tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177051091363290480.post9091046391458301901..comments2023-11-03T17:32:35.792+08:00Comments on Pearls & Gem: Pearls & Gem : Mohd Hassan MaricanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177051091363290480.post-71576534088698695462009-02-14T19:08:00.000+08:002009-02-14T19:08:00.000+08:00Put them all in the place where they should belong...Put them all in the place where they should belong in the first place...and it needs gut and cunning to do that.Ask Dr M...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177051091363290480.post-10545837083716848412009-02-14T12:09:00.000+08:002009-02-14T12:09:00.000+08:00I share your apprehension .And I think our main 'p...I share your apprehension .And I think our main 'penyakit' is back to increasing materialism in our society .UMNO used to be a party of Cik Gu's with old world idealism .Then the contracotrs came in ,then the corporate guys took over .MCA had long being all business from time immemorial .<BR/><BR/>Now we even have royalties in business .Big business .No big deal provided everything is fair and square in war and peace .<BR/><BR/>Up to a point during your Dr M's era things was 'golden' until his children come of age and also get 'corporate' then we get blurring of his visions and directions . Same thing with AB .<BR/><BR/>Now some smart aleck will turn around and say what are the childrens of PM's and Ministers going to do except 'bang balls ' if they cannot go into business .Well they can but we must have institutions and rules in place to safegurd against vested interest etc etc .Sultans and anak sultan can go into business but let us have the guidelines now ,not 20 years later .<BR/><BR/>Otherwise you may repeat the same mistakes of young punks like that business wizard I mention earlier going on a rampage and expecting public funding to bail them out .Rafidah's case with her son in law just went off like that .Our memories are short .<BR/><BR/>There are business and business one can do that does not involve govt tenders etcetc .<BR/><BR/>Get the guidelines and rules in place and implement them .Otherwise if we cant ,one must follow Ronald Reagan's whose son was not a corporate bug gun but just a 'dancer' .I can still remeber Mark Thacher ,,how the British public gave him hell when he took advantage of his position with the Sheikh in an arms deal during his mother's tenure os PM .It got so bad he finally migrated to the US and become a 2nd hand car salesman for sometime .That is the price of being a numero uno public figure .You cannot have the cake and want to eat it at the same time.Pearls and Gemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06956076197010527489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177051091363290480.post-2486537711609204282009-02-14T08:56:00.000+08:002009-02-14T08:56:00.000+08:00I am a loyalist by nature.I spent some 9 years in ...I am a loyalist by nature.I spent some 9 years in Mardi and another 19 years in Petronas working in the lab. Cant help this sinking feeling of hopelessness when it comes to what is happening now with the Malays in UMNO and Malays & others in the present political catastrophe. I used to feel very very proud when on a bus in London, an American critises Mahathir & a Pakistani cab driver talks highly of Mahathir. Trust me they know him by name. He is a visionary and faulted for being human, I find it hard to even think if there is any real successors, Najib included. If my memory didnt fail me, Tun M was the one who said Malaysia needs a guided democracy. I tend to agree in the sense that it seems NOW, with AB opening the floodgates, everyone has something to say in the media, even Samy Velu has an opinion on the Hudud laws. So much so that during present government, there is utter confusion among simple folks like the man on the street like me, who are least interested in politics. With the coming April, are we sinking further? I am afraid to think that coming back to good people being swept aside, our dear President of Petronas, Tan Sri Hassan, needs more than a cricket 'god father' to save him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177051091363290480.post-10947841882583760662009-02-14T00:56:00.000+08:002009-02-14T00:56:00.000+08:00I suspect by the next GE there will be a catharsis...I suspect by the next GE there will be a catharsis of sort .Excessess of the past will no longer go unnoticed and uncriticised .<BR/><BR/>Must be pretty painful for old man Ku Deen whose sincere assessment and recommendations were just pushed aside by all and sundry .Like the Congress Party of India ,we are seeing the dying throes of a dinosaur that cannot change .A pity .Pearls and Gemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06956076197010527489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177051091363290480.post-24865054266084751522009-02-13T11:23:00.000+08:002009-02-13T11:23:00.000+08:00Dear Nik,UMNO should get rid of Pemuda, Wanita and...Dear Nik,<BR/><BR/>UMNO should get rid of Pemuda, Wanita and Putera; there should be only UMNO members. Not even for Veterens.<BR/>UMNO has been practising caste system in heirarchical order to maintain their power grip. <BR/>Even after UMNO abolishes this caste system, money polyics would remain. Because, for ages, Malays used to be toll colllector, from Malacca time to the present time. They prefer makan atas angin, dapat duit free, Ali-Baba, permit for sale or sorts.Whatmore, there are political boys around who distribute money prior to UMNO Election/Erection!<BR/>Rahmat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177051091363290480.post-30148334810066395472009-02-12T21:14:00.000+08:002009-02-12T21:14:00.000+08:00Rahmat ,That would be nice but not as important as...Rahmat ,<BR/><BR/>That would be nice but not as important as 'accountable account' of what the govt of the day does with the money contributed annually by the company .We do not want the fund to be used for 'buying' votes at elections and bye elections for instance ,'war chest' to fund election spending ,buying over MP's ,covering bad debts and 'financial blunders' etc etc etc .<BR/><BR/>The ECER thing if done properly is not a bad idea but usually given our present culture of 'non accountability' pervading everywhere many millions will be lost .<BR/><BR/>That brought me to the recent comment by the Hon Tengku Rithauddeen who was asked to analyse money politics in UMNO and he came out with the strong recommendation that they do away with the Youth ,Puteri and Wanita Wings .Do you know that the going rate to be just a Pemuda [ mind you this is not the Senior post ,just Pemuda] branch rep now is more than half million RM !<BR/><BR/>But once you are Pemuda Branch rep you get to sit on so many councils and that is where you rake back what you have spent .The whole system in UMNO stinks !How do najib Tun Razak change this went he grew up in this culture !Pearls and Gemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06956076197010527489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177051091363290480.post-72155259897783943992009-02-12T15:36:00.000+08:002009-02-12T15:36:00.000+08:00Dear Nik,I'm dreaming a day that every Malaysian w...Dear Nik,<BR/>I'm dreaming a day that every Malaysian would be awarded shares of Petronas just like the Goverment of Brunie offering free shares to her citizens.<BR/>RahmatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com