Gomen Already Grinding To A Halt : SPM Results Delayed, No Money For Scanner.- From around the blogs

Before you read the news, folks say that Universiti Putra Malaysia also has budget to pay salaries of their staff only until August this year. So far no one knows if the gomen will table a Supplementary Budget for the period after August.

Here is some news which says that this year's SPM results will be delayed by two weeks because the Lembaga Peperiksaan has no money to purchase a new OMR scanner to grade the examination papers.

*Mesin semak jawapan rosak, LP tunda umum keputusan SPM 2016*

KUALA LUMPUR: Kerosakan mesin pemprosesan pembaca tanda optik (OMR) dan kekangan kewangan membaik pulih mesin berkenaan, menyebabkan Lembaga Peperiksaan (LP) terpaksa menunda pengumuman analisis keputusan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2016.

Berdasarkan surat pekeliling dikeluarkan bertarikh 12 Februari 2017 yang ditanda tangani Pengarah LP, Datin Nawal Salleh, pengumuman analisis keputusan SPM 2016 yang sepatutnya diadakan pada 2 Mac, terpaksa ditunda kepada 16 Mac ini.

Surat pekeliling yang salinannya turut berikan kepada Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran, Pengarah Peperiksaan dan Pengarah Perancangan Dasar Pendidikan itu menyatakan mesin pemprosesan OMR yang sedang digunakan LP uzur dan rosak sekali gus menuntut untuk diganti.

"Namun LP menghadapi kekangan peruntukan kewangan menggantikan mesin berkenaan dan hanya boleh dibaiki."

Ini menyebabkan tugas berkaitan pemprosesan data tertangguh untuk kerja membaiki mesin berkenaan, " katanya.

Timbalan Menteri Pendidikan, Datuk P Kamalanathan ketika dihubungi berkata, perkara berkenaan perlu disiasat.

My comments : There is very poor maintenance culture everywhere in Malaysia especially in the gomen. When the oil price was US70 per barrel or US100 per barrel, they will just call the supplier (possibly a crony) and a new OMR machine would arrive within days, possibly at two times or three times the market price. Why bother repairing or maintaining it when you can just buy a new machine?


If you are rich, why bother changing the tyres on your car? Just trade in the car for a new one.

Now when the oil prices have crashed, so much money has been stolen by MOI and the gomen has no more money, the gomen people are beginning to realise that they do not even know how to change a lightbulb.

"Namun LP menghadapi kekangan peruntukan kewangan menggantikan mesin berkenaan dan hanya boleh dibaiki."

The solution? The SPM results will be delayed by two weeks.
Why not just delay it by an even one month - lagi senang nak kira.
Tak payah fikir banyak.

The Surat Pekeliling is dated 12hb February 2017? But the SPM exams were completed last November (??)

Have the machines been working hard since November 2016 or did the Pengarah woman just turn on the machine in February 2017 and found out that the machines sudah rosak?

Its already happening folks. They will drive their cars until the fuel runs out. Then they will get down from their cars, just stand there and stare, not knowing what else to do.

This is happening already.

More party resignations? That’s news to Guan Eng

He says there is also no evidence that two more senior DAP politicians in Selangor and Johor are leaving the party

GEORGE TOWN: DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has confidently dismissed predictions that more members will leave the party.
He said DAP was unfazed by the resignation of four elected representatives in Malacca over the weekend.
“I am sure our members will stick with the party. The majority of DAP members in Malacca have also indicated support for the leadership,” Lim told FMT today.
On Sunday, Kota Melaka MP Sim Tong Him and state assembly members Goh Leong San, Lim Jak Wong and Chin Choong Seong quit the party claiming loss of confidence in the party’s leadership, which they said had moved away from its original objectives.

They may stand as independent candidates in the next polls.
Lim said the Malacca episode was an isolated one and is unlikely to be repeated.
“The resignations were due to the personal grievances of the Gang of Four as a result of their defeat and rejection by Malacca DAP members in the 2015 party elections.” he said.
Lim said he had also not heard of anything to support the prediction that two more senior DAP politicians in Selangor and Johor were leaving the party.
“Let’s see whether BN can orchestrate the end of DAP because this is news to us.
“But if it does not happen, then BN has a lot of explaining to do.”
Recently, Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim, who was formerly DAP vice-chairman, claimed two DAP loyalists from Selangor and Johor would be leaving the party next to signal “the beginning of the end for DAP”.


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Best for DAP if those who do not belief in the Malaysia for Malaysians struggle leave now because if they stay back can sabotage the next GE14 for DAP and the opposition. Please do not stop them and just thank them for doing DAP a favour by leaving DAP now than later

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Najib’s secret weapons - If only they work

From around the blogs https://www.mariammokhtar.com Mariam Mokhtar - The woman the Ulama - UMNO and PAS fear most with also Siti Kassim another fearless woman what walk the talk



Najib Abdul Razak has two powerful secret weapons to control Muslims, in particular the Malays. It is for Malaysians – yes you – to destroy them!

He is scared of ‘Aunties’ like Maria Chin Abdullah, the leader of Bersih, whom he arrested and placed for 10 days in solitary confinement. He hounded the dance choreographer, Bilqis Hijjas, who released yellow balloons which landed close to him. Umno-Baru thugs, thrashed Zunar’s exhibition, in Penang. The same thugs which stormed the Penang state assembly in 2014.

Najib uses the state machinery, like the inspector-general of police (IGP), the civil service and the judiciary, to do his bidding.

The on-off secret weapon

One secret weapon is the PAS president, Hadi Awang.
When Najib has bad news to hide, Hadi’s hudud bill is used to maximum effect, to put the fear of God in Malays.
Last May, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Good Star Limited was owned by Jho Low. Several hundred millions of ringgits of taxpayer’s money had been sent to Good Star, and then redirected to Najib’s personal account.
Najib needed a distraction. Enter Hadi’s hudud bill.
He also used this bill, to distract us, when we were angry over Maria’s detention, last November

Three sets of laws

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Azalina Othman Said, moved Hadi’s bill from the bottom of the list, to the top of the pile, last year.
With her legal background, Azalina should have known that this bill goes against the Federal Constitution.
A nation cannot be ruled by three sets of laws. Civil law, syariah law and one for the élite.

‘You help me, I help you’ in Kelantan

Najib will collude with Hadi, and use Islam as the proverbial whip.
Umno-Baru hopes to be returned to power, but they need Hadi’s help. The hudud bill, in Kelantan, is the price Umno-Baru must pay for this help; but be warned, hudud is like a cancer, if not excised, it will spread throughout the country.
Muslims are afraid to speak out, with the millstone of Islam weighing them down.
 

If you became the PM, what 10 things would you immediately ban?

Thanks to Mariam Mokhtar https://www.mariammokhtar.com and she is one lady I respect her for her views on making Malaysia a better place to live. and also a damn smart lady to come up with the below wish list. I could not do any better if I tried

You are fed up with Malaysian politics. Let us imagine that you have just become the prime minister of Malaysia. On your first day in office, what would you ban?

This is my to-do list. What’s yours?

 

Ulamas

The ulamas are the root of Malaysia’s problem. Some of them distort Islam and encourage us to practise racism and misogyny. They are more interested in the after-life, than life on Earth. Many claim that the Malay women are destined for hell. What can a woman expect in heaven, 72 studs? One man is a handful, but 72? One popular ustaz, claimed that women, who go to heaven, will be rewarded with an unlimited number of kitchen utensils, Pyrex, and gold bangles. Hell seems preferable.

Umno-Baru and PAS

Umno Baru/PAS politicians for using the ulamas to further their aims, of driving a wedge in multi-racial and multi-cultural Malaysia.

The IGP

He prefers to tweet, and enjoys catching cartoonists, Bersih and human rights activists instead of catching thieves.

Traffic police and JPJ roadblocks.

If the law was properly enforced, why are lorries and buses which are not road-worthy on the roads, people who have no driving licence driving cars, and drivers who have convictions for drug-taking and traffic violations driving buses? People who mis-use the emergency lanes, are not given stiff jail sentences, nor heavily fined, and their licences revoked .

“Datuks”

Datukships are being “donated” to thugs, gang leaders and people who are obnoxious, arrogant and abusive, who think a Datuk ship permits them to get away with crime, including beating people up, accepting donations and murder.

Little Napoleons

These people are in charge of public services but their service is far from exemplary. Rude, officious, abusive, petty-mindedness, arrogant are some of the nicer descriptions which the public use, after meeting them.

The moral police

Do we need our private lives to be controlled by lechers who are taxpayer funded, voyeurs? Dirty old men being paid for by the state to satisfy their perversions.

Hypocritical Politicians

These include politicians who drive Porsches but tell the rest of the rakyat, to use kapcais, camels or Protons. We want politicians who do not squander taxpayers’ money, or steal from the public purse.

Children of politicians/civil servants

Some of them think that being decked-out in their bling, luxury watches, designer clothes, while driving imported sports cars, enables them to lord it over you. They see no conflict of interest in owning companies which will compromise the official public roles of their mamas and papas.

Spouses

Especially those who are considered the power behind the throne, and fly from one shopping mall capital, in the world, to another, buying up gems and bags which are so airy, that they can hold many kitchen sinks at once.

What if I don’t want to be PM?

You may not be interested, but you have the power to change how we are run in GE-14.


Use your vote wisely.

SABAH TURMOIL: MUSA TO CALL ELECTIONS IN APRIL – PENANG & SELANGOR TO JOIN IN? SABAH GOVERNOR POST FOR MUSA, IF HE AGREES TO POWER TRANSITION WITH NAJIB?

This is from Apanama’s Blog here :

http://www.apanama.my/2017/02/sabah-state-election-in-april.html?m=1

 

 

Sabah early election, probably two months
BN move to test political undercurrents
decision made for Sabah, by Putrajaya.

Candies and cookies to woo voters.
worth at least a few billion ringgit.
Santa Claus long before Christmas this year.

60 state seats

BN 48 state constituencies
Musa has been CM for 14 years.
on his way out.
removing Musa breath of fresh air

senior minister tendered resignation due to 1MDB scandal
streams of denials and ridicule.

Zahid Hamidi announced minister who tendered resignation NOT Anifah Aman

Why focus on Anifah Aman?
Azmin did not name Anifah.

Salleh Keruak and Rahman Dahlan increasingly impatient.

Anifah quiet lately
impending resignation put on hold after FDI by prime minister

2 hour negotiation in KL put things on hold
pending outcome of ongoing horse trading

Ketua Pemuda Umno Malaysia post for CM’s son
CM could be next Governor of Sabah.

Anifah may not last with a new state BN leader

 

local sentiment favours Hajiji Noor (Sulaman state assemblyman)
well liked leader who is capable of being game changer

“Rahman Dahlan is not even part of the equation”

cannot rule Musa Aman and Shafie Apdal bury the hatchet.
Politics is the art of the impossible
Whether election in April as planned or with peninsula in Sept/Oct
Who dares rule out Shafie Apdal as next Chief Minister of Sabah?

My comments : Talk is the PRU14 will be held after the SEA Games in August (??)

They are going to “make sure” that Malaysia wins if not all then maximum gold medals. TV and media will be playing the “feel good” news again and again for a week. Then when the folks are feeling good they will suspend Parliament and declare the General Elecions. That is the game plan, maybe.

The BN has to move quickly in Sabah because Shafie Apdal is getting stronger by the day. There was talk of a small hiccup in Shafie’s momentum but now with the rumours about Anifah Aman wanting to resign, Shafie is back on top again.

So it really does not matter if they will have the Sabah state elections in April.

 

 

And yes if Musa Aman is slated for the cowshed, he may make an alliance with Shafie Apdal. Why not?

Here is the nightmare scenario for BN – what if Musa Aman makes a private and quiet deal with Shafie Apdal? Meaning it will not be known in public. “Satu untuk engkau, dua untuk aku”.

There could be a show stealer if both Penang and Selangor also dissolve their Assemblies and go for an election. My feeling is both Penang and Selangor will see the Pakatan securing a greater number of seats. And PAS will lose big, very big losses.

If that happens UMNO will have to reconsider how many seats they want to share with PAS. It will also give greater boost to Bersatu and Amanah to go after more PAS held seats (State and Parliament) in the PRU14. PAS will also drop the RUU355, hudood etc.

If the BN loses Penang, Selangor and Sabah (or loses many seats in Sabah) then MOI may decide to abolish the GST BEFORE the PRU14 in September or October. Even totally abolish import duties, taxes and APs for automobiles. Consumer prices will come crashing down. People will be happy.

– http://syedsoutsidethebox.blogspot.my/


Benhurplugup  Comments

deal or no deal , BN is on the way out and will be lucky if it wins 5 to10 state seats . This is going to happen same as what Berjaya did to USNO and PBS did to Berjaya and this time Warrisan will kick out BN by itself if PH dose not want to play ball with Warrisan. For Musa Aman no deal can save hime. End of Sabah fixed deposit. Fixed deposit maturity have arrived and time for a full withdrawal

 

WHO’S PISSING WHO OFF: YOUNG MALAYSIAN CHINESE DON’T CARE ABOUT POLITICS? SERIOUSLY?

Years ago there was a “notion” among Malaysians especially Malays that Malaysian Chinese were not interested in politics, didn’t care who ruled the country and didn’t give a hoot what happened, as long as they were “free to do business and make a lot of money.”

That so called “notion” was not backed with evidence, of course, and could have been furthest from the truth. But, that was the “general impression” those days. Perhaps the Chinese themselves encouraged the moulding of such an impression with their action or lack of it rather.

Then things changed, should I say, for the better. The community showed they really cared for the nation. They wanted to have a say in politics, on how things ought to be done for their own benefit and that of fellow Malaysians, regardless of the political parties they supported.

And that’s how it is until now.

But a few days ago, PKR president Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Ismail said in an interview with Sin Chew Daily that her party’s survey showed that young Chinese are somehow reluctant to go to the polls with many of them “don’t even register as voters”.

According to Wan Azizah, only 13% of Chinese youths aged between 21 and 29 have registered as voters, compared to 80% of Malays in the same age bracket.

It’s a given that she’s concerned because Pakatan Harapan deems the support of Chinese and non-Malays as crucial for them to win GE14, which many believe is to be held this year.

I’m not going to dwell into such concerns. Instead, I would like to put forth some questions.

Why the political apathy? Are young Chinese not interested in politics? To me, it’s yes and no.

Those not interested could be due to “lack of exposure”, or they simply don’t give a damn…

However, there are many who are interested in and fully aware of the current state of affairs in this country.

Take students for example. A big number of young Chinese pursuing tertiary education in the country are in private universities where “political activities are not felt ” compared to public varsities.

 

Still being internet savvy, these youngsters are not deprived of information and thus have their pulses on the goings-on.

Having said that, the question to ask is: are young Chinese satisfied with how things are run in this country? Or are they so contented that they feel it’s not necessary to change things via the ballot box, hence their unwillingness to register as voters?

I dare say that many Chinese, young or old, are not happy (to put it mildly) with government policies they see as discriminatory to non-Malays, or Malay-bias policies. They have always wanted all that to change.

Even pro-government Chinese feel that way, but they maintain “change must be from the inside”.

So, have the young given up seeking fair and balanced policies envisaged all this while? Or they have given up on the desire for change?

Or have they resigned to a “whatever” and “come what may” situation? No matter on which side of the fence they are on.

To Wan Azizah, Chinese youths’ indifference towards politics “has a lot to do with the current state of political affairs”.

The opposition leader did not elaborate. Nor did she give the specifics. At least not during the recent Sin Chew Daily interview.

Leaving that aside, I must say that of late our politicians from both sides of the political divide are making headlines for wrong reasons.

So, the big question to ask now is: are young Malaysian Chinese fed up with politics, or it’s the politicians that’s peeing them off, opposition as well as government?

And the bigger question is: who should first change their attitude? The young Chinese? Or politicians themselves?

– http://mysinchew.com.my

 

Comments - Showing displeasure by the way they are spending their hard earned money and business whoare baised to them suffer the most