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ne hide hand logged by the ancient mariner at 09 19 3 comments wednesday june 17 2009 macc chief no show in a breaking news the edge today reports here that the public accounts committee pac meeting on the port klang free zone pkfz affair was called off after malaysian anti corruption commission macc chief s no show today despite getting a near full quorum of 13 members of parliament pac chairman azmi khalid decided to postpone the meeting to june 23 after macc decided to send its investigation director instead of chairman ahmad said hamdan on ahmad said s absence azmi said that he probably has more important things to attend to and i do hope that he was just being sarcastic logged by the ancient mariner at 19 12 6 comments saturday june 13 2009 hybrid malay woes in response to shanon shah s recent article about dr farish noor s the hybrid malay malaysian dilemma in the the nut graph here my old friend retired ambassador dato kadir deen sent this thoughtful note to his son umran in london umran had asked aren t we all hybrids ums many if not most of us are our family is definitely hybrid farish s story reminds me somewhat of my own circumstances when i was growing up i was born smack in the middle of chinatown in ipoh spoke cantonese and swore as fluently as any cantonese child and lived there until my teens my mean chinese neighbours but most were good ones and you know some that i m still friends with even today used to call us chee san pig worshippers because we don t eat pork and a whole lot of other things first school i attended was a malay school where i was called a mamak or bengali because of my skin colour and features we are hybrids you see i later went to the anglo chinese school acs and in my class of 40 there were only 4 malays we were often picked on until we made some good chinese friends who helped us defend ourselves in fact i became a bit of a thug myself captained the school rugby 1st team when i was in form 3 and not many would dare pick on me i remember a chinese teacher who didn t like me who once said to me you stupid malays shouldn t come to school like elephants you belong to the jungle later when i went to university in england i also experienced racism even when i worked as a diplomat in 8 different countries i would come up against racists so my experience in life tells me that no one race has the monopoly of racism we are all exposed to it like farish i would like to see a malaysia where every malaysian child irrespective of race or religion can aspire to be the prime minister love always papa logged by the ancient mariner at 21 36 6 comments friday june 12 2009 no pac probe malaysiakini reported late yesterday here that the four key players in the port klang free zone pkfz debacle have been let off the hook by the parliamentary public accounts committee pac and will not be called in for questioning the four are former pkfz general manager oc phang former port klang authority chairperson and current deputy finance minister chor chee hueng and two former transport ministers ling liong sik and chan kong choy the reason malaysian anti corruption commission macc is the rightful authority to probe the four we feel it is unnecessary said pac chairperson nazri khalid which passeth all understanding at the recent dap forum pkfz will heads roll i had vowed that if nothing comes to naught with these high profile probes etc i will take it upon myself together with a few former klang port authority colleagues to initiate a class action suit or public interest litigation or whatever to see justice done we believe that perhaps we do have some measure of locus standi as concerned citizens and former employees of the port to start both criminal and civil proceedings for breach of trust and to recover the monies from those involved in this heinous crime not that we have much faith in the judicial system either logged by the ancient mariner at 09 49 7 comments saturday june 06 2009 pkfz will heads roll in 2007 the ministry of finance has already extended a rm4 6 billion soft loan at 4 interest rate to klang port authority to salvage the port klang free zone pkfz project now it appears that they will have to extend an additional rm3 56 billion loan to cover the cash flow deficit over the next 20 years as projected by pricewaterhousecoopers pwc this restructured financing will cost an additional rm5 billion in interest costs over the next 42 years the question now is will heads roll over malaysia s record bailout scandal especially with existing barisan nasional leaders implicated by the project should the government continue to support the project with up to rm8 56 billion in tax payers monies or should it cut losses and make better use of the funds for the rakyat in other more productive means i have been invited to speak at a forum organised by dap malaysia to discuss the above and to shed some light on the issue panelists will include dap parliamentary leader lim kit siang petaling jaya utara mp tony pua dap economic advisor teh chi chang and transparency international s tan sri dr ramon navaratnam date wednesday 10 june 2009 time 8 pm venue 2nd floor the kl selangor chinese assembly hall no 1 jalan maharajalela kuala lumpur malaysia see map below all are welcome view jalan maharajalela in a larger map logged by the ancient mariner at 09 46 10 comments saturday may 30 2009 pkfz conspiracy theories in the loo of the subang lake view club recently a well known journo friend who was at the forefront of the expo sé of the port klang free zone pkfz scandal told me how put off he was at the talk of conspiracy theories i agreed with him the rm12 billion fiasco was simply driven by one word greed now that the msm and online media have gone to town with the story there are calls to probe the big time puppet masters sell off the pkfz black hole etc and the developers of the project are also threatening to sue the latter i find very amusing since this will be akin to thieves suing a house owner for calling the cops my immediate concern is for the fate of my young former colleagues in the klang port authority especially now in the government search for scapegoats many were forced to do things which were against their principles and had signed cheques under protest etc a few had resigned in disgust thereby losing their pension benefits transport minister ong tee kiat has vowed that any any decision on the pkfz project will be made in the interest of the people lets hope that the decision will not jeopardise the interests of these little people logged by the ancient mariner at 10 37 6 comments thursday may 28 2009 pkfz report to be released in a breaking news malaysiakini reported yesterday here that the government has given the go ahead for the controversial port klang free zone pkfz audit report to be released in its entirety klang port authority chairperson lee hwa beng would be calling a press conference at 3 30 p m today to reveal the report an independent audit done by pricewaterhousecooper pwc in his latest blog posting here transport minister ong tee kiat suggested that he had fought a hard battle in his quest to get to the bottom of the controversy that journey does not end with the release of the report which i have now directed klang port authority to do so as soon as possible once everything is in order we have a lot of work to do to make sure that the findings of the report are acted upon and the interests of the people are protected he added now this i have got to see update on thursday may 28 2009 at 2000hrs the pwc report can now be viewed here as the appendices are voluminous they will only be made available for public viewing during office hours at port klang authority at jalan pelabuhan 42005 port klang for 2 weeks till 10th june 2009 logged by the ancient mariner at 05 14 3 comments sunday may 24 2009 malay rights my old mckk classmate dr nik azam in kelantan sent this interesting take on malay rights to our alumni website which i think is certainly food for thought it cannot be wrong to say that we are in our present position because of the above every country has its uniqueness and peculiarities malaysia is no exception many in the world will find it odd that the majority group in malaysia has special rights above other groups this came about due to incidents in malaysian history it is a basic human trait that every individual will always want something more than the next individual this urge for empowerment is a bigger drive than just seeking simple survival man had fought duels battles and wars and in the process he died young he would have survive longer if he did not fight in the first place but surviving and living under what terms the non malays now clamour for the abolishment of these rights rightly so for them they also seek empowerment as a group we have to find smart ways to keep on to these rights but at the same time not to be seen as unfair our generation had benefited from them it is our duty that our beloved ones who come after us are not deprived because of our follies do not read special rights here to mean just simple rent seeking america britain japan all have what they call as their foreign policies and strategic interests and the military muscle to back them up they speak of equality of opportunity and equal rights but the basic is they want more for themselves and to safeguard what they already have all of us here are very malay is not our old school the malay college so this subject cut across political party affiliations we have to see that the present politicking do not affect malay rights party keadilan is open to all races but 60 of voters are malays so they have to give leeway to this our classmate is not going to be the future pm if he does not come out with something clever on this issue umno by its very name is the party of the malays and should champion our rights but in the last general elections they received less than 50 of malay votes very strange and food for thought for all of us and umno the reasons are well known umno to the majority of malays is no longer the champion of the ordinary malay but are self serving for themselves there had been so much wastage of the resources of the country the non malays shout that their children with strings of as do not get scholarships but there are also malay students with strings of as without scholarships after the recent political setbacks umno in the name of liberalisation had been giving away what in an indirect manner may touch on what before were considered as malay rights in business and finance about 30 such changes were made hindraf leaders had been freed they were the people who accused malays of practicing apartheid the latest political happening in malaysia the court of appeal decision on the perak dun had been a victory for umno and bn but is there any thought given to how the majority of malaysians and malays think about it are they not the voters who will decide future elections the victory may prove costly in the long run logged by the ancient mariner at 13 13 6 comments saturday may 23 2009 causeway to remain prime minister najib has proposed to his singapore counterpart lee hsien loong a new straight bridge to link johor and singapore in his first official visit to the island state the bridge which will be built on the eastern side of johor will be the third link between the two countries najib said the third link will help bring development to the eastern side of johor in areas such as pengerang and desaru this will also mean that the causeway will remain as it is and the controversial crooked bridge will not be pursued further lee has even suggested that the causeway be widened and the rail link improved to further ease traffic movement read the malaysiakini report here read also my earlier posting stupid bridge here this must surely come as a slap in the face of former prime minister tun dr mahathir who has been pushing for a dog leg or crooked bridge to replace the causeway during the recent bloggers universe malaysia 2009 bum 2009 dialogue in subang jaya he had wisecracked that everyone in johor baru wants his crooked bridge except for former minister shahrir samad i didnt think it was funny i also thought that it was bloody presumptuous of him and most unfair to shahrir a long time member of parliament for jb who should be in a better position to gauge the opinions of his constituents lets hope that this is going to be the last time that we will hear of the stupid bridge but i am not taking any bets here logged by the ancient mariner at 09 00 8 comments thursday may 21 2009 pkfz cabinet to decide and i thought it has already been decided by the previous cabinet to make the pricewaterhousecoopers pwc audit report on the rm12 billion port klang free zone pkfz fiasco available in its entirety to the general public unless of course this is going to be just another merry here we go round the mulberry bush news reports has it that transport minister ong tee kiat seems to be the only government official who is adamant that the report is made public without any more delays if this is true then i will have to take back everything i have said about him minister ong i do humbly beg to apologise the klang port authority kpa board meets this morning to deliberate on general manager lim thean shiang s sudden resignation rumour has it that lim has gone to meet najib to retract his letter but ong who has accepted lim s resignation last week has already appointed 2 new gms to fill in both the kpa and pkfz posts meanwhile the rakyat waits and waits logged by the ancient mariner at 09 32 7 comments tuesday may 19 2009 pkfz day of reckoning my sources tell me that lim thean shiang photo the young general manager of klang port authority kpa who took over from the controversial o c phang barely a year ago has tendered his resignation to the kpa board a lawyer by training lim is also executive chairman of kpa subsidiary port klang free zone pkfz sdn bhd but unlike former transport minister chan kong choy i bet his hasty departure cannot be because of health reasons but certainly over the rm12 billion pkfz scandal which has necessitated a government bailout i believe pkfz will feature prominently in tomorrow s cabinet meeting as such i wouldnt be surprised if no action will be taken and more excuses be found to further delay or even stop the release of the pricewaterhousecoopers pwc audit report in its entirety to the general public pwc has asked kpa for indemnification of the report and this seems pretty reasonable to me under the circumstances it is believed that the pwc audit has uncovered practices contrary to rules and regulations gross abuse of power conflicts of interest no accountability or transparency etc etc the culprits allegedly include politicians members of the kpa and pkfz boards which unfortunately include my former boss gnanalingam of westport who was a member of both and 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