cakap cakap...Mr Riza Shahriz Abdul Aziz. Son of the Prime Minister

In Malaysia, when you have political power, there are many many things you can do. Legal and illegal. Right and wrong. Evil and good. We have seen in the past that most of those with political power will try to hold on to that political power for as long as they can through whatever means at their disposal, legal and otherwise, and while doing so, they have  enjoyed the spoils of political office. 

Some more so than others!

From houses:

To cars

 To women

We thought we have seen it all after the children and family members of some past prime ministers became insanely wealthy but just when we think that even wealth has it's limits...along comes GREED. 

  

Greed is a concept that took time for many of us to fathom because with greed we need to get our heads around matters and issues that are foreign to many Malaysian. Spending million on flowers for a wedding is a concept that simply blows my mind.

 

 And bringing this much luggage on a two day trip to Turkey is also insane:

But that is what greed does to you! And Najib and Rosmah has got greed flowing out of every orifice of their greedy selves! 

And with greed comes many other odious things. ....bringing your step son (who is under investigation by the US Department of Justice for Kleptocracy running into the hundreds of millions) along with you on an official trip to China paid for by the people of Malaysia, is one of those odious things!

I understand that Najib and Rosmah are past caring what it is that they do while Najib is president of Umno and prime minister of Malaysia simply because they know that they are past the point of no return. They know that there is simply no decent and right way out  of the mess they are in now.....way too deep in their own shit to be able to get out of it by any means! China is just another means for them to satify their greed....BUT you and I know that greed can never be satisfied.

They are already in China, the MOU's are already being signed and soon they will be flying back to KL with the spoils of Najib's political manouvering. .....and one by one, all will be revealed by those who think they have not got as much of the political spoils as they deserved or as much as they have been promised by Najib.

Until then....kita tunggu!

 

cakap cakap....Father, mother and family.

This morning I so wanted to put my Mac away and see if there is life after blogging. For you see this blogging thing is consuming me, body, heart and soul....but it consumes me in a good way for every time one of you read what I write  I am energized and my resolve to work on my blog is renewed...but for how long can I keep this pace...for how long can I update this blog daily....sometimes many times daily? Some times you answer those questions yourselves as Alfred did when he commented on my piece yesterday "cakap cakap....LIFE"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alfred Gnana Rokiam

A beautiful piece of writing sir.You have aptly described what I feel. Tq for that. I visit your blog daily. This is the first time I m commenting here. Nice to meet you. Take care

Sometimes I answer those doubts myself by wanting to sit at my keyboard as soon as my work to tidy the remnants of a life lived yesterday without domestic help is done in the morning. I was awake at 6AM...and at my Mac by 8AM....telling myself that "This Keyboard soldier" is ready to rumble"....with that cup of Nescafe by my side....and the aroma of coffee wafting around the vicinity of my desk!

 

 And so my day, and the weekend, starts.

I was thinking about my parents this morning.....both aruahs...Hamid Latiff and Zaharah Ambak. These two were good people...good not because they are my parents...but good people in the sense that their life was lived for each other and us, their children. They were first cousins and knew each other from the time they were young....very young. Every family gatherings for them must have been wonderful times for they must have seen each other at these gatherings. When they did fell in love I do not know, for the era that my father comes from...these things are never discussed or mention to your children. Suffice to say that from what I see of their marriage I have endeavored to do the same with mine....always the family is your life....always, always and always. I am sure that the last conscious thoughts of my late father must have been of his wife, my mother. 

In thinking of them I also asked myself if how they have lived their life matters to others. In all these years of blogging, from time to time, I have had people tell me that they did work with my late father while he was in the Police.....and one phrase was always used to describe him "dia bukan cari makan punya orang"...meaning that he is not a corrupt police officer ....and his boss, Tun Haniff did tell me "Yr father was xMSS (Malayan Secret Service) which means that he was a good SB officer in the FMS police before WW2, was selected and taken out to join the MSS, a pan-Malayan super SB secret service formed hurriedly to face up to the looming Japanese invasion of Malaya".

My mother, God bless her soul, is not unlike my wife....or should I say my wife is like my mother! Their family is their world. Goodness, in every sense of the word, flows within them and in their every act in life. Oh yes my mother and my wife did have their disagreements with me but the fault, more often than not, was always mine. Those of you who have been reading what I write of my wife will know that she has had dementia for the last four years. She can no longer talk, walk or take care of herself...all this I and my son do willingly for her....but even in her present state she has never had time for self pity.....life is good.

As I said a paragragh ago....I have asked myself if how my father and mother lived their lives....in fact if how your own parents lived their lives....matters? Think of it.....does it really matters in the scheme of things that is now happening around you? If I am to be truthful to myself...I think not!

The lives of those that came before us matters to their immediate family circle - to their  children. In my case, from seeing how my parents lived their lives, I know that my wife is my life.....my children comes next....and beyond that circle it diminishes in importance as the ripples of life flows further. So go figure out for yourself if you should live your life for others! 

Okay that will do for now...I am getting too abstract in my thoughts! It's 9.22 AM and time to write about the things that you expect me to write....nudge nudge wink wink...you know and I know what that is! Lawan mesti lawan!               

 

Family comes First...always!

Emmett, Terrina, Izzy and Sofia.

                              LIFE (or the continuing story of Emmett, Terrina and Family)

                                           TERRINA                                EMMETT (left side)

                                                             BUTTERFINGERS
                                       
                                                         TERRINA & EMMETT

ISABEL in Adelaide

Isabel with Uncle Zack

MALAYSIA

CANADA

                                                       ISABEL INES &  SOFIA SARA

                                                                        ISABEL
                                                             SEPTEMBER 2010

                                      Our times in Bangsar Permai - 2005  or thereabouts!

It just past noon, Sunday. I am listening to Dayang Nurfaiza singing her beautiful song “Seandainya Masih Ada Cinta” ….my wife is in the living room having a late breakfast. My son Zack is in his room and I am happy to know that he is close by. This morning has been good. Images from Toronto from my daughter Terrina of her “two girls”…our grand daughters Izzy and Sofia. What more can I ask…my cup runneth over. First thing I did was to post images of Terrina and Emmet on my blog – images form the past and the present. Looking at them makes my heart aches to have them close to me but there are happy in Toronto –and if they are happy my wife and me are happy for them! I let my eyes get misty thinking of them – about how I miss them and love them so very much. I wonder if there are many of you who are now letting themselves get carried away because they are happy thinking of the people who are close to them – their wife, children, grand children….all those things that are important in life!

I think of my Father and Mother…long gone many many years ago and I wonder if my children will think of me many years from now when I too am gone? This is what life is about. My daughter had this in her facebook with images of her two girls “The reason why Life keeps going” and this after losing one of her dearest cousin two weeks back and another cousin lost her mother to cancer in KL at about the same time. 

In times like these I am ever so grateful that I could send my daughter our love this morning through Facebook…..why don’t you do so to those you still have with you. ..and if they are close enough – go and see them. Go and give them hugs and kisses while you can. For my father and mother all I have now are memories….I miss them so much.