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The below was taken from the blog of the ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia – Dr Mahathir Mohammad. This is the man that I respected for a long time.. although at times.. i donch see eye to eye with him. The thing that sparked my interest in Malaysia and made me sit up and take notice was the case of the Deputy Prime Minister – Sodomy Case.

My thoughts on the below..?? will there ever be a real investigation for corruption .. or will anti-corruption be enforced in Malaysia..?? i highly doubt so.. given that even the cops are heavily involved in it.

1. ACA, or Anti-Corruption Agency is now willing to investigate possible corruption based on newspaper reports.

2. It is now doing just that with regard to the huge bill for maintenance of Proton Perdana official cars used by the Terengganu Government.

3. This has prompted the Terengganu Menteri Besar to question why the very costly Monsoon Cup and the Islamic Theme Park have not been investigated.

4. Promptly the Trengganu ACA has decided to do just that.

5. I must congratulate the ACA for its seemingly independent response to complaints of corruption.

6. But I am a little bit disappointed when very quickly the Terengganu ACA stated that preliminary investigations have shown no element of bribery involved.

7. I do not think the ACA should be looking for evidence of bribery. As with the servicing charges for Proton Perdana, ACA should be looking for the cost of the projects, whether reasonable or not. It should also look into how the contracts were awarded and to whom.

8. I know a lot of Terengganu people have complained about the projects. Seems that almost all the contractors and sub-contractors were from outside Terengganu. Could it be that there are no capable contractors in Terengganu.

9. I was on the verge of asking the ACA to investigate Proton’s sale of M.V. Agusta, which it bought for 72 million Euro but sold for just 1 Euro. We all know that the unknown buyer who paid 1 Euro then sold M.V. Agusta for a total of 160 million Euro.

10. Proton then claimed that by selling M.V. Agusta at 1 Euro it made 107 million Euro (M.V. Agusta’s debts).

11. As one of the commentators on my blog says, he smells fish, a dead one.

12. But I hesitate to ask the ACA to investigate in case preliminary investigation shows no wrong doing.

Source : http://test.chedet.com/che_det/

Now this is really coffee news.. if you asked me.. muahahha!! but i think he deserved to be fired.. don’t you think..?? for demanding coffee .. from the local starbucks.. and cutting queue.. and threatening of slow response.. if they donch give him free coffee..!!!  Police officers are supposed to be enforcing the law. .and not breaking them. .and abusing their power.

Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran, was fired July 8 .. over FREE coffee..!! what a shame..!! shame on him i mean..!! for making the police force looked so el cheapo..!!  I hope .. this will send a message to all police officers around the world.. and not just Daytona..  or the United States.

Bizarre is the understatement word i have right here.. and wanna bitch slap the mother of this 2 yrs old.  If my daughter was missing 24hrs.. the whole of Canada.. will know it..!!  for not reporting that your daughter was missing for 31 days.. this mother should be shot..!!  BIG TIME..AND WHIPPED..!!

You think i am harsh..???  i think not..!! the 2 years old is probably dead now.. !!  if she was kidnapped.. or taken away by an unknown..! what was the mother thinking..?? and what were the grandparents thinking too.  Read more about it here.

I counted about at least 100 artistes from both Hong Kong and China.. is involved in this theme song for the olympics held in Beijing this year. It’s an awesome song.. and one cannot feel proud and being a chinese.. even though i am not from China.

I guessed the Canadians don’t only love their lobsters for eating.. they truly loved their lobsters..!! Big Dee Dee is the name of the 100 years old lobster.. said to be auction off.. and into the boiling waters.. it will go.  but Canadians are pooling their money together..and signing a petition for the 100 yrs old to be returned to the waters.  We’ll have to watch and see what happens to Big Dee Dee eh.

Shocking is the understatement here..!  Today I learned that Zellers.. one of the biggest retailer all over Canada is not Canadian owned but owned by an American Company.  Expanding and revamping the existing store is in their agenda right now.  I heard that Zellers was sold for $1.1 billion and the new owners are those that already owned Lord & Taylor.

Now that we have Walmart in town. .i wonder if the new owners.. will close this store here.. for the town cannot support 2 big boys. The mall may be losing their anchor tenant.. and Walmart may really be driving Zellers out totally from Yarmouth. Not fun..!

Yes.. shocking as it might be for some.. Air Canada.. had been going down the drain.. financially. For someone who have had traveled Air Canada.. many a times.. i wouldn’t say.. that the flight attendants were the best.. but they do their job..  but what else do you expect right..??  Asian hospitality.. ?? like those of Singapore Airlines..?? no way.. they were just not trained this way.

Anyhow.. Air Canada is planning on shutting down the Halifax base.. by Nov 1st of this year.  Halifax is pretty closed to my heart.. so it’s hard not to notice the news.. nor not say anything about it. 200 jobs will be lost.. and air canada’s employee protested .. and insisted they donch wanna leave their homes.  I donch blame them… who would.  So with the losing of jobs.. does it means.. that the government have to fork out more money for unemployement..??  Now wouldn’t you think the government would work something out .. with Air Canada..?? afterall, they still have to pay unemployment for a year or so .. to these ppl..??  But knowing the Canadian system.. i bet .. they wouldn’t even think of moving forward.. and lending a hand.. ! too much work.. and not within the norm eh..??

Well.. the Pope is leaving Rome today to Australia to attend the Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Youth events.  Australians will get a glimpse of the honourable.. but not us in canada i guess.  His entourage and journalist are flown privately on a chartered plane.  Lucky pope eh..!  i thought this religious people are supposed to live frugally..?? no..??  Since election in 2005 .. the pope has already had 9 trips out of italy.