Great Wall and UMNO..shaken and collapsed..

one may has just been agonizingly ‘disturbed’, the other one  has totally trembled (i guess). which one?

Malaysian politics have come to such an intriguing twist. at least, the Malay politics. What’s up with UMNO, people? the party that has fought so hard for the Malays, for the economic and physical development of our beloved Bolehland.. for the social development and religion? i leave that to you.  I  will not talk much about the sinking sampan, because as Datu Seri Samy Vellu mentioned, it is UMNO internal-problem. leave it to the ‘family’ to solve their troubles. We should care, but  what can we actually do about it? Malay unity is at its lowest, even within a party; what more can we say about the Islamic unity. But like a minister said, Dr.M must has hated Pak Lah more than he actually love the party. Thats quite true..just how can you help to save a company, or a society, if you are out of it? Should we give PakLah another chance? I think it’s fair to give him time to plan for his stepping down, but Chedet didn’t think so. He wanted immediate actions, he wanted Najib to bite his trap into pulling PakLah down, but to no avail. He is a man of vision and mission, but wut he did was adding more worry to us all. Is it for the sake of party and people, or purely emotional? But let’s hope it ‘ll trigger change and improvement. i will not talk about UMNO because its their problem and so far i am being neutral and do not belong to any specific political stance, yet..but i will talk about Malays. as seen from a young, learning fellow. later.

Enough of the local drama.

Another big, anxious (and obviously more global and pressing) matter today is the earthquake in China. they may have won the Thomas Cup, but back in the country? yesterday, a 102-year old ‘senior’ citizen was rescued, after a week trapped. boy, he must have 9 lives, because a normal guy at his age would have died of heart attack after such occurrence and in taht condition for such a long time. a newborn baby was also saved days earlier, n a few..  but apart from that? death toll could be more than 50,000; 5 million people became homeless and are exposed to post-quake hazards, disease outbreaks.. they set the Olympics to start off on 8-8-2008, but i seriously dont think they’re being lucky enough this year.   The snowstorm came first, and then Tibet rioting was a worldwide signal. Ironically, the 7.9 magnitude quake happened 88 day before the Olypics open on August 8. Apart from numbers, Chinese people also believe in animal astrology, so what is wrong with the year of Rat? they partly blamed their supreme leaders today that they were born in the year of Horse. Horse and Rat wouldn’t match, rite?  Also, the year of Rat is symbolised by earth and water; an unstable relationship in 2008. They are made to believe in those, but what i believe is, if God want to punish and put us into test, He will just do it..

 

 

 Chinese bloggers blame the government for ignoring the natural signs that may alert people that disaster was coming. Water level in a pond plunged to people’s amaze, thousands of toads appeared on streets and few hours before the quake, animals at a local zoo began acting strangely. It was reported that the quake impact was actually felt as far as Pakistan and the cyclone-hit Myanmar. So, should we in Malaysia act nothing, just be happy and act like there is nothing to be fear of? apart from donating into China and Myanmar Relief Funds, we can plan our own disaster management and mitigation plan. I used to believe that our country is major natural disaster-free, but what has the lesson of tsunami teach us? That we should now be serious in our disaster management. We could learn from Japan on their disaster planning and management..the disaster alert system, the building positioning, design methods, construction materials, repair and reconstruction plan..  Maybe i will have my say on disaster planning later. it is an interesting topic for me..if i get lucky, before anything else hit us..