Going Bananas!

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Snapshot: Malaysian politicians are going bananas, chasing each other across borders and playing cat and mouse. Lots of denying in changing allegiance or not, do the opposition has enough MPs for a new mandate? All these will unveil in coming months. Again, of course depends on how the present government behaves, if they still do not understand and continue their wayward behaviour, nothing can help them. The opposition had always insisted that they wanted a smooth transition and there is really no hurry for it.



Got a surprise when a cluster of banana plants was bearing fruits. From the shape of the unripe green fruit it looked like ‘Pisang Emas’. One of the best kind?

(doesn't it look yummy, like pisang emas?)

Anyway, yesterday we discovered one of the plants in which its fruit was ripe for harvesting. Finally, got a chance to taste it.

Upon peeling the banana, it looked kind of funny in colour, blackish, instead of the normal white colouring. We had some reservation on what kind of banana was it. You had that funny feeling straight away that it was really odd, might not be banana, could even be poisonous.

In breaking it into half, then it suddenly dawn on us that the blackish colour came from the seeds. It was a wild banana! Still, I got to a taste of it, neutral in taste and a bit sour near the seed, very little flesh, hardly felt it and the seeds were gritty & hard.

(seeds)

Now my problem is how to get rid of this cluster of wild banana plants.

On reflection, do we have an analogy here with our political situation???

Ahmad Ismail...Catalyst To......Come 16/9

Ahmad Ismail is a timely reminder to all Malaysians what UMNO people are made of, it is not the first time that such racial rhetoric was viperously used to rouse the sentiment of Malaysians, such was further confirmed by the UMNO divisions in Penang.

Are we getting used to such racial rhetoric?

Are we really that easy to forget and need constant reminder from the racial guidance of UMNO?

History was told that a country without unity and harmony in its populace would eventually meet its demise. UMNO had been the culprit for the past 30 years and perhaps it is a blessing in disguise that such timely effort is just ripe for a more responsible party to take over the government of Malaysia.
Malaysia needs a different direction that respect our constitutions, the 20 points agreement in the formation of Malaysia and social obligations both written and unwritten to take us into the future.
Such government should not undermine other social groups just for perpetual power in Malaysia. Malaysian problems had manifested themselves and any effort to change is a welcome sight.

Do we really need an apology from Ahmad Ismail?
This monster ought to be in jail long ago and so are some of our present leaders if our government is decent enough.

Our recent 2009 budget is a joke.
In June, we were slapped with fuel and energy increment of between 40 to 60 percent, to reduce subsidy.
As it was said, that the subsidy had inflated to almost 50 billion ringgit, equivalent to our development budget.
In September budget, our expenditure budget was increased, this almost double compared to 4 years ago while development budget is still at about 50 billion ringgit.
The last energy hike had caused inflation, unnecessary hardship, devaluation in ringgit, less domestic spending and discouraged Direct Foreign Investment.
Quite naturally, the government spending is increased, due to inflation. This is a vicious circle, inflation, more hardship and more spending. The biggest losers of all are those who save their money in fixed deposit, ASN, ASB, A Wawasan, EPF and insurance. How much do they really worth in a few years time under the present policy?
I do not expect the PM to know much in economy, though he is the Finance Minister but the 2nd Finance Minister had bad history, ought to be replaced immediately.

Never mind, come 16th September ……….