I downloaded and printed out a bit of the report by ASLI and CPPS and was going through it. The elucidation of key issues read like kopitiam staple; you know the sort of stuff kopitiam uncles like to talk about, only this time with facts and citations. (Do citations improve the ‘truthiness’ - yay, Colbert! - of hearsay? Maybe!) It was an enlightening read, and it became all the more pertinent when I read over at Bernama how ASLI’s pulling out of the whole deal, capitulating and basically kissing ass.
I can’t call it kissing ass: it takes balls to do the sort of thing they did, and I mean this with no sarcasm. I wouldn’t want to be in their positions (though I wouldn’t mind, if it means standing up for something - or anything, dammit - in this heartless world!). Their retraction made me think of the stuff Malik Imtiaz is going through now. It’s another victory for thuggery and sheer stupidity. I’m not dissing muslims, don’t get your panties in a twist. I’m dissing the same unwashed masses who can’t differentiate between truth and rhetoric.
Like the sort of stuff most often heard in UMNO speeches or soundbites to the press. (Ah.. the term “sound bite”; a truncation of essentially meaningless drivel - if it comes from a politician.) But check this out: elegant silence is in fashion again, after Badawi roundly trashed ASLI’s report, calling it, and I’m paraphrasing, “fucking notti”.
I despair for this country. And I will have my revenge. I will not stop ridiculing our hapless politicians for their equally hapless sense of proportion and sense of justice - not because I’m all interested in Malaysia as a nation, you understand. I just want to have something to laugh at. Malaysia’s gotten that much more depressing.
Oh, and another thing: just when you think you couldn’t take it anymore, you hit this mental barrier, you know what I mean, and you just, like, leap-frog over it. Somehow you grit your teeth and survive. Sometimes you’ll feel like a modern-day, Malaysian Sisyphus, but at least grinding away at it is doing something - shit, almost anything is preferable to living with Malaysian politics.
And also another thing: blog taikor Jeff Ooi pissed me off. He doesn’t give two shits, anyway, but I’d like to say: blogging with a real-life identity on display doesn’t make you a bloody blogger. Blogging makes you a blogger. As for credibility? Dude, it’s the intehweb, dei. A pool of less than 5% of our country’s population give a shit. The rest are on IRC trying to get laid with bad pick-lines and incessant “a/s/l’s”.
Head out of ass, please. Thanks, bro, or whatever.
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lol, Msian politics does get depressing, doesn’t it? At times i just have to take some coo-off time when I read what our great politicians have to say about important issues.
And I agree with you on Jeff Ooi. You know, I never really warmed up to the guy. Notice how strictly he moderates his blog. And I don’t mean just deleting crude posts. For all his criticisms of the Dr M and LKY’s style of authoritative governance, he seems to be doing the same thing. I remembered reading the comments on one of his posts, and I noticed how he has very little tolerance for criticisms of him.
Cheh. He actually seems a bit immature to me la. I only read his stuff because he seems to have become an ‘insider’ of sorts, where ‘little birds’ pass him juicy inside info on the hot issues.
Cheers mate!
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“For all his criticisms of the Dr M and LKY’s style of authoritative governance, he seems to be doing the same thing. I remembered reading the comments on one of his posts, and I noticed how he has very little tolerance for criticisms of him.” - sigma
I agree wholeheartedly. I think i read the same post as you did, where jeff was just deleting posts that were criticising and disagreeing with him. That turned me right off his blog. I was really surprised at how jeff acted.. sheesh, talk about dictatorship!
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xpyred, you are DEAD! read the article.
yah, i *am* an avid reader of jeff ooi’s blog because you’ve got to admit - he does have good sources, and the does report on developing stories that quickly become national issues. that’s what he’s known for, after all.
i suppose being the crosshairs of the government (given how exposed he’s allowed himself to be) has forced him to be careful with what he allows to be posted. it was his wholesale deleting of comments, like the ones from totoro or t-boy, that really got me riled up. i dare say what they posted was just fair comment on what he’s blogged about.
instead he comes back with harsh, snippy comments, if not about misconstruing what he’s blogged, then telling you off for not agreeing with him. So, quickly, the comments in his blog become of one type: those praising him, or those that preach to the choir. bah.
and yeah, like luthien said, i’m dead anyways. Rais Yatim’s gonna come after my ass for my melayu pasar (heck, it’s not even good melayu pasar hehehe..)
actually, i think it’s such a stup… no i mean strange.. policy (re: no manglish levy). who’s going to press charges, who’s going to collect evidence and how to collect evidence (videofilms, recordings?). membazir betul. first senget bridge now manglish.
our leaders have to dream up ways to enforce a certain picture of malaysia.. or else they got nothing to do…
erm, what happened?
i cakap melayu market (pasar). so i’m targetted for bans, a 2 year holiday in simpang renggam (extend-able at home secretary’s option) and well, yah…
Yakah?
http://www.suanie.net/2006/10/05/kacau-aje-jangan-tangkap-gua/
I mean, what happened with taikor?
lol just playing around :p
to be fair to jeffooi, there are good, bad and average POsts by a fellow Blogger who many look to as Taiko because at least he did motivate late-comers into Blogging. Let’s not label anyone based on one or two “slips” — I agree with xpyre that this guy at least “…you’ve got to admit - he does have good sources, and the does report on developing stories that quickly become national issues. that’s what he’s known for, after all.” ~~ Desi
PS: xpyre minus da d ~~ why take life in Bloehland so seriously; sometimes I think we are living in Wonerland of Hans C Andersen’s kind, or Lewis Carrol …