Hikayat Seorang Maling Yang Membuat Aku Nak Muntahkan Semula Breakfast Ku

Eh, jatuh logo ni?

Kau berleter tak habis-habis. Perpaduan itu penting kata engkau. Kesetiaan kepada pemimpin itu penting kata engkau.

Aku hanya mendengar kebodohan engkau itu sambil mencungkil bawang dari roti telur yang tersangkut dicelah gigiku. Aku malas nak layan kebodohan engkau itu kerana perkataan-perkataan yang bakal keluar dari mulutku untuk menggambarkan ahli-ahli seperti engkau hanya akan membuat novel The Catcher In The Rye bagai sebuah buku yang digunakan di Tadika KEMAS dan dibaca oleh rata-rata kanak-kanak Ribena.

Parti ini dibelenggu dengan sel-sel barah dalam bentuk orang-orang yang mencantas mereka-mereka yang mempunyai potensi untuk membawa parti ke satu tahap yang lebih baik. Akibat pencantasan ini maka yang hidup dan berjawatan hanyalah mereka-mereka yang umpama barangan buangan dalam tong-tong berwarna biru, perang dan hijau.

Kau tak habis-habis memuji mereka-mereka yang merosakkan parti dengan memperlakukan ia bagai hak milik persendirian. Lama kelamaan aku sendiri naik mual dengan perkataan-perkataan yang kau luahkan. Aku rasa, kalau aku kasi engkau sebatang straw, besar kemungkinan kau akan gunakannya untuk menyedut isi-isi dari dalam bontot mereka-mereka yang kau puji itu, atau dalam erti kata lain, kata orang kampungku, sucking up people’s ass.

Sudahlah. Perpaduan apa yang kau nak? Adakah kesetiaan yang kau laung-laungkan itu untuk menyelamatkan bontot mereka-mereka yang berpegang kepada jawatan kerana ianya merupakan tiket untuk membuat lebih banyak wang? Aku tidak pernah bertuhankan wang, jadi aku tidak takut kalah. Bak pepatah orang kampungku: a man who has nothing has nothing to lose.

Lawan tetap lawan, kata aku kembali sambil berlalu dari situ tanpa membayar.

Kau kan banyak duit projek yang kau dapat sebab kau terer mengampu. Kau bayarlah.

Pak Lah Is Betraying The Spirit Of UMNO

That must have been the strongest title ever. I know Pak Lah saved my bacon and that of my North Pole team mates when Anwar and his people abandoned us at the mercy of the Russian mafia back in 1998, it was at the then-Ambassador to Russia’s office that we sought the help of Pak Lah, whom I used to regard as my ‘Jack Ryan’, after Tom Clancy’s alter ego in his novel “Clear And Present Danger.”

When he spoke out against Al Gore’s coarseness and rudeness during the APEC meeting, everyone supporting the BN then thought he was the man for the DPM’s job.

Pak Lah was with my father (who was the police’s representative) in the National Operations Council together with former Chief of Armed Forces, Tan Sri Ghazali Che Mat, and Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Khoo Kay Kim, in helping the late Tun Abdul Razak bring peace back and Malaysians together after the 13th May tragedy that we all so want to put behind.

However, the Pak Lah that I have written about above, is no longer there. The person I see now is a person metamorphosised into a giant monster bug bent on eating everything in its path.

UMNO was formed because of several things:

FASAL 3

ASAS DAN TUJUAN

UMNO adalah sebuah parti politik yang berjuang mendukung cita-cita
kebangsaan Melayu demi mengekalkan maruh dan martabat bangsa, agama
dan negara.

3.1 Mempertahankan kemerdekaan dan kedaulatan negara.

3.2 Mendukung dan mempertahankan Perlembagaan Negara, Perlembagaan
Negeri-negeri dan Raja Berpelembagaan.

3.3 Menegak, mempertahan dan mengembangkan Islam, agama rasmi
negara serta menghormati prinsip kebangsaan beragama.

3.4 Mempertahankan kedaulatan rakyat dan keadilan sosial dengan
mengamalkan Sistem Pemerintahan Demokrasi Berparlimen serta
memajukan ekonomi rakyat Melayu dan Bumiputera khasnya dan rakyat
Malaysia amnya.

3.5 Menjamin kedudukan Bahasa Kebangsaan (Bahasa Melayu) sebagai
bahasa rasmi yang tunggal dan Kebudayaan Kebangsaan yang berteraskan
Kebudayaan Melayu.

3.6 Mewujudkan kerjasama antara kaum bagi melahirkan satu bangsa
Malaysia yang kuat dan bersatu berasaskan kepada hak-hak Asasi
Manusia dan Hak-Hak Istimewa Orang Melayu dan Bumiputera.

If Para 3.2 is the spirit behind the formation of UMNO, then Pak Lah should know that he is going against the Federal, States and party constitutions. This goes to the same people who put out a banner in protest of the appointment of Ahmad Said as the Menteri Besar of Terengganu saying, “KAMI MAHU IDRIS, NATANG” (We want Idris, Animals). Who are these “Animals” that they were referring to? The palace institution? Someone in Terengganu ought to have lodged a police report for lèse majesté and maybe see if that applies to Pak Lah as well. A copy of this report should also be forwarded to Hishamuddin and his dark-skinned deputy, and tell them this is the time to draw out the keris and start poking it into the anus of the traitors of the Malay cause.

Why am I so uptight about this?

Although I am an UMNO member, I am first and foremost still an officer holding the King’s Commission; therefore I am still a soldier although I have completed my duration of service. My loyalty has always been to the Palace Institution bar any extreme irregularities that may or may have been committed by any of its members. I am not loyal to any political person(s) as those serving the country in political posts were voted in by the people to represent them in managing the country. In short, the people (rakyat) are the bosses and ministers are just our servants. When our housemaid do not perform, we fire them.

As someone mentioned to me last night, “That idea of yours of a military coup seems palatable now.”

The Perils Of Buying A Wife’s Birthday Present

Baby, I hope you’ll only ask for simple gifts from me.

A wife told the husband that she would like something that can go from 0-100 in under 4 seconds.

She was hoping he’d buy her something like this:

Car

However, the husband bought her this:

Scale

The husband is still in ICU in a critical but stable condition.

Swing Bowl

Mangkuk = Bowl

Pukul 2 pagi.

Aku baru sahaja melantak dua pinggan nasi lemak sejuk bersama petai masak tempoyak dan sambal telur yang aku jumpa dalam peti ais sebentar tadi. Biarpun mata terasa amat berat namun panggilan perut mendapat keutamaan.

Aku gemar membaca.

Perangai ini aku perolehi daripada orang tuaku. Beliau pada suatu masa dahulu amat gemar membaca sambil makan. Jadi aku yang lebih kurang berumur 11 tahun ketika itu cubalah membaca akhbar Malay Mail sambil aku makan tengahari. Sehingga kini, tabiat tersebut masih aku lakukan, terutamanya jika aku makan seorang diri. Aku dapati diriku selalu dahagakan maklumat dan perlu membaca sesuatu, terutamanya semasa makan, dan tabiat ini juga menular sehingga semasa aku membuang air besar. Aku akan membaca apa sahaja ketika di dalam jamban. Kegemaran aku adalah majalah berkenaan dengan pertahanan, selam skuba, atau buku-buku panduan, surat khabar dan sebagainya. Hinggakan walaupun kata orang kepala taik dah muncul, aku tetap tidak akan memulakan pekerjaan besar tersebut tanpa membaca sesuatu. Maka akan aku capai botol syampu, ubat gigi dan apa sahaja yang mempunyai sebarang tulisan di atasnya. Barulah dapat aku lakukan yang sepatutnya.

Berbalik kepada tajuk: Mangkuk Ayun.

Pada firasat saya, ayat ini adalah gabungan dua patah perkataan, iaitu, MANGKUK: sebuah bekas yang tepinya tinggi, biasanya digunakan untuk bahan berkuah; dan, HAYUN: yang membawa maksud, sesuatu perbuatan yang membuaikan sesuatu tanpa suatu arah yang khusus. Menurut Kamus Melayu Bongok Edisi Keempat keluaran Dewan Bahasa dan Puaka, gabungan perkataan-perkatan tersebut adalah berbaur lucah. MANGKUK disamakan dengan kemaluan wanita, dan HAYUN pula membawa maksud perbuatan tujah-menujah yang biasa dilakukan oleh orang lelaki semasa melakukan jimak. Maka ayat tersebut membawa erti seseorang yang kegunaannya hanyalah untuk memuaskan nafsu semata-mata. Dalam ertikata yang lain, dianya adalah seorang yang tidak berguna.

Di manakah hubung-kait MANGKUK AYUN dan MEMBACA?

Sedang saya membalun nasi lemak tanpa belas kasihan sebentar tadi, saya terbaca akan sebab-sebab perletakan jawatan yang diberikan oleh Tan Sri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad dan mendapati sebab-musabbab yang diberikan hanya layak dilafazkan oleh sesuatu MANGKUK AYUN. Masakan (masa-kan…bukan masakan untuk makan) tiada jawatan dalam barisan jemaah menteri bermakna beliau tidak boleh bertugas dengan baik sebagai Setiausaha Agung UMNO dan BN? Apa kena-mengena jawatan sebagai menteri dengan jawatan dalam parti? Maka nampak sangatlah MANGKUK AYUN ini terlalu mementingkan jawatan sebagai menteri daripada jawatan dalam parti. Maka dapat disimpulkan di sini bahawa beliau berpolitik untuk kepentingan diri sendiri dan bukannya untuk parti.

Dengan itu, saya hanya ada suatu ayat untuk beliau seperti berikut:

“PADAN DENGAN MUKA PUNGKOQ HANG! MANGKUK AYUN! NAK JADI MB PEGHELIH TAK DAPAT, JADI MENTEGHI PUN DAK. PI BALIK KANGAQ JUAI AIYAQ NIGHA DENGAN PULUIK SAMBAI!”

Bak kata orang Hokkien:

“LAM PAH PAH LAN!”

She’s Got Balls

When I saw the photo below, it reminded me of a song by AC/DC:

She’s got style that woman
Makes me smile that woman
She’s got spunk that woman
Funk that woman
She’s got speed my babe
Got what I need my babe
She’s got the ability
To make a man outta me

But most important of all
Let me tell ya
The lady’s got balls
She’s got balls

Miss Phuket???

Also Stumm Zarathustra

Arthur C Clarke is dead

Thus silenced Zarathustra.

Just as I began to harbour this secret thought of learning the arts of space travel without having to turn gay or have the government sponsor my trip, my guru, Arthur C Clarke, famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died. This is definitely a sad moment for Friedrich Nietzche’s apprentices worldwide.

I don’t know if Clarke was ever a Nietzchean, but when they made 2001: A Space Odyssey a movie, they used Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra a.k.a Thus Spoke Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, its theme song. Strauss wrote that score based on Nietzche’s book of the same title.

So, without space travel, I will now never know if God really is dead, or if Superman (depicted as Übermensch) exists, or if Hillary Clinton actually have a video tape of Monica Lewinsky smoking a Bill Clinton cigar.

And Elvis will never get that free ride back home to Earth after being kidnapped by aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Ribut Yang Menghempas Denai Tidak Berupaya Mengubah Pasar Chow Kit

Sedang aku meniarap melayani petikan daripada Yoshida Brothers dan lagu ributnya, aku mula terkenang akan suatu masa dahulu di mana bernaung aku di bawah puing-puing kehidupan umpama tangan atau jari atau kepala seorang pengebom bunuh diri di sebuah pekan berhabuk bernama Falluja di mana agaknya memberi Fellatio kepada diri sendiri merupakan satu method of escapism bagi mereka-mereka yang tidak mempunyai peti televisyen untuk menonton Star Trek: The Next Generation untuk melihat raja perempuan Borg bernama Collective dan buah dada yang membonjol akibat ingin melepaskan diri masing-masing dari dalam baju yang ketat itu. Mungkin pada asalnya Gene Rodenberry ingin mengutarakan para pendapat hak milik Freiderich Nietzche; akan tetapi revolusi bunga-bungaan sekitar tahun 1960-an telah membangkitkan naluri syahwatnya dan mula melencong ke arah Sigmund Freud pula.

Di luar sana titis-titis hujan sudah lama berhenti dari membasahi bumi yang arid disebabkan proses kegondolan yang dilaksanakan di bawah pemerintahan seorang budak Jawa berambut putih berpipikan Botox yang sering kelihatan memegang penyapu tetapi kini begitu sepi dan lebih sepi dari adik Sharlinie yang posternya masih segar ditampal di serata bumi yang tiada belas kasihan ini. Longkang yang dahulunya sungai yang dihidupi mergasatwa marine kini kaya dengan bahan galian yang terhakis, seraya mempromosi minuman kegemaran rakyat Malaysia, iaitu teh tarik, yang mungkin juga telah memainkan peranan menambahkan berat badanku sebanyak 15 kilogram sejak tahun 1990.

Aku masih berada dalam keadaan seperti mencapai nirvana tetapi otakku ini berasa begitu buntu; malah lebih buntu daripada otak Pak Lah yang terpaksa diperah untuk membentuk sebuah kabinet yang mungkin berfungsi persis sebuah kabinet dapur yang tidak lain tidak bukan hanyalah tempat menyimpan barangan dan tiada kegunaan lain untuk mereka. Tetapi mungkin juga kebuntuan otak Pak Lah kini adalah satu hikmah kerana beliau seumpama tiada mempunyai sebarang sel di antara kedua-dua telinga beliau pra-PRU 12.

Mungkin nukilanku kali ini membawa lebih penyakit darah tinggi mahupun migraine bagi sesetengah pembaca, malah mungkin ada juga yang terkencing dalam seluar. Hakikatnya, sesekali perlu aku meluahkan perasaanku dalam bahasa yang agak normal.

Biarlah aku mengundur diri buat kali ini dan menyorok di bawah perdu pohon taugeh.

The One I Wanted To Vote For

Maimun Yusuf a.k.a Tok Mun

I would have voted for her – Maimun Yusuf a.k.a Tok Mun. This 89-year old lady raised her own money to fight a cause she believes in. In the picture above, she is seen proudly holding the flag of Terengganu and the only paper qualification she has is a participating certificate of civil society conference by state government long time ago. It means you don’t have to be from the Keneddy family to participate in democracy.

Tok Mun's house

See the way she lives. That is her house up there. Had she become the PM, people like Ibrahim Ali, Tengku Adnan Mansor, Samy Vellu, and myself included would have been a lot slimmer because she goes around on her bicycle only, thus nullifying the Opposition’s (depending which state you live in now) claims that it can bring down toll rates, fuel prices, and better healthcare facilities. With a lifestyle like hers, who needs fuel, toll and medicine? At 89 years of age, she is a living proof.

Tok Mun campaigning

She goes campaigning herself, there was hardly anyone to help her.

Tok Mun campaigning

Her election poster:

Her election poster

Sadly, although she managed to garner the support from over 600 voters, she has lost her deposit of RM10K. She spent a further RM4K in making posters, banners and flyers for herself, and for campaigning.

If you think this gutsy old lady deserves your support financially to get her back on her feet, you can visit her website.

Seriously, I admire this old lady for her courage, and her beliefs.

Teknologi Maklumat Terkini

I was inspired by DNAS’s latest posting which is in malay, I shall try as much as I can to use pure malay in this posting. However, I cannot recall the malay version of technology, as the malays were backwards until they learnt the word “technology”:

Duduk aku di sini sambil menatap layar komputer ini dan mula mengimbau akan kegunaan teknologi maklumat semasa kempen pilihanraya umum yang baru lepas. Ini menunjukkan bahawa cara para calon berceramah tidak lagi terhad kepada ceramah umum yang sering kita lihat.

Saya mula menggunakan sebuah komputer pada tahun 1982; ketika itu kami di Sekolah Melayu Jalan Stesen di Kuala Kangsar sedang dalam percubaan untuk menubuhkan kelab komputer kami sendiri. Di antara komputer terawal yang kami gunakan adalah dari jenis Sinclair ZX Spectrum yang mempunyai ingatan-baca sahaja sebanyak 16 ribu byte (16KB) dan memerlukan kami menggunakan bahasa BASIC. Dengan komputer tersebutlah kami membuat tatacara-tatacara dalam bahasa tersebut dan menghantar satu salinan tatacara tersebut kepada penerbit majalah komputer di Kerajaan Bersatu. Biasanya salinan tersebut dibuat menggunakan susunan lewah cakera bebas seperti pita kaset yang biasa dapat dilihat sehingga awal tahun 1990-an.

Kemudian, sekitar tahun 1984, semasa saya melanjutkan pengajian saya di Kerajaan Bersatu saya telah membeli sebuah komputer rumah jenis Commodore 64 yang mempunyai ingatan baca sahaja sebanyak 64 ribu byte (64KB). Untuk bermain sebarang permainan, anda memerlukan sebuah batang ria untuk mengendalikan permainan tersebut.

Kini, komputer rumah adalah berjuta kali ganda lebih berkuasa daripada apa yang pernah saya perolehi lebih suku abad yang lalu. Ia juga boleh melakukan tugasan pelbagai dan memudahkan kerja seseorang pengguna di samping menjadi lebih mesra pengguna.

Walau bagaimanapun, saya kini sedang menulis cataring ini dari sebuah kedai kopi siber di Subang Jaya kerana saya telah berjaya merosakkan sebanyak dua buah komputer peribadi jenis buku catitan dalam masa 3 bulan. Itu mungkin merupakan satu kejayaan peribadi yang tidak bangun membuat, malah bangun kena buat.

Apa-apapun, saya amat berharap agar Jazzmatazzed tidak terkencing membaca cataring ini.

Sekian, alif ba ta wassalammu.

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Translations:

Ingatan-Baca-Sahaja – Read-Only Memory (ROM)

Tatacara-Tatacara – Programs

Kerajaan Bersatu – United Kingdom

Susunan Lewah Cakera Bebas – Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)

Komputer Rumah – Home Computer

Tugasan Pelbagai – Multitasking

Pengguna – User

Mesra Pengguna – User Friendly

Cataring – Blog

Kedai Kopi Siber – Cybercafe

Buku Catitan – Notebook

Bangun Membuat – Active

Bangun Kena Buat – Passive

On The Other Side Of The Fence

I wrote this on one of UMNO forums today, in light of the massive defeat of the BN in the 12th General Elections:

For the first time in most our our lives, we are now an Opposition in what we have always believed to be “our safe state.” PJ Utara is now dominated by the Opposition…and even the MCA giant like Chew Mei Fun has crumbled. At 4pm when I went to SS2, I met Chew Mei Fun’s polling agent, Stevie Ho Leh Jan, who is a personal friend of mine, at the voting center, and he told me only 15.9% had turned out a at 2pm. My original reading nationally was 46% for BN, 16% for the Opposition, and 38% undecided. When the turnout figure changed drastically between 3pm to 5pm, I knew that the silent 38% were out to speak out with deafening silence.

In many areas, the BK5 process failed, our perayu undi failed, our K10 failed – we did not do our work properly, and we were eager to show good results and process to the former MB, just to please him, but failed to read the underlying current. We became complacent and hardly went out to woo voters thinking, “It’s an MCA seat, so we don’t have to work so hard.” As Chaucer would have said, “Padan dengan muka. (serves you right)”

Looking at the results of the whole nation’s elections process, I belive PKR has only made it because it has this pact with the DAP. The DAP is the real champ in this sense. The BN = Barang Naik war cry of the PKR only appeals to the urban malays and less-informed chinese; it was more the DAP’s “Let’s vote for change” and “A vote for MCA is a vote for UMNO” banners that made the impact.

We hit back in Penang and said that “A vote for DAP is a vote for PAS”; so the chinese stayed away from voting PAS but gave DAP and PKR their vote.

Sad to say, but as what I have been saying all along, political chauvinism is NOT the way to win votes. Going back to the issue of Klang Municipal councillors from the MCA refusing to wear the exhorbitantly expensive robes for meetings, or the RM2K baju melayu/baju kurung; and the state UMNO’s reaction, ws the start to it all. All this I have written here 4-5 years ago, but went unheeded. We always speak of “Ketuanan Melayu”: that other races have no right to question us and that our rights should be respected; but we always forget the fact that respect is to be earned and commanded; respect cannot be demanded or forced upon. The chinese, too, pay taxes as we do, and deserve the same rights and privileges that we malays enjoy.

The non-malays post May-1969 may understand the need to address socio-economic gaps, but 40 years on, again as I have mentioned several times here and during meetings, that we malays should learn to do away with being spoon-fed, and do away with inequalities in our policies. There are certain aspects that can be protected, but in the end it is always we ourselves that complain about the malays Ali Baba-ing contracts out to the chinese. And we always fail to point to ourselves of our incompetencies, because of our chauvinistic attitude.

We say that we, as Muslims, earn the right to buikd osques and suraus everywhere, and allow the Christians to build churches in a housing area only if the housing area is of a certain acreage; but our developers will always circumvent this requirement by developing housing areas that have less acreage, leaving the Christians with no choice but to rent shoplots and convert them into small assemblies. How Islamic is that when Muhammad (pbuh) himself decreed that Muslim soldiers, after facing the Romans, should help rebuild and repair damaged churches in areas held by the Muslims?

We claim to have a coalition with our non-malay partners; but what we actually have is a coalition where we tell each other, “You do what you want to do and do not step on us, but we have the right to step all over you.” Can you blame the chinese for rejecting the MCA and GERAKAN for this?

Last year, I was called back from semi-retirement to help out in Ijok where, although is a malay majority area, the Indian community call the shots. We parachuted in an Indian candidate to defend the seat against PKR’s malay. The Indians were in the unenviable position of being politically-marginalised both by the local MIC, and also by the other community members. The malays however, did not want to see another Indian candidate. I had to go from house to house to address grouses, versus the original plan of asking me to give ceramahs. I was glad that Saudara Asrul, with the blessing of Saudara Azli, with a few more members of the Pemuda UMNO PJU, could help me, learnt the ropes, and conducted the same process on their own having watched me on two occassions.

We won Ijok. And because we felt safe, and complacent, and because someone agreed to let a friend run for elections there, decided to remove the Indian representative there back to Kuala Selangor and put a malay in an already divided malay community; and failed to read the situation in the field. No thanks to, again, our political-chauvinism that caused the HINDRAF to react, the Hindus felt they have been taken for a ride when they had to give up their MIC seat to UMNO, and decided to vote against the BN. You can look at the figures and see for yourself that it was the Indian votes, coupled with the anti-UMNO malays, and the chinese who voted for change, that caused the demise of BN in Ijok.

UMNO will have to wake up. The malays can no longer think that they own this land. Around 70 percent of the current voters were all Malaysian-born, and do not remember what May 1969 was all about. They can no longer be swayed by the appearance of steamrollers and hard-working JKR contractors tarring the roads and so on. The malays will have to have a retrospection and see where they now stand after 40 years of being spoon-fed like spastics.

If UMNO wants to remain relevant, it should stop fighting only for the cause of the malays. Maybe Dato’ Onn Jaafar’s original idea of forming UMNO was right – it was meant to be a party for all races.

But chauvinism almost killed it.