UMNO youth behaved in a totally predictable fashion. It is of course, totally unacceptable but they don’t care about that. They went in to within Parliamentary physical domain and assaulted Karpal Singh, who a senior member. Karpal is wheelchair bound. It doesn’t matter anymore what stirred them up so. This bunch is known to behave as it pleases. They are a law unto themselves. That is why the country hates them. I’d say Karpal speaks for the vast majority when he calls them celaka. I’d say it again – celaka UMNO Youth, and I’d be echoing millions of Malaysians. And what does the idiotic speaker do? He said he’d refer the matter for investigations. What poppycock. Talk about a jellyback, and an idiotic one at that. He probably came up through the ranks of the celaka UMNO Youth himself. That’d explain his irrational and wholly unacceptable action. The perpetrators were still in the building for crying out loud. This is the parliament. A group has assaulted a member of parliament, in parliament. These celaka group members are still in the premises. Surely he can take more action than referring for investigations? What a joke. But then Najib was from celaka UMNO Youth too, wasn’t he? Maybe that’s why the country is in such a state. All those idiotic leaders came through celaka UMNO Youth, didn’t they. Real celaka.

I got myself a new netbook a few days ago. I got a new notebook at work which is a better machine, but it is also heavier. A lot heavier. So I minimise lugging it home and need some other machine at home for my personal use, hence this new netbo0k. It’s a 9in Dell. A bit of problem using the smallish keyboard but it would be a question of getting used to the positions of the characters. I am already getting the hang of it even as I type this out…

I got this little story today, which is great. I have to re-learn this.

My work has become a little overwhelming, and it is making me tired. I had recently started to complain a bit more and lost my enthusiasm. The edge has gone. I have started thinking about whether a new job is the answer.

We have also started on a soft hunt for a new house. It started when we realised we couldn’t hold events like a church board or committee meeting in our home without preventing kiddo from doing some other things. We thought we could use a home with more separated space.

We also toyed with the idea of swapping one of our cars for an SUV. No particular reason other than that we had always thought about having an SUV, never got around to it and that it would be fun. Our cars both run very well, and are in excellent condition. Both are under 5 years old. We have no reason to think about changing either of them.

Being contented, being grateful and happy with what is – this is a challenge. This little story could be a big kick up my back side.

It goes like so…

According to legend, a young man while roaming the desert came across a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so sweet he filled his leather canteen so he could bring some back to a tribal elder who had been his teacher. After a four-day journey he presented the water to the old man who took a deep drink, smiled warmly and thanked his student lavishly for the sweet water. The young man returned to his village with a happy heart.

Later, the teacher let another student taste the water. He spat it out, saying it was awful. It apparently had become stale because of the old leather container. The student challenged his teacher: “Master, the water was foul. Why did you pretend to like it?”

The teacher replied, “You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of living-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.”

Self-motivation without gratitude is impossible. Our energy is “sapped” when our entire focus is on what’s wrong instead of what is right with our lives. One of our greatest challenges is to live and love in spite of pain and disappointment…to find gratitude in the midst of it all.

Reflect for a moment on this beautiful quote from Melody Beattie:

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Wacthing the Villa v Chelski match now to see how Lamps and the boys react to Gus’ reign, especially against the ascent of O’Neill’s charge. Still 0-0 for now…

The Incredible Sulk just scored, I must say it was stamped with class – of both Lamps and le Sulk

          When the story of Elizabeth Wong’s misfortune broke, I was a little angry. While I don’t always agree with her views, she at least appears to be genuine in her beliefs and convictions and appears to fight hard for them. What happened to her was despicable.

          Whatever the nature of the origin, BN has obviously tried to take advantage of the shameful act by her ex-boyfriend. Why, I wouldn’t be the least surprised if BN actually initiated the whole thing. Idiotic comparisons to prior but totally different incidents were made and there were mindless calls for her to resign. The whole episode is of course, pitiful. Pitiful for her but also on the political situation in Malaysia.

          What is equally bad however, is the sheer disrespect for personal privacy in cyberspace. I thought of a little experiment and decided to put up an entry with some words designed to catch voyeurs which I suspect would scour around once the story broke. True enough, suddenly my private journal became a lightning rod. Within a about an hour I had over a couple of thousand visits. The obvious search words all had to do with Elizabeth and her misfortune.

          I bet many of those who made the search were otherwise normal and respectable persons. I don’t pretend to be blameless and I would have no problems owning up to having seen nude picture many times. These however, are people who have chosen to pose nude and have decided to make some money that way.

          Elizabeth is an innocent person who knew nothing about her photos being taken, let alone circulated. So to those of you mongrels out there looking for her photos, I hope you just think for a moment, show some restrain and respect and behave like a decent fellow. Leave this poor woman alone in so far as this is concerned. If someone should send you these photos, please just delete them. Don’t look at them. Don’t especially forward them. You’d be going everyone a favour. Especially yourself.

If you came to this page because you were searching for Elizabeth Wong’s nude photos then shame on you. Just because someone (presumably her ex boy friend) is so bereft of mores that he secretly takes and then circulates nude photos of his girlfriend Elizabeth Wong, it doesn’t mean you too have to stoop at that level.

Elizabeth Wong appears to have been a hard worker for a better Malaysia. To have her nude photos circulated in such a manner speaks so badly of both the person who took those photos as well as parties who encouraged the circulation. Can politics in Malaysia go anywhere lower? Can it sink anymore? When would it hit rock bottom?

No, not my age. It’s the bloody temperature here in Melb. It is now 42 deg. Max of 44 today.

Scorcher.

I have said, numerous times, that Anwar Ibrahim is wrong to embark on his 16 September (or whatever other date) plans. The issue isn’t the date, or his failure to deliver on his claims but one of principles.

It is of course, wrong to try and form a government that way. When the electorate makes a choice, it is a choice of both the person and the party. In fact under circumstances such as those during the March 08 elections, that choice must have been for the party including the coalition that party belongs to. When you use external factors to bend or negate that choice, it is wrong, pure and simple.

It doesn’t matter what the motivating factors were or are. The accounts relayed to me suggest there may be cogent and (allegedly) moral reasons which drove Anwar on. It was said the BN was corrupt and would not have won government had they not been corrupt. Well then the proper action would have been to level corruption charges, not to mess things up even more by trying to persuade elected representatives to switch political allegiance.

It does not matter it would have been to form a government most people in Malaysia would have preferred.

Of course, now the shoe is on the other foot, the pebble is especially annoying. There are now loud complaints of violation of democratic principles. Seriously? So Anwar’s exact same modus operandi was kosher but not Najib Razak’s?

Najib Razak’s orchestration of bringing down the PKR Perak State Government is calloused, despicable and is a slap on the face of Malaysians, especially the people of Perak. It is dirty and it is a practice which Malaysians have to demand must cease.

By the same token, Malaysians should also condemn Anwar Ibrahim’s attempts to ascend to power by means other than through the voting booth.

Najib is wrong, as he has been in so many instances. The fact that he used money and that there were suggestions of illegal manufacturing of corruption offences doesn’t elevate Anwar’s earlier attempt to be acceptable practice. Anwar was wrong too. As he has been in many instances.

It is time Malaysia grows up and do things properly.

Anwar is purportedly organising a rally outside the home of the Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) with an expected 100,000 turnout. What is he going to say – that BN was corrupt and therefore wrong? It would be a bit rich wouldn’t it? If you don’t do the right thing, you wouldn’t have the moral conviction to speak loudly. Simple as that.

Of course, I hope the Sultan wouldn’t just go down the straight path of saying well the BN has the number, they can form the government. I hope he will look at the wider issue of the will of the people, and let the people have the say on the whole thing.