My Childhood Friends.

Managed to get hold of my childhhood friends photograph taken during the last Chinese New Year gathering at Kee Tick house in Tengkera. It was indeed a feat to gather annually ever since we left Malacca High School. We have been gathering without fail for the last 30 years even though most of us are married and have our own family. From left Kok Tong,Johnny,Eng Ann,Kee Tick,Choo,Wai Yee,Myself,Quek,Richard and Raymond.

DAP Seputeh Thanksgiving Dinner

With YB Teresa Kok, the newly elected Seputeh MP and Kinrara Adun at the Dinner function.

Last night DAP Seputeh throw a buffet dinner at Seri Petaling to thanks the election workers who like myself are mostly volunteers. The event started at around 7.30pm with the arrival of our Seputeh YB Teresa Kok who was greeted by the lion dance from Salak South.The above event have also invited many new DAP MP and ADUN to be the night speakers. Among them was the newly elected MP from PJ Utara Tony Pua, the youngest Singapore based CEO,MP for Segambut YB Lim Lip Eng,Serdang MP aka Serdang Chili Padi Ms Teo Nie Ching and the newly appointed Selangor Exco who is also Seri Kembangan Adun and Selangor DAP chief Mr Ean Yong Hian Wah.

We have actually cater for 100 tables, beer was served and roast pig sponsored by well wishers.Our MP Teresa who is also the Selangor senior exco delivered a lenghty speech where she thanks the volunteers who without them she would not be able to win the highest majority in the whole of Malaysia with a huge 36,492 majority.She also promised that she will still take care of Seputeh constituency even though she also have to attend Selangor state administration.Tony Pua who is an economist by profession spoke on how hardworking our new Penang CM YB Lim Guan Eng who called him in the wee hour of 1.30am to ask him to prepare a report and called again at 8am to check whether it was done.

After the dinner Teresa invited us for another round of supper at a newby restaurant opened by her friend. Managed to take some photos with our new YBs and have attached for your viewing pleasure.

After the Tsunami...the Aftershocks.

Dear Comrades,

Our PM is precariously sitting on a 3 legged chairs.A slight sneeze from Umno will definitely throw him out from the PM post.After the unexpected lost of 5+1 states to the Barisan Rakyat,the PM is under tremendous pressure to step down.He is not only hummilated from the Rakyat but also from his own UMNO and BN partners who took advantage of his weakened position.

Three Deputy Minister have refused to accept the post which is unprecedented during Dr M premiership.Even UMNO youth go against him by refusing to take any action against Mukhrif on the letter send to him to ask him to resign.Later when Mohd Taib who was appointed by him to strengthen his position proposed that UMNO general election to be postponed next year,his proposal was thrown out during the UMNO Supreme meeting which was actually chaired by him.This shows that he have lost support even among his own UMNO members.

The latest bashing came from the Royalties.The Raja Perlis refused to accept the PM appointed man Dato Shahidan as the Menteri Besar and appointed his own man as the Menteri besar, unheard of during Dr M time.Taking advantage from the situation in Perlis, the Sultan of Terengganu exert his power to nominate Dato Ahmad Said as the Menteri Besar instead of Dato Seri Idris who was Pak Lah preferred choice.The stand off between the PM and the Sultan who was the current King finally resolved with the PM made to eat humble pie.

The Terengganu saga was a test of PM credibility which he failed miserably.He had disappointed the group of 22 state assemblymen who have been standing solidly behind him during the standoff.How are the UMNO members going to support him if cannot handle such an important situation.PM days are numbered and it will be a miracle if he can withstand the coming UMNO election due to be held this December 2008.His challenger will most likely be Tengku Razaleigh who have the support of Dr M and many disgruntled division heads.It won't be surprise if Tengku can muster more than 30% division support for him to qualify for the contest.

29th March 2008

To be continue...

After the Tsunami...

Dear Comrades,

The unexpected results of the 12th GE have not only caught BN off guard but the Opposition ill prepare.Suddenly the Opposition alliance or some called it Barisan Rakyat or Anwar termed it as the Government in waiting stared at how to form the 4 new states governments.The most complicated state is Perak where you have DAP winning 18 states seat whereas PKR and PAS getting 7 and 6 respectively achieving a slim majority of 31 seats against BN 28 seats.As commented by Kit Siang in his blog,he thought he will have a well deserved rest after the election but he was fully occupied and hardly sleep to attend to all the new political development after the election.

Initially there were rumblings on the ground on who should be the Menteri Besar with even DAP and PKR threatened to pull out if PAS candidates were given the MB post.Hovever goodwill prevailed and a loose coalition have been agreed to run the state with PAS given the MB post and DAP getting the lion shares of the exco seats.This is what we call the birth of new cooperation between DAP and PAS and it will be interesting to see how they will run the state effectively.

Penang was one of the earliest state government controlled by BR which started work.The new CM Mr Lim Guan Eng immediately formed the new exco with 2 Deputy CM and the first Indian Deputy CM in Malaysian history.He announced new measures to curb corruption with the implementation of open tenders for all state projects and results posted in the website for all to view.He even refuse to stay in the CM residence preferring to put up at his father's place because the CM place is leaking and need RM300,000 to repair which he reluctant to spend.THIS IS THE TYPE OF LEADER WE NEED.

I remembered when the new MB for Selangor moved in,he spent lavishling on the MB residence.While waiting for the renovation to complete he stayed at the expense of the taxpayers money at one of the 5 star hotel in Selangor.Thats is where all our rakyat money gone due to their sheer waste of public money.


On the BN front, Terengganu is the only state without a MB.This is due to the dissatisffaction of the present Agung to some of the state issue before the GE namely the handling of the Bersih demo by the MB at Batu Buruk where gunshots were fired to disperse the crowds.This definately a slap to our PM after the Perlis saga where the PM preferred candidate was sidelined.Finally we can see the Royalties exert their power towards the Executives.

The new cabinets lineup announced by PM was quite unexpected with the dropping of the Iron Lady Rafidah Aziz but the appointment of Mohd Taib tainted with the Australian airport scandals have somehow prove that the PM have to outweigh his personal interest above national interest,to boost his sagging support for the upcoming Umno elections.

22nd March 2008

To be continue...

The dawn of a new era

Exchanging of name cards during the election campaign for the Seputeh Parliamentary seat.From right DAP incumbent Teresa Kok and BN candidate Carol Chew.

Teresa Kok officially declared the newly elected Seputeh MP with her supporters in front of the Seri Petaling Community Hall with the highest majority of 36,ooo nationwide.

8th March 2008 was my happiest day in my life.The Rakyat have spoken loud and clear that enough is enough of the corrupt,arrogant and rotten BN government.Makkal Shakti, people's power have overthrowned 4 more states in West Malaysia to the hand of the Opposition.What a Tsunami effect and the swing towards the opposition was strong not only from the Indians and Chinese but also surprisingly by the Malays electorate.

The frustration by the Rakyat have been boiling over the years by the increased in fuel prices,crime rates,high cost of living. The Indian have been severely discriminated by the unlawful demolision of their temples,snatching of their corpse by Muslim religious authority,holding of the Umno AGM on Deepavali day with no due respect to the Hindus.The last straw was the detention of the 5 Hindraf activist under ISA.

Finally when our Sleeping PM announced the dissolution of the Parliament on 13-2-2008 and campaign period of 13 days,his lucky 13 have turned to be the unluckiest for him.The ceramah organised by the Opposition have attracted huge crowds and the amount of donation collected was tremendous.The biggest ceramah was the one organised by DAP in Penang which was able to atrract 40,000 people and collected RM123,000 two days before the Election.Kit Siang and Anwar were the star attraction in most of the ceramah held.

Went back Malacca to vote at Kota Melaka and rushed back to KL to assist DAP Seputeh as Polling agent at Salak South New Village.Sign of BN losing their grip started flowing in at 7pm when news report from our DAP Penang reported that all the 3 Gerakan CM designate lost to DAP candidates.The attendance at Salak South polling stream was surprisingly high at 88% compared to last election of 75%.This show that the Rakyat are coming full force to teach the BN a lesson.My polling stream result was DAP 424 and BN 67.

Later we were told that Teresa Kok won by a whopping 36,000 majority,the highest in the country.Went over to Sri Petaling polling centre to congratulate Teresa and she managed to speak to the reporters on how MCA have been teasing DAP all the years that we can only talk but can do.Now we can show them that we can even form a state government in Penang.


Few factors contributed to the downfall of BN in this election.The biased reporting in the mainstream papers,TV and radio have angered the people and an insult to their intelligent.However the Internet,SMS have really helped the Opposition to win this battle.Most people are frustated by the one sided reporting and have resorted to the internet to get the Opposition news.U tube also played the ceramah of the opposition to the comfort of their home.

DAP have really done a good groundwork for this election.They have their own campaign song,election tools,and group pf young and enterprising professionals like lawyers,activist and blogger to plan their strategy.In most of their ceramah,they effectively played their campaign song, JUST CHANGE IT.which was really touching and sent a strong message to the electorate.

To be continue...

Election Campaign update live from KL!

With YB Fong Po Kuan aka Chili Padi at YMCA Brickfield on the Bocor Forum.

Have been busy helping up with DAP Seputeh putting up buntings and banners the last few nights and also assist them at the operation centre checking on the electorate polling centres. In between still managed to attend to some of the DAP ceramahs held at PJ,Seputeh and Klang.The response from the Rakyat was fantastic and overwhelming.Last night went all the way to Port Klang to witness one of the biggest DAP ceramah ever.The crowd estimated to 10,000 spilled over to the main road.The guest speaker of the night was none other than Lim Kit Siang.Surprisingly Indian make up almost 30% of the crowd.

One of the DAP candidate for the Bandar Klang state is the ISA datainee Mr Manoharan.Her wife,children and mother were there to lend support to her husband and looking at the strong support the Indians gave I am sure that Manoharan can win the state seat.Most of the crowds there waited eagerly for Kit Siang arrival even though it was drizzling the whole night.

Finally Kit Siang came at 11.15pm and was given a hero welcome from the huge crowd.Cries of Makkal Sakti ( People Power from Hindraf group) was echo from the Indian crowd when Kit Siang shouted the slogan.The DAP veteran leader spoke on the need to deny BN 2/3 majority so that there are check and balance towards BN policy and rampant abuse of power.

The supports from Klang supporters were fanstatic! Almost 50 cars and motorbike were colourfully decorated with DAP flags and posters.I can feel the edge of change is coming to Klang and the DAP campaign song really lived up the whole atmosphere.The total donation collected that night from the crowd was RM42,000.

Another interesting ceramah was at PJ SS2.PJU is a parliamentary seat contested by Tony Pua, the youngest Singapore listed IT company who resigned to join DAP. Attended two of the ceramah which was held on Monday to pull the Pasar Malam crowd.The weather was quite fine when the first few speaker spoke but when Raja Petra spoke,it was raining dogs and cats.Raja Petra the editor of the popular political web site Malaysia Today told the crowd that the rain was nothing compared to the chemical laced water cannon spray during the Bersih and Hindraf rally.


The crowd stood on throughout the whole speech during the rain.The guest attraction of the night was Fong Po Kuan aka Chili Padi.She came at about 11pm and was warmly welcome by the crowd and they really love the way she deliver her hard hitting speech.

Will be going back to Malacca to vote on Friday night and rush back to KL the next morning to help DAP Seputeh as a polling agent.

So friends, please vote for change,you can do it!

To be continue... live from the polling centre.

DTRA Chinese New Year Celebration 2008.

De Tropicana Condo Resident Association have organised the annual Chinese New Year celebration at the Tennis Court on the 9th day of the CNY which was on the 15th of February 2008. The response from the residents was overwhelming.As usual, we invited the Lion Dance to performed and even have a line dancing performance from the children. We distributed oranges to the residents and ang pau to the children. Later we have the fireworks display at the vicinity.