Minister of Health in action

thatz my cousin ( that indian lady , dr.shamini)....the one behind that chinese man ( thatz our Health minister , Dato Lioa Tiong Lai) who is checking some patients forehead.

hopefully the new minister will put an end to all our healthcare woes. though i alwayz thought dato chua soi leck( former health minister) was the best.

but , have no idea why he is checking the patient's forehead. maybe trying to project a

caring health minister.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/11/nation/20919522&sec=nation

8th March 2008

08/03/08 a new dawn ...a new beginning...ambiga sreenivasan( president bar council)

yeah...its Malaysia's 12Th election...5o years after nationhood! For the 1st time , the Barisan National have been denied their 2/3 majority in the Parliament. 5 seats went under the opposition coalition ( PKR , DAP and PAS) which is Penang , Selangor , Kedah , Perak and kelantan . This is history in the making!!!

1st of all , i would like to take my stand that i am neither pro opposition or pro government. I am writing for the sake that i want to remember this historic moment.

I would like to quote ambiga sreenivasant (Bar council president) which she highlighted the fact that the election result reflects the political maturity of Malaysia after 50 years. She meant that it is purely norm to the government to lead by simple majority and we set a very high bar for Barisan National to win 2/3 of Parliament. She definitely got a point there. So, to all barisan national hardcore supporters and Mr.Prime Minister , embrace this dis mall performance as an indicator of how Malaysia has matured and its no longer viable to Barisan to lead by abnormal winning after each election. This 12th election produce the best formula on how the parliment should consist in the future , 82 seats for the opposition and 140 seats for the Barisan Government. The barisan could form government without much hassle and the oppostion is well represented . Here , posses a question of a shadow government


In terms of state government , Penang is now being led by a DAP chief minister with a prominent DAP-PKR government in penang . Kedah and Kelantan on the other hand remains PAS's fort. And Selangor is led by PKR menteri besar, dato khalid , former CEO of Guthrie.


Perak on the hand would be lead by a PAS menteri besar , although PAS own the least seat in the coalition. This is because Perak and Selangor constitution demand the menteri besar must be a malay and in the case of Perak, Raja Nazrin choice to have a PAS menteri Besar. Intially , DAP did not respond well to this( a PAS MB) and PKR were also was not satisfied because PKR got the least amount of state seats.

This is definately history in the making...................................

But , what significant does it make with opposition winning 80 seats and deniying Barisan 2/3 ???

Under the constitution , in order to pass the law , we only need a simple majority , so this means that Barisan will still get what it wants. The fact that was pointed out by Prof. Shad Al- Faruqi ( Head of Law UiTM) that passing law in the parliment is not as efficient as it suppose to be. We do not discuss the bills that meant to be passed , debates lack in substance . He also pointed out the Dewan Negara rarely debate the bills after it is passed by Dewan Rakyat. More that 2/3 of the senators are appointed by the government. So, the fact remains that OUR PARLIMENT LEGITIMATE AND NOT LEGISTATE LAWS. The parliment does not even have its own drafts man. I mention this to Ms. Ambiga, and she point out that though government will have its own way to pass bills , the opposition being opposition will certainly bring up issues and argue will the respective ministry. Eventually the RAKYAT will get to know , the Barisan credibility will be put to test in the next election. Prof Shad Faruqi pointed out that the parliament needed to be reform in order to be more effective , he also suggest that parlimentarians go through some form of training.

What are factors leading to Barisan's Dissmal performance in the 12th general election. I would like to quote tuanku Aziz on this matter ; Barisan's dismall performance due to Premier Abdullah being a rethoric person , he does not exactly turn words into action . A very good example , Abdullah pledge to fight corruption , but he did make any effort in making the Anti Corruption Agency an independent body with its own authority to bring corrupt inviduals to the face of justice. Abdullh should have declared ACA as commission , an independent body with high degree of authority. "It seems the government have got its own personel agenda in ACA and are happy with his performance",Tunku Aziz(former ethics advisor) .

after few weeks not updating this draft , i would like to say that i preety much forgoten what i wanted to write in the first place, lost my sense of direction........

ok , perak got new PAS MB and DAP got the 6 out of 10 exco seat , and 2 for keadilan and 2 for PAS. selangor appointed teresa kok as senior exco member ( equivalent as timb menteri besar) . Perlis regine appointed new MB without the endorsement of Pak LAH( he later agreed to it) . Terenganu Regent appointed his own choice as Menteri Besar ( pak lah having force to meet with the Agong regarding this matter). I personally do not agree with the Terenganu Regent choice because the New MB is not as charismatic as the one endorse by Pak LAh.

And anwar ibrahim is being published as the cover for Newsweek March 2008 edition . he is now the de facto leader of the parti keadilan rakyat ( his wife is the Malaysia opposition leader ). The grapevine is that his wife will make way for him in April by resigning as the Permatang Pauh MP thus paving way for by election. If she play the cards right , Anwar is set to become the Ketua Pembangkang Malaysia by end of June. And with the Barisan Rakyat ( PKR-DAP-PAS ) winning huge percentage of parliment seats , the opposition under Anwar might pave way for Malaysia's very own Shadow government( like the ones in UK and Aussie). Shadow government is not a new concept and has being used in Countries like UK and Aussie. it is an unofficiall line up of ministers among the opposition which will effectively evaluate policies by the government of Malaysia. Perhaps Anwar could give us a better understanding on the viability of Barisan's policy , which will increase preasure on BN to come with practical policies.

Speaking of cabinet , Pak LAh recently announce his new line up. A much Smaller cabinet with lot of radical changes. it do bring a better sense of integrity.... Pak lah Have droped Rafidah Aziz , the cabinet now have a new indian minister, dato subramaniam( after 20 years of Samy Vellu) , mantain the charismatic Azalina , appointed Sharizat as his advisor with ministerial status(though she lost the pantai parliment to anwar's daughter ) and appointed the 1st chinese lady as minister(family and women affair) . he also merge internal securities and home affairs ministry as home minister ( syed alba). PAk LAh also stress that the next four years would be implementation year , that he will stress on implementation of the super-mega projects that he launched last term.

I do want to stress that barisan's so called dismal performance is not entirely his fault , just that his approach was not right and the people simply wanted a better opposition in the parliment . Pak LAh , in a way did encourage higher level of freedom of speech , better press. Some say that , Pak LAh was influence by the wrong advisors ; the Barisan Election campaign for once did make use a lot of television airtime and press space( this acctually irritated the RaKyaT ) . Anyway let by gones be gones , it is about time that we all mature , not only in terms of political but also on how to accept defeat.

Lets give Pak Lah our outmost support because I do believe that He IS a NOBLE man with THE NOBLE INTENTION TO SERVE THE COUNTRY AS BEST AS POSSIBLE( through politics ). He deserve this 2nd chance ........i really think that he really want to make a difference.

Anyway , i would like to say that the public forum on palimentary reforms organizes by taylorz law school and chaired by Ms. Ambiga Sreenivasan and attended by panelist such as Tuanku Aziz ( former UN advisor on integrity ) , Prof Shad Saleem Faruqi( uitm law prof) , Prof Leopold( uni. Reading head of law school) has been a great source of reference and insipered me to write this piece.

THis piece of my thought is not anti establishment in nature and neither i am like those blogger whom mock the government under the name of blogging!!!

2008....soUTH AUssie mAtrIx

ok....juz posting this for the sake of posting this....

2008....wanna welcome this year with high hopes that i will pass my SAM with flying colors. for all those out there, SAM stands for South Australian Matriculation. Year 2008 is a very important year..mainly because of SAM. SAM is a pre-uni qualification..JPA made me do it ...and i am doing SAM-actuarial science and the irony is that i will be pursuing an accoutancy degree in australia.

So, i have to take specialist maths...its name decribe itself, its a very 'special maths' and to add to its 'specialness' , most of the exercise in the text book is quite easy..but when in the exam ... its mind boggling..i mean the question they ask...in depth question..sometimes no clue how to do it also. so i am counting on Miss. Logesh( my spec maths lecture) to help me overcome this barrier which seperates me and my australian dream. i hope having to take specialist maths(instead of legal studies, they do not really need spec maths for accoutancy in aussie) will bring greater benefit in the future.

other than specialist maths , i have to take maths studies , economics , accoutancy and ESL(english as 2nd language). Maths studies..is the normal maths...and nothing much to say about it.

ESL , i do not know why they call it english because they do not really test our english language , instead they test us on our ability to read , process , analyze and report information( sounds more like accouting process rite??). I quoted this from Mr.Kevin...the coolest male lecture around.

Economics on the other hand is the most interesthing of all , its really nice to know all those stuff i learn in economics , help u understand the world around us.maybe shall post something about economics in the next post .

Last but nt least , accountancy , well accounts is accounts and no matter wat , i am going to make a living out of it. I have the best accounts teacher around Ms. Alicia C.P.A.( cool name rite) , i mean she is really good , she help me clear my doubts on the qualitative aspect of accounting. A day in taylorz is not complete without her motivating us, i mean she constantly motivates us( i am not being sarcastic here) and she constantly fire us ;inside , out , left , right , up down , she fires us from all direction with the same magnitude burn the entire KLCC . (all for the good reason , i do not blame her , i mean we do not even know simple concepts...JPA scholars are such scatterbrains!) .

ALL this 5 subjects is wat SAM is all about... SAM - a demanding programme that requires us to have a body and heart of steel. And doing it in taylorz requires even more determination and peseverence because of all the distraction in taylors... i mean like friends ...all those good looking gurls( really have to mention this , wanna pay tribute to gods creation). hopefully , i will go through SAM gracefully , without any major hiccups or anything that jeopardize my chances of securing that flight ticket to aussie.

g A j A n

JPA scholaR - taylorian....2007..SAM??!!*~!

it has been ages since i post to my own blog.......

time pass by so damn fast...in a blink of eye .....it is already 2008...

before i welcome 2008 and the year of rat,i would like to take this oppurtunity to highlight the highlights of 2007!

1st of all ....manage to obtain 11 A's in my SPM( Malaysian Education Certificate)

then....manage to get hold of three scholarships....which is the prestigious JPA scholar....the MOE scholarship....and Not to forget the Tenaga Scholarship

Both JPA and Tenaga scholarship are meant for Accountancy in Aussie....but i choose JPA scholarship because i felt i am better of being a JPA scholar then a Tenaga scholar.....futhermore the Tenaga lady told me that if the scholarship i reject would be given to another indian( I suppose so )

THe MOE scholarship is meant for bachelor of science ( chemistry ) in the United Kingdom...had to reject it.......

2nd ...i got to enroll myself in SAM at Taylor's College...now a proud taylorian....also get to be in the college where they breed all the good looking gurls. I have to mention that being a scholar does not improve my chances at all ( hope those out there get wat i mean ). but, 'wat the hell' i have the entire continent(aussie) waiting for me. Anyway, i am on my toes right now trying to make time to catch with my SAM , they don't called it self assination matriculation for nothing.....

the 2nd half of last year was spent in taylors.....life in taylors was not all smooth sailling...it had its hiccups...but manage to catch on....thank god for that!! got to spent time with my beloved cousin ( one of the best corneo transplant surgeon...acctually one of the very few in the country) with her lovely daughters.

then came december...december was havoc coz went back.... drove my dad nuts as usuall....
manage to earn a lump sum working for the taylorz residence....love the job...hope its a good omen...u know...being successfull in my 1st job.

in a nuthshell....2007 ....was life changing year...never in the world i thought i would end up doing accoutancy. and never in the world i thought , i would be a scholar bound for the land of the kangaroos. hope the 2008 would unleash my potentiol, hope i secured the plane ticket headed for aussie before next february..

Finally the verdict will be out soon. It has only been three months but it seems like an eternity , but the wait will over , good bye for all those countless nightmares about about my results.The result will be out on monday and i have spent a considerable amount of time in those run down buses in order to reach the MRSM LENGGONG which I did miss during my three month holiday.

Now , my last hope would that I would pass my SPM 06 with flying colors or in other more practical terms - all 1A's in all eleven subjects . Hopefully recent news about a malay girl in batu pahat that achieve 19 1A's in her recent SPM would be a good indication or hints that the Malaysian Examination Council has increased the number of straight A's in the country. I urge anybody reading this to pray whole heartedly for the best of all of us in the SPM o6.

May god bless all of us with HIS grace on the D-day !

WELCOME 2007

WOW,It is 2007 . Hopefully the double o seven year will bring me tons of luck , good health , prosperity ,wealth and much better grades especially for the year 2007.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you out there a very Happy New Year. Hopefully the year 2007 will bring you all more luck , wealth and better health. Lets all of us pray for a better world with no war and also no natural disasters.

2007 will be a more significant year as i will getting my SPM results which will effect my future.Hopefully 2007 will bring all 1a's for all eleven subjects i have taken.

I have no pacticular resulation for 2007 because I know I can not fulfill them.Futhermore , only time will show me whats for me in the coming year.How , I hate suprises.

* 2007 , my prayers and hopes are a better health of my family members.hopefully my brother and sister will excel in acdemic.