Moment of Life

Tomorrow will be a new year for those celebrating it the Romans way. New resolutions, new aspirations are a norm for many who has been doing it every year without fail.

The past already gone,
do not cling onto it.
The future yet to come,
do not keep dreaming on it.


Live life the most everyday.
We do not know what will it be the next day.
Everyday is a good day if we can make it to be.
Some things are not within our control so let it be.

What in our mind is our own affairs.
We can managed and control it.
Let it be free from life's challenges.
Moment by moment.

Wishing all readers the best time of their life.
Every moment of it as you read this words. -Loka

Stranded in a Ferris Wheel

View from carriage of Eye on Malaysia

Carriage of Eye On Malaysia

Eye On Malaysia

Rescue mission for the stranded passengers of the Singapore Flyer

My family and I were on a large ferris wheel yesterday afternoon, in carriage 28 to be exact.

It went for six rounds under the afternoon sun at about 5.00pm. At that moment the Singapore Flyer went kaput and 173 people were stranded on the 165 metre high Ferris Wheel.

Well, lucky for us. We were riding a Ferris Wheel during that time alright but in a different one. We were in carriage 28 of the Eye On Malaysia in Melaka, not the one in Singapore.

There was a Singaporean family on carriage 29 and they must be thankful that they were in a Malaysian Ferris Wheel rather than the faulty Singaporean wheel. - Loka

Abhisit's political broom

Last night TV news showed Abhisit Vejjajiva the new Thai PM holding the broom to clean the Government House compound which was gate crashed and seized by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) for about four months. The place was left with much rubbish and awful sight caused by the forced occupation by PAD.

Abhisit will need more than a bigger and stronger broom to clean-up the state of affairs now afflicting Thailand. Being the third PM in a short span of four months he will need all the strength and support he can get to oversee the shambled economy and battered image of Thailand in the eyes of international community.

That will be easier said than done.

Even though he is reaching out to core supporters of former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra in his stronghold regions, that will be a very challenging task as Thaksin's is still remote controlling the recently turned opposition groups of former PMs Somchai Wongsawat and Samak Sundaravej.

To ensure he will sustain longer than his predecessors, maybe he need the broom to sweep away the bad luck afflicting the PM position in Thailand. - Loka

Abhisit boleh, Anwar macam mana?

Abhisit Vejjajiva dari Parti Demokratik sudah berjaya meraih sokongan dari ahli-ahli parlimen Thailand termasuk dari pihak lawan untuk dinobatkan sebagai Perdana Menteri apabila mendapat restu Raja Bhumipol nanti. Walaupun Abhisit mempunyai jumlah kerusi minoriti dalam parlimen, dia telah mempengaruhi sejumlah ahli parlimen pro-Thaksin untuk menukar kiblat ketaatan dan memberikan sokongan kepadanya untuk dipilih sebagai PM.

Mengambil kira perkembangan di Thailand sekarang, persoalan yang berlegar dalam minda pemerhati politik Malaysia ialah bilakah Anwar Ibrahim akan berjaya mendapatkan sokongan yang mencukupi dari ahli-ahli parlimen parti-parti dalam BN untuk merealisasikan hasrat beliau untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia?

Reaksi Menteri Luar Rais Yatim yang menyambut baik pelantikan Abhisit sebagai PM Thailand menimbulkan persoalan yang kedua iaitu adakah Rais Yatim akan juga mengalu-alukan pelantikan Anwar sebagai PM sekiranya Anwar berjaya menjadi PM melalui "pintu belakang" seperti yang dilakukan oleh Abhisit di Thailand iaitu tanpa menghadapi pilihanraya yang baru?

Ataupun ia hanyalah setakat cakap kosong dan untuk mensyokkan orang lain sahaja tetapi tak pernah jujur dengan segala yang di ucapkan. - Loka

-English version below-

Abhisit can, what about Anwar?

The leader of Democratic Party of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva who controls a minority seats in Parliament managed to secure enough support of some pro-Thaksin's parliamentarian to be elected the next Prime Minister fo Thailand. He will appointed PM once King Bhumipol gave his majesty's consent.

Taking note of the event in Thailand, the thoughts playing in the head of political observers in Malaysia is when will Anwar Ibrahim be able to draw enough support from some parliamentarians in BN parties to fulfil his dream to be PM of Malaysia?

Foreign Minster Rais Yatim positive response towards Abhisit's appointment will also give rise to another question. Is Rais prepared to welcome Anwar's appointment as PM even though it is through the "back door" just as Abhisit's in Thailand, without facing the electorates in a general election?

Or it's just empty talk to make others happy but was never intended to be honest in whatever spoken? - Loka

MCA Shadow Committee

Another small group of MCA members led by an academician Dr Daphne Loke teamed up today to form an Integrity Watch Group to oversee and monitor the development and performance of its leaders and related issues. These loose group of mostly obscure MCA members hopes to analyse issues concerning MCA and its leaders and then provide the necessary suggestions to improve the party.

With the current "tense" atmosphere between president Ong Tee Keat and deputy president Dr Chua Soi Lek, it will not escape the observation of members and outsiders that this group functions as a watch-dog on the various committee and bureaus within MCA especially the Government Policy Monitoring Committee headed by Soi Lek.

Is it possible that this new loose group, while claiming to be concerned members of MCA is actually a front to shadow the Government Policy Monitoring Committee's to ensure its' actions are within acceptable level of MCA? - Loka