My Icom MK2G just gave me problem after I took the rig going mobile to Penang. It would switch off and on again for every 10 seconds. I checked the cable. Through checking found it to be OK, I suspected a capacitor's fault near the relay. I took it to an electronic shop belonging to my former student. He dared not open up the board as it was multi layered. He did not suspect the condenser. He asked me to take to someone who repairs hand phone and a walkie-talkie.  He gave me the phone number.

As I only have ten cent credit left I did not ring the number. I took it to one phone shop. I told the young man there to change a couple of capacitors which I bought from CB Electronic. Before he did it he warned me that the service charge will be RM20. I agreed. While waiting I went to have a lunch at Secret Recipe.

I went back to the shop to pick up my good. The boy said he can't open up the board. He showed me the parts that blocked the board. I took back the transceiver.

One of these days I will open up the board and will bring it to the phone shop to do the soldering work. I would not be able to do it  by myself even if I have the equipment. My blur sight and shaky hands could ruin the whole board.

The rig functions well in transmitting and receiving. At bad time it certainly can be used in spite of it's intermittent trip.

My other alternative is to take it to Thailand. There is a mechanic who seems to be good at repairing transceivers. He can't speak English and we can't speak Thai. Nevertheless we managed to send our messages across. It would take me almost a day's trip. The longest wait will be at the border checkpoint.

I have yet to make decision.

Would I buy a new rig ? Now my financial commitment mounts. I have to spend more than 1.5 monthly for my wife medical treatment. The dialysis is paid by the government but the other additional dialysis medicine, the transportation and other lab materials I used to monitor My wife health condition. The Acu-Check strips cost me about RM100. It also include the payment for the maid.

The shrinking real income would not permit me to spend 4K to 5K for a new equipment. I would prefer to have a high end transceiver if I could.

When food price  goes up I blamed the government. Who am I to blame when the price of ham radio equipment goes up ?

18/05/2012

Here I quote  from Free Mason "The true Mason labors for the benefit of those who are to come after him, and for the advancement and improvement of his race......To plant trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children.....".How would you react to my quoting the Mason ? You have two choices to make. The first is to attack me vigorously for quoting the phrase saying Mason is not our culture. The second is to look at what is said rather than who said it. The saying reflects the different between UMNO and DAP. UMNO would not labor for the benefit of those who are to come after him except for their own family. The DAP does labor for the benefit of the next generation, sacrificing themselves and willing even to go to prison, being tortured by the police and lost the parliamentary seats.

UMNO has been living in the comfort zone and have been sleeping for a very long time living to the civil servants to do the job. Once the civil servants are chosen from UMNO active members the decay began. Instead of laboring they start to think the easy way out to make money for themselves, play for the quick office and promotion. They don't have time to think of the future generation. They let the Malay youths become drug addicts and changing religious faiths, working together with the greedy people to rob land and left nothing for the next generation who will have to pay exorbitant rentals of their lodgings, and astronomical price for food and milk for their children.

There is so much different between an UMNO and DAP's symbol, namely a Kris and a Rocket. Isn't a kris  signify a symbol of the past and a rocket the future ? And look at UMNO's backside dancing. Saiful's giving his backside is actually nothing strange. UMNO is broadcasting to the world that the brain is at the bottom not at the top. For more than 50 years a large number of UMNO members have been sleeping like a log. And a man like Ibrahim Ali is still blind as a bat.

When facing with problems they would lose their minds and ran amok. If they can't foresee the future they will not be able to do so, ever. So they would behave like monkeys, like 'Beruk Kena Belacan'. Try to ask them what do they see in year 2035 and hear the answers. Would they say 'Forget the future...we will not be there anymore..' But Mahathir will be there and all of us will die by then. DAP's direction will not be lost. UMNO Ministers will be fugitive running from their pursuers. A few of them will be buried in foreign land like Argentina.

Though education does not promise success it has to be a prerequisite to be a politician. A chief Minister and all Ministers should be well educated and at all time updating themselves the latest global development. They must be taught not to think with their buts and avoid behaving like one.

The Malays who still hope for UMNO to protect them will be disappointed and will sadly regret perpetually.  Vultures care to eat rather than to think. They hire people to think for them. And those thinkers only think how to make UMNO retain the the government. It lets Ghani Patail  thinks for them. It seeks the police help and advice.

If UMNO could have thought straight Bank Bumi and Perwaja will not go bankrupt, Takaful will not be sold to Hong Leong, properties will not be sold to foreigners, the Malays will not depend on drugs to live and MAS & PROTON would not be in CRITICAL CONDITION.

I pity the ex-police and military personnel who had shown their devotion to the government and end their remaining lives in hardship and poverty. High ranking Jusa officers enjoy fat pensions and the lower rank officers are suffering to make ends meet. One former officer cried foul and said before he dies, "This is what I get for my devotion." He had to sell Nasi Lemak to finance his kid to university.  And many former UMNO gangsters who get access in a few business dealings are now finding themselves kicked away. The new UMNO men get a new group.

Short sightedness weakened a race. UMNO can never stop the growing power and strength of the DAP. While one is nurturing and professing corruption the other is nurturing ideas for the security and well being of the future generation. The above quotation is not owned by Mason. Mason mentioned great names including Prophet Mohammed who had worked not for themselves but for the future of the generations to come.

17/05/2012

I have retired as a teacher since almost ten years. Everywhere I go people called me 'Cikgu' which means 'a teacher'. Almost all the food stalls I went to eventually addressed me with the title. My students and their children feel comfortable with it.

Tomorrow will be the Teacher's Day. I would like to wish all the teachers Happy Teachers Day and work hard and love all of the students as if they were the teachers kids. Forget the root, creed or race. There is nothing better than becoming a dedicated teacher.

My student bought a beautiful expensive hand bag for her kid's teacher."This is a special peson," she told me."She is an Indian teacher." I didn't ask her what's so special about that teacher. I know that she must be really special and lovable not only by the students but also by the parents.

At time I was wondering how could a teacher make the students love them so much. I felt sorry to myself that I am so lacking compared to these teachers. Many long to see their teachers at Re-Union parties. While some attended many could not make it. I could see sadness and unhappiness in the students' faces at their teachers absent.

I was never a good teacher. I was never kind. Yet a few remember me well. For this year I got a John Master shirt valued at RM170 as a present from one of them.

On the eve of this day one popular teacher passed away after being hit by a lorry. A few of his students shed tears of the sad news.

I have always want my students to be responsible citizens when they left school and grew up, kind to their parents, honest and to stay away from bad practices. God does not grant all of my wishes. But there are many successful ones.

I thank those who wished me luck. I am only an old retired teacher whose words are empty and ideas are archaic, mind of senility. I too would like to wish Happy Teachers Day.                                                              16/05/2012

THE LONELY SURAU

The Malays being poor sold away their land. Even those middle class could not resist the temptation. One by one chose money to land and in the end the whole village changed hands. BUT ONE. The surau was unsold. As the Muslims moved away the surau became empty. A few people maintain it and later turned it into Hong Leong agent selling Takaful.

Those owners of the houses who bought the land from the Malays in turned had to move out because big corporations used the Land Acquisition Act to acquire the whole area for bigger businesses. PERKASA stepped in to save the surau accusing the PAS government of property robbing. While surrounding the surau construction is starting the formerly holly house remained intact. It cease to be a real surau but rather a small wooden hut for a few caretakers to make money.

Who is to be blamed ? PAS ? First and foremost the Malays themselves are to be blamed for selling their lands and houses. By the time they moved out the surau will cease to be one because of it's emptiness. PAS ? Ask Mahathir who passed the amendment to the Land Acquisition Act ?

Next after the UMNO landslide victory I can assure you that this surau will disappear. And PERKASA will say something else.

What is the Kris doing in PERKASA ? It can't even defend Pulau Batu Puteh. It can't defend Melaka against the Portuguese, the Dutch and later the British imperialism.

The Kris is no match for the brain and mental prowess or the gun. The Malays can't defend on the Kris to protect and defend them. It has failed the Malays. By now UMNO should start thinking about  the Kris symbol on it's flag.

MIlitary strength owes it's power on weapons. Today it has gone beyond the hitech. It is more than a bomb. It is using alien technology. Economic and political power lies on the brain and attitudes. Thinking is better than listening to hearsays.

The Malays must know who are their enemies and try to shake them off. The enemy is not the Chinese nor the Indians but the ignorance, drugs on the streets, laziness, surrender to hardship and difficulties, corruptions and nepotism.

We can always build the nation together by building up a Malaysian unity. Quit using the Kris.                                                                        15/05/2012

FELDA has been a great news. Really I can't write anything about it. I never did any research. What I know is what I heard from people. But I knew very well the beginning of government's projects before Mahathir's era. FELDA was nothing other than to help the very poor Malays to rescue them from poverty. The settlers started hard and started poor. But many years later with the booming market and more dollars rolling in problems began to loom.

The government was controlling the sale and income, keeping part of the money and the rest given  to the settlers. When the coffer grew up the owners demanded for the return of their money. Frustrated with the ungrateful people, Tun Razak gave them back their money. From rags to riches many live like a Lord, purchasing luxuries and spent the money extravagantly.

Businessmen found FELDA an excellent ground for business. Drug pushers found FELDA as heaven. Intoxicated with the new found wealth the parents could not care less about their kids. There was a research done, which might be of interest to you. You can click it HERE to download it.

Today the settlers are having problem with the government. And the government with them. It is believed that FELDA will be sold out like that of  Bank Bumi and Takaful. Tabung HAJI sold it's Indonesian interest to Kuok. Takaful to Hong Leong. Someone else is ready to buy FELDA. Najib insisted that nothing will happen. The track record of UMNO was never good. UMNO has the track record of selling the Malays and want to do away with monarchy. Mahathir knows the story better.

The fun is FELDA was said to run at a lost. It was denied. Quietly it was borrowing from EPF. AND Najib threw RM15000 each to keep their mouth shut. And the settlers were happy and jumping with joy. They are going to give 64 parliamentary seats to BN to scratch Najib's back in return for the kindness.

The story of FELDA will never end. People can still picture a man using a ten ringgit note as a torch. Now the drug pushers are smiling with more money is pouring in. There are always vultures everywhere preying, from baby to king vultures. The bigger ones are looking for bigger bites. If by destiny FELDA  changed hand and the poor settlers realize the pinch BN guys will be laughing aloud. "Serve them right for being haughty and greedy..."

14/05/2012

I just came back from a wet market. I notice people were looking for the nearest location to park their cars. Not too a distant away there were many empty parking space and this guy was trying hard to squeeze in between cars. During the soccer game I saw people park their cars some at more than 1 KM away and walked to the stadium. I think park and walk is better than looking at the nearest walking distant. The farther you walk the better it is for your health.

Since we are too busy nowadays we should look at the opportunity to exercise ourselves. Many would stay back in their office till late night. If this goes on for months and years it would effect our health so  much. Park and walk is one of the chances we should take.

In Alor Setar there are still free parking areas. You can park somewhere along the railway station or in front of the stat mosque. Walking to Pekan Rabu, banks and super market would take us about 7 or 15 minutes depending on the distance. 15 minutes one way plus the walk in the supermarket would add up to about almost 60 minutes. That would be quite ample to replace the daily exercise. And choosing ladders to climb is always better than using the lift.

Already many people are aware of the health benefit of the Park & Walk. Besides we don't have to waste time looking for the best parking space. At least a dollar can be saved, which would add to about RM90 a month. Think what you can do with the RM90. Right now I save about RM45 for not buying newspapers, RM50 for not using ASTRO and a little of Park & Walk. The total amount could buy me a comfort of air conditioning or a meal of crabs and lobsters. One friend of mine said that I plucked money from a money tree, not knowing how money could be saved in various ways. And he was surprise to see me taking 'poinson' because I am a diabetic, not knowing my blood sugar level is below 6 just by a little exercise.

Walk & Park is a little exercise, and cutting grass is another, gardening squash our sweat out. But busy corporate people and dedicated officers don't have time for gardening or cutting grass. They must try to look for chances and opportunity. If not Park & Walk then climb the ladder of the office building. What if he is on the ground floor ? Still climb the ladder up to 7 or 8 storey and come back down using a lift.

12/05/2012

We have to remember that Haniff and his contemporaries are dying generation. They would think in the old fashion way and could not accept what the new generations are thinking. The word Communist is equivalent to hell and it means Chinese to them. The best example of a very close and narrow minded person is Ibrahim Ali. Didn't you hear him threatening the Chinese asking the later to keep food and ready for trouble. I would rather ask him to keep stock of food in case trouble happens. And he does not stop barking and yelling.

Communist eh ? Thousand of Malaysians are visiting China and Vietnam every year. We send student to Russia and invited the Russians and the Communist for the Bahasa Melayu Oratory contest. What has Haniff to say about it ? The American brothers of Haniff killed more people than any Muslim Al-Queda and the Communiist combined.

Just because he saw one Hishamuddin Rais he concluded the whole BERSIH was Communist.

I have said before that the police was systematic enough to photograph and video-tape assemblies. The younger generations are doing the same and they are sending out video clips to the world . And now our affair  has become an international interest. Our sovereignty is not an immunity to commit crime.

Why BN is trying to avoid the real issue. Ambiga and Anwar is not an issue at all. Without Anwar and Ambiga the fight for freedom and fairness will go on.  But it is about a fair and clean election, cleaning of electoral roll, about bringing foreigners to vote for UMNO, about multiple voting, about the mysterious postal votes, about open corruptions, the biggest of which is RM15000.

UMNO can still win a land slide with fairness and liberalism.

We don't need a country run by hooligans and criminals. It is indeed disturbing when UMNO is using thugs and hooligans to pursue the ambition.  And UMNO clearly shows of it's incivility and savagery.

Is Communist our real enemy today ? If Haniff couldn't think straight he should not be in the panel. In fact it is a waste of public resources and time for the government to probe into the incident. The rakyat already knows who started the ball rolling. There are tons of video clips that went viral. And tons of articles written by those who were at the scene.

The new Malaysians are different from what Haniff might have thought. They are more smart, more educated and more liberal in their thought. They are educated and civilize enough not to cause problems. They would find Haniff's statement about Communist as very hilarious.

It is true that Haniff has been one of the best IGP. criticize the government for recognizing China and have a business deal with them

But his statement kills it all. He showed bias from the beginning.

WHO ARE UNCIVILIZED ?

Who does Najib referred to when he said the uncivilized would ruin the nation ?

Between the nation and the Malays who is more important to Najib ? Who ruin Bank Bumiputera ? Who ruin Perwaja ? Who ruin MAS ? Who ruin the cow project ? Who killed Malay Reserve land ? Who sold the F$ jet engine away ? What happen to PKZ ? The listings are unending. They have been ruined even before the un-civilize rule the country.

Let's say the Bersih 3 guys are un-civilize what ethnic group they belong to ? And how about Adnan Yaacob and his famous 'F***k' action ? How about Shahrizat's threatening to show open her ??? by rolling her sarong up ? How about the numerous usage of gangsters to assault opposition ? How about the brutal murder of the Mongolian ?

 Oh we know that when the red shirts were outnumbered they dressed in yellow. They behaved like hooligans for the press to make people think they were the Bersih people. People has learned the trick of wolves in sheep's cloth. People know what False Flag is.

This is an image of civility

Najib should not make enemy with the people. They can still put him there. His enemy is the same as people's enemy. Those are the people who robbed our national coffer by the millions and billions. Those are the people who are working for drug cartel, dressed in government's uniform, to kill our future generations. Those are the people who are selling the Malays and their properties to the foreigners.He should slash those corrupted officers without fear, built our national integrity, inject moral and social responsibility, built a strong and intellectual citizens. What good of UMNO to tirelessly selling the words sex sex sex sex. Is that civility ?  People will put him there with full support.                               12/05/2012

Ask several Malays whether they tried to help the Malay businessmen. How many are happy with their endeavors ?

I went to Malay restaurants and at least 7 out of ten did not want me to go again. 7 out of 10 waiters and waitresses didn't even know what smiles and sweet faces mean. They didn't remember what you order. Bad attitude Malay workers are to be found everywhere. May be they think the business are not theirs.

The best to run any business is the Chinese. They know how to please their customers and you want to go to their shops for the second time. Even in these few days I have been comparing my dealing with a Chinese working in a hardware shop with the TM net people in my town. I bought a grass cutter and had to go back to the shop two time to seek assistance. The man was friendly and very helpful.

I went to TM point ordering a 4 mbps Iuternet and Phone package. I was told the fixing will be done within 48 hours. It took almost two days for the Tm people to arrive to install the internet. I asked the procedure to change passwords. One said that only the Wifi pass could be changed. I must not touch the rest. About two hours later after they went back I opened up the router with the usual 192.168.1.1 and altered the Wifi password. It resulted in the internet failure. I could not connect to the internet anymore. I rang up the Tm guys using the phone number on the TM document sheet.

\The boy scolded me for changing the password. He said he would come to reinstall the router the next day. The next day came. No one came. My repeated dialing were not answered. At about noon, I decide to go to TM Point with the hope someone would fix the modem.  At Tm Pont I asked the officer to install the modem again. "We don't have workers to to it," he said. He asked me to contact the group who came to fix the network. I learned that they were the third party people, different vendor. I told the man the software wasn't like any other modem software that I have had used to setup several of my modems before. And I am not going to contact those people anymore because I do not buy the service and the package from the third party people but from TM net. The officer rang and passed the phone to me. They promised to come to my house at 4 pm.

At 5.30 nobody came. I dialed 100. The reply was the same. TM asked me to contact the vendor. I gave the identical response. I did not buy the package from any vendor. I bought from TMnet. It is TM's responsibility to give them order.  Finally the officer agreed to call the vendor. A little about 20 minutes later three young people came, different from the original group. The phone number was not the one stated on the document. I knew that the original vendor picked by TM was given to someone else. We termed it sub and sub.

What if the Malays fail to make the grade and business begin to decline ? Are they going to blame the government or the non-Malays for their failures ? Or even the customers ?

To help the Malays in business is not to give them million of ringgit in grants. But to teach and train them in how to handle customers and their departments. They need to know what are the good and bad attitudes, responsibility and listening skill, and other things that are other than financial award.

10/05/2012

If you are a member of a secret society, a Mafia and a group of hooligans you have to abide by the rules and laws set out by the group. Failing which you may even be put to death. The members accept and obey them. The general public too needs law to protect and to facilitate their daily transactions and activities. The laws were enacted from time to time and their categories were recognized by the world. Laws made by a government is for the whole nation to obey and those made by the societies only belong to the organization.

The strength of the law lies either on the numbers or power. By the number it implies majority's acceptance and by the power is the backing of the police and the army. Parliament or Congress makes laws. The President could overwrite them. Obama, for instant, had overwrote American constitutions.

As anybody can enact acts, rules or laws there are also people who will not agree to those regulations. The Jews treated the gentiles differently. Hitler suppressed the Jews. The Americans had their own definition of terrorist. Foreclosure has never been agreed and accepted by the poor who have been ejected out of their own homes.

Repression occurs when people were barred to do something not stated in any rule, regulation or law. People were caught for wearing Yellow T-Shirt, arrested when the name Al-Tantuya was mentioned. But repressive law is also found in USA. Some are worse than what we have here. Those who question the 911 are regarded as terrorists and they may be picked at 3 am from their home by the police.

Those people would not know how the general public feel about the abrupt regulations they made. Now let us made a rule 'No Ministers are allowed to pass this road. The penalty for trespassing is one month in confinement with hard labor'. And a Minister wanted to use the pathway. You tell him of the law. What would he feel ? If he is alone, he would turn away. If he is with a police guard he will ram the barricade.

A law is to protect the general public, not an individual at the expense of the whole nation. Once it is passed nobody is above it. Do you notice in Malaysia there are several persons who are above the law ? Mahathir would not to go to court. Once we heard rumors that TUN has the special immunity not to present themselves at court hearings.

Today the spirit of the law has change it's course. Unjust law created to suit the few individuals or a political party.

The worse of the impasse had been resulted in the civil war. The unjust law that cause the American War of Independence. The most unjust is the law that permits the robbing of people's land under the name of development.

07/05/2012

After dinner I called CQ on 7.043. Nobody came back. The CW portion was full of pirates. I switched to 15 meter band. The band was quiet as a grave yard. Then I went to 20 meter. On the phone side there were several stations. I moved to the CW and heard quite a number. I parked at 14.009 and called CQ. After two calls HS0OAG responded.  The speed was about 10 wpm because I called at that speed with a pause to every character and a longer pause to every word. Nipon too was using half size G5RV but with a higher power. I was on 50 watts and he was running 100 watts. After some time we signed off.

Immediately after that I heard like somebody called me but a little off frequency because I was on the narrow filter. I used my RIT to have a comfortable copy. K6II. Cliff followed my phase and I prefer to stay at that speed. Though this is our first QSO the chit chat was quite some time, Steve worked with ESSO and had been to Kuala Lumpur and Penang several time. He is now 72 years old. And I told him about my one and half years of schooling at Bloomington Indiana in the early 80's.

Unlike the Thai station Cliff signed out without asking for a QSL and I too did the same.

Both stations were logged at my server. Both can check our contact details.

I am very glad CW has been alive and kicking. Monitoring 15 meter band in the afternoon and early evening we can hear thousand of Japanese hams on their keys.

06/05/2011

" Unjust law is no law at all"

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority compels a minority group to obey, but does not make binding on itself."

IRRESPONSIBLE LIES

I don't remember the url where I picked up the blatant article shown below. It is disgusting and shameful. Believe me all what is written below is only imaginary and false.

 French prosecutors: Najib sought US$1bil for Perimekar

  - Aidila Razak
  - Malaysiakini
  - 12:45PM May 3, 2012

French public prosecutors probing shoddy deals in the French-Malaysian arms deals found evidence that then-defence minister Najib Abdul Razak had sought US$1 billion (RM3 billion) for local company Perimekar from French shipmaker DCN's subsidiary DCNI.

According to prosecution papers revealed by NGO Suaram today, a fax shows that Najib had asked for the amount for Perimekar as a condition for a meeting with him on July 14, 2001.

The fax dated June 1, 2001 was from Francois Dupont, the Malaysian representative for private company Thales Asia International, to one D Arnaud.

The document, one of 153 shown to Suaram, was seized by French police from the office of Henri Gide, an officer with Thales.The actual copy of the fax was, however, not provided to media at the press conference today as Suaram was not allowed to take the documents out of France.

Instead, the NGO, which is pursuing a civil complaint against state-owned DCN for allegedly paying 114 million euros in defence kickbacks to Perimekar, provided media with notes by its French interpreter.

According to the notes, Dupont had in the fax detailed out chronology of visits and future actions during a visit to Malaysia, including details of “negotiation meetings with the Ministry of Defence and the management members of Perimekar”.

“(In the negotiations) two contract proposals would be mentioned (from DCNI to Perimekar as well as between Perimekar and the Malaysian government).

“(Dupont) finally indicated a meeting with Datuk Seri Najib in France on July 14, 2001 with the condition that DCNI offers a maximum sum of US$1billion for Perimekar’s stay (in France,” it read. Perimekar is owned by Najib’s associate Abdul Razak Baginda, who was acquitted without his defence being called of a charge of abetting in the murder of Mongolian Altantuuyaa Shariibuu.

Razak Baginda’s company paid 360,000 euros

Suaram added that another document obtained by the prosecutors also revealed that Terasasai Sdn Bhd was a company owned by Abdul Razak and his father. French prosecutors had investigated the matter following a civil complaint by Suaram against the alleged 114 million euros (RM454 million) kickback paid by French state-owned arms dealer DCN.

Prosecutors had on Aug 22, 2011 obtained an invoice faxed to Terasasi Sdn Bhd on Sep 19, 2004 to then-Thales chief executive officer Bernard Baiocco for the purpose of “success fees”.

The invoice states that the 359,450 euros (RM1.43 million) was to be paid to a bank in Petaling Jaya, while a handwritten note on the fax reads:

“*Razak demande si ce SF peut etre pris en compte assez vite. Le Support Fee suit avec un rapport *(Razak is asking whether the SF can be paid into the account quite urgently. The support fee follows with a report.)”

However, Suaram director Cynthia Gabriel said that prosecutors are still trying to determine if the ‘Razak’ stated in the note refers to Najib or Abdul Razak.

‘The Great Malaysian Robbery’ Referring to the case as “the Great Malaysian Robbery”, Cynthia said the prosecutors also found “a slew of companies” were formed to muddy the money trail.“More retro-commissions have surfaced allowing the misuse of such bodies as a pilgrimage fund (Lembaga Tabung Haji) and the military pension fund (Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera).

“The Malaysian and French people have clearly been misled, cheated and robbed of their monies through blatant corruption and mismanagement of
funds in the name of national safety and security,” Cynthia (*right*) said.

As such, Suaram demanded that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission open investigation papers on these new revelations and for the Malaysian government to cooperate with the French inquiry.

It also demands that the Defence Ministry list out to Parliament the companies involved in the procurement process involving DCN and the commissions paid.

 *...and FLOM won't be going shopping there for quite a while!*
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Paris court can issue arrest warrant if subpoena rejected

  - Aidila Razak
  - 1:30PM May 3, 2012

An international arrest warrant can be issued by a French judge if a witness refuses to assist in an inquiry following the issuance of a subpoena.

[image: NONE]According to French lawyer Joseph Breham (*right*), who is acting on behalf of Malaysian NGO Suaram on the civil complaint on the multi-million ringgit arms kickbacks, a "red alert" can be sent to Interpol as a last resort.

"If the witness refuses to abide by the subpoena, the court can issue a notice *mandat d'amener*, compelling the witness to appear before it. If the witness (still) fails to oblige, a warrant of arrest may be issued.

"The warrant of arrest is applicable within the French territory, and may be internationalised, if the judge deems it necessary."

Last month, Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said *neither he nor anyone from his ministry would assist* <http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/195932> in the French inquiry.

Zahid was named in the list of seven witnesses proposed by Suaram, which was accepted by French investigating judge Roger Le Loire.However, this does not mean that all seven witnesses, including Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his associate Abdul Razak Baginda will be subpoenaed by the inquiry.Criminal charges soon The judge is currently in the process of issuing subpoenas.

[image: NONE]“The judge did indicate that Abdul Razak Baginda is a key person (in the case),” Suaram director Cynthia Gabriel (*left*) told a press conference today.

Reading out Breham’s explanation to media, Suaram activist and lawyer Fadiah Nadwa Fikri added Breham was also informed that criminal charges will be brought upon those involved in the kickbacks.

Fadiah said that French prosecutors told Suaram’s lawyers that it is about to conclude criminal investigations, separate to Suaram’s complaint, on the same matter.“The civil case has given birth to a criminal investigation. The prosecutors have told our lawyers that criminal charges will be brought soon,” she said, although it is unclear who will be charged and when.The scandal involving DCN is also linked to prominent French politicians.
05/05/2012

LET'S HAVE GE13 QUICK

UMNO should stop talking about BERSIH. It should quickly start cleaning up the electoral roll  and announce the election date. Voters are impatient to go to the polling stations. The faster the better. After all Najib's popularity has hit over 65% mark and continue to raise. Mahyuddin riding a motorcycle with the kampong folks already gave him 100% of Malay vote. Morover BN government had given much to the rakyat and I am sure the rakyat would not forget the kindness.

There is a little chance for the Malays to remember or aware how UMNO had sold the country and the Malay race. And the educated would not remember the list of sinful acts and poor management of the country that lead to the missing jet engine, the demise of Bank Bumi and Perwaja, the failure of drug busters, the missing billions. I am sure media has play it's best role to control people's mind. Most of all UMNO and WANITA has claimed the party has millions of members and supporters. Wasn't BERSIH's rally was only a trivial matter ? Didn't the participants said they went out just to enjoy the picnic.

BN can relax and prepare for a another win and a big celebration.

05/05/2012

DISUNITY IN HAM WORLD

I live in a small world. I don't look outside and over people's shoulder to find out whatever happens to the outside world. My knowledge was gathered from the web site. Even this  is confined to only a few the addresses. Other news came from friends and phone calls or during a rare eyeballing. I don't have time to pay attention to things that do not interest me and things of no value. If you write a blog to attack and discredit me I would not know about it and I don't care how much you demonize me. It is of my belief that whatever bad things we say about others will be bounced back to us. The re-bouncing effect phenomena.

May be I was designed that way. During my college days I would stay foot at the same dinner table  wearing the same colored shirt till the end of the college days. If I park my radio on 7.043 I will stay there almost the whole day no matter what.

Being unknown or unpopular does not strip me of anything. I don't have to have a thousand friends to make me happy. One good friend is better than a thousand bad ones.  I don't believe in gathering all sort of people to be friends. There are  those you can just talk and forget. There are those you can talk and bring back home. There are people we should totally avoid .

Within my small world I heard all sort of stories about people in amateur radio. I was not surprise at many of them. I knew from the beginning it will happen. When bad things happen I would trace back to the root, the source of the problem. I would form my own opinion of persons concerned , right or wrong. They would hide their hands after the damage was done.

My big question is who was responsible for bringing MARTS to the brim of death, pushing it into the quicksand and then  walked away leaving the society choked ? They don't have even an atom of guilt for the major disaster they created. I heard unthinkable and incredible stories. Were the old hams stupid enough not to do things as what the people of today does ?

People who championed the radio pirates are just people who championed drugs and gay,  nothing less. People who defend recklessness and rudeness on the band are the same as the murderers and terrorists. In no time hams could be composed of hooligans and normal people. They terrorize the DX band and people they don't like.  The new authority is too very liberal to stop the vicious operators from running amok. And it cannot sympathize with illegal operators who openly broke rules.

And societies are not in unison like the breaking up of religious sects. Tracing the root of each new ones they did not show a good history. They were the history of splits and disagreements. There didn't seem to put any effort to work for and towards the common cause namely to enhance the glory , the standard and the sanctity of Malaysian amateur radio, for the general betterment of amateur radio. Instead there is a new trend in the world of ham radio now; the want and competition to make money out of the hobby. The none pecuniary motive of ham radio is always cherished and remembered.

A HAM has the right to be a member of any radio club and society. At any point of time he can be at any club of his choice regardless whether we like the not. If the two clubs or their members were having activities at the same time, you being a member of all the clubs, have the prerogative to join the activity of your choice. And what right do I have to command you to attend anyone.

It is best for a ham not to ask his friends the society and the political party they belong to, like a teacher who don't want to know the kid's father political belief. If you are running a free CW class you must not restrict your students base on their society's memberships. But you do it for the sake of amateur radio. WE CAN'T AFFORD TO HAVE A MOSQUE FOR MARES, ONE FOR ASTRA AND ONE FOR MARTS. In one university in USA there is a building where the Muslims, Christians, Jews and Hindu go for the prayer.

Now that we are going to have a SEANET again we don't want it to be a flop. It should have been the work of everyone to organize it not a mere one society. You just notice if it fails to be the really successful one there will be a fierce defiance by the organizer to reject the blame. If it turns out to be a success there will be someone who will brag his capability and ability. I don't know whether all the radio societies were called to discuss it.

So we have all sort of people in amateur radio. I can't imagine what I will hear if I walk out from my confinement and open my ears to the whole world. And what I fear most is that the MCMC would agree to things like people seek to change the content of the Koran to fit the new society.

05/05/2012

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04/05/2012

MARTS's repeater in northern states cease to function but one on Gunung Jerai. Kedah and Perlis could access the National Link for quite some time. When we went to Penang yesterday we were told even Penang is down too. I stopped using the National Link even before it went down because there were irresponsible people who were jamming conversations. Educational topics seemed to be hated by those morons whom I considered a pest. The rudeness were never known during the years before class B. This was one of the repeaters which hams could use English to chat.

The advantage of using repeater is that I don't have to have complicated antenna system and high powered rig to talk to distant stations on very high frequency. The noise is almost nil as compared to HF communication. The best of all people can communicate using a small portable transceivers. The ease of mobility and portability made repeater communication is utmost sought for.

A ham repeater when put up can be used by any license operator . There is no question of payment nor membership. It has to be used with courtesy, ethical and in a civilize manner. The need of high civility that requires hams with ethics and morality. If not there will be unending rouge behavior disturbing the users. Ham radio would cease to be a novel hobby.

When there is no more fun and joy there will be lack of interest to put the kaput repeater in order again. It will be left unfixed for years on end.

My regular contact was with 9W2KB, Khoo, from Penang. I tried to teach him CW on the repeater starting at about 5.15 am not to disturb other disinterested people. I stopped the session after hearing a wild news about the abandonment of the Morse. I felt very desperate because without it ham radio will be just like any other radio and ready to bury my radios into the sea bed. Later I heard the repeater went down and nothing was done till today. I lost contact with Khoo.

ASTRA's repeater is active and being used every minute. That keeps the repeater healthy and hamming lively. I did not join because I felt let those other many hams enjoying it. I have other frequencies and mode to go.

Scanning around while on the way to Penang I found the repeater at Gunung Jerai works. My friend 9W2TZ had been telling me that it did not produce intelligle audio. I tried to call Khoo while mobiling and he replied with a fair clarity. At home with a better antenna I tried to call Khoo again. He came back  with a good audio quality without any problem.

Now when I work on my computer I would park on 146.262.50 and 7.043 in case someone were to find me to talk with.

May be the 9Ws are getting matured now and would not cause deliberate disturbance and value courtesy and ethics. If it is so we welcome the fixing back of the National Link MART's repeater.

04/05/2012

Scientists, engineers, architects and many other professions give attention to colors. Each seems to signify a certain meaning and purpose. The whole world uses RED, YELLOW and GREEN for the traffic light. Malaysia could choose to be different to choose BLUE, WHITE and RED to replace the generic traffic light colors. And RED always indicate danger. Why not use green to indicate alertness or danger ? It can also symbolize bravery.

Once upon a time Malaysia ban green to be used by government departments. To Mahathir then green means a political party of PAS. He should have painted his house and cars blue, and wear blue and white dress. I don't care much about colors though I like bright colored shirts like red. Lately green attract me very much.

Colors can make environment lively or dull. I have yet to see housing estates painted in bright red, green or blue. Buildings seem to be nice with any light color. Police stations are painted blue. Firemen go for red. And BERSIH go for YELLOW.

I don't know why BERSIH went for yellow. Would it signifies something ? I don't know. I just want to see how a web page with YELLOW-BLACK looks like. I am in no position to judge it. How about RED-WHITE ? NO. Not red-white because I don't want to associate it with Wanita UMNO. I don't like Shahrizat when she said she could roll up her RED sarong, and the rest of the women jumped with joy. Those ladies lost their grace. Pomposity turned many men off.

Are colors quarks or photons ? Don't we wonder what particles are there to make it yellow, red or green ? Is it just the various intensity of white light ?

We are made confused by artists who told us there are cyan, rgb, pantone and others ? What are they ? Whatever colors are beautiful. They will become filthy when dirty people use on them

04/05/2012