Your Opinion Does Not Matter
Whenever I write something controversial, I’ll be viewed as someone’s lackey. People always think that there is someone or several persons behind me who’d want me to write something as to hurt them.
Well, let me tell you this. I am my own person and no one has ever used me to do their dirty work. When I write I speak my mind.
I’m no one’s lackey and certainly not a puppet like some are.
Too bad I’m human and am in control of myself….unlike some.
Tun Ghafar Baba passed away this morning. He was 81 years old. He was the Deputy Prmie Minister of Malayisa from 1986 to 1993 when he was challenged by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim fot the UMNO’s Deputy President’s post and subsequebtly lost to the latter.
When Anwar was sacked from UMNO in September 1998, Ghafar was seen going around giving speeches and although many thought he would return to mainstream politics, he never made his mark as Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah could.
Although his life towards the end was shrouded in some personal controversies, Malaysians should remember him for his deeds as his political life spanned both pre-independence and post-independence.
The PX-class was the mainstay of the Royal Malaysian Police’s Marine Police Force from the 1960’s until the early 1980’s when 15 PZ-class patrol boats became the main patrol boats for the police. The PZ’s have now been seconded to the newly-formed Maritime Enforcement Agency, surrendering the throne back to the PX’s.
If I can remember clearly, the first PX-class I ever went on was the PX3 (then the wooden type built by Vosper Thornycroft of Singapore) in Penang. The rest were the PX 4, PX 9, PX 19, PX 21. Of the PZ’s, I was only on one: the PZ 4.
The PX 4 you see above was also built by Vosper Thornycroft of Singapore in 1976, steel-hulled and more powerful than its namesake predecessor. The last news of this particular PX 4 was back in July 1997 when together with the PX 19 and the Royal Malaysian Navy’ KD Gempita searched for survivors of an accident involving two Indonesian boats packed with 111 illegal immigrants near Pulau Undan. This PX 4 has since been replaced by a newer version built locally.
I have set my sights on this one and hopefully I’ll be able to purchase this one.
I might change its colour to bright orange.
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