Taking a break

Guys, I need to take a break from blogging at least for a while.

Need to focus on my work.

I think I may lose my job if my work doesn't improve soon.

I need to earn a living like most people, okay.

Therefore, my job is definitely more important than this blog.

And yes, writing this blog does interfere with my train of thoughts for my work.

This blog doesn't feed me. My job does.

Unlike all those prominent sopo bloggers, I'm actually blogging purely just for fun.

As I always said, I'm just an insignificant anonymous blogger after all.

Really.

While I'm taking this break, I suggest you all read la all the prominent sopo blogs instead.

Those which are supposedly more factual....and with figures, graphs and charts.

I think you all also need to take a break from my nonsense.

See lah how.  Later, if my work improves, I may continue writing here again.

Or maybe I'll ask someone else with better opinions, as well as higher level of  English and writing skills to write here.

Okay, you all take care.

Cheers.

Floods in Klang...praying it's not getting worse

Just received these from a friend in Klang,

Exit bukit raja dari highway nkve jalan tutup..
Depan jusco bukit raja jalan tutup..
Dari padang jawa jalan tutup..
Dari klang exit bukit raja (depan jusco) jalan tutup...
Semua dipenuhi air...
Tol rm1.00 jadi 1 lane..jem..jgn redah banjir...air paras peha..gunakan laluan lain..sekian..mohon sebarkan..

Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu Belah, Klang this morning.

Looks like the flood is going to be bad this monsoon season.

We already have a very bad one in Penang and at a lesser extent in Kedah and Perak.

Hopefully everyone will work together to face any eventuality.

Everyone better stop playing politics for now.

The most important thing now is the safety of the people.

All the blame game should stop.

That can wait for later.

Natural disasters are after all an act of God, okay.

Let's also pray that any potential floods in areas not yet affected will not be too serious.

Pray for Penang and others

Things are apparently very bad up north, especially in Penang.

I don't want to comment anything more except calling for you all dear readers of this blog to pray for the flood victims in that state as well as those also affected in Kedah and Perak.

No politics, okay.

Amidst the disaster, it's heartwarming to know that the state governments, especially Penang are working well with the federal government to alleviate the suffering of the flood victims.

For that I have to particularly congratulate Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng and Deputy Prime Minister DS Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Please click on this link to read the story,

Guan Eng reaches out to DPM for army's help

Soldiers evacuating flood victims in Penang today.

Guan Eng looks especially sincere in this video,

Okay, I wouldn't make fun of him for quite a while after this.

Guan Eng, you bersabar juga ya.

Will Apandi accepts RPK's sort of an apology?

Saw this by RPK just now,

The visit by police officers from Bukit Aman

It looks as if it was drafted with an assistance of a lawyer...or maybe a political operative.

The most interesting part of the article is at the fifth paragraph ;

(excerpt)

Since I first wrote those three articles many new documents have come in, which throws fresh light on what had earlier been assumed. I pointed this out to the police plus to the fact that even more documents are coming in by the day, which I promised to send to Bukit Aman. And I pointed out to the police that from these new evidences a picture is emerging that the Attorney-General is a victim of name-dropping and it appears he may be innocent after all. Hence I regret any grief that he may have suffered due to the negative perception on the office of the Attorney-General.

It sounds almost like an apology to AG Apandi Ali.

Well, it's up for Apandi to decide whether that satisfies him or he still need to sue RPK "till kingdom come" as he promised.

If I'm Apandi, I would not accept just that as it would be pathetic for me to do so.

The article was not even titled "Apandi, I'm sorry for slandering you. Someone in KL made me do it".

I would then proceed to demand nothing less than a front page apology on all major newspapers in Malaysia and UK by not only RPK but more importantly the people who instructed him to write the offending articles.

On top of that I would also demand RPK to admit that he has no credibility whatsoever,  the way some pro-opposition NGOs forced NST to publish a terribly embarassing half page apology on its page 3 back in November 2013. You can read it at this link

Malaysia's Oldest Newspaper Is Sorry For Baseless Article

Otherwise, I'll proceed to sue RPK and gang and make them pay me tonnes of pound sterling and gold bars too.

Hey, they simply hantam me what.

But that's me. Apandi may be different.

My guess is that those people behind RPK had told him to really do something to get out of the mess because their gang had bitten more than what they can chew this time.

After all, Apandi had vowed to go all the way to clear his name from the smear that RPK wrote about him, and I don't blame the AG for that as the allegations in those articles were extremely serious.

Click on these links to read them,

 Strong rumours surrounding the AG Part 1 and Strong rumours surrounding the AG Part 2

The allegations basically described Apandi as a corrupt stooge and in cahoot with criminals.

Well, RPK's allegations were always extremely serious.

Remember the statutory declaration which among others claimed that DS Rosmah Mansor personally supervised the murder of Mongolian girl Altantuya? That one was really crazy.

That one was when RPK was pro-Pakatan, by the way.

For other samples of RPK's extremely serious allegations, please click on this link,

• On the proxy war in Najib's camp

The others attacked in those articles had just ignored them or rather suffered in silence, but Apandi turned out to be totally different from the rest.

He lashed back with furious anger...like that guy in Pulp Fiction.

Let's see whether he is now willing to go all the way to fry RPK and the gang....or accept that sort of apology at paragraph 5 of RPK's article today....like a pussy cat.

Oh, I actually laughed when I read this part of the article;

In response to the questions from the police as to what motivated me and what was my agenda for writing those articles, I told them my motivation and agenda is to make sure that the DAP-led Pakatan Harapan does not come to power. More importantly, I want to see my home state, Selangor, taken back from the hands of the DAP Chinese and the return of a Malay-Muslim government.

I was like, hey, what that got anything to do with accusing the Attorney-General of Malaysia of being a corrupt stooge and in cahoot with criminals.

Well, whatever lah.

As I previously wrote, it's up for PM Najib to keep or throw out those jokers in his circle who instructed RPK to attack Apandi. After all, its not the first time they did these character assassinations nonsense which made Najib himself looks bad.

Cakap banyak pun tak guna.

Possible Pakatan Johor MB candidates

These are suggestions from my last post as who among Pakatan leaders who should become Johor menteri besar if the opposition coalition captures the state;

Kluangman1 November 2017 at 17:27

Tidak ada yang menarik kalau pi mai pi mai umno jugak..

Tukar angin, Salahuddin Ayub.

Anonymous1 November 2017 at 20:01

I think Syed Saddiq will be the next Johor MB.

Anonymous2 November 2017 at 21:33

Annie,

I think Khalid Samad is quite a good candidate.

He got vast experience in an MP for Shah Alam. His experience in Selangor will benefit greatly in Johor.

Selangor is doing quite good. Now is the richest state in Malaysia.

So, they are Salahuddin Ayub, Syed Saddiq and Khalid Samad.

I know Salahuddin quite well.

Nice and sensible guy. He lost to Jazlan in the fight for the Pulai parliament seat and lost also to Dr Zaini for the Nusajaya state seat in 2013. At that time he was a Pas vice-president. I believe he was supposed to be the Johor MB had Pakatan Rakyat won the state that year. DAP people like him. His mother is a Chinese, like Jazlan and me. I don't mind so much if he becomes Johor MB.

I don't think Syed Saddiq should be made Johor MB.

He's too young and immature. He also talks too much and too loudly. Too excitable too. Most of the time, he doesn't make sense to me. The boy needs to learn more instead of just talking. It would be very irresponsible of Pakatan if it makes him the Johor MB. Well, if they still give Syed Saddiq the job, I'll renounce my right to be a member of Bangsa Johor forever. It's that stupid, okay. Maybe I'll join Bangsa Batam after that. By the way, the truth is that Syed Saddiq is not really handsome anyway. My father with his flat Jawa nose is more handsome. Really.

I only met Khalid Samad a few times.

Nice guy and quite smooth like his brother Shahrir. However, I don't think I'm qualified to comment much more than that about him because I don't really have much opinion about the guy. Just another politician to me. As for the Johor MB job, I don't think he is the best candidate as he's been away from Johor for quite awhile. It may also be too late for him to set up base in the state now. I'm quite sure he can't even beat Shahrir if they are to have their brothers' fight in JB.

So, of the three proposed, my choice would be Salahuddin Ayub.

But I doubt that Pakatan will make him the Johor MB.

If I have to bet, I'll put my money on TS Muhyiddin Yassin, instead.

Yes, if Pakatan wins Johor, it doesn't mean the coalition can win Putrajaya.

If that's the scenario, than Muhyidin should be the best candidate for Pakatan to run Johor.

After all, he was the Johor MB for nine years once.

Need to be bared in mind that Johor is a very Umno state, and for that the Pakatan leadership there should be from the ex-Umno Pribumi.

But please not Syed Saddiq, okay.....urghhh....scary la that one.

What ever it is, in order to have a Pakatan Johor menteri besar, the opposition coalition needs to win that state first.

Can they?

For that one I'll do another post later.

I'm too sleepy now.

Almost 3am.

I think I'll have another cigarette now, brush my teeth and go to sleep.

Good night guys.

Possible new Johor MB candidates

Rumours of Johor getting a new menteri besar after the next general election had been circulating for quite a while in that state.

Friends in Johor told me over the past weeks that it is almost certain that current MB DS Mohamed Khaled Nordin will revert back to contest his former Pasir Gudang parliament seat in the election.

Khaled is currently the state assemblyman of Permas.

However, just the other day, another source based in KL said Khaled had succeeded in his appeal to remain as Johor MB  for another term.

I'm not sure which of my sources were right about this whole thing, but I believe there must be something real going on for the rumours to start in the first place.

I will however not discuss why Khaled was said to be replaced as MB due to the sensitivity of the matter.

What I'm more interested to discuss here is who could possibly replace Khalid as MB.

So far, I have heard three names for the job.

Top in the list is Datuk Daing A Malek Daing A Rahman.

He is currently the Kota Tinggi Umno division chief.

To know more about him, please click on this link,

Daing A Malek

I have never even met Daing Malek, so, I don't think I should comment much on him.

The most that I know is that he is very close to the Johor royal family, therefore making him the most likely candidate to take over the MB job in the event it's true that Khaled will move to Putrajaya after the next general election.

However, my sources in JB also told me that Daing Malek was not really interested in the MB job and instead prefer to concentrate on his business activities and the Kota Tinggi Umno division.

It was said that only the Sultan of Johor could persuade him to take the job.

The second name I heard to be a possible candidate for the Johor MB job is Datuk Hasni Mohammad.

He is the Pontian Umno division chief, Benut assemblyman as well as state executive councillor for public works, rural and regional development.

I actually didn't take it seriously when I first heard that Hasni could be the next Johor MB but my sources in Johor insisted that he was indeed a prime candidate for the job.

My skepticism was because Hasni had previously been known to be very close to former Umno deputy president TS Muhyiddin Yassin, who is now the Pribumi president.

I doubt that the Umno leadership would want someone like him to be their main man in Johor.

The latest development also indicated that Hasni's chances of landing the MB job, if true, had faded due to an issue related to his current job as a state executive councillor.

The third and latest emerging candidate for the job that I heard was quite a surprise.

He is Dr Zaini Abu Bakar, the current Nusajaya assemblyman.

Honestly, I really thought that Dr Zaini's career will effectively ends with the coming general election.

Even his Nusajaya seat was said to be taken over by Mohammad Khairi A. Malik, who is the Gelang Patah Umno division chief and political secretary of Khaled.

Nonetheless, my sources in Johor insisted that Dr Zaini is now a strong candidate for the Johor MB post.

Someone "higher up" was said to like him and wanted him to be considered for the job.

Well, if it's true that Khaled is to change job and become a federal minister or something after the election, then Khairi would naturally be moving along with his boss, thus giving Dr Zaini a chance of not only prolonging his political career, but also landing the Johor MB job.

Still, I think it's a 50-50 thing and could go any other way.

After all, the next general election may only take place up to August next year.

Anything could happen between now and then.

New candidates for the Johor MB job may emerge, or maybe Khaled himself will manage to turn the tide and successfully lobby to keep his current job.

Let's just wait and see.

Cheers.

Rewcastle-Brown and Ambiga drop the ball for Pakatan

This is definitely bad for Pakatan,

Sarawak Report editor names Ambiga as source of information

excerpts,

According to her Defence and Counterclaim statement that was provided for The Malaysian Insight, Rewcastle-Brown said she spoke to the former Bersih chairman in July 2016 regarding Najib, 1MDB and PAS.

"Ambiga had told the defendant that her sources, whom she said were reliable, had estimated the amount that had been paid was around RM90 million," said Rewcastle-Brown in her court filing dated October 11.

Rewcastle-Brown's defence was filed in relation to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's defamation suit against Rewcastle-Brown in April this year.

It shows that Sarawak Report, which is now known as a prominent pro-Pakatan "whistle-blower" website is an unreliable source of information.

I have never studied journalism but I know that one of the most basic things that journalists must never do is to reveal their anonymous sources.

They were supposed to protect their sources even if they have to go to jail to do so.

In this case Rewcastle-Brown should by right must protect Ambiga, who is her source, even if she was to be cited for contempt of court.

I'm quite sure the former Bersih chairman had wanted to remain anonymous when she told Rewcastle-Brown about Hadi allegedly taking money from PM DS Najib Razak. Otherwise, Sarawak Report would had quoted her from the start instead of putting her as just a source.

Now that it's out in the open, Ambiga will come under public scrutiny for alleging that Hadi had taken money from PM Najib Razak in return of Pas' support for BN.

She will have to testify in that court case in London or Hadi could initiate a separate legal suit against her here where she would likely be compelled to produce evidence or reveal her source.

When that happened, does Ambiga willing to protect her source if she has no evidence to support her allegation against Hadi? Is she willing to go to jail to do that?

Rocky was more direct when he asked,

Now, who will Ambiga throw under the bus?

Well, I seriously think Rewcastle-Brown and her Sarawak Report has now been TKOed by this whole thing.

Firstly, she should not have written such a serious allegation against Hadi based solely on just what Ambiga told her.

Instead, she should have double checked with other sources to corroborate the allegation before writing and publishing it.

To make an allegation based on the mere words of just one person who wished to be anonymous was very reckless and irresponsible.

Especially so when Sarawak Report has made its name worldwide as one of the main critiques of the Malaysian government and its leaders. International publications had quoted it in articles critical of Najib and the country.

Then, as I wrote above, by right Rewcastle-Brown shouldn't had blown Ambiga's cover as that effectively sealed Sarawak Report's reputation as an untrustworthy source of information.

A whistle-blower shouldn't blow the cover of its sources, okay.

Unless, of course if Ambiga herself doesn't mind for her cover to be blown, which I doubt, as that would mean she herself will face legal troubles.

Now that it has come to this point, Ambiga should be ready to reveal her sources or produce evidence to support her allegation against Hadi.

Somehow, I doubt she can do that even if she wants to.

My bet is that she will go to court and says that she was merely speculating or even joking with Rewcastle-Brown about the whole thing and she didn't expect what she said to be published.

Probably that's the truth, anyway.

Whatever it is,  I think both Rewcastle-Brown and Ambiga will come out of this looking really bad.

Bare in mind, that story of Hadi taking money from Najib had been circulating and quoted numerous times by Pakatan people.

Now that the whole allegation looks more and more like a fake news, it surely doesn't look  good for Pakatan at all.

People will start to doubt the other stories they told in their effort to oust Najib and the BN government.

The only way this could be prevented is for Ambiga to suddenly produce in court the hard evidence against Hadi which prompted her to make the allegation in the first place.

Hopefully, Ambiga will not just turn around and said she had heard it from Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad or DS Anwar Ibrahim or Mat Sabu, etc.

If she does that, it's really as if she is throwing the whole Pakatan under the bus.

Well, I believe Najib and the whole of BN scored a big one on this.

Too bad for you all Pakatan people.