Disappearing Middle class

Are we facing the disappearing middle class?

How true this song speaks about our present predicament.

Listen to it...

Deepavali Fun Video

Let's have a little fun for the holiday. This is a prank from Tom Mabe with a telemarketer. Watch!

Nazri: Lingham Video no case

That's what he has always wanted, isn't it?

Millionaire Song

I love this Chinese-Hokkien Song

Any of you don't like it?

Sorry if you don't understand Hokkien...

Talent Discovery

I finally found these 3 videos at YouTube. It was introduced to me by Lee Jiuan Diong, my Toastmaster buddy from Kuching. It was something we can learn.

This man is a phone salesman named Paul Potts from South Wales. A simple-looking man with chubby face, he doesn't have the look of a celebrity and don't look like a talented singer too. He decided to enter a singing contest in UK called "Britain Got Talent." When he was asked by the judges what he's going to sing, he said he wants to sing Opera. It bemused the 3 judges. But when he sang, the judges were astonished and the lady judge was filled with tears and emotion while hearing him sing. He ultimately won in the finals on June 17, 2007 and also was rewarded with a recording contract from Simon Cowell. On July 16, 2007, his debut Album was released in UK and on July 22, the Album claimed No. 1 spot in the UK Album Chart. Read more about him at wikipedia

We surely can learn a lot from this man of humble beginning. He has shown us that, with passion and dedication together with a desire to achieve we too can be shaped and sharpened, and ultimately succeed in whatever we do.

Let's listen to him:




In the Semi-Final



And in the Final

Cats in the Cradle

While I was driving today, I received an sms from my son. He wrote: "dad, take care. I will take care of the family. Lately I'm over stressed but I can manage it."

How sweet of my son. As I kept driving, the memories of the early days of my life dawned on me. Since that day I graduated and started my career life and development, I hardly had spent much time with my children and family. The responsibility was entirely left to their mother who did an excellent job by bringing them up and molding them to be independent, disciplined and "good boys and girl". It was painful to recall these memories. Though I provided the financial support for the family, but it dawned on me that I had failed miserably to offer them time and support which the children deserves. I am truly sorry and no words can justify the lackness.

Each time I thought about this, the song 'Cats in the Cradle' always haunt on me. Cat's in the Cradle is a folk rock song by American singer & songwriter Harry Chapin which appeared on his 1974 album Verities & Balderdash. It was written by Harry's wife Sandy, a poet and writer. After his son, Joshua's birth, Harry realized just how much the song meant to him and he began to record it.



As I listen to the lyrics, emotion takes over the other senses and drains the eyes till it gets extremely wet. That affected the sights and made it difficult to drive. Fortunately, the tissues are on the dashboard. Each and every time I listen to that song, it always sorrow and sorriness. Nothing be expressed in words. I just hope that it was just a song.

Below are part of the lyrics:


A child arrived just the other day,
He came to the world in the usual way.
But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay.
He learned to walk while I was away.
And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew,
He'd say, "I'm gonna be like you, dad.
You know I'm gonna be like you."

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."

My son turned ten just the other day.
He said, "Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play.
Can you teach me to throw?" I said, "Not today,
I got a lot to do." He said, "That's ok."
And he walked away, but his smile never dimmed,
Said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah.
You know I'm gonna be like him."

I've long since retired and my son's moved away.
I called him up just the other day.
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind."
He said, "I'd love to, dad, if I could find the time.
You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kid's got the flu,
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad.
It's been sure nice talking to you."
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me,
He'd grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me.

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then, dad.
You know we'll have a good time then."


It dawned on me too, that my boys had grown up just like me; they were just like me.

Life needs to go on, and we need to go on, too. Tomorrow will be just another day.

Link at YouTube

Source: www.YouTube.com

Justice of our Parliamentary System

Our Minister, Shahrizat promised that this type of incidence would not happen again. She has a solution to the problem of those children that had suffered harm.

The solution: Parents would be indicted for a criminal offence if their actions leads to their children being harm. That is to say, if parent are found negligent or reckless in ways that could have allowed the children to stray to someplace, or accidentally left the child somewhere while shopping, and a rouge came and take the child away or hurt her, then our justice system is to sent the parent to jail.

What a "GREAT" solution! How intelligent! That's our parliamentarian and that's our Minister. That's their mentality.

The prime minister's wife, Jeanne called on parents to love their children dearly because there is no telling what could happen next. "Parent should treasure their children and pray that crimes against them would stop," said Jeanne.

It is a GREAT piece of advice. We parents in Malaysia must love our children, and more important, love them dearly, for there is no telling what will happen to them, of which we may then no more be able to love them dearly. Great advice! Great intelligent and great leadership! Let's pray, and lets pray hard! It is only fair we pray hard, because it is observed now that we could not depend on our security and safety system for protection.

Attorney-general Gani Patail do not think that the Lingham-Fairuz video contains any element of criminal offence. To console the general public and to give a little assurance that there still exists a system of law, the A-G said he will get more opinion on the matter and study the information in the video clip.

You would surely see some form of investigation and indictment. We can be assured that, at least, the person who secretly video-ed it and distribute it could be indicted for a criminal offence. What will be more wrong and elemental is the fact that the guy who video-ed this conversation did not seek permission to do so and at such had commited an act that violates the rights and freedom of another which is an act against the Human Rights Convention.

System of Justice .... ya, ya, ya, Theory of Relativity must apply. Justice is about who should be punished for what the person who controls the law said so. Fairness is about who is saying the word in the interest of who. Reasonableness is objective; it's which majority thinks what is reasonable, would make it fair. Equity and legal principles? Oh, we intend to repeal the common law and the rules of equity provided under s.3 of the Civil Law Act 1956 and replace it with a new modern Malaysian Common Law based on our Justice System.

Justice can be Jousted

Watching this video at YouTube, we Malaysian must now wonder what sort of justice system we had all these years.

The only interesting fact is that, there was an Indian lawyer who said he is working very hard to assist a Malay Judge in scheming his career path, using the assistance of a Chinese Towkay, while concocting with a Royal Minister, manipulating a Mamak Prime Minister. This is truly Muhibbah!

Another point of interest is that this Indian lawyer advised the Malay judge to use the name of Allah, that is to say, he is leaving everything to Allah to ensure him the position of Chief Justice.

Coincidental or is it a success story, that man ultimately got what he had hope for, and the Indian lawyer must have been glad his effort did pay off.

However, what puzzles me is the fact that this judge had made a proposition that the English Common Law should be replaced by a Malaysian Common Law. So, what sort of Malaysian Common law do we have? The video did hypothetically suggest that Malaysian judicial decisions could be much influence and dictated by well-connected lawyers and rich entrepreneurs who had linkages to the political leaders whom were empowered to decide the career destination of judges and chief justices, and those aspiring judges would need to seek connectivity and favors from some lawyers and businessman.

If one day, the Parliament do decide to amend the Civil Law Act (Section 3) and repeal the Common Law and replaced it with a Malaysian Common law, I am not sure how the legal fraternity and the international jurist would view our law. We will not know what type and kind of rule of law will subsist in that system which is suppose to administer justice based on political patronages and directive. It sounds far scarier than the Nazi system of justice. Would we then need a new Gustav Radbruch's Formula?

I think we do need to have a lot more prayers for grace and guidance. We may also need to pray for peace and safety. Amen!