THE COMING STORM.

Umno Run Federal Government (URFeG) is revitalized.
The political ground had shifted - even before the Penanti by election.
Manik Urai is not the apex of the tipping point, the point has tipped.
Talking heads say that the shift of votes from PR to URFeG in Manik Urai is due to URFeG promise of material development. Do not be misled.
It is infighting within PR and within the individual parties that have disillusioned many VOTERS.
A growing minority of the electorate is now weighing their decisions of March 2008.
Anwar must come to fore and rein in the many loose canons that are running wild in PR.
If he fails the victor in the next by election will not be PR unless it is held in Penang or Perak.

PAS retained the Manik Urai state seat after its candidate Mohd Fauzi Abdullah defeated Barisan Nasional's (BN) Tuan Aziz Tuan Mat by a narrow margin of 65 votes.
Mohd Fauzi, 50, polled 5,348 votes while Tuan Aziz, 39, obtained 5,283 votes.
The margin is a far cry from the party's 1,352-vote majority it obtained in the 2008 general election.

Selangor executive council (exco) member Ronnie Liu has challenged Wangsa Maju MP Wee Choo Keong to name the exco member who allegedly has links with the underworld.

Bukit Antarabangsa assemblyman Azmin Ali, who had called for some state exco members to be replaced, has gone a step further – he has justified his action by saying that he had the support of his party colleagues and the business community.
“It is my duty to voice my opinion,” he told reporters after the state assembly meeting here yesterday.

Former PKR Seberang Prai municipal (MPSP) councillor Johari Kassim has publicly apologised to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng for his outbursts and over his role in boycotting the swearing-in ceremony of the new council president.

The DAP's sole representative in Kedah, Lee Guan Aik, on Friday declared himself as an "independent and non-aligned" state assemblyman and no longer a government supporter.
The Kota Darul Aman assemblyman said he would also not support the Barisan Nasional (BN) although he was no longer a state government supporter.

30 YEARS OF YEARNING.

What a wonderful way to close a lost 3 decades.
In a much earlier era, my late father was similarly separated from his Taiwanese father, a Japanese university graduate.
His father spent many years teaching in different Chinese Association "night schools" moving from Singapore to Kedah in the then Malaya and had to depart in a great hurry to his homeland just prior to the outbreak of the 2nd World War.
He left everyone, his Peranakan wife, his family and everything behind.
It must have broken his heart.
My uncle did visit Taiwan a few times in search of their secretive father but details of him were just too sparse.
Yak Eng Wai's grandchildren will now have their grandfather back.
So it is really nice to hear of a happy ending after 30 years of yearning.

Businessman Yak Eng Wai, who finally found his frst wife and son after more than three decades, is planning a reunion in Brunei.
The 62-year-old Singaporean, who runs a successful auto service and parts centre in the tiny oil kingdom, said he hoped the family would be able to reunite away from the public eye.
“We want it to be a private affair away from the media spotlight.

THAT IS WHERE THE INNER ROT BEGAN.

These are the days of many instant political geniuses. They now demand their pound of political flesh for they have deemed themselves to be the movers and shakers of the 12th election in 2008.
While these opportunistic low lifes have the right to speak out loudly, the executive branch of each Pakatan Rakyat state must not kow-tow to them.
PR must never be beholden to greedy warlords and misled-napoleons. That is where the great inner rot began for the Umno run federal government.

Hindraf plans protests outside DAP offices in six states at 4pm over the High Chaparral issue. Ten Hindraf representatives met Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to hand over the memorandum on problems faced by villagers in Kampung Buah Pala.
Hindraf leader P. Waythamoorthy’s seven-year-old daughter was also with them. Lim said that the Penang Pakatan Rakyat government had never approved the demolition of Kampung Buah Pala. He said any action taken was done by the private developer via a court order.

The Penang state executive council has sacked municipal councillor Johari Kassim, the controversial Seberang Prai Municipal Council (MPSP) whip who led a boycott of the swearing-in ceremony of council president Mokhtar Mohd Jait. State Local Government and Traffic Management Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the state executive council unanimously agreed to revoke his appointment under Section 10 (4) of the Local Government Act 1976 during its weekly meeting last Friday.