Just before the Obama inauguration took place, Israel decided to stop bombarding the Gaza strip.

This is just one of the many examples that we have reason to be happy.

Happy that Bush is no longer in charge:

• steering the entire whole world into economical disaster
   
• killing innocent people hoping that will win the war on terror.

So all eyes are now on Obama. How is he going to:

• steer a sinking ship back to better waters
   
• repair the ship and
   
• make it better than it was before?

A humongous task to say the least. But Obama has given the whole world one thing. Everybody got a present today : the present of

HOPE !

Obama brings hope, not only to his country, but to all countries all around the globe.

During the Obama inauguration, he and his family looked absolutely stunning. His words were as usual wise and shed a light of hope in the dark tunnel:

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America – they will be met.

We wish President Obama all the best and we know that after the promises and this inauguration, the real work has to start as soon as possible!

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What would you do if you know that your boss has fired you but still needs to sit out a contractual few extra months?

• Would you be loyal and keep on contributing for what you are paid of, or
   
• are you going to sit it out and look for better opportunities in the mean time?

Badawi meanwhile has to leave office in March and is now… visiting the Middle East: a great place for people with lots of money to spend. Abdullah will visit three Gulf states: Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. That’s one week covered

What has Badawi he contributed to the country so far:

• Bahrain will open an embassy in Malaysia
   
• Since MAS doesn’t see it beneficial to fly to Bahrain, "maybe AirAsia should". Yes: in stead of a government company loosing money, why can’t AirAisa go and loose money? I don’t see the logic, hence that must be why I never made it as a prime minister

Anyway, last Saturday, Badawi was promoting Malaysian goods to the Malaysians, urging them to buy more Malaysian goods. There it shows Badawi has lost his grip with the grassroots saying:

• When Malaysians bought more the local products, it would boost production and growth of the local manufacturing sector.
   
• The manufacturers would in turn strive to improve their quality and variety as there would be competition.

As Malaysia My Second Home property buyers in Malaysia, we urge Badawi to keep in Malaysia. To buy a house himself. To pay a premium price like we all do and try to deal with contractors. Then he can evaluate for himself if contractors are in turn striving to improve quality or not.

For those new in the MM2H program: I still have the defect list from my first bought house lying somewhere here: sent it many times to the builder, and the contractor always sending a painter with amazingly diluted paint that washes away after the first rainfall…be it for a paint job or for a plumber job or to replace tiles…

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As you know,UMNO lost again another by election, this time in Kuala Terranganu. In a constituency that is almost 90 per cent ethnic Malay, so this has nothing to do with the other races, this is just that people are truly and utterly fed up.

But…

That same evening, Najib arrived in Kuala Terranganu to head 35 tables to… hmmm…. to enjoy that UMNO is still in power, no matter what voters are saying?

Does this really matter to win or lose a by election? Most likely not, as the 35 tables where ordered already, win or lose…

Or to quote Najib:

This loss is just a “setback”, it would do nothing to change the political landscape of the country.

When that’s the case, then why keep elections in the first place?

Has this always been Malaysian’s former financial minister: spend the money, no matter what the outcome will be? This is only speculation because there is no transparency to investigate deeper.

Sadly but true, this will be the new Prime Minister using Malaysian taxpayer’s money from March onwards…

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