State of unrestful manner

“Iyalah, siapa pun mendapat kerusi lebih, jadi mereka berasa hebat. Biasalah itu. Macam dalam BN, Umno kerusi terbanyak.”

Mat Sabu, MalaysiaKini.com

That is the problem with politics. Uncontrollable dominance & power. Furthermore, all this talk about undemocratic ways of Anwar toppling the government. From my point of view, after reading people’s view on the Web and also randomly talking to people who I hardly knew & listening to them, the rakyat fear of Anwar’s raging hormones.They supported him, but they fear of the monster that he could be if he decides to turn the page & let the monster surface.

But dear rakyat, wasn’t it was you who elected this person and his cronies? What, you’d think cronies is a word specially reserved for the government?

I have a theory about Anwar’s recent sodomy case. We already know the story from the real facts available, but let’s just view this scenario with a different perspective.

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Malaysian Malay & Indonesian Malay. 90:10.

No, the title above does refer to any books or pages or inscriptions. It’s actually Karyawan’s proposed ratio for Malay language songs radio airtime. What do you think?

IT’S RIDICULOUS!

I oppose such proposal. That will kill competition. And killing competition kills innovation. Killing innovation kills progression. How do you expect local Malaysian Malay songs to succeed when:

  1. Music composition, lyrics, beat, rhythm, etc – SUCKS!
  2. Record companies takes a huge bite of the pie. Solve this problem first, then you will solve the basic economic problems faced by all artists.
  3. Educate these artists to use more of their brains! You, as an artist, are already gifted with the gift of talent. Use that talent & your brains to the fullest.
  4. Indonesian artists are more talented, more focused in their music. And they were clever. They realised that they couldn’t grow anymore in Indonesia, so they decided to venture out. So, why can’t we venture out & discover new opportunities? In short: PEMALAS!
  5. They, the Indonesian, simply just produce better songs than us Malaysians. If we say we can be better, than walk the talk.

And I quote,

“Kami berharap agar ia dapat dikuatkuasakan sebagai salah satu akta atau undang-undang dalam bidang penyiaran di negara kita,” katanya pada Mesyuarat Khas Karyawan…

Wow. Sounds like a minister proposing a New Economic Policy for the music business. And this 90/10 ratio sounds very similar to the real N.E.P itself. It’s sounds like you’re afraid of competition, Karyawan.

And I agree with Meet Uncle Hussain’s comment about this new proposed act. It will certainly will make our local artists much more lazy bums as they already are. And this is from my 1st hand experience in the music industry. Not all of them, especially the ones I’ve worked with. They are hardly the pemalas. They just needed some guidance & support.

You, the artist, are suppose to be creative. So, do your business CREATIVELY!

Goddammit. Buat aku tension je.

I mean, come on. We finally have a Malaysian group winning the Gangstarz competition, which maybe was a setup. Don’t get me wrong, One Nation Emcees performed very well in the final competition. Very impressive. But, the other Black Eyed Peas wannabe group from Indonesia, was very impressive too. If I compare vocally, D’Reborn sounds a lot more better. But there’s a lesson to be learn here. If you worked hard enough, you will get your moment to shine. I know i know, sometimes you feel like the moment will never come with all these new competition building up around you.

But hey, that’s life. You need to be survivor, not a follower.

Same, other stuff you can read:

Let’s see how intelligent this Anwar guy is…

Karim Raslan, “Ceritalah” column, The Star, 15th July 2008.

… I asked about his contrarian oil price scheme but his answers delivered with his signature charm didn’t quite persuade me and we moved on…

Straight but unnoticeably stinging. Let’s see how intelligent Anwar Ibrahim really is tonight. Why? Because so far he’s been spreading “sweet pollens” around Malaysia, and to me, nothing that he has said  publicly, so far brings any weight or factual arguments. To me, he’s THE DE FACTO “tok guru” of all “Sweet Talk” gurus. Ask Ezam, he might know what I mean. And if you start saying “well, he was a former Minister of Finance before…”, well my friend, in 1998, it was the hard work of professional government staff & executives that saved Malaysia from an economic disaster, not the minister. A minister is just toooo busy being a minister.

Let the fight begin. I have so been waiting for a public debate.

BarCamp Malaysia

The first Malaysia BarCamp, a jamboree for geeks & creatives, is (tentatively) going to be held on from the 26th – 27th July 2008. Location: Createive Incubator Centre, Plaza KL Sentral. BarCamp is mainly for geeks & creative people alike to unconference themselves with each other. It’s a global jamboree for geeks. I remember the Scouts has something similar like Jamboree-On-The-Air or JOTA. Rides on the same concept. Unconference.

Oddly enough, it looks like my big mouth is up for it. I’ve proposed a product pitch/demo session for BarCamp. Now I need to figure out how to do this.

Malaysian’s IT literacy level = BODOH SOMBONG!

“Do you provide color printing service from a PDF file?”, I asked.

“Yes, we do” says the macha. He calls his IT assistant who is gladly sitting at his desk in the middle of the shop.

I hand over my thumbdrive to the unknown IT guy (let’s call him the IT macha).

“It’s in the webtrends folder. Ah yes, that PDF file.”, I said. Continue reading

Here in my home… where else? MALAYSIA!

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Albeit many stories that you’ve probably listened to too many times, about how that kwai-lo is good at that, great at this, you’ll start to wonder what happen to our own wonders & awed achievements? Where did they go until to the point of… we go?

Well, putting crap aside, Malaysian Artistes For Unity is a great project collectively produced by these people: afdlin shauki, awie, ning baizura, atilia, jaclyn victor, reshmonu, pete teo, jason lo, klg sqwad, altimet, suki, daniel lee, nikki palikat, melina william, tony fernandes, maya karin, harith & many more people behind the layar. When watching the video, the first, well maybe not, but the first character that you capture is Afdlin. When you look at him, you just love him. Love at first sight. That’s how I can best describe my love for Malaysia. It’s unbreakable. It’s like cutting through a stream of water with that scary parang of yours (or “air dicincang tak akan putus”). I just love Malaysia.

To make my feelings more violently understandable, if you don’t like Malaysia, just fuck off.

P/S: Download the video & music. It’s really cool.

What is the rakyat doing?

I am frustrated. Fucking frustrated. Not because of my average salary, not because of my super classic car with squeky noise, not because of you. I am frustrated at the rakyat. And I’m seeing the process of “makan diri”, where the “rakyat” of Malaysia is slowly “makan diri sendiri” with their “hak eleeeh” demands.

For once, I wish for the Opposition to admit that their new job is not easy. I wish for them to admit that in order to make changes, they need at least another 50 years to understand the job. Yes, if you argue that experience matters, I agree, at least. But if you’re referring to a job called government, you must be joking. How the hell are you able to understand 50 years of work in 4 years?

For once, we as the rakyat, must admit that we are stupid dumbfucks. If we are so smart, we don’t need rules. Wait, without rules, we won’t be smart!

But what’s worse, is the bodoh sombong attitude. Most of us, don’t realise that we are bodoh sombong deep down inside. What is bodoh sombong? It means stupid pride. Or ignorant pride. Or whatever.

I am in favour of the Opposition in matters that have feasible future and produces feasible benefits for the people. But that doesn’t make me blind to what BN has done, is doing & will be doing. You have to agree, they did a pretty good job so far. If not, our country won’t be as rich as it is right now. Yes, we may have defects in the government system, but that doesn’t mean that it has failed. If our government failed, we’d all be dead. You can Google for failed governments and I assure you will be ambush with paranoia when you read about what happen to countries with failed governments. But understand this, our country, our people, Malaysian people, are not like the rest of the world.

I believe that there are people out there, who is on the job to ruin the Malaysian uniqueness. It’s not spiritual, it’s reality. Real people filled with real envy. It’s like the 1998 era, where financial manipulation is the key to the game. This time, the game is on our society. The Malaysian society. But we are like the Brits, we care less what’s happening outside & we care more what’s happening inside. Or is it the other way around? It’s like a frog under an empty coconut shell, you know?

I admire our political fights. Especially the aggressive ones. It’s like a chain of thought processes, linking together, trying to make sense of everything. But there’s little of the thinking fights. And that makes the chain incomplete. I mean, we are an almost educated society. We should be arguing about things that does matter. Especially about our daughters.

Tell me, which is better?

(1) A loudmouth politician who say it out loud for whatever it is at heart in order to capture everyone at heart, like a soulful singer?

OR

(2) A loudmouth politician that goes thru every detail, pros & cons, collecting facts & does his/her research, before being a super loudmouth with the rakyat at heart?

I really am beginning to feel that there was something wrong with my vote.

I quote from Huzir Sulaiman’s article,

And here is the hardest question of all: without giving up our democratic ideals, in a cynical and disloyal age, can we find a way to let our Rulers rule?

Maybe the real question is, how do we define power to rulers & non-rulers? Humans are historically proven bad with power. And I am on the side of the sultanate. They have historically earned their right as the royal kingdom. Without them, Malaysia would have been another set from the Britannica encyclopedia.

I quote again, this time from The Malaysian Insider,

This public does not take much at face value and has a deep distrust of anything emanating from government.

Please, have the sense of distrust toward governments. It keeps them in check. But don’t distrust blindly. Have some common sense.

And please stop asking for Petronas for money. If they give you all the money, we won’t be Malaysia. I’m no economic specialist, but I can roughly understand that Petronas’s money is Malaysia’s money and what the corporation is earning is vital to the country’s future survival once we are out of oil, which is in another 10 – 20 years or less. So, we need to use that money to feed the family. Not spoiling it. Jeez.