Monday, January 28, 2013

Thanks to OutSyed The Box (Syed Akbar Ali)

Now i know who this guy with name;

Tommy "Panamera" Thomas


At the end after reading the blog, it can be conclude that;
"The one who condemns the system hardest benefits most from it. And vice versa"


  • After reading Tommy Thomas’s ‘Voting for the Future’ in Malaysian Insider, I am tempted to say to him: Go back to Canada.
  • Born in Malaysia of immigrant parents, Tommy Thomas set up legal practice in Kuala Lumpur in the 1970s.  
  • Malaysia was good for him until the 1980s when he uprooted himself, his family and his extended family and migrated to Canada, looking for greener pastures.
  • Alas, he found that Canada was not the land of milk and honey that he thought it was. Life was tough there.  Not long afterwards, Tommy Thomas packed his suitcase again, and returned to Malaysia where he resumed his legal practice.
  • So, Malaysia was good for him before he left for Canada and Malaysia was still good for him and that’s why he returned. 
  • But now he wants to change what was good, for what is at best, uncertain.  And, if things go wrong, he may run to Canada again.  After all he did it once.  He can do it again.

  • Tommy Thomas had once migrated to Canada.  But then he came back. Did he come back to an oppressive Malaysia?
  • When his father completed his Government service as a technical assistant, he retired as a wealthy person, thanks to his astute financial skills.  Would he have managed to do so if Malaysia had an oppressive government?
  • Tommy Thomas owns two Porsches.  Malaysia was indeed good for him.
  • All three of Tommy Thomas’s children study overseas. He must have a reasonably good income to be able to afford to do so. Malaysia can’t be all bad.
  • Tommy Thomas’s  mother was an assistant professor in University Malaya.  Her skills were given due recognition.
  • Tommy Thomas owns two thoroughbred horses.  That’s like being in the elitist league.
  • Tommy Thomas was convicted on a contempt of court charge in 2001, but his six-month jail term was reduced to a fine.  The judiciary has been kind to him.
  • With all of theses strikes, Tommy Thomas does not look like a man who has been deprived of much in Malaysia, if at all. 
  • All this happened during the regime of the present government which he calls corrupt.


Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Khabar 1 Malaysia : Setinggan???



Saya amat tertarik dengan program TV (Khabar 1 Malaysia) yang memaparkan tentang masalah yang dihadapi oleh rakyat di kawasan Beluran-Kinabatangan. Pemimpin setempat yang ditemuramah menyatakan dengan bersungguh-sungguh dan bangga bahawa banyak langkah telah diambil untuk meingkatkan taraf hidup penduduk setinggan (Bumiputera - Sungai, Dusun, Murut, Suluk dsb) yang tinggal di pinggir sungai. Para penduduk telah diberikan rumah PPRT - blok bangunan ala-ala rumah pangsa tiga bilik dan nampaknya agak selesa. Tidak lama lagi penduduk setinggan ini akan dipindahkan.

Rasanya kita kena teliti perkara ini. Keikhlasan kerajaan amat kita hargai dan sanjungi. Cuma terfikir perkara-perkara ini;

Penduduk setinggan? Mana tanah-tanah mereka? Tanah adat? Tanah susah dipohon 20 tahun baru dapat geran maka syarikat besar yang pohon 2 minggu geran sampai? Tanah-tanah adat habis kena rodok syarikat besar? Untuk rakyat juga? Siapa di belakang syarikat besar? Pentadbir daerah? Mereka yang luluskan? Bukankah pemimpin utamakan rakyat? Utamakan Syarikat besar? Dana politik?..... Akhirnya rakyat jadi setinggan? Tinggal rumah PPRT? Macamana cari makan? 

Akhirnya bilangan setinggan akan bertambah selari dengan pertambahan rumah PPRT. Rakyat diutamakan pemimpin kaya melimpahruah. Cuba tanya setinggan mahu tanah atau mahu rumah. 

Kepada penduduk Bengkoka :semoga sentiasa bersabar, tanah kini hanya sekengkang kera.

Kepada penduduk Tg. Kapur :Taman Kudat tidak lama lagi siap dibina. Tan Sri mana menabur janji harap jangan dilupa...mukanya 

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Bila Banyak Duit...


Selepas beberapa lama "memerapkan" blog ini tak terusik.... dengan tiba-tiba hati saya diusik oleh berita yang saya baca berkenaan seorang jutawan Pak Arab...yang membeli tiga ekor unta benilai AED 24 juta (RM22.35 juta).

Apa yang cuba saya fahami di sini ialah betapa kaya manusia ini dan bertapa besar serbannya bebanding songkok hitam yang dipakai oleh Pak Giman (orang tua di kampung saya) tadi subuh. Mungkin bolehlah dibandingkan antara Pak Giman dengan si Orang Sangat Kaya (OSK) ini. Apa yang saya maksudkan dalam perbandingan ini sememangnya amat mudah di bandingkan antara keduanya

Pak Giman - kais pagi makan pagi, pendidikan taraf rendah, bila bercakap 1/100 orang sahaja cuba memahaminya, bila di jabatan kerajaan-suaranya rendah suara kerani lebih tinggi dan yang penting tiada duit tapi sanggup ke Palestine untuk turut berjuang jika diberi peluang.

OSK - kais pagi makan 50 tahun lagi, pendidikan amat tinggi, bila ber"dehem" 200/100 orang yang amat memahaminya, bila di jabatan kerajaan - semua kerani halus suaranya dan paling penting banyak duit beli unta, jiran sebelah mati katak kebuluran....mungkin banyak sudah sedekahnya.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

From Kudat

This is the my first posting and ................before we go any further let share some stories about this beautiful Town...

Kudat is a town in Sabah, a state in the eastern part of Malaysia, on the northern tip of Borneo island. It serves as the administrative center for the Kudat Division, which includes the towns of Kudat, Pitas, Kota Marudu, and some offshore islands.

Kudat is located on the northern part of Sabah, some 190 kilometers north of Kota Kinabalu, the state capital. On the west, it faces the South China Sea, and on the east the Sulu Sea. It is at latitude 6°55'north, longitude 116°50'east.

Kudat's population (2000) was 68,242. The ethnic composition are Rungus, Sungai, Suluk, Chinese, Bajau, Dusun, Murut, Javanese, Ubian, Kegayan, Balabag, Bonggi and Benadan


The town was founded by A H Everett of the British North Borneo Company on December 7, 1881 to be the first capital of British North Borneo, due to its strategic geographic location. However, after being repeatedly raided by Bajau, Sulu and Illanun pirates, in 1883 the capital was shifted to the more secure port of Sandakan, on the east coast.

During World War II, the Japanese Imperial Army built and maintained an air field here. The airfield was built by locals and forced labour from Java, Indonesia using coral stones as base. Many Indonesian died from disease and hunger. In 1945, B25 bombers of the United States Far East Air Force repeatedly bombed the air field and put it out of action.