Can Singapore have little little Tsunami?

This is the crowded attended in one of the political campaigns. Look carefully, this is not a crowed attended Pakatan Rakyat ceramah, but it is in Singapore.

A huge crowd flooded the opposition parties campaign in this year poll to be held tomorrow in Singapore. Of course, the crowded did not turn into votes in most of the past elections in Singapore.

My Singapore friend said this was always the case as People of Singapore would attend the opposition talks just to let go their frustrations and unhappiness once in 5 years. But when they went into the polling center, they will "awake" and cross for the PAP government.

Of course, replacement of PAP government or even break the 2/3 majority in Singapore at this moment is still a dream and long long way to go.

But hope this year could make some different, hope that they could have a breakthrough to win some seats. If this happen, what do you think about BN government in the opposite shore, like Johor and southern part of Malaysia?

The logo look the same and sound the same, but they are not DAP. They are PAP, the ruling government in Singapore for the past 48 years.

They are like BN in Malaysia. Of course, even though I do not like Singapore government in some ways, but we have to admit that, they are much much much better government as compared with what we have in Malaysia.

However, their old leaders are almost the same. The Singapore founder Lee Kuan Yew, said to the hot-seat Aljunied that they would have "five year to live and repent" if they vote against the PAP .

Sound familiar? This is the sickness of long ruling government.

Good Luck to the Earth

I attended an intensive course and sitting for an examination to become the facilitator for the GBI or Green Building Index in last couple of weeks.

The GBI is basically aiming to design a low thermal transfer building, to plan a self sustainable and maintain with high energy efficiency in building operation. The course gave us an awareness and hope that we are in building services industry could contribute as much as we can in reducing the global warming.

We must practice environmental friendly life like reduce wastage, "reuse, reduce and recycle" resources that shortage in this world. In fact, we are consuming resources more than the world could produce yearly, this also means that the ecology or sustainability chain had been broken.

However, the efforts to reduce global warming could not depend only the small group of the normal people but the leaders of the countries especially those developed countries like USA, European & Japan and also the major developing countries like China and India as these countries "contribute" most carbon footprint.

These leaders need to take drastic steps and initiatives to reduce the carbon produced from the countries.

Unfortunately, the Copenhagen Talk which also considered as the "last opportunity of mankind to reduce global warming" end with bare minimum agreements as every countries were self protective and hoping others to do the works for them.

The earth is in fact has on the track of no return of temperature rise more than 2 degree Celsius and the effects are serious to our livelihood.

Good luck to the earth.

The last episode of Altan

Policemen Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar were today sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu, ending one of the longest trials in Malaysian history，reported The Malaysian Insider.

These two men will be hang if their do not file the appeal. They will be buried under the earth but left many unanswred questions to be buried in the heart of many people:

1) The two murderer do not know her, why they killed her?

2) Sirul admitted he killed Altan, but the weapons never exist in the court?

3) Altan have no record entering Malaysia, how could the men be sentenced of killing someone not in Malaysia?

4) According to French Liberation Papers, the murder involved big amount of commission of a big business, what actually happened?

5) Someone was released not guilty, someone disappeared, someone was sentenced to hang, etc but all of the world still did not know what are happenning?

Malaysia Boleh in Swiss Open

There are also some proud things that we could show to the world, besides the shameful grab of power.

In Swiss Open Final, our Penangite, Lee CW finally beat his strongest champion-barrier opponent, Lin Dan from China. Tonight, he won over Lin Dan with straight set 21-16, 21-16. Lee CW had improved tremendously and play a very good game tonight. This should also thank to his dedicated coach Misbun Sidek.

Our No. 1 double pair, after a downturn for few months, defended their Swiss Open title tonight too. They beat Denmark pair Boe & Mathias with 21-14, 21-18.

This is a real "Malaysia Boleh" spirit we should show to the world. When we lose, accept it and learnt the weaknesses, improve it and we will win back eventually.

Taipei Study Trip (II)

4) High Speed Train

Even Taiwan has their high speed (bullet) train now. The train travel at about 350km/hr from Taipei to Kaohsiung taken about 90 minutes. This is what most of the Malaysian dream for (as compared to KLCC, KLIA and many other white elephant projects) if one day we can have the same from Padang Besar/Alor Setar to Johor Bahru, via all the major cities.

I travelled to a few countries recent years, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, East China, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Jakarta, etc. It was noticed that in terms of infrastructure, the electric train system is the most cost effective way to link up all cities and people. Of course, unless we still satisfy compared ourselves with Thailand, Vietnam, Jakarta, etc.

About double tracks or whatever, we are still talking, talking, talking,............... probably still could not decide which crony should get it.

5) The Economic Activities

This picture taken at one of the shopping street at small city in Tai Chung at 11.30pm on Tuesday night.

The island has about 20 over millions population, exposed to natural disaster like typhoons and earthquake. No natural resources like petroleum. Politically threatened by China.

But the aggressive & dynamic Taiwanese created a magic in their economic activities either in high-tech technologies and agricultural.

Similary, we in Malaysia, free from all the above disaster, also talked about high-tech industries, high-tech agricultural, MSC, etc., etc., for last many years. But now still hope and depending on foreign investment to boost our economy.

In short, there are many things to study in Taiwan.

However, I still feel that Malaysia is a better and more beautiful country. What we need are just be more hardworking, be more practical, be cleaner and smarter government management and get lost all political warlords.

Taiwan Study Trip (I)

I am back from the "study trip" in Taiwan to my beloved country this evening and herewith share some of the observations during the last 7 days.

1) Agricultural

Certainly we have to touch on the important agricultural sector. Due to I am not the "somebody" in the country like our MPs, I could only study from the local Taiwanese and the fruit farmer at the road side.

Besides their famous high-tech technologies in industrialiar sector, a lot of R&D and technologies are also implemented in the agricultural sector. A more quality fruits and food (rice, vege, etc) are produced for the country and export.

The interesting part was even the road side farmer knew that our MPs 'ran away' away from Malaysia to Taiwan last few weeks.

2) Typhoon Jangmi

We met Typhoon Jangmi, the strongest typhoon of the year, battering Taiwan with strong winds and torrential rain on Sunday in Hualian.

The typhoon had ceased the school and company operation for few days. Roads blocked, bridges broken, transportation stop, flooding, etc.

The 24-hour TV transparent reporting and effective rectification works from the authority had soften the damages and we could continue our journey smoothly.

3) TV Program

Taiwan had 100 over TV channels. I am impressed with their Religion and Political TV channels. All religions are free to set up their TV channels. The TV channels had all the freedom to organise political talk to criticise the opposition party and also the ruling party.

to be continue.........