Namewee will have more Facebook fans than Najib by weekend

Namewee will have more Facebook fans than Najib by weekend

Posted by hartalmsm on September 9, 2010

On Aug 31, we blogged that some 243,700 people like Namewee’s official Facebook page.

When we checked yesterday, his Facebook has close to 319,400 fans. That’s an increase of 75,700 fans in a span of just 8 days, or averagely 9,500 (to round up the figure) signing up daily.

Anwar Ibrahim’s Facebook has 162,800 fans while Najib Razak’s has 352,255 as at this moment. We predict that by the weekend, Namewee will have more Facebook fans than the prime minister.

Malaysians, please ask yourself why this is so. This is a serious question.

Namewee’s not even a pop star nor cut any record album yet. For comparison, Siti Nurhaliza’s official Facebook page has 220,700 fans.

Yes, granted that social media is something trending with the young (and Najib is not young) but still it doesn’t take anything away from Namewee’s feat — he’ll be in pole position before Rosmah finishes nibbling her first batch of Raya cookies.

If the young upstart has this legion of followers, he must be doing and saying something that so many Malaysians are able to connect with.

Is it fair to say that the pro-establishment types and the risk-free poseurs given airtime by longtime opposition leaders like Kit Siang are patently falling flat despite the loudhailers they’ve been provided?

Namewee’s runaway success is the obverse to the abject failure of our society that’s not able to understand Malaysian youths. That he has become their leading voice shows how powerless and voiceless the younger generation are to articulate their aspirations and fears and frustrations.

For every slur that people like Chua Soi Lek and the politicians throw at Namewee, they are getting double the blowback. In the land of hypocrites, the foul-mouthed but honest (Namewee) is prince.

Results oriented vs. Process oriented; my 2 cents

Does your boss or even you have ever proclaimed this before?

“I don’t care how you do it as long as you bring me the result I want?”

Or

“I don’t want to know how you do it, just get it done!”

Yes, indeed I was one of those too but over the years, I changed my mind. I’m now a staunch believer of it is the process not the result that counts; it is how you do it that’s matter most, not what you have achieved in the past.

I would give you 3 scenarios:-

Scenario 1: Parents don’t care how and what their children have learnt in their school, what they want is that their children performed well in the school examinations, perhaps being the top student or straight A-s student. What do you think will happen to their children? Will you think their children will really learn? Or worse, will their children resort to any means e.g. cheating in order to achieve better result?

Scenario 2: Would you be more healthy and fit just by keep measuring the result of your weight, cholesterol level and blood pressure every day and every hour (the Results)? Or by focusing and acting on your lifestyle, your diet, regular and appropriate exercise (the Process) that would keep you healthy and fit, even you don’t measure your weight, cholesterol and blood pressure level?

Scenario 3: In a bigger picture, won’t you think that is exactly what happens to our past and present global and regional economic and financial crisis or any kind of global crisis with are facing now?

Everybody only concerns about quarterly business performances and profits (READ HERE: RESULTS ORIENTED) while nobody bother to ask HOW the profits were created.

At the end of the day, which would come very fast nowadays, the bubble could no longer hold on as it burst, leading to meltdown in the economy of countries and liquidation or bailing out of giant corporate with the tax payers money. Ultimately, who’s fault? And who’s the victim?

Do results really matter?

100 years from now, does the results that everyone obsessed with really matter?

Does the result really differ in 100 years? Won’t the result be the same for all of us; we are all 6 feet underground, ultimately.

So why are we still being so results-obsessed?

It is the process that make us difference and unique, it the process that make our life fun, interesting, exciting, fun and meaningful. Not results, certainly.

Is there still a role being results oriented?

Results are just the yardstick or measuring tape about asking the question; are we doing the right thing or having the right process? Results are just a signal or indicator of how well we are doing in the past and are we having the right process currently and do we need to change our process to get the right results?

Does focusing on results which are of historical values tell us how well we going to perform in future?

Or would it being process focused that determine our future results?

Hence, Result is just an Effect while the Process is the Cause. Results don’t give birth to another results; it is the process that breeds results!

Doing the right thing and focus on the right process will give us the right results while doing the inappropriate thing will certainly give us the inappropriate results.

Last, my 2 cents conclusion would be we should spent not more than 10% of our time and efforts in being results focused and invest 90% or more of our time and efforts in doing the right thing if we wish to see the results we desired.

Certainly not the other way round. Chasing for more and better results by analyzing and focusing on the results is like chasing our own shadow. It is always there but you will never catch it.

FIFA, Reserve Place for Malaysia!

Adapted from an article published in The Nut Graph
23 June 2010

Fifa, Reserve Place for Malaysia!
By Ta' Melayu Hilang Di-Dunia

I’M upset that the Malaysian football team is not playing in the Fifa
World Cup in South Africa. In fact, Malaysia has never made it to the
Fifa World Cup. Ever.

Doesn’t the rest of the world realise that they cannot expect the
Malaysian team to compete on an even playing field?

Don’t they realize that they need to give a helping hand to Malaysians, particularly our Malays, who cannot be expected to compete with the rest of the world without some assistance?

In Malaysia our wonderful government has set up various programs to assist economically challenged Malaysians.

These “affirmative action” programmes used to have a time limit on them, but now these programmes [seem] permanent as the government cannot foresee a time when some Malaysians would ever be able to compete on equal footing with other ethnic groups in Malaysia, let alone the rest of the world.

Similarly, I would demand that FIFA should give special exemption to
the Malaysian team to play in the World Cup, but not because we
deserve to play there on merit like the rest of the world.

Rather, it should reserve a place in the World Cup solely for us, just as the Malaysian government reserves places in university, schools, the civil service, the armed and police forces exclusively for some Malaysians.

Only then can Malaysians, particularly our politically dominant
Malays, take their rightful place in the pantheon of world soccer.

I don’t think it should end there. If Malaysia is to play in the World
Cup, then our team must be given special privileges. For instance, how
about widening our opponent’s goalposts (at least by 30%) just to make it easier for us to score?

Also, how about allowing the Malaysian team to play with 15 players or 30% more players while the opposing team is limited to only nine players?

If we don’t have sufficient players, FIFA should allow us to use
naturalised Indonesians, southern Filipinos and southern Thais for the
Malaysian football team. This would assist in bringing about a more
equal outcome.

Allocating an advantage of 30% of the opposing team’s goals to the Malaysian team would be a nice gesture, too, in order to be consistent with the New Economic Policy (NEP). Actually, why not go for broke and make it 67%, as Datuk Ibrahim Ali suggests?

And for the life of me, I don’t understand why the likes of Ibrahim,
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Perkasa, Gertak, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin
Hussein, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Umno are not fighting for our
God-given right to play in the FIFA World Cup.

They go on and on about fighting for Malay rights here in Malaysia. Why are they wasting their time?

Why don’t they fight for Malay rights on the international stage,
starting with the FIFA World Cup? Only then can Malaysia compete on
the world stage. Only then would they truly be fighting for “bangsa, agama dan negara”, and in that order, too.

Ta’ Melayu Hilang Di-Dunia

23 June 2010

I was moved to TEARS.

Please go to the bottom for the video view.

"If there was one photograph that captured the horrific nature of the Vietnam war, one photograph that tore at our collective conscience, it was the picture of a nine year old girl, running naked down a road, screaming in agony from the jellied gasoline coating her body and burning through skin and muscle down the bone. Her village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam was napalmed that day on June 8,1972, and the little girl took a direct hit. It would take many years, and 17 operations to save her life."

Most of us live out our lives in relative obscurity. When we have hurt another, when we have failed, when we have grievously wounded it is kept in a small closed circle. But imagine if the thing you most regret were to be splashed across the front page of every newspaper in the world.

Imagine if that one dread moment became the thing that defined you. John Plummer doesn’t need to imagine. It happened to him.

John Plummer is a Methodist pastor living in a quiet town in Virginia. He visits the elderly, prays for the sick and preaches every Sunday. But this is not what defines him. Or at least, what once did.

John Plummer is also the pilot that, during the Vietnam War, organized the Napalm raid on the village of Trang Bang in 1972. And what he did was forever immortalized by the award-winning photograph of one of its victims, a nine-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc.

John was haunted by the photo of the naked burning child, terrified and running, her arms

stretched out, her flesh afire. He had done that to her.

For twenty- four years he looked for her, trying everything he could just so that he could tell her that he had not meant this dreadful thing. It was more than wanting. It was a need that ate away at him until he lost his wife and his health and his hope.

His friends reached out to help him. They reminded him that he had tried to make sure that as many innocent people as possible had been removed from the area.

He had done it for a greater good. None of these things meant anything. Her face condemned him. There was no peace for a man like him.

And then it happened. One of those amazing moments that non-believers speak of as coincidence and those who know the Father know as His merciful grace.

It was Veterans Day, 1996. John, along with a group of fellow pilots, had traveled to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Officially they were there to honor those who had given their lives. But each man knew that every year they went hoping for a measure of freedom from the guilt that haunted them.

The crowd gathered at the memorial hushed as a small woman took the stage and spoke into the microphone and said "I am Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the girl made famous by a photograph after suffering a Napalm attack by American forces"

John froze. He could not take it in. For twenty- four years he had longed for her and she was now so near. Her voice continued " I am not bitter, even though the burns I suffered even to this day cause me pain. I long ago forgave the one who bombed our village"

John was beside himself, yelling, pushing his way through the crowd. Security surrounded him but he persisted. "I am the one!" he shouted "I am the man who did this to you!"

She came down from the stage, the only one who could free him and he fell into her arms. For every time he sobbed out " I am so sorry" her voice rose to cover his. "It is OK. I have forgiven you".

Phan invited John to meet her at her hotel later that evening. Sitting side by side she once again assured him of her forgiveness. In her grace she had set him free. In one encounter she had ended twenty four years of anguish for a man who had longed for release.

See the video yourself:

Our millions spent to glorify Rosmah's (probably purchased) award

In short, this is a 2 centre page spread advertisement in New York Times by 'friends and family from US and Malaysia' (APCO??) to glorify Rosmah during their visit to US recently. Just wonder how much it cost?

(taken from jelas.info blog by Nat Tan)

ps- is it just me, or is that photo of her like SUPER Photoshopped? :P :)

*Excellent* investigative reporting by Koh Lay Chin @ The Nutgraph! I reckon this is an excellent example of the media playing its most pivotal role, and I’ve reproduced most of the article below.

But do check it out. An ad agency (read:APCO probably :P) placed the ad on behalf of our government, and then made it sound like it was done by adoring fans of Rosmah (the very thought of such fans makes me geli!!).

To top it all off, who paid for this deception? You and me :P :P

I also love the part where the ad is to congratulate Rosmah on an award that no one knows or cares about.

I note with great interest how the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) was not mentioned in the ad. Their website also makes no list of their awards and awards recepients.

I strongly suspect this is because organisations like the BCIU make up awards from thin air, and give them to gulliable third world ‘leaders’ desperate for Western recognition – usually of course, *for a price*. Lelong lelong!!

According to some interesting Google results, no one else has ever received this prize, and there isn’t even a single mention of it on BCIU’s website.

Clearly, we are dealing with a meaningless “off the shelf” award, most likely bought and paid for through agents like APCO.

And for this, Malaysians probably forked out over RM 1 million (RM 10 million??) to glorify our ‘treacherous‘ “First Lady”. Contrary to the last line, I assure you that Malaysians are NOT proud of you, or of any of this :P

What a shameless attention ho!

Highlights from the article:

A recent two-page spread in the New York Times, costing thousands of US dollars and featuring the prime minister’s wife, was placed on behalf of the Malaysian government.

In an e-mail response to questions from The Nut Graph, the New York Timessaid: “The advertisement was placed by an ad agency on behalf of the Malaysian government.”

The response from New York Times executive director of community affairs and media relations, Diane McNulty, reveals that the ad was not placed by private individuals, as suggested by the last line in the ad’s congratulatory message.

However, research on previous full-page ads taken out in the New York Timessuggests that the cost of such advertisements ranges from US$180,000 toUS$230,000. This amounts to between RM580,000 and RM740,000 for a one-page ad.

A two-page colour spread such as the one featuring Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor is expected to cost far more.

“Friends and family”

The ad was placed on 16 April 2010, on the last day of Prime Minister Datuk SeriNajib Razak’s visit to the US, to congratulate Rosmah on her being conferred a little-known International Peace and Harmony Award.

The ad welcomed Rosmah as Malaysia’s “First Lady” to New York, and carried the message: “In recognition of your effort to promote peace, harmony and understanding among the people of Malaysia and your courageous acts in making a difference to the lives of people and children around the world. Malaysia is proud of you.”

It was signed off: “Best wishes from family and friends in USA and Malaysia.”

The ad did not name the Business Council for International Understanding, the outfit that gave Rosmah the award.

Against a backdrop of controversies surrounding the hiring of media relations firmApco Worldwide Sdn Bhd, and Rosmah’s alleged interference in government matters, the two-page ad has stirred up gossip and blog postings about who paid for it.

It has also been noted that while Rosmah was prominently featured in the ad in a respected and established newspaper, US media coverage of Najib’s visit and meeting with President Barack Obama was scant. (nat: the only way N/R can get ppl to care, is – as usual – to pay. Shameless!)

Malaysian Ambassador to the US Datuk Seri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis was pictured in Malaysian media showing US newspaper coverage in conjunction with Najib’s visit. But as the DAP’s Lim Kit Siang has pointed out, this appears to have been an advertorial in the Washington Times.

The New York Times’s McNulty would not reveal which ad agency placed the order for the ad on behalf of the Malaysian government in her paper. But if the Malaysian government has hired an ad agency, why is taxpayers’ money being used to promote Rosmah and an obscure award in the US, instead of the prime minister and the country?

Orang Sibu Malaysia, apa lagi lu mahu?

Perhaps, after the Sibu By-election yesterday, Najip would be asking this question as what Utusan meloya did after the hulu selangor election.

"Gua sudah janji sama lu 5 juta untuk kasi bikin itu banjir hilang, lu masih tak mahu sokong be-end kah? Itu banjir sudah lama ada, sekalang kita pikir semula mahu kasi lu atau tidak, sorilah, ok? nanti hujan mari, banjir lagi lu punya pasal loh"

"Itu gereja pun gua sudah bagi 1.7juta, rumah panjang orang Iban pun gua bagi 3 ratus setiap olang...."

"Itu cukai tanah cukai pintu pun harga sudah kasi turun, aduhai, apa lagi lu sibu orang mahu??

Do you believe that? Our PM is offering RM5 million deal for flood mitigation in Rejang Park, Sibu provided that BN win....

1. Doesn't it is the responsibility of the elected government of the day to take care of its own people? Should the flood mitigation has been done long ago and not wait till now?

2. Where does this RM5 million comes from? It is from Najib's own pocket or it is the taxpayer's money?

3. It is a 'deal' if bn wins.... isn't this blatant corruption and bribery in the broad daylight? Doesn't he feel ashamed as the PM of Malaysia? I myself felt disgraced and insulted with this offer. To remain in power, umno is stooping lower and lower in each election.....

Thank God, Sibu done the right thing. Well done to DAP and Pakatan Rakyat!

Ha, ha, Najib, thanks for your joke!

From Malaysiakini : PM to 'rethink' RM5 million deal for BN lost

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said he has yet to decide on a RM5 million allocation for flood mitigation projects in Rejang Park that he had offered Sibu voters Saturday night.

"We will see first, because we have not made any decision on that,” he told a press conference at the Official Monetary and Finance Institutions Forum today. On Saturday, Najib (right), who is also BN chairperson, announced in Sibu's Rajang Park that he would sign a cheque for flood mitigation projects in the area, provided Sibu voters “deliver” him BN candidate Robert Lau in the following day's polling. "Let's make a deal. If you deliver me Robert Lau Jr on Sunday, I will sign the cheque on Monday," he had said.

Lau lost to DAP's Wong Ho Leng with a slim 398 majority.

When asked if he thought Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud could be one of the reasons for the BN's loss, Najib said he "wouldn't want to speculate" on the matter.

Analysts had said many were aware of the unhappiness of Chinese voters in Sibu with their state chief minister.

Among the indications of this, they pointed out, was the sparseness of his posters in the urban areas during the campaign period.

Known as 'Pek Moh' (White Hair) by the locals, Taib (above, far left) has been the subject of much grumbling and frustrations over failures to tackle flood woes, poor economic management and the perceived consentration of wealth among a tiny elite.

'All commitments will be fulfilled'

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister and deputy BN chairperson Muhyiddin Yassin said the government would fulfill all the commitments it made during the by-election campaign. He stopped short, however, of commenting on whether the government will provide the funds for flood mitigation. "Whatever we announced will be fulfilled. We will continue with our commitments. "The (Sibu) by-election is not an ending note," he told told a brief press conference in Putrajaya.

This is what I want, Utusan Meloya!

With regards to your article published yesterday, April 28, 2010 in Utusan Malaysia Online – Rencana written by Zaini Hassan entitled “Orang Cina Malaysia, apa lagi yang anda mahu”?; I’m telling you NOW what I want and I believed many of Malaysians wanted too, whether they are ‘orang Cina Malaysia, orang Melayu Malaysia, orang India Malaysia or orang Kadazan, Iban, Melanau Malaysia that have voted for Pakatan Rakyat or BN in Ulu Selangor and in the past.

1. I want the government of the day to fulfill their responsibility and be accountable

I have been paying my tax dutifully for the past 15 years. Being as a tax payer, I expect the government of the day to fulfill their responsibility and be accountable to their own people. The government needs to manage the country to bring the greatest benefits to its entire people, from providing shelter, safety, healthcare to education and to ensure a positive and sustainable environment to live and work in.

For example, the duty of the police force is to prevent crimes and reduce crime rate in the country. With the empowerment given to them, shouldn’t they need to fulfill their duty diligently?

Are they supposed to hide somewhere on a busy traffic road hoping to catch someone who offended minor traffic offences while the mat rempit, the snatch theft cases, roadside robbery occur rampantly?

Wouldn't the police force be held accountable and answerable in the event that on Monday, April 27, 2010, 15 year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah was fatally shot by the police in Shah Alam, also Norizan Salleh, 30, who was shot 5 times by police along the MRR II in Gombak on Oct 30 last year? What about Kugan and many others who died in the police custody?

Wouldn't the MACC to fulfill the duty to investigate the Port Klang Free Trade Zone Scandal involving RM12.5 million, the RM3.7 billion submarine deals that links to Razak Baginda and Altantuya Shaariibuu, Khir Toyo’s RM2.3 million or RM23 million mansion in Shah Alam; instead of your ‘fishing expedition’ with the political assistant of opposing party till wee hours, ended with the death of Teoh Beng Hock?

Each day, we the tax payers are discovering more and more potential scandals, corruptions, abuse of power of the authorities that we as voters have elected into power.

Utusan Malaysia, do you expect we the tax payers and voters to continue to vote Umno and BN into power again and again even if they, the ruling party has fail miserably to take action against those in the authorities that not only failed their duty, they have abuse the power bestow to them by the Rakyat themselves?

2. I want a clean and efficient government

I want the authorities and government servant to be the Rakyat’s servant, to facilitate, support and help its’ people instead of putting more barriers, red tapes, difficulties to the people they serve, for some reasons we know best.

3. I want the best education and health system available for our children

This does not mean the best build schools or most modern hospitals. It means we shall reward the teachers, doctors, nurses and other professionals’ best and every effort taken to keep the best brain in Malaysia!

The 300,000 brain drain last year alone to other countries, means we are losing our best teachers, doctors, nurses, scientists, and other professionals to the world.

As such, how am I going to have the best education and health system for my children and future generation in Malaysia?

What have you, BN, done to chase away such an amount of talents and expertise?

Utusan Malaysia, do you expect me to vote for BN?

4. I want all Malaysians to be safe and to feel safe in their home country

Can my daughter, wife, mother or myself feel safe to take a taxi to work/to school or walk alone back home in the early morning or late evening without the fear of being rob, rape, kidnap or murdered?

Why the Rakyat have to pay every month from their own pocket to hire security guards in their residential areas to protect their family and properties? Am I feeling safe and secure?

The government of the day (BN) has failed even to provide the minimum standard of living – feeling safe and secure in their homeland for its Rakyat.

Utusan Malaysia, vote for BN? Seriously?

5. I want to be proud as a Malaysian!

With the news of women being cane in jail, murder case of Altantuya, sodomy charges against our ex-deputy PM and now Opposition leader, witness died in the authority’s custody, burning of churches, Perkasa’s Ibrahim Ali’s interview with Al Jazeera, purchased of submarine that can’t submerge and jet fighter that find its engine missing etceteras; it is getting difficult to show how proud I am as a Malaysian.

I want to tell the world that I am proud being a Malaysian, with its multi-ethnic, multi-cultural nation, a truly rainbow nation. I want to let the world known too that Malaysian have the best talent, best food and blessed with the best the nature could offer.

Utusan Malaysia, vote for BN? Again? You must be joking!

And stop calling us ‘orang Cina Malaysia’, we are all MALAYSIANS!