I was caught in a very bad traffic jam in the Serdang area this evening and could manage less than a couple of hundred meters in half an hour and decided to call the Serdang Police Station. I was informed that just in front of the South City Plaza, there was an overturned truck which had caused the jam and that the police were there to control the situation. All the way to the Mines and beyond, I could not see any overturned truck nor any policeman. I called again after about an hour while still caught in the jam and after identifying myself as the same caller who called before, I was promptly told that I should have contacted the traffic department. I asked for the number of the department and he could not give me and after some wranglings, he said he would call for me.

This is but a microcosm of the general state of the present government – no sense of responsibility, no sense of any loyalty to or any desire to serve the people, no sense of governance, no sense of shame, no sense of urgency at all except to jump into the gravy train. And the PM says we have improved in our Corruption Perception Index! Numerically, we may have been placed above many other countries but ask any right thinking Malaysian, he will tell you Mr PM, “come on-lah, you must be kidding.”

One attende asked in the question time. “How is our currency aginst the neighbours for example Singapore? Has it changed that much?”

That is Malaysia boleh, shiok sendiri.

In 1995, the PM was a different person using a different denominator to calculate that.
In 2007, Pak Lah used yet another different denominator to calculate that. You know lah, his arithmatics is “setengah masak”, so his figures are diffferent lah.

“IGP Musa behaves more like a BN politician now, don’t you all agree?” – Jong

He thinks he is smart. He thought that he was smart enough to be an IGP but his current position was given to him on a silver platter. He was nothing but a mattress salesman during Anwar court case time.

Just like Mansion King Zakaria, he used to be nothing but a railway gatekeeper. But how did he ended up with his riches and giant mansion, you know I know lah.

For comparision purpuse, the common denominator should be used. Otherwise, the performance of index for the last 5 years can be used to deduce the conclusion, provided the number of participating countries must be relatively constant.

- No doubt the number of countries included in CPI survey increased tremendously from 1995 – 2007. Subsequently, it may be argued that better performing countries may have lowered the rank of Malaysia.

- Notwithstanding the fact that new countries have been added, our score has remained stagnant, if not decreased, over the last 10 years.

- This is indisputable since our CPI score in 1995 and 2007 was 5.28 and 5.10 respectively.

- By way of example, Taiwan (28; 5.08) was below Malaysia (26; 5.28) in 1995. But in 2007, the former scored 5.7 and ranked 34 while Malaysia with 5.1 and ranked 43.

- On a separate note, I have NEVER trusted Bernama’s pro-government news reports.

What about the illegal transfer rm9.9 by those desperate Balkis wives – one day after their husbands cease to be the people’s choice of “elected representatives”? Same goes to those at Penang’s end, how come the police have not gone for KTK’s annoying wife for doing the same? Look at the many thefts/robberies, mat rempit and missing children cases that have remained unsolved and forgotten.

“….In 1995 there were 41 participating countries, rising to 163 and 179 in 2006 and 2007.”…. suggesting that Malaysia’s ranking dropped because the base of counntries ranked had increased.

Can someone please enlighten him that the bigger the base sample used, the more accurate the ranking?

As for the IGP visiting HK to learn from the ICAC, my first question is why the IGP? Is he in charge of the ACA too or is the ACA independent? Nazri went to great lengths to explain the separation of powers in Parliament just a few days ago and it seems to me that is just hogwash because clearly the IGP is also involved with the ACA. All this talk about the independence of the ACA is just a bunch of crap. And last but not least, you can copy the best system in the world but at the end of the day if the people who are implementing it are not sincere and honest, then it is just a waste of time. The extra layers we are adding to this whole shit mess is simply to allow more opportunities for manipulations. And already we can see the seeds of that rot being planted here in the “new” MCAC system.