Think City and Ali Rustam

Yesterday, a very pretty DAP supporter called me and told me that she had just came back from Penang and was so impressed by the cleanliness and the upgrading works being done in the old part of the city.



She said she had done some research and found out that the entity responsible for it all is the Think City.

"Big Cat, you must write something about the good works of these people. Otherwise Lim Guan Eng will claim credit for it all for himself,": she said with a giggle.

Well, for that coming from a DAP supporter is really something. Apparently not all DAP supporters are ugly chauvinists ya. I even trust this girl with my identity despite her being a bit in love with Guan Eng not too long ago.

Guess she had read this -

Bloomberg's crap and SatD

Nonetheless, I have to admit that I know nuts about Penang. The last time I went there was about 12 years ago. So, I will not write too much about the place for fear of misrepresenting it.

These, however comes from the Think City people :

- What is Think City’s primary objective?
  Our goal is to implement and administer the George Town Grants Programme with impartiality, non-exclusivity and transparency. Our primary objectives are to:
    Kick-start the urban rejuvenation of the George Town World Heritage Site (WHS)
    Build on the momentum of the civil society and private sector initiatives – spurring private-public partnerships
    Capacity building and capability development for the protection and development of the living heritage, culture and architecture
    Encouraging a sustainable, livable environment

- Who does Think City report on its projects and progress?
Think City will be reporting to its Board on project updates, which are generated by grantees. Nevertheless, we will be working closely with all State Govt., Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang (“MPPP”), Jabatan Perancang Bandar & Daerah Penang (“JPBDP”), the Heritage Commission and with the local community - the drivers of this project - throughout the tenure of this Grant. Progress report of all GTGP projects will be publicly available on Think City’s website.

- Does the state govt. sit on the Board of Think City?
At this moment, Think City's Board of Directors constitutes Khazanah’s appointees. There is no direct representation from the federal or state government.
Think City will remain apolitical as this is the most efficient way forward, given the circumstances in Penang. Nonetheless, there will be state government appointees on our Advisory Panel to provide critical comments on projects which will require their expert opinion.

The rest you can read at their website at www.thinkcity.com.my.

MEANWHILE, I tried to google for news about similar project for Malacca which was also given the World Heritage Site status by Unesco.

The Malacca state government was given a direct RM30 million grant to carry out  similar project as the one in Penang being done by Think City which received RM25 million.

The latest news I found was this -

MELAKA, June 9 (Bernama) -- The Melaka government has asked the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) and National Heritage Department to pay out the remaining funds from the World Heritage Site Fund, amounting to RM30 million, which was promised to the state.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said the state government had so far received RM3.4 million, of which RM2.2 million was allocated to the Melaka Historic City Council and RM1.2 million to the Melaka Museum Corporation.
"I appeal to the National Heritage Department and EPU to give us the money, not only for Melaka but also for the country, because without it many interrelated programmes cannot be executed," he told reporters after launching a seminar in conjuction with the Melaka River Festival 2011, here today.

Well, then again, my research may not be so tip top. So, anyone from Malacca who got more news on the Federal government's RM30 million grant for Malaccan world heritage site, please enlighten me ya?



Must defend your Chief Minister a bit la. Must show that Ali Rustam is tip top ya.

Prince Andrew was NOT kidnapped in Johor

Yes, Guan Eng, the prince was not kidnapped in Johor. Here is the report -

 NUSAJAYA: Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, today opened the campus of Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) at Educity here.
In his speech, the prince said the opening of the campus would popularise the university and draw students from the world over to the institution.

Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman and Newcastle University chancellor Sir Liam Donaldson were also present at the event.

About 80 students have begun a five-year course beginning September. The university is targeting a student intake of 900 by 2017.

Abdul Ghani said it is envisaged that the university will become a major contributor to the national effort to raise the number of trained doctors from 3,000 annually to 4,000 in five years' time.

He also said that the opening of the campus provided 50 jobs for the local people. -- BERNAMA

Well, just for the record, Guan Eng said these in Singapore - 

This is another Crook

Leave them kids alone....and a bit on Unesco

Went through the local news this morning and tried to find something really interesting to bitch about. Have to settle with the biggest headline managed by the MSM, that is the Court of Appeal's decision which rules that a provision of the Universities and University Colleges Act is against the Federal Constitution.

Actually, to me,  that one is no big deal. The case will go to the Federal Court after this la. It may be overturned and the whole bloody thing will turn into an anti-climax.

But since I got nothing else really interesting to talk about the local political scene today. then here goes ;

Well, as far as I am concerned, the government should just abolish the Act. Let all the boys and girls do what ever hell they want. They want to be Pas' cows and goats, let them be lah.



Why the BN government need to worry so much. All they need to do is raise the standard of examinations at the universities so high that those who goes monkeying around will flunk their exams and get kick out. Of course, most of these will be Malays, but never mind, better weed them out before they graduated and get hold of big positions in the civil service or GLCs. I know, these drop-outs will be pissed and join the opposition, but that is fine. Pas will have more Mat Sabu, the ITM drop-out. Now, how much more fun it can be, isn't it?

Better have 1,000 more Mat Sabu rather than 1,000 ungrateful high ranking civil servants who support Pas and its narrow minded ideology despite getting their jobs mostly because they are Malays rather then their borderline CGPAs.

As for the non-Malays undergraduates, they will be smarter and concentrate on their studies. I am sure of this. Yes, the DAP cadres among them will always be there, but rest assured, they will not cause havoc as they will be studying, then graduate and only then become fully grown arseholes like Guan Eng. (Don't be angry Guan Eng, I'm using the arsehole word just for dramatic effect. Umno also got its own arseholes, and I will get at them in other postings, ok?)

Honestly, what is this Universities Act thing anyway? All those private colleges and universities mushrooming all over the country, are they covered by it? How about TAR College, that MCA's institution for breeding DAP supporters? I am not sure and don't really care to study the whole provisions. To me, this Act  is outdated and belongs to the days when there were only UM, UPM, UKM, USM, UTM and ITM.

Eh, tired lah writing about this. DS Najib, just abolish the bloody thing, ok. I guarantee you will score some more points like when you abolished the ISA thing.

OK, now, to the international front -



In Paris yesterday,  Palestine became the 195th full member of Unesco , as the United Nations organization defied a mandated cutoff of American funds under the Israeli ally's  federal legislation from the 1990s. The vote of Unesco’s full membership was 107 to 14, with 52 abstentions.

According to New York Times,  the step will cost the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization one-quarter of its yearly budget — the 22 percent contributed by the United States (about $70 million) plus another 3 percent contributed by Israel.

Unesco, which is best known for designating world heritage sites, is a major global development agency whose missions include promoting literacy, science, clean water and education, including sex education and promoting equal treatment for girls and young women.

The United States rejoined the organization in 2003, ending a boycott that began under 1984 over charges that the organization then was corrupt, anti-Israel and anti-Western and wanted to regulate the international news media.

On Monday, the United States voted against Palestinian membership, joined by Germany, Australia, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands and Israel, among others.

The European Union failed to come to a common position. Some European nations, including France and Belgium, voted in favor, joining China, Russia, Brazil, India and most African and Arab states. Many other European nations abstained, including Romania and Latvia, which had earlier voted no in the executive council. Others abstaining included Britain, Poland, Portugal, Denmark, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Ukraine and Switzerland.

Palestinian foreign minister, Riad al-Malki, praised the organization, saying that “this vote will help erase a tiny part of the injustice done to the Palestinian people” and that it would help protect world heritage sites in Israeli-occupied territory.

The Obama administration had tried unsuccessfully to keep the vote from taking place.

US legislation dating from 1990 and 1994 mandates a complete cutoff of American financing to any United Nations agency that accepts the Palestinians as a full member.

Here are what  US officials said :
- US ambassador to Unesco , David T. Killion, repeatedly called the vote on Monday “premature” and said the United States would seek other means to support the agency, though he did not offer specifics. He added that  “there are no shortcuts” to a Palestinian state and that “we believe efforts such as the one we have witnessed today are counterproductive.”
- US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the Unesco application “inexplicable.”
- Representative Nita M. Lowey, Democrat of New York, called it “counterproductive,” saying in a statement that “Unesco is interfering with the prospects for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.”
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Florida Republican who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, characterized the Unesco move as “anti-Israeli and anti-peace” and called for a quick cutoff of funds.

Here are what the Israeli officials said -
- The Israeli ambassador to Unesco, Nimrod Barkan, said that Unesco had done “a great disservice” to international efforts to restart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. “Unesco deals in science, not in science fiction,” he said, noting that a Palestinian state is not otherwise recognized by the international community. Unesco, he said, had acted on a “political subject outside of its competence.”
- Yigal Palmor, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the vote would not give the Palestinians “any advantage on the ground” and called the Unesco vote “a big diplomatic car crash.”

Well, Dr Mahathir had replied to them in advance here -

Am I bullshitting you?

Been off-grid over the past few days. Running around doing my work and no time to drop by the cyber cafe to post anything for this blog.

Yup, I am operating this blog from a cybercafe. The truth is, I don't even have a personal computer. Simple reason, because I can't afford to buy one yet. Contrary to popular belief, not all pro-BN bloggers are paid Umno cybertroopers or someone rich and fat from ill-gotten gain.

That cat is not me. I put the picture just because I wish I have that sort of  laptop.
Never mind, I will ask my financial controller to buy me a laptop like that. Hopefully my no-good bosses will give me some nice bonus end of this year so that I can afford it. It's really hard to write something with a nine-year old kid playing some gory shoot-em-up computer game sitting next to me in the cyber cafe.

For those who have been following this blog, I thank them from the bottom of my heart, but please note that the only Umno leader whom I have been singing praises is Johor MB Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman....and this guy Ghani is not paying me anything for it. He does not know who I am and I am not working for him or expecting anything from him. I am praising him for free, simply because he is truly one of the good guys in BN.

Ok, some people in the opposing Johor Umno camps, who wanted their own guy as the new MB  may want to vomit whatever they had eaten this morning after reading what I wrote above. Sorry guys. I am still of the opinion that the reality is, if Ghani goes after the coming GE, your guy who replace him will vomit blood trying to do what Ghani had done so far for Johor.

Do you all think it is easy to maintain this BN bastion? I had listed the requirements to be a Johor MB here -
1. To administer the State Government
2. To command the Johor Umno warlords
3. To earn the respect of the BN component parties
4. To maintain BN dominance over the opposition in Johor.
5. To have a good working relationship with the Johor palace
6. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - To resist the temptation of enriching oneself and cronies by plundering Johor's riches.

Most of the new Johor MB candidates, I believe, will not be able to satisfy the most important requirement, that is to resist the temptation to enrich oneself and not using the MB position to strengthen one's personal political position at the expense of Johor Umno's unity.

If you still think I am bullshitting about Ghani, go and ask the most experienced and reputedly honest of all the Johor Umno warlords - Datuk Shahrir Samad. Ask him to name one guy among his peers or juniors who can become the new Johor MB.

Fortress Johor Part 3 : BN's Achilles' heel

In the second instalment of this series of articles on Johor, we got a glimpse of how Johor BN under the stewardship of its chairman Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman would handle the coming onslaught of the Pakatan hordes in the coming general election.

The battle plan seems solid as proven by the success in the Tenang by-election.

However, as with everything else in life, things are not perfect.

Among the biggest problems faced by Johor BN in executing its plan is the apparent selfishness of some of its leaders (in this case, those from Umno) who only care about their own short-term political survival rather than ensuring the continuity of the coalition's dominance in the State.

On another front, the stupidity of the Johor Pas leadership who are allowing themselves to be manipulated by their Pakatan partners (especially DAP) is another major concern as it could break the Malay vote bank of Johor BN.

Let us not even get into the details of what is happening, or rather what is not very happening in MCA and Gerakan. I will deal with that in other pre-GE series on Johor.

Before I really start, here are the statistics on the balance of power in Johor :
Parliamentary seats :
BN - 25
Pakatan -1 (DAP - Bakri)
State seats :
BN - 50
Pakatan - 6 (Dap 4 - Skudai, Senai, Mengkibol, Bentayan; Pas 2 - Sungai Abong, Maharani, PKR 0)

THE MUAR DEBACLE IN 2008

Despite claims by opposition figures that Johor is ripe for the picking, the reality on the ground is not so clear-cut.  PAS has been trying to convince themselves that they can take on Umno in Malay-majority seats, but in truth they have been relegated to the role of breaking Malay solidarity in Johor to enable DAP and PKR to win valuable Johor parliamentary seats.

Case in point, in the fight for Muar-Maharani-Sungai Balang, if the Umno candidates Datuk Mohd Ismail Mohd Shah for Maharani (53% Malay voters), and Dr Robia Kosai for Sungai Balang (71% Malay voters) had not been so stupid as to have their factions sabotaging each other during the 2008 campaign, the likelihood of PAS winning Maharani would have been extremely slim if not impossible.  Actually, Sungai Balang remained an Umno seat by virtue of it having a larger proportion of Malay voters than Maharani.  It can therefore be concluded that Umno gave away Maharani to PAS in 2008, which in football terms would be an "own goal".

My personal assessment is, it would be stupidity in the extreme if Umno were to put these two up as candidates again in the next General Election, regardless of quota requirements or whatnots, as they have proven themselves to be morons of the highest order.  Word on the ground is, if Dr Robia is Umno candidate again in the coming election, Malik Mohd Diah (of PAS) may become the new ADUN for Sungai Balang.  So if Umno is really going to field winnable candidates in the coming GE, they already knew whom not to field in Sungai Balang.

CRUCIAL BATTLEGROUNDS OF SOUTHERN JOHOR

However, what is happening further down south in the Kulai and Gelang Patah parliamentary constituencies is far more interesting, where we can clearly see how the fight for Johor will unfold in the coming months.  The recent fight between DAP and PKR over the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat was reported in the press, signifying the first public signs of cracks within the opposition pact in Johor.  However, more interestingly, is that it reflects the level of confidence the opposition pact have about winning both Kulai and Gelang Patah in the next General Election.

GELANG PATAH

Gelang Patah, which is where the seat of power of Johor at Kota Iskandar is located was PKR's battleground in 2004 and 2008, and they had been putting everything into wresting Gelang Patah from BN in the next GE, with their AMK virtually setting up camp and operating out of this constituency.  In 2004, they didn't do too well, garnering a measly 9,335 votes, or 18% of total turnout.  In contrast, they did very well in 2008, with their candidate getting 41% of total votes, a significant increase from their previous effort, largely thanks to PAS supporters.  If the trend of dwindling support for BN continues to the present, the likelihood of BN losing the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat is very real, thanks to the continuous hard work of PAS members and Umno's complacency there.

Support for PAS in Nusajaya state seat in the 12th GE was more than double that of the 2004 GE.  It has been observed that once PAS got you, they rarely let you go, so I expect the support they got in 2008 will not be reduced by much if at all.  The surge in support for PKR is largely due to Malay votes as the mainly Chinese Skudai voters were overwhelmingly for DAP in the Skudai state seat but didn't give similar support to PKR for the parliamentary seat.

Even though it is unlikely that PAS would win in Nusajaya, they have done their work well in that particular constituency to split the Malay vote and will probably be instrumental in delivering the Gelang Patah seat to the opposition pact, regardless of it being DAP or PKR.

KULAI

Meanwhile, the fragmentation of Kulai Umno is apparent, while MCA has yet to recover from their internal strife in this Chinese-majority constituency.  With Chinese representing almost 60% of its constituents, the role of MCA and Gerakan in reversing the trend of dwindling support in Kulai will be crucial.  MCA has not been very successful in attracting younger or new voters as reflected by a recent public event at a Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina in Senai where even the attending NGOs were just MCA-led NGOs.

Unless the infractious behaviour of Umno warlords in Kulai is contained, the trend of dwindling Malay support for Umno will eventually contribute towards the loss of the Kulai parliamentary seat despite it retaining the Bukit Permai state seat.  While the divisional leadership is in a state of extreme complacency, in-fighting occurs at all levels and the grassroots machinery has yet to be fully mobilised.  Only the Wanita wing seems to be working on the ground, with the Wanita wings of MCA and Gerakan also doing their part.  If not for the internal strife within DAP and between DAP and PKR, this situation would have been fully exploited by DAP to expand its influence and strengthen their grassroots support.

For the coming GE, Dr Boo Cheng Hou, the DAP representative for Skudai, would have preferred to stay and fight for Gelang Patah by swapping another seat with PKR, but it looks like he has to set his sights on Kulai instead to further his political career.  This means he will have to depend on the Bukit Permai PAS supporters to reduce BN's Malay support in the only Malay majority state constituency within Kulai and it looks PAS will deliver despite them not likely to win the Bukit Permai seat themselves.

Assuming that the opposition assessment of having more than 80% of Chinese and Indian support is true, PKR will win in Gelang Patah and DAP will win in Kulai if PAS members continue to do well in reducing BN's Malay support in these two constituencies with their usual passion (and blind devotion to party rhetoric).

CONCLUSION
 
 That means PAS will be able to deliver two parliamentary seats to the opposition pact without winning a single seat themselves.

The Gelang Patah and Kulai strategy will likely be adopted by DAP in other constituencies with similar ethnic composition (which is most of urban Johor) to ensure that they can capture up to 5 parliamentary seats and 12 state seats in Johor.  PKR may be able to gain a parliamentary seat and 3 state seats.  It would be wise for BN to contain opposition activities in Tebrau, Pulai, Pasir Gudang, Labis, and Segamat in addition to Kluang, Bakri, Kulai and Gelang Patah.  These parliamentary seats are vulnerable for Johor BN.

Despite all these, the Johor BN election machinery, under the leadership of Ghani, are currently being mobilised to ensure that the formula first deployed in the Tenang by-election will be applied in full force for a clean sweep of both state and parliamentary seats in Johor.  If done right, this will ensure that Malay support for BN will continue to grow to 70-80%, and may reach 90% in areas where Umno perform well at grassroots level in the past few years.

With the resurgence of Umno and MIC, and if they do not sabotage each other like the two moronic Umno candidates of 2008 did in Muar, it is not likely that PAS will retain either Sungai Abong or Maharani.  Unless BN really mess up, PAS will not win any of their Malay-majority seats either.

 However, PAS will continue to play a significant role in reducing Malay support for BN, and this factor is something BN, and more specifically Umno, will have to take care of.

With MCA and Gerakan still in defunct mode, it will be up to Umno, with the help of MIC, PPP and other Indian-based entities within BN to ensure the coalition's victory in Johor.  Unless MCA and Gerakan wake up from their slumber, they will find themselves without a single  win in Johor - a worrying prospect indeed.

Selamat Deepavali

To all my friends of the Hindu faith, may you and your family always be blessed.

They would had killed Dr Mahathir too...

This is an interesting theory of why Muammar Gaddafi of Libya was attacked and killed

And back in 2003, this Islamic scholar Sheikh Imran Hosein has this to say (try to watch till the end) -

Interesting isn't it.....

Putting families in harm's way

Exploitation of family members for one's political agenda is actually quite common these days. Images of children pleading for sympathy are quite powerful and politicians as well as their supporters tend to thrust theirs to the forefront if they feel that it could get them some extra support.

  Back in 1998, at the height of the Reformasi movement, there was a picture of Nurul Nuha Anwar emerging from the sunroof of an MPV outside the courthouse where her father was charged for abusing his power. She was wearing all sorts of Reformasi paraphernalia and defiantly punching the air in apparent support of her father. That image, of a young girl (Nurul Nuha was only 14 at that time) fighting for her father stuck in my mind till this day. I tried to find that picture for this posting but it was nowhere to be found.
  Images of Wan Azizah and her children at the courthouse were equally touching. The victimized family of a man wrongly accussed in a political conspiracy. Thousands, who had never even met Anwar Ibrahim nor cared about his politics must had sympathized with him just due to those images. All the stories of how he was wronged pulled further at the heart strings.
  The following 1999 general election was a near disaster for BN. Only 37 per cent of Malay voters actually voted for BN. BN was only saved by the non-Malay voters who seems unimpressed by the riots and disturbances caused by the mostly Malay Reformasi supporters. DAP was in fact almost wiped out at that time.
  It was however noted that at that time, family members of politicians being at the forefront in the battle for heart and mind of the people did not seems to draw much flak from the opposing side. It was as if its the natural thing to have your young children canvassing support for their parents. Nurul Nuha's more famous and pretty sister Nurul Izzah was at that time 18 or 19 and not yet a politician, yet she was given the political title of "Puteri Reformasi" by her father's supporters. I can't remember Dr Wan Azizah protesting that her daughter's innocence had been exploited. Fortunately, Nurul Izzah, was still at that time considered as a non-combatant by BN and mostly left in peace to finish her studies and later on get married  Only after that she became active in PKR.

  Now, as for Guan Eng's son, I am sure he will come of age within a few years time and my bet is, he will follow in his father's and grandfather's political footsteps.
  The recent outrage of him being accused of fondling his schoolmate's breasts was indeed unfortunate, but in the current political climate where mud slinging has become routine after the 2008 general election, he is to many, just a collateral casualty.
  Nonetheless, if the Umno bloggers could be accused of pushing him into the mud, his own father is equally guilty of dragging him through the gutter.
  Questions still hang on why Guan Eng was slow to take action on the matter. Why he kept mum when questions about the issue was first asked to him by Malaysiakini? Why he had instead dared Umno to attack his son in the newspapers? It's like telling Umno - "Here, if you dare. Shoot my son". What kind of father is he anyway to put his son on the firing line like that?
  Only after about 24 hours, that he denied the accusation of his son molesting the girl in Malaysian Insider. The accusation of him bribing the family of the girl to keep them quiet was however conveniently left out. My reading was that, within that period, Guan Eng and DAP were busy accessing the situation to see what could be gained from the issue. The denial came only after it had been established that they could actually exploit the issue to win the sympathy of the public.
  As far as I am concerned, Guan Eng's expressed anger over the matter was more political than actually personal. If it is the anger of a father whose son was wronged by his enemies, the reaction would have been different. Knowing Guan Eng, he would had lodged a police report and demand blood. Instead, his reaction is more towards pleading for sympathy from the public and attacking his political enemies. Why he did not lodge a police report is still a mystery to me.The one lodged yesterday against KJ was by Karpal, on behalf of DAP. Why not by Guan Eng himself?
  In the following cries of indignation by Pakatan supporters, much were forgotten about how they themselves had maligned household members of BN leaders. Their exploitation of their own family members were also forgotten. Such were the hypocrisy of their politics that I believe they will lose support of people, who like me, at the height of Reformasi were taken in by those images of Nurul Nuha, her mother and siblings outside the courthouse.

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Auntie, why la you used your children for politics like this.

But some people are much smarter, they instead let other people's family members do the dirty work for them.

  Guan Eng, the above is not gutter politics ka?

Leave the family out, can or cannot....

The PM had said that everyone must not attack each others family members in the political battle.
Totally agree with the man.

 See, the cat is a politician, the rabbits who are his wife and children are not
 So, just shoot the cat, ok.

In fact, when the whole issue about Guan Eng allegedly bribing parents of a girl whose breasts were allegedly fondled by his son broke,  I had cautioned the bloggers to be sure of their facts

Guan Eng's breasts issue

and when Guan Eng denied his son was a breast fondler, I had advised him  on how to deal with it

How to deal with Umno barbarians 

Now, that PM had told everyone to leave each others family out of the fighting, and I am certain Guan Eng and his gang agree, I demand for starters that the Pakatan and BN people to remove all those You Tube video clips attacking the wife, daughters and sons of their opponents, such as the one I posted here for comparative study

Gutter politics, anyone?

 

It would be interesting to see if the Pakatan guys and girls will not resort to the dirty tactics they had been using all along.
As for you all Umno barbarian bloggers, I would like to plead to you all -  lets abide to what the PM said....unless of course if the Pakatan people continue to be arseholes, attacking the non-combatants on our side lah.

Hmmmm....I wonder, can people like Anwar Ibrahim and Mat Sabu resist thrash talking Rosmah, the PM's wife.....????

 

 

Bloomberg's crap and SatD

The other day, my other half  urged me to read a Bloomberg editorial which praises Guan Eng and his handling of Penang's economy.
My other half works in one of those corporate organisations and seems to knows more than me about all those economic stuff. Me, I look at all those numbers and normally ended up with a headache. I tend to believe my other half when it comes to these sort of stuff.
Wah, that Bloomberg report makes Guan Eng, "the country’s only ethnic-Chinese state leader", seems like an economic genius. The best in the whole wide world lar.

Then came this guy SatD. I dont know who is this guy but I have been reading his blog for quite a while. He is quite good with all those economic stuff. There and then he gave Guan Eng and his suspected lackey in Bloomberg a tight slap.



You all can read SatD's posting on the Bloomberg's crap here (I am still a bit ga ga over it) -

The Proofiness of Lim Guan Beng

Hopefully my other half also read it.....