So years ago Pak Lah - Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi came in power with the promise of transparency, so far sounds good.

Then you ask him February 14, 2008:

• are you going to dissolve parliament tomorrow and declare elections?
• NO says Badawi

Of course the next day Februari 15 he announces a snap election to be held March 8…

Transparency of course?

Asked if he wasn’t a bit not telling the truth the evening before, Pak Lah answered that he still needed to ask for permission of the king…

Fair enough if I am in a good mood, but transparency-wise: shouldn’t you have said: I am intending to, all I need is the permission of the king which you know is most likely a formality…

This kind of NO sounds even worse than his previous famous quote DUN-NO

How funny and fair are elections?

Some election official was asked if there were "death votes". Says the funny man: I never saw a zombie going to the voting boot… Anyway, I don’t think it’s up to me to explain how in our European democracies death voters were quite normal the first 50 years in the democracy

Then the ink you will get on your finger: a novelty in this years’s election… Isn’t that something they use in countries in Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan because there is no decent infrastructure to have decent voting? Aren’t we going to be a developed country in 2020?

The fun of giving the Indians a free day off after spraying them with teargas and accusing them of murder when they tried to do some manifestation on the streets… Same like in our European young democracies: there was no such thing as freedom of speech, nor in the streets, nor in the newspapers.

And then the most funny of them all: "some voters will not be able to vote because the voting papers are not ready".

Shouldn’t you print those papers first and then call for elections? Anyway, that we never heard off in European democracies, so I must say Malaysia is quite a frontrunner here!

What about oil prices?

The faster you have elections, the faster you can start a second term (gosh, you have the majority even without all the funny ideas), the faster you can raise oil-prices and unfortunately no transparency where all the extra money goes to, neither how effective the ROI of that money is…

Yet again, that happens almost everywhere worldwide, sadly but true. It would have been nice that somebody started to make a difference…

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Hindraf supporters and 200 children will continue to gather in front of the Parliament gate tomorrow.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is quite disturbing:

“What for? Why should I attend any Hindraf event?” he said when asked by a reporter at a press conference held after chairing Umno’s Supreme Council meeting on election preparations yesterday.

Or do we have to listen better when Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi speaks.

• He did say when he was elected that he will go to the people to hear what’s on their minds.
• He didn’t say the people could go and see him to tell him what’s on their mind.

Ok, it’s not easy to understand and to be understood…

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Living in a country where you cannot say what you think, newspapers really need to fork out lots of imagination to :

• live up the trend of hot gossip news worldwide
• keeping in line with Malaysian governmental politics

Although there won’t be nudity, some newspapers do know how to attract visitors using the term nude…

Malaysia beach nude make-up

Well, sounds nude, but it isn’t…

This extract comes from the NST (New York Straight Times) Malaysia newspaper. Most likely the government has some stakes in this newspaper, as they are allowed to go a bit further than the other big Star Malaysia newspaper when it comes to celebrities, gossip and the kind. Mind you, no such thing as page 3 Malaysian girls…

Malaysia Nude extract

This season’s makeup trend for cosmetics label M.A.C is a study of extremes.

There is nude, barely-there makeup on the one hand, the kind that says polished and flawless. It “sculpts” your face, giving the soft illusion of a higher cheekbone and sharper jawline. Blending the shades takes effort to make the “sculpturing” seem natural.

There are also traffic-stopping colours on eyes and lips reminiscent of Gwen Stefani or Harajuku girls, delivering an explosion of colour on an otherwise pale canvas.

What didn’t get the news?

Why only just before new Malaysian elections Indian (Hindu) holy-day Thaipusam get’s suddenly declared as an almost national holiday for part of Malaysia (unless if you have a bloody angry boss who finds all this politics ridiculous when it hurts his payroll…).

Thaipusam is a major Hindu religious festival celebrated on large scale no where else in the world except in Malaysia and India.

Is this to compensate the 37 Indians who in November 25, 2007 were protesting in the streets (like what happens in any democracy) and got changed for attempted murder? (the so called Hindraf rally)

Our election sweet PM gave an open house… "Busloads of people were ferried to the stadium, entertained by singers, served with food and drinks." Unlike the Hindraf rally : no more police intimidation, tear gas, water canons, arrests and imprisonment…

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