Archive for April, 2009

My cousins who went to Tamil schools struggled, and the cousins that went to national schools did a bit better.

When I turn to the residents and ask them to file formal complaints against those who are just seeking to live off their back, for nothing, they shrug.
It is a familiar shrug and the answer the same. If I name names, I will upset people.

All for the ostentatious pay of RM750 per month. Seven hundred fifty ringgit. That is roughly five hours of teaching an undergraduate class.

We’ll lose our financial stability if we only serve as councilors, and we’ll lose momentum and energy if we have a day job.

The analysis is, and no minister in Umno’s old or new cabinet (Yes, Umno cabinet not Malaysian cabinet, because non-Umno members are just guests) will come out and say in direct language: It is not that Umno is weak or weaker, just that all the other component parties in the Peninsula are.