ENTERTAINMENTOMG!! A&W Is Selling Their Famous Root Beer For Only RM1 At Their New Outlet!!

Come on, who doesn’t know A&W? We basically grew up with it! You should know that the Root Beer sold in stores can never beat the ones sold at the restaurant! Although it is fast food, but it just satisfies your craving for food anytime!

Despite having kept a pretty low profile in the past few years, the fast food chain known for its exceptional root beer floats, A&W is finally opening a new outlet in USJ Taipan on April 29! YES! TODAY!!! 

To celebrate the opening of the new outlet, A&W has announced that its signature root beer will be going for only RM1.00! Craving for Root Beer Float? Just add on RM0.50 to get a scoop of ice cream on top!!

What are you waiting for? RUSH THERE NOW!

Bear in mind that the promo is only available in the new USJ Taipan outlet, don’t go rushing into the PJ branch! Promotion runs from April 29 to May 7. You are also required to collect this coupon from the outlet and present it at the counter to be eligible for the promo. I hope they have 

the USJ Taipan Outlet and are available in limited amounts. Coupons printed out personally or shown from the phone will not be accepted.

Which is your favorite from A&W? Let us know in the comments below!

Yikes!! Sunway Pyramid’s Lenovo Staff Scams Foreign Customers AGAIN!

Don’t this people learn? Or was it because there was no ‘face’ to pinpoint to the previous report that was made?

Well, now we do have a ‘face’ to go along with the reported unethical service provided by the Lenovo staff working in the Sunway Pyramid outlet!

Apparently, this guy had scammed another foreign customer that goes by the surname Lee. The South Korean shared his dissatisfaction with WOB when the Lenovo staff cheated him and his girlfriend.

Lee who has been staying in Malaysia for 9 years had a very good impression on all Malaysians till he met this i*diot. According to the victim, he has proof that the man was caught swearing and threatening him and his girlfriend. He even managed to take a picture of him (the picture above).

It seems that all he wanted to do was to get his laptop checked up because the screw at the bottom was rusty. Despite Lee asking the man how much was the service, he was rudely ignored and was just instructed to come back at the time that he set.


What was absurd about this whole thing is that this man requested Lee to pay RM300 just for the screw, WHICH WASN’T EVEN REPLACED!

When the South Korean man demanded the receipt, the staff refused the man’s rights. The staff ridiculously claimed that it was under ‘labour cost’ and even mocked the man by stating that he doesn’t have the money to pay for the fees.

Eh! Hello! Can you please don’t make Malaysians look bad ah? You have so much of money meh? Ishkkk!

Eventually, the victim received a receipt with RM30 written on it. Damn big difference, right?? Oh wait, it doesn’t end here, he even offered the victim  RM100 discount for his ‘phantom’ service.

Feeling like he was talking to a wall, Lee walked away and alerted all his fellow Korean friends to never step foot into the store anymore.

We sincerely hope that Lenovo Malaysia does something really quick about this if not the company’s name is going to turn sour because of its rude and unethical staffs.

Malaysian General Election PRU/GE 14 Lesson 7 – Do not vote for the party candidates whose party is racist in Education and awarding of scholarships

Malaysian General Election PRU/GE 14 Lesson 7 – Do not vote for the party candidates whose party is racist in Education and awarding of scholarships for high preforming students to Non-Malays. 60 years of marginalization and time to put the record straight. Do not vote the below racist party in GE/PRU 14. Give the below party the burial it deserves in Politics. Read below a deserving student is denied a scholarship which she is entitled to.

Not to worry once Singapore , Australia , china reads this Post , a highly prized scholarship will be offered to you. They always are looking for bright students

Never vote for this Party symbol in the Malaysian General election even if your life depended on it .

PURE RACISM? 18-YEAR-OLD XIN YI FAILS TO GET PSD SCHOLARSHIP DESPITE GETTING 11 STRAIGHT As IN SPM

POH: Teh Xin Yi’s efforts to excel in her SPM examinations paid off with 11A+ but her joy may be shortlived. Her dream to study electronics engineering in Germany may be dashed if she fails to get a scholarship

When she logged on to the Public Service Department’s (PSD) website on Wednesday, she shed tears of frustration after learning that she was not among the successful applicants for the PSD scholarship programme.

The 18-year-old former student of SMJK Ave Maria Convent consistently put in her best efforts to score straight As, and was also active in co-curriculum activities.

She applied for the Japan, South Korea, France and Germany Special Programme (JKPJ) and also the National Sponsorship Programme (NSP).

“I am very disappointed that despite being a high achiever, I am unable to pursue the course of my dream in a foreign university.

“I have put in my appeal with PSD hoping to be admitted to the PSD programme,” she told a press conference organised by Ipoh Barat MCA Youth chief Aldrich Low here yesterday.

WORKING CLASS PARENTS , 220 SCHOLARSHIPS WHILE ONLY 102 SCORED STRAIGHT As BUT STILL SHE WAS DROPPED 

Teh said her dream was to study at a prestigious university in Germany but without a scholarship, her parents could not afford to send her abroad.

Her father is a technician and her mother works as a production controller in a factory.
“My parents are also taking care of my grandparents, and my younger sister who is in Form Three,” she said.

Low said there were 220 places for the JKPJ and NSP programmes, while only 102 students nationwide, including Teh, scored straight As.

He said he would assist Teh in her appeal to PSD, and asked other students in Perak facing the same predicament to approach Perak MCA for assistance.

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Elon Musk reveals his Boring Company: Radical plan will see cars drive onto 130mph electric 'skates' before being shot through underground tunnels

Elon Musk has been teasing his tunneling project since he first tweeted the idea during a frustrated rant aimed at LA's heavy traffic in December. Now, the first details of the radical project have been revealed. In an appearance at the TED conference in Vancouver, Musk showed off a new video of electric 'skates' transporting cars in a narrow tunnel under a city before raising them back to street level in a space as small as two parking spaces. 'You should be able to go from say Westwood to LAX in 5-6 minutes,' the Tesla and SpaceX founder said. However, the project would require a massive building project to bore the tunnels and create the lift systems needed.


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At the TED conference in Vancouver, Musk showed off a new video of electric 'skates' transporting cars in a narrow tunnel under a city before raising them back to street level in a space as small as two parking spaces. Behind him a Tesla car can be seen on one of the 'skates.

Cars will use the system by simply driving into the designated parking areas, where they will be secured on an electric 'skate

The skate will be lowered into a network of tunnels Musk hopes to bore under major cities around the world. The 'skates' would work on electric tracks, reaching speeds of upto 130mph

Dozens of tunnels would allow commuters to simply bypass gridlocked traffic by travelling undergound

The image shows a large boring machine with the Boring Company logo on. However, it was later removed by the user, believed to be a SpaceX employee

Elon Musk has been teasing his tunneling project since he first tweeted his frustration at LA's heavy traffic in December, and new images reveal that he is sticking to his word as a large trench can be seen dug into a car park near his SpaceX headquarters in California

Nannie, the boring machine Musk is mulling buying: It was used to to dig a tunnel to prevent sewage from overflowing into the Anacostia River, and is now believed to be for sale

The 1,248 ton machine created a 23-foot diameter tunnel beginning at RFK Stadium that ends at the Poplar Point Pumping station in Southeast, approximately 100 feet underground. 

It goes underneath the Anacostia River, CSX railroad tracks, and the Green Line. 

The entire project - which traverses underground 13 miles from Bloomingdale to DC Water's Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant in Southeast - is designed to supplement the existing sewer system by capturing excess storm water and curb area flooding.

After phase one, the Anacostia River Tunnel will serve as a storage tank for water until the storms pass - it can hold more than 38 million gallons of combined sewage, according to DC Water.

By the end of phase two, expected to occur in 2022 or 2023, storm water will be piped to Blue Plains for treatment before its release through the Northeast Boundary Tunnel. 

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Is South Africa heading for civil war?

Is South Africa heading for civil war? The country is lurching ever closer to conflict as its volatile Zulu president vows to seize land from whites - while Afrikaner fighters train in the bush

Zuma’s decadence and defiance at his party earlier this month — which cost £1m to stage — comes as South Africa lurches ever closer towards the abyss 

The economy is undoubtedly in peril after government bonds were downgraded 

Unemployment is 90 per cent in some townships, and riots are widespread

By Andrew Malone In South Africa For The Daily Mail

On stage in a stadium in Soweto, the township at the heart of the uprising against apartheid, South Africa’s president, in a green and gold leather jacket, was dancing a Zulu war jig.

A court order against ‘hate speech’ meant Jacob Zuma, a former cattle herder, was banned from singing his favourite ‘liberation’ songs, including Bring Me My Machine Gun and Shoot The Boer.

But, after listening to speeches in which a succession of obsequious cronies described him as a ‘giant’ alongside African leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Zuma delighted supporters at his 75th birthday celebrations a few days ago with fiery rhetoric instead — and in doing so sounded the death knell for the Rainbow Nation.

On the Attack: Jacob Zuma has vowed to take back land from white South Africans

In front of more than 20,000 people — party loyalists and others bussed in with the promise of free food and ‘Zuma T-shirts’ — he warned the white population he was coming for their land.

As armed bodyguards, in black suits and sunglasses, scanned the crowds from the stage, Zuma attacked his white opponents, saying: ‘They are telling us that we will be breaking the law when we take the land — but they broke the law first by stealing our land!’

As cheers rang out, he added: ‘No normal person would sit idly by after his land has been stolen from him. Why should I keep quiet about the land issue? [Whites] hate me because I touched a raw nerve by talking about the economy that all should share in.’


He also attacked his critics among the black population, branding them ‘back stabbers and cowards’. Anyone opposing him was a ‘racist’.

Zuma had earlier informed the South African parliament that he planned to introduce a new law allowing land seizures to go ahead without compensation, saying all blacks should unite to ‘take back the land’.

Mzwandile Masina, a prominent member of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), made his own incendiary contribution, warning that ‘we will crush’ anyone who stands ‘in the way of nation building’.

Training: Volunteers in the Kommandokorps are in the bush preparing for bloody conflict

Whites, who comprise four million out of a total South African population of 50 million, should expect that things will be ‘very, very rough’ for them, Masina warned. He told the crowd that while the white population is small in number, ‘we are many’.

‘I want to say to our white counterparts in South Africa, they must be very, very careful,’ Masina added. ‘This thing of being shown the middle finger by white people because they have gained a new confidence must come to an end. We are not monkeys, we are people.’

Zuma’s decadence and defiance at his party earlier this month — which cost £1m to stage — comes as South Africa lurches ever closer towards the abyss of a Zimbabwe-style collapse and possible violence as black and white factions prepare themselves for conflict.

A man, wearing a T-shirt with a photo of Zuma on it, laughed bitterly when I asked him if he had come to the celebrations to support his leader.

Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters prepare to march in protest at the Government


‘My friend, I have three children I can barely afford to feed, there is no work, so how do you think I can support this crook,’ he hissed. ‘I only came to see if there was food.’

Expressing sentiments I heard repeatedly from other impoverished black South Africans, the 49-year-old added: ‘At least the whites (under apartheid) gave us jobs. Mandela tried to get rid of black and white and make us grey. This clown is dragging us down and down.’

To underline the scale of the country’s woes, 23 years after apartheid ended, business leaders have just taken out an extraordinary advert on page three of the South African Sunday Times newspaper, warning that the State has been ‘captured’. ‘South Africa is in crisis,’ it said, blaming Zuma for the ‘illegitimate acquisition of South Africa’s natural and financial assets’. The government was guilty of ‘propaganda, slogans, racism and lies’ to silence criticism.

The economy is undoubtedly in peril after government bonds were downgraded to junk status. Once a net exporter of food — as neighbouring Zimbabwe was before Robert Mugabe seized land from whites in a programme of ‘racial transformation’ — the country is now forced to rely on imports to feed the population.

Unemployment is 90 per cent in some townships, and riots — described as ‘service delivery protests’ by the ANC — are so widespread and frequent they barely get reported.

Once a net exporter of food — as neighbouring Zimbabwe was before Robert Mugabe (right) seized land from whites in a programme of ‘racial transformation’ — the country is now forced to rely on imports to feed the population


Crime is rampant — with more than 50 murders a day, many sadistic and barbaric — while South Africa is shamed by an appalling record on rape, with a woman sexually assaulted every 23 seconds.

Now, many have had enough. Black opposition leaders and a coalition called Save South Africa are staging protests, calling for Zuma to quit.

Certainly, Jacob Zuma does not inspire confidence when it comes to running what has long been regarded as Africa’s superpower. Born in Nkandla in 1942, the site of famous battles with British forces in the late-19th century, he was raised in a traditional village.

His father, a policeman and village chief, was an adviser to a local Zulu king. As a boy, Zuma herded cattle, collected wild honey and hunted small animals with a spear.

Aged 11, he was circumcised with a traditional stone implement after a period learning about Zulu tradition at camps run by elders in the bush. It was there, too, that he was taught about sex, a subject he has taken a close interest in ever since. ‘I was told to be a man among men,’ he said once.

Zuma left home at 16 with no qualifications and one year later joined the ANC, becoming a foot soldier for Umkhonto We Sizwe — Spear Of The Nation, the armed wing of the liberation movement which carried out a bombing campaign in a bid to end white minority rule.

Zuma was arrested aged 21 for conspiring to overthrow the government and served ten years on Robben Island — alongside Mandela (right) — in the infamous jail.




Upon release, he travelled to ANC bases in neighbouring countries such as Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana, and became head of the ANC’s internal intelligence wing known as Mbokodo, or ‘the stone that crushes’.

When Nelson Mandela was released in 1990, after 27 years in prison, Zuma returned to South Africa and became deputy president under Thabo Mbeki, from 1999, until being forced out amid corruption allegations in 2005. He became the nation’s fourth black president in 2009.

Zuma has had six wives and 22 children and has been linked with numerous other women. In 2005, when he was accused of raping the daughter of an ANC friend, he denied the charges, claiming it was consensual and it was his duty as a ‘Zulu warrior’ to have sex with a woman if she wore a short kanga — an African wrap — and he could not leave her ‘unfulfilled’.

‘In the Zulu culture, you cannot just leave a woman if she is ready,’ he told the court. ‘To deny her sex, that would have been tantamount to rape.’

Despite knowing that the woman was HIV positive, in a country where one in three carries the virus, Zuma was unfazed by criticism that he hadn’t used a condom. ‘I had a shower afterwards,’ he said, cheerfully.

Eventually Zuma was cleared, but it is his financial rather than his sexual activities that are the cause of the greatest fears for the future of South Africa.

Zuma is now fabulously rich, with a personal fortune estimated at between £15 million and £100 million. How he has acquired this wealth is of particular interest to his opponents. He has been accused of taking huge bribes in an arms deal, and could face up to 783 charges.

The real evidence of just how far Zuma has come is at Nklanda, the sprawling palace he built using taxpayers’ funds near the rural home where he grew up.

In the style of a Zulu king’s kraal, he has homes here for four of his wives, reportedly connected to his own grander house by tunnels, as well as two helicopter landing pads, and an area for cattle.

In a scathing report last year by the public prosecutor, he was ordered to pay back some of the costs of upgrading the presidential palace, including the price of a swimming pool he claimed was needed for water in case of a fire. As Zuma’s wealth and power have grown, the parallels with the collapse of Zimbabwe are ever more striking. Military veterans, who answer only to Zuma and who served in the ANC’s military wing, have paraded on the streets. They formed a guard of honour at Zuma’s recent party.

Prince Harry meets South African President Jacob Zuma at his Official Residence on the last day of his tour of South Africa on December 3, 2015

Zimbabwe’s despotic president, Mugabe, also used ‘military veterans’ to seize white farms in 2000, tipping the country into years of decay by following the policies now being proposed by Zuma.

Not surprisingly, some white South Africans are taking extreme measures in response. Where once ANC guerrillas camped in the bush, plotting against white rulers, now it is white militias training at secret camps.

These are run by leaders of the Kommandokorps, a volunteer force who wear the brown military uniforms of South Africa’s old apartheid-era forces. On remote farms, recruits are being trained with pistols, pump-action shotguns and 303 rifles.

More than 2,500 volunteers, aged from 14 to 38, have been drilled. Their leader is Colonel Franz Jooste, a former officer in the old South African army, who fought what he calls ‘black terrorists’ in secret operations in Mozambique, Angola and Zambia.

‘We are in a heightened security situation,’ he told me. ‘We have to prepare for anarchy and how we can protect ourselves.’

The ANC is also training thousands of ‘national rural youth service corps’ at military bases. There are reports that volunteers on the two-year programmes have been promised land. (The ANC denies they are trained as soldiers, but admits they are ‘exposed to military discipline so they become better and more patriotic citizens’.)

So deep is the crisis that Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the face of opposition to apartheid while Mandela was in jail, has joined anti-government protests, and described Zuma as ‘disgraceful’.

‘I am warning you that we will pray as we prayed for the downfall of the Apartheid Government,’ the 85-year-old says. ‘We will pray for the downfall of a government that misrepresents us.’

Many believe the country is doomed — even the black leader of one opposition party

Former president F.W. de Klerk, who, in 1993, was awarded a joint Nobel Peace prize with Mandela, believes thieving from state coffers will spell disaster.

‘Corruption is a deadly threat to South Africa,’ he told me. ‘It has enriched the leadership group — but will make it difficult for the great majority of South Africans to escape from poverty. Most seriously, it has corrupted the values for which leaders like Nelson Mandela struggled.

‘President Zuma is dangerously stoking up racial animosities. The ANC claims that it does not want to repeat the mistakes of Zimbabwe — but it is difficult to see how it would avoid this if it proceeds with expropriation [land grabs] without compensation.

‘We hope that the world will condemn growing institutionalised racism against (white) minorities with the same vigour with which it condemned apartheid.’

Then, if all this were not grim enough, there is Julius ‘Ju Ju’ Malema, a former ANC youth leader tipped as a future South African president, before he fell out with Zuma and created his own anti-white party called the Economic Freedom Fighters.

Self-styled ‘Commander in Chief’ Malema has attracted millions of supporters. He has a penchant for fast cars and expensive Breitling watches and makes Zuma seem like a moderate. He has urged blacks to illegally seize white land ‘wherever they see it’.

‘We are not calling for the slaughter of white people — at least for now,’ he said in a recent speech. ‘The rightful owners of the land are black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and the whole of the African continent.’

Demonstrators take part in a protest calling for the removal of South Africa's President Jacob Zuma in Durban

Mandela's granddaughter and protesters rally against Zuma

Many believe the country is doomed — even the black leader of one opposition party.

‘Jacob Zuma is dangerous for South Africa,’ said Mumusi Maimane, leader of the Democratic Alliance. ‘He is running a project of destroying South Africa.’

A few days ago, the more apocalyptic warnings about South Africa seemed false as I watched blacks and whites enjoying the Easter break. But when I first visited Zimbabwe 20 years ago, I would never have believed the tranquil breadbasket of Africa would become an economic basket case and a place of horrors, nor that in 2008 I would see millions of worthless bank notes blow through the capital Harare.

And I have never forgotten an exchange with one of Mandela’s advisers after I moved to live in Johannesburg 20 years ago. He was shocked when I said I didn’t own a gun. ‘You’d better get one,’ he warned. ‘Africa is a rough continent — anything can happen.’

I didn’t buy a weapon then. I might now if I lived there. For, if Zuma and his cronies choose to follow this corrupt, ruinous and racially destructive path, it won’t matter who ends up president of this magical, troubled country. They will be fighting to be King of the ashes.

Rare lobster caught in the Irish sea is saved from the cooking pot

Rare lobster caught in the Irish sea is saved from the cooking pot, but can you guess why the crustacean is one-in-30 million?

Tristan Wood saw the lobster while fishing in the Irish Sea, off North Wales coast
He sent it to a specialist sea zoo rather than selling it in his seafood shop
The estimations of catching them are one in 30 million - can you guess why? 

By Isobel Frodsham For Mailonline

A lucky lobster was saved from the cooking pot when a fisherman spotted it was one-in-30million orange colour.

Shellfish lover Tristan Wood spotted the 'extremely rare' tango-coloured lobster - and decided it should be saved not served.

He handed the orange lobster over to a specialist sea zoo where it stands out among other dark living lobsters.

Tristan Wood was fishing in the Irish Sea when he spotted the rare lobster

He decided to send it to a sea zoo rather than cook it
Under the sea: Tristan Wood was fishing in the Irish Sea when he spotted the rare lobster

Tristan knows lobsters are usually a dark brown-green colour or black and blue when they are alive before turning red when they are cooked. 

But this bright orange lobster was caught in the Irish Sea off the coast of North Wales - where the chances of catching one are estimated at one-in-30million.

Tristan, 38, said: 'As soon as I saw this amazing female in the lobster catch, she stood out from all the other lobsters, and I knew she was unique and I had to save her from the pot!



'In all the years I have been working in sustainable lobster fisheries, this is the first time I have seen a bright orange individual like this one.'

Tristan, who runs The Lobster Pot seafood merchants on Anglesey, North Wales, decided the lobster should go to a sea zoo because it was so rare.

The lobster is now being monitored by specialists at Anglesey Sea Zoo where experts wonder what colour her offspring will be.


She's a shore thing: Tristan, 38, said: 'As soon as I saw this amazing female in the lobster catch, she stood out from all the other lobsters, and I knew she was unique and I had to save her from the pot!'

Saved in a pinch! The lobster is now being monitored by specialists at Anglesey Sea Zoo where experts wonder what colour her offspring will be

Frankie Hobro, owner and director at the zoo, said: 'This is an incredibly exciting addition to our ongoing captive breeding and conservation programme in the Lobster Hatchery of Wales, and for research into the Common Lobster, particularly as this individual is a female carrying eggs.

'We are eagerly anticipating the release of her larvae to see if they are also as orange as the female, and to see as the juveniles develop and grow, if any of them are bright orange.

'The rare orange female is on display here at the Sea Zoo in the Lobster Hatchery of Wales, and we are delighted to be able to show our visitors this incredibly rare animal.' 

Two pints of beer are better than paracetamol for pain relief

Two pints of beer are better than paracetamol for pain relief and can cut discomfort by a QUARTER, claim doctors

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Research by University of Greenwich lecturer found two pints reduced pain
A total of 18 studies, involving 404 participants, were used in the research
Experts are now trying to find out how the alcohol helps to numb the pain

By Isobel Frodsham For Mailonline

Two pints of beer are better than paracetamol for pain relief and can cut discomfort by a quarter, a study has shown.

Medical researchers said blood alcohol content of approximately .08 per cent produced 'a small elevation of pain threshold' and a 'moderate to large reduction in pain intensity ratings'.

They added: 'Findings suggest that alcohol is an effective analgesic that delivers clinically-relevant reductions in ratings of pain intensity, which could explain alcohol misuse in those with persistent pain despite its potential consequences for long-term health.'

Two pints of beer are better than paracetamol for pain relief and can cut discomfort by a quarter +2
Two pints of beer are better than paracetamol for pain relief and can cut discomfort by a quarter

The analysis, published in The Journal of Pain, observed 18 studies involving 404 participants who were experiencing chronic pain.

The studies provided alcohol versus no-alcohol comparisons for 13 tests of pain threshold.

Now the experts are planning to find out if alcohol either lowers anxiety of pain, which then reduces the perception of discomfort, or if it numbs the sensation of pain by affecting the brain receptors.

Dr Trevor Thompson, who headed the study at London's Greenwich University, told The Sun: '[Alcohol] can be compared to opioid drugs such as codeine and the effect is more powerful than paracetamol.

Dr Trevor Thompson, who headed the study at London's Greenwich University, said: 'If we can make a drug without the harmful side- effects then we could have something that is potentially better than what is out there at the moment' +2
Dr Trevor Thompson, who headed the study at London's Greenwich University, said: 'If we can make a drug without the harmful side- effects then we could have something that is potentially better than what is out there at the moment'

'If we can make a drug without the harmful side- effects then we could have something that is potentially better than what is out there at the moment.'

But Rosanna O'Connor, director of Alcohol and Drugs at Public Health England, added: 'Drinking too much will cause you more problems in the long run. It's better to see your GP.

TROJANS IN UMNO – NAJIB CAMP STARTS TO FEAR DR M’S WILY POLITICS: NO, OPPOSITION’S NOT DISUNITED- JUST GOING ‘GUERRILLA’

PPBM have been making claims that they have strong support from the rakyat, particularly Malays due to unhappiness on micro-level issues.

High on the list are rising cost of living, GST, students’ scholarship, and civil servants budget.

  

The usual Chinese bashing of Mahathir era campaign will take the form of China FDI to replace DAP bashing. No more bashing of Najib for donating to Chinese schools.

One odd issue is special rights of Malays but to appease DAP, they will likely do it through Perkasa or the latest addition is Bertindak.

The issues are purely sentiment and outright propaganda. The narrative could neither be verified with statistics or survey nor sound argument.

They know Dato Najib’s macro-management and policies are excellent and necessary thus difficult to debate. It will ricochet to Mahathir.

So even PPBM Supreme Council member play dumb when seek for engagement.

They rather play up sentiment to stir up emotion and it can get as petty as free range kampong chicken not returning to the coop in their evening.

One PPBM political operator once blurted, “It is not about being factual. We’ll lie or fake news to stir sentiment. It is all politics.”

Rahman Dahlan was not lying or trying to bodek Najib to accuse opposition of resorting to lying in their political narratives. [Read BN portal here].

Their propagandist claimed support is many and every where, but remain unseen. They will surface near the general election.

The stealth UMNO members, civil servants, military personnel, and the various supporter cum unofficial components of BN will join PPBM struggle for the one and only agenda to topple Dato Najib.

It does not stop there as there will be PAS leaders and supporters doing the same.

What is not visibly seen are likely to be lies. As Mahathir once said, it is not easy to do conspiracy involving many people.

Mahathir reject PAS

More so, Mahathir have openly said PPBM cut ties with PAS.

Sources claimed Muhyiddin and Mukhriz have deviated from their Chairman statement. They are working with PAS grassroot in Kedah and Johor.

They, the two M, are of the view that Pakatan Harapan are not strong. Only DAP is sure. PKR have no political machinery.

The two M felt PPBM has the machinery thus better to work with PAS at grassroot level as Hadi and top PAS leaders lull Najib into complacency.

Like PKR, the two M is thinking of using and riding on PAS dedicated and loyal machinery.

This links with the protest of PPBM leaders in Rembau and several places to leave and close branches.

It is a protest against the treatment by the two M towards Mahathir. Notice they do not criticise and the words of loyalty to Mahathir still openly expressed.

The two M treated Mahathir as a Malay Adviser and not a British adviser, whose advise should be stricly followed.

It is unbelievable for fillial son Mukriz to disobey his father.

Considering Mahathir is working hard to open the path for Mukhriz premiership and lending his influence for him inLangkawi, is it an act or for real?

It could be real because Azizul bin Dato Azumu, the person placed as new Perak Chief is his loyalist (for the time being) though he claimed was appointed by Muhyiddin.

Mahathir is keeping quiet and allowing all the critics to come out in the open. He have been quietly visiting areas to douse the fire.

However, he loves the squabbling as they will be praising and bodek-ing him. Anina did the same but was dropped.

As far as Muhyiddin, his disagreement with Mahathir is beginning to come out in the open.

He confidentially told Mahathir to just advise him but allow himself to decide and run PPBM as President. The old man just smile as a sign of disagreement.

The appointment of Azizul and cronies of Muhyiddin and Mukhriz for the new heads of PPBM Divisions are being questioned.

It did not have Mahathir’s endorsement.

Emulating Anwar 916

Muhyiddin do not spend as much time as Mahathir. He spend more time finetuning his Malay tsunami secret strategy. Members are questioning.

The hype of a Malay tsunami in the making could or could not happen. With membership of merely 6,000 in Kedah (or the real figure could be more), PPBM will have to work extra hard to make it happen.

Nevertheless, UMNO will have to be aware and not slackened. [Read the analysis of anonymous Malay blog The Flying Kick here].

Muhyiddin’s strategy is to emulate Anwar 916 and executed in concurrence with Mukhriz.

It is to get their people become UMNO candidates and then jump ship after winning the election on UMNO platform and money.

This was a game Mahathir did to seize Sabah from PBS by getting just elected assemblymen to crossover to BN immediately after the state election.

However, it was a tic-for-tac to punish PBS for pulling out of BN to join Tengku Razaleigh-led opposition at just before an earlier General Election.

If the potential candidate – likely to be from among Muhyiddin and Mukhriz former supporters and digruntled UMNO leaders – are not selected, they will do the typical UMNO habit of protesting.

It is all pre-planned to jump before election. The psywar strategy is to create a shock and panic impact on UMNO to cripple their machinery.

Compromised principle

This strategy is being questioned in PPBM as it has cronyism all over. It is a political struggle devoid of any principle.

Muhyiddin has been a VIP for too long and Mukhriz is born elite. Both are over-reliance on their people but may not have the instinct on the ground condition.

They underestimated and assumed PPBM members are generally, as UMNO described, mereka yang kecewa and still UMNO in characteristics.

They may deny money is involved but it is not believable that the two M did not use money.

For crying out loud, even Mahathir is known to pay off grey marginal divisions money to the tune of RM5 million to swing support.

The grey and white makan dedak or get nothing. The price of loyalty to Mahathir.

Disgruntled segment of PPBM members that oppose such plan see it as compromising principle, devious and dishonest, and against their aspirations in joining PPBM.This was the Perak crossover politics DAP was principally and fought vehemently against.

Ah … unlikely now.DAP wants PPBM because Lim Kit Siang believed Mahathir can steal UMNO members votes for PH, thus bring the downfall of BN and the rise of DAP to power.There is no principle in DAP politics anymore since they associated themselves with Anwar Ibrahim and PAS.

Many political observers are correct to comment in the early formation of PPBM that it is the same UMNO with the same bad habit. They will repeat themselves.

Even the idea for PH that Mahathir propose is a replica of UMNO and BN. Lim Kit Siang is not interested in other brand of politics but that of DAP.

However, one has to be more optimistic. The UMNO being demanded change since 2004 is in UMNO.

While, the langau incests from the past inhibiting UMNO reform are in PPBM, PKR and even DAP and PAN.

PAS reject PPBM?

The plan to hijack will also involve PAS leaders and members. If it is known, will Muhyiddin’s political backstabbing be acceptable to PAS leadership?

The current Muktamar is discussing PAS relation with PKR, which refuse to budge on their relations with DAP.

They tried to appease by having PKR Selangor to say they support RUU 355. If PAS severe ties, PKR will be the biggest loser in the next GE.

There is a long shot possibility that Selangor is up in limbo.

PAS believe it can benefit from the current posturing with PPBM, UMNO and PAS.

Their mortal enemy is PAN and DAP. But there is political convenience to trade brickbats with DAP as it strengthen PAS and DAP grassroot supports.

As far as PPBM and PAS, one do not hear strong critics against PPBM at the division and grassroot as compared to PKR.

It is only old quarrels of Mahathir with his Islam liberal inclination versus Hadi and conservative traditional Islam.

Bersatu or split

If Mahathir remain stubborn to oppose working with PAS, two possibilities can happen – Muhyiddin and cronies to join PAS or Mahathir leave PPBM to head PH.

In the later senario, Azmin or Anwar could end up as PM. Anwar stopped blaming forex loss to Mahathir.

However, Mahathir is too cunning to fall for a Taib Mahmud-style trick. The former senario more likely. One can easily guess Mukhriz’s decision.

There is also the possibility that PPBM could remain as they are and remain in constant state of flux.

Other parties are unwilling to give their seats to new parties like PAN and PPBM. The motley crue will fight the battle on their own.

The winners will then do horse trading to negotiate for a coalition government.

By then the original struggle of PPBM will wane off and be lost in the politics of the time. Malaysia’s failed opposition tend to over-estimate themselves.

As a Chinese proverb reads, “we are living in interesting times” – politically but the public are sick of it.

– http://anotherbrickinwall.blogspot.my

Little Girl Born With Three Legs Able To Walk And Run Again After Reconstructive Surgery!!

Choity Khatun, 3, was born in a village in Bangladesh with a condition called cordial twinning, which meant she had a part of a twin develop in her perineum. This is a very rare case as head of surgery at Monash Children’s Hospital Professor Chris Kimber said. Many of these children die in the womb, or they die soon after birth, but it was amazing that Choity had survived her first two years of age!
When Choity was just a few weeks old, she was taken to the main children’s hospital in Bangladesh and the doctors were perplexed as to what to do.

“Everything was connected in the wrong place, in the long term, she was highly likely to get overwhelming infections and die from those,” Professor Kimber said. The doctors in Bangladesh cut open her tummy and attached her bowel to her skin so she would not die from bowel obstruction.
Her mother, Shima Khatun said she did not understand what was wrong with Choity when she was first born, she said: “The doctor said she was like a twin baby, it was sad because our first son had died.”

Choity got another shot at life when the Australian charity Children First Foundation came across the case and brought her over to Melbourne last year. A team of surgeons spent several months mapping out a procedure to reconstruct her anatomy.

Professor Chris Kimber said, “A twin had grown out of her pelvis but the twin was only part of a twin … The problem is there’s no rulebook for this because she’s a very unique individual so you have to try and work out what was where.”
He added that when Choity arrived in Australia, she was very malnourished, she couldn’t walk properly at all.

Apparently, Choity’s condition meant that body parts from a twin developed in her perineum, which is the area between the anus and the vulva. This caused her to have two rectums, anuses, vaginas, and uteruses, the doctors found after examining her under anesthetic, she was also found to be incontinent.

mber calls it, was finally carried out in November and involved eight doctors who specialise in genital and pelvic reconstructions working on the girl for eight hours.

“When we started we thought she might end up being incontinent for life, but as we went on we found extra muscles and were able to reconstruct reasonable normal anatomy, and we’ve been able to achieve way beyond what we expected,” he said.
“We spent three or four months thinking about it, presenting it to other doctors, getting ideas from around the world, and then based on lots of world opinion, we were able to come up with something that clearly works,” he added.
The little girl is also partially blind but through an ophthalmologist’s examination at the hospital, they found that her sight could not be improved. But she has sufficient sight to now walk and run like other children!

This was a key triumph for the surgeons, including Professor Chris Kimber himself as they were able to help her become continent!
Great for the little girl! Glad she gets to have a happy and free childhood!! Thank you kind hearted people at the Australian charity Children First Foundation and the surgeons who worked on Choity, bless your soul!

Sarawak Report ; Financial Settlement Becomes A Saga Of Twists And Turns!

29 April 2017 Who would imagine that a dry sounding ‘amicable arbitration agreement’ could twist and turn into such a farce of furious disagreements in just a matter of hours? First, a minister in the Prime Minister’s office denied the 1MDB/IPIC agreement had said what it said. Mohd Puad Zarkashi ignored the Stock Exchange Statement, which clearly said Malaysia would take on the remainder of 1MDB’s debt repayments and suggested instead it might sue Abu Dhabi for $2.5 billion towards those costs instead. Then the Second Finance Minister, Johari Abdul Ghani, waded in to further deny the basic premise of the agreement, by claiming also that Abu Dhabi did receive a $3.51 billion from 1MDB mainly in ‘deposits’ for its guarantees on the loans, saying that he had documents from the Seychelles to prove it. In which case, cried Public Accounts Committee member Tony Pua, why had Johari agreed to the Prime Minister settling to take on the payments, instead of demanding that IPIC use the deposit money? Time to resign, cried the DAP Finance Spokesman! Who was Pua to tell him to resign when Najib was his boss? retorted a furious Johari. The people are your boss, so serve them, replied Pua! By this time even BN members of the Public Accounts Committee were agreeing with Pua on the matter.  Marcus Mojigoh announced that if Johari had documents he should make them public and stop undermining the basis of the settlement just agreed by his Prime Minister. If not, even Johari’s colleague was suggesting he should resign: There should be consultation and collaboration between Johari and the prime minister,” he said…there were instances when ministers made statements that were inconsistent with the prime minister, giving the impression that the government is not working as a team. “I am sorry to say this, but ministers went on to open their big mouths without consulting the prime minister. There should be teamwork instead of trying to be a hero… Marcus said if members of the executive are not willing to cooperate with the leadership, then it would be best for them to step down. “I think they should step down and create their own leadership. I am talking about what I am seeing in this country, not Johari alone,” he added. Ooooh, what a spat! By yesterday evening Pua had demanded a re-opening into the entire PAC enquiry into 1MDB based on Johari’s claims that he could now prove that the BVI version of Aabar Investments PJS Limited, which had been confirmed as a bogus vehicle designed to siphon money from 1MDB by the US DOJ last year, was in fact a genuine subsidiary of IPIC. Because, if Johari and Puad are right, then why in the hell did Najib’s negotiators just agree to pay out $1.2 billion to IPIC and take on the rest of 1MDB’s $3.5 billion debt repayments? Alleging that Aabar/IPIC was secretly planning to pay after all! If all this wasn’t embarrassing, ridiculous and contradictory enough on the part of government big-wigs, Malaysia this morning woke up to an even more preposterous denial, thanks to another ill-conceived attempt at saving face. It came with a statement to the Straits Times that IPIC is secretly footing all the payments after all! Najib’s spinners had been feeding lines about the settlement to the Straits Times all week, attempting to paint what is plainly a total victory by IPIC as a vindication for 1MDB.  First, ‘inside sources’ were reported telling the paper that the arbitration would ‘weaken’ the international criminal cases against those who thieved from the fund, on the basis that IPIC has formally agreed to be paid out of the sale of 1MDB ‘units’ widely dismissed as bogus also. Except, when the settlement was announced there was no reference to any such agreement, just a straight demand that Malaysia pays $1.2 billion owed – the first half by the end of July. With that line debunked, the Straits Times this morning reported a very serious new allegation being made by its ‘insider sources’ against IPIC, as a further attempt to give credence to the value of the bogus units in 1MDB’s Brazen Sky (allegedly representing a billion ‘redeemed’ from the PetroSaudi venture, via a Cayman Island ‘investment’) and also to money apparently missing from 1MDB Global. IPIC had secretly agreed to buy the units, claimed the sources.  This way the sale of the units could be utilised by 1MDB to pay back what it owed IPIC! So, having gone through all this arbitration and reached a resounding victory in the settlement, Abu Dhabi has allegedly agreed to pay itself back behind the scenes rather than take the money from Malaysia: “According to senior financial and legal executives, the main hurdle was fund units amounting to US$2.43 billion (S$3.4 billion) held by two 1MDB subsidiaries, Brazen Sky and 1MDB Global Investments, that were guaranteed by IPIC subsidiary Aabar Investments PJS. Aabar had disputed the guarantee. To overcome the hurdle, 1MDB agreed to waive its right to claim from Aabar the US$2.43 billion guarantee. In return, Abu Dhabi arranged for an undisclosed entity domiciled in the Seychelles to buy the units from 1MDB at the guaranteed value, to be settled by deferred payments from this month to October 2022, said a senior financial executive familiar with the matter.” [Straits Times] As commentators are pointing out, this is an accusation that IPIC, which is a fund publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange, has agreed to participate in an illegal cover-up of a major theft from 1MDB and to secretly spend $2.43 billion on a valueless purchase, when it had appeared to have won a $1.2 billion settlement instead. The allegation puts this ‘amicable agreement’ at serious risk, various commentators are now saying, because IPIC will have to respond to such a reputational issue. Effectively, Najib’s spinners are trying to pretend that IPIC conceded in secret to everything they have publicly denied and are furtively paying up behind the scenes. It doesn’t get more far fetched than that and Najib’s supporters are acting like headless chickens. They should shut up, before IPIC takes its revenge. A quiet and dignified management of this embarrassing settlement would have been a far wiser approach, leaving the Finance Minister to consider his limited options for finding the money. He does not need these ministers digging themselves ever deeper into different holes, but it has made for some entertaining viewing for followers of 1MDB. SarawakReport : Election Crackdown On Democratic Freedom Of Speech! 29 April 2017 The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has clarified reports that social messaging app WhatsApp group administrators might face legal action if they fail to prevent the spread of false information in the group. “MCMC would like to explain to the public that all conversations in any group messaging applications like WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber, Telegram and such, are private. “Investigations will only be initiated if there are complaints against the contents shared in that group. “Hence, the public, whether they are the group administrator or member, should be careful in spreading news in their groups so that it does not become a case of spreading false information,” MCMC said in a statement posted on its Facebook page today. The commission reminded that disseminating false information is a crime under the law, such as Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act (CMA) 1998. Source: Election Crackdown On Democratic Freedom Of Speech!, malaysiakini Comment We may be pretending to be getting ready for a free and fair election, but watch what you say! This is because ‘spreading false news’ includes any ‘derogatory’ or ‘insulting’ remarks about the government in your private chat rooms! Anyone who claims, falsely, for example, that Najib is the most unpopular Prime Minister ever, will follow Tony Pua and others into the police station to explain remarks that threaten to overturn a democratically elected government. Because, whilst you have the democratic right to elect your government, the said government does not offer you the democratic right to over throw it!