission may not know anything about this state of affairs. They usually leave it to the trustees while they concentrate on getting donations for the hospital. Church leaders and the clergy live a life of prayer and a belief that God will take care of their problems.

This may explain what happened to the Catholic schools. They used to be premier schools for the whole country. It was not only a source of pride to the Catholic mission, it could have been a method to influence the minds of future leaders of the country. Unfortunately the church never moved with the times and the political changes that swept across the country. Now schools such as SFI, SJI and SXI are relics of a grand past and lie almost forgotten and decaying where they once stood."

The open question was then whether the Brothers and Sisters who taught and administered the mission schools would follow along and become absorbed into the teaching service, so that they could continue to teach and be in charge of the administration of the schools.That is hardly the case. Mission schools were incorporated into the Malaysian educational system after much debate. The essence of the matter at that time (in the 1960s) was, in my recollection, that the church agreed after much discussion to allow the schools to become sekolah jenis kebangsaan — but retaining ownership and not transferring the land and the buildings to the government — in order to receive government financial support.

It was eventually decided that the Brothers and the Sister would not join the education service, but would remain on the Board of Governors of the schools and thus supervise the administration of the schools this way. One factor would have been to obviate any potential church-state conflict.

Over the years members of the La Salle Brothers and the Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus have agonised over that decision, as their schools steadily decayed in standing, suffered abuse and desecration, and became political tools, notwithstanding that many Malaysian leaders and members of royal houses were themselves educated at mission schools of the 1950s-70s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWlSYZyzg-I&feature=player_embedded

To my mind, the church relied on two factors in making the decision to let the government run their schools and to stay out of the education system:

• They trusted the honesty and goodwill of the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Raman, that the schools would be cared for, and that the government in all sincerity, merely wished to relieve the church of the financial burden

• They trusted in a system of government that seemed to be based on democratic principle and one that would honour promises made.

They were wrong to trust any one individual. Politicians come and go. They were naive to believe the succeeding politicians would honour the word of another.

It should have been possible to put trust in the system. Institutions of the system and the civil service that goes with them, remain while politicians come and go. They are designed to be a bulwark of the common citizen against the dishonest politician.

PPSMI: The Language of Politics

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:26 PM PDT

With Muhyiddin Yassin slamming the door shut on PPSMI, the debate continues to rage on within both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat alike. PKR comes out to support the abolishment, whereas the DAP wants to give parents the choice.

PAGE, the English rights action group is submitting 7,000 petitions in favour of the teaching of maths and science in English to the Prime Minister. Gerakan is also whispering that they would prefer that parents have the choice. How did we get into this place in the beginning?

The implementation of PPSMI created controversy back in 2003, but if one were to gauge the results of the 2004 General Elections which swept Barisan Nasional back to power with the biggest majority in their history, there is little evidence to suggest that the implementation of this policy was detrimental.

After a while, we hear praise for the government policy being forward thinking from different sections of the society. The mainstream media also ran pieces about English competency amongst teachers, and how many had struggled to cope with the teaching of the subjects in English. Obviously, this did not reflect well on the federal government, who then spent millions on books, training courses and computer software to train the teachers to become competent.

I strongly suspect that the decision to reverse the policy to teach maths and science in English is based more on the fact that the teachers did not want to make the additional effort to learn English, rather than poor results, especially in the rural areas. At times, one hears stories as to how children who can speak better English than their teachers would proceed to torment and taunt them for their poor command of the language.

Malaysian parents are by-and-large extremely concerned about their children's education, in order for their children to secure their future, both socially and financially. We had the Education Ministry boast of the best UPSR results in history not too long ago, but obviously dissatisfied, the government has decided that teaching maths and science in Malay once again would further raise the standards.

With the General Election fast approaching, the Deputy Prime Minister is obviously intent to prevent what are traditional Barisan strongholds fall to the Opposition. He has cleverly observed that because heritage and pride are something deeply emotional, he waves the flag of "I'm Malay first, Malaysian second" despite this being in direct contradiction with Najib's 1Malaysia. Therefore touting the fact that he is a nationalist and defender of the race, he gets rid of PPSMI to raise up the Malay language once again.

Saya tidak percaya DS Rosmah membeli belah di David Jones. It's a low class shopping mall for her

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:28 PM PDT

'Apparently' cerita ini di buat oleh sebuah akhbar berpengaruh di Western Australia dan Najib menafikannya melalui twitter beliau dan beliau berkata ini adalah fitnah yang sengaja di ada-adakan oleh akhbar tersebut.

Najib juga menafikan berita yang isteri kesayangan beliau Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor membeli intan berlian di Australia dan isteri beliau tidak pun pergi ke pusat membeli belah itu. Saya pun hendak juga tahu bagaimana akhbar tersebut tahu jumlah AUD60000 itu telah dibelanjakan oleh anak perempuan Najib.

Saya tidak tahu samada perkara ini benar atau pun tidak kerana saya tidak mengikuti perkembangan isu ini. Tetapi saya di minta untuk mengulas tentang isu yang di bawa oleh akhbar Western Australia ini.

Saya tidak berminat sebenarnya untuk mengulas kerana membeli belah secara besar-besar ini adalah satu persepsi yang sinonim dengan DS Rosmah ini dan saya tidak langsung mahu mengambil tahu tentang isu ini lagi. Kalau DS Rosmah dan anak perempuan beliau membeli belah sekali pun itu tidak menghairankan lagi bagi rakyat negara ini.

Saya tidak menjangka yang anak DS Rosmah boleh membelanjakan sejumlah wang yang begitu kecil di tempat yang dikatakan anak beliau membeli belah itu. Pusat membeli belah David Jones itu tidak lah sehebat pusat membeli belah di New York kerana tempat itu hanya lah pusat membeli belah yang biasa sahaja.

Kalau pun keluarga Najib hendak membeli belah mereka tidak akan membuat shopping di tempat itu. Pusat membeli belah itu tidak sampai 'standard compliance' bagi Rosmah atau anak beliau itu. Saya tidak percaya Rosmah atau anak beliau akan membelanjakan wang di sana kerana tempat itu tidak setaraf dengan kemampuan berbelanja untuk keluarga ini.

Tempat itu hanya untuk orang seperti kita membeli belah sahaja…tempat kita hendak membeli sepasang dua stokings, coli-coli dan seluar dalam dan panty wanita sahaja. Rosmah dan anak beliau tidak akan masuk kedalam pusat membeli belah yang tidak ada 'standard' itu. Saya yakin itu merupakan fitnah atau akhbar tersebut tidak tahu yang tempat membeli belah itu bukan setaraf dengan tempat-tempat DS Rosmah membeli belah.

Saya berpendapat untuk mempercayai Rosmah boleh pergi ke tempat shopping itu memang satu perkara yang mustahil. AUD 60,000 bukan jumlah untuk dikaitkan dengan DS Rosmah. Itu terlalu kecil bagi ahli keluarga ini.

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Jumaat, 4 November 2011

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