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172 pages

28 000 words

150 000 characters

3 years and 3 months of writing

1 great story!

To the world, I present you : Suleiman The Lion I : The Tiger Trail

What I really think…

One of the bush fire wars away from the main theatre of war between the Barisan Nasional and the Pakatan Rakyat is the issue of whether the Communist Party of Malaya’s (CPM) former leader, Chin Peng (his real name being Ong Boon Huat) is to be allowed to return home or not.

I’m sick, so I’m not going to write a whole essay on this. So I’m going to make it as short as possible.

All-in-all, I think that Chin peng should be allowed back to Malaysia.

Why?

Firstly, is it his right to do so under the 1989 Agreement Between The Government Of Malaysia And The Communist Party Of Malaya To Terminate Hostilities.

Secondly, for Allah’s sake, he’s an old man. Let’s just forgive him and get on with it. He did take up arms to fight against the British colonialists (which a certain ruling party/coalition certainly didn’t) and he did profess to have an undying love for the country. Besides, what danger does he have to Malaysia?

From what I found of the 1989 Agreement from the James Wong’s site : http://jameswongwingon-online.blogspot.com/2006/12/1989-malaysia-cpm-peace-accords-in.html, all CPM members (my emphasis) are allowed to return to Malaysia.

Article 3.1 explicitly states that “Members of the Communist Party of Malaya and members of its disbanded armed units, who are of Malaysian origin and who wish to settle down in MALAYSIA, shall be allowed to do so in accordance with the laws of Malaysia”, while Article 4 reads “With regard to Article 3, the Malaysian authorities shall assist members of the Communist Party of Malaya and members of its disbanded armed units in order to help them to start their peaceful life afresh.”

Even more amazingly, in Article 3.2 actually states that “Members of the Communist Party of Malaya and members of its disbanded armed units, who are not of Malaysian origin, may be allowed to settle down in MALAYSIA in accordance with the laws of MALAYSIA, if they so desire.”

(All the emphasis to the articles above are mine)

This means that all CPM members regardsless of whether they were even Malaysian or not in the first place are hence allowed to settle and start a life in Malaysia. There should be no legal or political obstacles to this in any way.

However, statements from the Government that Chin Peng will never be allowed in Malaysia and the reasons that accompany them show the nature of the UMNO Government of deciding to play politics with an agreement that is explicit in black and white.  An old man is now a pawn in a political fire fight. How low can they go?

It also dents Malaysia’s credibility abroad. How would anyone trust us now to sign agreements with them and expect them to be honoured? Not to mention from an Islamic perspective. Isn’t it un-Islamic -or for that matter even munafik- to say something but do something else?

Let’s not make this into another race issue, as just about everything in Malaysia seems to be whether genuine or not. Let’s get past this. Let him come back. Malaysia, I believe at large has forgiven him.

May 7th 2009 : Perak’s Day Of Infamy

 

Firstly, no, I you’re not dreaming. Secondly, no, I didn’t doctor the pictures. Thirdly, yes, those events actually did happen.

Actually many other things did happen. Many, many, many other things that would make any sane and rational-minded Malaysian cringe in shame. But the icing on the cake – so to speak – was the enterance of  plainclothes policemen into the State Legislative Assembly and dragged the Speaker out by force, something that seemingly reeks of events that one would usually believe only occurs in dead-in-the-ground countries in a continent call Africa.

Actually, I think I’m being generous. I think even Sani Abacha, Mobutu Sese Seko, Idi Amin and Robert Mugabe would actually look at us in awe at the way everybody ”official” handled the Perak State Legislative Assembly today. Hey, we’ve always said ”Malaysia Boleh” right? Well, looks like we really “Boleh”.

Everything that happened today in the House was wrong. The swearing in of a new Speaker (using procedures that are clearly illegal by the way), the refusal of the Seargent-At-Arms to abide by the Speakers orders, the refusal of entry to people invited by the Speaker and the ultimate, the forceful eviction of the Speaker by people not authorised to enter has shown that the Barisan Nasional will use whatever means to not only get to power, but to cling on to power as well.

This is a huge disgrace to our country and it has shown that something is fundementally wrong with the way this country is being run. The fact that these events could actually happen alone shows to us that our new Prime Minister Najib Tun Abdul Razak is in no way a great reformer and he would like to think himself to be.

Instead, he is leading us to destruction and pariah-ism.  Todays event has told us one thing : We’re finished, we’re doomed. Unless we do something about it, it’s game over for Malaysia.

P059 Bukit Gantang : An icon is born

Dato' Seri Ir. Hj. Mohammad Nizar bin Jamaluddin

It’s very difficult to argue against the fact that Perak Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Ir. Hj. Mohammad Nizar bin Jamaluddin is fast becoming an icon for the people of his home state (and mine too!) Perak Darul Ridzuan.

His victory in the P059 Bukit Gantang by-elections -which was triggered by the death of it’s previous MP, his party college Hj. Roslan Shaharun in Febuary- when he defeated the Barisan Nasional’s Ismail bin Saffian with an increased majority than one sealed by the late Roslan in March 2008.

Nizar polled 21 860 votes to Ismail’s 19 071 with an Independant candidate Kamarul Ramizu Idris securing a mere 62 votes. With the even larger majority of 2 789 votes,  the Pasir Panjang State Legislative Council member has underscored the paradigm shift sweeping across the country that UMNO is fast becoming irrelevant and that the rakyat are demanding a fairer, corruption-free administration and less racially inclined governence.

While admittedly a risk putting Nizar in Bukit Gantang in the first place, since Bukit Gantang has perpetually been a Alliance and subsequently Barisan stronghold since 1955 until last year’s election, the risk paid off handsomely and Nizar is now set to set Malaysia’s Dewan Rakyat on fire.

All in all, congratulations to Nizar and I hope that this election will be a wakeup call to Barisan’s Gerakan and PPP to seriously re-evaluate their position in the coalition. UMNO, MCA and MIC are symbols of the past, a past that is long gone and shall never return. The days when UMNO, MCA and MIC were real good parties is over and what is left is a souless entity drifting through the passage of time.

I’m particularly fond of the PPP, a party which is in all honesty, a wonderful close-kit party with a family-like atmosphere but until they ditch the Barisan, the once proud party that nearly captured the Perak government in 1969 will be confined to footnotes in history.

Gerakan too has to realise that an UMNO, MCA and MIC-led Barisan is not a viable entity anymore and the best is to pull out of it. Until this happens, these two parties will find it very difficult to rise and win back the educated and urban rakyat once again.

Wait for a while more folks..

Hey folks, those who were waiting for my Stargate fanfic, Stargate : Andromeda, will have to wait a while more, at least till May 1st. I’m sorry but this delay is inevitable.

I’m busy with Suleiman The Lion, which as up to the time of writing is 99% done and has so far clocked up nearly 160 pages, 26 306 words and more than 120 000 characters. At the same time, my study loan which will carry me to The Lost Continent is also taking up my time and I won’t want anything else to get in my way.

I do have a story to tell (in Stargate : Andromeda) but the timing is very bad at this point. I’ll be back up and writing as soon as I finish up all my messy business.

I’m Innocent!

For those who know me close enough, she’s one of the few celebrities who drive me wild and for those who really really know me, My Best Friend (MBF) included, they would know I’ve been talking about the fact that she’s -now apparently used to be- 175cm tall and thus 1cm taller than me. If you’ve failed Maths and can’t seem to count, I’m 174cm tall.

Not that I find it a disaster. I happen to find some older women -as old as 40-something, but that’s another story- really hot and I do find tall/taller women particularly attractive. Not that I’m going to explain why, it’s my little secret..haha. Not even MBF can pry that out of the confines of my brain.

Anyway, apparently, Chi Ling has shrunk 1cm to be parity with my height so in case of any controversy, I would like to hereby deny that I’m responsible for the editing of the Wikipedia account. I would like to state that I would be wild about Lin Chi-Ling no matter what height, age or nationality she is.

And if you find this post of mine absolute nonsense, it is. I’m just passing my time = )

Back to high gear

Finally! Suleiman The Lion : The Tiger Trail kicks back to high gear. After several weeks at low gear and a slight brain jam due to my study things and some other issues.

With me now at the penultimate scene titled Search And Rescue, things are really getting crazy and fun. This scene is going to be pretty long and I estimate will alone take between 8000 – 20000 words, depending on how I decide to write it. But I hope to,  Insya Allah, finish the whole thing this week.

Boris now has some new stuff and my writing is getting better. Pretty much using my brain at 100% capacity right now and I’m really pressing down the accelerator as I’m trying to bring the thing that started on the evening of January 7th 2006 somewhere just in front of the Hindu temple leading to the Spritzer water processing plant in Ayer Kuning to an end.

I wrote just under 2500 words last night, bringing the total movie script to about 15 200 words compromising about 63 000 characters, pretty much the longest single thing I’ve ever written.

How I feel right now? Cruising on the NSE at 240kmph (hey, I do know the speed limit!) in a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano with the wind blowing hard on my face. The best feeling in the world!!

Gear 6 is on, I’m going faster, faster, faster..woooooohie!

I love this!!

I love this cover version of Paul Anka’s song Times Of Your Life. She’s a really talented singer. The video’s cool too but I somehow feel Joanna Wang could have sung it a bit better. However it still doesn’t deviate from the fact that she did a really good job on this one. Looking forward to hearing more from her.

EVERYONE! Get to the Perak MB’s house ASAP!

Okay people, this is it! Everyone, GET TO THE PERAK MENTERI BESAR’S HOUSE ASAP!

Our beloved Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Ir. Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin is currently holed up there to prevent the Barisan Nasional from illegally taking over and we need your help! We plan to hole up there till the Sultan dissolves the Dewan Undangan Negeri (State Assembly) and calls for new elections in accordance with the wishes of the people of the state of Perak Darul Ridzuan.

So people, please please please join us and hole up in his residence. Dato’ Nizar is holing up with us and we’re going to do so till this issue is solved.

The MB’s residence is the the first one when you turn left from the roundabout coming from the direction of Ipoh Parade. Well, actually it’s right behind / in front of Ipoh Parade (depending on which way you’re looking at it).

Please join!

Demi Rakyat Perak,

Demi Negeri Perak,

Dan Demi Negara Malaysia!

What turned out not to be.

I kind of eyed this book at Taiping Popular almost 2 weeks ago but since I racing out of there (going somewhere which strangely, I can’t remember now). Me being me, I kind of expected a book like that to be some sort of super dense book filled with info about Zheng He.

That impression kind of stuck on me for a while until well, yesterday when I went to Prangin Mall’s Popular after watching Red Cliff II (a good movie, watch it!)  and very disappointingly turned out to be a coffee table book. Very big, full of pretty pictures but nothing in it. Pretty much disappointed.

Oh yeah, I’ve decided to write Stargate : Andromeda so please wait up until March 25th when I’ll release the first part of the pilot titled Monsoon. I have taken effort to ensure that it won’t be a boring fan fic. So wait for it people! (And let me finish “The Project” first!)