i’m saying this not because i’m rich enough to compete with the rich chinese, or capable indians or even the rightful malays but for the sake of justice and love. i’m just a normal man. i work for living and i’m only earning 600 per month. but yes… i say again… i’m ready.

why am i ready to face this whereas i myself not doing so well for my living? as i said before… for the sake of justice and love.

i was taught to be fair and to love everyone since i was small. my religion teach me to love everyone, even your enemy, even those who hurts you.. so i stood on that principle.

will the rich non bumis be ready to help the poor bumis? it is a fact that there are poor people in all races in malaysia… but it is undeniable that most of them are the bumiputras.

i have one chinese friend, a very close friend. he comes from a poor family. rm350 per month. what do you expect his mother to give to her 4 children with that earning? he is a smart student and he scored straight A’s for his SPM. his sister had to work after she finished her secondary school because of him although she had a very good chance to further her study. my dad always ask him to have a meal with us.

have u guys been to the remote areas of sabah and sarawak? have u seen children going to school without shoes? have you seen people that eats only rice and water? they are not crying anyway, they smile when they see you.

some people say they know that there a lot of poor people… but have they seen how the poor people live? if you are really care about these people, you will cry when you see them smiling to you..

a lot of people are using this poor people issue to show to people that they care.. but the fact is they dont do anything about it.

it is really touching to see people without houses and having just enough food for the day. it sadden me when a little boy crying for a toy when the mother have only enough money to buy a rice for the family.

so… my non bumi friends… are u ready to pass the ball to me if we are playing football on an even field so that i can score a goal that will bring us to victory? i say… i’m ready to substitute you if you experienced an injury for the sake of the team…

If only we have more people like him. Thank you my fellow malaysian.

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Orang asli is not a lazy race. Capitalism has never ever been in their history. There is no basis to make judgment comparing the British (or anybody of such “progressiveness”)capitalism to that of Orang asli and the fact also to the Malay in earlier times.

Orang asli life is that of nature…with the nature. There is no status of progress or priority in life other than the progress of the cultivation of the paddy. Whatever hard work is seen from the fruits of the harvest from the wild jungle.

Recently, they are complaining that the marrieds are given a designated plot of land, couple of acres which hardly can find foods around except some lalang! So, the chief old man of the village was telling that “sekarang dia orang bagi semua sudah khawin, kita tua taada, sekarang kita mau duduk mana? Taada tanah. Duduk atas batu ka? Apa dia orang mau buat sekarang”.

In contrast, the Indians and Chinese civilisations are more aggressive in their progressive society and that every structure of these peoples had been evolved through many centuries. Therefore, lazy is mean lazy per se if there is no production from ones hands, the mind and even in speech. There is always a benchmark in the progresses of these advance civilisations. Malay had only awaken in the 18th or so century(in economics term)and they had been sitting under coconut trees which is nothing wrong or uncivilised for that matter. Only when the British start to compare laze around with that of turning timbers into ships, and tin into holding “pots”, without mercy and understanding of the local “tribe”, they had been blamed for being lazy. The British then are not learned though, but roughshods to grind a few more pounds from exploiting the new found ventures.

This is just what we are watching right now of the new ruling class of the Malaysian politics. Opportunistic, piling up bank accounts but without knowing what’s “worth”. The recent new Chinese millionaires acted the same line of “lost soul” and there is one chap who bought 30 units of Hummer (I don’t know how much it costs, but its an expensive high end American 4wheel - maybe not less than half a million U$ per unit). Compare to both Warren Buffet and Bill Gates they have gone “underground” to do philanthropist work. It would be “hell” if you get the SatayMan to do these work and finish his RM for the welfare of the less fortunate. We cannot blame these “lost soul” for they are still learning what’s money “‘worth” for a RM!

So, when Indians (and others as well with the exception of the NEP beneficiaries)are deprived of the economics, social and cultural progresses, it very much that they have lost their soul entirely, like a zombie. Worst, they have been betrayed all these years they have been “sold” as a high earning and well-heel group of doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers but sad case the very displaced estates and the mass are not been given priority.

Do the “long walk” from the estates, new villages, kampungs to the town and tell your story!

Human decency is about leaving ordinary people to live their ordinary lives of ordinary aspirations….politicians get lost!!

Did PAS explicitly say that they don’t support the end of NEP and ‘ketuanan Melayu’? I don’t really think so but believe it is ambivalent on this issue, telling different people different stories.

What is PAS telling Non Malays – that race is not important but religion is? Does it mean an end of NEP, and as trade off, the establishment of an Islamic theocratic state? Is the theocratic state abandoned? – I don’t think so because if it takes away the NEP what’s the compensating advantage to its constituency if it is not the superiority and primacy of their religion upheld in a theocratic state? On the other hand if the theocratic state is upheld based on the supremacy of the majority’s religion, is there a change in ketuanan Melayu concept except that it is based then on ‘ketuanan’ of the majority’s religion instead of race?

In relation to Hindraf, “we believe that the demands and accusations made by the Hindraf leaders are extreme and we want the government to take action,” said PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang in a statement. He said if Hindraf leaders did make such extreme accusations, “they must be dealt with according to law”. Hindraf reportedly claimed that Indians had suffered ethnic cleansing in the hands of plainclothes policemen and armed Malay civilians under the instructions of Umno during the 2001 Kg Medan racial clash. Contacted later, Hadi’s press secretary Roslan Shahir said the allegation by Hindraf leaders that the Indian community is victim of a government-endorsed ‘ethnic cleansing’ was baseless and extreme. Hindraf legal adviser P Uthayakumar, when met last week, denied terming the Kg Medan incident as ‘ethnic cleansing’ but had called it’mini-genocide’ instead. (Source : Malaysiakini’s report Dec 3rd ).

So what exactly is PAS’s beef in asking government to take action against Hindraf’s leaders?

Certainly not the fact that Hindraf’s demonstration was illegal because the Bersih’s was just vas illegal with PAS’s supporters dominating the proceedings.

Does it not suggest that PAS is protesting because it implies that Hindraf’s actions are inciting on racist lines? Wouldn’t this imply further PAS supports government’s charging Hindraf’s leaders with sedition under the very Sedition Act that PAS has all along labeled as draconian?

As a measure of the extent of Opposition’s unity or otherwise, I call on the Alternative Opposition to articulate its stand in principle on this issue.

Do defacto leader of PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and YB Kit of DAP agree or dissociate with Abdul Hadi Awang’s statement that government should take action on Hindraf leaders?