Maxis Broadband is the snail of the day. I would be vary happy if I could eat snail at this moment, but unfortunately I am talking about the speed of the snail, or rather: the lack of speed.

Today is a holiday in Malaysia and when you think you are in for a day of fun on the Internet, forget it! Your Maxis broadband is on holiday as well.

Every time, every weekend and now even today on a holiday: Maxis broadband is slower than the dial up of good old Jaring. Thanks to them I can manage to at least update my blog… jeez, and I am paying a fixed monthly fee for Maxis and on top of that I need to pay Jaring to at least get some connection?

And don’t give me again the crap of the Maxis Broadband helpdesk: you need to restart your computer…

All that happens with a restart is that you loose another 5 minutes not only of Internet time, but of computer-time. On top of that it is not good for your blood-pressure.

I must say I do understand that a wireless network is not that easy and cheap to maintain. And I am happy to have a line that’s a bit faster than a dial up during working days. I also understand that not all towns have coverage and it goes without saying that there is non in the jungle.

But I do a fixed monthly price so I do expect a monthly service. It’s not like Astro that there is a storm and satellites can’t cope with that. It’s just because Maxis is cutting down on bandwidth because that’s another way of making money on holidays…

I do want to pay what I get , so at this moment that is zero for not being able to use Maxis Broadband.

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Is Malaysia in for a change in freedom of speech after the elections that shook the nation? It’s not only a few months ago that bloggers were the pirates of free speech (see the 2 newspaper extracts below).

Even me, an expat in Malaysia will make sure never ever to use a discourse like I would use in my European blogs, due to respect for the government that doesn’t like people who "make too much noise without being constructive".

It’s hardly possible to be constructive as long as there is no transparency about what is happening. So I prefer to keep quiet and blog about Siti Nurhaliza or other things that can’t harm the government.

But the elections showed clear that the government harmed itself: it didn’t need any blogger to speak out his or her mind, it was just a matter of time. Something we have seen in young democracies in Europe as well: you can never sit and enjoy having a majority: sooner or later the people that voted for you want something in return.

Anyway, the political landscape has had a hiccup, and I have the impression this hiccup is going to tolerate bloggers more. Which is a great thing for the government: they just have to read what bloggers are saying and they know what is happening in the street, no need to leave the aircon office in Putrajaya and still be in contact with the basis (apart from the people not having Internet)…

Anyway: half a year ago the situation looked like below, let’s see how it will look at the end of this year.

• Malaysia: Wednesday August 2, 2006: PM: Those who spread untruths on the Net will be detained
• Malaysia: 3th December 2006: Cyber law mulled to block lies in blogs

Malaysia Newspaper wants to know what happens with liars who tell their lies not on the Internet?

Adapted-commented by Malaysia My Second Home: Malaysia newspaper December 4th, 2006

BY HAH FOONG LIAN

SITIAWAN: Registering bloggers may be a stricter way to stop cyberspace writers from spreading disharmony and lies.

So who is allowed to speak in Malaysia if the bloggers of Malaysia cannot speak? What happened to the Minister of Parliament that said that: Malaysia sex better than Bangkok. Is he punished? No. So does that mean he is speaking the truth? Anybody can go and see for himself that what this PM said is far from what is happening on the Malaysian streets… Yet the lie is out, the person in case is an MP and well… that’s all we know about this case. All is clear under the beautiful Malaysian sky…

Acknowledging that the registration of bloggers was a difficult task, Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha said that it needed the cooperation of other countries.

Kong said: We need to have stricter cyber laws to prevent these bloggers from disseminating disharmony, chaos, seditious material and lies. We are talking about creating cyber laws to control those who misuse the Internet, he added. Kong noted that the high number of bloggers in the country was a good development if they used the Internet constructively. However, he said, some of them would put up sensational or controversial articles or images to attract readers to their blogs. We want our bloggers to be responsible, to keep within the rules and not put up seditious articles that can create disharmony and chaos, he said.

Citing the example of the recent picture of Gombak MP Datuk Dr Rahman Ismail and Senator Datin Paduka Norhayati Onn, Kong said it reflected the irresponsible acts of some bloggers.

We are talking here about some gossip in Malaysia: a not developed picture of a man having a woman’s head on his shoulder in public…kind of paparazzi gossip… don’t we have anything better to do in Malaysia than going after the gossip blogs? Gossip spreads faster than Malaysian Airways can transport people, yet doesn’t help our country gaining any economical benefits for any Malaysian business. So why wasting extra money and extra energy here?

Now we have cyber laws to check such misuse but the laws need to change to keep up with the times. This is because technology changes faster than our laws, he said yesterday after opening the inaugural computer fair at Dewan Merdeka in Seri Manjung, near here. The fair was organised by the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (Pikom).

Malaysians get punished because of lack of transparency

Summarized: In August and December of this year: PM Pak Lah wants:

• to restrict Malaysian bloggers from speaking and
• punish or detain Malaysian bloggers(see articles below).

When Pak Lah came in power, he said he would go to the people and listen to what they had to say. Well, each Malaysian man and Malaysian woman has his or her subjective idea of what is going on in Malaysia. If you have to step out your door and visit 20 million Malaysians, that will take you way too long. You can facilitate your quest to listen to the Malaysian people by just logging on to the Internet and read the blogs of this Malaysian man or that Malaysian woman. It is "their" blog, meaning that is how they think reality is in Malaysia.

Now if reality is different, that means that for one reason or another bloggers cannot see clear. The lack of transparency in Malaysia could be one of the reasons why what Malaysians think is not what the Malaysian government wants the people of Malaysia to think… Transparency: an issue Pak Lah is tackling already from the first day he is in power ruling Malaysia. So you cannot punish the Malaysian men nor the Malaysian women for lack of transparency can you?

At least by blogging, the Malaysian women and men give a 100% transparency of their thoughts.

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Nurin Jazlin Jazimin

For those who need to be updated: 8 year old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin was found death with a cucumber and an eggplant in her vagina. Death caused by internal bleeding after Nurin Jazlin Jazimin went missing on an evening market.

Nurin Jazlin Jazimin probably provoked her sexual assaulters

Normally men tend to say that a raped woman most likely provoked her rape by dressing way too sexy. Now with a girl of 8 years old like Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, it’s quite ridiculous to state that she provoked her disgusted rape… Yet there must be a way not to talk too much about the men…

Saturday the Malaysian Newspaper pointed out that 4 men were arrested, no faces where shown in the newspaper. On Sunday there was another woman arrested: this time with page big pictures and a video of her online…

Since we cannot say that Nurin Jazlin Jazimin provoked her abduction and horrible rape, let’s focus on a woman now and forget about the 4 men. I mean: what is the chance to find a woman putting a cucumber and an eggplants in an 8 yeas old vagina?

What about these 4 other men

Yes, just imagine the Sunday newspaper is extremely quit about the four other men "remanded earlier in connection with this case"…

Child molestation is a sick men crime

That should have been a more adequate title when it comes to Nurin Jazlin Jazimin.

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