Teresa Kok, a Heroic Villain?

Amidst Teresa Kok’s ‘heroic’ stunt by mocking the PM in her Chinese New Year’s video, a blog, (DAPInsider.blogspot.com), exposed what a ‘villain’ she is.

In DAP’s moral standard, making fun and mocking others of different races are considered ‘heroic’. And in DAP’s moral standard also, giving contracts and awarding projects out of ‘direct negotiation’ is considered ‘transparent practice’.

According to DAPInsider, this is what Teresa Kok the ‘hero’, had done in Selangor that is, awarding projects by direct negotiation.

The project is said to be on a “2 piece of land in Dengkil and Kuala Kubu Bahru located at Sepang and Hulu Selangor district.

Selangor Foundation known as Yayasan Selangor owned 2 piece of land in Dengkil under Sepang district and Kuala Kubu Bahru under Hulu Selangor district. Land in Dengkil , PT. 39693 with size of 15.17 acre were rented to private religious school with RM25k/month renting fee. Land in Kuala Kubu Bahru, PT. 521 rented to PLKN (Pusat Latihan Khidmat Negara) consist of 2 camps on it with renting fee of RM700k which is the highest contributor/income to Yayasan Selangor. Both land total size approximately 40 to 50 acres.”

It was said that, Goldsino Investment Development Ltd., a company from Zhuhai China was eyeing for the land to put up a Solar Photovaltaic Power Plant project. Apparently, the contact person was Teresa Kok whom was mentioned directly in the LOI from Goldsino to Yayasan.

Goldsino’s proposal was to lease the land for 25 years for the project that is estimated to worth up to RM1 billion.

What is amazing about this whole deal is that it was wrapped-up in less than a month. The LOI by Goldsino was sent on 14 December 2011 and an MOU for the project was signed on 27 December 2011.

I have experienced dealing in FDI and I have never come across such a ‘smooth’ and ‘speedy’ deal. The usual process of meeting up, negotiate, study, LOI, MOU and all would take months if not years. A project worth a billion would surely take a long time to sort out and getting a mutual agreement on every aspect of such a big project would be the most difficult process, not mentioning the bureaucracy.

If the federal government is trying to attract investment through less bureaucracy, DAP is doing it with absolutely no bureaucracy.

I don’t know how such deal is made in such a short time with very few people involved. And these are the people who talk about transparencies and open tenders. These are the people who talk about anti-corruption and good governance.

Anyway, you can read the details in DAPInsider yourself.
All I can say is that, unless you were born yesterday, you must sense that there is something fishy about the whole deal. If you are 20 years old or older and insist that DAP is clean even after reading this, then you must either be the biggest hypocrite or the biggest idiot in the country.

So, it’s time to wake up and say the truth, people! You may support any party you like in the name of ‘freedom to choose’ but you should never say what is wrong as right. You wanna make a change in the country? Then start with the man in the mirror! You cannot be screaming out for others to do good when you can’t even say the truth.

Happy Spring Festival to all my Chinese friends!

I come understand that wishing you all a Happy Chinese New Year would not be accurate - even racist, for a fact. I was told that the whole celebration is about welcoming the Spring Season in China, and has nothing to do with Chinese race or Buddhism. It might not make sense to celebrate Spring in Malaysia, but it just happened that the Chinese has embraced it as an ultimate cultural event which is celebrated by all Chinese in every part of the world – four seasons or not. Therefore, I think wishing you all a Happy Spring Festival would make more sense than wishing you a Happy Chinese New Year.

I was supposed to post this piece earlier but my work got in the way. Besides, I spent most of yesterday celebrating with my Chinese relatives and friends because in Malaysia, everybody celebrates this Spring Festival, not just the Chinese.

Or, to be honest, what most of us actually celebrate is the holidays not the festival. Like all other festivals, all races wish each other happiness for the holiday and tell each other to have a safe journey. And I believe that despite the rising racial prejudice, we all sincerely wish for each others’ safety and happiness - at least, until things get back to routine and we are forced to listen to the politicians bringing up the issue of race and religion again.

Now, don’t get me wrong. When I say politicians, they not necessarily be the ‘real politicians’. Nowadays, the worst politicians are the enemies in disguise as NGO’s and religious figures – Muslims and Christians alike. It is only a matter of time before they start disguising as Hindu or Buddhist monks too. In many cases, the ‘real politicians’ only play along with these phony NGO’s or religious leaders’ games.

Religion is the most convenient weapon or tool for a leader to achieve his purposes. It is very unfortunate of us that the world today though may not be lack of leaders, we are very short of righteous ones. Often our not-so-good leaders fall to the evil games of the enemies either by choice, by ‘no-choice’ or by pure stupidity.

When the leaders are stuck or lost in the game, we, as well educated people must make a choice. We can choose to follow the lost leaders and get stuck in the mud or we can choose to do what is right and good for us.

We can choose to understand the game and not play along. Do not draw the racial cards. Do not join the religious provocation. Leave it to the NGOs and so-called religious leaders and politicians. Do not entertain their call for demonstrations, do not go to their talks, do not support their blogs or join their social network.

And most importantly, do not believe everything you hear or read. Be alert about the evil plots and don’t fall into their game of hatred. Be aware of the agenda and their modus operandis.

Iraq, Egypt…would not have fallen if the people were more informed and were able to control their emotions and think rationally. A country will not fall apart just because the leaders have failed. It only falls when the people failed to act rationally.

The worst leader might have failed the country, but how do we explain ‘failure’ when Iraq was a lot better off under Saddam Hussein and Egypt was a lot better off before Arab Spring.

Therefore, let us all come together on this Spring Festival and help spread the words of wisdom. Above all that, let us spread honesty.

Let’s be honest that Christians don’t feel comfortable using the word ‘Allah’ in the prayers. Let’s be honest that the Chinese are doing great in Malaysia and not being sidelined or oppressed. Let’s be honest that the Chinese controls the economy and sideline the Malays in any way possible in private sectors.

Let’s be honest that if UMNO is as racist as DAP said it is, then the Chinese would never be where they are today. If the Malays are as racist and not buy or support Chinese businesses just like what the Chinese are doing to them, the Chinese will not be one controlling the economy today.

Let’s not point fingers but just look at ourselves and admit our mistakes – the lies and the hypocrisy.

For once, in the spirits of the beautiful Spring Season, let’s be honest and say things as it is. Then only we can hope for a better Malaysia.