'MCA go home' vs 'Where was DAP 13 years ago?' at Jonker Walk
What?! Gan qualified his being there as a survey, not to protest? Let alone to lead the protest? Did Mr. Gan Tian Loo realize that the MCA protest carries more weight than DAP protest many times
over. The state government, being UMNO-led government, considers the DAP as the opposition working hand-in-hand with PAS and PKR to oust UMNO from power, rescinding the directive on the request
from DAP leaders will make the party even more popular. I thought, at first, here come the MCA, finally to do what it's supposed to do. Then the expected happened. He got cold feet. The
reporter who covered the protest reported Gan was suddenly cautious . He was like ..."I'm here to lend my support to..the .. no, wait! I am not here to support the traders - but just to do a quick
survey! But I am glad to be standing here with the protesters but reporters, please put it down in black and white I am not, I repeat, am not here as part of the protest. This is the reason the MCA
was shunned, I mean has been shunned by the Chinese. They do not represent the Chinese anymore. They cannot get things done anymore unlike in the old days. Gan admitted his meeting with the chief
minister was fruitless, but would keep trying. Keep trying for what? He should stop embarrassing the MCA and reducing its credibility further by continuing to beg despite being rebuffed earlier.
Again, this proved that the Malaysian Chinese Association has really completely lost its usefulness. If a small matter like Jonker Walk closure was beyond its power then, that 's it.
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Malaysia is supposed to be on its way to becoming a developed nation, by the year 2020. Will she make it (in less than five years -tick-tuck, tick-tuck)? There is no doubt the year 2020 is coming whether the country is ready or not, and if that will be the only requirement then Malaysia will attain that developed nation status on schedule. There is a question, though, Will Malaysia, or Malaysians, for that matter, be ready for that status as far as their affluence, quality of life's concern? Currently Malaysia's GNI per capita stood at US$10060. According to the World Bank high income economies are those with GNI per capita of US$12,745. And until Malaysians earn much more to be there, the developed nation status may not be achieved even by the year 2020. The futility of declaring a country a high income country when it's not, achieves nothing. May be even counter-productive; it lulls the country into false sense of success and premature celebration. Don't forget China reportedly overtook Japan as the world's second largest economy, but in actual fact China's citizens' ca pita income is a fraction of the incomes of the Japanese who earn $37,000. Chinese incomes range from $13,000. China's gross domestic product, taken as a whole, may beat Japan's, but in term of quality of life, and GNI per capita income, the criteria for a developed nation status, China still has a lot of catching up to do. That's why China still qualifies as recipient of Japan's economic aid meant for developing countries. Comparing with the Chinese per capita domestic product, Malaysia is even worse off. Unless the government bucks up and rushes to create more wealth for its citizens, the Vision 2020 dream may remain just that ..a dream.
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Rammed By One-ton Lorry But Lived!
I lived about 6 kilometers from where I ran a refrigeration service business.
In my heyday I had everything one’s heart could ever wish – money, women, automobile and houses – as result of my hard work. And I ran my operation in a hand-on way; no employees can sabotage my business by purposely being absent from work since I can do their work myself.
However, after a long day when I had to repair up to 6 refrigerators (in a good day), almost every day like all normal mortals, I felt exhausted. I needed a drink (my weakness).
One night sometime in 1998, after I had already shuttered my workshop and ready to go home, I reached for my cool beer (just like they said ‘one for the road!’). However, it almost turn into ‘one for the burial!
I escaped from the jaws of death due to, I believe, a Miracle. When I reached home, as usual I parked my Truck on the slope facing my car port where I kept both my car and lorry. As my house stood lower than the road, you cannot leave your vehicle on the slope without pulling up the hand brake even for a second or it could move down the steep slope to smash into anything that stand in its path.
After I alighted and was busy unlocking the gate, the truck rammed into my back so hard that unlocking the padlock was not necessary!
The two-framed gate was flung open like a cowboy town saloon door. The right frame which had a steel locking rod stuck 3 inches into the cement floor now became higher than the left frame. There was no way the solid steel gate, which needs four men to carry even one frame, could open unless somebody pulled up the rod high enough to clear the hole.
There was a crashing thud; the sound brought all my immediate neighbors who showed concern. One even went on to call for an ambulance which arrived shortly. However, the medical staff went back empty-handed, though not before commenting that as far as they are concerned, I didn’t need them. “We expect you to be sprawled on the ground groaning in pain, covered with blood,” one of the three said, adding “Not like this, so…” And then they left.
However, I couldn’t blame them for thinking (wrongly) that I was fine or that I didn’t need to get into their ambulance and follow them to the one place where at that moment there was no place I liked better than where patients all moved about stretcher-borne. I had to put up a brave face as I didn’t want people to know I was an easy prey, I could be in even worse situation if someone tried to rob me and I couldn’t do a thing!
After everyone had left, believe it or not, it took me like an eternity to get from where I was standing beside my lorry to close my now deformed gate, moving about an inch in each step. I stayed home for about two weeks during which time I stayed out of sight, afraid that some neighbor may want to borrow a screw driver or something and couldn’t oblige, thereby exposing my true condition.
I must have an amazing body to withstand such a crash against my back and manged to recover so soon without any treatment whatsoever, or was there a miracle. I believe it was the latter. According to Random House Dictionary, miracle is an event happened in our physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and due to a divine or supernatural cause.
This was not the only time miracle had saved me. There was atime when I fell from a height of about 10 feet on to a pile of woods with rusted nails some of which actually pierced my back but miraculously missed my spinal cord. But nothing seemed to seriously injure me except for some bruises which r needed no medical treatment. Or when a group of youths surrounded me menacingly after I reneged on my promise to one of the gang members. They kept demanding either yes or no from me, and I kept saying no, defiant to the end. As it turned out, though they out-numbered me 12 to 1, they knew what they were up against. My steadfastness must have unnerved them, or else there could be a bloodbath. Anyway, I believe the miracle protected me, again. Nevertheless, after a few days I decided I was in the wrong and wanted to, if possible, settle the matter amicably with the gang. After some enquiries, I found out, to my relief, that their leader, Ah Seng, had agreed to ask his followers to settle the issue once and for all on condition I agreed to buy them a cup of black coffee each. Looking back I can’t but believe I did the right thing.
Of course, I could go on and on about when the odds were against me and yet I was never harmed. I have often read about people being run over by their own cars, or when parents or relatives reversed their vehicles into their children accidentally. These mishaps inevitably result in death. In fact, I recall reading a report about a company executive by the name Angela Decruss or something who, like me, alighted to unlock the gate ended up being crushed under her own car. Of course, she didn’t survive. No miracle for her.
I believe miracles are everywhere; you can’t call them to save your hide but they choose whom to save from the jaws of death.
Do you believe in miracles. You should. I do. I am alive today largely because of miracles. Even the Pope believes in miracles. He once, when visiting England and meeting with Tony Blair, the prime minister, said “Nowadays miracles are hard to come by, especially in England,” perhaps alluding to the carnage of the London bombings and other terrorist acts afflicting the country which ironically once ruled most the world.
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