Passenger 72

I went through the list of those onboard the missing MH370 and my heart went very still when I saw the name of Passenger 72.

Li Jie of China, 27 years old.

I was informed earlier that onboard the missing flight was a group of Chinese artistes.

My favorite classical guitar player is Li Jie.

I hope Passenger 72 is not her.

I do not know how to check whether it's her. If any of the readers of this blog knows how I may find this out, please leave a comment. I will appreciate it very much.

I am putting Li Jie's video here in dedication of those onboard the missing flight MH370 and their loved ones,

Li Jie was only 14 when she recorded that performance. She is now the same age as the Li Jie onboard the missing plane...if that lady is not herself.

For list of those onboard the MH370 flight, please go to this link,

MH370 passenger and crew 

Flying with Malaysia Airlines

The last time I flew in a Boeing 777-200ER, the type of Malaysia Airlines' aircraft which went missing on flight MH370, was slightly more than a year ago.

It's so happened that on that trip I was flying with Malaysia Airlines from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur, the reverse flight path of the missing MH370.

It was a smooth flight. The aircraft was sleek and elegant, the passengers were comfortable and the cabin crew were friendly and efficient.

I had earlier on that trip flew to China in the same type of aircraft, but to another city.

I like the aircraft better than the bigger but of older designed Boeing 747.

I believe that it was good that Malaysia Airlines had chosen the aircraft as part of its fleet due to its more modern design which reputedly enable the aircraft to be more fuel efficient and therefore being environmentally friendlier.

It is also reputedly among aircraft types which have great safety record.

Here is an introduction video clip of the aircraft.

By the way, I have always fly with Malaysia Airlines whenever I have to travel abroad.

The airline has excellent safety record, in fact, among the best in the Asia Pacific region. The excellently trained cabin crew were perhaps the best in the world.

Of all my overseas travels, I had only twice flew with another airline which was AirAsia. Those were flights to Bali and London.

What happened to MH370 was still a mystery and as I am writing this, search and rescue efforts were still ongoing.

It is heart wrenching to watch the grief stricken families and love ones of the 239 people onboard of that missing plane.

I pray that the mystery of the plane's disappearance will be solved soon for their sake.

So far, the handling of the disaster has been rather satisfactory. Undeniably that there were some rough edges to it but I believe it can be smoothen in the coming days as more information were gathered and hopefully more questions being answered.

I think PM DS Najib Razak has so far been doing well in his handling of the disaster. He was calm and collected as well as showing good leadership in the face of this national tragedy.

It was also good to see countries in this region and also other part of the world getting together in deploying their assets in search and rescue operation.

I am not sure what will happen to Malaysia Airlines after this tragedy.

I hope it will survive and continue flying the Malaysian flag.

If it does, I am sure that I will fly with the national carrier again, and it will remain as my favorite airline.

It's not really because I am being overly patriotic, but rather it's because I am confident Malaysia Airlines will continue to strive to be among the best airlines in the world.

I am also confident that the airline will further enhance its safety level in the immediate future due to what had happened to MH370.

Prayers for MH370 and what happened at the Pakatan's convention (updated)

UPDATES

I had been reliably informed by another journalist friend who was at the Pakatan's convention that Anwar had at the start of his speech asked the delegates to pray for the safety of those onboard the missing MH370 flight.

However, except for Anwar and Loke, no other leaders who delivered their speech at the convention mentioned the tragedy.

ORIGINAL POST

I had not posted anything earlier in the day about MH370 as I was hoping that the plane and passengers were safe.

Now that it has become more evident that all were lost, I just can't tell how sorry I am for especially the families of those on the ill fated plane.

May God lessen their pain and grief.

And may them, who were gone be granted an easy passage to a much better place.

Meanwhile, earlier in the evening, I received this text message from a journalist friend who had earlier in the day been covering the Pakatan Rakyat's 5th Convention at Setia City Convention Centre in Shah Alam.

This is what he texted :
"I spend the whole day listening to the speeches of the Pakatan leaders at their convention today. Only DAP's Anthony Loke mentioned the plane crash and asked for prayers. No one else did that. Not Kit Siang, not Hadi, not Anwar."

I texted back to my friend that it could not be true. The Pakatan leaders could not be that insensitive. They should had at least issued a joint statement at the convention expressing sorrow and sympathy for the victims and their family. Or at the very least offered a prayer.

My friend insisted that he was telling the truth.

"Only Loke mentioned a bit about it at the end of his speech and asked for everyone to offer a prayer for those on the plane. The other speeches were the usual BN whacking and about Anwar's sodomy case," he texted back.

Well, all I can say was that it was sad that they had failed to realize the enormity of the tragedy.

It's definitely bigger than the Anwar's tragedy.

Hopefully, the Pakatan leaders could be more sensitive in future, especially in the event that they managed to get to Putrajaya.

Anwar innocent my ass

I was in Kajang yesterday evening having a satay meal with a Chinese guy.

Nope, this one is not the usual Chinese guy. This one is just a friend.

Before anyone got any weird idea, let me tell you all that this guy already have a very cute girlfriend, okay.

It was then that we got to know about the Court of Appeal's decision against Anwar Ibrahim.

The Chinese guy said he wanted to hear what Anwar has to say, so, since Anwar was to attend a ceramah at PKR's operation center for Kajang by-election later in the night, we decided to go there.

There were already about 1,000 people at the building in Sungai Sekamat, when we arrived there.

Pakatan leaders were taking turn with the microphone denouncing the court's decision, and describing it as Umno's doing. All these as they waited for Anwar to arrive.

The speech by PKR deputy president Azmin Ali was the most garang of the lot.

He described PM DS Najib Razak as "haiwan peliharaan Mahathir" and called on Pakatan people to topple the evil BN government through street protests.

He pledged that Anwar will not spend a single day in jail.

"Democracy is dead in this country. The only way we can win is by going to the streets," he shouted.

Whatever lah Azmin.

By the way, if Najib is haiwan peliharaan Mahathir, how come Mukhriz lost the Umno vice-presidency the other day?

Simply hantam saja la ini Azmin.

Azmin, at the end of the speech shouted about going to war. I wonder if DAP leaders are agreeable to that.

You all Chinese want to go to war over a Malay dude convicted for buggering another Malay dude's arse? Really?

Ya, rite.

When Anwar finally arrived and it's his turn to give a speech, he straight away accused Najib of manipulating the court to stop his so-called "Kajang move".

He said Najib was scared of what he is doing in Kajang.

Hello...the Court of Appeal had already decided the dates to hear his case before Anwar pulled the Kajang stunt, okay.

In fact the by-election was most likely engineered to pre-empt the court's decision so that people may sympathize with him in the event that he lose the case.

Anyway, do you think Najib is really capable of doing all these nonsense Anwar was accusing him to be doing?

Eh, you just look at Najib la, then you ask yourself, does he really capable of being evil with that very rosy colored lips of his?

You may call him slow and dumb or anything else, but I don't think that you can describe him as evil.

Poor Najib. He sits there quietly minding his own business like a good little boy but out of the blue kena whacked by Anwar.

Sometimes, I really kesian the guy.

The rest of it, Anwar went on and on with the usual bullshit about his case and how innocent he was.

Ya, rite....Anwar is innocent.

And ya, this is also not Anwar after (or is it before) he humped on that cute Chinese girl from China,

This one is also not Anwar having his armpit sniffed by a guy before....I can't even imagine what after that,

Sometimes I wish Anwar makes up his mind. Boy or girl?

So indecisive la.

How to be PM like that?

When kena tangkap wants to play victim some more.

Blame Najib, blame Umno, blame everyone except himself.

Very tiring you know.

In fact, the whole thing is tiring.

When Anwar and gang won multi-million ringgit suits against their BN enemies, they never complain about the courts.

They even pompously celebrated their winnings.

Now, that they lose, the courts are suddenly instruments of Najib and Umno.

What a bunch of crap heads la these people are.

Anyway, it was a nice outing with the Chinese guy today. We were both tired but happy watching Anwar and all those Pakatan clowns huffing and puffing like that.

Okay, I better sleep now. Got to wake up early.

Nite.

Dying is part of life

Bought myself a pack of Malboro Light in the afternoon and finished the last stick just now.

Can't remember the last time I smoked heavily like that.

I don't think I can quit it anymore after this.

Bad for my health, but I don't think it really matters.

After all, non-smokers died too.

Ya, who cares anyway.

Tried to read a book I bought a long time ago for a second time.

I used to enjoy reading this book despite the depressing story.

But my eyes hurt after just two pages.

I need new glasses, I guess.

By the way, this laptop I'm using is also giving me some problems.

It has not been functioning properly ever since I dropped it the other day.

Maybe I need a new one to replace it too.

Otherwise this stupid blogging business has to slow down.

It's too tedious without a proper working computer.

But buying a new one has to wait. I'm quite broke at the moment.

Last month, I overspend. Used up over RM800 just for dining at expensive restaurants.

Anyway, I'm beginning to think that I want to write less political stories in this blog.

Maybe I should cut it down to the minimum.

After all, he only thing about politics that I'm really interested in at the moment is  to see DP Chew Mei Fun perform well in the Kajang by-election.

It's because I think she is a good, sincere and honest lady politician.

And she is up against bad people.

I doubt that she can win, but I think there's a good chance for her to send a message that not all politicians are bad people....

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Sorry, I'm suddenly feeling so sleepy. Have to cut it short there.

Good night.

Slicing my heart with a razor blade

Someone hurts my feeling tonight.

It's very painful.

I feel like crying but somehow there was no tears.

Why do people turned cruel?

Why do they broke their promises?

I wish I can turn around and fill myself with hate to lessen the pain.

But I can't.

I just can't do that.

This is really pathetic of me.

I can't be writing anything proper in this condition.

It will come out sounding bitter and crappy, if I tried.

Never mind.

Since I can't write, I would like to just recommend to you this movie instead,

I wish I could find you the original Japanese version, but this English dubbed one is also not so bad.

Do watch it when you have the time.

It is simple yet beautiful.

Nothing like my life.

p.s To those who want to go to the comments section to hurl abuse at me for posting what's in my heart (in this blog of mine) : DO FUCK OFF AND DIE YOU LITTLE PIECE OF PIG SHIT. Suka hati aku la apa aku nak tulis kat blog aku sendiri.

Stupid media strategy leads BN into the longkang

The other day, a very very high ranking Barisan Nasional leader admitted to me that the coalition had indeed lost the fight to win the heart and mind of the people in the run up to the 13th General Election.

This BN leader, who is actually one of the good guys also acknowledged that the coalition's media handlers and practitioners had failed to come up with a winning strategy, enabling Pakatan's propaganda to dominate the cyberspace and even to a certain extent, the mainstream media.

For instance, just open Google news and check the numbers of pro-Pakatan stories compared to pro-BN stories.I think the ratio is about 10 to one.

BN does not have a proper answer to news portals such as Malaysiakini and Malaysian Insider in the cyberspace.

In fact all English newspapers, with the exception of NST, are all actually pro-Pakatan. The Star, The Sun, Malay Mail, The Edge and others are pro-Pakatan.

For Bahasa Malaysia newspapers, Pakatan has Sina Harian.

Let's not even talk about the Chinese newspapers.

Yes, they all claim that they are independent and neutral but for all intent and purposes, they are pro-Pakatan, plain and simple.

The funny thing was that, that good BN guy knows all these things yet he doesn't seem to know why it's like that and what to do about it.

The so-called pro-BN media is still being managed the same way as it was before the last year's general election and it is still churning out the same tired old stuff.

Likewise, the BN media handlers do not seem to know what to do to remedy the problem.

It's almost as if everyone were in a car, singing a happy song as it flew off the road and heading towards a ravine.

Everyone seems to know that the car was going to crash, yet they continued to sing the stupid happy song with no attempt being made to steer the car to safety.

Bloody stupid, I would say.

The high ranking BN leader actually asked me what should be done.

Well, I think that should be answered by the very well paid BN media handlers and their consultants.

Me? I am just an insignificant anonymous blogger.

But, still, I did think about it and as usual came up to my usual five point problems and solutions list.

It's simplistic. But then I'm a simple person. Here goes :

1. Problem : Poor leadership. What do you expect when you got people like Ahmad Maslan and Sabri Chik handling the flow of information.

Solution :  Replace them with better ones. I suggest this job be given to MCA people. Maybe only then they may get their The Star and the Chinese newspapers to really support BN. You have to admit, MCA handles dissemination of information better than Umno. Example: the way the MCA faction fixed DS Dr Chua Soi Lek's sex tape was brilliant compared to the stupid way Umno handled the alleged sex tapes of DS Anwar Ibrahim and others.

2. Problem : Vested personal interest above all else. The main concern of many BN media handlers and practitioners was their selfish personal interests instead of fighting for the cause. They don't even seem to know how to motivate their own people as all they care for is just how to mprove their chances to go up the ranks so that they can earn bigger salary. They are also blinded from spotting good talents who could help fight the cause.

Solution : Identify these useless people, sack them and replace them with sincere people. Actually, it's not that difficult. Example: check among them as to who benefitted a lot from all those BN gimmick shows before GE13 and just get rid of them. One way or another they had failed yet became rich from the stupid programme that they proposed to boost BN image. Finding sincere people to replace those crooks? That is not really a problem. Actually, there are many of them. Just look around hard enough and you will find them. The key to it is that the ones who search, must also be sincere.

3. Problem : Stupidity. Sorry to say, but I personally think that many of BN media handlers were quite stupid. They do not even seem to care that Pakatan agents in government-link companies are doing their best to make sure the pro-Pakatan media was well-fed with sponsorships and advertisements. And their ideas were stupid. For instance, the Jelajah Janji DiTepati program. It is stupid and the person who came up with the idea is stupid. Having a fun fair to make DS Najib Razak looks good actually cheapened the whole BN's campaign.

Another instance of stupidity was for them to let this sorts of things to happened :

It's either Zahid Hamidi or his media handlers are morons. Or maybe all of them.

Solution: Get clever and capable people to do the thinking in the media team and get rid of the morons with no brain. The new smart people can come up with the necessary strategy on how to fight the media war. Again, these clever and capable people must be sincere to the cause. Don't simply pick from friends and relatives, okay. Definitely not some fun fair towkey selling stupid little idea to make lots of money for himself or some white men or young punks peddling con jobs by sounding clever with their fancy Mat Salleh named consultancy organization.

4. Problem: Cyber Hantu Raya. These are those who go around blackmailing BN leaders with bad write-ups in the cyberspace if they don't get what they want. It's one of the most vile things which gave BN bloggers in particular a bad name and severely damaged their credibility.

Solution: Total eradication of these shameless bastards. Do not entertain them at all. Let them write what they want. Just ignore them. You see, I can understand that there are those who earn a living by writing for either side of the political divide, but I don't think we should tolerate those who turned into a hantu raya, by sucking the blood of their master when they can't get what they undeservedly demanded.

5: Problem: Lack of discipline. Compared to the DAP's cybertroopers and their media handlers, the level of discipline among those on the BN's side should be rated on the same level as a useless bum. Most of them believe that they are the best at what they are doing but actually they are just so full of crap.

Solution: Nope, I can't think of any solution for this problem. Those in the media line are normally big headed.
Examples:
1. Become an editor of a newspaper with a circulation of less than 100,000 per day and already think so highly of oneself.
2. Having a blog with less than one million page views per year and already thought of oneself as being very influential.
Very hard to come up with a solution on how to manage these kind of people's ego. You can't just whack them in the head like in the old days, okay.
Never mind, let's leave this one to the BN media handlers and their consultants. They were paid millions of ringgit anyway.
So, why should I be the one cracking my head to find solutions for their problems.

Okay, that's all. Need to go to work now.