Kuala Gandah

remember that i said "i promised to blog about something that i was up to that day instead of going to bersih"?
now here it is
when 40,000 -ish public went to walk the talk and towards the vision of a better malaysia but i do regret that i didnt join in the fun but hey i was doing something towards a better future too okay?

that very important day instead of dataran merdeka as the meet-up point, Balai Berita NSTP Jalan Riong was instead the meet up place for some of us that fateful morning.
here are some pics

the whole team of reporters well we are the muhibah ones =D
bathing the elephants now and passing shit along the way lol
this is what they love to do ahaha

feeding them lol this guy got fedup of watermelons and threw them all on the floor
muax i love u too! =x
2 pro reporters and one fuking bloody noobie chinaman intern
and look behind there sexyback yea! ilupmysexyback ahaha
we got alot of groupies together but hey this one looks nice cuz u can only see the small little heads and not the beast we are =D
and last but not least thanks to the mat rempits that entertained us along the way
oh ya thankz to BERSIH and the fukin police roadbloacks all along the way for the massive jam starting from the outskirts of pahang until right up to the heart of KL. Thank You =)

thats all folks and i'm now a certified elefriends! Protect the elephants!

BERSIH Follow up

watchin Al-Jazeera now, thank god my friend's place have astro

this was the first time I switch to the AJE channel @ channel 513 with great enthusiasm and not just surfing through. This weeks episode 101 east was recorded with abdullah's son-in-law khairy, de facto law minister nazri and also the hero HAKAM's president Malik Imtiazz (edited thanks chris) with Teymoor Nabili as the host and also the middleman.

Basically it's a 2 V 1 challenge with alot of extra footage that have never reach Malaysian public media. From what i can see anwar is just plain old with his hairline going further and further back and also the phone interview with information minister zainudin maidin that was made famous because of his powderful english.

they started off with the roadblocks and somehow with some twist and turns nazri did tried to say that its the demonstration that is the root cause for KL stopping in the middle of the hustle and bustle of a saturday morning. however i do wanna clarify this up, I've been stuck in the fooking jam when we went to pahang and it was far worst when we were coming back during the evening, what we got was a terrific jam that stretch until the bounds of pahang.

What i did in pahang is another story will blog about it later =D but some would say that i'm not patriotic but seeing life from a reporter's point of view had made me think and rehink maybe all these are just mere sandiwara but 40,000 people does prove that something is very very wrong with our constitution.

speaking about solidarity, strong solidarity in our country? my answer is a big NO


even though i loathe khairy to the core, i do have a little bit more respect to him as his public speaking skills are just so damn extremely good. The time when he talk about the BERSIH rally at the UMNO general assembly, he was just twitching words to awe the members of the floor and i too when i saw his speech on youtube, frankly i was awed speechless.

he too handled the interview with teymoor quite well too, but this damn racist provocator is not any material to run the country. When he can rally right in front of the myammar embassy, opposition parties are not allowed to just send a memorandum to his majesty. what the fuk was that when you yelling out this is a democracy country?

On speaking about the excessive force and police brutality used by the police, nazri retaliated by saying that there is no police brutality reported to the authorities and Malaysia on that time is under scrutiny by the whole world so they must control their actions. So do you mean when there's no media coverage police can do whatever they like and even detonating people with explosives in the Altantuya case?

*on a side note, a colleague of mine wet to a local hospital today to pay a visit to a victim of police brutality during the rally, he was being stomped on and his leg was just injured and being warded in the hospital, you and i know how serious it is la.

finally al-jazeera used a copy of NST *prouds* but the proud feeling just ends there when they used it as an example on the reporting of the rally which is just a small piece whereas it was the biggest rally ever in the Malaysian history, maybe guinness world record rip off malaysia book of record can have a mention on it. Nazri said that the press is free to report anything they deemed important but in the out of the studio world it is definitely the other way round where an official press statement was issued by the government and publications are instructed to run the story playing the numbers and facts down. Imagine how true can that be, 40,000 - 4,000?

On a final note, there is really a serious flaw in our system but still our ministers are still in a state of denial where they are still denying that there is anything wrong with our constitution.

some excerpts from the interviewteymoor nabili the host of the interview
de facto-law minister nazri aziz
the hero SUHAKAM president Malik Imtiazz

and here is the links for the whole interview
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

UMNO assembly

general election is coming near...umno and gang are assembling for the GE
lets just see what are they up to this time?
keris? racist tauntings? bumiputra rights? hishammudin and khairy acting as clowns again..?
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nah none of the above i heard there's sumthing fishy this time lol
wait for tomorrow newspaper eh =D

Genting 2

okay finally i've got the time to update my blog

this time around it will be the last funeral procession Uncle Lim will be seeing his brainchild for the last time.

went up the day before since the procession started at 730am as it is stated but oh well
VIPs are always late and this one even he's dead also damn late...the procession started at 9 instead.
I'm not going to be what superstitions or what but weather in the morning was really a pain in the ass. Visibility up there in Genting Hotel was really like only 10 meters?
jz look at the condition..fog all around and the wind blowing extremely strong tht day..itz just like uncle lim dun wanna leave genting.
cables leading to nowhere?
but hey heres the brightside because of the weather we got to go inside the hotel makan area
and i tell you it is the third breakfast i'm taking in 3 different places in just a mere few hours.
well food! i'm not complaining keke evrything is free ehehehe

i just love the orchid
hmm elephants reminds me that next week i'm gonna go pahang to go see
BIG ASSED ELEPHUNKS!
i was stationed at this temple and at least weather here is just so nice
a bird's eye view.. I'm on the top of the world looking down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I found ever since you been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
I LOVE UNCLE LIM lol!
uncle lim's house just at the right there, on the top of the hill the tiny speck overlooking everything down there.
he got him a statue in the temple area also damn..
this would make a great picture if there's one more guy there
heya the 3 stooges lol
now this is really one one one one bigggg assssed telephoto lense!
look at this kiddo hanging around before uncle lim arrive
when the hearse arrive...all these guys pay tribute to him..shuttle sounds from dslr are so damn noisy clicking away.
his sons daughters and grandchildren kalau all mati...habislah genting group keke
there was even more uncle aunty leng lui leng zai ah gua ah beng ah lian around waiting for his arrival at Genting Hotel entrance
jz look at all the people..
and finally....
a final tribute to Uncle Lim..
he will be forever in the books of all Malaysians.

*sidenote thanks to the genting management and PR for arranging the food and accommodation for the media..i really feel grateful for the 190 per nite room and also the lunch on the last day is just so mm mmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm!!!!

Tribute to Uncle Lim

HE was just there lying in his coffin with all his Tan Sri regalia on the body and also on the songkok beside him.
now in front of me lies once was Malaysia's richest man according to Forbes Asia.
His complexion was just so peaceful. Despite the heavy downpour, close friends, former and current political heavyweights in the country came to pay their last respect to the late Tan Sri.
Personally I'm not related to Uncle Lim in any way but he is still the one in my list of people who I have high respect to. What makes him so great? well for one he started Genting by his own and despite being poor, perseverance have really show that anything is possible.
Well, perhaps maybe next time they will not be any Uncle Lim, but that time it will be Uncle Choong =D
*this post will be loaded with pictures I just can't help it but take and take and take all the happenings there, these happened on the first day, media really have the privilege keke.

at the base of goh tong Villa..Gohtong Jaya

the police blocking the way up to the Villa

look at all the kaki kopi here kakaka there are K9 unit and also SWAT team here
how important is Uncle Lim? think about it

what greeted us when we arrive at the Villa

look at the hordes of reporters and cameraman ahaha this is the life in the eye of a reporter

look and behold! Uncle Lim's mansion sitting right at the top of the hill.
its quite modest though compared to the ZAKARIA mansion

Datuk Tan Chin Nam leaving after paying his respect, for your info
he's the founder of Tan&Tan and IGB group.
Midvalley ring any bells?

there is this garden in front of his house which is so huge and so damn nice lots of green
next time when i retire remind me to do gardening =P
later during the day...Lim Kit Siang and his contingent of DAP guys came over
lim kit siang, lim guan eng, tan kok wai, anf fong kui lun
at night the heavyweight that came was...the MCA taiko and delegates
the taoist things prepared for the ceremony...
these things are really huge!

things you don't know about Uncle Lim.
He got his own green house to grow vegetables to makan!
and the swimming pool is 3-4 metres deep with a fountain beside
the monk for the buddhist ceremony was invited from the Malaysian Buddhist Association
and he's the chairman..nowadays buddhist societies also got chairman eh..next time there will be CEO and COO too lol
sad la can't get his face.

and lastly wreaths from all over came in truckloads...
there's one keep crossing in my mind the one from caesar's palace Las Vegas its so damn nice
but no pics

mutterings

bendera berkibar di angkasa, lambang negara jaya, rakyat sepakat sejiwa, tekad berbakti dengan megah....

the 2020 song we always sung in school come merdeka and patriotic songs came blaringly from everywhere, well does it really exhibit what we have done throughout the years and the current political scene of our country?
Well, yes and no.
All these years since the days from the late Tunku Abdul Rahman days until Tun mahathir days yes they do exhibit what we have been done that really shows us as Maresians (pun intended) and a big NO nowadays, just look at our executive branch that is holding the power of office.
The angkasawan project? space traveller in disguise? astronaut? cosmonaut? no one is really sure what to call him as there's so much versions of the maresian astronaut is called. I'm not condemining about the angkasawan project, by all means go and have it done and bring new technology and knowledge to the people.

BUT

there's always a but and you just look at this article here TheStar
basically daily necessities are rising over the days and hey even flour and wheat is going up now, come to think about it there will be a large chain reaction brewing. Everything goes up, salary will not be going up though, who will be the ones suffering? and here comes the angkasawan project came into the picture. Maresians, sending up a donkey up to space and declaring him as a national hero with the deal of buying some outdated sukhoi planes and with russia sweetening the deal up is not what we need!

WHAT WE NEED IS A HERO TO LOWER DOWN INFLATION RATES AND HAVING A RISING INCOME RESULTING IN A QUALITY LIFE FOR THE WHOLE NATION! (as quoted from Mr. Tang)
Now this is what heroes are made off =D

ok ok enough of my ramblings now lets see where i went that day keke for all of you out there, Planetarium Negara sounds familiar right? but just where is it? most of us have heard of it but well never even think about going there even myself keke
pictars!

there's just so many steps to climb...
the scenery macam vvvv far from the city right....but hey look...
tiu..hilton and le meridien is just around and that means KL sentral is just right underneath those twins ahaha can't take any pics in the planetarium itself too dark d sry eh guys =)
oh ya btw if i did draw ur attention the planetarium is just somewhere near muzium negara
the golden question is where is muzium negara?! lol i'll leave the questiont to you guys to ponder about ahaha

Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement

this happen last week and me thinks that this is worth a post
okay so i got assigned with eve last week to sungai buloh to attend a press conference organized by some guys that wanted to help the lepers to conserve their settlement which is really really freakin huge you all can see the area and history of it here
UiTM are claiming that its their land and they have even started to demolish the place well lets take a look shall we..

here's how it started...
i have a really hearty hearty meal in sungai buloh

this kai fan is really the best i've tasted since i'm in kl with an exceptance
of the seksyen 17 hainam kai fan in pj
damn i still miss ipoh food T.T

AND YOU WILL BE SHOCK WHAT I FOUND IN SG BULOH
this should be in Muzium negara rather than ploughing the streets!
look at this buloh river cat! he's got da WHT da FUK are u looking at? look lol

seriously the scenery here have been etched in my mind for such a long time i really think i need to pen it down, the memories are just fresh and seems likes its just been taken out from a kampung its just so peaceful and calm, remind me next time that when i retire next time i wanna spend my life just the place something like this.

one word-serenity


the conservationist Lim Yong Long on the 2nd right with the lepers
doing the conference with the press
there is even landscape architect students from taiwan comin
to look at the settlement and i luv hawt taiwan chicks =D
the aging buildings...look at the windows nowadays we don't see this much anywhere.

just look at all these trees..i reckon the biggest one went through the british colonial days and even the japanese penjajahan(okay i forgot about this word in english)

b4 i end this entry of mine there a blog set up also by them here Valley of Hope
and i too chant the slogan "SAVE THE SETTLEMENT NOW!"