Annie's bad habit and the stormbringer

A friend scolded me today.

"You was quite neutral for most of the Dr Mahathir-Najib fight, but how come you are now back supporting Umno and defending Najib? Are you stupid?," he said.

I told him that I was just writing what I observed and commented on them as how I felt.

"Come on la, it's clear for all to see that you are siding with them again now.Why are you siding with the losers?" he shot back.

At that point I was not really sure whether I should continue explaining myself to him.

It seemed pointless.

So, I just kept quiet.

My friend used to be a staunch supporter of Umno but he's now with Pribumi Bersatu.

He used to tell me that he switched sides to help topple Najib in order to save Umno.

But now he wants Umno to be shut down and all its member to join his new party.

Well, I know him well enough to know that when he got angry with me, I should just shut up.

Otherwise it would just become a shouting match between us.

I hate getting worked up like that, so I just let him ranted all he wanted.

Fine, he wins and I lose.

I'm okay with that.

I can manage my ego quite well, actually.

Anyway, I think I'm the way myself now because of

• My bad habit

Go ahead and click on that link and find out what's my bad habit.

I wrote that on March 3 2015, just about a month before the start of the Dr Mahathir-Najib fight which I marked with this posting on April 2 2015,

• A storm is gathering

Reading that post again made me sad.

Well, that's history now.

Hopefully the future would be better.

Here's a good old rock song which I should put with that post back then,

Nice, right :)

Najib's message

Getting Najib

Was waiting for Grab to get back to office from Bangsar when I received news of Najib's arrest today.

The Grab driver, a middle aged Chinese man was celebrating.

"Now we can throw Najib in jail and get back the billions that he stole. After that we'll get the others," he gleefully exclaimed.

Then he went on and on with the usual RM1 trillion debt, country about to go bankrupt etc.

I just kept quiet.

No point saying anything.

People like him have always wanted to see Najib going to jail.

It was after all a PH election promise.

One way or another they have to do this.

I just want to see how they are going to go about putting Najib in jail.

Next, it should be Rosmah, then Zahid, then the rest of those other people, as what the Grab driver said.

Well, that's how it's going to be over the coming days, weeks and months, I guess.

All these reminded me of the time when they first put Anwar in jail.

I was very young at that time but I remember the events well.

I remember that no mercy was shown.

They even brought to court the mattress on which Anwar allegedly had sex with Azmin's wife.

It was ugly, to say the least.

I wonder if Najib's case will be that bad.

Hopefully not so.

After all, Najib's case is more about money.

But still, anything could happen.

Well, at least the case is going to a real court instead of just public cyber lynching and trial by media as it is now.

However, if I have to bet on the outcome, I would not hesitate to choose where to place my money.

I just can't imagine Najib being found not guilty.

I think all the PH people would agree with me.

They have made up their mind about this.

Innocent until proven guilty....I don't think so.

Annie left the party

I decided to leave the party early last night.

I was simply fed up with it.

Further more, I was tired.

I'm not much into partying anyway.

Was there just because there's this white guy who invited me to be there.

Then everyone got drunk, which something I don't really like.

I know la that it was a bit of a beach party but the drinking was too much.

Well, white guys' beach parties are always like that.

So, I stayed there just for a while before claiming to the host that I was not feeling very well.

Managed to sleep early last night, which was good.

What?

Umno election results?

Err...it's like that lah.

Umno is a Malay party, so the results should reflect the kind of leaders that Malays want.

I think the other Malays dominated parties are also more or less the same.

Seriously.

The Umno people used to elect leaders such as Dr Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim too.

Just like DAP being a Chinese dominated party.

That's why it has Kit Siang and his son Guan Eng as its leaders because Chinese prefer them to lead.

Same also in America. That's why they have Trump as president over there.

But I really don't have anything to comment about the Umno election results at the moment except to say that this seems quite good,

Zahid invites KJ, Ku Li to join new Umno leadership

That way they can get together to rebuild the party.

Hopefully Zahid really meant what he said.

Otherwise Umno will lose more good people.

Me?

I'm not an Umno member, okay.

I'm not even among those you can describe as good people.

So, that's about it.

Eh, here's this song to go with this Sunday mood;

Just before a walk along the beach

I'm now back in the East Coast for the weekend.

Just want to relax a bit and get a break from KL.

Drove here yesterday.

Did this post

Thanks Wahid

when I arrived here.

That's because I really like the guy almost as much as I like the good former Johor MB TS Abdul Ghani Othman.

I like him most because of his sincerity, humbleness and hard works.

Since that was my thank you note to Wahid, I'm not allowing negative comments about him for that one.

I deleted all of them.

Sorry guys.

You all simply have to do your whacking of Wahid at pro-PH blogs or elsewhere.

I actually can answer the issues raised by Wahid's haters but just didn't feel like spoiling the mood of that post.

To read a sample of what I previously wrote in Wahid's defence, please click on this link,

Wahid is still a good guy 

I didn't censor the comments for that one.

By the way, personally, I don't feel that it was so bad that Wahid is being replaced by Zeti at PNB.

I like Zeti too.

This is what I wrote about her at the height of Dr Mahathir-Najib fight in 2015,

The credible figure that is Zeti

Anyway, I was very tired and went to sleep early last night.

Didn't watch the Umno presidential debate.

I'm not much for debates, anyway.

For me, whoever wins the Umno presidency, they should all get back together and work on the party's revival.

This Umno election must be about the good of the party instead of who are the winners or losers.

The new soon-to-be elected president must unite the party for it to bounce back from the GE14 defeat.

As always, the key word is UNITY.

Well, I think I have behave myself as far as this Umno election is concerned by sitting on the sideline.

I'm after all not a party member.

By the way, I think PH people may want to celebrate this,

Exodus continues - Syed Hamid
 quits Umno, to join Bersatu

Hahaha, I'm hoping for more of such exodus.

Easier for Umno to be repaired without such people.

Okay, I'm going to the beach now.

I love walking along the beach in the morning.

And this song is for my dearest,

Cheers.

Thanks Wahid

Wahid, no matter what they say about you, I will always believe that you are a good guy.

I'm wishing you all the best.

Thank you.

Wahid's farewell message,

Assalamualaikum & Salam sejahtera rakan-rakan MBB sekalian.

1. Maaf atas kelewatan membalas mesej kerana saya baru sahaja selesai mesyuarat Lembaga Pengarah dan sesi perjumpaan dengan Warga Kumpulan PNB sebentar tadi.

2. Saya dengan segala hormatnya merujuk kepada kenyataan media yang telah dikeluarkan oleh Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) berkenaan persaraan saya sebagai Pengerusi Kumpulan PNB berkuatkuasa 30 Jun 2018 dan pelantikan YBhg Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz sebagai Pengerusi Kumpulan PNB yang baharu mulai 1 Julai 2018. Ini membolehkan suatu peralihan kepimpinan Lembaga Pengarah PNB dengan lancar dan teratur untuk memastikan urusan pelaburan dan operasi Kumpulan PNB tidak terjejas.

3. Tahniah kepada Tan Sri Zeti atas pelantikan sebagai Pengerusi PNB yang ke4 sejak PNB ditubuhkan pada tahun 1978. Ini merupakan satu kesinambungan tradisi kepimpinan PNB dari kalangan mereka yang ternama dan mempunyai reputasi integriti dan kebolehan yang tinggi bermula daripada Allahyarham Tun Ismail Ali dan kemudiannya Tun Ahmad Sarji. Sebagai Pengerusi yang ketiga, saya berbesar hati menyerahkan tugas kepada Tan Sri Zeti dalam kedudukan kewangan PNB yang terus kukuh dan reputasi kekal sebagai sebuah institusi nasional yang berintegriti. Saya percaya Tan Sri Zeti dan ahli-ahli Lembaga Pengarah serta Presiden & Ketua Eksekutif Kumpulan Dato' Abdul Rahman Ahmad dan barisan pengurusan Kumpulan PNB akan dapat terus menerajui Kumpulan PNB mencapai kejayaan yang lebih tinggi lagi.

4. Saya ingin mengambil kesempatan ini untuk merakamkan penghargaan & ucapan terima kasih kepada ahli-ahli Lembaga Pengarah, barisan Pengurusan dan seluruh Warga Kumpulan PNB atas segala sokongan dan bantuan yang telah diberikan kepada saya sepanjang perkhidmatan saya. Terima kasih juga kepada Pengerusi, ahli-ahli Lembaga Pengarah, CEO, barisan pengurusan & seluruh Warga syarikat-syarikat strategik dan teras PNB atas sokongan kepada saya & PNB selama ini. Terima kasih juga kepada rakan-rakan semua yang banyak menyokong dan membantu saya selama ini. Saya memohon maaf sekiranya saya ada membuat salah atau terkasar bahasa semasa menjalankan tugas🙏.

5. Setelah 17 tahun 'berkhidmat untuk negara' ('national service') dengan syarikat-syarikat berkaitan Kerajaan bermula dengan Kumpulan UEM-Renong (2001-2004), Telekom Malaysia (2004-2008), Maybank (2008-2013), Kerajaan Malaysia (2013-2016) dan PNB (2016-2018), saya akan mengambil peluang ini untuk berehat sebentar dan meluangkan masa bersama keluarga.

6. Selamat Maju Jaya kepada Kumpulan PNB. Saya percaya dibawah kepimpinan Tan Sri Zeti sebagai Pengerusi dan Dato' Abdul Rahman sebagai Presiden & Ketua Eksekutif Kumpulan, PNB akan terus berjaya sehingga mencapai aspirasinya untuk menjadi sebuah Firma Pelaburan Distinktif Bertaraf Dunia.

Terima kasih & salam hormat.

Abdul Wahid Omar
29 Jun 2018 .

Killing the idea of Malay unity

So, now they had frozen Umno's bank accounts.

It was said that the party itself would be deregistered soon.

Umno stands for United Malay Nationalist Organisation.

It's original primary objective is to unite and take care of the Malays.

It was founded when the Malays were about to totally lose their country via the British's Malayan Union.

It's the organisation which united the Malays in this country for the first time after hundreds of years of colonisation.

Being united empowered the Malays to lead this country to its independence.

It also enabled them to get out of poverty through affirmative actions of the government led by Umno.

Well, it looks like they really want to kill off that Malay party this time.

More significantly, they want to kill off the idea that the Malays should be united to better themselves.

Okay, I know, you all going to say that it's a party full of corrupt, racist and evil people.

Yeah, as if the other parties do not have such corrupt, racist and evil people.

Come on la, they even used to say that Dr Mahathir was a corrupt, racist and evil person too.

In fact, they used to call each other that, okay.

For me, Umno has about three million members and most of them are actually good people.

I used to work with those good Umno people and I know that they are not corrupt, racist or evil.

The example I always gave is that incorruptible former Johor MB TS Abdul Ghani Othman.

And he is not the only one.

And Umno as a party is a good organisation.

Read its constitution and if you are an honest person, you would agree with me.

If Umno is corrupt, racist and evil, I don't think Malaysia would be what it is today after the party ruled the country for over six decades.

It's the best country in this region, except maybe Singapore.

Yes, there were bad things that happened along the way, but this country still prosper and its people live a relatively good and peaceful life.

Which countries haven't gone through bad things in their history, anyway?

Malaysia is perhaps the only real multi-racial country which does well till now.

Countries which closely resemble our ethnic demographics are Sri Lanka and Bosnia Herzegovina, and we know what they went through over the years.

Seriously, it was really not so bad all those years that this country was led by Umno via the Barisan Nasional coalition.

Tomorrow, Umno will decide its new leadership.

It's perhaps the most important moment for the party after its GE14 defeat.

I'm not an Umno member but I sure do hope the party will get a good new leadership to ensure its survival.

That's because I appreciate what the party had done for the country and especially the Malays.

I sincerely wish the party will not die and I will pray for it to be able to survive its current troubles.

All the best, Umno.