Mystery & Mysticism

“There are a lot of mysteries in Shah Alam. Nobody knows how Teoh Beng Hock died. If you ask MACC, they will probably say that the cow committed suicide,” Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad said.

It’s unfortunate that after 52 years of independence, this is the kind of situation we have,” Khalid said.

They assume too much and feel they have more rights than what they have,” the PAS leader added.

Read the full news report at The Malaysia Insider

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Thoughts for today

"The U.S. military can't win credibility in the Muslim world through new public relations strategies and instead must pursue actions that build trust, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

"We need to worry a lot less about how to communicate our actions and much more about what our actions communicate."

"Most strategic communication problems are not communication problems at all," he said. "They are policy and execution problems."

-- Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an article for Joint Force Quarterly, a U.S. military journal

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What about Malaysia?

Do the power that be, and those who deemed that they are the power that be, have the same credibility and trust? Can we trust them? Do we trust them?

The Chinese communities will survive in any harsh environment. Ironically, it is the MCA that finds the going tough and are primarily the source of anxieties. The far greater irony are those who laid claim to certain illusory rights and unfetted privileges but lives in their own dilemmas - dogmatism.

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PKFZ Failures: Project Management & Contract Management

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid said there were weaknesses in the scandal-hit Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project, especially in its marketing and project management, particularly contract management, and this had burdened the cost and led to many other issues.


"We found the weaknesses to be more inclined towards project management... contract management itself...," Azmi Khalid said, adding that if project was marketed and 90 per cent of the area was taken up, the issue would not have come up.

"But because of the marketing, it became a big issue and placed a burden on cost, and various issues came up, as we know today," Azmi said.

SOURCE: NST

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Datuk Seri,

You have rightly pointed out the fault. That is profound knowledge! But the government have been emphasizing on building competencies on Project Management for the last ten years. Why are the representatives still incompetent? Do you need more seminars? Call me, please!

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Today's Contemplation

Discourses so much out of the road could not avail anything, nor have any effect on men whose minds were prepossessed with different sentiments.

--Sir Thomas More

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Today's Story

A pastor's wife was expecting a baby, so he stood before the congregation and asked for a raise. After much discussion, they passed a rule that whenever the pastor's family expanded, so would his paycheck.

After 6 children, this started to get expensive and the congregation decided to hold another meeting to discuss the pastor's expanding salary.

A great deal of yelling and inner bickering ensued, as to how much the pastor's additional children were costing the church, and how much more it could potentially cost.

After listening to them for about an hour, the pastor rose from his chair and spoke, "Children are a gift from God, and we will take as many gifts as He gives us."

Silence fell over the congregation. In the back pew, a little old lady struggled to stand, and finally said in her frail voice,

"Rain is also a gift from God, but when we get too much of it, we wear rubbers."

The entire congregation said, "Amen."

Today's Story

This beautiful story was written by a doctor who worked in Central Africa

One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all we could do, she died, leaving us with a tiny, premature baby and a crying two-year-old daughter.. We would have difficulty keeping the baby alive; as we had no incubator (we had no electricity to run an incubator). We also had no special feeding facilities.

Although we lived on the equator, nights were often chilly with treacherous drafts. One student midwife went for the box we had for such babies and the cotton wool that the baby would be wrapped in. Another went to stoke up the fire and fill a hot water bottle. She came back shortly in distress to tell me that in filling the bottle, it had burst (rubber perishes easily in tropical climates).

'And it is our last hot water bottle!' she exclaimed. As in the West, it is no good crying over spilled milk, so in Central Africa it might be considered no good crying over burst water bottles. They do not grow on trees, and there are no drugstores down forest pathways.

'All right,' I said, 'put the baby as near the fire as you safely can, and sleep between the baby and the door to keep it free from drafts. Your job is to keep the baby warm.'

The following noon, as I did most days, I went to have prayers with any of the orphanage children who chose to gather with me. I gave the youngsters various suggestions of things to pray about and told them about the tiny baby. I explained our problem about keeping the baby warm enough, mentioning the hot water bottle, and that the baby could so easily die if it got chills. I also told them of the two-year-old sister, crying because her mother had died.

During prayer time, one ten-year-old girl, Ruth, prayed with the usual blunt conciseness of our African children. 'Please, God' she prayed, 'Send us a hot water bottle today. It'll be no good tomorrow, God, as the baby will be dead, so please send it this afternoon.'

While I gasped inwardly at the audacity of the prayer, she added, 'And while You are about it, would You please send a dolly for the little girl so she'll know You really love her?'

As often with children's prayers, I was put on the spot. Could I honestly say 'Amen'? I just did not believe that God could do this. Oh, yes, I know that He can do everything; the Bible says so.. But there are limits, aren't there? The only way God could answer this particular prayer would be by sending me a parcel from the homeland. I had been in Africa for almost four years at that time, and I had never, ever, received a parcel from home.

Anyway, if anyone did send me a parcel, who would put in a hot water bottle? I lived on the equator!

Halfway through the afternoon, while I was teaching in the nurses' training school, a message was sent that there was a car at my front door. By the time I reached home, the car had gone, but there on the porch was a large 22-pound parcel. I felt tears pricking my eyes. I could not open the parcel alone, so I sent for the orphanage children. Together we pulled off the string, carefully undoing each knot. We folded the paper, taking care not to tear it unduly... Excitement was mounting. Some thirty or forty pairs of eyes were focused on the large cardboard box.

From the top, I lifted out brightly-colored, knitted jerseys. Eyes sparkled as I gave them out. Then there were the knitted bandages for the leprosy patients, and the children looked a little bored. Then came a box of mixed raisins and sultanas - that would make a batch of buns for the weekend.

Then, as I put my hand in again, I felt the..... could it really be?

I grasped it and pulled it out. Yes, a brand new, rubber hot water bottle. I cried.. I had not asked God to send it; I had not believed that He could.

Ruth was in the front row of the children. She rushed forward, crying out, 'If God has sent the bottle, He must have sent the dolly, too!

'Rummaging down to the bottom of the box, she pulled out the small, beautifully-dressed dolly. Her eyes shone! She had never doubted! Looking up at me, she asked, 'Can I go over with you and give this dolly to that little girl, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?'

'Of course,' I replied!

That parcel had been on the way for five whole months, packed up by my former Sunday school class. And one of the girls had put in a dolly for an African child - five months before.

The prayer was answered!

Today's Contemplation

Before you can ask for anything you have to know what you want and you have to believe that is possible for you to get it.

-- Jack Canfield & MV Hansen

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Journey of Life: The Philosophy

People come into your life for a REASON, a SEASON or a LIFE TIME.

When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person..

REASON

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.

They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support,

To aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.

They may seem like a godsend and they are.

They are there for the reason you need them to be.

Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end..

Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.

Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.

What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.

The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on..

A SEASON

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.

They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.

They may teach you something you have never done.

They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.

Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.


A LIFE TIME

LIFETIME relationships teach you life time lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.

Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other
relationships and areas of your life.

It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.


Thank you for being a part of my life,

whether you were a reason, a season or a life time.

Today's Contemplation

Quarrels wouldn't last as long, if the fault was only on one side.

-- La Rochefoucauld

The journey of Life - fleeting moments of truth

Life's journey is as much of a paradoxical passages.

Human existence is an infinitesimal moment between two eternities, the past and the future, says Arthur Schopenhauer.

The journey of Life is filled with the pursuit of shadows, where everything is relative, phenomenal, illusory, and man is bound in the servitude of ignorance, struggle and need, in the endless round of effort and failure.

Life may indeed appear to be a comedy, because of the one or two bright spots of happy circumstance to be found in it here and there.

Every man’s natural desire is to preserve his existence; so that life is a blind, unreasoning force, hurrying us we know not whither.

Nothing really matters more to a man than his liberty and freedom, I presumed.

There are many things in life which give a short satisfaction and blind us for the moment to the realities of existence. Pleasures as they may be called, in so far as they are a mode of relief; but that pleasure is not positive in its nature nor anything more than the negation of suffering. This is proved by the fact that, if pleasures come in abundance, pain soon returns in the form of satiety; so that the sense of illusion is all that has been gained. Hence, the most a man can achieve is a measure of relief from this suffering.

It is a trite saying that happiness is a delusion, a chimera, the fata morgana of the heart. There is nothing that is not substantially akin to theories of life which, in different forms, the greater part of mankind is presumed to hold in reverence.

Thus, whatever happiness a man can attain is negative only. Some temporary relief may be obtained through the medium of Art. The supreme endeavor after happiness is to withdraw from the struggle of life, and so obtain release from the misery which that struggle imposes upon all, even upon those who are for the moment successful.

Wisdom, the ordinary art of living has to be a compromise. We are here not by any choice of our own; and while we strive to make the best of it, often we do let ourselves be deceived while we cherished illusion.

Happiness consists for the most part in what a man is in himself, and that the pleasure he derives from these blessings will depend entirely upon the extent to which his personality really allows him to appreciate them. Thus, happiness depends much more on what is within than without us; for what we see without us is often an art of self deceit.

Life itself reveals our destiny. It is not the struggle which produces misery; it is the mistaken aims - the aim to be free.

Today's Contemplation

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

-- Albert Einstein

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“Seek not to have things happen as you choose them, but rather choose that they should happen as they do; and you shall live prosperously.”

-- Aurelius

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The secret to peace is not to make our achievements equal to our desires, but to lower our desires to the level of our achievements.

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“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then, though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”

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Keep your head. Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren’t there.

Hold on to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

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MY CRYING SOUL!

When the soul cries out, it is a sign that we have arrived at a necessary, mature stage of self-reflection. The secret is not to get stuck there dithering or wringing your hands, but to move forward by resolving to heal yourself by moving into courage.

AMEN.

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Quote for Today

Many humans have attempted to place limits on God but have, as a result, only placed limits on themselves and on their ability to see and to experience God.

-- Neale Donald Walsh

Ironically, some human tried to show they are God's protector when in fact we human are the ones that need God to protect us. These human are ignorant that God is Omnipotent and Omnipresent!

Sexy Joke

Oral Sex Survey Results

5,000 men were asked to complete a survey on what they liked best about Oral Sex:

a. 2% liked the warmth.
b. 1% enjoyed the sensation.
c. 97% loved the silence.

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Reported by: Anon.

STORY: A Passage in Life's Journey

I arrived at the address where someone had requested a taxi. I honked but no one came out. I honked again, nothing. So I walked to the door and knocked. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.
After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940s movie.

By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets..

There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware.

'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, and then returned to assist the woman.

She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb.

She kept thanking me for my kindness. 'It's nothing', I told her. 'I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated'..
'Oh, you're such a good boy', she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address, and then asked, 'Could you drive through downtown?'

'It's not the shortest way,' I answered quickly.
'Oh, I don't mind,' she said. 'I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice'.

I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening... 'I don't have any family left,' she continued. 'The doctor says I don't have very long.' I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.

'What route would you like me to take?' I asked.

For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator.

We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.

Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.

As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, 'I'm tired. Let's go now'

We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico.

Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her.

I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.

'How much do I owe you?' she asked, reaching into her purse.
'Nothing,' I said

'You have to make a living,' she answered.

'There are other passengers,' I responded.

Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly.

'You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,' she said.

'Thank you.'

I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.

I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought.

For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk.

What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, someone who was impatient to end his shift?

Our lives revolve around great moments.

But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID,
BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.

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SOURCE: KUCHING TOASTMASTERS

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Political bullshits & shit-stirrers

Khairy Jamaluddin believes that the public has been unfair in targeting only Utusan Malaysia and accused DAP of being responsible for racial tensions.

“We should not only fault one party. I think all parties must respect one another, what we hear from every side are emotions from every race. I hope that there would not be any party whether it be Utusan or other papers that will stir up emotions,” he said.

To Khairy, whatever Utusan published can never be seditious. Whatever other races said have a tendency to be seditious. Jeff Ooi is seditious. Anthony Loke of DAP Youth statement condemning Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee for calling Teoh Beng Hock's child as illegitimate is seditious and an act to attack Islam as proferred by PKR's Kulim MP Zulkifli Noordin.

Khairy added that Malaysians should not be quick to label people as racists. And Utusan wasn't racist? We all are racist but inciting racial hatred is not just being racist; it's hatred of one another.

PKR's Kulim MP Zulkifli Noordin lambasted Loke for 'attacking' Muslim scholar Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee.

Anthony Loke had chided the Dr Ridhuan over his article in Utusan Malaysia concerning the 'illegitimate child' of deceased DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock.

Loke's statement had appeared in a blog called 'SJSandteam', which has since been removed.

Zulkifli said the issue of getting his fiancee pregnant is different from the circumstances surrounding his death.

"Mohd Ridhuan is of Chinese descent, and is well aware of the community's traditions and culture," Zulkifli said.

Zulkifli called on Loke as well as the webmaster of the blog to apologise to Mohd Ridhuan and all Muslims.

Zulkifli urged the police to investigate the webmaster under the Sedition Act.

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READ THE ABOVE NEWS FROM THE LINKS BELOW:

The Malaysian Insider

Malaysiakini

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Well, Zulkifli & Khairy did not think Utusan's various articles instilling fear and apprehension of a particular race would incite racial hatred. They do not deemed it as seditious. It seems what Utusan can publish, had published, and would continue to publish, will never come under the purview of the sedition law while, any other publications or statements by individuals could be concocted, implied or transliterated as incite and thus seditious.

This nation is truly observing a nearness of a possible clash of the civilized society and we could be heading towards a class disorder.

I hope our Prime Minister Najib will do something affirmative to evade such a possibility. What we read at Utusan, Khairy's and Khir Toyo's blinkered-statements do not bode well for a peaceful-plural society. Clearly, there are strong underhands stirring a class struggle in an attempt to destabilise the Pakatan controlled States. To our disappointment the Pakatan Rakyat government of PKR,-DAP-PAS seems incapable of protecting the rakyat and fails to provide a sense of confidence to the rakyat who had voted them in.

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According to Lim Kit Siang, who is the DAP advisor, Umno is behind what he said was a “bloody-minded” campaign to topple the Selangor PR state government.

“The Selangor Pakatan Rakyat government is facing a life-and-death threat with a high-powered Umno-BN conspiracy to topple it at all costs and restore Umno-BN rule in Selangor as in Perak six months ago.

“This is not an ordinary challenge but a no-holds-barred onslaught and take-no-prisoners assault mobilising all available means and resources, including the most unethical and illegal, whether at state or national level, whether government or outside like the mass media, to destroy the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat government and cause the break-up of Pakatan Rakyat,” he said in a statement today.

(READ KIT SIANG'S STATEMENT HERE)

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I am not sure what Lim Kit Siang said is true or false but the elements are observable and frightening. I hope Lim is wrong.

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“I cannot imagine how our country will be if we (Barisan Nasional and Umno) are no longer in power after the next general election," Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said when opening Perdasama's 11th annual general meeting. Perdasama is an association for Malay businessmen.

Muhyiddin added that what was also more worrying now was that there were some non-Malay quarters who were openly questioning Malay rights and privileges.

And what was even more disappointing, he said, was that there was a small number of Malays who were acting as “thorn in the flesh”.

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Malaysia: An Impoverished Racial Society

Ku Li: BN power-sharing model broken, needs new one
By The Malaysian Insider

The ruling Barisan Nasional’s racial power-sharing model is broken with the races now polarised, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said.

“The racial power-sharing model now practised by Barisan is broken. It takes more honesty than we are used to in public life to observe that this is not a temporary but a terminal crisis. An old order is ending,” Tengku Razaleigh told the Kelab Umno Australia at the Melbourne University.

We are in a transition full of perils and possibilities,” the Kelantan prince said in a copy of the speech sent to The Malaysian Insider.

The coalition has to wake up to the fact that it no longer worked.

“It was designed as an interim work-around, an early stage on the way to ‘a more perfect union’ and not as the desired end-state. Over the years, however, we have put up barricades around our system as if it were a fore-ordained and permanent ideal.

“In doing so, we have turned a half-way house into our destination, as if we must forever remain a racially divided and racially governed society,” said Ku Li.

Tengku Razaleigh said the power-sharing model in Malaysia was an elite style of government justified by the virtue and competence of natural leaders of the communities.

“It does not work when political parties are led by the ignorant and the corrupt who have no standing in the communities they claim to represent,” he said bluntly, saying the country now has top-down rule and power had become increasingly unaccountable with Umno beholden to the executive.

“Our decades under highly-centralised government undermined our power-sharing formula, just as it undermined key institutions such as the judiciary, the police and the rule of law.

“Our major institutions have survived in appearance while their substance has eroded. Seen in this light, the election results of March 8, which saw the Barisan Nasional handed its worst defeat since 1969, was just the beginning of the collapse of a structure which has long been hollowed out,” Ku Li said.

“We need a new beginning to racial relations in Malaysia, and you must pioneer that beginning. We need to re-design race relations in Malaysia, and you must be the architects and builders of that design,” he told his audience.

“Begin with our common humanity. Respect for our common humanity must override all lesser affiliations, including race,” he said, noting one of Islam’s most powerful contributions to human civilisation has been its insistence on the equality of all human beings.

“Islam tolerates no notions of racial superiority or inferiority. All human beings are equal before God. That same principle of equality is absolutely fundamental to democracy, and democracy is a foundational principle of our Constitution.

“Political parties based on race or religion must never be allowed to do or say anything contrary to justice and equality,” he added.

Bucking the trend in his party that espouses Malay supremacy, Tengku Razaleigh said Malaysians must anchor themselves in the constitution and restore its primacy as it establishes the equality of citizenship.

“It gives us the framework of law and order within which we become a nation. It establishes the primacy of the rule of law, the sovereignty of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary and civil service and of our law enforcement agencies. These are the institutions which guarantee the freedom and sovereignty of the people,” he added.

Speaking on race, he noted that while it united people in a common feeling, it can also divide and said that Malaysians are not just diverse in race but diverse in different ways, including location, class, social status, occupation, language and politics.

“We would be terribly impoverished as persons if our identity was given ahead of time and once and for all, merely by our membership of a fixed racial category.

He railed against the politics of race saying it will always divide, “and the ultimate solution to intra-racial problems it leads us to is, in the end, violence.”

“It is easy to identify the practitioners of this kind of racial politics. They will rely on veiled threats of communal violence even as they take part in democratic politics,” he added.

“It is time to embrace this real diversity in our political and personal lives. Our racial identities are not silos in a cornfield, forever separate, encased in steel, but trees in our rainforest: standing distinct but inexplicable without each other and constantly co-evolving,” he said.

“Let us have the sense of perspective to see our ethnic identities against these cornerstone principles of religion and ethics, and let us now educate our young, apprentice our youth, and conduct ourselves according to these principles.

“And then let us have a new beginning for Malaysia,” he said when ending his speech.

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Source: The Malaysian Insider

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This is the Malaysia we are in now.

Naijb knew we are heading towards the ultimate disaster. At the Pekan Umno division AGM Najib told the Umno members that the culture of looking after one's own clique and race is no longer tenable and as such Umno should take the lead to change.

This Najib's ultimate message:

"We cannot afford to be complacent and assume that Umno will be politically immune forever."

"Serve the people, not the cliques."

"Umno members must follow closely national developments and familiarised themselves with the concept of 1Malaysia, KPI and KRA."

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Source: The Star

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Story: It Smells Good?

One evening a man was at home watching TV and eating peanuts. He'd toss them in the air, then catch them in his mouth.

In the middle of catching one, his wife asked a question, and as he turned to answer her, a peanut fell in his ear. He tried and tried to dig it out but only succeeded in pushing it in deeper.

He asked his wife for assistance, and after hours of trying they became worried and decided to go to hospital.

As they were ready to go out the door, their daughter came home with her date. After being informed of the problem, their daughter's date said he could get the peanut out. The young man told the father to sit down, then shoved two fingers up the father's nose and told him to blow hard.

When the father blew, the peanut flew out. The mother and daughter jumped and yelled for joy.

The young man insisted that it was nothing and the daughter brought the young man out to the kitchen for something to eat.

Once he was gone the mother turned to the father and said, "That's wonderful. Isn't he smart? What do you think he's going to be when he grows older?!"

The father replies "From the smell of his fingers, our son in-law!"


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Story from: Amizain

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Bayi's Story: 1 Wish Per Blonde

There are three blondes stranded on an island. Suddenly a fairy appears and offers to grant each one of them one wish.

The first blonde asks to be intelligent. Instantly, she is turned into brown haired woman and she swims off the island.

The next one asks to be even more intelligent than the previous one. So, instantly she is turned into a black haired woman. The black haired woman builds a boat and sails off the island.

The third blonde asks to become even more intelligent than the previous two. The fairy turns her into a man, and he walks across the bridge.

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Three men were stranded on an Island around the arctic where there is no inhabitant. Suddenly a fairy appears and offers to grant each one of them one wish.

The first man asked for a beautiful wife. The fairy granted him his wish.

The second man asked for a more beautiful wife. He was granted his wish.

The third man asked for the most beautiful girlfriend. He too was granted.

They all died of hunger and was covered with snow.

Years later, another three men were stranded again there and the fairy reappeared.

All the three men asked for the same thing as their predecessors.

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LESSONS LEARNED: MEN NEVER LEARN!

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Story by: BayiSingh

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President Bush secret solution

What an American President do in office:

BayiSingh:: Philosophical Wife

First Guy (proudly): 'My wife's an angel!'
Second Guy: 'You're lucky, mine's still alive.'

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: 'Wife wanted'. Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: 'You can have mine.'

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

'I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't.'
James Holt McGavra

'There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.'
Sam Kinison

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once....
Nash

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Sacha Guitry

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Patrick Murra

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher..
Socrates

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
David Bissonette

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Provider: BayiSingh

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Najib explains why NEP failed

Najib: Malaysia's closed service sector was similar to Myanmar

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that, to date, some RM54bil in shares were allocated to bumiputras but only RM2.4bil still remained in their hands.

He explained that among the reasons for the mass sell-out include poor holding power, not serious about holding the shares, high gearing cost especially involving financing or not being able to take part in the running of the company as they did not have the 30% stake.

He pointed that those who received shares were not ordinary folk but mostly influential people who sat in the front rows at functions such as Tan Sris and Datuk Seris.

“This is why Bumiputra equity has been at only 18.9% for the past 19 years,” he said, adding that it was “madness” to continue with the same policy hoping that the outcome would change for better.

“The end result is that we have to change and one way is to have Equinas Nasional Bhd (Ekuinas), a private equity fund to help bumiputras,” he said, adding that he wanted bumiputra entrepreneurs who were not only champions locally but also regionally and internationally.

Besides this, Najib also talked about the liberalisation of the services sector, changes to Umno, the abolishing of teaching science and mathematics in English and his One Malaysia concept and Umno’s preparedness for the next general election.

On the liberasation, he added that it was important as Malaysia’s closed services sector was similar to Myanmar.

“We invest in other countries but we do not allow others to invest here,” he said, adding that Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand had opened up their services sector.

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Source: The Star

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Story: A Cowboy & A Lesbian

An old cowboy sat down at the Starbucks and ordered a cup of coffee.
As he sat sipping his coffee, a young woman sat down next to him.

She turned to the cowboy and asked, 'Are you a real cowboy?'

He replied, 'Well, I've spent my whole life breaking colts, working cows, going to rodeos, fixing fences, pulling calves, bailing hay, doctoring calves, cleaning my barn, fixing flats, working on tractors, and feeding my dogs, so I guess I am a cowboy.'

She said, 'I'm a lesbian. I spend my whole day thinking about women. As soon as I get up in the morning, I think about women. When I shower, I think about women. When I watch TV, I think about women I even think about women when I eat. It seems that everything makes me think of women.'

The two sat sipping in silence.

A little while later, another man sat down on the other side of the old cowboy and asked, 'Are you a real cowboy?'

He replied.....

'I ALWAYS THOUGHT I WAS, BUT I JUST FOUND OUT THAT I'M A LESBIAN'.

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Story by Jefus

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Bayi Story: American Intelligence

A businessman called and had a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China.

After a lengthy discussion about passports, I reminded him he needed a visa.

"Oh no I don't, I've been to China many times and never had to have one of those."

I double checked and confirmed that his stay required a visa.

When I told him this he said, "Look, I've been to China four times and every time they have accepted my American Express."

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A woman called to make reservations, "I want to go from Chicago to Hippopotamus, New York"

The agent was at a loss for words. Finally, the agent: "Are you sure that's the name of the town?"

"Yes, what flights do you have?" replied the customer.

After some searching, the agent came back with, "I'm sorry, ma'am, I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a Hippopotamus anywhere."

The customer retorted, "Oh don't be silly. Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!"

The agent scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, "You don't mean Buffalo, do you?"

"That's it! I knew it was a big animal!"

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I just got off the phone with a man who asked, "How do I know which plane to get on?"

I asked him what exactly he meant, which he replied, "I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these darn planes have numbers on them."

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A woman asked for an aisle seats so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window.

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Source: BayiSingh